alt Hacker NewsI miss the company that used to do this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zwf0EZ50KUY
I remember installing Windows 98 and it would play an intro ad video to their products and games. Short clips that briskly walk you through them, nothing too crazy just to show you stuff they had. They had a way of welcoming without being over the top. Encarta on its own with the games it had embedded in there was amazing.
I don’t know what happened but man did we collectively fuck computers up somewhere along the way. We hardly dream anymore but maybe that’s just me getting old idk.
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guerrilla • today at 7:22 AM
I miss that style of ad. IBM, Lucent, AT&T and many others used to do them, especially on the financial channels.
Great software still exists, in spaces where capital doesn't choose the priorities. We're rapidly reaching the point where almost every piece of desktop software most people actually need to create things has a competitive free-as-in-beer or even free-as-in-speech option.