sneakernets

I posted the most recent mirror possible a little further up this thread. Hopefully it works for you. Not sure what other repos it might require which are also gone, but it's something.

I can't type on a chiclet keyboard. I've tried. Until a laptop has a real keyboard again, I've had to stick with my 2011 T520.

Why, oh god why? Imagine if all these soon-to-fail initiatives helped to develop Firefox, an actual alternative to Chrome and Blink-based browsers!

I think The issue with teamspeak and Ventrilo were...cost. Kids couldn't afford hosting a server.

Additionally, it was stupid easy to evade bans on those platforms and troll for hours if Admins weren't on.

I'm working from memory, but AIM at the peak had webcam support and a very rudimentary screen share component. I keep thinking the name of it was "AIM Share", but Googling that does not bring up mentions of it.

There's not much left from that specific era.

I really think it's just the majority of Discord users being from everything but IRC.

Discord servers filled with former/current IRC users rarely have any issues in my experience.

There were potential competitors back when it really didn't matter - the early 00s. Even AIM at its feature peak could do pretty much everything Discord can do now (save for some of the server organization and custom content), but only a fraction in the US had Broadband to take advantage of it.

And it wasn't written in resource-hungry Electron.

Funny you say that, Lego Island, a game that required niche DX5 features to run properly and thus notoriously never worked in WINE, is finally getting addressed as of July of last year. Those issues in question (10729 and 22039 on WineHQ Bugzilla) were over a decade old, too.

So yes, please leave reports, they will get addressed, eventually. :-)

Wine has been a wonderful piece of software when it comes to running old 16-bit Windows games and CD-ROMs of the early to mid-nineties. I can run tons of games which will never see a re-release on a modern machine without spinning up a VM.

This is the kind of stuff Wikis (and wiki-likes) were made for. It's so frustrating when trying to find some references and stumble across the answer on random blog posts.

Where do you live that schools are still that close? some schools are up to 15 miles away from students.

Meanwhile, in the real world...

As an early Linux user, I still remember running a Windows VM with IE installed, for years, just to do online banking. Heck, at my current corporate job all the Mac users (mostly the web designers) are given VMs to run IE11 to fill out their timecards, and use product management software. This is absurd, but real.

I'm no stranger to having to use VMs to do basic stuff online, but not everyone else is. And, to be honest, no one should have to set up a VM to use a browser they cannot trust, just to protect themselves from stupid drive-by malware.

That's the entire thrill of the "Anarchy servers" twitch streams - to not get caught even if you're famous.

In a just world, this would be illegal.

On the bright side, dozens of browser extensions and scripts will have to be created to solve yet another needless problem created by Google.