Websites, software, games, fads, memes, or any general happenings that used to occur or had originated on computers 20+ years ago.
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Some Cool Links
Classic Websites: Random Page / Search Engine
cool-retro-term: terminal emulator mimicing old cathode displays
Neocities: webhost homage to Geocities
Webamp / Webamp Desktop / Skin Library: cross-platform re-implementation of Winamp 2.9
I worked at Microsoft at the time, and much ass was busted to implement fixes and test our product (with other teams doing the same, I assume) before the rollover occurred. On call as the clock ticked over to midnight in our time zone, and...I ended up playing Age of Empires for eight hours because nothing happened.
But don't be fooled: nothing happened because of the tremendous amount of work done beforehand to make sure nothing happened.
I worked at Intel Corp and there were many assessments and mitigations made, including some fixes. It was certainly a non-zero effort!
I was only a teenager at the time, but even then I thought that surely smart people had been looking at this issue and coming up with solutions before Y2K was going to happen
I never understood the media hysteria, but now that I'm older I see the general media is clueless when it comes to tech so that's probably why the 'panic' (and of course they can always find some 'expert' to claim that doomsday is coming!)