I'm kind of surprised that Chromium blocks audio on autoplaying videos except when clicked but allows audio on mouseover interactions (encountered here). Takes me back to early 00s era sites with random surprises (in a good way here since its quirkiness is communicated with the design).
I miss the magical feeling windows releases like XP and 7 gave you. Now it’s an exercise in crossing your fingers and hoping the next update doesn’t use more dark patterns to destroy your privacy and security.
I remember staying up late on a school night to grab a beta iso for windows 7 because they were (supposed to) limit how many people could download it. That was the last time I ever got excited about a Microsoft product
Horribly designed page. Why does everything need to blink? Why is the text so poorly rendered? You can accomplish a retro design while retaining some semblance of readability.
You won't be able to use more than compatibility modes if any with hardware newer than about 2015, because the drivers were built to a newer kernel ABI. It's great for legacy gaming, I still maintain an install for that purpose, but the idea of using Windows 7 in 2025 for a legitimately compute-bound workload is rather silly. Good heavens, even your disk IO is likely to run at half or less the speed it could!
The aesthetic here slaps, though. The sort of overcooked reheated Geocities fantasy of what I assume an Eastern European teenager would imagine American kids having access to - well, there are two Georgias in the world and I grew up two states over from the other one, and in some ways I think I get it. After all, the rich folks back home lived in their own little world, too. Cobbling together what we could, dreaming of bigger and better...who'd we have believed, telling us then how fondly we would come to look back on those days now?
The site disables the scrollbar. I have both "Always show scrollbar" enabled and widget.gtk.overlay-scrollbars.enabled set to false... disappointing that firefox has poor controls for the user.
I stayed with Windows 7 a looong time, until there was a (IIRC) JPEG2000 bug which was exploitable via the browser, and the "modern" browsers for Windows 7 were all unpatched. But I guess if I studied this page I can figure out if that bug is still dangerous.
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The aesthetic here slaps, though. The sort of overcooked reheated Geocities fantasy of what I assume an Eastern European teenager would imagine American kids having access to - well, there are two Georgias in the world and I grew up two states over from the other one, and in some ways I think I get it. After all, the rich folks back home lived in their own little world, too. Cobbling together what we could, dreaming of bigger and better...who'd we have believed, telling us then how fondly we would come to look back on those days now?
Unfortunately now the quality of software is only going downhill.