What's your favorite piece of obsolete software?
There was a piece of software called BumpTop which allowed you to organise your desktop like you would with your desk. You pile icons on top of each other and group them and hang stuff on the wall - Google ended up buying it out and absorbed the team in to Android. I always missed it when it was gone because I thought the idea was pretty cool. This is a video of it.
A very close second is PKZip.exe & PKUnzip.exe just because it was one of the first command-line tools I got to know in MS-DOS 6.22
Anyways... what software have you used that you really liked and is now obsolete? - Maybe it was bought by another company, maybe it was open-sourced and faded away or maybe it was a game they stopped making which you really liked?
A very close second is PKZip.exe & PKUnzip.exe just because it was one of the first command-line tools I got to know in MS-DOS 6.22
Anyways... what software have you used that you really liked and is now obsolete? - Maybe it was bought by another company, maybe it was open-sourced and faded away or maybe it was a game they stopped making which you really liked?
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pwjohnston
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Windows 95
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Click the link, no seriously, click it.
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Asif Dasl
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Now that you mention Norton... Norton Utilities was a great piece of software I used to use on Windows 95 and after. Used to love Disk Doctor and Speed Disk.Norton Commander in DOS. Represent.
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stryder144
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PCMag's Startup Cop. It was the first program that I found that made stopping startup programs easy. It is essentially the same as what you get with CCleaner's startup utility. The best part is that it was, initially, free and was under 500k.The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position. ~ Leo Buscaglia
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iBrokeIT
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Microsoft Bob
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colemic
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Hands down, Wolfenstein 3D. Honorable mention to Castle Wolfenstein, used to play it on an Apple IIe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_WolfensteinWorking on: staying alive and staying employed -
Asif Dasl
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I can't even remember the last time I've seen someone use WinZIP - I moved to WinRAR years ago so I could open ISOs. I think the last version I used myself was like v8 or v9 - they are now on version 18.5!!GoodBishop wrote: »WinZip. Really really old version of WinZip.
You're in luck!!Hands down, Wolfenstein 3D. Honorable mention to Castle Wolfenstein, used to play it on an Apple IIe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Wolfenstein
I am going to have a play of it later, I've good memories of playing it - great game!
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JoJoCal19
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Absolutely has to be Sonique music player. Those skins! A close second would be Windows 3.1. Best OS ever. I have a sealed copy.Have: CISSP, CISM, CISA, CRISC, eJPT, GCIA, GSEC, CCSP, CCSK, AWS CSAA, AWS CCP, OCI Foundations Associate, ITIL-F, MS Cyber Security - USF, BSBA - UF, MSISA - WGU
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Asif Dasl
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Don't open it - it's a collectors item! But this is what you're missing out on!A close second would be Windows 3.1. Best OS ever. I have a sealed copy.
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Magmadragoon
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Mojopac the ability to run a copy of your home desktop on a flash drive. Great for public computers -
devils_haircut
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Microsoft Bob
Somebody mentioned that to me the other day, and I had to look it up. The sad part is I'm definitely old enough to remember it.
The gist of it was funny though: some Ph.D.'s did some kind of study and determined that the UI of Microsoft Bob would have mass appeal since it just made sense to navigate it. Then it bombed horribly. -
DevilWAH
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I can't even remember the last time I've seen someone use WinZIP - I moved to WinRAR years ago so I could open ISOs. I think the last version I used myself was like v8 or v9 - they are now on version 18.5!!
Even winrar is old school for me these days, moved on to Zip7, handles more formats and unlike Winrar is opensource so complete free, unlike winrar that is shareware.
but talking of old software, how about napster and mIRC, I know file sharing now days is really all about stealing the latest movies and software, but right at the beginning it was a much more personal thing. and while I was sharing music with people all over the world, I actually talked to a lot of them. IT was much more like going down the pub, meeting your friends and leading them a CD. Then it hit the mainstream and became what it is today.
Still use mIRC some time to chat to old friends- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. Albert Einstein
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Asif Dasl
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Wow... I think you just described Windows 8, history repeats!!devils_haircut wrote: »The gist of it was funny though: some Ph.D.'s did some kind of study and determined that the UI of Microsoft Bob would have mass appeal since it just made sense to navigate it. Then it bombed horribly.
@DevilWAH - yeah I was thinking that after I posted it. I've an old version of WinRAR which does the trick, but I've used 7-ZIP as well.
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DevilWAH
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Best thing about file sharing was that I lernt a load about encoding and Codec's, actuly taught me a lot about how media is compressed, even wrote my own basic codec once. And when i say basic it was basic!!! proof of consept never actually got to the point of encoding real data.- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. Albert Einstein
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Asif Dasl
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Sounds cool man, wish I was doing something like that instead of Napster'ing the latest Oasis album !!
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jvrlopez
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Windows 3.1 and XP for the nostalgia. Spent a lot of time on those operating systems back in the day.And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high. ~Ayrton Senna
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MTciscoguy
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Tandy DOS and Deskmate, some of the most stable software I ever used.Current Lab: 4 C2950 WS, 1 C2950G EI, 3 1841, 2 2503, Various Modules, Parts and Pieces. Dell Power Edge 1850, Dell Power Edge 1950. -
Expect
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I LOVED Packard Bell Navigator, every now and then me and my friend have this "bring up your old computer memories" where we discuss how things were much more fun back in the the 90s
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IRC is one of the oldest technologies still in use today.
I absolutely love it, but I must say I love the old stuff much more than the new stuff (like mailing lists over forums)
IRC has some serious computer-related channels on Freenode (vmware/security/any programming language, linux distros), I idle there a lot. there are some interesting technology related conversations happening there, it's actually a very effective way of learning. -
Bokeh
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ProComm and ProComm Plus - ah the sounds of dial up modems squealing in the middle of the night. Connecting to PCBoard, TBBS, MajorBBS software. -
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One of my first server migration jobs was to remove an ancient and barely still existing Netware server, all of my experience had been with Windows up to that point and I was amazed that this Netware network could work with IPX/SPX and NetBEUI - there was no TCP/IP - magic!
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JoJoCal19
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I LOVED Packard Bell Navigator, every now and then me and my friend have this "bring up your old computer memories" where we discuss how things were much more fun back in the the 90sI absolutely love it, but I must say I love the old stuff much more than the new stuff (like mailing lists over forums)
Glad to see someone else who thinks the same! Back then it was just more fun figuring things out and using them. Me and my friends also talk about our old computer memories spanning the 90s. Fun times.Have: CISSP, CISM, CISA, CRISC, eJPT, GCIA, GSEC, CCSP, CCSK, AWS CSAA, AWS CCP, OCI Foundations Associate, ITIL-F, MS Cyber Security - USF, BSBA - UF, MSISA - WGU
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ccnxjr
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Partition Magic
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bobloblaw
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ProComm and ProComm Plus - ah the sounds of dial up modems squealing in the middle of the night. Connecting to PCBoard, TBBS, MajorBBS software.
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pwjohnston
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I can't even remember the last time I've seen someone use WinZIP - I moved to WinRAR years ago so I could open ISOs. I think the last version I used myself was like v8 or v9 - they are now on version 18.5!!Celebrating 20 Years of Wolfenstein 3D - The Game That Started It All
Once I discovered 7-ZIP, I never looked back.
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