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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 !retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org

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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BeOS - The Forgotten ‘90S Operating System (Retrospective & Demo)

https://youtu.be/MzosnPSETzk

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago

I installed BeOS on my PowerPC Macintosh in the days right around the NeXT acquisition. It was a spiffy OS, at least for a teen nerd without much knowledge beyond Mac OS.

[–] ryan659@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It does still live on, somewhat, in its spiritual successor, Haiku: https://www.haiku-os.org/

Its last release was in December 2022.

[–] rev@ihax0r.com 5 points 1 year ago

I was thinking of BeOS last week. I always wanted a BeBox but was a poor highschooler

[–] cfenollosa@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

I actually used beos as a daily driver for a few months. This was maybe around 2000 or 2001. WinME crashed a lot for me and I couldn’t make linux detect my winmodem. Installed beos and everything was great. Dual booted with windows 98 when I wanted to play StarCraft.

Moved to Linux soon after but I will always remember those great days.

[–] lackthought@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

dang, I was hoping this would create an actual linked post on Lemmy instead of a text post with the link inside

maybe that can't be done from Mastodon

[–] SJ_Zero@lemmy.fbxl.net 2 points 1 year ago

Beos shall never be forgotten!

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