The content on the Internet are volatile. Websites come and go, or look for a few years completely different. The Internet Archive stores under archive.org old content for future generations. The digital museum is not restricted to websites. What is digital freely available, will be archived. For example, text, images, videos or programs.
To the programs takes care mainly Jason Scott. The Americans collects and publishes old software that normal users have uninstalled decades. He thus saved from oblivion and shows a world as space low dissolved graphics low and viruses were shrill.
games, shareware, desktop widgets, Productivity Software
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on Thursday, Scott has the archive extended to Windows 3.x software, ie programs that were written for the two Microsoft operating systems Windows 3.0 and 3.1. The two systems were used in the early nineties and were the forerunners of Windows 95.
The Library of Scott includes games, shareware and productivity software. Over 1,500 programs he has uploaded to archive.org, most of which are games. In Showcase an exemplary selection is presented, which is intended to give an insight into the world of Windows 3.x.
Whoever wins has been the election of 1992?
It is a journey into the past. With the game Election ’92 as the player can influence the US election 1992: you just have to drop the candidate with cake and prevent them to deliver their ballot. The favorite candidate, either Bill Clinton, George H. W. Bush or Ross Perot should be spared this. Even chess, the Breakout clone Brick Buster and Risk are available for the old operating system.
In addition to games and regular programs in the digital museum have to be examined. So Windows Speed measures the performance computer, SolarWIN shows the current position of the sun and with Klingon Klock time is Klingon. Even the early Windows days were thus characterized by a nerdy humor.
Windows 95 in Windows 3.11 in Browser
If you want to completely immerse themselves in the computer world of the early nineties, the interface of Windows should try 3:11. Not only here are the original classic solitaire and Minesweeper playable, the user can examine the precursor of Paint and the Windows Media Player.
With the demo of Windows 95 also a look into the past future is possible. All Inception fans who want to 3.1 launch the browser via an emulation of Windows, a Windows 95 demo ever want, in the Microsoft explains how the Start button works, are in the right.
Ambulance and cannabis
Also of Jason Scott comes the malware Museum on archive.org. Along with the security expert Mikko Hypponen and Daniel White he has collected almost 80 viruses from the past and presents it to the public. But fear not, the malware had previously been made, of course, harmless.
While viruses now operate as quiet as possible in the background, their ancestors from the eighties and nineties were a little louder and shriller. One can, for example, clamoring for an ambulance driving through the image. Others call for the legalization of cannabis, and others transform the computer screen into an LSD trip. Although it is malicious code, the popularity of the old software is unbroken: “Some people have complained that their favorite virus in the collection there is,” Scott said in an interview with the art portal Ars Technica .
2500 MS-DOS games
But hardly anything arouses nostalgia feeling of Internet users as much as video games. In Console Living Room from archive.org to find old games for the Sega Genesis, the Atari 2600 or the Sega Master System. Even arcade classics are available in the Internet Archive. And of course the user has virtually insert a coin in order to make them run.
The computer comes but also not too short. Over 2,500 MS-DOS games Scott could now gather. Here it becomes clear how big games series took its beginning. From the Street Fighter on Sim City to Prince of Persia . They are all just a click away and ready for immediate playback. For all lovers of genuine vintage Software.
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