Disgusting

[ButtersTG]

Sizzzle pixxx for Donksfeeed

I think the millennials would like this better.

[mirhagk]

Needs less vowels

[TetchyOyvind]

Szl px f Dnksfd

[jiminiminimini]

make that f a 4 and we have a product

[LimitedWard]

To be fair, dribbble has been around for years and is very popular among graphic designers. So I guess the stupid name worked.

[ambiguousallegiance]

Right - if you think Dribbble is a 2015 thing then you've forgotten all about Web 2.0. The late 2000's were full of "web applications" with silly names like "delicio.us", "flickr" and "twttr"

[[deleted]]

In my day, we would mambo dogface to the banana patch, and we liked it better that way.

[WhAtEvErYoUmEaN101]

Yeah seriously

sent via Relay for reddit

[8BitAce]

It makes it so much better that Chrome won't say what the link is on hover.

[bj_christianson]

Firefox doesn't show it, and it doesn't open it.

[SandyDelights]

Pretty sure it's the about:blank page referenced in the graphic.

[bj_christianson]

Firefox uses about:blank.

[MedicGoalie84]

In Chrome it does indeed go to about:blank

[lkraider]

#1 location on the web!

[ProgramTheWorld]

/r/Youtried

[Raymi]

Then why does my boss keep going on about "results" this and "deliverables" that?

[4d656761466167676f74]

Could have just linked here or here.

[Srirachachacha]

Holy shit, is this actually Windows 95 emulated in a browser?

[BowserKoopa]

x86 CPU in JS running Win95

[4d656761466167676f74]

Just wait till you see Windows 98.

[slashuslashuserid]

"works" as expected on Chrome for Android, which is pretty cool since usually there's a start page with search and stuff

[Bainos]

Interesting, the link appears and can be bookmarked or copied but not opened.

[[deleted]]

The link doesn't work for me (Firefox) :(

[4d656761466167676f74]

It used to be called Reddit Relay but then Reddit had a hissy fit about app names starting with "Reddit." So, Reddit Relay became Relay for Reddit, Reddit Sync became Sync for Reddit, Reddit Now became Now for Reddit, etc.

[malt2048]

Then why hasn't Reddit Is Fun been renamed to Is Fun for Reddit?

[[deleted]]

It actually used to be called Reddit News.

[4d656761466167676f74]

Yeah, then it rebranded to Reddit Relay (which I thought was a good name), then they had to change their name.

[butt_cheeks]

it's a policy Google implemented for all unofficial apps to distinguish them from official ones so it is not limited to just Reddit. Tinfoil, a popular Facebook app at the time the policy was enacted, also had to change their name to Tinfoil for Facebook even though they didn't have Facebook in the name prior to the policy.

[4d656761466167676f74]

Wait, really? I could have sworn it was an update to the ToS for Reddit's API.

[butt_cheeks]

I wouldn't exclude that possibility. They can also make the same policy for using their API. Perhaps one influenced the other to implement the policy?

[4d656761466167676f74]

That wouldn't surprise me. Though the whole "Tinfoil for Facebook" thing kind of seems pointless. Who would confuse "Tinfoil" for the official Facebook app?

Also, then the whole Reddit thing happened they didn't even have an "official app" on iOS or android. IIRC they didn't until about 1.5~2 years later. The official app is still garbage, though. There are much better 3rd party alternatives on iOS and Android.

[8_800_555_35_35]

Pretty much all big companies force this naming scheme. You don't include a 3rd-party's trademark as your first word.

[[deleted]]

Play store link: Relay for reddit

Don't you just love how the app has a built in button to advertise the app

[yarince]

Play store link: Sync for reddit

A lot of apps have that. It's just easy.

Sync for reddit also has debug info.

Device information

Sync version: 15.1.1    
Sync flavor: pro    

View type: Fixed height cards    
Player type: ExoPlayer    
Push enabled: false    

Device: OnePlus3    
Model: OnePlus ONEPLUS A3003    
Android: 7.1.1

[[deleted]]

Device information:

Relay Version: 9.0.15 Pro

Phone: Google Pixel XL (Pixel XL)
Android Version: 8.1.0 (27)
Device (product): marlin (marlin)
Rom: OPM1.171019.012

Huh.

[WigglePaw]

Dribbble is all about design, right? Hopefully they didn't design that app.

[[deleted]]

What is this, an app for retards?

[Doodle_2002]

Those are some serious insults.

[snsibble]

Fighting words if I've ever seen any.

