Very interesting article!
This is the Internet I miss!
What? You don’t like browsing the web, where everyone is shoving politics down your throat, and making violent hostile threats, and everybodys offended over baby names, and the web is like 3 websites big???
You don’t LOVE that?
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Try finding a nice desktop background picture of something specific. It’s all just links to subscription based stock image sites.
If anyone knows places to search for freely shared images that would be amazing. Just wanted a whale shark photo in 2K…
Unsplash is great if you want photography
Looks good, thanks!
There is also wallhaven.cc if you need more options
If anyone knows places to search for freely shared images that would be amazing
Good shout, thank you
It’s unfortunate, but AI image generators will make exactly what you want, royalty free.
Google image search has a rights filter.
This is how I learned that InterFaceLift was kill.
Just today was looking for a seamless tile of grass for desktop background (decided to just use solid color, because eyes get tired looking at separate grass blades, though), spent like 15 minutes. On that.
Onboarding the general population was such a historic mistake
It is still there, just not picked up by Google or Bing.
This is like finding digital time capsules. Very interesting.
Such a lovely post, a nice distraction from all the doom scrolling articles! I wish we had more of this.
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I should write a happy news moderator bot for my instance.
If you want to see the Flintstones R34 image you have to the crack the file yourself.
This is a truly fantastic story. It reminds me of why the Internet is cool, if you dig deep enough, there’s always treasure to be found.
Oh wow, I never heard of the skin archive. This is fantastic.
I still use Winamp 2.95, with a Pure Pwnage skin I downloaded back in the mid 2000s. Added it to the archive.
You must be a l33t h4x0r!
Boom! Headshot!
What a great read. Thanks for sharing.
I wonder if a “KOOL” tube is a tube for smoking a cigarette out of (I remember that being a brand).
what a great article
Eventually I figured out that the password needed to be lower case. Inside were a bunch of
.avsfileshttps://fileinfo.com/extension/avs
… is a configuration file used by Advanced Visualization Studio (AVS), an audio visualizer for the Nullsoft Winamp media player.
Post the Flintstones image, you coward!
That was truly strange, awesome
This is pretty cool, although it makes me feel old.
I can’t imagine anyone younger than 30 would even get what this article is about.
Actually, I’d love to hear from anybody younger than 30. Does this article make sense to you at all?
I am not at all representative of my age group (I am on lemmy ffs), but yes, I do know what winamp is/was.
Same
I’m under 30, I have no idea what winamp is but I figured it’s some music software from the skins’ pics. I imagine it was popular for it to have a museum thing about user created skins
(I haven’t googled anything yet)
It was the only thing at some point in time which explains the popularity.
It was the thing in its time.
Yeah? Dude got some corrupt skins for the Winamp program back in the day that didn’t work and poked into the files to see what was in there.
Makes me wanna check out WACUP, but last time I tried a skin with it that I at least remember working back in the day, it didn’t work.
Idk maybe it’s because I’m not American so we didn’t have the latest tech at all times, but I’m in my mid-20s and my first OS was Windows 2000 (no I don’t mean ME). I remember my dad teaching me how to rip CDs with Alcohol 120% when I was 5 or so lol.
I’m 21, but people talk about winamp online all the time so I’m pretty familiar
*crickets*
27, I dimly remember what Winamp was (never used it though) and extrapolated what Skins would be. I assume they’re essentially an archive of image files used to give a music player a custom look? Except they’re not technically restricted to image files and can apparently contain other files too, which I assume will make them invalid as skins, i.e. corrupted.
How far off am I?
Mind, I’m far from representative for my age group, given my IT expertise.
Bro people know what hieroglyphs and wax Edison cylinders are. People know things, winamp is not some obscure hidden knowledge
Wasn’t implying it was hidden knowledge.
I was thinking about the zeitgeist of different generations in context of computing.
Nice find. Really whips the Llamas ass.
I think audacious can load winamp skins (and xmms skins).
Will try at some point.
Qmmp can use them too.
This takes me back to a simpler time.
A time of playing Total Anihilation and hanging on MSN messenger.
Does anyone remember musicmatch jukebox with the jumping sheep visualisation?
Oh god musicmatch was soooo good, it was my daily driver while everyone else was using winamp…something about whipping unsuspecting animals in the ass.
So much nostalgia right now. I wish we could go back to those days!
This threw me for a sec because I was like “no way was someone playing Total Annihilation and not listening to that incredible OST”.
Me and a friend used to love the menu background sound. Like a deep mechanical humming sound.
We used to call it “indust”. My friend looped it for an hour and recorded it to minidisc.
Maybe this is why I like dark ambient drone sounds so much even today…
Musicmatch! I thought I was the only one!
The Jukebox was better because of cataloging from online sources and library features. Don’t remember the visuals
Hell yeah!
