Retro Tech Dreams

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@jeshirekitenkatt1212 Күн бұрын

... okay i need, like, a version of this that plays nice with windows 11. like right now-

@jeshirekitenkatt1212 Күн бұрын

i miss this old style of web design. it feels cozy and fun, and like an actual person made it! i stumbled on this one site called makefrontendshitagain party sometime last year that really brough me back to it. we should indeed make front end shit again (and also revive midi as a format)

@nakenmil Күн бұрын

I have distinct memories of standing in convencience stores, looking at the magazine racks, and marveling at Bryce 3D artwork. Very nostalgic.

@SorcererLance Күн бұрын

Robot Unicorn Attack isn't "retro"? My good sir, anything that crosses the 10-year threshold automatically is qualified for the senior discount :P

@RetroTechDreams Күн бұрын

Haha I draw the line at 20 years in order to avoid the pitchforks

@SorcererLance Күн бұрын

@@RetroTechDreams Usually at 10, MAYBE 5 years I personally tend to think back and wistfully say to myself "...Man, do you remember (thing)? That was fun/crazy/dumb/awesome"

@kgcat Күн бұрын

pls show us how far u are in Progressbar 95

@brandonsharp3147 Күн бұрын

Glad I found your channel!

@RetroTechDreams Күн бұрын

Thanks! Glad you’re here!

@lucasl1604 2 күн бұрын

vimm's lair is actually the place i go to by default for roms lmao it's a bit poor on bandwidth but it's got a pretty extensive selection, solid UI and is easy as hell to download from. never had any virus/malware scares on it either

@philipmurphy2 2 күн бұрын

These videos about old web are great

@buttbutt4886 2 күн бұрын

Vimm’s lair uses an emulator front end called emulator js

@TwisterTornado 2 күн бұрын

I was 11 when I made my first Geocities website.

@henrymapleton 2 күн бұрын

Besides Newgrounds, Byond was my favorite gaming site as a kid. Crazy how sites now a days can just run emulators.

@jankenpopp 2 күн бұрын

where's windows93?

@RetroTechDreams 2 күн бұрын

It’s definitely on my list

@jankenpopp Күн бұрын

@@RetroTechDreams If you have any questions about windows93 before preparing your topic, feel free to contact us :)

@danil-old-web 2 күн бұрын

First. This videos about old web are the best!

@flying7900 4 күн бұрын

For anyone confused why some footage looks different than others, it's because the footage in the video was pulled from two games of the franchise, with the one with the blue aesthetic being the original game and the one with the purple aesthetic being You Don't Know Jack 3 (the 3rd general knowledge entry in the series)

@RetroTechDreams 3 күн бұрын

Exactly right

@BabyCharmander 7 күн бұрын

Thank you for this video! This was delightful. So many videos about old webpages focus on the ~creepy~ ones so it’s nice seeing a video diving into average webpages. This brought so much nostalgia! Fun fact: the Petz games still have an active community the the modding scene for the game is absurd. People have modded SO MANY things into those games.

@RetroTechDreams 7 күн бұрын

Haha no way!

@MotownBatman 8 күн бұрын

LOL; the Redford MI Unicycle Club!!!

@samr8889 9 күн бұрын

Will you cover Neocities, the remake project of Geocities?

@RetroTechDreams 8 күн бұрын

I gotta check it out!

@mari.e... 13 күн бұрын

I love your channel! I'm not familiar with most of this because I'm just a genz but I'm really interested in learning how the internet back then!

@RetroTechDreams 13 күн бұрын

Thank you! Glad you’re here!

@HvZ08 14 күн бұрын

I didn't have the internet during this era. I tried to make a weekly, in-character fan page for Digimon when I was in elementary school on their computers. There was so much going on back then that it feels like an undiscovered era.

@RetroTechDreams 14 күн бұрын

I’d definitely visit your Digimon site back then

@HvZ08 14 күн бұрын

@@RetroTechDreams Never made it to the net, just my 5th grade computer

@Taterzz 14 күн бұрын

i remember using microsoft publisher to make a shitty webpage and then uploading all the files to my geocities. good times.

