This is a slow, and very silly, way to experience an ancient browser. I'm aware that you could spin up a virtual machine, or pay for a browser testing service. But there's something nice about running a browser in a browser. Like wheels within wheels and fires within fires. Using Copy's v86 it's possible to recompile x86 code to browser native WASM. This means you can load up Windows 98 in your browser! (There are a bunch of other operating systems available) Before going any further, open…
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There's a lovely Twitter feed called Yore Computer - run by Rob Manuel, it randomly tweets out scans of 1980s computer magazines. A wonderful mix of nostalgia, dated references, primitive graphics, incompatible file formats, and unrealistic promises by advertisers. Here are a few of my favourites that I've spotted. Behold! The comment section - hasn't changed much! YORE COMPUTER 🕹@yorecomputer8000 Plus Magazine Issue 34, page 88archive.org/stream/8000-pl… pic.x.com/qstatttxut❤️ 8💬 1🔁 005:48…
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The best ideas occur while drunk, don't you agree? Having just attended the blisteringly brilliant Hackference Brum, a bunch of us were drinking in a pub and chatting about how focused on the future most conference are. There's rarely any time to reflect on the past. That got me thinking... Terence Eden is on Mastodon@edentGENIUS (drunk) idea. Retro conferences. Everyone turns up in 1970s clothes and we discuss Pascal, Dot Matrix printers, and ARPANET! #hf2016❤️ 40💬 13🔁 019:18 - Fri 21 Octob…
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