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Comment by Flere-Imsaho

10 hours ago

ICQ plus Winamp was peak PC

Add mIRC 4.51 to that list. Fit a 1.44M diskette. Launched fully before you let go of the mouse button, on an old POS 486.

  • For sure, mIRC was the good old days. Windows 98 and houndstooth wallpaper :P.

    I still use IRC to this day, just the client and the OS are different.

    • I still use mIRC. It pretty much works like in the old days and has aged very well IMHO, I've tried other clients but none would convince me to switch. Now I even have a license (when I started using it, maybe at 15 or so, I was too broke for that).

      Winamp hasn't aged so well, sadly.

  • Ventrilo for voice chats. Finding others on Quakenet and playing 3vs3, sometimes making friends, sometimes making enemies, always having fun.

I still can't believe there isn't an open source Winamp 2.91/2.95 clone.

Everything wants to make a "universal media library manager". Jesus, doesn't anybody just want to name their MP3 correctly and then use file management, and then have an audio player that just plays audio?