@RetroTechDreams 14 күн бұрын

The best of times

@ihspan6892 14 күн бұрын

Nice! I cannot say I "like" this aesthetics, but at the same there is something very appealing about them. And it existed for such a short period of time. I am very glad someone collects these and preserves them. The Infinite Mac is a really impressive.

@cocusar 15 күн бұрын

you are not alone when looking at which programs were open/installed on old screenshots, and try to figure which was each systray icon!

@RetroTechDreams 14 күн бұрын

😆

@random_number_sequence 15 күн бұрын

i wanna go home

@rockman2905 15 күн бұрын

Have you tried neocities?

@RetroTechDreams 14 күн бұрын

I gotta try it!

@philipmurphy2 15 күн бұрын

Geocities memories, glad I found this video 😀

@RetroTechDreams 15 күн бұрын

Thanks!

@ericmackrodt9441 15 күн бұрын

That dog is so dead...

@microsoft.co.u 15 күн бұрын

glad i found this video, it’s written/spoken really well!!

@RetroTechDreams 15 күн бұрын

Thank you!

@flukadamus 15 күн бұрын

Really digging these old school web videos!

@RetroTechDreams 15 күн бұрын

Thanks!

@Trazynn 15 күн бұрын

It's weird how thirty years later a 2mb file is still considered huge.

@defectivenull 16 күн бұрын

part 2 please

@RetroTechDreams 16 күн бұрын

I’ll definitely do a part 2!

@herodoesstuff 16 күн бұрын

love ur channel man, nice videos!!

@RetroTechDreams 16 күн бұрын

Thanks man! Really appreciate it!

@cbodovinitz 16 күн бұрын

It's cringe that people record these types of videos without using 800x600 resolution. Makes the sites look garbage.

@RetroTechDreams 15 күн бұрын

My bad

@henrymapleton 16 күн бұрын

Love the Homer site you picked, very relatable site I would of loved, reason why I love wikis now a days with personally. Wanna see a part 2, wanna see part 10 too XD

@RetroTechDreams 16 күн бұрын

Thanks! Will absolutely do a part 2.

@Thomas1984. 16 күн бұрын

The positive thing about these websites is that they’re still around. I was just thinking about this the other day about how I can never show my 2 year old daughter how awesome videostores were. She will never understand the atmosphere, feel and smell. Of course, this is with most stuff from the past. But the cool thing about this digital past, that it still exists and hopefully never will go away. The people who experienced the web in the early-mid nineties were lucky, in a way. The kids and people who grow up today with the internet experiencing allot of benefits compared to us then; speed, information, it’s always there. We literally ‘went online’.. Downsides in my opinion are; social media and many more stuff But hey: we were there man.

@RetroTechDreams 16 күн бұрын

So many of our online experiences can’t be archived to explore decades into the future… online games like Yahoo! Games, AOL chat rooms, browsing music apps like Rdio, just like how we can’t go back to video stores. I’m glad we still have these websites.

@Thomas1984. 16 күн бұрын

@@RetroTechDreams true. Same goes with ‘Newgrounds’, ‘Somethingawful’ etc. When flash based websites seized to lose their support it never will be explored again. I was just thinking that we, as a generation experienced something special. A couple generations before us are still able to relive their childhood. Simply because the hardware still exist. Even though some of it is decades old (Atari 2600 for example). There is no company willing or being able to make a computer or console made for us so that we can experience the internet like it used to be. Example; if you want to play Qbert. Just buy an Atari, connect it and play it. Because everything was digital, it will slowly fade away. Sorry but I just get nostalgic. Short story; I used to be a subscriber of an old gaming magazine. Couple of months ago started to read old issues (1997 or so). In this issue there was a letter of a kid (he was 12 at the time), he also made geocities website. He gave the url in his letter. I thought what the heck; I’ll type it in. And what do you think, after almost 30 years it was still online! It felt like finding a lost treasure or something. This little insignificant time-capsule. The guy must be in his forties now, but again. My point? Someday it will be gone forever. I guess. Will the server it’s on shut down or whatever. It’s finding these gems, revisiting the ‘old’ internet. Someday it will be gone forever.

@danil-old-web 16 күн бұрын

So, satisfying! Love the old web sites!

