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    Nicholas Steel
    Posted by desudesu
    change it to a YouTube link. I messed up

    Ah okay, so https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn20oXFrxxg
    desudesu change it to a YouTube link. I messed up
    Nicholas Steel
    Posted by desudesu
    However, the Copyright Mouse™ button is still there, and I consider Disney to be as dangerous as nazis, so I wonder why that one still survives...

    Relevant.

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    desudesu
    However, the Copyright Mouse™ button is still there, and I consider Disney to be as dangerous as nazis, so I wonder why that one still survives...

    Relevant.
    tomman
    Posted by desudesu
    https://web.archive.org/web/20020808161343/http://toastytech.com/evil/buttons.html

    CTRL+F for "I am getting sick and damn tired of that "get IE 5.0" banner on CNET, so here is my response."

    Kinda wonder if he removed it for any specific reason.

    Ooooh, interesting. I guess that he got one of the following:

    1) Some German user concerned that Nazi imagery may get his site banned in Germany.

    2) Some PC asshole bitching about "OMG UR A NAZI!!!"

    However, those Nazi banners weren't the only ones removed (there is another, a "Gates is Hitler" button): look for "Get Microsoft Internet SHIT - With a picture of IE 4 in its natural state.", and that one is gone too from the current page. But he also changed fonts and got rid of the background red image sometime around 2011, where said anti-IE "nazi"/"shit" banners were silently removed too (and the page has stayed that way since). Others were rearranged, and a single instance of "fuck" got censored.

    However, the Copyright Mouse™ button is still there, and I consider Disney to be as dangerous as nazis, so I wonder why that one still survives...
    desudesu https://web.archive.org/web/20020808161343/http://toastytech.com/evil/buttons.html

    CTRL+F for "I am getting sick and damn tired of that "get IE 5.0" banner on CNET, so here is my response."

    Kinda wonder if he removed it for any specific reason.

    @tomman: Thanks for the link, I must have been blind not to have found that...
    Kawaoneechan It's funny. I found Toastytech offline just when I wanted to find and share something from the GUI section, and now here it is on a new server.
    tomman
    Posted by desudesu
    Posted by tomman
    Also, this one: http://toastytech.com/
    His anti-MS rants are amusing, but I guess he lost all hope in GUIs after the Post-PC Era™ hit.
    The GUI gallery on his site is a must-visit for anyone that actually cares about developing software that isn't a eyesore for users looking to be productive.

    He removed some stuff over the years - there used to be some anti-IE/MS propagandic banners of more offensive kinds (with Nazi symbols and the likes), the wording in general has been toned down a bit in places, and there used to be Doom MIDIs plastered all over the page which in all honesty I find fucking hilarious.

    I guess for the first two he realised the modern day Internet don't take too kindly to usage of certain words or usage of historical symbols regardless of context or the time they were written; so sanitised the pages somewhat to avoid Twitter/Discord users giving him shit for no reason... as for the removal of the DOOM MIDIs (and not just simply replacing them with MP3s) I imagine the fact literally nothing allows autoplaying audio anymore can be to blame for that.


    Nathan Lineback hasn't submitted himself to the PC police yet!

    1) The guy has not removed that much, if anything. I don't remember having ever seen anti-IE/MS banners with Nazi imagery, tho (and I've been visiting his place for nearly two decades!), but you need to take a look at its rants/opinions page to see that he hasn't toned down his opinions AT ALL - it anything he has gotten more blunt/acid since the smartdevice age started with full force because he has just grown highly disappointed with modern tech, just like me.

    2) Didn't noticed he finally got rid of the <BGMUSIC> tags that no modern browser supports anymore :/ (and yeah, people abused of autoplaying crap so that's what we can't have nice things anymore). At least his site still targets old browsers (no HTTPS sekuritah theater, broken HTML that won't validate ever, absolutely NO JS, minimal CSS)

    3) The guy does not use social media, much less any of those Javashit social crapps (aka Discord, which nobody should use either), so I'm not sure why he should cater their site towards ToS that won't even apply to him...
    desudesu
    Posted by tomman
    Also, this one: http://toastytech.com/
    His anti-MS rants are amusing, but I guess he lost all hope in GUIs after the Post-PC Era™ hit.
    The GUI gallery on his site is a must-visit for anyone that actually cares about developing software that isn't a eyesore for users looking to be productive.

    He removed some stuff over the years - there used to be some anti-IE/MS propagandic banners of more offensive kinds (with Nazi symbols and the likes), the wording in general has been toned down a bit in places, and there used to be Doom MIDIs plastered all over the page which in all honesty I find fucking hilarious.

    I guess for the first two he realised the modern day Internet don't take too kindly to usage of certain words or usage of historical symbols regardless of context or the time they were written; so sanitised the pages somewhat to avoid Twitter/Discord users giving him shit for no reason... as for the removal of the DOOM MIDIs (and not just simply replacing them with MP3s) I imagine the fact literally nothing allows autoplaying audio anymore can be to blame for that.
    desudesu https://www.fark.com/ is still up after all these years.
    creaothceann http://c--sphinx.narod.ru/indexe.htm

    It's literally like digital archaeology.
    Nicholas Steel https://www.mdgx.com/

    This website was incredibly helpful during the 90's and 2000's. Tons of tweaks for Windows.
    creaothceann http://www.4crawler.com/IrisVision/index.shtml - "The Very Unofficial IrisVision Homepage"

    2004-11-14 .. 2019-10-28
    picto Let's see, here's a few pages that are still online.

    Ian Bells' Elite site- http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/
    Zat Solo's Frontier/Elite site- https://www.sslmit.unibo.it/zat/frontier.htm
    Page for the Japanese drama Long Vacation- http://www.nt2099.com/LV/lv1.html (I don't even remember how I came across this)
    Fidonet as a whole is still running- https://www.fidonet.org/
    kode54 maddox.xmission.com

    He even managed to post two whole articles this year! And two the year before that, up from the one from 2017.
    jjndig http://www.update.microsoft.com/windowsupdate/v6/

    lol
    creaothceann http://bytepointer.com/articles/the_microsoft_rich_header.htm

    I love the visual style of the site.
    ‮strfry("emanresu") He's still updating it, so I don't think he's given up. He even gives it some well-deserved praise.
    tomman Planet Emulation is still around, serving classic RAWMz behind their "antileech" system (one-time use links, etc.)

    But hey, no obnoxious/intrusive/spyware-laden ads! In fact the only ads they have are for some guy selling mini-arcades, and the link doesn't even redirect to a website, but to a email address. They also do not serve ROMs for Nintendo systems except for the NES and SNES, or for any system released (and discontinued) in this century AT ALL. How '90s, yo.

    Also, this one: http://toastytech.com/
    His anti-MS rants are amusing, but I guess he lost all hope in GUIs after the Post-PC Era™ hit.
    The GUI gallery on his site is a must-visit for anyone that actually cares about developing software that isn't a eyesore for users looking to be productive.
    ‮strfry("emanresu")
    Posted by CaptainJistuce
    Posted by sureanem
    http://www.heavensgate.com/

    Does this count?
    I've wondered before who is paying the upkeep on that.
    Thought I posted it in the old thread, but not sure.

    Some members who stayed behind. They're still answering emails. There were a few reddit threads about it a few years ago:
    https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3kx3nm/ama_request_heavens_gate_web_admin/
    https://old.reddit.com/r/creepy/comments/3kvdia/heavens_gate_still_answers_emails_18_years_after/

    Screwtape posted it. Before I joined though.
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