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Name that software 90s edition (pawb.social)
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This idea came to me. How many of these do you remember? Did you ever use it? I remember using all of these at some point.

Update: I'll give till Sat night if no one gets it I'll reveal the answers. Good job so far to all who've attempted.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

spoilerI legitimately still use Winamp as my main music player when I'm playing local files. I've had the same skin on it for over 20 years. I'll be crushed if Windows ever breaks compatibility and I can't install it anymore.

Also I still have mIRC and on the rare instance I get on IRC, that's what I'm launching, but it is very infrequent these days. :P

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I still use winamp too, its called WACUP. I think the official one became this bloated silly thing, but I haven't tried it in a while.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I can get 5 out of 9: Winzip, winamp (still use it), Netscape, AOL, and mirc (still use it).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Okay, here's what I got:

spoilerWinzip,Winamp,Netscape

??, AIM, ICQ

mIRC, ??, ??

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

wow, talk about a blast from the past!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I've seen a few posts about people asking if this moving to Lemmy feels like the old Internet. That's how I came up with this. If we're talking old Internet this was the starter pack. 😜

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Argh here's my attempt: WinZip, winamp, Netscape navigator, ??, AOL, ??, mIRC, ??, DirectX diagnostic tool

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I was still using mIRC one until as recently as maybe 7-8 years ago, when I switched to HexChat... There's still a few semi-active furry IRC servers, believe it or not.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

From left to right going down:

Spoiler1 Winzip

3 Netscape

5 AIM

6 ICQ

2 looks extremely familiar but I can’t for the life of me recall the name of it and everything else I have no idea.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Hint for 2: it really whips the llamas ass

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

spoilerWinamp

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sorry, I had to hit the give up button on that one. I facepalmed real hard after finding out the name.

I’m going to take a wild guess on the type of software 4 is and say it’s an encyclopedia?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

You're close.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Row 1:Winzip, Winamp, Netscape.

Row 2:???, AIM, ICQ. (First one is Encarta, maybe?)

Row 3:mIRC, ???, ???. Taking a wild guess that the middle one is Napster because it's an N? Everyone had already moved on to Limewire by the time I got there.

I'd say 6/9 isn't bad.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Nice I think your the first for 7/9. Your correct on row 2, but that's not Napster in 3.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

My guesses (really, my memory being tested)——

WinZip, WinAmp, Netscape

Encarta, AIM, ICQ

mIRC, ???, DirectX

——

The only one I’m stumped on is bottom center, which looks familiar, but which I can’t—trying to satisfy curiosity—even find via Google.

(Edit: Found it. Gosh, I think I used that once…)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Nice! Yeah had to have one difficult one. Lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So, what was number 8?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Neoplanet

http://neoplanet.com/

A browser that used IE browser engine, but had a customizable interface. They went for that Winamp customized approach.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

And now we know!

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