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Here's the problem with online relationships, you can pick them up and drop them whenever you like. You can do that in real life to a degree, but sometimes you are forced to confront friends in real life when you don't want to. A real friend requires surviving a degree of confrontation.

Agreed. I love that this happened, and on IRC!

Ya, I can see that now. My thought here was in regards to processing power and storage capacity.

I would enjoy hearing your perspective on this.

It's the kids whose teachers can't or want to adapt that will most likely suffer in their education. Not saying it is easy, but it is possible.

I have a friend who's a teacher that is pioneering methods to include (modified / preprompted) LLMs as a part of their lessons. He calls it Modern PBL: Project-Based Learning. He wrote a book on it if you are interested: https://a.co/d/7MFQ5wa

Several years ago I spent a great deal of time thinking about how to create something like this, glad someone did it!

My vision went beyond this into allowing users to create their own channels (still only identifiable by a channel number) which would basically just be a playlist. I think a better idea now would be to have them add a list of channels and have it randomly play videos from only those channels and have that interrupted by anytime that channel is live streaming.

Good read, very encouraging.

No way! The Internet is a small place. I remember seeing your original post and feeling very inspired to do something similar. One of these days I will find some time.

Just started testing them out last week. Amazing how much better it is than GA4.

Of course I I think I have what it takes... Don't most of us here?

I have endless ideas, a diverse set of technical skills that can get me most of the way there...

What stops me though is time and money.

I have a family to provide for, who are a much bigger priority than anything else. So my ideas take the back burner, and I prioritize the ones that have a higher percent chance at freeing me from a 9-5, instead of the more interesting moon shots.

However, the failures and wasted money do add up, and it emotionally wears on my wife... I do think of giving up trying to start something, but I dread the idea of working for someone else for the next 30 years. I feel like starting something of my own is part of how I am wired.

So I keep plugging away in my limited free time, getting up too early just to make the time. Maybe some day, but the years are already flying by, my family is most important.

Remember playing that demo over and over as a kid! Really cool that you worked on it.

I remember finding this and being super excited about how awesome it looked and how small the file size was. This was back in the day when LAN parties were common, and not everybody had high speed internet.

I still wonder if things like this have a place in the future?

Thank you, really appreciate you saying something.

Not sure I have ever had anyone comment on my writing style. Probably means I should write more!

That is super interesting, care to share why it was on your list? I mean it was legit after all lol.

Thanks for sharing!

I had high hopes for Revision3, it was really an exciting time with Web 2.0 and the like.

Yup, can't blame you there!

Thank you for the kind words.

Thanks so much for chiming in, glad you liked the lime green!

I definitely remember some RuneScape stuff on there, I played it a lot in the early 2000's myself.

API would be interesting.

Tried the affiliate route for Amazon (Hard Drives ect) and VPN ofers. Never had any luck with those.

My conclusion: if you are on a torrent site, you probably are not looking to buy something.

Interesting thoughts, will have to think about that.

Ya, basically no one would touch a torrent site, even if it was legal, with user submitted content.

It is hard to balance money with time these days, especially if you are doing it on the side, or even doing it for an employer.

Back then I was in high school and it was literally spend nothing you don't have to and avoid having to get a job for as long as possible. Good times!

That is something to consider, thought I am not sure off hand how many were actually still active.

Good thoughts.

The VPS was like $60 a year. At the end it was like $100 a year from ads.

At one point in the early 2010's there were a few $1,000 months when there was a car model released with torrent in the name!

That is awesome, I am glad to hear you enjoyed the site!

There was some odd rap uploaded for sure. There was also some really cool video game music remakes I remember finding.

Ya, I am a part of the "problem" so to speak, though I do my best to create content that not only ranks well in a search engine, but is genuinely helpful for the reader.

I suppose it was inevitable in the drive of the commercialization of everything in life?

It is harder than I would have imagined, it is a weird thing.

Do you mean use the full URL in image references? If so, why exactly?

Thank you, I appreciate it.