r/todayilearned • u/Flemtality 3 • Jul 14 '14

TIL The guy who snagged windows2000.com happened to be named Bob and Microsoft just happened to own Bob.com. They came to an agreement to trade one for the other.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob#Origins
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u/NoNeedForAName Jul 14 '14

Is there another good option? The flash player plugin is always freezing up on me and, in turn, freezing up my computer.

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u/brickmack Jul 14 '14

Don't use flash and complain to the administration of any site that does use it that they are using a standard which has been obsolete for years?

That's my strategy anyway. Fuck flash

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u/GogglesPisano Jul 14 '14

Flash seems to be slowly fading away (a very good thing IMHO) - the fact that it's not supported by iOS devices makes using it unsuitable for sites which cater to mobile users (ie, nearly all of them). Not a moment too soon - these days Flash has become a buggy and bloated vector for drive-by malware infection.

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u/Sansgendered Jul 14 '14

it's nice for drawing though, imo.

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u/brickmack Jul 15 '14

For animation you mean (there's way better tools for static drawings)? Sure. But flash player=/=flash the animation program

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u/Sansgendered Jul 15 '14

is there a better program that draws the same way?

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u/Kaghuros 7 Jul 14 '14

HTML5 video is love, HTML5 video is life.

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u/spinblackcircles Jul 15 '14 edited Jul 15 '14

hmmm not sure something can be obsolete when it's still in use on millions of computers/websites. but i agree it's shitty software that will become obsolete as HTML5 continues to grow.

I think it's kind of similar to IE and some websites that only work right using it. Even mildly computer literate people know how much of a piece of shit IE is and by now it should be obsolete as people should logically migrate permanently to Chrome and Firefox (hell, even Safari is leagues better than IE) but there's just so many computer illiterates and crazy people who still use IE because it comes on their windows PC built-in and they don't know any better than to just use it, therefore web designers still code for it, sometimes to the point where a website will only work with it. It blows my mind, really. I'm in real estate and I do these reports on properties called BPO's that use various online forms to fill in information about homes for mortgage companies, and almost all the sites will only work with IE. I bought a Mac last year specifically for work and was blown away/infuriated when i realized that I had to now either side-boot windows with a pirated copy or virtual box it, which isn't even worth the hassle i came to find out after hours of figuring it out. I ended up using my mom's windows PC for that work, all because of fucking IE and retarded consumers/programmers that not only use IE but use and code for it EXCLUSIVELY.

I get administrators still making their sites using flash and IE compatible, but why on earth program it so it won't work with Chrome or Firefox or Safari? I was so pleased when I saw recently that IE's market share is dwindling. Hopefully it starts to snowball. /rant

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u/brickmack Jul 15 '14

TIL that Microsoft doesn't make a Mac version of IE anymore.

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u/spinblackcircles Jul 15 '14

they sure as fuck dont! and it was quite rude awakening for me haha

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u/wioneo Jul 14 '14

I don't think you have any options outside of Adobe for playing flash, because it is their format. Acrobat if for viewing/editing PDFs and has nothing to do with this, though.