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Cool find while randomly messing with ancient Microsoft bloatware. (infosec.pub)
submitted 2 weeks ago by bold_atlas@lemmy.world to c/retrocomputers@lemmy.world
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[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

An IRC client?

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

IRC rooms with active members in the year 122025 of our Lord Nyarlathotep?

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

IRC is still pretty active, depending on the server.

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

I can believe that but you have to admit it's far less significant than it used to be :)

[–] thejml@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Vista is ancient?! (Looks it up...) okay, its 20yrs old, which makes my back hurt, but I wouldn't call it ancient.

[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This is windows 10 (using a shell that looks like vista). The ancient thing I'm refering to is the "Microsoft chat" window. MS Chat was the predecessor to msn messenger which was discontinued ~1999

I didn't expect to be able to to instantly connect to anything with a 27 year-old 1mb program.

I would upload it but it messes with windows' registry. These old ms programs can mess stuff up on modern windows.

[–] 0ndead 2 points 2 weeks ago

First rule of Antifa chat