Is that a Winamp ripoff on the screenshot? :)

This is XMMS, a X11 Clone of winamp. We all had it on our desktop these days. And hell yeah, our Linux desktop could look anything we wanted. What a time!

I also startet to used Gentoo around that time.

It could load Winamp skins too.

that really whips the llama's ass

I remember the first time I heard it. Was definitely a "did... did I just hear that right?"

full-on productisation effort -> no AGI in sight

Who should quote who? The article is from 2014.

Actually tylervigen's first web.archive capture is from May 9th 2014, but you are right I used the wrong word

Why do you think Google was paying that much to be the default choice on iOS?