People are using pixelfed and seem to really like it. I don't know how that would work for you because I've never used it, and I've also never used instragram, so I have no idea at all what it's like, other than being federated and open. Is Indexhibit still a thing? I heard a lot of good things about that probably ten years ago, but nothing really since.

Personally, I think i would make my own solution and use a fediverse bot to crosspost to fedi, but that's probably more workload than you're looking for right now?

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I would put Windows 8 on there before I left 7 on it--8 doesn't have as many animations and such, so it runs better on old hardware, in my experience.

That said, I would probably just put XP on it. Or maybe even 98 if the drivers are in good order. Would be a pretty solid machine for gaming. You could put a linux distro on there, but the computer you'd be connecting with is probably good enough to run a VM on, so why not do that and save on the electricity? Really, the only use it has is being a cool old machine. Or possibly getting some data off a floppy disk, but how often does that situation come up anymore?

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Uh, oops. I guess I just forgot to post again. I don't know what it is, forums used to be such a big deal for me, but now I'm just tired all the time and don't post anything.

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Webring.org still exist, and while it looks a little more modern than some of the other sites here, many of the sites it links to are ancient. Most links are dead, unfortunately, but some aren't. One of my favorites is The Daily Ghost Planet.

Actually, I'm having trouble navigating the site right now. Just a couple weeks ago everything was working nicely. I wonder if by going there I alerted someone that they were still serving this crap?

Here's a site by certifiable web-head and certified Canadian, Bryan Edwards.

I don't know what this is, but it screams 1998

Did you know that Angelfire was still around? As is Tripod, and still hosting The Shania Twain Webring!

I'm not sure what this is, and I'm not sure I could ever recreated the rabbit-hole I went down to end up there.

But yeah, you could say I enjoy old websites. Thanks for the nostalgia trip, mushmouth! If i find any other weird, old sites, I'll send 'em your way!

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I discovered a most powerful food the other day. I was going to make mini pizzas, you know, where you put them on English muffins? Yeah, but instead I used garlic bread. 10,000 years of human evolution has lead to this moment.

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Originally posted by Rambly

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but i also don't think it's necessarily a very good idea unless you understand the nature of the security risks and how to keep your eyes out for phishing.

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I've got to disagree here. I think not having your password manager integrated with your browser makes you an easier phishing target. Observe:

Scenario A: Alice uses a password manager with a browser extension enabled. She goes to her favorite website, consoto.com, every day and lets the password manager remember the password for her. It also associates the password with consoto.com. One day, she receives a link from consanto.com, and tries to have her extension log in for her. It does not recognize the site, and so does not log her in. Confused, she looks for an answer and realizes she's being phished.

Scenario B: Bob uses an offline password manager that does integrate with his browser. He visits his favorite website, consoto.com, every day, and manually pastes the password into the browser when he wants to log in. One day, he receives a link from consanto.com, and pastes his password. Of course, it doens't work, and he soon realizes he's been phished, but maybe something happened before he could change his password, and now his account is compromised.

So I guess my point is: Browser extension seem a bit odd on the surface because they autofill for you, but really since they are harder to trick than you are, it's actually beneficial to use them.

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Oh man, how could I forget Nelson H. F. Beebe's Home Page. He's a professor at the University of Utah, and has a lot of really great resources on Unix. Very interesting stuff, but his site probably looks exactly as it did in 1995.

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I always thought the view counter was a bit silly, given that it's incremented every time any page is loaded for any reason. Every time a search engine indexes a page, or you look at a thread, or whatever.

It's a relic from a bygone time. It's neat in the way that it links Jul to the early days of the web, but it really means nothing. What will I do when it rolls over? Probably not even notice.

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This is perhaps the most delightfully 90s web page still in existence: http://owen.sj.ca.us/

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Modern web design is absolute garbage. Just the other day I was on a website for an enormous company, and as soon I loaded their terrible webapp, it told me I was offline, and wouldn't be able to use the site. Meanwhile, assets continued loading in the background.

Imagine the audacity of being a web designer, and writing that message in. How dare you tell me I'm offline, when I had to be online to see the damn message in the first place! And as if that annoying nag message weren't enough, it was a full screen overlay that disabled everything until it recognized that I was online. i have no idea what the criteria for being online is, though, as I set my phone down and came back a few minutes later to find it was working. What a joke.

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Originally posted by Darkhero

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now that I'm earning money again I'm thinking of getting a Dell U2415 to use as my main monitor.

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Oh jeez I sure hope this isn't too late, but trust me, you do not want a Dell U series monitor. They have terrible color quality (Fine for office drones, terrible for anyone else), and are notoriously bad with sleep mode. Just search for u2415 sleep mode. It's insane that these monitors passed quality control.

I work at a company that bought over 50 of these, and they've been nothing but trouble. Trust me on this, don't buy one.

If you don't mind the washed out colors, get a P2415, same monitor, much cheaper price, and doesn't suffer the sleep mode problem.

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Right now I'm not playing anything. I just finished Luigi's Mansion 3, and oh boy, that was a blast! It was a great slow paced game to just sit back and relax while playing. Rarely frustrating, and always rewarding. It's a real gem.

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Played a bit of Legacy of the Blizzard, this is absolutely my style of game. It's very nostalgic for me!! Same with Aspect Legend, though I did not play that one as much. Very fun, and I'll definitely be returning to this thread to check out your other games!

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Worf's Star Trek Page. Boy does this one show its age!

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I want to get back into being creative. I used to draw every day in high school (This did not make me any good at it) and in the ~15 years since, I've probably drawn as much as I did in high school. I also want to do more 3D modelling, because it is fun for me and not stressful.

Finally, like, maybe buy a house? If I can find one I don't hate?

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I have a friend who majored in history and ended up as a librarian. He loves it, but it was really hard on him when he was looking for a job. If you're not willing to move, you'll probably have a long wait ahead of you. But if you don't care for where you live, it might be easier. Library science is one of those passion careers that equates to low pay (for the work and knowledge required) and relatively competitive positions. But you never hear librarians complaining about how much they hate their jobs, so there must be something to it.

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I've taken to doing a lot of my web browsing in lynx. Without CSS and javascript, the web is a nicer place. Yeah, some websites don't work, but I was surprised how many still do. And they look waaaay better than in Firefox.

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I watched it. It was okay. I did enjoy it, but I was really hoping it would be a trainwreck. As much as I love Sonic, I love even more when companies fail to hit the mark.

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