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retroNET - Vintage Culture/Websites/Software

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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 !retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org

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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[–] trk@aussie.zone 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I loved FrontPage. You could whip up a site in no time. The code it created was a disaster, but to be fair it worked fine.

I'd often use a WUSSYWAGON editor like FrontPage to make up a design and see how it looked, then just redo it by hand (or at least MAJORLY edit it) in Notepad so it wasn't spaghetti.

I made a site for my dad's business in FrontPage (then edited in Notepad) back in the very early 00s and hosted it on the 5MB of web space provided by the dialup provider at the time. It's still there and exactly the same, though I had to move it to another provider in the late 00s when the ISP went bust. It's gonna outlive him, and possibly me.

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm familiar with WYSIWYG but I've never heard of WUSSYWAGON.

[–] trk@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not a jeffk fan? Dammit I'm so old

[–] Kernal64@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Don't worry, some of us are still leet like jeffk, even after all these years!

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Pff, shoulda just used netscape communicator

[–] andyortlieb@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

Communicator includes mail, navigator and composer.