What was once cool 148148 Responses

Last post: 1 year, 10 months ago | Thread started: Jul 19, 11, 1:06 p.m.

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• mg33

  I was going through some stuff recently and found this book, 72dpi, published back in 2000. I remember this being "the book to have" back in 2000/2001, but damn is the stuff in here out of date now.

  

  Also, we have this at my office. Nobody has touched it in years:
  

  

  
  I remember that book and remember plenty of people who thought they were a total badass for owning it - like they would be great at Flash just because they had that.

  Anything you've got laying around like this, or anything that comes to mind that you really loved, but is now stupid?

  Jul 19, 11, 1:06 p.m. – Permalink

• Mr_Mxyzptlk

  

  • <– aldebaran

  

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  Dog-earJul 19, 11, 1:09 p.m. – Permalink

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  Dog-earJul 19, 11, 1:10 p.m. – Permalink

• prophetone

  i was flipping through my copy of this the other day...

  

  • ah, good one.– mg331/5

    I sold mine on half.com– Josev2/5

    classic book, just for the narrative.– chalk3/5

    that one has a bit of a timeless quality as it's more on fundamental design then specific techniques. Good one!– spot134/5

    yeah this one is a keeper hence my still owning it– prophetone5/5

  

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  Dog-earJul 19, 11, 1:13 p.m. – Permalink

• nocomply

  

  My mom bought this book for me when I was a senior in high school (1999/2000). It was like $40 back then, but full glossy, color-print pages and packed full of info about DHTML. I was stoked and I thought I was hot shit. I was ready to graduate high school and get rich being a web designer.

  And well... I'm a web designer now, and I've kind of given up on the getting rich part.

  http://www.amazon.com/Html-Artis…

  

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  Dog-earJul 19, 11, 1:14 p.m. – Permalink

• sureshot

  

  • fuck me its about books. Im tierd. xcuze me gents&ladies.– sureshot1/4

    no, not about books.– mg332/4

    see what I mean! carry on!– sureshot3/4

    haha stormy day windows colour theme, that takes me back– animatedgif4/4

  

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  Dog-earJul 19, 11, 1:16 p.m. – Permalink

• prophetone

  was also flipping through this the other day, so awesome

  

  • reminds me that I havnt used my dvd drive in a thousand years– pressplay

  

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  Dog-earJul 19, 11, 1:17 p.m. – Permalink

• prophetone

  

  • would you believe that when i moved last year, I found more than a years worth of these?– mg331/7

    *cringe*– SteveJobs2/7

    and, that magazine was fucking great. I tossed them out, but have fond memories of it.– mg333/7

    That cover has nothing to do with Flash. It's almost comical to me.– nocomply4/7

    i have 4 or 5 issues, they were like $20 per so i was to cheap to get them all at the time, great tho– prophetone5/7

    this was a great magazine.
    that is all.– domdom6/7

    got two years worth of em....1st one i ever bought had a logo inside I'd designed..so that was cool.. :)– exador17/7

  

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  Dog-earJul 19, 11, 1:18 p.m. – Permalink

• mg33

  

  Anyone have that book? I still have it, and actually got it in the same order as the 72dpi book back in 2001. For a book filled with random shit it's actually still kind of cool, but I can't remember the last time I opened it up.

  • haha, yeah, I borrowed it from the library in my school... had mixed feelings about it...– pressplay1/5

    as if the author put great thought in it, but all I could see was pages with random patterns and scribbles– pressplay2/5

    i still have that– lowimpakt3/5

    yep, tis on my shelf - haven't opened it in years though.– Not_Just_Another4/5

    i has– maquito5/5

  

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  Dog-earJul 19, 11, 1:18 p.m. – Permalink

• DRIFTMONKEY

  I still love this:
  

  

  • Difference is, that will always be cool.– MrT1/3

    Still so rad.– neandersthal2/3

    :( I have some of their sound effects– 74LEO3/3

  

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  Dog-earJul 19, 11, 1:20 p.m. – Permalink

• mg33

  I'm not knocking this, but did anyone else have one of these?

  

  Bought that from him personally at FlashForward 2001.

  • yup, it's still on a shelf in my office– prophetone1/4

    Awesome. it was so cool that he put this out. I learned a lot from it for sure. not sure if I still have it.– mg332/4

    still have one myself– utopian3/4

    Oh man.... I wanted this so bad, back in the day.– deldelesc4/4

  

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  Dog-earJul 19, 11, 1:22 p.m. – Permalink

• mg33

  And, FYI, this thread is not about books. Just stuff you once loved that you kind of cringe at now.

