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by mulmen 2065 days ago
‘97 is classic antiquity. The dark ages came later, after civilization fell. We obtained WMVs from Kazaa because that’s all that was left.
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I myself preferred realplayer ("buffering...") and its more advanced cousin realplayer G2.
From what I remember WMVs were mostly fake so I would never download them
WMVs can embed instructions on where to grab codecs or authorization to play the content in the multimedia. Back in the day if you played WMV with windows media player this could be used to pwn your computer.
damn. then I've been living through those ages. I feel old.