Hacker News with Generative AI: 1990s

Everyday life improvements since the 90s (2022) (gwern.net)
It can be hard to see the gradual improvement of most goods over time, but I think one way to get a handle on them is to look at their downstream effects: all the small ordinary everyday things which nevertheless depend on obscure innovations and improving cost-performance ratios and gradually dropping costs and new material and… etc.
Technology, Innovation, Everyday Life, 1990s
86 points by james_impliu 3 days ago | 99 comments
Hunt for Red October 1990 (2016) (modelshipsinthecinema.com)
Visual Effects Supervisor -  Scott Squires Visual Effects Director of Photography - Patrick Sweeney The effects for this movie were originally being done at Richard Edlund's Boss films and nearly five months of miniature submarine construction was undertaken under the supervision of Greg Jein.
Visual Effects, Filmmaking, Movie Production, 1990s
328 points by nixass 16 days ago | 137 comments
Back From The Future: 1995's predictions of 2025 life (newslttrs.com)
In 1995 three brave prognosticators set out to predict life in the 2020s. How did that work out for them?
Future Predictions, Technology, 1990s, 2020s
44 points by rbanffy 26 days ago | 65 comments
They Might Be Giants Flood EPK Promo (1990) [video] (youtube.com)
Music, Videos, 1990s
188 points by CaliforniaKarl 30 days ago | 90 comments
Kylie Minogue song about a typeface (abcdinamo.com)
Kylie Minogue announces “I am a typeface” in a 1997 song she made with producer Towa Tei.
Music, Kylie Minogue, Typefaces, 1990s
257 points by fauverism 32 days ago | 82 comments
They're Close to My Body: A Hagiography of Nine Inch Nails and Robin Finck (2020) (thewhitereview.org)
I was 10 years old when The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails was released in 1994, and I listened to it more than any other record for the next six years, when everything I knew about myself was disintegrating and becoming unknowable.
Music, Biography, 1990s
126 points by herbertl 41 days ago | 74 comments
Image Processing in C (2000) [pdf] (ed.ac.uk)
Image Processing, C Programming, Computer Science, Technical Documents, 1990s
139 points by nill0 43 days ago | 26 comments
GeoCities in 1995: Building a Home Page on the Internet (cybercultural.com)
GeoCities, known throughout most of 1995 as Beverly Hills Internet, was one of the first commercial internet services to make it easy for people to publish a home page on the World Wide Web.
Internet History, Web Development, 1990s, GeoCities
166 points by cheeaun 49 days ago | 85 comments
The 88x31 GIF Collection (dabamos.de)
A collection of 4540 classic 88x31 buttons from the 1990s, 2000s, and today in GIF format.
GIFs, Nostalgia, Digital Art, 1990s, 2000s
99 points by vladde 66 days ago | 35 comments
An early social un-network (paperstack.com)
With one thing and another I’ve recently been feeling quite nostalgic for the technology landscape of my early university days (around 1990) and so I wanted to write a little bit about that.
Nostalgia, Technology, Social Media, 1990s
94 points by dcminter 68 days ago | 25 comments
Show HN: An homage to Tom Dowdy's 1991 screensaver, "Kaos" (thestrikeagency.com)
Show HN, Retro Computing, Screensavers, Art, 1990s
153 points by noduerme 79 days ago | 75 comments
The Sony Vaio PCG-XR MiniDisc Laptop (vaiolibrary.com)
The Sony VAIO PCG-XR is a series of mid-size Pentium II-based laptops, released in 1999. It was superseded with the PCG-XG in 2000, which had the exact same design and build, but with updated specs.
Hardware, Laptops, Sony, Retro Computing, 1990s
16 points by austinallegro 139 days ago | 8 comments
A Cyborg Manifesto (1991) [pdf] (archives.evergreen.edu)
Cyborgs, Manifesto, Technology, 1990s
40 points by squircle 219 days ago | 11 comments
What the internet looked like in 1994 (fastcompany.com)
Internet History, Web Design, 1990s
39 points by skilled 292 days ago | 18 comments
FILE_ID.DIZ Description (1994) (pcmicro.com)
File Sharing, Old Technology, 1990s
251 points by Lammy 334 days ago | 86 comments
I was at Woodstock '99 and it destroyed my innocence (2022) (kerrang.com)
Music Festivals, 1990s, Nostalgia, Culture, Music
85 points by SirLJ 335 days ago | 29 comments
Agenda: a personal information manager (1990) [pdf] (dl.acm.org)
Software, Productivity, History, 1990s
74 points by hggh 337 days ago | 43 comments