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"You've Got Mail!"

Judge

Judge

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Nostalgic and a bit silly, but on a whim I decided to add the classic AOL .wav file "You've Got Mail" to my email client whenever I have an incoming message.

Though it sure beats a beep or boop sound.... :D
 
Man

Messenger was awesome too except for the buzz thing!

And mIRC?

I used to know a bit about mIRC but well... It's all forgotten now LOL
 
I miss the days of AOL instant messaging. That was THE social bridge before texts and DMs. I also loved ICQ but it was never embraced as broadly as AOL. I never had AOL email, so Hotmail it was :).
 
elgat0verde said:
Man

Messenger was awesome too except for the buzz thing!

And mIRC?

I used to know a bit about mIRC but well... It's all forgotten now LOL
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Oh man....mIRC was something else. A different era of Internet. But it was fun while it lasted. I used to use a suped-up version of mIRC....could do all kinds of special effects back then. I was even an op on a few channels. Usually ended up getting tossed out though...lol. Though I also recalled how hackers would try to send you all kinds of malware at a time when the term was hardly known.

Messenger? I always deleted it. Too unsecure...
 
Judge said:
Oh man....mIRC was something else. A different era of Internet. But it was fun while it lasted. I used to use a suped-up version of mIRC....could do all kinds of special effects back then.

Messenger? I always deleted it. Too unsecure...
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Yeah I agree!

And messenger was very common here in my country

We didn't use ICQ or AOL so messenger it was

I think you could customize the emojis, remember how you could customize almost everything back then?

I loved Winamp! I had the green head thingy
 
elgat0verde said:
Yeah I agree!

And messenger was very common here in my country

We didn't use ICQ or AOL so messenger it was

I think you could customize the emojis, remember how you could customize almost everything back then?

I loved Winamp! I had the green head thingy
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In what I'd consider the post-mIRC era, programs like ICQ. AOL or Microsoft Messenger were just too scary to use.

Always weird to think about a time when the early Internet was not anywhere nearly as unsafe and unsecure as it is today. Being online without any protection at all.

I still recall the sad day when I actually had to buy this thingy called a "Firewall". -Black Ice Defender for Windows.

Just hearing that "You've Got Mail" always makes me think of a time when the Internet was fun and without any perceived malice. And my days on DOS-based Prodigy. Hard to believe it ever existed....<SIGH>
 
Judge said:
In what I'd consider the post-mIRC era, programs like ICQ. AOL or Microsoft Messenger were just to scary to use.

Always weird to think about a time when the early Internet was not anywhere nearly as unsafe and unsecure as it is today. Being online without any protection at all.

I still recall the sad day when I actually had to buy this thingy called a "Firewall".

-Black Ice Defender for Windows.
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I agree dude!

Remember just browsing anything and everything without "Nord VPN"

The free era of the internet where you could get everything and anything TOTALLY LEGALLY *wink* *wink*

Geocities, msn, remember askjeeves?
 
elgat0verde said:
The free era of the internet where you could get everything and anything TOTALLY LEGALLY *wink* *wink*

Geocities, msn, remember askjeeves?
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Not only free, but safe. When in the 90s I could download every software patch to run every CD game without the CD itself. And do so without fear of installing malware. Try just looking for such patches now....and you'll likely get bit.

Also reminds me of how people were downloading pirated movies using mIRC. And when that little program hit the net for about 24 hours before legal entities forced it off the net from legitimate sources. The one created by some Norwegian teenager that stripped Macrovision copyguards from DVDs.

A different era indeed.
 
Angular Chap said:
Ahh, those take me back!

I had a geocities site, but it always went over the bandwidth limit because of all the silly animated gifs, flaming text, midi files and videos I had.
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I had a very cringy/edgy one about my favorite band at the time KoRn

I was really into numetal growing up (yeah, yeah, crucify me)

So it was about that LOL
 
Judge said:
Nostalgic and a bit silly, but on a whim I decided to add the classic AOL .wav file "You've Got Mail" to my email client whenever I have an incoming message.

Though it sure beats a beep or boop sound.... :D
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Good idea. I might do that myself. :)
 
I should probably also admit I was always a big fan of the movie with the same title. :cool:

 
Yes! I do this too! Sometimes I set my phone to announce "You've got mail!" whenever I get an email or text. It's quite lovely. It feels familiar, comforting.
 
I miss when the AOL voice said 'Welcome!' when you connected and 'Goodbye!' when you disconnected.

It felt more personal compared to now where you're always connected and going online is just a matter of selecting your wifi and BAM you're connected.

(I don't miss dial-up speeds though lol)
 
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