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Type in "Google.com" and a question mark pops up. In fact any browser gets a "Huh?" from your time traveling computer.
Click on 1997, pick "IBM Model 4860 PCjr" Go to "Netscape.com" and listen as the "faux modem" makes it's annoying connection buzz.
You'll be able to download funny pictures with
a little patience. Row by row the picture appears over a few minutes.
In later years, with later computer tech you'll be able to search the web from that era via any number of web page recording sites like the Wayback Machine.
Would be a way to experience computer history in a hands on fashion as well as appreciating how far we've come.
https://www.c64forever.com/
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https://www.pcjs.or...nes/pcx86/ibm/4860/
[a1, Dec 19 2023]
Living Comouters Museum
https://en.wikipedi...rs:_Museum_%2B_Labs
Is it really dead? Or only mostly dead? [a1, Dec 19 2023]
This could save a lot of time.
https://www.wikihow...ch-Yourself-to-Read
[doctorremulac3, Dec 19 2023]
Current emulator page for Living Computers
https://www.livingc...line-Emulators.aspx
Hey, some of these still work, sort of. If only I could remember how to use an Apple //e [a1, Dec 19 2023]
Or you could dial up an old BBS
https://arstechnica...ack-to-life-in-2017
[a1, Dec 19 2023]
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Should be fascinating for about 3 minutes. Now, let me check if anyone has posted a kitten on twatzombie recently... 20 ways to make yourself think you are less unintelligent than other people think you are... Hey an advert for plastic clips! Let me go and see... |
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[-] Old computer emulators, WKTE. Likewise on museums to teach this stuff. The Living Computer Museum (linked) did pretty much what you describe - online access to emulators (as well as the real thing on site) - though sadly they didn't survive the pandemic. |
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Huh, so instead of just going to a website and clicking on whatever historical tech experience you want you'd just get in your car and drive to a museum, or download an app to give you the experience of one particular computer without the corresponding web experience of the time. |
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Should have added, goes without saying, you'd be able to play the available video game of that year. "download" and play with the various programs etc. |
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This would be the main reason I'd go on it. That and to hear that simulated modem connection buzz. Ahh, memories. |
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// you'd just get in your car and drive to a museum, // |
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Some people would, I suppose - but perhaps not enough, as the museum I linked is no longer operating. But they did offer the emulators online also, according to the Wikipedia article and the archive of their web page from 2016: |
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"...We make our systems accessible by allowing people to come and interact with them, and by making them available over the Internet." |
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(edit to add - just checked - LCM+L emulators are still around and linked for your enjoyment. Guess it's the brick & mortar site that has closed up) |
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To take this to the next level you need a browser interface to the various emulators, in pre-configured forms. You also need a seamless hook into internet archive to create freshly generated content. Most importantly, you need a LLM chat-bot type system to generate convincing content in real time. This would allow the user to sign up and open a Myspace account, upload their photos and chat with other "users". Get involved with flame wars on newsgroups. Seek out obscure discussion forums. Post ideas to the HalfBakery in 2000 and write annotations on the early ideas. You would have full access to email and FTP and Gopher and other things. |
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And you could search ask Jeeves for stuff. Or can you still do that? |
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If so my first question would be: “Hey Jeeves, why are you still on line?” |
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Wow, 5 links, 2 comments and a bone, 8 total obsession posts, you've outdone yourself a1. |
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I think I've been providing relevant commentary and been very polite about it. In the sprit of the season, as you might say. |
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How's everything in the House of Remulac these days? |
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We live in an underground bunker but it’s going well thank you. |
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You must feel very secure there, well protected from all the flashing harp strings and battle drums and grenade launchers being mooted about. |
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Could I interest you in some irradiated beans, guaranteed shelf stable for at least 600 years? We're running a special on them before the planned New Years Day missile launch, er, I mean "product launch" - yeah, that's the ticket. |
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I'm sure I'm not the only one here who has an actual 1998 clamshell iBook in the cupboard. Whenever my new tech breaks, I plug in the old iBook to ye olde RJ11 connector, and limp along until I get the next new-to-me model. Interestingly, I can still access email, and most websites are clean, stripped, ad-free versions of themselves. Seems I've created the *actual* 'virtual' at-home experience <looks around at washboard, upright piano, hand-crank egg beater, dial-up handset phone> Or I've been living in a tech museum all along. |
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Ahh, the pre RJ-45 era, that dial up modem buzz, you knew magic was about to happen. |
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