Ever wondered what an old, 1990s-era Macintosh looked and ran like? Thanks to the Internet, you can relive the "glory days" (meh, I beg to differ) through Retromac.de's Virtual Performa 6116CD.
The Flash-based recreation of Mac OS System 7.0 also features a partially functioning replica of eWorld, a web portal Apple offered to Macintosh users from 1994 to 1996.
This virtual System 7.0 offers a glimpse of how the Internet looked (or would have looked) in the last decade. The web was still a fairly static, multimedia-poor, bandwidth-less medium out of necessity, given that an Internet user's computer and connection were incapable of facilitating anything greater. Nowadays these two critical shortcomings have been all but obviated, paving the way for so-called "rich" Internet applications and multimedia experiences.
That's a great application. If you are interested in seeing more of the old days of the internet, the Wayback Machine is a database that holds 150 billion pages dating back as far as the sites can go, check out the myspace pages from 1997.
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