Thank you! It didn’t come off as a dig at all. Trust me, I thought about it and spent about an hour on Internet Archive looking for a version that ran on its site. But nothing was there and I learned the hard way last year that Virtual Box is still in the Intel era, so it’s useless for me.

I did look into UTM as others are saying, but based on its description it may not be able to run an OS that far back. Something to look into down the line.

Either way, again, thanks for reading my work. I really do appreciate it. There’s some other old Microsoft goodies I’ve written in the past, like this commercial introducing Excel.

Wow, that’s a cool story! Thanks for sharing it! I had no clue there was even a beta test group back then. Was that outside of Microsoft?

Hi, author here 👋. Thanks for the feedback. If the Internet Archive had it on their own VM to run, I would’ve tried playing with it and taken some screenshots. However, I simply did not have the time to get it running locally on my machine, especially because I’m all Mac and Virtual Box doesn’t run on M-series hardware.

I agree it’s a missed opportunity, but I chose to go a little bit of an easier route.

Thanks for reading and enjoying the other 99% of the article. 😉

Those are great links. Thanks for posting them! Gonna give them a look.

Web Rings were freaking awesome. I’ve recently discovered the Small Web tool from Kagi and it’s basically a modern version of a web ring. It’s pretty slick. www.kagi.com/smallweb if you’re interested.

Right??? Like it’s 1995 all over again.

But is it? Because the amount of websites that aren’t search engines but have insane levels of tracking and data collection are very high. Not all of it is for search ranking, IMO.

NY has a bill floating around for this but it’s never gone anywhere.

Source: https://www.nysna.org/campaigns-healthcare-all/single-payer-system-new-york-state

Been beta testing this as a Kickstarter backer for many months and it’s one of my top iPhone apps. Iconfactory has done a real good job and I’ll say that if you like the app, $80 for a lifetime purchase really will pay for itself after only a year of using it.

The weird thing is that it doesn’t matter what instance/server your friends are on. If they follow you, they’ll get all your posts in their feed. The best advice I can give anyone starting out on Mastodon is to follow tags instead of people in order to surface interesting posts, then you can follow people as they come up on feeds.

I like this idea! It helps get people some traction out there without them needing to put effort into fumbling around how to do it. Kind of like a push start. I’m going to start doing this!

Oh it will as soon as the investors demand more ReTurN oN iNvEsTmEnT.

Is there a way to hook the custom Listenbrainz playlists into Lidarr so I could have a new mix / recommended playlist each week?

Will be interesting to see how this goes in a year or two.

YW! I’m actually giving an app called Ice a try, which looks really promising. Here’s a link in case you’re curious: https://github.com/jordanbaird/Ice

Personally, I downgraded to V 5.0.51 and removed / re-did the permissions. I also disabled checking for updates. To my knowledge, that’s the last known good version prior to the sale.

I’m super interested to see how companies handle this when employees work with confidential data all the time.

What reputation? The company never had one in the first place.

YES!

It still blows my mind that Toyota single-handedly made hybrids a very successful thing and yet squandered that position to Elon effing Musk. Toyota could’ve been THE market-leader for EVs while still making a killing with the Prius and ICE cars. They’d have a solid lock in all markets.

Toyota has one of the best reliability reputations of any automaker and yet anyone in the EV market (like I was recently) passes them over because they have zero models to sell. Instead of parlaying the Prius’ R&D into a viable EV too, they’ve left money on the table. Hyundai has gone all in and is selling a ton of EVs. I see more of theirs / Kia’s on the road than anything else (besides teslas).