Retro Tech Dreams

Remember when operating systems used to look like this? Hopefully you don't.

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Fallout (1997)

Tonight will be the biggest and brightest moon of the year. We'll see the Harvest Supermoon peak at 11:47 PM eastern time tonight. Here's a recreation in Bryce 3D.

Half Life (1998)

American McGee's Alice (2000)

I played it with a joystick, but it’s not impossible playing with the keyboard

STAR WARS Rogue Squadron 3D (1998). Probably my favorite Star Wars game. I still play it on my Dell Dimension running Windows XP.

The Sims from 2001

After Dark 1.0: City

Sharp QT27 (1986)

3D Maze 🤌

I’m jealous. My friends used to go to one and play Counter Strike together.

Remember 90s cyber cafes?

Is this your game?

Descent 2 (1996)

A print ad for the Canon X-07, with a guy using it at the beach on a sunny summer day.

Feels like summer today in the midwest

Apple had its own online service like America Online and CompuServe in 1994 called eWorld. It was $9/mo, plus an additional $5-9 for each hour, depending on weekday or weekend hours. The service lasted less than 2 years.

I remember thinking this Windows Media Player UI was so futuristic

Screenshot of EA's website from the year 2000.

Thinking about the old EA

Hampster Dance

The Aeronix Zipit (2005) was a $99 device that only had AIM, MSN and Yahoo Messenger

Windows 98 Plus: The 60s USA

Winamp Skin: fowl 1 0 industrial by vulf

Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn (2000)

Windows XP login screen

Perfect

Webpage frames and background patterns

Windows 98 Plus! - Space

Including mine

Beautiful