Jun 3, 2022
Installing a payphone in my house — It's what the title says. Great write-up with a cute ending. Now I want one.
#genius #retro
Jan 16, 2022
OWL Guide, early hypertext, and "replacing" the Web — A gallery with plenty of screenshots of pre-web hypertext systems (via)
#retro
Dec 29, 2021
The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack — Hundreds of retro fonts. Yes, the IBMVGA8/DOS font is included. Go get 'em (via)
#retro #typography
Dec 23, 2021
(mac)OStalgia — A reimagination of Chrome, Slack, Zoom, and others if they were running on MacOS 9 (via)
#retro #nostalgia #apple
Dec 16, 2021
Ocarina of Time Glitches Showcase — Impressive showcase of glitches for one of the most beloved Zelda games. ZFG is a great speedrunner and he knows the game left and right.
#retro #nintendo
Dec 5, 2021
Old Web Today — Browse the web as it appeared at any point in time, with era-appropriate browsers running in Mac OS and Windows emulators in your modern browser (via)
#internet #genius #nostalgia #retro
Nov 2, 2021
Game Development in Eight Bits — Great talk that explains basic game programming on the NES: the CPU, video RAM, sprites, collision detection, and many silly optimizations that work really well
#retro #nintendo
Nov 1, 2021
AI BREAKS NES TETRIS! - 102 MILLION and level 237 — This AI plays Tetris until the game can't handle it anymore and crashes at level 237 after a series of glitches. Amazing feat considering that humans only recently surpassed level 29.
#retro #nintendo #ai
Aug 27, 2021
Why are hyperlinks blue? — Not going to spoil it -- read the article, it's worth the nostalgia trip and has lots of retro screenshots (via)
#internet #nostalgia #retro
May 2, 2021
Web Design Museum 1991 – 2006 — Pizza Hut 1996. The Million Dollar Homepage 2005. Yahoo! 1994. ICQ 2001. Essentially a curated Internet Archive. Check it out to receive an important dose of nostalgia directly to your bloodstream. (via)
#nostalgia #retro #internet
Feb 25, 2021
A one-bit processor explained: reverse-engineering the vintage MC14500B — Extremely detailed article about a historical oddity (1 bit processor) which includes one of the best explanations about how transistors work. Great read. (via)
#retro #hardware
Feb 22, 2021
I Love Reading 1980s Computer Magazines, and So Should You — Check it out and get down the rabbit hole of retro magazine links. (via)
#retro
Feb 6, 2021
Super Mario World Restored OST — Incredible archaeological effort to identify original synthesizers, libraries, and samples, to generate CD-quality restorations of Super Mario World songs (via)
#retro #nintendo
Feb 2, 2021
The PDP-11/45 used to do the Star Wars computer graphics — Short video that showcases the computer that was used to generate the graphics for the Star Wars movie. A piece of history.
#retro #movies #unix
Jan 21, 2021
Free The Game Boy — A Game Boy redesign that runs without a battery, harvesting energy from solar and key presses. Very cool. (via)
#retro #nintendo
Jan 18, 2021
Ditherpunk — The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering — A crazy deep dive into monochrome dithering techniques: how to transform a picture into a 2-bit image with the maximum possible fidelity (via)
#art #retro
Jan 6, 2021
DOSBox-X - Complete DOS emulation package — DOSBox-X is a fork os DOSBox which adds support for Windows 9X, which is pretty amazing. Check out their screenshots. (via)
#retro #emulation #dos
Dec 20, 2020
The web is 30 years old today — I am very grateful to have grown without the Web, because it allows me to appreciate it even more. Say what you want about the "current web", it's still the #1 invention of the 20th Century. (via)
#internet #retro
Oct 22, 2020
I miss Microsoft Encarta — Being able to instantly search information on an encyclopedia was an incredible feature. Multimedia content was just the icing on the cake. (via)
#nostalgia #microsoft #retro
Oct 14, 2020
Utzoo Discussion Forums — 2.1M of the oldest Usenet posts ('81 - '91) now online on the Usenet Archives (via)
#retro #internet #usenet
Oct 3, 2020
THE HOOD INTERNET presents 1990 — Samples of more than 60 songs from 1990 mixed together into one 3½-minute song. So many classics! (via)
#retro
C Programming on System 6 — Screencast that presents "a quick introduction to System 6, HFS resource forks, THINK C 5.0, and a look at some of the progress of my IMAP client so far"
#retro #classic_mac
Sep 26, 2020
The Windows XP source code was allegedly leaked online — Leaking Microsoft's source code has become sort of a classic, yet it always amuses me. Will be waiting for some analysis. (via)
#retro #windows
Microsoft had a secret Windows XP theme that made it look like a Mac — First discoveries from the analysis of the leaked code. Pretty interesting, in perspective. (via)
#retro #windows
Sep 21, 2020
Photoshop: The First Demo — Watch history repeat itself as John Knoll, one of the creators of Adobe Photoshop recreates the first demo he ever gave with the product
#retro #classic_mac
Sep 15, 2020
A look at the die of the 8086 processor — Fantastic detailed pictures of Intel's 8086, along with a good explanation and some historical bits (via)
#retro #hardware
Sep 11, 2020
DOS applications - Visicalc — This is what made people in 1979 rush to buy computers. Show Visicalc to an office worker and they'd get their mind blown. Bonus: check out the whole FreeDOS channel for excellent retro content!
