The 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.
Windows 93 (2014)
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#42The 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.
it's a shame it's fiction
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#43Clever 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.
Old 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.
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#44The 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.
it's a shame it's fiction
Seems 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.
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#45The snake game music when you click to defrag... Felt young and old at the same time.
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#46I forgot about that hamster dance website! Talk about something that was ahead of it's time...
I love you, Internet.
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#47The 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.
To 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 for screenshot. :)
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#48Clever 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.
Old 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 ab…
A 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.
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#49Why does it play the PS1 startup noise?
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#50It'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