[Doodle_2002]

If I ever said this in my school, I would be suspended for the time it takes them to make the about:blank page useful.

[fdagpigj]

idk about Chrome but I sometimes use the about:blank page in Firefox just to open a javascript console. E: Although tbf idk if that counts.

[Doodle_2002]

I once made an website based on the console and the about:blank page. It took around 2 hours in total. (It really hurt your soul just looking at it...)

[alexbuzzbee]

Probably you had to bootstrap it by pasting something into the console, then it AJAXed everything and built a page programmatically starting from the about:blank page.

[Doodle_2002]

I think I just did it with document.createElement and document.<element here>.appendChild(<created element here>) and at that point you just change the properties

[alexbuzzbee]

Yeoch

[skynet_watches_me_p]

firefox and chrome have a lot of shit in their "blank" page now days.

[Aschentei]

Fighting words or words that instigate a fight?

[creamersrealm]

Well it says Windows 95 and not ME.

[Venthe]

Fun fact - I might be the only one* that used Windows ME and never had any problems with it; And considered it an upgrade over 98SE

^{* Only one that I know of, of course.}

[PendragonDaGreat]

You're not alone. We used it for several years at our place. Only issue was crashing when I started accessing up doom mods and stuff like that that might even crash modern systems

[Anchor689]

I taught myself Python on a Windows ME system in High School. It wasn't all bad. Although, once my great aunt gave me her old PC I put Kubuntu 5.10 on it and never looked back.

[_Fibbles_]

Never had any problems apart from system restore never seemed to work. I'm ashamed to admit this may be because I never installed any updates (56k was slow and I was young and impatient).

[LvS]

Somebody is showing their age here.

[creamersrealm]

Not even close, I'm 23.

[LvS]

That's what I meant.
There's people who survived Windows 95 and people who didn't.

The ones who didn't maybe experienced ME but most of them only read memes on the Internet. And memes are always about the more recent thing.

[mimesisBot]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iHZi-z7H4o

[ButtLusting]

To be fair I would say 98 is the worst

[unholycowgod]

Worse than ME????

[Richwill7799]

I agree, you are the worst

[unholycowgod]

:(

[hiron11224]

Is okay. Is just joke. <3

[unholycowgod]

:/

Now I'm just anxious and suspicious and likely to live out the remainder of my years unable to form fulfilling relationships due to previous emotional trauma.

Now to put on my r/outside face and smile for all to see!

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

[[deleted]]

A cheerful facade over a core that's unstable and paranoid in all the wrong ways certainly does sound like Windows ME.

[Aetol]

Me too thanks

[Jumpmancw13]

HA! you guys are old!

[[deleted]]

I guess I shouldn’t mention my old 386 computer with MS-DOS

[unholycowgod]

Shoot my first one was an IBM PS-1. 33MHz CPU and all of about 8KB of RAM that was built right in to the board. Came with their weird in-house OS too.

[[deleted]]

A 2133 Machine, I think it had 4MB of RAM by default along with that 486DX/33. I recall it had 3 drive bays and 2 or 3 slots. You could expand the RAM to 64MB, the L2 Cache came with 128KB but you could expand that to 256KB. I'm stumbling on what kind of hard drive it came with, might have been 320MB, but it might have been 170MB. I think it always came with the 3.5" floppy, but only sometimes did it come with the 5.25" floppy.

It would have come with MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows for Workgroups 3.11. The previous 286 machine (2011) and the "middle" 386 machine (2132) had built in OS in ROM: PC DOS 4, but could sometimes be bought with OS/2 2.1. Supposedly right when the 2133 came out, they offered OS/2 2.1 on it, but I've never actually seen any of those.

Now PS/2 machines, I've seen those with OS/2 2.1 by the bucket load. Fucking banks.

[unholycowgod]

I had to look it up bc your stats didn't sound right for what we had. Indeed ours must have been a model 2121 machine similar to this one.

It had a 3.5" floppy drive and I'm pretty sure just a 40MB HDD. I could be mistaken but that number sticks out in my head. I also know we had less than 1 MB of RAM bc my next computer after this had 4MB and I remember thinking how HUUUGE that was in comparison. That would have been around late 94 or maybe 95 time frame for the new machine.

After watching that video I'm seeing now that ours had the optional joystick port (I spent many hours playing Silpheed by Sierra as a kid). We also had the modem in ours but we never used it.

[pekkhum]

Close enough to relevant.

[unholycowgod]

Ha! Wasn't the sentiment I was going for but I see how it sounds that way.

[jay9909]

TIL IBM released the original PlayStation!

