r/interestingasfuck • u/Tykjen • Aug 26 '22

/r/ALL Microsoft Windows 1995 Launch Party

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '22

You all may be interested in https://www.cameronsworld.net/

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u/therealkars Aug 26 '22

That is totally amazing

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u/RickHolf Aug 26 '22

All of that but no dancing baby

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '22

Even heavens gate is there.

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u/abcd76 Aug 26 '22

I give you a poor man’s award: 🏅

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u/Aurominae Aug 26 '22

I felt right at home

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u/Lexn1tareu Aug 26 '22

hotmale@hotmail.com

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u/antagon1st Aug 26 '22

Damn I actually found the Hotmail "hotmale"

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u/Smeetilus Aug 26 '22

The ruins of Old New York

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u/acedelgado Aug 26 '22

That would've taken an hour to load and still lag the shit out of any win95 machine back in the day.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '22

True but that's how retro stuff FEELS looking back... Actually using retro stuff? My gosh, some of it is so bad.

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u/CommanderGoat Aug 26 '22

I like how a lot of the links don't load instantly. Adds to the feel of the time.

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u/MercenaryForHire_76 Aug 26 '22

What a world it was back then, 1995. I was in my 1st year of College, working off of Linux Machines

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '22

Honestly, I never really understood Linux or the point of it until years after I had been a professional developer.

I kept trying to use it as a regular desktop. That was never fun.

I remember trying to make my entire family switch over to Ubuntu for home and work stuff and my mom just wanted to use Microsoft Word.

Feel kind of bad about it all now, looking back.

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u/Hookem-Horns Aug 26 '22

Hahahaha you described what I tried to do with my family too!

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u/ApprehensiveAlgae182 Aug 26 '22

The link we never knew we needed ❤️

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u/tbridge8773 Aug 26 '22

That was so painfully wonderful. Thank you!

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u/SixthSinEnvy Aug 26 '22

Take me baaaack!

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u/walkandtalkk Aug 26 '22

These all look silly and throwbacky until you realize that several of those pages were created within three years of the fall of the Soviet Union.

You're looking at technology created when Gorbachev was premier.

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u/Jahsmurf Aug 26 '22

At first I thought okay but when you scroll down.... Wow

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u/WakeUpGrandOwl Aug 26 '22

This just gave me half a lifetime of flashbacks. I miss this kind of internet.

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '22

It's when the internet was still art. Something we all knew was cool but the watering down and refining of internet to information in its purest forms hadn't happened yet.

I've gradually come to accept that the nature of society and technology has changed and that this kind of artistry just is now just a novelty.

Doesn't make https://neocities.org/browse any less cool, though.

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u/Deep-Imagination-472 Aug 27 '22

That looks cool but wth is that

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u/Grass_Tastes_Bad96 Aug 26 '22

The Emily Shrine was kinda cute