What was once cool
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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 I remember this being "the book to have" back in 2000/2001, but damn is the stuff in here out of date now.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?
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- prophetone0
i was flipping through my copy of this the other day...
- ah, good one.mg33
- I sold mine on half.comJosev
- classic book, just for the narrative.********
- that one has a bit of a timeless quality as it's more on fundamental design then specific techniques. Good one!spot13
- yeah this one is a keeper hence my still owning itprophetone
- nocomply0
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.
- sureshot0
- fuck me its about books. Im tierd. xcuze me gents&ladies.sureshot
- no, not about books.mg33
- see what I mean! carry on!sureshot
- haha stormy day windows colour theme, that takes me backanimatedgif
- prophetone0
was also flipping through this the other day, so awesome
- reminds me that I havnt used my dvd drive in a thousand yearspressplay
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- would you believe that when i moved last year, I found more than a years worth of these?mg33
- *cringe*SteveJobs
- and, that magazine was fucking great. I tossed them out, but have fond memories of it.mg33
- That cover has nothing to do with Flash. It's almost comical to me.nocomply
- i have 4 or 5 issues, they were like $20 per so i was to cheap to get them all at the time, great thoprophetone
- this was a great magazine.
that is all.domdom - got two years worth of em....1st one i ever bought had a logo inside I'd designed..so that was cool.. :)exador1
- mg330
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...pressplay
- as if the author put great thought in it, but all I could see was pages with random patterns and scribblespressplay
- i still have thatlowimpakt
- yep, tis on my shelf - haven't opened it in years though.Not_Just_Another
- i hasmaquito
- DRIFTMONKEY0
I still love this:
- Difference is, that will always be cool.MrT
- Still so rad.neandersthal
- :( I have some of their sound effects74LEO
- mg330
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 officeprophetone
- 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.mg33
- still have one myselfutopian
- Oh man.... I wanted this so bad, back in the day.deldelesc
- mg330
And, FYI, this thread is not about books. Just stuff you once loved that you kind of cringe at now.
- pressplay0
I do not cringe, but...
ryan mc ginnes
- Dated. Looks like Ed Hardy now.doggydoggdog
- was it 2003????vaxorcist
- prophetone0
- i boot mine up every couple of years and watch my old animations from school. good timesreinitialize
- prophetone0
quote from back in time "it holds 100 megs!!!?! so much space!"
- I was a master at stealing thesemanonthestreet
- ...then comes the click of deathprophetone
- oh man... just found a few this weekend in the basement, and laughed at the 100 MEG limit.mg33
- it holds like 100 disks!!... in one disk!prophetone
- those blew my mind when they came out.ross
- I miss that - click, click, click....t_rock
- shake and blow.
haah haah nintendo style!74LEO - Laugh, but they killed off Syquest.CyBrainX
- yes,... but Syquest 44's were more reliable in my experience....vaxorcist
- lowimpakt0
these are in eyesight on my shelf.
not really cringe-worthy but...
2000
2001
2001
2002
- Ha! I have that Designershock book too.DRIFTMONKEY
- Swiss book still good!MrT
- Swiss design is ALWAYS cool. It Stays. I have Neubau Welt collection. Dated now...formula
- oh yeah! designershock, that's a collectors itemreinitialize
- the forward in that swiss book is the most abominable shite ever put to paper.
monNom - it stays.MHDC
- that looks like a ZIP disk in the upper left... ah, 100 megsvaxorcist
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fonzie's magic for working electronics
- prophetone0
- YES!!!!big-papes
- :( still play around with it up to 11.5 now!74LEO
- Really? What is Director ever used for these days?CyBrainX
- and to think of all the time I used up learning various different versions of Lingo....vaxorcist
- I actually taught a class in Lingo at one point... forgot it since then,....vaxorcist
- Ah Director - I loved authoring CD ROMS.nosaj
- mg330
Business card CD Rom. God help us...
- i did thatscarabin
- nobody was brave enough to put something square in their computer thoughscarabin
- i had a client ask for that just last year... i laughedThelonious_Funk
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1st generation iPod
- i literally pushed mine to the side in my junk drawer this morning while looking for some post-itsprophetone
- kinda sad actuallyprophetone
- i'm keeping it so my five year old can eventually take it to high school and look "retro punk"prophetone
- LOL "retro punk"mg33
- lol retro punk********
- i have mine and still used it until about a year agosofakingbanned
- 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.fooler
- drive that's bigger.fooler
- I have a 2nd gen at home. It was 20 gb. I wasn't sold on a 5 g iPod. I still preferred minidiisc.
CyBrainX
