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Retro tech, early web & vintage computing. 80s, 90s, 2000s nostalgia. Follow for daily posts.

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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · Feb 19

3D Pinball: Space Cadet for Windows XP

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Anyone else miss when a UI like this was the front door to the internet?

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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 15h

Adobe Photoshop 5.5 (1999) is still a powerful photo editor, usable today and runs on modern Windows in compatibility mode.

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90s 3D art: DNA Helix by Stacey Lewis (1993)

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System Shock (1994)

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The Simpsons Hit and Run (2003)

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The Dig (1995) was excellent. Who else remembers it?

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I think it was the first device to use the “Thinkpad” name too, before the name was used on laptops.

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Midtown Madness (1999)

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The IBM Thinkpad 700T (1992) was one of the first tablets to use a stylus, ran on an i386 processor and used a solid state drive.

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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 3d

Always switch to Classic View

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BattleNet's original website is still live if you want to grab original StarCraft desktop wallpapers. classic.battle.net/scc/wall.shtml

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A hidden easter egg in Mac OS 9 showed Apple's 1 Infinite Loop campus. We could see it by holding down Control+Option+Command and choosing "About the Mac OS 9 Team" from the Apple menu. Many Mac programs at the time had similar easter eggs on their About screens, including Photoshop.

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Dark Forces

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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 4d

These are beautiful

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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 4d

Winamp Skin: super mario bros 1 remix by luigihann

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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 4d

Bang and Olufsen Beocord 8000 Cassette player (1980)

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JPL's website from 1995

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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 5d

I hadn’t heard of it before, but I just looked it up. Looks like a fun cyber deck.

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All I want is a tiny laptop with a mechanical keyboard. Ambra (1994).

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Sid Meier's SimGolf (2002). It was much better than Maxis' own SimGolf title that Maxis began bundling this game with its other Sim titles.

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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 5d

Windows 98 Plus! - Underwater

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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 6d

Remember when operating systems used to look like this? Hopefully you don't.

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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 6d

Drumroll

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Fallout (1997)

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Tonight will be the biggest and brightest moon of the year. We'll see the Harvest Supermoon peak at 11:47 PM eastern time tonight. Here's a recreation in Bryce 3D.

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