Where the #ICQ „Uh-Oh“ sound really came from: Not Worms or Lemmings, as some are telling you. Instead Windows 3.0 MultiMedia Edition from 1991 contains the exact same sample as „ohoh.wav“. #retrocomputing#windows#1990s
March 29th, 1995: Netscape Communications Corporation goes public. Netscape Navigator was a dominant web browser in the early days of the internet. Its IPO was a landmark event, fueling the dot-com boom of the late 1990s.
i've been sitting on this gem for 25 years. i think it's time.
so back in 1997, i was a first-year undergrad and dial-up was finally rolling out to the general public in most of canada.
with every new welcome package, u of a students received a 25 page manual on setting up smtp/pop for eudora lite, and a copy of netscape navigator.
the Computing and Network Services department decided that the best way to onramp students to the world wide web was via an interactive multimedia tutorial for win95 and macOS that they built themselves with macromedia director
last year an old buddy was cleaning out his basement, and he found his NetSurf '97 CD. couldn't resist capturing some of the 👌 performance by virtual paul
Mazeon’s animated pixel tribute to the Commodore Amiga 500.
The Amiga was a revolutionary computer in the 1980s and early 1990s, spawning many software devs, music composers and graphic artists (including myself).
The screen shows a low-res version of the legendary Boing Ball, an early demonstration showing off some of the Amiga’s multitasking power.
On October 3, 1992, Irish singer-songwriter Sinéad O'Connor shocked the world by ripping up a photo of Pope John Paul II live on Saturday Night Live. #TV#SNL#SineadOConnor#1990s#Nostalgia
I used to be a game designer and pixel artist for 16-bit games.
Here are some screenshots with my graphics for our games Hoi (Amiga, 1992), Clockwiser (Amiga, CD32, MS-DOS, Windows, 1994) and Moon Child (AGA Amiga, 1994, Windows, 1997).
When I was a 16-bit game graphics creator, I got accustomed to thinking in multiples of 16, for sprite dimensions, game scenery patterns, image resolutions, RGB color values and more.
That became a lasting habit. Even now, long after using multiples of 16 was necessary, I'm still entering 16, 32, 48, 64, et cetera, when numerical input is required. Does anyone happen to recognize this? 🙂
'"Acting as a hub of information before the digital age, the magazine helped bring together key bands like Nirvana and Alice in Chains through its classified ads... Now, all 336 issues — more than 16,000 pages of Seattle music history spanning 1979 to 2000 — have been digitized, made searchable by keyword and are available to the public for free."'