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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.

Somewhat ironically, the quality is not far from that of many tenor gifs.

Yea but they had a sheep that moved

And we all thought that was the most damning thing ever. Grainy video. We could convince ourselves of just about anything on grainy video. See for example: The Second Iraq War

Gumby and a Blackberry in the same sentence... I die!

You aren't wrong.

I'm fortunate I had just swallowed my mouthful of tea before reading that.

I thought it was just me getting that.

I miss the days of watching videos come out like 80 pixels a minute.

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

But was it a v.90 or v.92?

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?