retroNET - Vintage Culture/Websites/Software

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.

The "teapot protocol" got brought up today at work during a discussion about response codes. It reminded me of the coffee cam, which actually led to the April fools joke in discussion.

I'm assuming this is in the scope of this community since Newgrounds was founded almost 30 years ago, tho I did notice posts here focus more on the small we than on bigger websites, so sorry if this post is perceived as inappropriate.

Newgrounds is a site for posting art, animations and games where I've had an account for a few years and I quite enjoy it. Since last year it's been becoming more pressing about asking for donations and morphing into a kind of "premium" model, where only donators get access to some stuff. I'm feeling a bit conflicted because I tend to shun sites with this model, but I also kinda understand that it might be necessary since hosting all that content probably costs a lot. But then again, it must have been costing a lot for a long time, and this comes up surrisingly close in time to the enshittification of Twitter and Reddit. Does anyone have any thoughts? Or maybe some more background knowledge about why Newgrounds has been making these decisions now in particular?

I want one so badly. I never see any for sale, not even in pieces.

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Here's a preview from the introduction of the article:

This ended up leading me down a series of wild rabbit holes where I found:

• Encrypted files which I was able to crack to discover their secrets
• A gift a dad in Thailand had made for his two and a half year old son, but didn’t want published online
• Somebody’s email password
• A secret biography of Chet Baker
• A file called worm.exe which held quite the surprise
• A host of extremely random images and files
• 56 previously unknown Winamp skins hidden inside other Winamp skins!

I love when the computer goes

*click*

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A couple posts ago I asked if anyone knew of an archive of old tiled wallpapers. There really weren't any that were curated or easily accessible, so I started one. So far there are over 12k tiles!

Please enjoy.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15880015

Sealed Windows 2000 Advanced Server floppy disks

Not so much a post, but more of a request. Is there a proper archive somewhere of 90s tiled wallpapers for older distros? Think like, old CDE style stuff.

Another template on the theme of MS DOS

this template is special in that it does not have any graphics, it is made exclusively of text symbols

in the template there is a cursor specifically for viewing dark pages, and above the navigation bar there is a special thing to show which page you are on at a given time

no frameworks. simple clean code

HTML template made in the form of MS DOS programs

Great for an old school project

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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2435866

Anyone else love TTRPG history?