Fri Dec 05, 2025 3:57 pm Fav Mp3 Players? (Also weird mp3 Players?) Fri Dec 05, 2025 3:57 pm Fav Mp3 Players? (Also weird mp3 Players?)

Sun Dec 14, 2025 7:07 pm Re: Acer Laptop from 2007ish Sun Dec 14, 2025 7:07 pm Re: Acer Laptop from 2007ish



Here's my childhood laptop which I used around 2007-2009 to browse YouTube and old forums.It still works!


I recognize so many things from that desktop, I believe this laptop has the potential to be a time capsule. Have you checked on the internet cache, seen if there's anything that hasn't been documented or archived?


Yeah I remember checking the search history way back and I think there was and old forum thread from jeuxvideo.com but I should check again sometime.



Log in to the Windows Vista system using an account with access to the user profile.
Open Internet Explorer .
Click Tools .
Select Internet Options .
Under the General tab, locate the Browsing history section.
Click Settings .
Click View files to open the IE cache folder.
Review cached files such as HTML pages, images, and scripts.
Sort files by Date Modified to identify recently cached pages.
Double-click HTML files to view their contents.
Optionally navigate directly to:
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files
Check subfolders for additional cached content.
Copy or document relevant files if required.


Example of how it could look like (taken on XP):
https://www.digital-detective.net/images/blog/Digital-Detective-Internet-Explorer-Forensic-Cache-Analysis-Folder-Structure.png

Sun Nov 09, 2025 10:26 pm Re: W.I.P Dark Aero theme Sun Nov 09, 2025 10:26 pm Re: W.I.P Dark Aero theme

It's half broken at the moment but if you want to test and suggest things, select "experimental (wip)" on the theme selector in the top navbar, and click the paintbrush icon to go to the dark theme (I will remove the other color options later for this theme).


The header was perfect before, but now it's kind of broken. Posting a reply uses black font which is hard to see as well.

Sat Dec 20, 2025 3:34 pm Re: Dark Aero Update Sat Dec 20, 2025 3:34 pm Re: Dark Aero Update

lakes wrote: Sat Dec 20, 2025 3:13 pm

Just pointing out that you forgot to change the background of the purple accent option. It's still blue.

It was kinda purply blue but now I made it more purple

Sun Nov 09, 2025 10:26 am What's good yall Sun Nov 09, 2025 10:26 am What's good yall
What's up, my name's Crankmeister and I was born March 22nd, 2003 in DFW

I'm a big fan of Frutiger Aero for the same reason I bet a lot of yall are, having seen it all over the place when I grew up so it's got a special fuzzy-feeling place in my heart. I'm also an (arguably bigger :) ) fan of Vaporwave, music and aesthetics both

Some lil lists of my favorites

Books
The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings by J RR Tolkien
Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas Demon by James Lovegrove
After Man: A Zoology of the Future by Dougal Dixon

Albums
Antenna by ZZ Top
Ooh Yeah! by Hall & Oates
Between Two Worlds by Infinity Frequencies
After Hours by Sleepless Nights
Basically everything by Chypho

Games
Crusader Kings 3
Pokemon Clover
Team Fortress 2
Super Mario /v/orld 3: New Vegas
Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 1+2

If yall have any questions for me feel free to ask :ugeek:

Tue Dec 16, 2025 3:08 am Re: HELLO!!! Tue Dec 16, 2025 3:08 am Re: HELLO!!!
i gotta thank you for this amazing archive and forum, so well made!! it became a kind of comforting place for me ^-^

Sun Oct 12, 2025 6:20 am Re: what’s something from the 2000s that you want to see again? Sun Oct 12, 2025 6:20 am Re: what’s something from the 2000s that you want to see again?

Sun Nov 30, 2025 12:58 am Re: Rejecting art/design commissons Sun Nov 30, 2025 12:58 am Re: Rejecting art/design commissons
used to write on fanfiction.net and kept getting friggin pms from people telling me they liked my 2 paragraph long jackie chan fanfiction and wanted to collab with me. what do ya know, they're either bots or make nsfw literature.

