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OC Skweek [MS DOS] Some Music on IBM PC Speaker (www.youtube.com)

Seriously Solutions - Experience the power of shopping (www.seriouslysolutions.com)

I was prompted to remember this shop in Bedford by an article posted about a fake toy shop in Ayr. Some research turned up that it had a website, which I’ve linked to. The “real” shop had all the website products on display. It was created by (the legend) Tim Hunkin....

Gary Kildall - The Man That Should Have Been Bill Gates - Part I (www.youtube.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.capebreton.social/post/557460...

ISP Series Episode 3: The Need For Speed! [19:52] (www.youtube.com)

The History of Windows 2.0 (www.abortretry.fail)

Blockbuster Gumball Machine $10 at neighbor's garage sale (lemmy.sdf.org)

It’s got the lid and keys too.

The Max Headroom Incident (1987) (www.youtube.com)

An incident of local TV broadcast piracy in 1987, during an episode of Dr. Who. The pirate was never identified, though it’s been occasionally speculated that it may have been the same artist behind the Shaye Saint John character-- which is a wild ride in itself.

Pacific Arts - The Art of Computer Animation (1988) (www.youtube.com)

RIP Blackberry. The modern day experience just can't compete with this classic. (www.youtube.com)

Discovery - Hack Attack (Documentary) (1994) (www.youtube.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/1194302...

Documentary: Unauthorized Access (1994) (www.youtube.com)

A documentary from 1994 by Annaliza Savage, on computer hacking. Lots of good interviews with interesting characters, that were part of the scene at the time.

The ‘90s Internet: When 20 hours online triggered an email from my ISP’s president (arstechnica.com)

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

hunter2 [bash.org] (bash.org)

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

The Rise and Fall of the Gopher Protocol (www.minnpost.com)

Great article on the Gopher Protocol from a few years back.

Bernard Cribbins Presents Prestel - The Post Office Viewdata Service (youtu.be)

cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/teletext/t/108010...

Every time you click on this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website (wiby.me)

Windows 3.1 SkiFree (WinSki) (archive.org)

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....

I reverse-engineered all Timex Datalink watches and devices, the Notebook Adapter, and the CRT graphics in Ruby! (lemmy.world)

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!...

AOL proggies and punters - A neglected part of internet history (plozee.com)

Having trouble sleeping? (web.archive.org)

I post about the original Direct Debit website from time to time and get the impression nobody cares. So I thought I'd try you lot! It's the most surreal "corporate" website I've ever seen, a product from the early web when the website was just run by the work experience kid and nobody in management actually understood what it...