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![]() Of course, there was nothing I needed on my PC at home, and nothing worth doing on it with a janky setup that only refreshed after each click, but it was fun to make. Later I used an mIRC DLL extension to control the mouse, my shitty web server, some program the took a screenshot once per second, a real web server, a dynamic DNS service, and a dial-up timed dialer to cobble together something that connected my computer to the internet during my "computer applications" class at school and let me remote control it. I think mIRC sockets were only intended for text, or there was a distinction between text and binary variables or something. I remember it would serve a text file just fine, but images usually got corrupted. I figured out how to open a socket, listen for incoming connections and just by printing out what I saw when I pointed the browser at localhost I reverse engineered HTTP and created a shitty web server in mIRC. You could find DLLs that would extend mIRC with arbitrary functionality. It's an obscure beginning, but the first time I ever wrote something that could rightfully be considered "code" was mIRC scripting language. ![]() I believe once or twice I even called a friend and asked them to look something up and read it to me over the phone. I can't even recall the number of times 13-year-old me totally screwed up trying to install Mandrake 7 or some such misadventure, and had to sweat through getting it to boot again without the aid of any other internet-connected device. This brings me back to a time when computing was fun, but also fraught with danger. Shortly after,, the website that originally housed the original Bonzi Buddy program reopened with a trailer of the show.So nostalgic. He was announced to have his own show on Comedy Central and MTV. In 2017, Bonzi Buddy made an unexpected return during San Diego Comic Con 2017. Bonzi's homepage remained open after the discontinuation of BonziBuddy and the website disappeared at the end of 2008. The user would command the character by right clicking on the character's stomach on which a menu would appear. The on-screen agent would tell jokes, facts, manage downloading using its download manager, sing songs and other functions. In 1999, the software used a green parrot called Peedy licensed from Microsoft, and in later versions, Bonzi Software made their own fictional character, a purple gorilla. It gained access to users systems by including an on-screen "intelligent" agent which supposedly would help a user surf the Internet by using Microsoft Agent technology. ![]() For the show named after him, see Bonzi Buddy (Cartoon)īonziBuddy (officially distributed as BonziBUDDY) was a piece of adware, though claims of spyware capabilities have been made against it. It was distributed by Bonzi Software between 19. This page refers to the Bonzi Buddy character. ![]()
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