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by Krei-se - Dang, I think I lost my Kali [0] license-key. :pby Terr_
- "High prices shame Britain" made me chuckleby tacker2000
- I tried dating that issue of Metro, but was unable to!by msephton
- I remember wanting to be important by upgrading the size of my monitor from the default 14" to 21" but unfortuantely, it also took up 50% of your desk space so I split the difference and lived with 17".
My very first work experience in a small software house in 1996 and their internet connection was ISDN so it had to dial-up and then got the staggering speed of 64Kb/s, you could also hear it so occasionally the boss would ask who was using it i.e. costing whatever we were metered at, which was probably like £1 for 5 minutes.
by lbriner - I badgered my parents into getting 64k ISDN installed at home in ~2000. Whatever the pitch was, IIRC my true motivation was to get double-digit ping times for Quake etc.
Playing from the north of Scotland on typical UK servers, that went from 200+ ms unstable on a normal modem, to 70ms stable. LPB† status, wahoo!
by frou_dh - In 1999 I was the first person I knew to get a TFT flatscreen monitor. It had the awesome capability of 1024x768 resolution at 14".
Like OP I got made redundant in the winter of 2001 after the collapse, from Zeus Technology who had a high performance single-thread select-based webserver. We could feel the cascade failure as our ISP customers went bankrupt or stopped paying their invoices.
by pjc50 - The internet was a bit different more homely in those days. Back in 1996 we hired a guy as network administrator. On his first day at work, we got an email from a network admin who was reading Usenet. He'd seen our new guy had posted the root password for his former place of work on Usenet (as some kind of revenge for something or other) and had managed to work out where the guy was now working and our contact details. We frog-marched our new employee out of the door and changed all the passwords.by rwmj
- I spy a copy of the "Cold Fusion Web Application Construction Kit"! I worked for Allaire in Sydney in 2000, then Macromedia when they got acquired in 2001. I used to visit a lot of studios like that. The dotcom boom was a wild ride.by tjmc
- I kept a Windows machine alive and kicking up until 5 years ago (Windows 7) and the last few years were all due to fear I would some day run into an issue I needed HomeSite to be able to fix. I lived in that app for so long, spent so much time tinkering with it to make it do things it shouldn’t be able to (or just creating my own macro buttons) and now I couldn’t tell you what I would need it for. To single right click and turn lines of text into an unordered list?
I will forever have a hate for ColdFusion and it is wild to me that people have kept it alive, but that probably matches my HomeSite superstition.
Also, the pooping reindeer brought back a flood of memories. What that says about me, well, let’s not.
by tclancy - A nice nostalgia hit. The "Bondi blue" iMac was my first workplace computer, for a local council. I had Photohop, Illustrator and QuarkXPress, making websites, banner graphics(!), print artwork, all kinds of things. Even then, I do remember the iMac being painfully slow.by wgx
- Oh yeah, original iMac was slow, especially if running OS X. We had the full range of iMac G3s in school, easiest way to tell if you got a good one was if it had a CD slot instead of a tray. Those were the coolest PCs ever.by frollogaston
- At my last employer we had a extensive photo gallery with workplace pictures taken from the 60s and up to present day, thousands if images. It was fun to browse through when you had some downtime.
But, as with this collection, I was most surprised how little things like fashion had changed between say 2000 and 2025. Sure, eyeglasses and some clothing articles (mostly suits/coats/ties, which were a bit roomier and bigger back then...) could give away the era, but in the pics where people just wore chinos or jeans and some casual sweater or t-shirt, not much has changed.
Compare that to looking at a picture from 2000 and just 1990, 10 years, and the difference is like night and day. Or 1990 and 1980.
