pieter™
@pieter
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A retro computer in your browser. Dial up back to 1995 💫https://t.co/kguEOBO3TN 🖥️https://t.co/bfOavofSBC 💬https://t.co/TAGqkrXBgX 💾https://t.co/ol9en9bGxR 🛜https://t.co/i6ORECXtrx by @levelsio
Joined November 2006
✨ Added a CRT curvature distortion to @pieter now It takes the Em-DOSBox <canvas> and processes it in WebGL and builds a new <canvas> with the distortion of a classic CRT screen which had this convex curvature (like an old TV) even though the screen itself was square I had
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🎄 Added Christmas lights to https://t.co/RRYOCWqRQq 🌌 Remember those cosy days when you had time off school and you just computered 🥹🥹🥹
🗞️ More new email features on https://t.co/RRYOCWqRQq You now get the daily news report sent in your email (and updated hourly) I don't really like to read the news, but this is a fun way, cause it's all in plain text inside Windows 3.11 😊 Written as a Python cron robot by AI
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💾 Okay having nobody online to chat on AIM is boring So I asked AI to write an AOL Instant Messenger bot called @pieterbot, and I made an account for it, and it one-shotted it in Python and IT WORKS!!! So now you can chat on AIM on https://t.co/RRYOCWqRQq with an LLM that is
💾 I got AOL Instant Messenger working in 2025!!! 🤯 I installed aim.exe on https://t.co/RRYOCWqRQq and I connected to a reverse engineered retro AIM server You can login and it works and you can actually message people, in this case I don't know anyone else on this server so I
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One of my dreams came true today: Apple MacOS 7.1 on https://t.co/u48RBrHiaf is now connected to Windows 3.11 on https://t.co/RRYOCWrpFY via the internet thanks to @SiliconForested's work My dream was other people would also start building web-based vintage computers (like
@levelsio @AOL You know what this means..... This means that virtual 90s Mac Users on Dialtone can now talk to virtual 90s Windows users on https://t.co/YSZRz0jVu7 ! https://t.co/mgPzgZ36g3
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🗞️ More new email features on https://t.co/RRYOCWqRQq You now get the daily news report sent in your email (and updated hourly) I don't really like to read the news, but this is a fun way, cause it's all in plain text inside Windows 3.11 😊 Written as a Python cron robot by AI
💌 Sending emails on https://t.co/RRYOCWrpFY also works again It's a massive undertaking because Eudora from 1995 only supports port 25 but Hetzner blocks port 25 So me and @bai0 had to IPTABLES forward the port 25 in the ISP to 587 to make it work But now you can send and
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🎶 Every good 1995 PC needs some absolute MIDI bangers to play while you dial up on your 28k8 modem So I installed Yamaha's MIDI Jukebox on https://t.co/RRYOCWqRQq It has a full mixing desk and you can change the pitch and more importantly BPM!!!!!! Even has 🇧🇷 Bossa Nova
🤓 You can now read live Hacker News on https://t.co/RRYOCWqRQq via Gopher Gopher is the old internet protocol that was kind of a precursor to the web, it ran on port 70 instead of 80, and was pretty similar to the web, also live pages with hyperlinks but more limited You can
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🤓 You can now read live Hacker News on https://t.co/RRYOCWqRQq via Gopher Gopher is the old internet protocol that was kind of a precursor to the web, it ran on port 70 instead of 80, and was pretty similar to the web, also live pages with hyperlinks but more limited You can
I gave @mrdoob, the creator of ThreeJS, access to Pieter (dot) com repo and asked him to help me fix occlussion of the screen and he fixed it! Before the screen was weirdly overlapping Claude Code nor Cursor was able to fix this, the problem is that most of the code about this
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✨ Asked Cursor to build a Python IRC chat bot that uses gpt4o-mini to talk back on pieter dot com Because most of the time people open the site, the computer loads and then mIRC chat app opens and because they didn't have chat history back then it looks a bit empty So now you
🖨️ Got printing working on pieter (dot) com I can now print from Windows 3.11 (in 1994) to my IRL printer (in 2025) It still prints out a lot of PostScript garbage but it works Here's Hacker News live today printed via gopher:// via its dial up modem on pieter (dot) com Next
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I got @yeokm's Llama for MS-DOS running on pieter dot com I'm running DDOSLLAM2.EXE with @karpathy's TinyLlama stories260K.bin model Only thing it's outputting jibberish, but it does work without errors Maybe it's something about the emulation that breaks the tokens?
Conventional wisdom says running local LLMs require high-performance computers. Thanks to the open-source llama2.c project, I ported it so DOS PCs can inference Llama 2 LLM models. Of course there are severe limitations but the results will surprise you. https://t.co/4LMYVks3mN
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playing wolfenstein 3D on @pieterdotcom this is so fucking cool 😄 well done @levelsio, love it
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