@RetroTechDreams 16 күн бұрын

Thanks!

@jeo1812 16 күн бұрын

So, I was always fascinated by the Internet, but we couldn't afford it. I joined the Internet right when KZfaq was still unheard of by my friends. I know I would have spent hours browsing through these webpages if I had the chance. The part I find the most fascinating while watching your video are the pages dedicated to "Photos of [character]" only for it to have a handful of images. Then you remember that pages would take forever to load. To help younger people understand how slow the old Internet was, in 2007, on dialup, I remember it taking at least 30 mins to fully load a 10 min video on KZfaq so that you could watch without interruption

@RetroTechDreams 16 күн бұрын

And those character images took so much effort to capture on a TV

@robintst 16 күн бұрын

Gaudy fonts, animated GIFs, and tiled backgrounds: A true sign of only the most cultured and enlightened "netizens" of the 90s. 🧐

@RetroTechDreams 16 күн бұрын

I feel like I’m home

@Metal_Maxine 15 күн бұрын

Auto-play midi background music was the worst

@rosskwolfe 16 күн бұрын

I do NOT miss frames.

@RetroTechDreams 16 күн бұрын

lol

@ilkeryoldas 16 күн бұрын

Jack's everything page does deserve it's own video

@RetroTechDreams 16 күн бұрын

I spent more than an hour exploring it. The site has depth!

@ilkeryoldas 16 күн бұрын

@@RetroTechDreams we wouldn't mind an hour of it 🤗

@michaelw9285 15 күн бұрын

@@RetroTechDreams I'm trying to locate Jack Hernandez now... wonder what he's up to

@rosskwolfe 16 күн бұрын

I miss webrings. I doubt kids these days even know what webrings were.

@evanbarnes9984 16 күн бұрын

Me too! It was such a cool way to explore

@brandonsharp3147 18 күн бұрын

Loved it. Great video.

@RetroTechDreams 17 күн бұрын

Thanks!

@HelloByeLetsNot 20 күн бұрын

Subbed just because washington 😂

@RetroTechDreams 18 күн бұрын

Thanks!

@rnelson 20 күн бұрын

"And it isn't that much effort to get to this point." Except digging out your childhood PC, finding a copy of Photoshop 5.5 to legally purchase, waiting for that to ship, installing, copying your image over... ;)

@RetroTechDreams 18 күн бұрын

That’s the fun way. Or getting a copy on eBay and running it on Windows 10 😃

@ahmad-murery 21 күн бұрын

I wanted to express what was on my mind and say something, but I found all of my thoughts in the comments already. Thanks

@RetroTechDreams 21 күн бұрын

Either way, glad you’re here with us! 😃

@TastyBusiness 24 күн бұрын

I genuinely still daily Photoshop 6.0, and only rarely do I hit a special feature I need that requires I break out CS2. I wish I had a copy of CS5.5 for RAW work, but until I find that, PS6 will be my go-to because it runs on EVERYTHING, and runs fast.

@RetroTechDreams 24 күн бұрын

I think it’s funny that PS6 can do things that tools like Gimp even today can’t do: non-destructive layer editing with adjustment layers and layer styles, better text kerning, etc.

@TastyBusiness 24 күн бұрын

I usually go for the colorful lines bouncing off the corners of the screen, it's way better than the default Windows Mystify. Flying toasters and Flying Windows are close second place choices for me.

@TastyBusiness 25 күн бұрын

I had totally forgotten about the full-color artistic approach from back in the day. It's a cool style that feels lost to time.

@RetroTechDreams 25 күн бұрын

And so nostalgic!

@HvZ08 26 күн бұрын

Love this kind of look back at the past. Maybe it wasn't all bad

@spungboy 26 күн бұрын

when a 40+ year old website about a screensaver looks more visually appealing than anything nowadays

@RetroTechDreams 24 күн бұрын

Haha right?

@email6743 14 күн бұрын

40?

26 күн бұрын

Photopea. It is a photoshop clone (same tools, same layout, no excuses like not being able to adapt to it) and it works directly on the browser, no installation, free to use.

@RetroTechDreams 26 күн бұрын

Thanks for the rec!

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