  

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  Dog-earJul 19, 11, 1:23 p.m. – Permalink

• pressplay

  I do not cringe, but...
  ryan mc ginnes
  

  

  • Dated. Looks like Ed Hardy now.– doggydoggdog1/2

    was it 2003????– vaxorcist2/2

  

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  Dog-earJul 19, 11, 1:28 p.m. – Permalink

• prophetone

  

  • i boot mine up every couple of years and watch my old animations from school. good times– reinitialize

  

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  Dog-earJul 19, 11, 1:29 p.m. – Permalink

• prophetone

  quote from back in time "it holds 100 megs!!!?! so much space!"

  

  • I was a master at stealing these– manonthestreet1/9

    ...then comes the click of death– prophetone2/9

    oh man... just found a few this weekend in the basement, and laughed at the 100 MEG limit.– mg333/9

    it holds like 100 disks!!... in one disk!– prophetone4/9

    those blew my mind when they came out.– ross5/9

    I miss that - click, click, click....– t_rock6/9

    shake and blow.
    
    haah haah nintendo style!– 74LEO7/9

    Laugh, but they killed off Syquest.– CyBrainX8/9

    yes,... but Syquest 44's were more reliable in my experience....– vaxorcist9/9

  

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  Dog-earJul 19, 11, 1:32 p.m. – Permalink

• lowimpakt

  these are in eyesight on my shelf.

  not really cringe-worthy but...

  2000
  

  

  2001
  

  

  2001
  

  

  2002
  

  

  • Ha! I have that Designershock book too.– DRIFTMONKEY1/7

    Swiss book still good!– MrT2/7

    Swiss design is ALWAYS cool. It Stays. I have Neubau Welt collection. Dated now...– formula3/7

    oh yeah! designershock, that's a collectors item– reinitialize4/7

    the forward in that swiss book is the most abominable shite ever put to paper.
    – monNom5/7

    it stays.– MHDC6/7

    that looks like a ZIP disk in the upper left... ah, 100 megs– vaxorcist7/7

  

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  Dog-earJul 19, 11, 1:34 p.m. – Permalink

• prophetone

  

  • wow, we thought this was the shit.– _niko1/2

    netscape, lol– formula2/2

  

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  Dog-earJul 19, 11, 1:35 p.m. – Permalink

• omg

  fonzie's magic for working electronics
  

  

  • still applicable– monospaced

  

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  Dog-earJul 19, 11, 1:35 p.m. – Permalink

• prophetone

  

  • YES!!!!– big-papes1/6

    :( still play around with it up to 11.5 now!– 74LEO2/6

    Really? What is Director ever used for these days?– CyBrainX3/6

    and to think of all the time I used up learning various different versions of Lingo....– vaxorcist4/6

    I actually taught a class in Lingo at one point... forgot it since then,....– vaxorcist5/6

    Ah Director - I loved authoring CD ROMS.– nosaj6/6

  

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  Dog-earJul 19, 11, 1:36 p.m. – Permalink

• mg33

  

  Business card CD Rom. God help us...

  • i did that– scarabin1/3

    nobody was brave enough to put something square in their computer though– scarabin2/3

    i had a client ask for that just last year... i laughed– Thelonious_Funk3/3

  

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  Dog-earJul 19, 11, 1:37 p.m. – Permalink

• omg

  1st generation iPod
  

  

  • i literally pushed mine to the side in my junk drawer this morning while looking for some post-its– prophetone1/9

    kinda sad actually– prophetone2/9

    i'm keeping it so my five year old can eventually take it to high school and look "retro punk"– prophetone3/9

    LOL "retro punk"– mg334/9

    lol retro punk– omg5/9

    i have mine and still used it until about a year ago– sofakingbanned6/9

    my audio out broke but the firewire still worked so I used it as a 10GB HD until a few years ago. Now you can get a thumb drive thats bigger.– fooler7/9

    drive that's bigger.– fooler8/9

    I have a 2nd gen at home. It was 20 gb. I wasn't sold on a 5 g iPod. I still preferred minidiisc.
    – CyBrainX9/9

  

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  Dog-earJul 19, 11, 1:38 p.m. – Permalink