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640x480 was just the resolution your parents used

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here's windows NT 3.51 running at 1600×1200, on 1995-era hardware. seems wacky, but this was probably not that unusual.

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2024/10/27 23:54 · crd · 4 Comments

poem

2024/10/27 15:32 · crd · 6 Comments

doing nonsense on the computer

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tbh not actually nonsense. as silly as this looks, it's probably a thing that happened a lot

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2024/10/25 11:33 · crd · 2 Comments

incredible cellphone news

in 2018, Nokia finally made a reissue of the 8110, their incredibly distinct 1996 handset with a sliding bottom half which was made famous by its use in the matrix

. . .

but it's a <$100 hyper-low-end offering running KaiOS

2024/10/24 21:09 · crd · 2 Comments

why am i interested in flip phones

every time i talk about flip phones (and this has been going on for years, not just recently) people start going “yeah yeah yeah let's go back i want my nokia back” and i do not understand why this happens. well i do but the point is that i would never even say it because i hated flip phones

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2024/10/22 21:08 · crd · 6 Comments

three useless phones

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today i bought three phones which are completely useless. i didn't know that at the time but i probably would have bought them anyway if i had.

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2024/10/22 20:28 · crd · 5 Comments

making dokuwiki useful

well okay, that's not fair: the real title should be like “making dokuwiki pretend it's a blog despite that being an unreasonable request.”

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2024/10/22 11:02 · crd · 2 Comments

making a website is hard

and every year it gets harder. you can skip this post, i'm just an old man yelling at cloud.

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2024/10/21 17:26 · crd · 20 Comments

J2ME review: Pac-Man

Bandai-Namco's port of Pac-Man to J2ME flip phones is shockingly competent. i'm not a Pac-Man expert but I'm pretty sure this is the closest they could have gotten to an arcade-perfect conversion; if you wanted to play Pac-Man while waiting for a bus, you wouldn't have any complaints about this version, it is completely satisfactory. but it does have one hilarious quality

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2024/10/21 00:34 · crd · 6 Comments

so i've been playing j2me games

for 20 years I've regarded “phone games” as absolute dog shit, unworthy of even a second glance. i have recently discovered that this only applies to smartphone games - despite “resident evil for flip phones” being a cosmically hilarious phrase, it's actually a well worth drinking at and i recommend you “get into it.”

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2024/10/20 20:56 · crd · 7 Comments