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retroNET - Vintage Culture/Websites/Software

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Websites, software, games, fads, memes, or any general happenings that used to occur or had originated on computers 20+ years ago.

This community is software and internet focused. For retro hardware discussion try !retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org

Some Cool Links

Archive.org Software Library

BBS: The Documentary

Classic Websites: Random Page / Search Engine

cool-retro-term: terminal emulator mimicing old cathode displays

Neocities: webhost homage to Geocities

Web Design Museum

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

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available via homebrew with:
brew install --cask cool-retro-term

according to the github, most distributions such as Ubuntu, Fedora or Arch already have the package cool-retro-term in their official repositories

cool-retro-term screenshot of cowsay saying hello lemmy

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[–] xmanmonk@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

I use it a lot. It's very good at emulating the screen I used on a VT220 for a long time. Has all kinds of effects settings, too.