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Sneaking into the auditorium for the Windows 2000 launch rehearsal

26 points ibobev 1 hour ago 5 comments

yodon 1 hour ago | parent

Raymond Chen is one of the great treasures of the web.

mschuster91 42 minutes ago | parent

> The sketch demonstrated infrared file sharing and other mobile scenarios. Remember infrared file sharing? Of course you don’t.

Oh hell yes I do. Dog slow but at least it worked decently well, something I can't say about Bluetooth.

jeffrallen 29 minutes ago | parent

I remember waiting for IR file sharing. It was SLOW.

wayne 15 minutes ago | parent

I mostly remember infrared transfers in the context of beaming contacts between PalmPilots. It was pretty fast for that, and actually, much more reliable than modern AirDrop.

michalpleban 16 minutes ago | parent

Of course I remember IR file sharing! And contact beaming from Palm devices.