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Pen<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@MobileMaggie" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>MobileMaggie</span></a></span> On a related note, I'd like to give a shout out to the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>internetarchive</span></a></span>'s <a href="https://floss.social/tags/WaybackMachine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaybackMachine</span></a>: <br><a href="https://web.archive.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">web.archive.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://archive.org/donate" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.org/donate</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Also <a href="https://floss.social/tags/archiveis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archiveis</span></a>: <br><a href="https://archive.is/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.is/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>And <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Ghostarchive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ghostarchive</span></a>: <br><a href="https://ghostarchive.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">ghostarchive.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>And the <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Japanese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Japanese</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Megalodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Megalodon</span></a>: <br><a href="https://megalodon.jp/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">megalodon.jp/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>When years of history happen in days, <a href="https://floss.social/tags/WebPreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WebPreservation</span></a> services preserve our collective memory. ❤️ </p><p>Other suggestions? </p><p><a href="https://floss.social/tags/digitalHumanities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>digitalHumanities</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/openscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openscience</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/openresearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openresearch</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/digitalpreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>digitalpreservation</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/opendata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opendata</span></a></p>
vga256<p>there is something wonderfully y2k about this Yahoo! branded rubiks cube i found in a thrift store years ago</p><p>like a pure expression of the unbridled hope for the millennium and shareholders’ dreams encased in plastic</p><p><a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/y2k" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>y2k</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/webPreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>webPreservation</span></a></p>
vga256<p>⚰️ 🥲</p><p><a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/indiegamedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indiegamedev</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/worldWideWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>worldWideWeb</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/webPreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>webPreservation</span></a></p>
vga256<p>in february 2000, Be announced it was releasing its BeOS operating system for free.</p><p>here is the website around the free launch. i sure do miss that swoopy web design aesthetic with handcrafted nav icons and lighting effects.</p><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20000815093906/http://www.be.com/products/freebeos/beosspecs.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">web.archive.org/web/2000081509</span><span class="invisible">3906/http://www.be.com/products/freebeos/beosspecs.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/worldWideWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>worldWideWeb</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/webPreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>webPreservation</span></a></p>
vga256<p>good news: Web Wise Seniors - E-Mail Part 2 - Advanced Techniques is now online for your perusal</p><p>thanks Stephen for your knockout lectures on Windows XP and Outlook Express 😻 </p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/0iXpwy__h50" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/0iXpwy__h50</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/filmPreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>filmPreservation</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/webPreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>webPreservation</span></a></p>
vga256<p>i've noticed in recent years that the laudable return to personal homepages has generally brought with it a very specific re-imagining of 1990s web design - usually lo-fi 1994 html-only and neon cyberpunkish affairs with loud animated gifs. </p><p>lost in that specific imaginary are 1996-1997 corporate designs that brought a slightly more conservative aesthetic that nonetheless remained playful.</p><p>if you played Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb, Dinotopia, or Faery Tale Adventure 2 you would remember The Dreamers Guild. this is their corporate site still live and maintained by joe pearce and brad schenck.</p><p><a href="https://inherittheearth.net/dgi/indexnf.htm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inherittheearth.net/dgi/indexn</span><span class="invisible">f.htm</span></a></p><p><a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/webHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>webHistory</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/worldwideWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>worldwideWeb</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/webPreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>webPreservation</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/gameHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gameHistory</span></a></p>
vga256<p>thanks to <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.mossrc.me/users/MossRC" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>MossRC</span></a></span>’s exceptional book Shareware Heroes, TIL that TUCOWS stood for The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software. </p><p><a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/webPreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>webPreservation</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/worldWideWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>worldWideWeb</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/retroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retroComputing</span></a></p>
vga256<p>one of the best parts of irc in the 1990s was that it exposed your ip/domain when joining a channel, so everyone could see where you hailed from. i loved looking up the ISPs of the folks who joined, often finding uniquely weird local ISPs</p><p>if you were in BC, Quebec or Ontario in the 1990s on 56k dialup, it's very likely that you'd join with a .sympatico.ca FQDN</p><p>this is Sympatico's home page in 1998, in english (february) and française (july)</p><p>only a year later, sans serif fonts would replace times new roman and courier, animated gifs would be removed, and corporate web sites like these would begin to take on a stale design stormcrowing the sterile web aesthetic of today</p><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/19980704132623/http://www2.sympatico.ca/accueil" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">web.archive.org/web/1998070413</span><span class="invisible">2623/http://www2.sympatico.ca/accueil</span></a></p><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/19980213121627/http://www1.sympatico.ca/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">web.archive.org/web/1998021312</span><span class="invisible">1627/http://www1.sympatico.ca/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/internetHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>internetHistory</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/webPreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>webPreservation</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/1990s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>1990s</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>canada</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/bc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bc</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/ontario" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ontario</span></a></p>
vga256<p>in case you were curious about what other webpage hyperlinks came pre-bookmarked with NCSA Mosaic 2.0 alpha, distributed at my local university in the WinSLIP package - a popular freeware/shareware internet connection kit used in many north american universities.</p><p><a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/webPreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>webPreservation</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/worldWideWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>worldWideWeb</span></a></p>
vga256<p>buried in my 30 year old copy of NSCA Mosaic alpha was a bookmarked hyperlink to a university of cambridge (uk) live webcam of a coffee pot, brewing in the Trojan Room computing lab</p><p>while live coffee/lab cams were not uncommon in the mid 90s, this one is fascinating for a few reasons:</p><p>- it was up and running in 1991, predating the graphical world wide web by a few years<br>- it ran over the MSNL protocol using a telecom network standard called ATM, which was a competitor to ethernet<br>- an entire machine was dedicated to grabbing a frame from the camera, compressing it, and uploading to the web server: an Acorn Archimedes 🔥 <br>- the exact URL stored in Mosaic still resolves today, and the web page hasn't changed in 30 years</p><p><a href="https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/coffee.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/coffee</span><span class="invisible">.html</span></a></p><p>more history of the setup here:<br><a href="https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/qsf/coffee.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/qsf/co</span><span class="invisible">ffee.html</span></a></p><p>more images of the sacred pot by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/@quentinsf" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>quentinsf</span></a></span> here:<br><a href="https://statusq.org/archives/2024/07/11/12127/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">statusq.org/archives/2024/07/1</span><span class="invisible">1/12127/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/retroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/worldWideWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>worldWideWeb</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/webPreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>webPreservation</span></a></p>
vga256<p>thanks to a frame grab from doug block's Home Page documentary, i was able to dredge up this ultra-90s web site that is completely undocumented on the web</p><p>it appears that Apple once built/hosted a Mission Impossible promo site for the film for its 1996 release. it appears to be some kind of hypertext adventure game.</p><p>sadly, WBM didn't archive anything past the splash page. but at least the frame grab from the movie shows the login page</p><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/19961111063127/http://mission.apple.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">web.archive.org/web/1996111106</span><span class="invisible">3127/http://mission.apple.com/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/webPreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>webPreservation</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/1990s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>1990s</span></a></p>
vga256<p>a perfect web page, circa 1997: Sunny's Ultima Webpage</p><p>still live on his university webspace after 27 years<br><a href="http://www.fim.uni-linz.ac.at/staff/sonntag/ultima.htm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.fim.uni-linz.ac.at/staff/s</span><span class="invisible">onntag/ultima.htm</span></a></p><p><a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/worldWideWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>worldWideWeb</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/webPreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>webPreservation</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/gamePreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gamePreservation</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/archival" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archival</span></a></p>