https://windows93.net/ - Some mad lad implemented a custom parody version of Windows 95 that has a bunch of working applications and emulators. Also, check out !internetisawesome@sh.itjust.works for a lot of similar sites.
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Did you not see the "that no one knows about" part of the question?
I didn't know this one...
It was a bunch of GPL interactive Flash Animations.
Very creative/organic for the time. Pre DotCom crash.
https://www.kingdomofloathing.com/
A free text-based RPG browser game with a unique sense of absurdist humor.
Lol. I haven't seen this since '98.
AFAIK there was a company producing a similar real product about 5-10 years ago.
Yeah I love that it had a certain amount of credibility when released, mainly from the professional look of the page. But actually the implementability has increased over time with tech.
Yet it hasn't really lead to a cybersex revolution yet. My prediction at the time that something like this would definitely materialize in the next 25 years.
Floor 796 — https://floor796.com/
Thanks for reminding me about this -- such an astounding work of art.
Neat!
I'm old. I was an adult when the internet first started. And this is the coolest thing I've ever seen online. Thanks for sharing!
You're welcome! I was an older teenager when the worldwide web started taking off in '94 — is that what you mean? A lot of people associate the Internet and the WWW, but IIRC the first email was sent in the 1960s. I'm getting old. Sometimes I feel old, sometimes I feel young. As a gamer, I try to stay current with tech, but while I like some modern games, I'm having so much fun catching up on 360/PS3 and 3ds era gaming. Like my wife got Animal Crossing for the Switch, but I'm enjoying the 3ds version more. It's a bit older, a bit uglier, my girl has hair like Claire/Molly Ringwald in Breakfast Club, but it's okay, I'll unlock the hair salon eventually.
I didn't recognise the name but when I clicked I recognised it instantly, I'm astounded but happy this is still around
This wins the internet for today.
Haha, that's so bizarre but wild and fascinating.
Did you throw popcorn into the black hole?
Of course!
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I’m not saying it’s the coolest, but I made a thing to scratch an itch that others may enjoy. I modeled it after something I found a few decades back that I never found again.
Forgot to mention it is available as a tui too. cargo install rhuidean-studio
That was fun! 😁
Perfect 4th with linear velocity starts to cascade before they all reconverge with a big bleep. That was my favorite.
Okay that’s ridiculously cool lol
This is fun!
I have absolutely no idea what this is or what it's supposed to do but it's incredibly fun to poke at
Kinda reminds me of strudel repl
It’s like a completely different way to create music (even though, idk if OP intended was that)
yo, i know nothing about music but this is cool as fuck
Other than everyone reading this, nobody really knows about Lemmy.
It's just a PieFed clone. 🙃
lemmy is really really cool.
also piefed
piefed? never heard of it
if the moon were only one pixel
https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html
gives a better idea of how ridiculously vast the solar system and outer space actually is--if you turn on "scroll at light speed" it feels slow at these distances
It’s always fun to scroll, scroll, scroll, and then tap the light speed button in the lower right corner.
Back in the late '90s there was a very early Flash-based website for a company called Eye4U. Looking at it today it's nothing special and even a little corny, but at the time it was mind-blowing. It was like nothing else on the web.
Webrings:
I loved webrings!! I spent too much time on a Star Wars one. Learned how to meditate, but couldn't quite lift a pencil with my mind. Also learned way too many Ewok and Wookie family lineages that still take up too much space in my brain.
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gaiaonline.com is still up and running. That was my jam way back in 2011.
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