16 stories tagged nostalgia, newest first.
320 points by davidbarker | 56 comments
TitleArt is a browser-based WordArt-style editor with a Windows 9x interface for creating text with classic shapes, colors, shadows, and 3-D effects.
42 points by HelloUsername | 39 comments
BBC News article about a retired decorator from Woking whose attic-stored sealed Pokémon card collection sold for £1.56m at Ewbank's auction house.
54 points by speckx | 30 comments
A Retroist article about the reportedly haunted Toys R Us store in Sunnyvale, California, and the television episode that made it famous.
329 points by speckx | 178 comments
An essay on the design and aesthetics of interactive DVD menus, contrasting them with menu-less VHS and LaserDisc formats.
235 points by adunk | 97 comments
56k.rip is a website that recreates the 1996 dial-up internet experience; the capture shows only a solid teal screen.
116 points by henrychannel | 46 comments
A web-based simulator of a 1996-style online service chat room (COMETLINK), linked to Windows 95 and Macintosh web desktop recreations.
3 points by makic | 0 comments
A Nox Lune World listicle about ten Cartoon Network episodes that were darker than viewers remember.
484 points by smusamashah | 111 comments
A web app that lets users browse Wikipedia through a simulated Windows XP desktop interface with icons for Wikipedia, Media, and a Geofile Explorer.
938 points by shannoncc | 802 comments
A Tell HN post by a 60-year-old developer saying Claude Code has rekindled the excitement he felt learning ASP, COM, and VB6, with reader comments.
705 points by jamesrandall | 556 comments
Personal essay by a 50-year-old developer who began coding BASIC in 1983, reflecting on how the craft of programming has changed, including with AI.
393 points by mhb | 483 comments
Blog post by Julia Wise on her Otherwise blog arguing that the past romanticized by cottagecore aesthetics was harsher than its idealized image.
664 points by adam_gyroscope | 125 comments
WeatherStar 4000+ is a web app that recreates the classic Weather Channel local forecast display using current weather data for a location you enter.
508 points by Khaine | 292 comments
A Tell HN discussion thread noting that Bash.org, the long-running archive of humorous IRC quotes, has gone offline.
393 points by ecliptik | 213 comments
A blog post by Thomas Karpiniec recounting a collection of humorous memories from attending LAN parties in the 2000s.
369 points by ingve | 108 comments
A personal blog post recounting a search for the original 60×60 pixel Netscape Navigator "meteors" throbber animation.
568 points by thunderbong | 240 comments
My90sTV is a website that simulates watching television from the 1990s and earlier, playing old shows and commercials in a retro TV interface.