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Archive.org Software Library

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Classic Websites: Random Page / Search Engine

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Neocities: webhost homage to Geocities

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Webamp / Webamp Desktop / Skin Library: cross-platform re-implementation of Winamp 2.9

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The ‘90s Internet: When 20 hours online triggered an email from my ISP’s president (arstechnica.com)

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1998 plea for restraint reveals a lost world where the 'Net was an opt-in experience.

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[–] empireOfLove@lemmy.one 21 points 1 year ago

It's the tone of someone who is THE BOSS and wants to ensure everyone knows he is THE BOSS. Shows how little people change over 25 years. I do not care for it very much.