[ih] Internet nostalgia

[Jennifer Adamson]

I love the idea of an Internet museum!

I was thinking exhibits could be in part crowd sourced. People develop exhibits and share details with other museums. This would allow local museums to customize their exhibits knowing they can build on quality material. It would be awesome if museums around the world could interact with each other like the Internet of 1990s. 

In Vancouver Canada we have a small museum with classic computers and a pay phone. I like the idea of classic hardware and classic software to convey the experience. 

Jen


> On Apr 22, 2025, at 11:00, the keyboard of geoff goodfellow via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
> recommend checking out https://obsolescence.dev/index.html where a team is
> working on PDP-1 and Whirlwind replicas (and as well as an
> ARPANET reconstruction project that has come to a point where they can run
> connections between multiple PDP-10s running the MIT ITS operating system
> and where work is also underway to restore some PDP-11 NCPs)
> 
> g
> 
>> On Tue, Apr 22, 2025 at 9:38 AM Jack Haverty via Internet-history <
>> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
>> 
>> With all the nostalgia floating around, I thought someone might be
>> interested in some historical re-enactment...here's some tools which
>> might help.
>> 
>> It is now possible to have your own PDP-11, PDP-10, or PDP-8, if only to
>> play with the console switches.   All powered by a Raspberry Pi running
>> a simulator of your favorite old computer, with a real but replica
>> computer console.
>> 
>> See https://www.ceds.dev/pidp-11 or https://www.ceds.dev/pidp-8 or
>> https://www.ceds.dev/pidp-10
>> 
>> You can also resurrect old software on it, as the ITS-Hackers have done
>> with the PDP-10.   See https://github.com/PDP-10/its
>> 
>> Perhaps someday we'll have an Internet Museum, with the technology of
>> the 1970s/80s running again, on modern hardware but using the old
>> historic code, protocols, and formats.
>> 
>> You might even debug that final problem you still remember but never
>> fixed....
>> 
>> Jack Haverty
>> 
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