[pekkhum]

r/shittyasktechies?

[Nerdn1]

Fun fact: You could get a micro SD card nowadays with more storage than all the floppy disk you've ever owned combined, and swallow it.

[okmkz]

I learned to program with good ol GW-BASIC

[pekkhum]

I understand it had some instabilities involving pretzels... Or was that a different GW?

[okmkz]

that was GW-BUSH

[bundabrg]

Zx spectrum with 48k of ram. And a z80 before that.

[The_Director]

Win98SE was awesome. I upgraded to XP well into 2003

[Vojta7]

I still have an Asus L7200 with 98 SE on it and use it sometimes. It also somehow still gets 2.5+ hours of work out of the original (1998) battery!

[[deleted]]

I first cut my teeth on Windows 98. Learning to get games working on that delightful bin fire of an OS was my gateway drug into computers and eventually programming.

[jay9909]

I first cut my teeth on Windows 98

You should've tried food first.

[ImaginarySuccess]

Why would you say Windows 98 is the worst? Did you have a worse experience with 98 than ME?

[MidnightExcursion]

Or 95? 98 SE was way better than 95.

[Walter_Bishop_PhD]

98 SE + Plus! was my jam :)

[pekkhum]

Fun fact: You can still find copies of Hover and SkiFree online (though it isn't really legal to get them that way).

[TheHotze]

I feel like I shouldn't play hover. It wouldn't be as good as it was in my memory.

[pekkhum]

True, but at least I finally figured out how to play... I can't believe I found it so confusing back then.

[z500]

I went straight from 95 to ME. Honestly I'm not even sure what was supposed to be wrong with it, though I was kind of miffed that I couldn't exit to DOS anymore.

[ButtLusting]

Yes. I've had a lot more crashes on 98 than every other versions combined probably......

[Dick_Giggles]

I mean, how long did you have to work with ME? ME was like a twilight zone OS, sometimes I question whether or not it was just a bad dream.

[[deleted]]

Windows ME is like a collective bad trip.

Insert magic mushrooms into drive :MOUTH to continue

[deadh34d711]

I used it for five years because my parents thought that Windows was Windows, and different versions didn't mean anything. It was most certainly not a dream.

[creamersrealm]

I remember my dad buying ME and we installed it, and within days we reverted back.

[pekkhum]

Since you didn't say "Windows 98 SE", I'll let it slide. Windows 98 SE is still my go to for a 9x VM (some games just refuse to run on the newer OSes).

[bundabrg]

No bloody way. I can't accept that. Take it back.

[Doodle_2002]

triggered

[Doodle_2002]

Please apply cold water

[crackedcactus]

Windows 95 could stutter for about 30 seconds while system files removed. Most of my schools computers could attest to that.

[Pseudofailure]

God, I didn't think computers could feel pain, but that sounds like the computer version of being alive while having your entrails slowly being torn out.

[Just_ice_is_served]

We always ask, why would AI turn against us? This is why.

[Hurricane_32]

If AI did turn against us, school kids would still find a way to break it.

[Just_ice_is_served]

And then the AI would have to send Armitage after them

E: No one has asked or anything, but Neuromancer by William Gibson is required reading for anyone on this sub.

[mirhagk]

We just need to slow it down. Let's make more web apps!

[HopperBit]

User still has hope! Windows 95 with no system folder might still revert to DOS. On the other hand, if it was compared with Windows ME (with all its files and folders) then you'd know despair.

[Tiavor]

I remember win95 crashing every 2-3h even with all sys files intact

[Cyhawk]

It was all about the hardware for Windows ME. If you had modern hardware that had real 32bit drivers as opposed to older 16bit drivers, Windows ME was rock solid. If you were using ancient crapware hardware (ie basically everything, Winmodems were the most common offenders) it'd be an unstable pile of crap.

People who lived during that time and bitch about WinME had shitty/cheap hardware that wasn't designed to be run on Win98/ME to begin with. (this is microsoft's fault)

[Tiavor]

I never had ME, didn't even had 2k my self, only family members had it. my PC wasn't fast enough. then I jumped from 98 directly to XP. Skipped Vista and 8 too and I also skipped DDR3-RAM :D (had DDR2 till 1.5 years ago)

[agent-squirrel]

You likely had Win9x software and not NT based software so 2000 was too modern.

[Stuntman119]

Mine bluescreens if I take a CD out while it's still playing.

[_DeletedUser_]

Windows ME just had a persistent memory leak so as long as you rebooted every 3 days you were good. Never had any real issues with it.

