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[A Fish Aficionado]

Agreed. "The Internet" and computers in general have been pretty boring this millennium as compared to before.

You're unbanned?!

 

[terrisus]

You're unbanned?!

As if anyone else but me would post a comment like that :þ

 

[fuzzyreactor]

Is this common inventory software? I used the exact same application in a previous job.

Yea, it's the AS400. It's used by a lot of warehouse, manufacturing and logistic companies. I work for a logistics company and we use it for pretty much everything.

 

[radioactivez0r]

MSN Messenger was the GOAT

We use MS Office Communicator as our IM client at work, and the emoticon set is virtually identical (or did you find that instead of Messenger emoticons?).

We also have 2 hospitals still using AS/400 for EHR, but they are being converted in August and then I never have to look at it again.

 

[Griffe316]

Number munchers and Odell lake, brings me back to computer lab in elementary school

 

[thoughthorizon]

Came to post XTree and:

 

[cajunator]

Musicmatch was the greatest mp3 player ever.

 

[Altazor]

This right here... I don't miss it. Brings back some bad memories

 

[kess]

Clockwork? (Can't remember the exact name" A PC game with rotating clock hands and it was a sort of puzzle game. I played it on a demo CD from the magazine "PC Gamer".

Recently I've been trying to remember it, but I get nostalgic for mid-90's era demo discs and shareware in general.

Hotline and other P2P clients were fun back then too.

That game had a nightmarish opening sequence

 

[sooperkool]

Yep.

Although I'm mostly pining for the golden years of Windows 2000, RISC OS, Mac OS 9 and BeOS.

Bucket list: one of these days I'll somehow find a license for OS/2 Warp to install on one of my VMs. Still need to find out what that OS was all about.

....what do you mean, operating systems don't count?! They're software too!

https://archive.org/details/IBMOS2Warp4Collection

 

[xDUMPWEEDx]

And The CLQ

Here's the web archive:
http://web.archive.org/web/20030406083254/www.theclq.com/games.asp

 

[jwhit28]

Steam is cool and all but...

 

[Aeana]

As the other guy said, I liked Pirch. Your IRC client of choice was a Big Deal (TM) back then.

(You couldn't even look at the screenshot?)

Sorry. I'd seen the Pirch screenshot earlier but I didn't read who posted it.
I've personally used every IRC client at least a little bit over the years. Started with ircii. I've used Pirch, although I wasn't a big fan. Also used clients like Klient and dIRC for their scripting abilities. For many years I preferred irssi over mIRC, but I was in a situation where I was only able to use mIRC and I came to appreciate it. These days, I use a lot of different clients over the course of the day. mIRC, Textual, irssi, irccloud, Limechat, AndChat... It's been so long since I've had a 'home' client.

 

[Imbarkus]

Eight Photoshop Experts return to Version 1.0

I started with 1.5, myself.

 

[ScOULaris]

Sorry. I'd seen the Pirch screenshot earlier but I didn't read who posted it.
I've personally used every IRC client at least a little bit over the years. Started with ircii. I've used Pirch, although I wasn't a big fan. Also used clients like Klient and dIRC for their scripting abilities. For many years I preferred irssi over mIRC, but I was in a situation where I was only able to use mIRC and I came to appreciate it. These days, I use a lot of different clients over the course of the day. mIRC, Textual, irssi, irccloud, Limechat, AndChat... It's been so long since I've had a 'home' client.

IMO, Hexchat is where it's at now.

https://hexchat.github.io/

 

[Fink]

I love older versions of MS Paint. Not really sure which versions but I would say pre-2006.

Probably the oldest thing I remember playing was this game on our old computer:

"Rodent's Revenge"

 

[revolverjgw]

I very vividly remember downloading all the PS1 Mega Man X soundtracks with audiogalaxy for some reason.

 

[Altazor]

I very vividly remember downloading all the PS1 Mega Man X soundtracks with audiogalaxy for some reason.

audiogalaxy was the shit. I barely got any malware while using it. Can't say the same about Kazaa, of course.

It's a shame that shortly (maybe a couple of months, less than a year I'm sure) after I started using it, it stopped being what it was and turned into "Rhapsody". I was screwed

 

[jerry113]

And The CLQ

Here's the web archive:
http://web.archive.org/web/20030406083254/www.theclq.com/games.asp

Do you remember the sound of the buttons when you click on them?!

So satisfying.

 

[RoryDropkick]

So many hours spent on different local BBS playing LORD and whatnot. I was friends with a lot of the sysops in the area so I got more time and backdoor access.. which given I was 12-13 at the time I prooobbably shouldn't have access to the files I did *lol*

 

[Vipershark]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAlKszAeJlk
Spiderman Cartoon Maker

 

[EatinOlives]

I used to write stories as a kid on PowerPoint slides, inserting ClipArt as "illustrations" for each "page". I guess I treated it as a picture book creator, but basically I spent hours as a kid making PowerPoint slides for fun. I was a weird kid.

That sometimes makes me nostalgic for the PowerPoint on Win 95 UI.

 

[Ovid]

Not old software so much as old feelings associated with old software. Games, mostly.

