We may have all moved on to Skype (and realistically, Facebook) but ICQ is still kicking along. When they replied, ICQ would bleep you with an ‘Uh-oh!’. Who doesn’t fondly remember the ‘ching ch-ch-ching ching ching’ of the typrewriter sound as you two-finger typed your LOLs and ROFLMAOs to your best friend. This is how the cool kids chatted to each other when we got home from school. ICQīefore Skype, before MSN Messenger, there was ICQ. Apparently its function is to make multimedia montages from photographs and videos and it all lives in the cloud. actually replace the RealPlayer with a new app, called RealTimes. Would you believe this thing still exists? As of only last month did RealNetworks Inc. RA stream was all that was available, the savvy amongst us went off and installed the third-party Real Alternative codec.
Realplayer cloud older version software#
The software was so awful, if we were stuck in a position where an. Each version of the app (RealPlayer, ReaplPlayer G2, RealOne) got more bloated and the sound quality didn’t improve. By the late 90’s we were already at a point where MP3 was a viable option for playing sound bites on a website, yet RealPlayer was still a thing we had to download to listen to those awful quality.
The very name itself fills me with dread. I won’t say going strong, but they are still going. However, you will be surprised what early innovators are still going. And as much as I really wanted them to take off (not really) we are not using Beenz as virtual currency. Geocities is no longer around to make horrible websites about our pets with.
Netscape Navigator is long gone as a browser. Many of our favourites are dearly departed. Simon Miller Team : Web Development Tags :įor those of us who have lived (and worked) through the early days of the World Wide Web, we will have some fond – and not so fond – memories about early websites and early applications.
0 kommentar(er)