At some point on the early 2000s, casual everyday wear among adults just stopped evolving, or slowed down tremendously. The giveaway is usually the tech and furniture, or photo quality (how it was captured).
by TrackerFF - Y2K is a strange half familiar, half alternate timeline sort of nostalgia, isn't it?by msephton
- Yeah, any photos from the 60's to the 90's and you can pretty easily tell which decade it is. Maybe it's because we all went online, and so are less bothered about our physical style and more about our online persona where most of our interaction now takes place.by Steve16384
- > Omni Trio being played regularly
that seals it.. my nostalgia for this time (from many an adult's tale in my young life) was not misplaced.
If only it still felt like this, you can see it sometimes, if only a little. And maybe we'll feel the same way looking back to now from what will be.
by WorldPeas - I played all the first five albums! The Deepest Cut Vol 1 (1995), Haunted Science (1996), Skeleton Keys (1997), Byte Size Life (1999) and Even Angels Cast Shadows (2001) which was brand new as the boom was imploding.by msephton
- Y2K was different because we got to see different shapes, sizes and types of hardware because there were so many companies that produced them. Nowadays it’s most a monopoly or a duopoly and everyone tries to copy whatever that is released by Apple and it’s quite boring
- That, and even Apple's been copying others for a while now.by ben_w
- These photos are incredible.
Would love to see a show with the seriousness and production quality of Mad Men but set in the 90s.
by mentos - Thanks so much for your kind words, glad you enjoyed them!by msephton
- Not the 90s but check out Halt and Catch Fire: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2543312/by pwillia7
- You could try this, from 2000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attachments_(TV_series)by codeulike
- Well, my career started in 2000, so maybe that would be better. Just imagine a shop entirely staffed by white kids quoting whatever the zeitgeist had spat out last to each other while boiling over about trying to make a static website look right across IE, Netscape 4 and the oddity that was IE on Mac (way ahead of its time in CSS, but support was all over the place).
Start with the “Whazzzzzuuuppp” of the Budweiser Frogs in the first episode, end with your favorite Chappelle Show quotation for the last.
by tclancy - > Diesel jeans and jumper, Deliverance food box on the partition (decades before Deliveroo, Just Eat, Uber Eats, etc).
Might be me being a millennial, but I love the 90s/early 2000s "edge", calling a delivery service "Deliverance" :-P
- I remember in the early 2010s we used to get so much food off deliverance to the office
We found out you could add a negative tip and it would discount it off the price, but no one exploited it too scared that if they banned our address we’d be eating Tesco meal deals instead.
by mpeg - I consulted for Deliverance a bit later than Y2K (probably in 2004/5). They were a very strange company internally at the time.
First I want to say they weren't really like Deliveroo because they had their own kitchens. Or to be specific, one kitchen in Bloomsbury which made every major style of food. It was actually quite an amazing kitchen, with a Japanese sushi chef working next to an Indian curry cook and a pizza oven and a load more. (The quality of the food was top notch.) They also had their own salaried call centre and delivery staff.
At the time I was consulting they had been losing money hand over fist for years and their investors had parachuted in a "high powered executive" to sort everything out. She had not the first clue about the business, or the Internet, or much else, but everyone in the company deferred to her because she was the new big boss and shouted a lot. She used to turn up in a massive silver car late, order the sushi chef to make her a meal (for free obviously), and then leave early every day. Most of our work involved explaining why her ideas for the website and online advertising couldn't possibly work, which was very painful for me and everyone else. I pushed really hard to introduce a mobile-friendly website and did all the work on it, making the food menus work on the terrible web browser on some high end phone (of the time). It was all canned because the investors couldn't see why anyone would use a phone to order food.
The company folded or was sold for parts soon afterwards.
by rwmj - "When work felt like home"
Gosh I haven't experienced that in a while. Working remote really does feel like a death sentence sometimes
by tetris11 - Work should never feel like home. If you feel that anywhere, that's a major red flag.
Same with coworkers calling everyone a "family" - nope, don't fall for that.
Working remotely was the greatest cure for this misaligned thinking.
- I'd be more than happy to take your place on death row.