Websites, software, games, fads, memes, or any general happenings that used to occur or had originated on computers 20+ years ago.
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Some Cool Links
Classic Websites: Random Page / Search Engine
cool-retro-term: terminal emulator mimicing old cathode displays
Neocities: webhost homage to Geocities
Webamp / Webamp Desktop / Skin Library: cross-platform re-implementation of Winamp 2.9
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retroNET - Vintage Culture/Websites/Software @lemmy.sdf.org Silverchase @sh.itjust.works Sharp Internet ViewCam: the world's first MPEG-4 video camera, coming June or August 1999. This site is still up!
This site is still up after 25 years, if you can believe that.
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retroNET - Vintage Culture/Websites/Software @lemmy.sdf.org cm0002 @lemmy.world HamsterCMS - updates
github.com GitHub - turboblack/HamsterCMS: Flat file cms HamsterCMS is the world's smallest and very simple multi-template flatfile PHP content management systemFlat file cms HamsterCMS is the world's smallest and very simple multi-template flatfile PHP content management system - turboblack/HamsterCMS
completely redesigned and supplemented editor, compatible with IE 5.5 or 6, which means it works fine in Windows 95 or 98 or 2000 or 10 or... watever )))
also works on DOS!
tech.slashdot.org Eric Raymond, John Carmack Mourn Death of 'Bufferbloat' Fighter Dave Taut - SlashdotWikipedia remembers Dave Täht as "an American network engineer, musician, lecturer, asteroid exploration advocate, and Internet activist. He was the chief executive officer of TekLibre." But on X.com Eric S. Raymond called him "one of the unsung heroes of the Internet, and a close friend of ...
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retroNET - Vintage Culture/Websites/Software @lemmy.sdf.org thomask @lemmy.sdf.org Mythbusters: Wing Commander I Edition
www.wcnews.com Mythbusters: Wing Commander I Edition - Wing Commander CICThe center of the Wing Commander community features news, information, tech support and conversation about the computer game series.
You've probably heard of the famous 'thank you for playing Wing Commander' story. It claims that a programmer on the original Wing Commander was stuck getting an error message when the game unloaded its memory during a quit. Pressed for time, instead of fixing the issue he simply hex edited the memory manager's error reporting to print 'thank you for playing Wing Commander' instead. A funny and relatable story!
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Wing Commander I fans, meanwhile, have been understandably cautious about the anecdote and particularly the included screenshot. For one thing, Wing Commander I's default install direction isn't c:/wc1 and the game doesn't actually print "Thank You for Playing Wing Commander!" when you quit. Is the story even real?
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retroNET - Vintage Culture/Websites/Software @lemmy.sdf.org cm0002 @lemmy.world 
hackaday.com Card Radios RememberedWe know how [Techmoan] feels. In the 1980s we had a bewildering array of oddball gadgets and exciting new tech. But as kids we didn’t have money to buy a lot of what we saw. But he had a £5 n…
...note burning a hole in his pocket from Christmas and found a Casio RD-10 “card radio” on sale and grabbed it. He’s long-ago lost that one, but he was able to find a new old stock one and shows us the little gadget in the video below.
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retroNET - Vintage Culture/Websites/Software @lemmy.sdf.org RedDog @lemmy.ca 
www.leadedsolder.com Let’s Make A Space Shooter With Nintendo Family BASICNintendo’s Famicom game console had an implementation of the BASIC programming language available for the system. The Family BASIC cartridge is studied, and a space shooter game is programmed with it.
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retroNET - Vintage Culture/Websites/Software @lemmy.sdf.org Tehdastehdas @lemmy.world The sick sad history of computer-aided collaboration
www.quora.com Who invented the modern computer look and feel?Harri K. Hiltunen's answer: What they wanted, and how it went: The sick sad history of computer-aided collaboration 1. Vannevar Bush invented the Memex crowd thinking desktop environment with redundancy-merging hypertext wiki 1939–1945. He had designed analog computers and founded the Manhatta...
- Visionaries:
Vannevar Bush
Douglas Engelbart
Alan Kay
Ted Nelson
Bret Victor
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- Regressives
- Visionaries:
BYTE November 1979
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/29790209
I love this art. I photocopied it this afternoon and figured you'd might like it.
