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Turn off your away message. A24's Y2K microsite just brought back AIM

By Hunter Schwarz

Turn off your away message. A24's Y2K microsite just brought back AIM

The site requires a Spotify login to use and asks users to pick a screen name. Once inside, there's a desktop with a Microsoft 98-style operating system to explore, including a Media Player icon that opens a trailer for the movie. As the message in the site's "README.txt" file explains, it's "basically a portal back to 1999, when the internet was dial-up and life was simpler."

Despite the retro packaging, though, this portal still makes the most of modern technology. While this is channeling a pre-Spotify Wrapped era, the CD Burner icon doesn't actually burn any physical CDs -- instead, it opens up a window to play a curated playlist of '90s pop and alt rock called "Bad@$$ Y2K mix," with songs like Chumbawamba's "Tubthumping" and "Candy" by Mandy Moore.

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