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
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
I've fully scanned and archived this web design magazine from 2000 and put it up on the Internet Archive. You can go and experience the future of the web, 25 years ago!
Some juicy pictures:
Thank you for doing this! Some of those sites have that "Windows Media Player skin" look to them that defined the early 2000s.
I'd love to listen to someone rant about web design now and then, practices changed so much in 25 years
I read this as “100% Weeb Design” in the thumbnail, and immediately clicked, heh.
Wow, did not know Ben Shapiro wrote tech articles when he was young.
what a last from the past! WAP was a fun and frustrating protocol to write programs for.
It's gonna be the future of the mobile web
Honestly i think technology peaked in the era of netscape navigator on MacOS 9 running on one of those see thru imacs or those turquoise g4 towers. My elementary school got those and it was such a big deal... made my beige pentium tower at home feel so insignificant