Retro Tech Dreams

Microsoft should rebrand Copilot to Rover.

Compuserve 3.0.1 from 1996

I'd be alright if the internet went back to this.

My high school friends loved showing off this trick. It was like showing someone the 90s Cool S for the first time.

The Nokia 3310 (2000). My first cell phone.

Microsoft Flight Simulator 98 (1997)

Packard Bell Navigator 3.5 (1995)

Clippy

The Curse of Monkey Island (1997)

Meg's Place (1998). Back when we all had personal webpages.

Build mode screenshot from The Sims (2000)

You can only pick one

Caesar 3 (1999)

The Thinking Machines CM-5 Connection Machine (1993)

StarCraft (1998)

Sam & Max Hit the Road (1993)

UCLA's website in 1997

SimCopter (1996)

The Sansui RA-700 Reverberation Amplifier (1975).

Minesweeper

Woah, I haven’t seen this in decades

The Sims (2000)

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

Dome Zero Concept (1978)

Kai's Power Goo (1996). I bought my boxed copy from CompUSA.

Half-Life (1998)

Windows XP error message that says Success. I made it in REALBasic.

Success

Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn (2000)

AltaVista (1999)

Dark Forces (1995). This was one of the first FPS games I ever played.

I remember waiting 25 minutes for a 1mb game to download from Download dot com. I left the computer running and watched an episode of Space Ghost Coast to Coast.

At least SP2