{"id":82,"date":"2008-01-14T01:55:08","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T05:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/14\/c-wasting-time-and-hunting-down-aol-fonts\/"},"modified":"2014-01-25T18:03:51","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T22:03:51","slug":"c-wasting-time-and-hunting-down-aol-fonts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/14\/c-wasting-time-and-hunting-down-aol-fonts\/","title":{"rendered":"C#, wasting time, and hunting down AOL fonts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>C#<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve decided to make C# the next language I learn. On <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mattptr.net\/\">Sloat&#8217;s<\/a> suggestion, I download the free <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/express\/product\/default.aspx\">Express Edition<\/a>, and have been playing around with it a little the past few days. I have a few ideas running through my head on apps I want to make, but before I jump into anything I&#8217;m going to try and get a decent background (via online tutorials &#8211; right now I&#8217;m using what comes up on Google, if anyone has any suggestions for some good resources, let me know).<\/p>\n<p>Later on I may take a look at VB 2007, but since there currently doesn&#8217;t seem to be any advantages to using it (at least from what I can tell), I&#8217;ll probably delay learning it.<\/p>\n<p>Scrolling Text Time Waster<\/p>\n<p>While looking around on some old CDs I found <a href=\"http:\/\/patorjk.com\/misc\/scrollingtext\/timewaster.php\">this<\/a>, a fun little scrolling text time waster. It&#8217;s a PHP version of one of my old Javascript apps. The PHP version was originally located at my UMBC personal page, though at some point I took it down. After looking over the script, I touched it up a bit and figured it was amusing enough, so I decided to post it up.<\/p>\n<p>As a side note, my decision to post it up was partly because of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogring.net\/forum\/archives\/76616-rainbow-thing-generator.html\">these people<\/a>. I had honestly never received any feed back on my old Javascript app and had actually wondered if it ever got used at all (or if people thought I was childish for posting it). It&#8217;s neat to see how stuff can find its way around the net. As a side note to this side note, I sometimes wonder if my googling skills come off as creepy. My old suite mate Mike (who I talked about in the last post) helped me refine them a little bit when I lived with him. He was actually kind of legendary for his googling skills. I have some funny stories about Mike and googling, but I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;d kill me if I posted them here.<\/p>\n<p>More AOL Macro Fonts<\/p>\n<p>The number of AOL fonts has doubled in the <a href=\"http:\/\/patorjk.com\/software\/taag\/\">TAAG<\/a> app. You can view them by selecting &#8220;AOL Macro Fonts&#8221; from the Font Type combo box and then running the Test All feature. In addition to these new fonts, the &#8220;TRaC&#8221; and &#8220;Cheese&#8221; AOL fonts were fixed (woo!).<\/p>\n<p>This deludge of new fonts comes from various old apps I obtained through <a href=\"http:\/\/lenshellarchive.com\/\" rel=\u201dnofollow\u201d>lenshellarchive.com<\/a>. It&#8217;s a pretty neat place, it aims at having the largest archive of old progs. What one can do with progs written for software that isn&#8217;t used anymore is anyone&#8217;s guess, but it&#8217;s cool to see they&#8217;ve been saved somewhere. However, even though it says everything has been run through a virus checker, I&#8217;d be cautious before downloading anything. Some of that stuff is kind of shady.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, the site actually hosts my old fader program, giving it the low rating of 5\/10, which I thought was kind of amusing. It honestly wasn&#8217;t that good of an app, though it was the first program I released on this website (when I was at geocities), and it actually generated a lot of positive feed back, so it encouraged me to keep going. How it ended up at lenshellarchive is anyone&#8217;s guess. I had no idea anyone else hosted it (btw, I encourage outside hosting of any of my downloadable apps), but according to a txt included in the zip I downloaded:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You Should Have Downloaded This From<br \/>\nKamz Domain [ http:\/\/www.kamzdomain.com ]<br \/>\nIf You Did Not Please Email Me At<br \/>\nKam@kamzdomain.com<br \/>\nand Let me Know Where You Got It So<br \/>\nI can End This Link Stealing Bullshit<\/p>\n<p>|\u00af|&#8217;\/\u00af\/\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \/\u00af\/\\ |\u00af|\\\/|\u00af|<br \/>\n|\u00f7|\/_\/ &#8216;\u00a0\u00a0\/\u00f7\/\\\u00af\\ &#8216; |\u00f7|\\\/|\u00f7|<br \/>\n|\u00f7|\\\u00af\\ &#8221;\/\u00f7\/\u00a0\u00af\\\u00f7\\ |\u00f7|\u00a0\u00a0|\u00f7|<br \/>\n|_|&#8217;\\_\\ |_|\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\\_| |_| |_|\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to archive.org, kamzdomain.com existed for a brief period of time in 1999. It&#8217;s neat to find stuff like this, I feel like an internet archaeologist. I wonder if the app made any more stops before ending up at lenshellarchive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C# I&#8217;ve decided to make C# the next language I learn. On Sloat&#8217;s suggestion, I download the free Express Edition, and have been playing around with it a little the past few days. I have a few ideas running through my head on apps I want to make, but before I jump into anything I&#8217;m &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/14\/c-wasting-time-and-hunting-down-aol-fonts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">C#, wasting time, and hunting down AOL fonts<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2765,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/2765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}