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Interesting and short interview with the maintainer of frutigeraeroarchive.org.

A quote:

Does it feel more alive for me personally? I can say yes to that, as it comes from an era where we were all more optimistic about technology and what it would do in our lives. I would say our outlook in recent years has changed drastically, with companies becoming more and more greedy, more of our data being harvested, and the rise of AI. I have nothing against flat design itself however I have to admit it is more lazily done most of the time than even a basic skeuomorphic interface, and requires basically no effort to pull off correctly.

You can also grab it all from IA: https://archive.org/details/Keygen-Music-Archive

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/47341163 > Remember Win Elvis-n-Space? Or Lemmings Paintball? Or even Odyssey Legend of Nemesis? > > Found this little gem of a site recently. Unfortunately, it hasn't been updated in a while (last blog post is from Sep 2025)

As a fun bonus, there's a modern hypercard that works on new systems called Decker.

While this site is still updated and maintained, I appreciate that the aesthetic and source likely hasn't changed much since 2004. Additionally, Claw is a fucking awesome game, and more people should discover it in 2026.

Flavor Flav is apparently a big fan of women's sports, and released a remake of He Got Game, called She Got Game, with a lyrics video featuring a Windows XP media player. So that's like, three fantastic things in one sentence. https://bsky.app/profile/flavorflav.bsky.social/post/3me4ph76pkk25 @retronet

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/48581934 > Remember all the personal sites in HTML people used to have on places like geocities or neocities? There's a bit of an online movement to go back to that kind of site instead of everything being on some big centrally-owned website. > > Neoskitties is that, in the style of r/pokemedia: posting what people would have on their equivalent to neocities in the Pokémon universe. Figured Pokémon Lemmy might appreciate.

Last week's post about early 2000s video game websites reminded me of this one. It has a few hallmarks of that era of gaming websites, like an image background and images for borders around the content. The markup is pretty retro, too: it uses a <frameset> and frames. I'm not really sure when the site was made, but it was probably 2006. archive.org's first snapshot is January, 2007. When Epic removed all Unreal titles from download stores, they mentioned xmpcommunity.com in their blog post. So this is now like an officially sanctioned way of playing the game. They also mentioned oldunreal.com for getting the original Unreal game to run. That's another fairly retro looking site, although they did change from handwritten HTML pages to a CMS a few years ago. Still has some "old internet" elements to it, though, like a page about netiquette. Now there's a classic internet term. And page about netiquette with a cookie banner on it? That's like the duality of the web right there. That page is a metaphor for... something. I don't know what. But it is.

I think I first heard Pimp Daddy Welfare in like 1999 or 2000. Looks like the site was last updated in 2009.