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Windows 93 (2014)
- jgw 10y agoClever and artful, with a little nostalgia thrown in. 1993 was the year I started my undergrad and would not see a "web browser" until the following year. It's nice to re-capture a little of the spirit of what computing was like back then. Tip: Be sure to click on the virus and after what happens happens, fling the icons around. Moments of mindless fun.
- puddintane 10y agoI was just doing that, when the girlfriend goes "oh I remember when the computer used to do that" - my response: "you had a virus then..." :D at least back then viruses had a bit of class to em
- alanh 10y agoI had that virus on Windows 98SE.
- drzaiusapelord 10y agoOld timer here as well. The 'Virtual Girl' brings back memories of the 'personal assistant' fad from way back when. Funny how we've gone back to that now that the technology is more than a gimmick with Siri, Cortana, Alexa, and GNow. Sometimes I wonder about that peroid where so many things were possible (and tried!) but the technology and infrastructure just wasn't there to make it feasible. For all the lamenting about the loss of privacy, the reality is that assistants like these aren't possible without being able to dip into our emails and browse/purchase histories. That's something Bonzi Buddy couldn't do. We live in an odd time where the promises of the late 90s and early 2000's are coming to fruition. Suddenly VR is amazing and relatively affordable. Suddenly digital personal assistants are here and they work. The promise of a less powerful Microsoft is here and with IE a now discontinued product. Very fast internet is here with many markets having or will soon have 1gbps (note: the first LAN I worked on was 10mbps). The promise of early yet clunky smartphone/PDA revolution has also been fulfilled. I wonder if, from a networked/social/mobile computing, perspective that period was our 'Mother of All Demos.' So much was tried and promised back then and its only in the fast few years that its really practical.
- UweSchmidt 10y agoA personal assistant may "dip into emails" but shouldn't phone home. Otherwise the personal assistant metaphor doesn't fit, and other, less pleasant descriptions apply.
- drzaiusapelord 10y agoYour emails are already at 'home' or a similar cloud solution with questionable privacy policies. These assistants don't actually run on your device, just their front ends are run on your device. I think you're making a distinction that doesn't really exist with common use cases. As far as what is reported back to the home company, well, that pre-dates personal assistants. What gmail does with your email or dropbox with your files and any analysis your usage is a completely separate issue than personal assistants, aside from both of them having to do with privacy. It seems to me these assistants are just dipping into stuff 'home' has had access to for a decade plus. Instead of using that info to sell to marketers or whatever, its using that info to provide value to you by powering your assistant.
- UweSchmidt 10y agoThe email problem may be solved separately by a yet unknown solution - maybe encryption will be part of the next Iteration. "Personal assistants" that listen in on conversation, waiting for a keyword - that's a completely different dimension than "just" reading email.
- drzaiusapelord 10y agoYou can disable the 'always listening' option in most (all?) of these products and just have a press to talk option. I leave mine on for convenience. There's no law saying you need to if you want to use these technologies.
- UweSchmidt 10y ago- defaults matter and shape behaviour/expectations - disabling these options is often difficult - other people's phones listen to me as well - ...
- Keyframe 10y agoand would not see a "web browser" until the following year Oh look, gopher with images. I can make that over a weekend!
- csmattryder 10y agoAwesome site, make sure you play the Castle Wolfenstein game and check out chapter 2 - "Operation Stallman". It's the most /g/ thing I've seen all day.
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- basemi 10y agoOld HN discussions here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8507786 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8507786 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9162566 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9162566
- loeber 10y agoI love the individual soundtracks for all the applications. They're so well-done.
- kowdermeister 10y agoIn the trash, there's a zip that contains a link to this album: https://jankenpopp.bandcamp.com/album/poire-c-poire-v https://jankenpopp.bandcamp.com/album/poire-c-poire-v :)
- fimdomeio 10y agoso good
- BHSPitMonkey 10y agoThis is art.
- Cyph0n 10y agoThe PlayStation boot sound kind of surprised me...
- Frogolocalypse 10y agoI love these things.
- gchokov 10y agoWIndows 93 does not work on Safari mobile :/
- sergj 10y agoWorked for me on iOS 10.
- cerved 10y agoNot IBM PC compatible
- OliverJones 10y agoI had to push the turbo button on my pc.
- Frogolocalypse 10y agoIt has probably been shown plenty of times before, but here is a linux command-line javascript one too. http://bellard.org/jslinux/ http://bellard.org/jslinux/
- jodrellblank 10y agoThe real question is, how long until the typical web page includes a JavaScript Linux vm running Docker to display (ads or content)?
- crististm 10y agoThere is really no limit on what can be used to hog a CPU.
- Frogolocalypse 10y agoHa. I hadn't thought about that. Why learn web-programming eh?
