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Microsoft’s WebTV Is Being Revived By Fans (hackaday.com)

submitted 1 month ago by ptz@dubvee.org to c/retrotechnology@lemmy.ca

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The most surprising thing (covered in the video at the bottom of the article) is that the MSN WebTV 2 has similar specs to the original Xbox. Major differences are lack of GPU as in the Xbox, Windows CE instead of a modified W2K, and twice the RAM (128 MB vs the Xbox's 64).

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[–] nocturne@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I remember seeing commercials for this and thinking it was going to be the end of the internet as we knew it. It was the beginning of anyone being able to go online.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 4 points 1 month ago

I thought they were a cool idea, at least conceptually. In practice, no one really wanted to read web pages or email from across the room on a fuzzy CRT.