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The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins (jordaneldredge.com)

submitted 3 months ago by CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org to c/retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org

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[–] yuri@pawb.social 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I love this! “Digital ephemera” is such a unique treasure trove, there could be literally anything in there. It’s like finding a used sd card, or an old answering machine that still has a tape in it.

[–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

There's a weird nostalgia about the things he found

[–] RagnarokOnline@programming.dev 20 points 3 months ago

The Winamp Skin archive he built was a nostalgia trip I needed:

https://skins.webamp.org/

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Cool dive, and I agree that winamp is rad.

[–] SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

It really kicks Facebooks LLM ass. Wait.. wrong llama

[–] kreel@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Really excellent article with just the right amount of bizarre and nostalgic content.

[–] Nisaea@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 3 months ago

Wow what an adventure ! :3