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GiFT

2005-01-01

commandline software, dead, disliked, freeware, glances, Gnutella, Linux software, open-source software, peer-to-peer, software

Software >

https://sourceforge.net/projects/gift/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gift/

A P2P daemon, which requires a network protocol such as openFT or gnutella. Any number of frontends are also recommended.

So far, giFT has proved to do what it is made for. Most problems will appear to me to be the fault of the frontend, but there may well need to be certain features inserted into either the openFT protocol, the giFT daemon or the frontend.. it’s difficult to say.

The software hasn’t had an update since 07 May 2005!

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Diablo 2 – (2000 game)

2004-12-10

dead, entertainment, games, liked, multiplayer games, online games, payware, proprietary software, reviews, software, Windows software, Windows Vista software, Windows XP software

Entertainment > Games >

(on Wikipedia)
https://us.shop.battle.net/en-us/product/diablo-ii ^[ 1 ] was https://www.blizzard.com/games/d2/, https://www.blizzard.com/en-us/games/d2/

2016-12-25 – Blizzard still hasn’t abandoned it yet.

It’s ugly to an extreme, and offensive to my eyes to even look at it. The controls are awkward and hard on my mouse hand.

Properly titled Diablo II

Footnotes[+]

^ 1	was https://www.blizzard.com/games/d2/, https://www.blizzard.com/en-us/games/d2/

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Noteware

2004-12-10

commandline software, dead, DOS software, loved, reviews, software, text editors

Software > Text editors >

A TSR note-taking program.

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Oldschool emulation

2004-11-23

dead, emulation, oldschool, oldschool topics, projects, software

Computers > Software > Oldschool > Emulation >

Emulation and virtual machines, done primarily for general Software and for Games.

Instiki

2004-09-30

commandline software, content management software, dead, freeware, GUI software, liked, Linux software, open-source software, Ruby software, software, wiki software

Software >

(on Wikipedia)
(home page archive)
https://github.com/parasew/instiki
https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/wiki/instiki/show/HomePage

I liked it, but it hated me and had horrible bugs.

I tried Instiki because I wanted to learn to program in Ruby and so I thought I could contribute. However, my creativity was badly maimed by the beta-ness of the project as well as a horrific “rollback” data loss issue. These were issues so horrific that the project should have been halted. Sure, the developer had things to do, but in my mind there was no excuse. I was frustrated enough to delete my entire installation, including some of my original work. Among the things deleted was an article I wrote with a simple resolution to the “Slashdot effect“. Sigh.

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Guild Wars – (2005 game)

2004-03-23

dead, disliked, entertainment, games, misadventures, multiplayer games, online games, payware, proprietary software, reviews, software, Windows software, Windows XP software

Entertainment > Games >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.guildwars.com/en/

I really thought Guild Wars had it all when I learned of it. I went out and found all of the resources i could, and noted all the specs and rumours and whatnot. I ended up becoming a beta tester for it and everything.

Sadly, during gameplay I was very severely disappointed and walked away. I went back to try it a second time and what I considered to be very serious and obvious issues were not and apparently would not be addressed. This topic only remains for amusement’s sake, as a testament to my ability to waste huge amounts of time for nothing.

Note that I am bound by a beta tester’s NDA, so I cannot discuss the various things which went on during my time as a tester.
Followed by Guild Wars 2 – (2012 game)

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XMMS

2003-09-05

abandoned, audio playing software, audio software, dead, disliked, freeware, glances, GUI software, media software, oldschool music players, open-source software, software, weeXpc software

(on Wikipedia)
https://web.archive.org/web/20200511163612/https://legacy.xmms2.org/

An audio player.

A really fucking inexcusably-ugly audio player. Thankfully abandoned.

Note that xmms.org is not their website! See What ever happened to XMMS.ORG?
Can use the libSIDPlay2 plugin to play Commodore SID audio. See Oldschool music.
XMMS2 might have been a replacement, but it’s apparently abandoned too.
bmp was meant to be a GTK port, but it was ultimately abandoned.

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Apache

2003-02-26

Apache, commandline software, dead, disliked, freeware, hosting software, internet software, liked, Linux software, open-source software, software

Software > Web servers >

(on Wikipedia)
https://httpd.apache.org/

Web server software.

I used it extensively from probably 2002, maybe earlier, for pre-PHP 4 MediaWiki experimentation. It’s a fucking nightmare. Looking at some references, it might be around Apache 1.3

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Odigo

2000-12-06

dead, disliked, freeware, GUI software, instant messager clients, internet software, proprietary software, reviews, software, windows 3.1 software, Windows software

Software >

(on Wikipedia)
~~www.odigo.org/~~

An instant messager program.

I can best place these notes from a little before 2000-12-06, as I have a note referencing this software from Opera – Ancient Windows notes which was written around that date.

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