What's the longest you've used a program or a web site?
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Longest website is OCUK and not the date on the left side.
Longest software is Directory Opus which is an alternative File Manager, I've even got it on my works PC because I told my Managers I'd be more productive.
Longest software is Directory Opus which is an alternative File Manager, I've even got it on my works PC because I told my Managers I'd be more productive.
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Oh wait, I still play Doom which I got in 1994. Does that count?
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Website is probably OcUK followed by eBay, the only other forum I really frequented back then was the snarkpit which is no longer running.
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Weirdly probably IGN. Or I think it was called N64 something. I think it would have been around 2001. I rarely go there now but still do for reviews of old games.
Steam since about 2003, so will have been using mumble for voice Comms since then to.
Still using media player classic, but feel like this may have been re-released at some point going from memory so all 3 of them have been about 20 years now.
Im still using my Hotmail account since my school days and that has been 20 years also. I have 2002 in the address as that is just what everyone seemed to do then haha.
Still using media player classic, but feel like this may have been re-released at some point going from memory so all 3 of them have been about 20 years now.
Im still using my Hotmail account since my school days and that has been 20 years also. I have 2002 in the address as that is just what everyone seemed to do then haha.
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I'm sorry to hear that
I remember them well. They were like bricks.
The batteries were beefy though. You certainly never had those issues with batteries. You'd charge them once a week they were that beefy in power.
Yeah those Nokias were indestructible, and like you said they only needed charging once a week.
I think I kept Winamp through habit. Spotify is my main player for commercial music, but I also have a lot of amateur / unsigned music from mp3.com, Soundclick, Soundcloud, Freeplay Music and so on, and I use Winamp as my MP3 player for those. I also write my own music and have lots of tape recordings from the 1990s which I converted to MP3 and use Winamp to play those as well.
I think it was early 2000s when Amazon branched out from books to include CDs and DVDs, to make it a rival to play.com (anyone remember that site?), then by the time I started using Amazon in 2004, it had already expanded to electronics as I got my camera from there that year.
Windows notepad and windows paint forever
Can't go wrong with MS Paint
It used to be called Zsoft Paint (Zsoft as in the company that originally wrote it), and they also invented the PCX file format. My Dad took me into his office one Saturday morning in 1986/7 and he showed me a PC for the very first time. Was pretty impressed with the 16+ colour graphics, at a time when most home computers only had 8 colours. When Microsoft bought out Paint, it became more basic, but in recent Windows versions, they have added more features back in.That counts. Congrats!
I mentioned Gamefaqs up-thread, with reference to Gamespot. Didn't realise they're the same company now.
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Oldest website: probably Amazon my earliest purchase is 2001 and I still have the same account, similarly eBay. Third longest would probably be this place (2009). I don't really have any old software at least none I regularly use I've got some old tools on a drive that I keep for nostalgia's sake really I used to use Winamp but thats gotten problematic lately so its gone
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The first Doom was the best and it came with a map editor which I and most others used. What other game ever changed everything like that. I cant say I use the game but modern CS is based off some quake 2 code which owes something to Doom I guess.
windows apps dont really count I guess. Start>run>iexplore is still in windows and used by me, first use 1997
Yahoo website is still useful and this forum also, I got the AMD pencil trick kit back in 2000 with 50 gram aluminium heatsink and 20mm fan
FT.com might the oldest site I think of Ive used irregularly or BBC and CNN I think also all active 1997 to now
This guy is a bit of a legend, again he has been around for years and was active in the 90's till now - https://www.grc.com/resume.htm
Oldest game, multiplayer with hundreds of people back in the 90's was a big deal. Still going now, you might think hows that possible it was and is text based via telnet protocol predating html
The owner is a VP with a major company in NYC apparently, he spent a lot on hosting bills back in the day for sure. - https://muds.fandom.com/wiki/Avatar_MUDMust be others, cant think of them. X-com ? Stuntcarracer, google that right now still a great game and will run, circa 1989 I wish they made a sequel like Elite has now but nope, the original still conveys its great physcs from a unique genius programmer Geoff Crammond I recommend giving it at least 1 lap try.
Oldest game, multiplayer with hundreds of people back in the 90's was a big deal. Still going now, you might think hows that possible it was and is text based via telnet protocol predating html
I've forgotten the details now but there was/is a persistent multi-user Angband clone using Telnet which went back to the days of BBS, etc. which last I heard 3-4 years back people were still playing from the early days.
EDIT: Thread on the variants here which probably covers it but been far too long since I last had anything to do with it https://www.reddit.com/r/roguelikes/comments/2p3o5x/what_are_the_best_variants_of_angband_also_what/
Ah yes Amazon, I had some friends whose parents would use amazon for books in late 90s / early 2000s. Think I set my account up on there in early 2006 when it was closer to something like play.com at that point, before it sold literally everything as it does now.
Wow, I never knew that happened to Play.com.
Jersey retailer Play.com closes direct retail business
Online retailer Play.com is to shut down its direct retail business becoming a marketplace only company from March 2013.
www.bbc.co.uk
I could have sworn they still had a site in 2017/18 but my mind probably has played tricks on me. 2013, damn!
This now explains why I've been confused where these Rakuten emails has been coming from.
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Didn't it rename/get sold to Zavvi or Rakuten or someone?Wow, I never knew that happened to Play.com.
Jersey retailer Play.com closes direct retail business
Online retailer Play.com is to shut down its direct retail business becoming a marketplace only company from March 2013.
I could have sworn they still had a site in 2017/18 but my mind probably has played tricks on me. 2013, damn!
This now explains why I've been confused where these Rakuten emails has been coming from.
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I remember when they were www.play247.com I used to get DVD's from there as they cheaper than amazon (there was also another site www.dvd.co.uk it was a toss up as to which was cheaper on the day)