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Aaron Crocco
Personal blog · timemachiner.ioculturehistory
Aaron Crocco's personal blog at timemachiner.io covers culture and history. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
TimeMachiner brings you tech, culture, and nostalgia articles and analysis from forgotten corners of the internet. It's written and published by Aaron Crocco.
What Hacker News says?
That’s not a typo. Windows 96 promised to build on the success of Windows 95, yet it never materialized as originally intended. I only learned about this a few months ago. To me, this was an incredibly fascinating discovery and wanted to write about & share it. You can read about it here if it interests you too: "The Windows That Never Was" - https://timemachiner.io/2025/06/18/the-windows-that-never-wa...
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on “Do you remember Windows 95? How about Windows 96?”Submitted Egg Freckles: The Newton at 30 as a story · 44 points
HN discussionSubmitted Netflix Reaps What It Sows as a story · 27 points
HN discussionSubmitted It's Time to Go Back to Web 1.0 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Proof that your data is worth more than charging for any product as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Do you remember Windows 95? How about Windows 96? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dracula Land Is Coming as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sucker’s Electrical: The Alpha 5 Is Not a DeLorean as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted RCS Blame and Shame as a story · 1 points
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