this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2025
75 points (98.7% liked)

retroNET - Vintage Culture/Websites/Software

2901 readers
11 users here now

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

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Bags@piefed.social 7 points 2 weeks ago

I "programmed" a massive choose-your-own adventure game in powerpoint by using slide links on buttons, and I really wish I could recover that, too... I distinctly remember there being a path where you could be eaten by a banjo.

It'd be one thing if I could maybe go scrounging through my parents basement to find my old PC and image the hdd, but I was such a notorious tinkerer, I was swapping PC parts around constantly and installing a new flavor of linux like every 2 months, so everything is well and clearly wiped many times over.

Even now that I have gotten into photography, looking back, my parents got me a crappy little digital camera in like 2001, and I really wish I could look back at those photos. They never got uploaded anywhere and who knows where they went.