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SimCity 2000 (1993)

Winamp Skin: Expensive Hi Fi

Southwest Airlines' website (1995)

AOL Instant Messenger

I want to see this animation every time I open a new tab in Microsoft Edge

Apple TimeBand prototype (1990)

MVP?

BlackBerry 5810 (2002)

Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings (1999)

Windows 98 Setup

Angelfire in 1997

3D Pinball: Space Cadet for Windows XP

TUCOWS (1998)

Toyota SV-3 (1983) concept car

Downloading

How long could use the Mickey PC?

The Sims (2000). A user on Hacker News today shared the original PDF design documents for The Sims. https://donhopkins.com/home/TheSimsDesignDocuments/

The Motorola Envoy ($1,500 in 1994) could send emails wirelessly over the ARDIS network - the first consumer wireless data network in the U.S. It came with a touchscreen and stylus.

The KoalaPad (1983) was a graphics tablet for the Apple II, TRS-80, Atari 8-bit computers, C64 and PC

Civ II (1996)

Moto Racer 2 (1998)

Encarta MindMaze

The JVC HR3330TR was the first mass-market VHS-based VCR (1976)

Half Life (1998) - Amalgamous Materials

iTunes (2002)

Halo: Combat Evolved (2001)

I got you this Valentine's Day card 🥺👉👈

Dome Zero Concept (1978)

Winamp Skin: pioneer st3

WebTV

Take me back to the future 😎

Adobe Premiere 4.0 (1994)

Geocities

Quake III Arena at a late 90s LAN party

DOOM in Google Sheets https://github.com/moses297/doom-on-google-sheets

Yahoo! Clubs

Star Wars TIE Fighter (1994)

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Mac OS X 10.1 System Preferences