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[–] jobes 0 points 12 points (+12|-0) ago 

That site is freaking awesome. How have I never seen this before?

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[–] rotomatic 0 points 9 points (+9|-0) ago 

Oh wow. Vimm.net is STILL UP? I moved on to Emuparadise.org (or whatever they're on now) for such things years ago.

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[–] SkepticalMartian 0 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago  (edited ago)

It even looks like 1997. Right down to table based layout markup.

It's even got Herzog Zwei - a pioneer of the RTS genre that laid the foundation for MOBA. Also one of the best examples of early split-screen multiplayer.

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[–] SkepticalMartian 0 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago  (edited ago)

If it's set up properly you don't even notice. Static files get cached. What slows sites down more than anything is ads, because they typically get aggregated from providers and are dynamically loaded off site so they can't be cached. This is why ad blockers can have such a profound improvement on the browsing experience.

Javascript often isn't the bottleneck unless it's written really badly and you're running it on a potato. For example, here's a voxel engine demo written solely in javascript. Javascript performance in modern browsers is actually very good. If you're curious about what is making a site slow, open the developer tools console in chrome (more tools -> developer tools) select the network tab and reload the page. It will time every resource and tell you exactly what is being slow. Pay particular attention to the status of each resource. Anything with status 304 is a cached resource and it's being loaded from your computer locally.

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[–] theburntsausage 3 points -2 points (+1|-3) ago 

save

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[–] ltmyndonos 1 point 2 points (+3|-1) ago 

thank you kindly. I though these all went the way of torrents.

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[–] christ93 3 points -2 points (+1|-3) ago  (edited ago)

tagging

Edit: Why the down voating? I tagged it so I can come back to it when I have time.

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[–] Creative_voat_user 1 point 0 points (+1|-1) ago 

http://www.unix.org is still up.

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[–] Creative_voat_user 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Yeah... I realised that just after I posted the reply.

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[–] DoomMantia 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

It even has browser emulation for older systems! Nice!