retronet

cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/2435866...

Everyone remembers the “cult of the home pages” in the 90s and early 00s, for about thirty years there was a fashion for them. later it all disappeared somewhere, the Internet shut down, people went to social networks, where the same memes and videos circulate in circles. there is nothing new. I did a little research and...

Who would have thought that internet addiction would become the status quo.

SkiFree is the standalone version of the game originally included as a part of the Microsoft Entertainment Pack 3 (1991) for Windows 3.x, and later made available separately for Windows 3.x. It was then re-compiled for 32-bit Windows systems when the author found back the source code and released it for free through his website....

available via homebrew with:...

aww bash.org seems to be down right now?? well here is the text :)...

Story time....

For a real treat, head to the SiliconValley section and browse all.

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

With your host, Lance Boyle.

Advertising in the 90s was something else....

Heya! I thought I’d mention that I’ve been doing a bunch of development on the optical Timex Datalink watches! I have been carefully sniffing data from the original Timex software with a logic analyzer, and have fully reverse engineered every Datalink protocol, the serial Notebook Adapter, and even the CRT syncing graphics!...

How hyped did you get in the mid-90s, when the lights would go down, and this piece of art would start immersively booming through the theater?

cross-posted from: lemmy.capebreton.social/post/1302050...