Sun Dec 07, 2025 1:55 pm Re: How did everyone come here for the first time? Sun Dec 07, 2025 1:55 pm Re: How did everyone come here for the first time?

be the same as the above :yellow_bouncey:


a while back when i noticed that frutiger aero archive exists and so i just went there
there was also a forum and i was checking some topics, then just leave

later on after awareness of how forums can be better, i started to gain interest in joining some forums...so i decided to join here first (and make my first topic as a guest)
and here we are today :blue_smile:

Thu Dec 25, 2025 5:27 am Re: Why do you like Frutiger Aero? Thu Dec 25, 2025 5:27 am Re: Why do you like Frutiger Aero?
Personally for me, aside from nostalgia ofc, I really like the vibe the Frutiger Aero imagery gives off. It's like the real word but in a sort of perfection you only see in dreams.

Sun Nov 30, 2025 1:53 pm What was your first mobile phone ? Sun Nov 30, 2025 1:53 pm What was your first mobile phone ?
Time for some tech nostalgia, what was the first mobile phone you got ?

Mine was a Firefly Mobile, I got it around 2008 I think. This phone could only make calls with using the front buttons (by pre register numbers), nothing more lmao but that’s was enough for a kids targeted phone
050309_firefly_phone_hmed.jpg


I got the pink one with the hearts shell (the only pic I was able to find is from this Reddit post, credit to the original poster u/jumbledinthebrain )
firefly-cellphone-circa-2005-v0-wf5heewgd05a1.webp
Source : https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/zhe30a/firefly_cellphone_circa_2005/

Tue Dec 09, 2025 6:26 pm Re: Fav type of network topology ? Tue Dec 09, 2025 6:26 pm Re: Fav type of network topology ?
p2p because torrents

Mon Dec 01, 2025 7:50 pm Re: FA forum-tan doodle Mon Dec 01, 2025 7:50 pm Re: FA forum-tan doodle

TheCableGuy08 wrote: Mon Dec 01, 2025 4:10 pm

Looks very good! Nice drawing!

Thanks a lot !

Wed Dec 03, 2025 9:47 pm coolepicwebsite Wed Dec 03, 2025 9:47 pm coolepicwebsite
Heres my website, once it loads refresh to get a loading screen

https://coolepicwebsite01.neocities.org

Tue Nov 25, 2025 12:41 pm Re: How to find old yt vids easily Tue Nov 25, 2025 12:41 pm Re: How to find old yt vids easily
something i love doing with this is looking up "[fandom here] AMV before:2013" and just vibing.

Thu Dec 18, 2025 3:18 pm Re: Web 2.0 Gloss and Post-morphism in 2025 Thu Dec 18, 2025 3:18 pm Re: Web 2.0 Gloss and Post-morphism in 2025
a website that sells blu-ray discs too (not official)
https://www.blu-ray.com/

Tue Nov 11, 2025 7:03 pm Re: windows 7 ROG custom boot animation? Tue Nov 11, 2025 7:03 pm Re: windows 7 ROG custom boot animation?
The forum posts are still alive at https://rog-forum.asus.com/t5/promotions-general-discussions/windows-7-asus-rog-custom-boot-animation/td-p/193186, however, the dropbox link containing the download (https://www.dropbox.com/s/hq8o8s6fora226z/activity.zip) is dead.
I highly doubt this file is available on the internet anymore, and you would probably have to contact someone who interacted with the thread and see if they have it sitting on their ancient computer; or even contact OP.

This video does already include the animation in quite good quality to be honest... You could probably rip the video and extract a PNG sequence from it and use that instead and it'll be not too far off from the raw.

Sun Dec 21, 2025 8:11 am Re: Never have I ever… Sun Dec 21, 2025 8:11 am Re: Never have I ever…
Never have I ever... made a good post

Thu Nov 27, 2025 12:58 am Plant Life Forum Theme? Thu Nov 27, 2025 12:58 am Plant Life Forum Theme?
To Daniele63, :wavegreen: if you're reading this, I would love to see an option on the forum to adds little butterfly or plant life GIFs around the size of 30x30 pixels to screen wherever you want kinda like those desktop ornaments that Vargskelethor trashed his Windows installation with except ya know, safe; And having their colour change to the accent of the website would be awesome too. (aero red, would have them in a red colour, aero green would make them green, etc.) Maybe even the ability to change the wallpaper of the forum to a custom image the user can upload for their session.

This vaguely came to me in a dream last night for some reason and I think it would look really cool IRL.

I hope I'm not pushing for anything that's too much work, I appreciate the website's design a lot already, especially the Longhorn theme, I just think these would be neat updates to add.

