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Websites, software, games, fads, memes, or any general happenings that used to occur or had originated on computers 20+ years ago.

This community is software and internet focused. For retro hardware discussion try [email protected]

Some Cool Links

Archive.org Software Library

BBS: The Documentary

Classic Websites: Random Page / Search Engine

cool-retro-term: terminal emulator mimicing old cathode displays

Neocities: webhost homage to Geocities

Web Design Museum

Webamp / Webamp Desktop / Skin Library: cross-platform re-implementation of Winamp 2.9

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1998 plea for restraint reveals a lost world where the 'Net was an opt-in experience.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

CEO sounds like he thinks this guy was getting a hold of him to complain. Or a businessman, and not a technology person.

I love that everyone has collectively decided OS X is still OS X no matter how hard Apple tries to rebrand it.

I’m also a fan of the author bringing a box of disks with him on a family trip.