retroNET - Vintage Culture/Websites/Software

We are excited to announce a new version of GifCities, Internet Archive’s GeoCities Animated GIF Search Engine!

https://gifcities.org/

The new version of GifCities includes a number of new improvements. We are especially excited at the drastic improvement in “GifSearchies” by implementing semantic search for GifCities, instead of the hacky old “file name” text search of the original version.

This news makes me want to dance!

Why not post your favourite Geocities GIFs below?

I was just looking something up on caddyserver.com, which is not a retro website by any means. But, when I got to the very bottom of the page, I saw some classic browser buttons that I haven't seen in a very long time. And a hit counter, too! It made me smile.

Hey all, I've been hunting for a discontinued software for Nikon cameras. Its Camera Control Pro, not the second one or tether as those are not compatible with my camera.

Could someone point me in the direction to get this retired software please? Thank you

Computer Chronicles – Internet (1995)

In the mid 1990's many people were on line, but the internet and the world wide web were still a new phenomenon. This program looks at the new open world of the web. Demonstrations include Eudora, Anarchy, the WELL, WinCIM, InterACT.net, and HoTMetal Pro HTML Editor. Guests include New York Times technology writer John Markoff. Also features a profile of the band Severe Tire Damage, the first band to ever perform live over the internet. Originally broadcast in 1995. Copyright 1995 Stewart Cheifet Productions.

This site is still up after 25 years, if you can believe that.

Internet Archive's snapshot of the site from November 2000

Cathode Ray Dude's review of the device

completely redesigned and supplemented editor, compatible with IE 5.5 or 6, which means it works fine in Windows 95 or 98 or 2000 or 10 or... watever )))

also works on DOS!

https://old.net.eu.org/

You've probably heard of the famous 'thank you for playing Wing Commander' story. It claims that a programmer on the original Wing Commander was stuck getting an error message when the game unloaded its memory during a quit. Pressed for time, instead of fixing the issue he simply hex edited the memory manager's error reporting to print 'thank you for playing Wing Commander' instead. A funny and relatable story!

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Wing Commander I fans, meanwhile, have been understandably cautious about the anecdote and particularly the included screenshot. For one thing, Wing Commander I's default install direction isn't c:/wc1 and the game doesn't actually print "Thank You for Playing Wing Commander!" when you quit. Is the story even real?

...note burning a hole in his pocket from Christmas and found a Casio RD-10 “card radio” on sale and grabbed it. He’s long-ago lost that one, but he was able to find a new old stock one and shows us the little gadget in the video below.

• Visionaries:
  Vannevar Bush
  Douglas Engelbart
  Alan Kay
  Ted Nelson
  Bret Victor

versus

• Regressives

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/29790209

I love this art. I photocopied it this afternoon and figured you'd might like it.