YES!!!

I use to play that in my school library.

 

[Two Words]

 

[TAJ]

I loved Photoshop 3.0. Not CS 3, but 3.0, the mid-'90s one. Add full HDR support and batch processing (which there were already plug-ins for) and I'd be content for life.
The first one I used was 2.0.

 

[redmetal86]

Only this one

Nothing like the sound of a dot matrix printer printing out something made in Banner Mania. The teachers used to use it all the time.

Oh, I also miss these

I had a trail version of 3D Movie Maker that came with a computer. It couldn't save any movies, only two characters were usable, and only a limited number of props were available. Despite those limitations, I would use it to recreate motion pictures. Once I recreated the first Spider Man movie, with the fat guy as Spider Man, shooting white hypens out of his wrist, and the woman as the Green Goblin, with the car acting as the goblin glider.

 

[Prologue]

roller coaster tycoon.

 

[New002]

 

[XiaNaphryz]

 

[PillarEN]

does the pinball game that was in pre-vista versions of windows count?

i miss that shit

Yes. I miss that too. There are plenty of old softwares that would make me smile if I saw them running. Especially on hardware from around that time

 

[Annubis]

Oh yeah, I'll add Windows 98 Disk Defrag

 

[Ricerocket]

Used to hop between a lot of online services but ultimately found gamespy the sweet spot with the simple server list and just finding IPs.

 

[Altazor]

Not the software itself or the UI, but I always liked the splash screen for Acrobat Reader 5.0:

is there a style you could call that drawing? It reminds me of certain "economic" illustrations from various sources

 

[GraceflAnger]

Elf Bowling. First game that I installed on my computer when I was a kid.

 

[AzureSkies]

As if anyone else but me would post a comment like that :þ

Welcome back!

Spoiler

I emailed you but you never replied

 

[M.J. Doja]

That game had a nightmarish opening sequence

Oh man thank you! haha yay nostalgia overload with the claymation!

And the freaking jazz MIDI loops. SO fucking 1996. Feels!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRmwJJEpEO0 (riveting gameplay)

 

[Killing_Joke]

Also... old-school Winamp:

Wow, this hit me good because i completely forgot about this even though i used it for years.

only MSN messenger

So many Canadian/UK boobs. Great memories. Best IM of all time, shame it never made it big in the states. Everyone was using shitty AIM or Yahoo.

 

[CTLance]

How about some Escape Velocity Override?

So much fun. Good times.

 

[Schweinehund]

For some reason I remember Stage6 still being superior to all other streaming websites.

I can't even remember if it had ads or not.

 

[SPCTRE]

Yup, hence the avatar.

Also:

 

[SneakyStephan]

I don't even know why

I'd been playing games for years before it but somehow nfs2 SE and the menu screens and video car intros etc make me nostalgic

No other game does

 

[Schweinehund]

I feel nostalgic toward Windows95 and it's terrific startup splash screen/sound. I also feel the same about early versions of Netscape Navigator. I first got online around 94-95, so in general I have a sort of soft spot for the overall look and feel of the era. I remember how impressed I was with Microsoft Encarta, and I played hours and hours of Microsoft Golf.

Encarta was great. The game built in it pretty much made me a super genius in my elementary school days.

 

[FuuRe]

I don't even know why

I'd been playing games for years before it but somehow nfs2 SE and the menu screens and video car intros etc make me nostalgic

No other game does

The GOAT, i still have my original CD copy

I have fond memories of DOSSHELL.EXE

Also

I used to spent hours watching that, it was great

 

[CyclopsRock]

Napster

MPlayer

Championship Manager 97/98

 

[hypotc]

I used WinMX for my mp3 downloading needs as a kid. My brother taught me about bitrate, and that I should always download songs with over 192kbps, haha. The option to list after bitrate was golden.

 

[Mitch]

only MSN messenger

This 100%. MSN messenger was a huge part of my life from 2005, up until it shut down. Those were the days of playing Ragnarok Online, and talking to a ton of friends from the server.

 

[Altazor]

I used WinMX for my mp3 downloading needs as a kid. My brother taught me about bitrate, and that I should always download songs with over 192kbps, haha. The option to list after bitrate was golden.

damn, I can't believe I had forgotten about WinMX! After that period using Kazaa and other malware-ridden stuff, WinMX was a bit of a breath of fresh air.

Then came SoulSeek, which is somehow still going on after all these years. I never would've thought.

 

[hypotc]

damn, I can't believe I had forgotten about WinMX! After that period using Kazaa and other malware-ridden stuff, WinMX was a bit of a breath of fresh air.

Then came SoulSeek, which is somehow still going on after all these years. I never would've thought.

Oh yes, WinMX was definitely great. I think you can still use it too. After WinMX however, I switched to Direct Connect, and later DC++.

 

[kionedrik]

I miss The All Seeing Eye.

This software introduced my 16/17 year old mind to the world of online multiplayer games. It also helped that there were great games to be played back then.

 

[Winterfang]

I missed Microsoft Messenger and old school MySpace. Missed the bewbs.