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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/31348896

There are some era-appropriate limitations, though

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[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Says something about arbitrary bs from micropoo.

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

The article also points out that people were able to backport the entirety of .Net to Windows95, making "thousands" of modern apps backwards compatible with the operating system.

[–] Hexboare@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

peak UI design

[–] this_dude_eating_beans@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

is IRC still a thing? This just makes me miss that, especially seeing the 95/98 UI

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'm pretty sure IRC hasn't gone anywhere. I have no idea if it has kept up with modern security practices or not, though.

[–] JustSo@hexbear.net 4 points 4 weeks ago

You can do e2e encryption over IRC iirc. SASL (or something newer at this point for all I know.) Can't really recommend it when defederated matrix servers exist as a modern alternative.

Buuuut you can run no-log encrypted IRC over TOR without hitting an exit node last time I checked, which is pretty comfy. Gotta trust your admins tho. Still super suboptimal compared to defed matrix using a non-default ident server.

[–] brandon@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

Yes, absolutely. Certainly not as popular as it once was, but it's still around and used. Libera is probably the biggest network (split from Freenode following some drama a few years ago), but some of the classics like EFNet are still around too.

[–] Gorb@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] dumbass@leminal.space 10 points 1 month ago

I miss MSN Messenger.

I used to spend hours on mess.be finding modified clients, all the cool status styles and those giant emojis made out of emojis.

Man that was a fun time to be on the internet.