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The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins (jordaneldredge.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I love this! “Digital ephemera” is such a unique treasure trove, there could be literally anything in there. It’s like finding a used sd card, or an old answering machine that still has a tape in it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

There's a weird nostalgia about the things he found

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago

The Winamp Skin archive he built was a nostalgia trip I needed:

https://skins.webamp.org/

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Cool dive, and I agree that winamp is rad.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

It really kicks Facebooks LLM ass. Wait.. wrong llama

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Really excellent article with just the right amount of bizarre and nostalgic content.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Wow what an adventure ! :3

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Did I hear that winamp has been open sourced?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It was made source-available.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I thought it will be released but it isn’t released yet right?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh, so it's not even fake open source. It's promised to be fake open source.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

If you sign up with your email address, yep!