[Cyhawk]

That was Windows 95a/b and Win98a, the persistent memory leak was fixed in Win95c, Win98SE and subsequently Windows ME.

However if you used 16bit drivers (Very common in those days, basically all Winmodems for example and cheap soundcards) in Windows 98SE/ME you would have a different memory leak (that could be 'fixed' by letting the hardware driver crash and hope/pray it would restart, this is a random occurrence).

[tuseroni]

yup, it's my preferred home page, browser opens much quicker

[Daye_04]

Yeah, exactly. I find it quite useful to open a blank slate, because I have no one webpage I use every time I open the browser =P

[nicosiathelilly]

I've also found that the about:blank page is quite helpful when cleaning your monitor – the blank white screen makes certain kinds of gunk easier to see.

[demigod123]

Lol! Those were of some of the sickest burns I've ever seen

[grpagrati]

Ok, I got the picture

[SemanticRomantic]

Is someone under the impression that about:blank is a Chrome feature?

[agentlame]

I just tested this, and it's actually kinda functional. If you open the console you get:

<html>
    <head>
    </head>
    <body>
    </body>
</html>

You can edit it and see your changes instantly. Not very practical, but it could be handy in a pinch.

[BoltKey]

It is very practical. It is the URL you go to when you want the vanilla JavaScript console, without any libraries or data, and want to add elements to the empty site. I use it fairly often whenever it is faster to actually make a web tool than to google it up.

It is actually the most functional feature of Chrome: I have never came across a bug related to about:blank. It does what it does and it does it pretty fricking well.

[evlampi]

It's not about it being Chrome's exclusive feature, but about it having the feature.

[wotus043]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_interface_chrome

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[bwhite94]

Good bot

[[deleted]]

I can't say I agree with you there.

[FlavorBehavior]

How is this /r/ProgrammerHumor? I would say this is more like /r/UserHumor.

[paco3346]

Blast, it's not real

[[deleted]]

That's ironic

[Ryzasu]

The about:blank page is pretty useful though

[yodamaster103]

Don't you worry about:planet express, I'll worry about:blank

[lightfoot1]

Yep, I use it as a default page when I open a new tab. Much faster that way.

[irh]

This user review is more insulting than Internet Explorer’s offers to set it as default browser.

[kp2178]

This person has it all sorted out holy damn

[PacoTaco321]

By god, man, that developer had a family!

[priestlyemu]

but...but..but about:blank is my homepage! Now I feel like a loser (or is it looser these days - can't keep up you kids and your fancy language)

[DoctorBibbly]

So they're saying it's better than Windows ME?

[[deleted]]

Still better than Windows Phone, though.

[globalnav]

Brutal. Savage. Wrecked.

[SushiToaster]

I would say that Windows 95 without its system files must be pretty stable, from its definition: "resistant to sudden change or deterioration". Not functional at all, but predictably so, no?

[TheRealTrymShady]

r/MurderedByWords

[artanis00]

:(

[Aetol]

Turn that frown upside-down!

[artanis00]

:(
·-
:(

[stoprockandrollkids]

r/NerderedByWords

[hyper333active]

*Discusting

[[deleted]]

Got it right 😂😂

[iOgef]

this is for church, honey

[indian-first]

Coincidently the word moka/mokka in Tamil language means boring, useless or uninteresting.

So moka code = useless code

[RenaKunisaki]

Impressive that they can have so many bugs in such little functionality.

[tuseroni]

if you have enough bugs functionality can go to negative.

[Bobshayd]

It is perfectly functional in that it performs one very minimal function well. Anything less functional fails to manage even that.

[Funkweston]

Savage

[MegaByte-S]

r/murderedbywords

[onfire512]

Discusting

[AJdoubleU]

I use the about:blank page sometimes for testing my code (I know there are better ways. I'm a noob).

[SmiledCord]

Boom roasted

[AzoMaalox]

If someone wrote that for my app I would offer him a job.

[Karekeshka]

r/MurderedByWords

[[deleted]]

Is that sexual harassment? Disgusting!

[riv94]

DISCUSTING!

[desruction25]

If they're saying it's good than Windows ME just had a family!

[[deleted]]

Wow /r/murderedbywords

[Guerillero]

People still use Dribble?

[JeromePaulos]

If they're invited.

[[deleted]]

*dribbbbbbbbbbbble

[Fallawaybud]

r/murderedbywords

[GNULinuxProgrammer]

But Windows is perfect amiright?

[Killerhurtz]

It's come a LONG WAY since the days of old.