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- A lot of people don’t know how cool it felt to dial into the internet or a service like Compuserve or Prodigy and suddenly have this whole world open up to you. Even at 56k.by Vaslo
- this is great, but everything loads WAY too fast. It took forever to get anything to load back in the day.by strikefo
- Vibe coded replica, not the actual OS or programs.
Also riddled with inaccuracies.
- I was a high schooler working at CompUSA when 56K modems were first available and it was a sensation. They were flying off the shelves. I still had a 28.8 modem at home at the time.by cainxinth
- Lovely. 16MB of RAM in the 90s? That's luxury. And that dial-up sound always takes me back to happier times. Not unlike normal people's childhood songs.by artyom
- Amazing. When we were all living offline by default, and you had to go online. Now sadly it's the opposite.
(When did this change? Around 2012?)
by 101008 - Like others mentioned, the intention is great but too much AI.
The icons do not even look remotely close to the dial-up computers.
When it disconnects, the reconnection sound is not that at all. Pages load too fast.
by h4kunamata - This is very similar to a project I'm working on called Sim95 [1]. It has an entire networking stack and visual basic style language. You can host your own websites, chat servers, anything you want, and everything runs over a virtual network (websocket that passes through a relay).
It has all the warts of the early internet era: you can program a virus, get people to download it, delete their documents, etc., but it also has a lot of the charm, build a website, chat with strangers, enjoy the lack of facebook (for now until someone builds it).
by jermaustin1