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Oh look it's mashed potatoes again

OMG, I do remember this one! It was the best that would work on my 486 at the time . . .

The video was magical at the time. Your modem speed wasn’t very good.

I remember my class spending 30 minutes downloading the dancing baby video and it still has to buffer in real player.

i mean, remember, yes. good, no.

The only reason anybody got it was so they could download youtube videos easily

Stop lying. It was great for about a year, before other things started doing everything that made it great, better.

I remember.....

"Short bursts of video fighting to escape from behind an Etch-a-Sketch screen" Poetry.

Every video looked like it was Gumby streaming a war atrocity from a Blackberry

I remember a black and white image that looked like it was printed by a dot matrix printer that was running out of ink.

This is giving me the equivalent of Nam flashbacks. 56k, it wasn't enough!

Wow I feel like I was there xD

😂. I never experienced it but now I feel like I did. That description is killer! I’m dying. 💀

ROFL! OMG. That’s an amazing description and SPOT ON.

I miss the disco sheep

The ultimate "this sounds amazing" to "this doesn't work" bait and switch.

I never even used it long enough to make a judgement. Then again, I was 7 when it came out.

Buffering...

RealPlayer existed so people could say they were smart and used Winamp instead

Yeah, but I made an outrageous amount of money off their stock. I got in *so* low and sold *so* high. It was a great year that year.

They were actually a PR client of mine back in the day!

I got PTSD seeing that screenshot.

There was a brief period in 2003-04 where they livestreamed radio shows from other countries and I would enjoy late-night listens to Virgin Radio London in the morning. That was the only good memory I have of realplayer.

I remember trying to watch Japanese Dragonball Z episodes in RealPlayer in 1999 and it would have been faster for me to print out the individual frames, assemble a flip book, and learn Japanese to voice it myself

My fave was how it would break websites and was an easy access point for viruses.

I was just about to come here and say something like that. What a piece of shit that was. I used to call it the surreal player, because it never made any sense.

Opened the thread to be a hater but you beat me to it. Downloading a video only to have it be an .rmv...

Maybe because I was a kid, I loved listening to music on it. The audio visualizers were always cool to me

ten-year old me recalls it was very good at buffering

I can remember RealPlayer but I can't remember much about it. Probably because, as you said, it never worked.

I avoided pirated anime on real player format like the plague as a kid.

I guess you didn't unlock any cool skins

I used this as a teen...can't remember it being particularly bad but then I used it with a dial-up modem so it was always slow anyway. But I liked the look of it (I used a later version).

It sucked so bad, every time

We give thanks for VLC, for delivering us from lossy formats and buggy codecs, and freeing us from the burden of predatory monetization in just one aspect of our computerization. Amen.

Remember it? I had to license and set up a server. It sucked, but it was the only game in town.

In fact I still have winamp on my PC

Worst way to view internet porn ever

I know someone who retired before they turned 30 because of this. That makes it one of the best in my opinion

I watched Mononoke with it.

I thought this was a joke. It sucked.

But it was great when we discovered it!!

😆 Oh good, I was about to 😤 I miss WinAmp…

Its video compression was leading at the time though, you could stream stuff on dial-up.

I loved it when you downloaded a song and it was actually just a link to a realplayer stream, and the stream turned out to be missing. Just loved it.

It was ahead of its time. It broadcast the first baseball game online.

I watched Carnie Wilson get her stomach surgery on that. Well, I saw some still images a few different times.

Ugh. The worst.

You are being too kind.

I remember.😬

I remember watching live NASA launches with Realplayer. Though most of the time, streaming via CuSeeMee was better.

But, it spawned #PhilpRosedale who created @secondlife.bsky.social

No, but when .rlm files are the only ones I have access to, what am I gonna do, NOT download and watch anime openings?

Buffering

This could be true, after Guardians of the Galaxy came out, orange-headphoned sony walkmans came back for a while

Lol

😹😹😹😹

While I was waiting for the codec to right it self I played games. R.R.R.L.L.R.L.L.X.L.R.⏫️⏬️⏫️⏫️⏭️⏭️⏮️⏭️⏬️x

Ooooh I see they've discovered the OG

i hear Hilary Duff

Oh God no. WinAmp or Quicktime back in the day. RealPlayer was like RealSpamPlayer and virus maker for me.

I can feel the buffering

Is it worse I used to rip DVDs for Angel and Vivid video and encode them into RealMedia and WMV? We even had DRM. The weird part were the screenshots. Most were timed in the stream but the “Money package” was me watching and screen grabbing. One had a midget in a suitcase that was switched.

Teens think life is over if they don’t have tic 😦

This still exists?

hell yeah bout to enjoy some 188x140 smut

Wait til they discover the zoetrope

Firing up my MySpace account.

Real ones know

... Buffering...

LoL. Trading one shitty thing for another. Good grief, to this day I still loathe RealMedia.

Yes ! I’ve seen them!!

Classic!!!

😆😆😆

Sonique user checking in. The custom skins on that app were amazing!

Tied for first with Pong for best game ever.

Now that’s bringing back memories!!

Honestly, the bouncing cards is one of the most soothing things in the world. I still play Microsoft's now horrendously over flashy and "app-ififed" solitaire, but that's still the only victory animation I want to see. I don't watch the other ones.

🤣 memories

Was this the one with the dancing sheep? That made it all worth it tbh

nothing like streaming 60x45 video at 5fps over dialup

Memories

I forgot about real player

Mine is updating rn

Makes me remember Winamp with all of its styles.

😂😂😂

Schedule your colonoscopy.

😂😂🤣😂

They better like buffering.

I audibly groaned when I saw that player. Thank you for the horrible memories.

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Didn’t realize I had latent trauma til now

.....buffering.......

I have seen that screen many times.

Gosh I remember those days.

Lol that's not new, new look, but not new

Core memory unlocked.

And thus the story of The Greatest Put Option of All Time... @mcuban.bsky.social

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn’t, never really knew what file would play. Beautiful times 😂

it was badass😂

I miss Winamp, cause it really whipped the llama’s ass

My teen nieces got simple handheld digital cameras for Christmas this year. That is what they asked for. 🤔

Bring back AOL Instant Messenger (AIM)!

🤣

Just wait till they find out about Windows Media Player.

Burst out laughing. Thank you.

What we need is someone from that app to help control the decades long "development" of online privacy policy, right? time.com/archive/6928...

I miss the sounds of dial-up and "you've got mail".

I remember this!

I mean I returned to BS player, soo... :D

Can WinAmp be far behind?

How DARE you dredge the hideous memory of RealPlayer up from the depths of my consciousness? Do you know how much alcohol and weed it took me to bury that trauma?

When keeping it real goes wrong

Just missing a few hundred toolbars (if you forgot to uncheck all the boxes).

I remember when they were promoting that you could use RealPlayer to live stream the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon. I did try, but my computer was slow as a brick stuck in molasses.

Speaking as someone who worked for Real for a while and got a lot of RealPlayer jokes from friends, that green text down on the bottom should probably be "Buffering…"

K

This is a distant memory in the deepest part of my brain. 🧠 😂