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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.

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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yep - ultimately all I can recall from it is massive lag, it wasnt designed for 56k connections, or my pc at the time was garbage (or, both)

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I ran into the same issues from time to time. I eventually found a server that wasn't overcrowded and even my abysmal 21k dialup connection made the game playable during the early morning hours when most of the servers weren't overloaded.