This looks like someone is about to turn into dust
@alyx oh on macs we had something like this .. it was called iserialls or something. it was like a big searchable notebook of keys and shit :blobcatgigglesmirk:

@lina
From the reuse of XP icons, this looks a lot newer, but the same idea.

@alyx it's better because their website included trainers for pc games and often offered tips and tricks along with cheat codes, it was the bomb

@lina
The same was true for dlh too. It has trainers and guides in the offline database. Even some savegames it seems. Managed to find it on archive.org.

@Curvin
Yup. It stopped being updated in 2006, but it had cheats, trainers, guides, tips, walkthroughs, everything you could have needed to get through a game. I guess it was more useful in the days when regular internet access wasn't a thing, since you'd download it once and keep it on hdd.

things like those are even less useful today because every single game teels you exactly what you need to do, and where to go, in one way or another, but it's nice to come back to these when you need to get over an obstacle in an older game

@Mr_NutterButter
Is the 3rd time the charm?

Anyway, dlh is more millennial generation than boomer. Still pretty old stuff. I don't expect many people to remember 1998 software.

@alyx legend tells of a species of human that was born after such marvels of technology were created.

Legend even says you may even be speaking to one without even knowing it.

@Mr_NutterButter
You're one of those miracle babies that never used a floppy or has never had to untangle cassette tape.

@alyx but old enough to remember how shit those things were when the adults took them out of storage and try to use them around me.

@Mr_NutterButter
You kinda need to use them yourself to see the beauty. Seeing someone else use them is like watching someone else use marijuana and expecting you get a high.

@alyx @Mr_NutterButter I remember when we had dead air between things. I used to have to rewind a vhs, and while that was going on I just had to sing in my head or something to pass the time.

@alyx @Mr_NutterButter i actually got gifted a set of floppies, containing borland C, recently

@kallisti @Mr_NutterButter
Those I never got to use. I saw them here and there, but I only used 3.5 floppies.

@alyx @Mr_NutterButter i've seen something the other way round - usb to floppy adapter

@kallisti @Mr_NutterButter
I think I remember seeing something similar... I remember a demonstration where someone put multiple floppy disc images on a flash storage, and he could change the image the computer saw at the push of a physical button.

@kallisti @Mr_NutterButter
I think it depends a bit on where you were born too. Technically the cassette was already obsolete in the 90s, but I saw use up to the mid 2000s.

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