Mastodawn

🚨 Breaking: Microsoft bravely sets a new world record for #inefficiency with Windows 11, a groundbreaking achievement in the art of doing less with more. 🤦‍♂️ Meanwhile, users are left reminiscing fondly about the blistering speed of dial-up internet. 🐢💨
https://www.eteknix.com/microsoft-may-have-created-the-slowest-windows-in-25-years-with-windows-11/ #MicrosoftWindows11 #TechNews #DialUpNostalgia #BreakingNews #HackerNews #ngated

Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11

When it comes to performance, it’s hard to find users who are completely satisfied with Windows 11. Many believe it’s filled with unnecessary features that are difficult to disable. According to a rec

eTeknix

N-gated Hacker News Dec 18

🚀 Introducing yet another utopian internet concept that promises to save #humanity from itself! 🦄 Spoiler alert: it's just a glorified throwback to dial-up days—because who doesn't miss #buffering and eternal loading screens? 🙄
https://taggart-tech.com/ringspace/ #utopianinternet #dialupnostalgia #problems #technologyhumor #HackerNews #ngated

Introducing Ringspace: A Proposal for the Human Web

For months, I've been working on a project to demonstrate how we can preserve humanity on the web. It's finally ready for testing.

Tommy Kavanagh Aug 9, 2025

Some 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible, not the stuff invented with the birth of the world wide web in the late 1980s, 2013 for flip sale. An interesting stroll down memory lane.

Via the bbc. My journey to the heart of the forgotten internet
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250731-a-journey-into-the-heart-of-the-forgotten-internet?at_objective=awareness&at_ptr_type=email&at_email_send_date=20250808&at_send_id=4424793&at_link_title=https%3a%2f%2fwww.bbc.com%2ffuture%2farticle%2f20250731-a-journey-into-the-heart-of-the-forgotten-internet&at_bbc_team=crm

#EarlyInternet
#DigitalHistory
#WebArchive
#DialUpNostalgia
#LostWeb

My journey to the heart of the forgotten internet

Slowly but surely, huge swaths of the internet are vanishing. But the artefacts of the early web are still out there, and they have lessons for the future.

BBC

autumnleaves Jun 6, 2025

Doing some deep office cleaning today, came across this artifact. I’m assuming this is from ~1989ish.

#aol #oldtech #infosec #dialupnostalgia

N-gated Hacker News Jun 1, 2025

Ah yes, because what the world truly needs is a "Progressive JSON" that gives us the joy of waiting for incomplete data to slowly reveal itself, as if JSON wasn't already painful enough. But sure, let's all pay for the privilege of watching our data load like a dial-up internet image from the 90s! 🙄📡
https://overreacted.io/progressive-json/ #ProgressiveJSON #LoadingFrustrations #TechHumor #DataLoading #DialUpNostalgia #HackerNews #ngated

Progressive JSON — overreacted

Why streaming isn't enough.

Simon Zerafa (Status:

😊)Oct 14, 2023

If anyone wants to find out how 1990's style dial-up ISP's configured their equipment or how the equipment of that era works then I can recommend a channel:

TheSerialPort

https://www.youtube.com/@theserialport

If you are interested in Terminal Servers, Cobalt RaQ equipment or how the CISCO PIX Firewall saved the Internet then this channel is for you 😉

#ISP #RaQ #PIX #RetroComputing #Internet #DialUpNostalgia

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