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520 points omnibrain | 1 comments | 30 Mar 24 13:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source
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donatj ◴[30 Mar 24 18:05 UTC] No.39877123[source]▶
That’s a name I have not heard in a long while. I used to use it back on Windows 95 because it was a faster way to view JPEGs than opening Internet Explorer. Everything about that makes me feel old.
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101008 ◴[30 Mar 24 18:13 UTC] No.39877210[source]▶
I opened the link first and I kept a few seconds trying to remember what we had to use to open JPEGs and GIFs back then. Then I read your comment. Right, IE for images. What a fun world we lived on!
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integricho ◴[30 Mar 24 19:15 UTC] No.39877718[source]▶
ACDSee 2.4 and 3.1 were similarly legendary and fast in both startup time and overall performance of image loading.
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1. therealmarv ◴[31 Mar 24 09:45 UTC] No.39882799[source]▶
Also remember the times... I think ACDsee 2.3.x was a game changer on Windows systems with little memory back in the day... it was so fast and displayed partially on the fly.

Btw I use a Mac nowadays and I get strong ACDsee vibes from open-source Phoenix Slides https://blyt.net/phxslides/ with browsing through images with the mouse-wheel ;)