Comment on The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins

Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Wootz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Actually, I’d love to hear from anybody younger than 30. Does this article make sense to you at all?

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  • itsralC@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I am not at all representative of my age group (I am on lemmy ffs), but yes, I do know what winamp is/was.

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    • Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Same

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  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah? Dude got some corrupt skins for the Winamp program back in the day that didn’t work and poked into the files to see what was in there.

    Makes me wanna check out WACUP, but last time I tried a skin with it that I at least remember working back in the day, it didn’t work.

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  • CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’m under 30, I have no idea what winamp is but I figured it’s some music software from the skins’ pics. I imagine it was popular for it to have a museum thing about user created skins

    (I haven’t googled anything yet)

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    • LittleBorat2@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It was the only thing at some point in time which explains the popularity.

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      • Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It was the thing in its time.

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  • Plopp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    *crickets*

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  • lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    27, I dimly remember what Winamp was (never used it though) and extrapolated what Skins would be. I assume they’re essentially an archive of image files used to give a music player a custom look? Except they’re not technically restricted to image files and can apparently contain other files too, which I assume will make them invalid as skins, i.e. corrupted.

    How far off am I?

    Mind, I’m far from representative for my age group, given my IT expertise.

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• Mojave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Bro people know what hieroglyphs and wax Edison cylinders are. People know things, winamp is not some obscure hidden knowledge

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  • Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Wasn’t implying it was hidden knowledge.

    I was thinking about the zeitgeist of different generations in context of computing.

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