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A nostalgic look back at late 1990s and early 2000s hacking tools like Back Orifice, NetBus, Sub7, and Nmap, reflecting on their impact and the era of Windows 98 hacking.
This article explores the revival of the KDE Oxygen theme as part of a broader anti-minimalist backlash and nostalgia trend in software design, drawing parallels to architectural preferences.
The article discusses an accidental recreation of Facebook's older interface or functionality.
An article discussing the legacy of Cartoon Network Flash games and their impact on early web gaming.
A retrospective blog post lamenting the decline of XMPP (Jabber) from its peak around 2008 when it was widely used and supported by major platforms like Google and Facebook, contrasting it with modern decentralized alternatives like Matrix. The author reflects on how XMPP was once accessible to mainstream users through clients like Pidgin and Trillian but has since been supplanted by proprietary walled-garden messaging apps.
The author documents the process of building a vintage PC from 1997-1998 to play all versions of Quake, covering hardware choices like the Pentium MMX, 3dfx Voodoo2, and Socket 7 motherboards.