Re:Winamp Skins Collection
by Karawebnetwork on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @10:01PM
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This fills me with such bittersweet nostalgia and, I dare say it, homesickness. The internet is such a different place than it used to, even our computers don't feel the same. I'm brought back to countless dark nights spent awake, roaming IRC and learning as much as I could about all the topics available online with such intensity you would think I was afraid it would suddenly blink out of existence. In a way, it did.
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I just had a blast from the past... It’s 2am, I’m in my childhood bedroom on the Sony Vaio computer I received for my 13ty birthday. I’m hooked up to AOL on a 28.8 modem through a 50ft telephone wire connected to my older brothers phone line in the other room. I’m listening to Same In The End by Sublime through Winamp. I’m in an IRC channel with a bunch of script kiddies talking about building AOL Progz in Visual Basic. My computer is running a little slow because I’m burning some music on my 2x CDR through Roxio. I have a programming question so I try searching on Web Crawler. Just as the results come in I’m disconnected because my brother just got home and picked up the phone.
You lucky duck. That's quite a setup for a 13 year old!
Funny you mention IRC in a Winamp thread, one of the devs (Tag, Tag's Trance Trip) from winamp/nullsoft was active in a IRC that we used to stream/DJ on Winamp. At one point Winamp was developing a music streaming store/service way before Apple, Google, and the rest came along... some great memories of modifying cable modems to unlock more upload capability