A Set of Windows Themes for Linux
I was tickled to try out the Windows 3.11, Windows 95, and Windows 7 ones. Simpler, purer times.
twenty-three things tagged “nostalgia”
The Hermes Baby 1967
After many years of searching, I finally found the make and model of my childhood typewriter and am beside myself with joy. Anthropic’s free-tier Claude was of tremendous help and I am much obliged. Behold, and in cursive! Source: This old eBay listing. I spent many hours taking it apart…
Came out in 2006 and was re-released as a Kosher Edition in 20131 which is when I found it after looking for “mystery games” on Steam. Been on my list since then and I finally finished it. Haven’t played a good point-and-click adventure/mystery game in a long while and this one brought back a floo…
486DX2-66 4MB RAM 250MB HDD 4x CD-ROM Sound Blaster 16
My brain issued lots of happy chemicals when I saw this illustration by Kevin Eric Raymundo AKA Kalbo. © Kevin Eric Raymundo (@tarantadongkalbo) Could be a popular setup for 90s kids but he might as well have found an old photo of our family computer setup: that entire frame, wheels, dot-matr…
Toura Toura (Remix)
by DJ Cheb i Sabbah
reAMP is WinAMP for macOS
Written in Swift. Last update was in 2020. There’s also WebAMP, whose Skin Gallery puts a smile on my face.
The Insane Lore of Mortal Kombat
A three-hour rundown of the game’s mythology from the 1992 Mortal Kombat to 2023’s Mortal Kombat 1 by ClementJ64. For a more extensive historical overview that doesn’t get into the mythology, there’s Ian Scherer’s excellent “The History of Mortal Kombat”1. Lots of dedicated research in both videos…
Alien: Romulus
(2024)
Saw with LD. A (really dark) teenage space adventure that made me feel like I was 14 and was watching “Alien” for the first time on our family TV (a 21" Belson). They tugged at every dormant heartstring from our childhood. Graininess, floppy drives, joysticks, lots of CRT displays, and clunky…
Rating: A
Brunhilde
This was my first car, a 1992 Buick LeSabre I christened Brunhilde. I bought it off my friend John for $1,0001. She was a lovely vehicle and came with bench seats, a CD changer, and boombastic speakers. She braved over 250,000 miles. Every car-person and occasional mechanic would extol the 3800 Ser…
Chok There
by Apache Indian
Stay Don’t Go
by Spoon
The very first song SN and I listened to at his place in Iowa City.
How It Ends
by Devotchka
I saw them in Iowa City during the “Mission Creek” festival. I enjoyed tears of joy at their live performance of this song.
Black Sands
by Bonobo
My God. A new hope, a chance to start fresh (almost). This song is “All is forgiven”. I love it so much.
Beautiful Way
by Beck
Heard in Ames in around 2002 I think. Beautiful.
I finally found the French textbook I used in middle school: Cours de Langue et de Civilisation Françaises
Didn’t realize it was a four-parter. Major nostalgia. Have forgotten most of my French but I somehow still remember a lot of words for things (and their gender!) thanks to these books (well, Volume 1 at least). Looks like the CBSE still uses it. Here’s audio to accompany the books.…
I am 20
In 1967, the Films Division of India1 asked all kinds of 20-year olds about their dreams and how they felt about the future of a nation that was, itself, 20 years old. Here’s the original video. A lot of the kids who speak English in the video (starting at 5:00) attend the august Indian Institute o…
Pages Full of Links to Cool Things
Terra, Gossip’s Web, and Marijn’s Linkroll remind my (oldass) self of a more innocent time when one would ‘surf the internet’, come by a list of links another human being liked, and discover all sorts of strange and wacky handmade things. I think I’m saying I really miss how fun something like Geoc…
Letters to a Computer
The Des Moines Register on how to send them email in (I’m guessing) the late 80s/early 90s. An article on how Baud Rate isn’t the same as Bit Rate Baud rate refers to the number of signal or symbol changes that occur per second. A symbol is one of several voltage, frequency, or phase changes.…
A Love Letter to the Internet of Old
In an age where we interact primarily with branded and marketed web content, Cameron’s World is a tribute to the lost days of unrefined self-expression on the Internet. This project recalls the visual aesthetics from an era when it was expected that personal spaces would always be under constructi…
Capturing Donald Glover
Wahyu Ichwandardi used MacPaint and Macromind VideoWorks/Director on an old Mac SE to create this wonderful frame-by-frame animation of “This is America”.…
Buckling Springs & Vintage Terminals
This will generate the incomparable Model M’s keyboard sounds “mainly for the purpose of annoying the hell out of” your coworkers. Sold 🙌 This is a beautiful and highly configurable application that emulates classic terminals. It also has a delightfully persuasive way of getting you to buy the fu…