mIRC 7.66 released
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mcj · 2021-06-30 00:01

One of the first digital images I ever saw of a person, on a computer,
was this dude’s little headshot back in the DOS/Windows 3.1 days.
Insane he’s still tooling away at it after all these years. Cheers!

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jazpermo · 2021-06-30 00:06

Back when you had to use Trumpet Winsock?  I love thinking about those
old days :D

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smesch · 2021-06-30 00:07

God, Trumpet Winsock makes me so nostalgic for some reason.

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chemtrailz · 2021-06-30 01:10

I recall people kept using Trumpet even after "upgrading" their 3.1
installations to Win95, which shipped with native support for the
TCP/IP procol (IIRC).

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ShyJalapeno · 2021-06-30 04:01

ir's... alive...

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scrutinizer80 · 2021-06-30 07:27

Trumpet was immune to some original Win95 TCP/IP bugs.
Mainly that nasty OOB on port 139 crash

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ScratchinCommander · 2021-06-30 16:30

Anyone remember you could click on the logo a few times and there was
an Easter egg?

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AllEncompassingThey · 2021-07-05 19:51

Yeah, and I remember if you clicked his nose it made a squeak.

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OneofLittleHarmony · 2021-07-14 22:40

O_o I own this program.

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UselessSoftware · 2021-08-01 00:30

Ah yes, back in the days where Windows left all your ports accessible
to the open internet. Because that was a good idea. Really brings me
back.

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scrutinizer80 · 2021-08-01 07:57

Don't forget that back then most of us didn't have home routers and
were using dial-up to call directly. Thus, no nat or firewalls.
That led to various software solutions such as Zonealarm & others.
Fun times. :)