Where Are They Now? 90's non-game software edition

[GaijinPunch]

Eudora
WS FTP
Real Player
Bryce <- Only costs $19.99. If I was in college still I might actually dick around w/ it.

[Opethian]

lol CUCME spawned the elusive FUFME drive. the future is now....

[brentsg]

Does it have to exist to qualify? Is a fan page good enough?

https://www.facebook.com/LotusAmiPro


Another favorite from the '90s is now apparently owned by PTC.



http://www.ptc.com/product/mathcad/

[Vexorg]

POVRay

Spent a fair bit of time messing with this back in the day. I'm pretty sure that what took an hour of rendering on an old 486 is probably done in real-time now.

[BIL]

Expected this jagoff:



Ah hear he suck a reel gud dik

[Vexorg]

ICQ

In theory I still have a 6-digit ICQ number, but I don't think I've actually used this since the late Nineties. Apparently it's still around though... (It was owned by AOL for quite a while, but apparently they divested it in 2010.)

[Udderdude]

Eudora
WS FTP
Real Player

I think I used Eudora and WS FTP, RealPlayer was always shit though.

Now replaced with web email apps and FileZilla. :p

[null1024]

POVRay

Spent a fair bit of time messing with this back in the day. I'm pretty sure that what took an hour of rendering on an old 486 is probably done in real-time now.

It surprised me a bit that things still take longer than a second to render at 640x480. I bet if it was GPU accelerated, it probably could do real-time [IIRC, a recent demo production did this for its glass raytracing]. But it is a hell of a lot faster than the minutes or hours of yesteryear.

[GaijinPunch]

Eudora
WS FTP
Real Player

I think I used Eudora and WS FTP, RealPlayer was always shit though.

Now replaced with web email apps and FileZilla. :p

My university had some deal w/ Eudora where all students got LIte. I assume all major state universities did. So they basically gave this application out to a few million people a year, long before anything else could compare to it, and if it did the whole idea of downloading an app wasn't really realized anyway, and still got dethroned.

WS FTP was also given out by the school. CuteFTP took over for stealing software soon after though. One of my favorites was FXP though. My last apartment when I lived in Austin had blazing fast 128kb ISDN (lol). I'd go set up a server in there, and connect to some warez site... all from my apartment, and send from one to the other. Good times.

Kai's Power Tools is an obvious one. Quark would be another.

[SuperGrafx]

Eudora...Christ I loved that email program.

I remember they took the ad-supported route at the very end.

[null1024]

Oh man, I just noticed RealPlayer in the OP.
Man, I remember trying like hell to get my old Win95 machine to play more than a few seconds of the demo video clip that came with it -- I think it tried to load the whole thing into RAM and failed, the machine might have had 8 or 16MB of the stuff maybe? The HDD sure as hell wasn't any larger than 4GB if I remember, if that. Maybe 2GB. Ancient-ass version, the logo was a reddish color or so instead of the familiar blue. There was more to the video because I copied it to my Windows ME machine [yikes!] and saw the whole thing.

Such [bad] memories. The bad old days of online audio and video. At least .MOV was something I knew would play on the machines I had back then, maybe [QuickTime version differences, eew]. As for online audio, I don't remember seeing much of any of it until my brother went on his Napster binge and got several CDs worth of music over dialup.


Never used Eudora -- my family had AOL. "You've got mail!"
And as for FTP, I can't remember having a web browser that didn't let me connect to FTP sites, so I never used a dedicated client. Although, the only FTP site I remember accessing was Microsoft's [the best thing to find was that olddos.exe contains QBasic, which would have been great to know all those years ago, blah ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Products/Window ... Utilities/ ].

such filthy nostalgia of a damned age -- tech level barely high enough for us to even try something like online video and too low for us to enjoy it

[GaijinPunch]

I remember the original Social Networking: Newsgroups, then IRC.
Crazy times... and even crazier they're still around.

[null1024]

I still can't believe that I didn't discover IRC until 2006 or so. Prior to that, I usually just bummed around various web message boards, and even before that, AOL's internal message board service.

[Ganelon]

I actually still have RealPlayer installed to play some 90s Real Media videos with SMIL subtitles that popular modern media players can't play.

WordPerfect & Ami Pro: my DOS word processors in elementary school; never used the Windows versions and neither did anybody else apparently
Encarta, Grolier & Compton's: my encyclopedic sources for reports back when internet sources were considered unacceptable; obsolete after Wikipedia was introduced
Mosaic: where I first surfed the net with pictures; Netscape made everything a lot more intuitive
Borland C++: where I learned my first programming language; superseded by more Windows-friendly environments
HyperTerminal, Telnet & zMUD: where I played MUDs and performed remote diagnostics (for the former 2); a lot more simpler, more secure options nowadays and MUDs are just about obsolete
Universal Hint System: how I got through tricky adventure games; killed by the rise of FAQs but probably still has solutions for obscure PC games not covered elsewhere

I'm surprised Winamp and ACID Pro are still kicking.

[BrianC]

I used to use Print Shop in the 80s and I hardly hear about it now.