JezzBall
Retro tech, early web & vintage computing. 80s, 90s, 2000s nostalgia. Follow for daily posts.
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Winamp Skin: turbolapinv11
The prop briefcase from Total Recall (1990)
System Shock 2 (1999)
SimCity (1989)
I played it again a few years ago. It is NOT any easier. Like, in one “age,” the different sounds indicate which direction to go, but you’d never know that unless you competed another, specific Age first. I eventually resorted to using text-based walkthroughs to finish Myst, like the good ole days.
Myst (1993). I once got stuck at the top of tree elevator and had to restart the game.
I had no idea about bnetd and PvPGN. I stuck with Battle Net back then, so this is new to me. Thanks for sharing them!
Geocities Star Wars fan site (2002)
I played it today! For Aiur.
StarCraft Battle net
Sid Meier's SimGolf (2002). Building sim golf courses > Playing sim golf courses Playing sim golf courses > Playing golf
Realistic 6-Disc CD Changer (1989)
RollerCoaster Tycoon (1999)
I can hear it without the audio
Windows 98 Plus: Dangerous Creatures
Cordless Telephone, Takenobu Igarashi (1989). Looks like something out of the 1993 movie The Tower (free to watch on YouTube).
Clippy gets all the love, but my favorite is Rocky the Dog.
I gotta give folks a reason to engage 😆
This is what Adobe Premiere looked like in 1994
HP Spaceball 2003 (1991). While the mouse operates on X and Y axes, the HP Spaceball also used the Z axis, making it easy to rotate objects in 3D space. Plus the white plastic made it look like something out of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Every LaCie drive I ever owned failed on me. I finally just last year recovered all of my files off of them from the early 2000s.
Angelfire homepage dedicated to the color purple (1997). Back when we all had personal homepages.
Toshiba DynaBook SS433 (1994). The footprint of this tiny laptop was about the size of a novel.
90s 3D art - Power Source by Zax Dow (1993). Lens flares, tesla coils and CRTs. It doesn't get more 90s than this.
Come get some
I’ll match that
We’ll get there eventually
Winamp Skin: Sony WX‑5500MDX. It's based on a real Sony car stereo system that could play CDs and MiniDiscs.
Probably having foundation issues and not enough reserves in the HOA
We were promised Internet The City in 1996. Why does it feel like the final scene from Terminator 2?
FYI, here's how to play Full Tilt Space Cadet pinball
Nissan CUE-X concept (1985). It featured "laser radar cruise control" and touchscreens. If only it were real.
They’re waiting for you, Gordon, in the test chamber
Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings (1999). Easy to pick up, fun to master, and it has a great online community.
Those are the worst!
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/a... (No paywall)
The Windows 98 screensaver in Windows 98 Plus. Trippy.
VAIO Space (1996)
Maxis SimFarm (1993). This was a surprisingly deep management sim.
Sam & Max Hit the Road (1993)
Please purchase WinRAR
The Panasonic Q console, exclusive to Japan, added a DVD player to the GameCube to play DVDs and CDs. It was designed to extend the life of the GameCube by a few years when the PlayStation 2 and Xbox had DVD support.
Favorite Windows Entertainment Pack game?
Winamp Skin: hazlabs
Carrier has arrived
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SimCity 2000 - Archology
Pipe Dream
Moto Racer 2 (1998)
CheatCodes
Bang & Olufsen Beocom 2 (2002)
Fallout 2 (1998)
Using a Mac in 1998
Unreal Tournament (1999): Morpheus
This is true
Packard Bell Navigator was peak 90s 3D art
NASA "shuttle portable onboard computer" program running on original hardware (via u/ConventionalMemories, www.reddit.com/r/retrobattl...)
Sony Betamax SL-8000E (1978)
The Pocket Surfer 2 (2008, £179.99) offered 20 hrs/mo of free internet and unlimited access for £5.99/mo. The service pre-rendered every webpage on their servers as images first before sending them to the devices. It made the connection feel faster.
RealPlayer (1999)
Mazda MX-03 concept (1985)
Mac OS X Preview 3 (2000)
Windows 98
I took this screenshot of my new Gmail account 20 years ago
And no favicons. How did we get anything done?
Angelfire
Windows 1.0's capitalization is chaotic neutral
Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings (1999)
I wish I still had mine!
Anyone else remember the chat service The Palace?
I tried recreating this screensaver in javascript. Tap the icon in the upper-right corner to play with the settings. codepen.io/retrotechdre...
90s screensavers were the best
The Sims (2000)
StarCraft (1998). I still play this version today.
Windows 98
Caesar 3 (1999)
Download dot com's most popular game downloads (1996)
Sid Meier's SimGolf (2002)
The Cray-1 (1975) contained 60 miles of wire and broke computing records by reaching speeds of 160 megaflops. That's about half the speed of the first iPhone in 2007. Pricing for each machine started at $5 million, and they sold 80 units. You could be ordered in any color.
Winamp Skin: Virtual Dimension RMX
Is this home?
Diablo II (2001)
NeXTStep (1995)
Adobe Photoshop 5.5 (1999)
Chip's Challenge
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Wake up. It's 2007. • Games don’t have in-app purchases • Software isn’t sold as a subscription • GenAI art doesn’t exist • Desktop apps look like this
Lancia Orca (1982)
OK
I still haven’t seen one in the wild 😕
Pipes
Half-Life
Table layouts
Windows XP
StarCraft (1998)
That would be so useful. The closest I got (in I think in Mac OS 9) was opening the Applications folder and dragging it to the bottom of the screen to make a Finder tab. I missed it when Mac OS X rolled out.
Half-Life (1998)
SimCity 3000 (1999)
