Re:X and NeWS history
by DonHopkins on Sunday September 24, 2017 @08:30PM
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Then people started using Desk Accessories for things far beyond what was originally intended, then they became Desk Excessories.
In the days that your Mac-power-user-penis-length was measured every time you boot by how many extension icons plopped out along the bottom of the screen (and wrapped up to the next line), there was actually a coveted viagra-like meta-penis-extension that you could paste a bunch of ICON's into with ResEdit.
When you booted, it would sequentially plop all those icons out one by one, so it looked like you had as many extensions as you wanted, whatever you wanted them to look like! It would slow down your boot a bit, but it sure was worth it.
Re:X and NeWS history
by valuearb on Sunday September 24, 2017 @10:03PM
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I actually wrote a commercial screen saver for a best selling utilities package when extensions became a thing. Nothing like mixing C with assembly in order to patch system traps.
In the days that your Mac-power-user-penis-length was measured every time you boot by how many extension icons plopped out along the bottom of the screen (and wrapped up to the next line), there was actually a coveted viagra-like meta-penis-extension that you could paste a bunch of ICON's into with ResEdit.
When you booted, it would sequentially plop all those icons out one by one, so it looked like you had as many extensions as you wanted, whatever you wanted them to look like! It would slow down your boot a bit, but it sure was worth it.