#retro #dos
Sep 4, 2020
Winamp Skin Museum — Scroll through 65k interactive Winamp skins. I still remember many of these. (via)
#retro
SNES Code Injection -- Flappy Bird in SMW — Seth Bling manages, for the first time ever, to perform a 100% manual code injection on a SNES during a livestream. The target code? Flappy Bird. (via)
#retro #genius
Sep 2, 2020
Lo-Fi Player — Delightful toy to generate your own lo-fi tunes. The visuals are very cute, too. (via)
#lofi #retro
Aug 31, 2020
MTV First Four Hours Remastered - 12am Saturday August 1st, 1981 — Would you guess which was the first video clip on Mtv? Think for a few seconds, then click the link! (via)
#retro #music
Aug 12, 2020
What Pac-Man Brought to Game Design — I had never considered the amount of product design that went into Pac-Man. Excellent short documentary that highlights the key inventions of one of the most iconic games ever
#retro #videogames #design
Aug 2, 2020
Illustrated Self-Guided Course On How To Use The Slide Rule — Includes a virtual slide rule so that you can try from your computer (via)
#retro #programming #math
Jul 25, 2020
SNES game prototypes being compiled from leaked source code — Check it out: "First up there's this Yoshi's Island proto with different UI graphics, placeholder music from Mario World, and has a prefix of 'Super Mario Bros. 5'"
#videogames #retro
Jul 4, 2020
Websites That Look Like Desktop Apps — If you are a fan of websites, web apps and portfolios which resemble desktop graphical user interfaces here is a curated list. Check out Simone's main website too! (via)
#retro #internet
Jun 27, 2020
Alpha Waves, the first 3D platformer ever — Very interesting and visual presentation of early 3D games, with some history about the legendary French studio Infogrames. (via)
#retro #games
Jun 21, 2020
Papercraft Models — Construct the computer from your childhood or build an entire computer museum at home with these paper models, free to download and share. Print, Cut, Score, Fold and Glue. (via)
#retro #diy
Jun 10, 2020
10 Things We Miss About The 1990's Internet — This video that reminds us of the delights of downloading midi files and watching 140px 1fps fish webcams :_).
#internet #retro
May 31, 2020
DaddaRuleKonge - itch.io — PDF encyclopedias of all games available for each console, with a short description and screen shots. Print versions also available.
#retro #games
May 29, 2020
An Altair connected to the Internet — SDF user jebug29 has connected their Altair to the internet, and set up SSH access to play with it! > <>.
#retro #genius
GitHub - jcs/progman — An OpenBSD window manager that mimics Windows 3.1. > <>. (via)
#retro #genius
May 25, 2020
Windows 95 in 2020 - 25 Years Later — A very cute nostalgic celebration of the 25th birthday of Windows 95.
#retro
May 15, 2020
Virtual Reality DOS — You are in a very retro VR room, and in front of you, a computer with DOS installed. Delightful. (via)
#retro
Windows 3.1 in WebVR — Another emulator-inside-a-vr-environment experiment. The win31 installation is full of goodies, don't miss this! (via)
#retro