You are probably already well aware of as the amazing time machine that lets you view web sites the way they were years, even decades ago. Hopefully, you’ll be inspired to find your own beige classic Mac and experience the joys of installing software from floppy disks and CD’s, pushing a beige non-optical mouse around, and using a clacky beige keyboard for some great retro Macintosh computing. Each site is a virtual Mac that includes applications, games, utilities, and even AppleTalk so you can see what networking was like in the pre-internet days. – released in October of 1999 – Wikipedia article about Mac OS 9īest of all, you don’t get to just experience the operating system. – released in July of 1997 – Wikipedia article about Mac OS 8 – released in May of 1991 – Wikipedia article about System 7 – released in April of 1988 – Wikipedia article about System 6 These sites will promptly send you back in computing time: Now, thanks to the fabulous Infinite Mac project by Mihai Parparita you can experience Apple’s System 6, System 7, Mac OS 8, or Mac OS 9 with just a web browser on your modern computer. The Version Museum has a lovely collection of screenshots you can view for a glimpse of life prior to Mac OS X, but pictures can’t do justice to what it was really like. If every moment of your Macintosh experience has been on a version of the operating system released after 2001 you may have wondered what things looked like in years prior.
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