Not dead but definitely on life support. I really do miss old forums. Reddit / Discord / Fediverse don't come close to the old community feel. Facebook groups aren't so bad sometimes for that but then the content is organised terribly. Say what you will about forum search engines but I could always rely on being able to enter a keyword or two and get what I was looking for.

A lot of forums I frequented were actually pretty well organised with subforums. It just isn't the same these days.

Also web forums were the absolute best for petty drama. I do miss that in a weird way. Always that one angry gatekeeper flaming everyone.

Another thing - my windows 95 era PC was packed to the gills with bad desktop themes. Usually South Park related with annoying soundclips that played whenever you did something. Obnoxious mouse cursors and wallpapers that hurt the eyes.

I was upset when everything moved to ATX and computers powered off by themselves because I didn't get to see the modded 'It Is Now Safe To Turn Off Your Computer' screens that came with the themes

Good shout - I never watched Dallas or Dynasty but I feel like I'm ignoring a pop-culture touchstone with those 2. The amount JR is referenced in other shows I almost feel like I have seen it.

I didn't even realise Mortal Kombat was available on those 2 platforms! My friend's dad sold me 2 A500s, an A500+ and a crate of cracked floppies for £20 back in the early 2000s when they were out of favour. I hunted down a null-modem cable so I could copy ADFs over from the PC,. Played a lot of Premier Manager on those, and reading old disk magazines. But mostly my memories are of guru meditation errors, cleaning the dust from the mouseball and contending with dodgy floppy disks / drives.

To be fair I would expect someone with a user name such as your to have played your fair share of them. I would usually get frustrated when my graph paper maps stopped making sense.. Likely a 'me' problem I think

Oh man Mike Post is a legend for the Hill Street Blues theme alone. He did the Greatest American Hero too. The 80s had the best TV Themes of any decade in my opinion

I had an obsession with the LucasArts adventures. I hunted down copies of just about all of them when I was younger. Monkey Island being my all time favourite. Was nice that they didn't kill you off at every opportunity like the Sierra games did.

Shareware games were crazy. I had a CD compilation of called '250 bat and ball games' with clone after clone of breakout/arkanoid and nothing else. What a time to be alive

I went back to Windows a few years ago because I needed audio production software but would go back to vanilla Debian in a heartbeat if I needed a PC for anything else.

I switched to I3WM later on with my Debian PC and that was godlike too

Tried that but I forget the planner exists and inevitably lose it so I stick to cloud-based apps now. ToDoist is my go to for personal checklists and planning now

I went back to 5 days a week in office in summer 2021. I hated it when I was told but now I'm glad it happened. I walk 2 miles each way to work. That walk is one of the nicest parts of my day. I get crazy paranoia when I can't speak to people face-to-face, and I can maintain a routine. I appreciate I am lucky in my situation but I would take the 4 days and enjoy a long weekend where I can properly unwind

Yeah I totally forgot to mention TNG but I did watch it. First season has its moments but isn't the best.

Still good to see though. Punky Brewster I didn't get past the first couple episodes. It was cool but think I was fatigued what with all the other similar shows. Same reason I didn't really bother with Webster at the time.

I think I had a look for Tracey Ullman but I don't know if there are many episodes available?

Small Wonder must have passed me by. It looks dreadful! Hopefully in a good way though? I'll check it out but I just recently got through Out of this World and that was pretty terrible. Sounds kinda similar.

File Manager is the best for bulk renaming too

All unlabelled, with a bunch of corrupted ones but you never threw them out just in case it was a one off and you really needed that extra megabyte? Or was that just me?

I did actually have V on my list but never got round to it. I wanted to see the TV movie first but my partner is a hard-sell on that sort of stuff. I'll have to find some time for it. Buck Rogers sounds like fun! One thing I love about that era is that they could produce the silliest shows and keep a straight face.

Now you mention sci-fi I just realised I didn't mention Star Trek TNG in my post...

The most fun you could possibly have short of watching paint dry!

Millennial. But we had Granny's Garden running on an Acorn Archidedes in our country rather than Oregon Trail. I was a kid in the 90s

I watched the first episode of Magnum PI and was impressed by the quality. Never picked it back up for some reason though. I never watched Simon and Simon - think I was overwhelmed with hour-long detective shows at the time and a lot of them got bumped from my schedule.

I don't know if it's just me but did anyone ever actually complete those games? I might have just about finished Zork one time years later but for all the games I started that was about it. Good times though. Scott Adams will always be a hero of mine

I remember installing either Red Hat or Mandriva linux years ago and being in absolute disbelief that it was free. I went straight back to Windows when I realised i couldn't play my games anymore and it crashed all the time but it was still phenomenal.

I never had a voodoo and my old AMD CPU + ATI card could never manage to run glide wrappers properly I don't think. Super jealous of voodoo owners. I remember drooling over the old magazine ads they used to publish

Yeah it was my absolute top number 1 favourite show for a very long time. It's one of those shows I can just throw on any episode any time and enjoy it. Cheers, Mary Tyler Moore, Bob Newhart Show, Newhart and Golden Girls are top 5 for that vibe. Like a warm hug