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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.
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/1194302...
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.
1998 plea for restraint reveals a lost world where the 'Net was an opt-in experience.
aww bash.org seems to be down right now?? well here is the text :)...
Great article on the Gopher Protocol from a few years back.
cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/teletext/t/108010...
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....
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!...
Web Design Museum exhibits thousands of websites that chronicle forgotten trends in web design from its beginnings in the 1990s to the mid-00s
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...
In your browser
This is a true gem - hosted by MIT no less.
I forgot all about this Win 3.1 game. You can play it online in your browser, via the link. Addicting blast from the past.
I’ve started gaining an interest in independent personal blogs on the internet, even starting my own (chainsmash.net, if anyone cares). I’ve mostly been inspired by blogs like digdeeper.club and lukesmith.xyz, as well as from other notable people such as RMS and George Hotz....
It runs on a motherboard from an original Donkey Kong cabinet. At The Museum of Play in Rochester NY. I live so close, can’t wait to get back there!
This site allows you to experience what classic Macintosh operating systems were like. You can launch most of those versions in your browser. More applications and games can be installed as well. At the very least, you can see how the operating system evolved over time.
Software Library - Main page with 25+ total collections...
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