- cyphar 10y ago> Ha. I hadn't thought about that. Why learn web-programming eh? No, the actual program is written in Node. It's javascript all the way down my friend. :P
- Senji 10y ago
- FreeFull 10y agoI think it's funny to find an old bytebeat formula I made in this.
- akx 10y agoAhaha, it has mine too! http://i.imgur.com/z9Be34t.png http://i.imgur.com/z9Be34t.png
- smegel 10y agoc:\libs has all the javascript you need ;)
- lawless123 10y agosomething kinda vaporwave about this
- FilterSweep 10y agoI believe that was the aesthetic the author brilliantly went for. The background and tab colors immediately struck out to me. An alternative, yet nostalgic nod to Windows 3.1
- eriknstr 10y agoSpeaking of which, to anyone interested, check out /r/Vaporwave and /r/VaporwaveAesthetics.
- indonesia 10y agoThis seems so amazing that I had to close it immediately, scared of how much time I would lose with it.
- mdrzn 10y agoSame just because I'm at work, but I'll procrastinate on it at home later.
- indonesia 10y agoThis seems so amazing that I had to close it immediately, scared of how much time I would lose with it.
- messel 10y agoPre IE, no simulation levels
- microcolonel 10y agoKinda disappointed that Puke Data isn't interactive. ;- )
- jschwartzi 10y agoThe corgi doesn't work as expected. Can I return this for a refund?
- tomw1808 10y agoHell yeah! That must have taken a whoooole lot of fun programming time to develop that. Someone have a guesstimate?
- Kenji 10y agoDepends a lot on the developer. If it's a youngster figuring out things, we are talking about thousands of hours. A senior developer might "only" take hundreds.
- delegate 10y agoThe trick in the "simulator" is to drink coffee, smoke cigarette, smoke weed then take lots of acid and procrastinate until the operating system is finished. Then launch it to finish game. I got 194 #Hero You can also go to Paris at some point.
- KiDD 10y agoI love this!
- hitekker 10y agoI must be crazy but when I opened this up on my phone, I thought " with a few more tweaks, this could be my go l-to mobile UI"
- RankingMember 10y agoPretty brilliant site. Unfortunately it locked up Chrome tight after I ran the 3d program and tried to close it along with running Wolfenstein.
- maxwellito 10y agoMy eyes and mind were not ready for that! This is brilliant!
- jasonkostempski 10y agoWhat about your ears? That startup sound caused some pretty intense flashbacks for me.
- zhte415 10y agoThe Window Manager and opening/closing/dragging/resizing effects were really impressive for 1993. Way more than Mac at the time, or even Linux 3-4 years later.
- jlebrech 10y agoit's a shame it's fiction
- zhte415 10y agoSeems to have no OLE support, so pretty authentic in my book, as that only came later. Surprised the ancient computer isn't dying under the strain of so many visits.
- itomato 10y agoIt's not a computer. It's not a Windows release. It's not even old. It's a recent site that mimics (satrizes) some of the behaviors of Windows 95.
- zhte415 10y ago> It's not a computer. It's not a Windows release. It's not even old. Win93 seems pretty olds to me. > It's a recent site that mimics (satrizes) some of the behaviors of Windows 95. How can this mimic or satitise Windows 95? I understand a less complex system can simulate a more complex system, but only slower, or maybe, but _2 years_ between releases with superior Wm functionality degraded??? It doesn't even have Winsock, and that was done in 1992!
- khedoros1 10y agoYour comments are less funny than you think they are.
- cot6mur3 10y agoTo be fair, though, this webapp emulates the look & feel of Windows 95 (or greater), which was released in August 1995. Windows 3.1(1) (and NT 3.1 as of July 1993) were the current versions of Windows in 1993; each had far less polished effects: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_3.1x https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_3.1x for screenshot. :)
- asimuvPR 10y agoThe snake game music when you click to defrag... Felt young and old at the same time.
- snake_plissken 10y agoI forgot about that hamster dance website! Talk about something that was ahead of it's time... I love you, Internet.
- AdmiralAsshat 10y agoWhy does it play the PS1 startup noise?
- khedoros1 10y agoBecause nostalgia, parody, and creative license.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoIt's pretty amazing how much classic software can actually run, and works pretty well. The Wolf3D clone is totally playable, and you can actually use LSDJ (one of my all-time favorite pieces of software), and it seems to be actually running the real LSDJ, too, which is pretty impressive, considering that it means that the site actually has an embedded gameboy emulator
- edem 10y agoThis is all HTML. You can inspect it.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoWait, so no emulation? Huh. Less impressive, but still quite so nonetheless.
- improv32 10y agoNo it's emulated: https://github.com/taisel/GameBoy-Online https://github.com/taisel/GameBoy-Online
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoOh.
