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MonkeMischief , in Idle Windows XP and 2000 machines get infected with viruses within minutes of being exposed online — legacy OSes compromised by just connecting to the Internet

I've seen videos of people doing this for fun to see what happens.

Sadly now it's not even fun "for teh lulz" kinda compromise, either. Everything is just a million varieties of crypto miner or ransomware now.

chiliedogg , in Back in my day we used Corel WordPerfect at school.

Word perfect in 1990 was better than Word is today.

Etterra , in Back in my day we used Corel WordPerfect at school.

I had MS Works for DOS at home as a ternager. Let's just say I don't miss the way spell check worked before the red squiggly line was invented.

jdf038 ,

I too was once a ternager 😉

philnc , in Back in my day we used Corel WordPerfect at school.

WordPerfect 5. On DOS. Over NetWare. But XyWrite was the one true wordprocessor.

LordCrom , in Back in my day we used Corel WordPerfect at school.

Formatting in word-perfect was so easy. You could turn on view all formatting and it made sense. Bold on here, bold off here .

This was long before Word came along and formatting became some invisible apply-object thing

Donatella , in Dell Called It "The Showstopper" - The Dell XPS M2010, a last hurrah of the luggable PC.

@quordle this laptop with superior quality and features compared to other laptops they have used before

reddig33 , in Back in my day we used Corel WordPerfect at school.

Needs more toolbar buttons.

pennomi , in Back in my day we used Corel WordPerfect at school.

Man, reminds me of how we used AlphaSmart machines, which were like horrible little physical word processors. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/Alphasmart_pro.jpg

MrPoopyButthole , in Back in my day we used Corel WordPerfect at school.
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https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/fe41cf4e-64e8-4266-9f86-ac404610ae36.jpeg

9point6 , in Back in my day we used Corel WordPerfect at school.

Fun fact, I read that GRRM still writes using a DOS copy of WordPerfect

Zorque ,

Maybe he just hasn't written anything since it was the standard.

pastermil ,

Daaaaaamn

sp3tr4l , in Back in my day we used Corel WordPerfect at school.

I am not quite that old, but I learned digital media creation in the Macromedia Suite... Dreamweaver, Flash... before Adobe bought them out.

codapine ,

I cut my hobby web design teeth on Macromedia Fireworks. Adobe's output sucks in comparison to mm.

CatZoomies ,
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I, too, was forged in the fires of Macromedia.

Before the dark times. Before the empire.

Snowyday ,

Fun fact: Macromedia didn’t create Flash. They bought out another company

https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/software/futuresplash-animator-in-1996

anonybirdy OP ,

Dreamweaver was my favorite way to create webpages back in the days of HTML 4.

biscuitswalrus , in Back in my day we used Corel WordPerfect at school.

Back in my day, and to this day, Microsoft offers such huge discounts in academia on licensing, and recruit so many students from university, I never saw anything but MS.

I'm glad we are at least in an age that there's alternative to Microsoft in the free and open source space for individuals even when school goes down their path.

JoMiran , in Back in my day we used Corel WordPerfect at school.
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Look at you Mr. Fancy Pants using Windows.

https://winworldpc.com/res/img/screenshots/5x-dos-57015085390ba61da28451a13992801d-WordPerfect%205.1%20-%20Splash.png

Gobo ,
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I was about to say. Wp5 on dos 5.0 with the blue screen.

EleventhHour ,
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Before Correl bought WordPerfect and made it usable!

WordPerfect was a nightmare to use, and I’m very glad that it’s dead.

Salvo ,
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I had Corel
WordPerfect for Linux.

You could modify the SGML codes to create documents that were compatible with all other versions of WordPerfect and MS Word, but he features that were supported in the document format, but not in the software.

For instance, I could change use more than the 16 colours that the Word for Windows UI allowed you to use, even though the displayed correctly in the WYSIWYG editor and printed correctly.

satanmat ,

Hell yeah. I ran Corel Linux their last gasp at a pivot….

state_electrician ,

Oh god, SGML. That's a memory I had successfully repressed.

Salvo ,
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I used to write my Computer Science assignments in DocBook (XML).
It would amaze the assessor’s when they said they wanted a PDF or PostScript or HTML or whatever and I would spit out a document custom formatted for whichever platform they wanted.

Then they would ask for it in Word DOC and I would be screwed.

nucleative ,

I think this was the version right before WYSIWIG support was added. So you could still use fonts, and change font sizes but on screen it would show a strange notation but not the actual font. Complex layouts were tough 😅

pmjv , in What was the last IBM ThinkPad?
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The T40 series. Everything afterwards, even though it still had the IBM logo was made by lenovo

wesker , in "Chornobyl Family" - YouTube channel dedicated to Soviet-era computers and tech.
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The videos of them exploring Pripyat are amazing.

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