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PSA: I cracked how to view old sites with broken Java applets...
Tried to load a music forum from 1998 and the applets kept failing. Found a guide on using an older browser version to get them working... it was a game changer.
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morgan_ward617mo ago
Seriously, that whole struggle takes me back. Elliotbell, your dancing hamster thing made me remember trying to get old Shockwave game demos to run on a modern laptop. I had installer files from like 2003 that just would not talk to Windows 10, it was a whole silly project. Ended up with a virtual machine running XP and a bunch of shady driver downloads, just for 10 minutes of some janky snowboarding game. What's the weirdest old thing you've gone through that much trouble for?
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elliotbell7mo ago
That "total victory" feeling dakota798 mentioned really hits when you beat some dead tech just to see a dancing hamster, lol.
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dakota7987mo ago
Oh man, that's the best feeling... I was browsing some old band sites on the Wayback Machine and hit the same wall. Getting an archive of Flash games to run last year felt like a total victory, totally worth the hassle.
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