The Curse of Monkey Island (1997). The writing and art in this game hold up so well.
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MSN started as the internet service, the Microsoft Network (1995)
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The Raleigh Vektar was considered world's first smart bike (1985). Today, I don't even want a smart TV.
Adobe Photoshop 5.5 (1999). It had everything we need, and it still runs on Windows 11.
Warcraft 2 (1995). Anyone remember this? Feels like a lifetime ago.
HP's Spaceball 2003 (1991) was real-life cassette futurism.
Back when we wrote web pages by hand. SuperEdi.
Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings (1999). This and StarCraft's menu are burned into my memory.
MusicNet (1995) was an early online music store that came on a CD with music samples. You could preview tracks, add items to your shopping list, and then call a toll-free number to order the CDs.
This summer, you can find me at the pool. 😎 The Sims (2000)
Back when the web had character. Here's an Angelfire homepage dedicated to the color purple (1997). The bottom of every page says, "Purple is not a colour, it's a way of life."
SimTower (1994). One of my favorite sim games as a kid.
The Nordmende Spectra Color Studio TV System (1973) was the original multiview , letting viewers watch 4 different TV shows at a time.
Nanosaur (1998) came preinstalled on the first iMac.
NASA's Virtual Interface Environment Workstation (VIEW) from 1985
The Pocket Surfer 2 (2008, £179.99) offered 20 hrs/mo of free internet and unlimited access for £5.99/mo. Plus it was faster than any smartphone. How? DataWind preprocessed webpages on their servers as images before sending them to the devices.
