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Please Register This Shareware is a new, brilliant archive of shareware registration nag screens.

Pre-dating the App stores by decades, Shareware “nags” were more personal than today’s endless parade of DLC and emotionally vacant Buy this and Rate that pop-ups.  Perhaps it was the effort required for these executables to reach your PC (being couriered from BBS to BBS, duplicated from floppy to floppy) or maybe it was the (often home) mailing addresses of the programmers listed for placing orders.

Also relevant, wwwtxt selections charting Shareware’s early demise: Shareware has been degraded by every weekend programmer who thinks he can get a few bucks for his 2-hour hatchet job. (88FEB) / Shareware’s day has come and gone. Expect to see nothing but Free, DemoWare, and ThugWare in the future. (88FEB) / Shareware enters mid-life crisis. (90MAR) / Perhaps we ought to abandon the shareware terminology completely and follow the ideology of the GNU project. (90SEP)

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so funny to me when white american christians are like “ooh i incorporate my religious trauma into my art and thats why i draw these stained glass gothic church gold multi eyed reneissance sculpture angels agnus dei” like i know your protestant southern california ass didnt have any of that. go make some art about this

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Damn way to read the assignment and go above and beyond.

the bleakness and sanitized feel of most American protestant churches really is an underused medium.

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Emoticons/emojis created by overlyaing several text characters on top of eachother. These instructions are from 1976, and might have been around as early as 1972.

This technique was possible on the amazing 1970s PLATO computer, and probably never again after that? You could also move the text-chars around on a pixel level. Pictures/info from platopeople.com.

How were these things done? Well, on PLATO, you could press SHIFT-space to move your cursor back one space — and then if you typed another character, it would appear on top of the existing character. And if you wanted to get real fancy, you could use the MICRO and SUB and SUPER keys on a PLATO keyboard to move up and down one pixel or more — in effect providing a HUGE array of possible emoticon characters.
Source: text-mode

Perpetual Self Dis/Infecting Machines Eva and Franco Mattes 2000 / 70 x 50 × 13cm Hand assembled computer, Biennale.py virus, Windows 2000, anti virus software, plexiglass

Biennale.py is a computer virus we created—with hackers group Epidemic—for the 49th Venice Biennale. Released on the night of the opening, it quickly spread around the world.
Immaterial and self-replicating, when the virus enters a computer it stays there, hidden, trying to survive for as long as possible.

to all my researchers, students and people in general who love learning: if you don't know this already, i'm about to give you a game changer

the basic rundown is: you use the search bar to enter a topic, scientific paper name or DOI. the website then offers you a list of papers on the topic, and you choose the one you're looking for/most relevant one. from here, it makes a tree diagram of related papers that are clustered based on topic relatability and colour-coded by time they were produced!

for example: here i search "human B12"

i go ahead and choose the first paper, meaning my graph will be based around it and start from the topics of "b12 levels" and "fraility syndrome"

here is the graph output! you can scroll through all the papers included on the left, and clicking on each one shows you it's position on the chart + will pull up details on the paper on the right hand column (title, authors, citations, abstract/summary and links where the paper can be found)

you get a few free graphs a month before you have to sign up, and i think the free version gives you up to 5 a month. there are paid versions but it really depends how often you need to use this kinda thing.

researchrabbit works similarly. you do need to create an account to use it, but it is completely free (as far as I know), meaning no limits to your collections/graphs.

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one of my favorite bits that i do is that if im typing in discord and someone else says something that i was about to say i don't delete everything i typed nor do i finish typing it and hit send i just hit send as is to mimic the real life occurrence of being interrupted. it's very funny to me. and then i say fuck you or sometimes shut up

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autistic people are not robots and that’s a harmful stereotype to perpetuate however. sometimes it can be very helpful to say “run system diagnostics” in a robotic voice and start scanning why you’re feeling bad

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running system diagnostics. . .
Head
hurts
>unclench jaw
>close eyes for 10 seconds
>forcequit own hands away from scalp
Chest
sad
>close all social media programs
>hum comforting song
>fetch blanket
Gut
tight
>manually lower breathing rate by 50%
>hydrate
>finish eating dinner
Limbs
heavy
>forcequit all electronic devices
>walk to bathroom and/or kitchen
>pause all active tasks and go to bed