I bought my first sound card SB Pro 2.0 in the early 90s and it came with Dr Sbaitso. We had lots of fun making it say different things, especually in our language (not English).
I think it was the first time I heard synthesized text to speech, really cool at the time.
My finnish phone number did not work either with web login, although I dont think I ever saved it anywhere back then. But succeeded to login with UID and password that I have luckily been keeping in safe (post-its first in the 90s, keepass nowadays)
yeah I use firefox's secure password store of late with long passwords generated either automatically or via a dictionary-word password generator I created
2558361. Uh-oh. It feels weird how my ICQ UID has stuck to my head although so well. Just tested the online version and it was funny to see the contact names. Too bad the messages were not there. I think I have the db from old old pc somewhere, perhaps it is time to try installing it one more time.
Funny to see this link here, just after I saw this site yesterday. I was forced to google how to disable custom scrollbars when I was reading the "A simple hash table in C" link from 2 days ago [1].
The site set the scrollbar width to 4 pixels which was so narrow I could just see it but couldn't grab it with mouse anymore. Totally unusable.
First I thought I had clicked something that showed really old postings. I had no idea MythTV would still be around.
I never used MythTV though; I used Freevo in the 2000s. Worked quite well once I had it configured. Every once in a while I looked over the fence to see if the DVRs were greener on the other side, but never got around trying MythTV.
I still have many shows and episodes I saved with Freevo, on old hard drives somewhere.
Good memories! Not a small number of hours was spent reading TUTnn.txt files in the 90s. Learned a lot. Another great series at the time was the pcgpe (pc game programmers encyclopedia) which was mentioned in the VGA trainer docs (or was it the other way around?).
The title reminds me of an interesting article about old Soviet and eastern block computers in a Finnish computer magazine Skrolli a few years ago. They have done couple of international editions in English, and this article happens to be included in 2016.1E [1]
It is nice to see how replies have persons real name and organization in the header, something you rarely see in internet discussions today (FB being one big exception). Brings back memories of using usenet in the 90s.
I think it was the first time I heard synthesized text to speech, really cool at the time.