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I was so impressed with remove.bg in Dec 2018; awesome to see the progress in this area, so cool.


For causal use, I've had best success with freemium photoroom.com (export res limit on free use). Even better than OP's, but it's been a while since I've compared these.


I wonder if self-driving cars and massively improved safety will solve this.

5 kids in a car, held, seated, seatbelted, any-which-way. Like on a train.


No parent will ever do that, because parenting fucks up brain in a special way


Ahh BBS's: where I learned the difference between a local call and a "local toll call" (parents were not happy)


Same here, except I took it further and was calling out of state BBSs to download the latest warez. First phone bill after getting the modem was $250, in around 1984 (or about $800 in 2026). Parents were pissed. That's when I learned about phone phreaking.


> That's when I learned about phone phreaking.

“And never again have to pay for a service that would be dirt cheap, if it weren’t run by a bunch of profiteering gluttons!”

- Razor & Blade


Reminds me of the Notorious B.I.G. line "phone bill about 2G's flat"!


https://www.yarone.com/

Ancient and needs updating


Me too! With Sendkeys and some Win32 API calls, I wrote an AOL add-on (available through Keyword: addons) called AoLOL!. It was my first software business.

Q: How do you identify the AOL window? A: Look for an app with titlebar = "America[space][space]Online"


This is awesome, great work!


Remember Accompany.com and Mercata and other group-buying websites from the 90's dotcom boom? Time for those again?


Nielsen's "Usability Engineering" was my FIRST EVER Amazon.com purchase in June 1998.


Ha, reminds me of XTREE GOLD, from the late 80's / early 90's. A time where the default file explorer was unbearable.


I still have the XTree keyboard shortcuts embedded in my muscle memory.


I absolutely loved VB3 thru VB6!


The joy of installing VB4 from something like 20-30 numbered 3.5in floppy disks. Now a patch for a modern game that fixes a typo is 2 gigs.


That one of the floppy disks I had for installing VB4 got corrupted due to my idiocy was what got me into Linux and Java, perl, and PHP at the time. Still nothing as good as original VB for GUI stuff.


Me too! I have VB3 opened right now in Windows 3.1 on qemu. I have not done anything serious with it in a long time though.


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