:windows: :windows: :windows:

thanks

Sun Nov 02, 2025 4:06 pm (red desc) bad frutiger aero slop video rant Sun Nov 02, 2025 4:06 pm (red desc) bad frutiger aero slop video rant

Sat Dec 06, 2025 1:32 am Re: weird things you did when you were a kid? Sat Dec 06, 2025 1:32 am Re: weird things you did when you were a kid?
bru i wanted a guitar because school of rock made them look tuff but i didnt wanna learn guitar

Thu Dec 11, 2025 4:50 pm Re: this might be the end Thu Dec 11, 2025 4:50 pm Re: this might be the end





well i'd rather have people keep using parental controls for these kinds of things
like you just pointed out they're useful for this sorta thing
so i don't understand why the govt is doing this other than to more easily surveil people
plus closeted people also use the internet to be themselves and the id laws risk them being forcibly outed (ik bc i'm one of them)
that's not even getting into the fact that in certain places the lgbt+ community is illegal

I suppose so, you have some valid points. But I feel the idea of leaving it in parents hands to set up parental controls is just not gonna happen. I see that the typical Australian parent mentality is the oh well that is alright, let my kid have some freedom and be happy doing what he likes because I see no harm in it. And when experts implore parents to block access to these things, parents shrug and don't act, just seen it happen too many times, same with the E-bike crisis and E-scooters where kids ask parents, they buy them the stuff because they see no harm in it because it isn't technically considered a motor vehicle, but then don't really research as to if it is a good idea to follow through with it and now we see high death tolls of kids in short time because they aren't responsible on it and end up speeding faster than what they should be travelling at which will require more control and experience to handle.


yeah i think you make some good points too. so i'm just gonna agree to disagree

Yeah same here. I guess that is what makes this all so hard is that there will never be a perfect decision that will please everyone. And I guess that is something I can work around, just hope the method for this ban can be handled better instead of force presenting ID in some way to the government, me personally I am fine with the gvt, but third party companies having my data is where I fret in. I am just glad I was able to have this discussion with people normally, usually when I speak like this people flip out and immediately start calling me things instead of trying to hear each other out and build and understand opinions.

Sun Dec 21, 2025 11:08 am Re: Any thoughts on the Skeuoss drama? Sun Dec 21, 2025 11:08 am Re: Any thoughts on the Skeuoss drama?
Eh, Personally I love their album and channel, But the products do try a little to hard to be frutiger aero in my opinion.

And personally? I don't care about any drama's, Let people live their lives.

Fri Dec 26, 2025 5:44 am Re: what's something from the 2000s that you want to see again? Fri Dec 26, 2025 5:44 am Re: what's something from the 2000s that you want to see again?


People keep mentioning the phones. I strongly agree here, specifically their software/visual layout. I've been dying to get my hands on a functioning Sony Ericsson or what have you (I've unsuccessfully tried multiple times to revive the one that was given to me as a kid, which I did nothing with but write dumb notes and take pictures of whatever ancient version of Minecraft I was playing at the time.) Maybe it's just me liking to decorate tiny, cramped little spaces, but to me that almost transitional-to-smartphones look on a tiny screen feels so personal and comfortable. Also, the way they slid and the way the buttons felt was much more pleasant than constantly dirtying up a screen with your fingers lol
https://images.olx.com.pk/thumbnails/562192323-400x300.jpeg

By extension, I miss blackberries. All my family members had these fucking things when I was a kid, but I never see them anymore. Honestly? I'd use one as my personal phone if I could.
https://www.stuff.tv/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/Keyboard-smartphones.jpg
Only one of these is a blackberry, but all of them are good to me for the same reasons

i'd use that tmobile one it looks comfortable to use. Plus the visuals just look fun


My mom used to own a white HTC cellphone that otherwise looked and functioned like a Blackberry with the physical QWERTY keyboard on it and all in the early - mid 2010s (I remember her taking me to AT&T one afternoon in 2013 to replace it, though, which is a shame because of how cool it was).

And I'd do anything to be able to own a T-Mobile Sidekick. I'd be one of the coolest people in the world if I did (if only 2G and 3G networks didn't already unfortunately shut down here in the US).

Thu Nov 20, 2025 12:16 am Re: now, i need to ask out of curiousity Thu Nov 20, 2025 12:16 am Re: now, i need to ask out of curiousity

Daniele63 wrote: Thu Nov 20, 2025 12:09 am

They're pretty much glorified tablets

not even that bc at least tablets can use apps offline
they're glorified web browsers if anything