Websites, software, games, fads, memes, or any general happenings that used to occur or had originated on computers 20+ years ago.
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Some Cool Links
Classic Websites: Random Page / Search Engine
cool-retro-term: terminal emulator mimicing old cathode displays
Neocities: webhost homage to Geocities
Webamp / Webamp Desktop / Skin Library: cross-platform re-implementation of Winamp 2.9
available via homebrew with:
brew install --cask cool-retro-term
according to the github, most distributions such as Ubuntu, Fedora or Arch already have the package cool-retro-term in their official repositories
You can load your monospaced fonts on Cool-Retro-Term. Naked UNIX!
It is possible to display ANSI art.
I use it a lot. It's very good at emulating the screen I used on a VT220 for a long time. Has all kinds of effects settings, too.
I daily drive this as my main terminal emulator both at work and at home, feels like living in a cyberpunk fantasy. Such a cool project.