[HN Gopher] Buddy Pond Cloud Desktop ___________________________________________________________________ Buddy Pond Cloud Desktop Author : popcalc Score : 32 points Date : 2023-07-13 19:11 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (buddypond.com) (TXT) w3m dump (buddypond.com) | Thaxll wrote: | Reminds me the late 90's with all the 3d DE on Linux and Windows | screensaver. | jeron wrote: | built with web assembly. very cool | | https://github.com/Marak/buddypond | BizarroLand wrote: | What is this? I'm not sure I understand the point. | millzlane wrote: | You might not be old enough. It's a homage to one of the | greatest or worst things on the internet at the time. | | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL#AOL_Desktop | BizarroLand wrote: | I'm old enough, my first PC was a Tandy 386-SX33 and I found | my first BBS by looking it up in the yellow pages and dialing | it on a self-installed yard sale $1 2400 baud ISA modem, I'm | just uncertain as to why this exists or what one would use it | for. | | Then again, I never installed the AOL desktop, so that might | be part of my confusion, that and I don't imagine there are | many other people I could use this with in my circle of | weirdos. | ChrisArchitect wrote: | (2022) | ChrisArchitect wrote: | As submitted a year ago by the Author | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31182005 | vogon_laureate wrote: | Nicely executed! | jareklupinski wrote: | i spent a while single clicking the icons before i remembered | what it was trying to emulate | hrunt wrote: | Ha! That wizard brings back memories. | | I remember in the late 90s Microsoft introducing text-to-speech | recognition through those characters. I hooked that wizard up to | the output from my IRC client. Anytime a message would come to | the channel with my name, the wizard would speak the message. Of | course, within a few minutes, the entire channel was flooded with | people calling me dirty names. Good times. | millzlane wrote: | Surprised to learn that AOL paid volunteer chat admin in free | hours before it was $19.99 for unlimited. | https://www.wired.com/1999/10/volunteers/ | 082349872349872 wrote: | > _Gone too were many of the volunteers. Without the hundreds | of dollars worth of free hours, more than half left._ | | an early instance of the general rule: if you're running a | social, don't piss off your already woefully underpaid mod | team... ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-07-13 23:00 UTC)