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I feel like an important piece of the story regarding how directx changed game development is that it was Gabe Newell, a microsoft employee at the time, that led the DOOM95 porting project which cemented windows as the gaming OS .
It feels poetic that Steam was part of getting Vulkan and Proton off the ground.

I mostly use startpage, but occasionally ecosia and mojeek.

I had to run this as a sudo, what does it

Glad my mom being a bitch is an unpopular opinion 😇

I couldn't really verify if the quote was from a Paul F. Haacker, the furthest back I could trace find was from 2018 where this article or blog post or opinion piece or whatever you call it (they call themself a "free market focused think tank"), links to to a facebook post.

Onedrive is not that bad of a service*.

Seeing as this is a reference to a song that came out before 9/11, here's the original.
Also, fun fact: Linkin Park's breakthrough album Hybrid Theory released on the same day, October 24th, 2000.

Unchecked piracy, ew, where? Here?

It was quite revolutionizing if you ask me. While it often had to buffer a bit, it was amazing how smooth the animation, sound and music was using nothing but 56k modem at the time. And then there was the gore and mental scaring, but besides that, amazing!

Wow, almost 18 years old.

Luckily I'll be a dead gonk by then.. Wait, wrong universe. But no chance I'll end up as a ghoul.

That's good to hear. It's just, he looks very intense in the thumbnail, for a lack of a better way of phrasing it, I could've been fooled. They probably picked that photo on purpose though.