My time machine

[nighty_math]

After many daydreams, I underwent a personal experience, through which I transport myself to the year 1997 and try to live my daily life as much as possible as I did back then. Yes, I know this is at the home page of my website, but why invent a new description if one already exists?

I invite everyone to visit my website where I describe the experience in greater detail. It is still under development, but little by little it is being improved and taking on a better look.

Constructive criticism, comments and suggestions are welcome, and if anyone does something similar, feel free to share.

  https://atimemachine.neocities.org/ 

[ThunderPerfectWitchcraft]

I already admired your project. How much contemporary media do you willingly consume beside the stuff that you do in the context of your "time machine"-project? How is the experience so far? 

[nighty_math]

Hello, friend! First of all, I'm glad you liked the project.

Since I live with my wife and son, it wouldn't be sensible to force them to drop everything to experience the project with me, so I'm flexible when I'm with them. If my wife wants to watch a current series, I'll watch it, if my son wants to go see a movie that came out at the cinema, I'll watch it with him.

At work, I also can't use technology from 28 years ago, lol. But in this case, it's basically using a current computer and the current Microsoft Office.

As for contemporary media:
- Most of the music I listened to before starting the project was from 1997 or so, so I didn't have any major problems with that;
- Most of the series and movies that I like/want to watch are also older. And since I limited the episodes to watching them on their original release date, this has greatly reduced the time I spend watching TV, which I see as positive;
- I think the same goes for games. Although I'm a bit lazy about playing games these days, it kind of doesn't matter;
- My biggest bottleneck has been YouTube, I confess. There are many things that I can't find any other source to learn other than through videos, like how to configure the emulator to install Windows 95.

As for contemporary technologies:
- I looked for a cell phone from 1997, but since they've become collector's items, they're extremely expensive and rare to find. Furthermore, since they didn't work with a chip at the time, they would be useless today. So I still use my smartphone, but only for communication purposes;
- At home I also use a current notebook, but generally I use Windows 95 on an emulator that simulates hardware from that time (except for browsing the internet, which wasn't possible through the emulator).

[thiscat]

i really want to do a similar thing however i cant due to many reasons
all of them are related to money

[Malice]

This is such a cool project! I read the about section and for the music part, have you considered getting an mp3 player? I'm not sure how much they'd cost where you're at, but they were invented in 1997 and you can probably find one from around the time period that costs less than what more modern mp3 players like an iPod or Zune goes for these days!

[Ducky]

What a cool project! 

I think it could be interesting to take photos with a disposable camera during this project. Even if you don't upload any of said photos online, it would be nice to put them in a photo album like how folks did way back when.