Oral history of the creation of Tomb Raider.

Modem handshake, slow loading pages, Minesweeper, Paint, and a live chat room with real people. Works on a phone too.

A blog post about finding the oldest Windows application with a GUI that still runs on Windows 11

Saw Webamp in the sidebar and figured this fits. It's a 90s PC desktop that runs in the browser, modem sound when you connect, a few period apps, and a live chat room.

56k.rip

The full 1996 dial-up experience: the handshake, the wait, someone picking up the phone. Sound on.

From https://mastodon.social/@HobbyBuilder/117345001508833633

Newsletters, Zines and Information Files in WinHelp format.

A semi-active web forum for DOS users and developers

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

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)