During the 1990s, everyone wanted to surf the information super-highway — also known as the World Wide Web or just ‘Internet’ — but not everyone was interested in getting on…

The most surprising thing (covered in the video at the bottom of the article) is that the MSN WebTV 2 has similar specs to the original Xbox. Major differences are lack of GPU as in the Xbox, Windows CE instead of a modified W2K, and twice the RAM (128 MB vs the Xbox’s 64).

  • Katherine 🪴@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Oh, gosh. Our first family PC was a Tandy Sensation and Winmate which had “In Touch”, the phone center and 11 year old me was fascinated with the idea of having different inboxes for all the family members with personalised greetings.

    It never worked since we never actually hooked it up but I still pretended.

    http://toastytech.com/guis/winmate2.html