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Tag: nostalgia

  • Screenshot showing Dan Q playing text-based adventure game Werewolves and Wanderer. The screen reads: "Dan Q, your strength is 65. You have $102. Provisions sack holds 43 units of food. You are wearing armour. You are carrying a sword. You are in the Great Hall, an L-shaped room. There are doors to the Easy and to the North. In the alcove is a door to the West. There is treasure here worth $103. Whato do you want to do?"

    Werewolves and Wanderer

    A single text-based adventure game I found in a book in the 1980s taught me more about programming than anything else I experienced in that decade.

    Read more - about 11 minutes (2462 words)

    • Article
    • 2 comments
    • posted 19 July, 2023
  • Image representing post: Satoru Iwata's first commercial game has a secret

    Satoru Iwata's first commercial game has a secret

    After a long hiatus, Codex has returned with a vlog about Satoru Iwata's history as a game developer. Nostalgic fun.

    Read more (57 words)

    • Repost
    • of this original
    • posted 15 March, 2023
  • Image representing post: Yesterday's Internet Today! (Woo DM 2023)

    Yesterday's Internet Today! (Woo DM 2023)

    At a work meetup a fortnight ago I presented a "flash talk" about how I've made WordPress into a CMS for Finger and Gopher as well as the web, and what I learned by doing so.

    Read more (213 words)

    • Video
    • 12 comments
    • posted 21 February, 2023
  • Composite screenshot showing Windows Media Player, the (old) iTunes companion widget, KMPlayer, and other media players. All of them have unusually-shaped windows, often with organic corners.

    Why Did Media Players Look Like That?

    As MP3s took off, early player software looked... weird and ugly. To this day, I can't understand why.

    Read more (458 words)

    • Article
    • 10 comments
    • posted 7 December, 2022
  • Screenshot showing this blog rendered as plain text as the result of running finger blog@danq.me at a Linux terminal.

    Finger Portal to WordPress Blog

    Has anybody ever made a Finger-to-WordPress gateway before? No? Can you imagine why that might be?

    Read more - about 4 minutes (741 words)

    • Article
    • 28 comments
    • posted 17 November, 2022
  • Dan, as a teenager, sits at a desk with his hand to his chin. In the foreground, a beiege two-button wired ball-type computer mouse rests on the corner of the desk. Dan is wearing a black t-shirt with a red devil face printed onto it.

    My First MP3

    I ripped my first MP3 file back in 1995. Where could it be now? I'd recognise it if I found it!

    Read more - about 4 minutes (949 words)

    • Article
    • with an accompanying podcast
    • 5 comments
    • posted 2 October, 2022
  • Black & white framegrab showing a woman following her child, wearing pyjamas, towards a staircase up.

    Get Lost on the Web

    Dan looks at phallic buildings, researches baby monitors, and gets nostalgic for the diverse Web of yesteryear.

    Read more - about 7 minutes (1476 words)

    • Article
    • 4 comments
    • posted 2 September, 2021
  • Heatmap showing Dan's movements around Kidlington, including a lot of time in the village and in Oxford City Centre, as well as hotspots at the hospital, parks, swimming pools, and places that Dan used to volunteer. Individual expeditions can also be identified.

    Heatmapping my Movements

    Leveraging a decade of past GPS data, Dan draws heatmaps of his movements around Oxfordshire.

    Read more - about 6 minutes (1395 words)

    • Article
    • 4 comments
    • posted 22 August, 2021
  • A woman lies on a bed with her legs crossed, playfully wagging her finger. The mouse cursor is shaped like a feather.

    Axe Feather 2021

    Dan recreates a 16-year old Flash-based interactive ad using modern web technologies.

    Read more - about 9 minutes (2102 words)

    • Article
    • 8 comments
    • posted 2 February, 2021
  • Winamp Skins Museum

    Winamp Skin Museum

    Webamp's Winamp Skin Museum is a beautiful piece of interactive nostalgia.

    Read more (39 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 20 September, 2020
  • Bus Station Unbound

    Bus Station, Unbound

    After five months of playing it, on-and-off, Dan finally gets around to reviewing Bus Station: Unbound, a piece of hypertext interactive fiction set in Preston Bus Station.

    Read more - about 3 minutes (503 words)

    • Repost
    • 6 comments
    • posted 23 July, 2019
  • Dungeons & Dragons (80s TV show)

    Caverna Do DragΓ£o

    Remember that 80s TV show Dungeons & Dragons? It turns out that Renault's target customer base in Brazil do, too.

    Read more (157 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 26 May, 2019
  • A snail in TRRTL.COM.

    TRRTL - Logo on Coffee

    TRRTL.COM: CoffeeScript-powered Logo-like turtle graphics. On the Web.

    Read more - about 3 minutes (535 words)

    • Article
    • posted 15 February, 2019
  • Gary, circa 1998

    The Story of Scgary

    In the early 2000s, as a volunteer trainer at Aberystwyth Nightline, I invented a roleplay scenario which drew upon anecdotes from my childhood and young adulthood... which eventually lead to a collision of worlds for Ruth and JTA when they, former volunteers, MET the person behind many of those anecdotes...

    Read more - about 8 minutes (1761 words)

    • Article
    • 5 comments
    • posted 30 October, 2018
  • Castle of the Four Winds in early 1999.

    20 Years Of Blogging

    Come next week, Dan will have been blogging for 20 years. A lightweight retrospective.

    Read more - about 15 minutes (3489 words)

    • Article
    • 8 comments
    • posted 8 October, 2018

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