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- softawre 10y agoSpeaking of web emulation. It exists for a ton of platforms now (and usually requires flash). http://play.emuparadise.me/playonline/NES/Dragon_Warrior_IV_(USA)/sound/55336 http://play.emuparadise.me/playonline/NES/Dragon_Warrior_IV_...
- arcatek 10y ago
- Hydraulix989 10y agoI love the Vaporwave vibes
- cokernel 10y agoIt's tricky to win at SOLITUDE when the first deuce played to a foundation just disappears.
- kar1181 10y agoLove that there's an Atari ST and ZX emulator running inside of this.
- discrisknbisque 10y agoThis is bringing back strong memories of messing around with QBASIC and Clickteam's The Games Factory. My first game was called "Money 4 Nothing" and you moved a mouse-cursor locked guy around collecting floating cash piles and avoiding guards who usually just shot you on a loop.
- dbancajas 10y agoso what's the stack on this? curious how this is done. Is this like the http://copy.sh/v86/ http://copy.sh/v86/ ?
- cbaleanu 10y agoI actually had Virtual Girl running for a few days in my teenage years :)
- l0c0b0x 10y agoThis is pretty amazing.. well done!
- Crystalin 10y agoYou can cheat on the "Solitude game" (that I finished few times already) by double-clicking on hidden cards to add them to the top if they are the matching cards.
- vito 10y agoSolitude even has the victory animation: http://i.imgur.com/IlSm5pE.png http://i.imgur.com/IlSm5pE.png Funnily enough if you leave the tab in the background, the events queue up and when you tab back there are a bunch of cards bouncing around at once: http://i.imgur.com/dNObRGb.png http://i.imgur.com/dNObRGb.png
- greendude29 10y agoYou mean Solitaire...Solitude sounds so odd...
- esotericsean 10y agoThey called it Solitude.
- AceJohnny2 10y agowhoosh http://www.windows93.net/#!solitude http://www.windows93.net/#!solitude
- voidz 10y agoWe, the Dutch call it 'patience,' as how it sounds in French. Personally, I used to call it 'sol.exe.'
- bbcbasic 10y agoShit outta luck.exe
- Fiahil 10y agoI noticed a few other French easter eggs, like the names of the city "stive" is visiting during his acid trip, or that "the national train company is on strike, but you managed to reach Lille in less than 15 hours. #WIN".
- aembleton 10y agoPatience is what my grandma used to call it. This was in the UK so it might be called that in several European countries.
- __jal 10y agoI love the "VirtualPC" application. Recursive metahumor for the win!
- entelarust 10y agoNeeds sheep.exe
- entelarust 10y agoneeds sheep.exe
- cestith 10y agoIf you open the recycle bin there's a zip file that actually downloads through your real browser to your real computer. I didn't bother opening it. It has a filename not everyone will immediately know how to delete. That's really not a funny thing to put out there.
- sspiff 10y agoIt contains a link to an album on bandcamp: https://jankenpopp.bandcamp.com/album/poire-c-poire-v https://jankenpopp.bandcamp.com/album/poire-c-poire-v. Previously, it contained the album itself.
- gknoy 10y agorm -i *.zip Apparently, in iTerm2, you can actually copy and paste the name, and do ls *.zip rm -i cv.zip
- Symbiote 10y ago> It has a filename not everyone will immediately know how to delete. Click on the file, press delete?
- cestith 10y agoI invite you to try with various file managers.
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- nostromo 10y agoThis is by hacker/musician Jankenpopp, which is why it links to their music. http://jankenpopp.com/ http://jankenpopp.com/ Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7fKoamz0nY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7fKoamz0nY (for example) http://jankenpopp.bandcamp.com/ http://jankenpopp.bandcamp.com/ (full free albums)
- tadp 10y agoIs this magic?
- anacleto 10y agoOld but gold.
- alexroan 10y agoI'm sure I'm not the only one who created a load of recursive virtual PC's inside one another. PCeption.
- jschwartzi 10y agoDoes everyone else have their Microsoft lottery winner certificate? I'm itching to cash mine in for that € 250k.
- zelon88 10y agoThe sad part is the author did a better than Microsoft did and half of the programming was in turing incomplete languages.
- krige 10y agoThat bounce on window open is really annoying
- partycoder 10y agohttp://windowsreallygoodedition.com/ http://windowsreallygoodedition.com/
- chiar1games 10y agoI love classic software such as windows 95. I love this!
- zerognowl 10y agoWorth checking out The Old School Emulation Center on Archive.org > The Old School Emulation Center (TOSEC) is a retrocomputing initiative dedicated to the cataloging and preservation of software, firmware and resources for microcomputers, minicomputers and video game consoles https://archive.org/details/tosec https://archive.org/details/tosec
- tofupup 10y agoneat