Notices by Computer History Museum 🇸🇮 (muzej@mastodon.social)

🧞🗡️ Disney's Aladdin is a beautifully animated colorful platform adventure that was first released for the Sega Mega Drive in 1993. With a DOS version, it soon found its way onto many Slovenian PCs 😍 Ah, the memories... Have you ever collected all the apples?

In 2007 success kid become viral. Every forum, social media and proper meme user saw it on multiple occasions in a day. With the easier access to internet the viral memes became more and more common.

👾🎲 Do you remember these simple handheld games? They don’t have pixel-based screens — instead, all possible positions are pre-etched into a custom LCD. Some even have interchangeable modules with multiple games. This category also includes Nintendo’s Game & Watch series, the predecessor of the Game Boy.

📺🖥️ Before YouTube and Netflix, we used to watch and record content on our computers using TV tuners. Did you ever use one? Did you know that with certain models of USB DVB-T tuners, you can track commercial airplanes in the sky?
Sources and more information:
– https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv0jwu7G_DFUGEfwEl0uWduXGcRbT7Ran
– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_dependent_surveillance_%E2%80%93_broadcast

– https://www.flightradar24.com/build-your-own

PHP just turned 30! 🎉 Did you create guestbooks for your website like the early users of the language? 📜 Do you remember technologies like PHP-Nuke, phpBB, or browsing vBulletin forums? 💻

🎉 Happy 30th birthday, Java! ☕ Java was born at Sun Microsystems on May 23, 1995, as Oak, designed for interactive television and early handheld devices. In the 2000s, J2ME brought applications to our phones for the first time. From business software to Android, Java has been shaping the digital world for three decades – it remains one of the most popular programming languages! 🚀

BBSing like it's 1980 😎 😎 😎

👀📄 The black-and-white handheld scanner Logitech ScanMan with its matching ISA card 🤩 Have you ever used something like this?

📚📑 Clipper (1985) was a programming language, once a popular choice for developing business applications and databases for MS-DOS. Have you ever come across it?

🍏⌨️ Apple USB keyboard (with a power button!) and the iconic iMac Tangerine 🧡—true late '90s nostalgia! 💾✨

Back then, Apple sparked an industrial design revolution with its transparent models, inspiring a wave of colorful, translucent plastic products that soon flooded the market. 🌈💿

💥🖥️ Desktop Destroyer.exe 🔨🔥

🖥️ Windows before the Start menu… 🔄 Do you remember typing "WIN" in the command line? ⌨️💾

“It's a UNIX system! I know this!” 😎🖥️

Developers—does Borland Delphi bring back memories of your early coding days? 🖥️✨

We're live! Join us for a stream as we build an Apple I replica! 🛠️✨ Link: https://www.twitch.tv/racunalniskimuzej

🐧💿 The internet has already forgotten them (read: .iso files are nowhere to be found), so it's time for us to revive them: Pingo Linux 4.0, Slo-Tech Linux 2.0, and FeriX 2.1... 3 successful Slovenian Linux distributions. Attention: We are still searching for Pingo 4.1 ⚠, slix, Slobuntu, and Slonix!

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An exhibition showcasing the original Enigma, which played a significant role in shaping the fate of World War II, and a lesser-known innocent children's typewriter, Barbie, manufactured in Slovenia. Along with a range of typesetting features, such as letter-spacing and underline, this children’s toy was capable of encoding and decoding secret messages, using a built-in cipher mode

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What is the earliest desktop screenshot you have? Share it in the comments below! ⬇️

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The iconic Novation CAT modem 📞, used in the late 1970s and early 1980s. With acoustically coupled modems, you had to dial the desired number on a telephone ☎️, wait for the call to connect 📶, and then place the handset into the rubber cups on the modem.

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🎇🏛 Today we are celebrating INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM DAY 2024! In collaboration with #ICOM Slovenia, we'll be hosting a vibrant program, including free entry to our permanent and guest exhibitions and three workshops for children and adults.

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