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Always wanted to use that back in the day, except I didn't know how to.
MPC-HC is more convenient, anyway.
It was more a DVR you'd use on a standalone PC with a remote control connected to a TV, if you had a TV tuner in the PC you could record / pause live tv. Was really good at the time with a quad TV tuner allowing you to record / watch up to 4 tv channels at once, Xbox 360's could be used as Media Center extenders so you could stream tv over your home network to any Xbox 360 in the house.
With the right codes installed you could play Xvid video also, which at the time was a very popular video codec for videos you'd find online.
People in the US could use a cable card to record encrypted cable tv also, which i don't think many other PC based DVR solutions could do at the time.
Today its all streaming services, Plex and so on. However back in the day none of these existed so it was a great way to record tv and skip the adverts.
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ICQ was the chat program I spent all my time on in the early 2000s. The best part was you could see the other person type in real time.
I also miss all the early file sharing apps like Napster, Bearshare, Edonkey2000, Limewire, WinMX etc.
ICQ still exists today, if you can remember your number / password you can still log in also! randomly discovered the other year I could still log in with my password from 20 years ago