Kid's guide to the internet(97)

[Fritzo]

Or they're scared shittless of it because one time the power blinked when windows 9x was defraging and corrupted some of the files so they stay away from it at all costs. Until i have to work on it and see that the disk is around 55% fragmented (XP by that point) That took a while to clean up.

You REALLY can feel a difference at that fragmentation level.

With modern OS's having 4K or less block sizes, defragging is really not needed that much anymore (unless you run some kind of file server).

 

[Zodiark1593]

With modern OS's having 4K or less block sizes, defragging is really not needed that much anymore (unless you run some kind of file server).

With SSDs, Defragment has it's butt kicked all the way back to the Stone Age.

 

[FelixDeCat]

With SSDs, Defragment has it's butt kicked all the way back to the Stone Age.

I still defrag my SSD once every 120 days or so. It gets up to 9% sometime. I even defag my RAMDRIVE. :awe:

 

[JTsyo]

That frog dissection page seemed pretty advanced for '97. Was it just HTML back then for web content?

 

[Ichinisan]

Man it would be great to spoof that video... the kid watches porn sites all day and the daughter is earning thousands a week with a web cam while the parents are completely oblivious.

When they mentioned "mailzone.com" I thought of the boy saying: "...and make sure you spell it correctly: 'm-a-i-l-z-o-n-e' -- for some reason, my sister has a hard time spelling it correctly." :awe:

 

[Ichinisan]

http://redlettermedia.com/best-of-the-worst-wheel-of-the-worst-2/

Strange. RLM has a different version of it. Some of the same lines.

 

[edro]

WRONG!!! @ 5:31
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A81IwlDeV6c&t=5m31s

Double slash or double forward slash...

 

[Triumph]

"The first thing that you need to know, is that the internet is amazing." LOL!

It's like an ad for a crappy product that nobody wants, trying too hard to sell itself.

And "Dasha"? What is she, the family's illegally adopted Ukrainian step daughter?

 

[tortillasoup]

Ah, defragging...the computer snake oil of old people.

Somehow, that one term got into the heads of everyone over 60 and has stayed there. They don't know what it does, but they're convinced it fixes all computer problems.

not sure if sarcasm.

 

[clamum]

lol so so so so true along with degaussing your monitor.

Oh man I had forgot about degaussing, hahaha! Man that brings me back about 15 years. Defragging and degaussing. LOL, good times.

 

[lxskllr]

WRONG!!! @ 5:31
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A81IwlDeV6c&t=5m31s

Double slash or double forward slash...

That got my attention too. I was thinking "have I been doing it wrong all this time?!" :^D

I like the instructions for downloading screensavers. I wonder how many infections are directly attributable to that video :^D

 

[zerocool84]

Oh man I had forgot about degaussing, hahaha! Man that brings me back about 15 years. Defragging and degaussing. LOL, good times.

We'd degauss the monitors so damn much in school.

 

[Ichinisan]

not sure if sarcasm.

What? Are you some kind of regular defragger?

 

[Fritzo]

not sure if sarcasm.

Uh oh, someone's bubble burst....

 

[edro]

lol, he still defrags weekly with Win7.

 

[Scarpozzi]

How can I install the internet on MY computer????

 

[DrPizza]

I still defrag my SSD once every 120 days or so. It gets up to 9% sometime. I even defag my RAMDRIVE. :awe:

(The smiley face means he's joking people. Don't do it.)

 

[JoeBleed]

With modern OS's having 4K or less block sizes, defragging is really not needed that much anymore (unless you run some kind of file server).

I did say win 9x and XP

lol, he still defrags weekly with Win7.

Windows Vista, 7, and maybe 8 run defrag automatically unless it detects an SSD. So unless you disalbed this or are running an SSD, you too are still defragging.

As for me, i defrag XP, windows 7 does it's own thing and is useful on older drives it seems. I have yet to use an new 4k drive, though i'm expecting one to show up tomorrow for an update to an older computer. Aside from that, i've grown to love my SSD and am at the point i hate using a computer that doesn't have one. (no i don't defrag my SSDs and have checked to make sure win7 identified it correctly and isn't doing it automatically. )

 

[jumpncrash]

wow, that's way too long for me, no way I'm watching all of that

 

[bbhaag]

I wish they would have covered Usenet more. They made a point to bring it up at the beginning but just glazed over it later. I find the early days of the internet fascinating compared to today. IRC, Usenet and BBS's have always made me wonder how people communicated with each other and what it was really like in the early days.

 

[lamedude]

The few active newsgroups left seem to be unaffected by time. Despite being unmoderated the lack of younglings keep it civilized.