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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 [email protected]

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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Enlightenment E16, circa 2000, with the Bluesteel theme

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Beautiful. Symmetrical. 90° angles. Every window has a strict purpose. No fancy animations. No popups. No bullshit.

[–] mbgid 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love how every terminal window has a different background image set ;)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Indeed. I prefer light blue on black, though. Actually, I designed my whole system with that in mind.

I'm a minimalist guy liking minimalist things. But everything has to be equal and symmetrical.