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> I used VLC to play videos on BeOS back in college in the late 90s

VLC was first released in 2001, as per Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLC_media_player

Wow, was it really that late? perhaps it was. Maybe my memory is shot. I definitely remember using VLC on BeOS at one point, but it must have been a couple years later than I thought. Thanks for keeping me honest :-)

You could have used VLC in 1999 or 2000 on BeOS, before it was open source.

Because, indeed, VLC was out on BeOS before Linux and Windows.

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