The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins
The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins
I started looking through corrupt Winamp skins and it lead me down some very strange rabbit holes
Very interesting article!
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This is pretty cool, although it makes me feel old.
I can't imagine anyone younger than 30 would even get what this article is about.
Bro people know what hieroglyphs and wax Edison cylinders are. People know things, winamp is not some obscure hidden knowledge
Wasn't implying it was hidden knowledge.
I was thinking about the zeitgeist of different generations in context of computing.
Actually, I'd love to hear from anybody younger than 30. Does this article make sense to you at all?
Yeah? Dude got some corrupt skins for the Winamp program back in the day that didn't work and poked into the files to see what was in there.
Makes me wanna check out WACUP, but last time I tried a skin with it that I at least remember working back in the day, it didn't work.
Idk maybe it's because I'm not American so we didn't have the latest tech at all times, but I'm in my mid-20s and my first OS was Windows 2000 (no I don't mean ME). I remember my dad teaching me how to rip CDs with Alcohol 120% when I was 5 or so lol.
I am not at all representative of my age group (I am on lemmy ffs), but yes, I do know what winamp is/was.
Same
I'm under 30, I have no idea what winamp is but I figured it's some music software from the skins' pics. I imagine it was popular for it to have a museum thing about user created skins
(I haven't googled anything yet)
It was the only thing at some point in time which explains the popularity.
It was the thing in its time.
*crickets*