It had everything bro. My fav was the live typing. You actually watched each other type 
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why haven’t we gone back to this?
i’d love a nostrICQ, a really simple 00’s styled messaging desktop application 🤔
or not even only nostr stuff, in general, this made so much more sense
This screenshot is bringing back memories *nostalgia intensifies*
You’re gonna make me crack out my old Windows Forms skills. Stahp.
Windows Forms?
The old way of building windows apps. Kinda has that dated look these days.
neeeeeeeeeeed that
Honestly miss that too. Back when apps were utilitarian and very few people cared about “pretty.”
We wanted fast, and as few clicks as possible.
yeah… data collection, ad space etcetc.
some of the stuff peaked in utilitarianism quite a long time ago
Very few people can name one thing Microsoft Office does now that it didn’t do in 2000.
Except all the phony homey stuff.
asks for subscriptions and has the wonderful ability to take up more disk space 🤗
Ha. Yeah, Windows is basically free and office is a subscription.
Who would’ve guessed in 2000?
You can see through the Windows for free, but you have to pay a monthly fee to enter
it’s changed from wanting you in, to wanting you out
I just bought my brother a windows license for $3 this weekend. A legit license.
I paid $2500 for visual studio back in the day too… 😭
i am rereading that last sentence time and time again..
WHAT?!
Visual Studio used to be expensive. Very expensive. It still is for some editions.
My work is paying $3400 for RAD Studio this month. Per seat. Similar product, different language.
I laugh when people cry about $100 fees for tools.
Laughs in rdp cals
Lmao. I didn’t even think about our CALs for AD, etc. 😜
ELI5 💜
windoes shit
Grazie, Ben 💜
Still powers the entire business world.
uhhhh, tools cost this much these days?!
licensing fees go brr
Yes. For almost everything except web and mobile.
You should look at licensing for Cisco products (networking).
how bad could it be… right? 🙂
We’re lucky af that the web is mostly Linux powered. That’s how bad.
ohh, it is? 🤔
didn’t know this
Something like 90% now I think. BSD makes an appearance in routers/switches.
Interesting 👀
BSD is my next frontier when I can afford to build a new machine.
I remember playing around with Linux. Would be fun to build a machine for use with BSD
Oh it’s ungodly.
I totally forgot about slide a lama 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Never tried that. What is it ?