Windows 95 at https://56k.rip/, a Mac at https://dialup.rip/. Both dial into COMETLINK, an online service that never existed but feels like one you had. Real modem sounds, busy signals, pages that load one line at a time, a webring of 60+ hand-made member pages, and a chat room shared between both machines.
I rebuilt the 1996 internet the way you remember it, not the way it was
20 days ago by HobbyBuilder to c/retronet
somebody_to_love 5 points 20 days ago
This is really really really good!
InEnduringGrowStrong 3 points 19 days ago
And somehow notepad got worse.
retronet
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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
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
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retronet
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270
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
go to feed...
Iove this so much. If only we could build even more and expand on it and really make it real!!
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