Free unlimited rebooting experience from vintage operating systems
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2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
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HN comment orderNice one. The Amiga one (the one with the Workbench dialog) is slightly incorrect. The disk drive reader head doesn't sound right, at least for an Amiga 500, which it ought to be seeing as it's using the 1.3 kickstarter. It's also not mechanically checking if there's a floppy disk in the drive at the kickstarter screen after the workbench has shut down, which the Amiga needs to do to detect if there is a floppy disk in the drive…
This is brilliant! Sites like this remind me of what made the Web great: nothing to sell you, nothing to advertise, nothing to buy; just some nerdy amalgamation of the reboot sequences of yesteryear.
This is awesome, brings back some great old memories. Would love to see some various SunOS/Solaris reboot screens in there.
Any details on the technology behind this?
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 304
- Total comments
- 73
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-11-23 | The Restart Page | thefox | 8 | 0 |
| 2012-01-05 | Free unlimited rebooting experience from vintage operating systems | takosuke | 28 | 3 |
| 2012-01-07 | The Restart Page - Rebooting experience from vintage operating systems | zeppelin_7 | 5 | 1 |
| 2013-05-12 | The Restart Page | corywright | 3 | 0 |
| 2014-02-11 | Free unlimited rebooting experience from vintage operating systemsFirst breakout · Best thread | yankcrime | 144 | 53 |
| 2016-04-15 | The Restart Page: rebooting experience from vintage operating systemsLatest 20+ point return | ohjeez | 104 | 16 |
| 2016-04-15 | The Restart Page | joeblau | 2 | 0 |
| 2016-04-24 | The Restart Page | plurby | 2 | 0 |
| 2020-07-10 | Free unlimited rebooting experience from vintage operating systems | MindGods | 4 | 0 |
| 2024-03-26 | The Restart Page | keepamovin | 4 | 0 |