Kai’s Power Tools in 1992 . The interface was so next level it felt out of place and the more you used it features would get unlocked and more advanced. https://winworldpc.com/product/kais-power-tools/20
I remember using an app called Kai’s Power Goo, which is assume is made by the same person.
GEOS on the C64 (and possibly others)? A desktop environment before machines really had the power to pull it off decently.
The fact he called the language HolyC is brilliant. He might be crazy, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t a genius.
Wasn’t.
Do websites count? Vine fizzled out but it would have been a huge success with today’s TikTok crowd.
It had today’s tiktok crowd. It was a huge hit. The only reason it failed is because of monetisation.
Only reason YouTube is popular. No competitor can match it in those terms.
Saying Vine was ahead of its time is like saying Digg or MySpace was ahead of its time. No it was at the precipice and just horribly failed to manage its growth and responding to competitors
It was a huge hit.
It had 200 million monthly active users at peak, which is a decent number but still smaller than every other major social network. I don’t think that’s entirely due to monetization. I think one of the factors is that a lot of people still had small data caps at the time it initially launched (2013), which is not really conducive to spontaneously consuming and uploading video from mobile phones.
Google glasses, I think it’s death was mainly because it looks nerdy aside of course the huge privacy concerns. Which honestly don’t exist now. Look at twitch streamers streaming everywhere. People installing cameras at their home and connected to the net for the world to see. Now we are going hard with VR/AR even Apple has a product for it.
The privacy concern is even worse than it was for google glass. 10 years ago, you could rest assured that google wasn’t processing your video feed in a meaningful way because there was simply no way to meaningfully use it. Now, the stream can be analyzed on your phone using an AI for meaningful results, and that data can easily be sold because user telemetry is worth more now than ever before. People are also faster to dismiss privacy concerns, so it’ll be an easier thing to sell to customers.
There are people who suddenly go offline completely because they have enough. I guess I should too
Superscape Do3D blew my mind back in the day. I used to spend weeks just building little houses and landscapes, then watch them come alive with virtual “NPCs” and such.
Definitely required some imagination, but for a time when connecting to the internet still made a noise, it was definitely impressive.
I remember when Minecraft was first being developed, my first thought was that it looked like a modern voxel-based Do3D.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
zmodem. It was the fastest way to move data back in the day and was a trailblazer for streaming protocols. It excelled over dialup connections. Moving a file by say ftp over tcp/ip was painful by comparison.
Hardware and software combo… video toaster from Newtech
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_ToasterAll of it, because apparently humans were wholly unprepared for using computer technology responsibly.
VisiCalc
VLC, when codec were thé worst.
wouldnt this one really just be ffmpeg?
VLC does use ffmpeg (or more specifically, libavcodec) for some of its codecs, but it uses a bunch of other libraries as well, including VLC specific ones.
Absolutely VLC, VLC was excellent at what it does before codec issues were even that widespread.
Words cannot convey how sketchy the MP4 codec scene was, pirating media in the Windows XP era. Every month you’d have to find some DivX CCCP K-Lite [cracked].7zip.exe and roll the fuckin’ dice.
We were very proficient at reinstalling our operating systems.
omg, klite code pack with media player classic. You took me back
Media Player Classic still rules. Feature-rich with zero bullshit.
I definitely don’t miss having to install codec packs.
iOS. When it was launched, it was far ahead of Blankberry’s OS.
Postgres, Postgres has always been extremely ahead of the curve… Even when it was Ingres.
Alter Ego, a 1986 life-simulator in which you start as a baby and play through an entire life, choose-your-own-adventure style.
Robot Odyssey, an adventure game played by programming robots to help you. Still nothing like it.
Still feels like an untapped niche. Doesn’t help that adventure games in general have mostly been folded into other genres now.
Human Resource Machine and even Factorio scratched that same part of my brain.
