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by sp332 4016 days ago
Oh it already is, check out this blog about Geocities http://contemporary-home-computing.org/1tb/

And you can emulate so much software in your browser now, including rare stuff. In your browser - just click a link and play history. https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games

If you want to help, first donate to the Internet Archive http://archive.org/donate/ then send your floppies and old CD-ROMS to Jason Scott http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4624 and then help us back up the archive http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK/g...

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I tried this and was hilariously stopped by 1980's DRM:

http://i.imgur.com/Z1HxVhU.png

Sure, I can find the manual somewhere, but its a PITA. Today's DRM in the future will not be this easy to overcome.

Oh there are a lot of those, there's a whole tumblr http://pleaseregisterthisshareware.tumblr.com/ You could probably brute-force that one, just click refresh to reboot until you get it :)