Sindre’s Home Page, 1999 Edition

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★ Full-Time Open-Sourcerer & App Maker ★ 61 apps and counting ★ Thanks for stopping by! ★

About Me

Hi, I’m Sindre. I make apps and open-source software full time. This is my corner of the World Wide Web!

Hilsen fra Norge! That is Norwegian for “Greetings from Norway!” We have the Internet here too.

Computer:: iMac in Bondi Blue
Speed:: 233 MHz and 32 MB of RAM (very fast)
Hard drive:: 4 GB. I will never fill it up.
Modem:: 56k, when nobody is on the phone
Browser:: Netscape Navigator 4.7
HTML editor:: FrontPage Express. I write all my HTML by hand!
Favorite animal:: Unicorns. They are real. I saw one on a screen saver.
Favorite food:: Waffles with brown cheese
Indentation:: Tabs, of course

A kid at a computer — Me in 1999, coding with my thinking cap on (artist’s impression)

A propeller hat — Me in 1999, coding with my thinking cap on (artist’s impression)

Want more? Read the rest of my about page, or go back to my web site from the future.

My Computer

I put Windows 98 on my iMac. Do not ask how. Click an icon to open a program, drag the windows by their title bars, and right-click the desktop (or hold a finger on it). The Start menu has even more programs, and Ctrl+Alt+Del does what it always did. NEW: 3D Pinball, the Windows 95 CD with its videos, and BonziBUDDY, who will never leave.

The Microsoft Hearts Network

Mormor 0

Lillesøster 0

Clippy 0

You 0

Score sheet
Hand	You	Lillesøster	Mormor	Clippy
Total	0	0	0	0

Pick three cards to pass to Lillesøster, then press Pass Left.

Hearts needs JavaScript. Mormor is still shuffling.

Taipei

Game #

Pick two free tiles that match. A tile is free when nothing lies on it, and its left or right side is open.

Tiles 144 ★ Moves 0 Time 0:00 ★ Best –

A1Post

Pappa’s budget for 1999, in kroner
	A	B	C	D	E	F
1	Post	Januar	Februar	Mars	Sum	Merknad
2	Husleie	6 500	6 500	6 500	19 500
3	Strøm	1 240	1 385	1 110	3 735	Regn. Mye regn.
4	Telefon (Telenor)	450	2 870	610	3 930	SINDRE!!! INTERNETT!!!
5	Mat	4 200	4 050	4 300	12 550
6	Brunost	189	189	378	756	Mormor på besøk
7	Bensin (Volvo 240)	900	850	980	2 730
8	NRK-lisens	0	0	1 015	1 015
9	Pianotimer, Lillesøster	480	480	480	1 440
10	Tamagotchi-batterier	0	45	45	90	Igjen?!
11	Lommepenger, Sindre	100	100	50	250	Minus telefonen
12	Totalt	14 059	16 469	15 468	45 996

Klar

Taipei needs JavaScript. The tiles are still in their box.

Microsoft NetMeeting

🎤 Microphone🔈 SpeakerDelay –

Server:

Category: Personal (suitable for all ages)

People logged on to the directory
Audio and video	Name	E-mail	City	Comments

Click a name, then 📞 Call. Or double-click it.

Logging on to ils.microsoft.com…

Not in a call

NetMeeting needs JavaScript. Mormor is still looking for the On button.

11:59 PM

My computer needs JavaScript to boot.

Sindre’s Page

You can do anything at Sindre’s page.

Anything at all. The only limit is yourself.

Welcome… to Sindre’s page.

New and updated

12/31/1999: Added a Java applet! It takes forever to load, but it works.
12/30/1999: SindreCam is live! Most of the time.
12/28/1999: Glitter learned the moonwalk.
12/24/1999: My mom signed my guestbook. Hi mamma!
12/20/1999: 50 new GIFs! My page is 2 MB now.
12/15/1999: I built a shrine to waffles. It was about time.
12/01/1999: I adopted Rocky, my pet rock. He is doing great.

~ Dolphins are the unicorns of the sea ~

The Big Red Buttons

Do NOT press them all at once. (Go on, press them all at once.)

★ TEAM WAFFLE Presents ★

Me and Trond started a demo group! This is our first intro, for the demo competition at The Gathering 1999 in Vikingskipet, Hamar. It runs in 320 × 200 with 256 colors, like a real one, and it has music. We did not win. Spaceballs won. Spaceballs always wins.

The intro needs JavaScript. Imagine copper bars. Now imagine them moving.

Register My Home Page!

My home page is shareware now. Registering is free, but you need a serial number. Luckily, TEAM WAFFLE made a keygen.

Sindre’s Home Page 1999: UNREGISTERED

This is day 1 of your 30-day free trial.

Please register to remove this message and support a kid in Norway.

SINDRE.EXE keygen by TEAM WAFFLE

░▒▓██ TEAM WAFFLE ██▓▒░

TWF-SINDRE.NFO: DOS Prompt

Download it at:

 ████████ ██     ██ ████████
 ▀▀▀██▀▀▀ ██     ██ ██▀▀▀▀▀▀
    ██    ██  ▄  ██ ██████
    ██    ██ ███ ██ ██▀▀▀▀
    ██     ███▀███  ██
 ░▒▓█  T E A M   W A F F L E  █▓▒░

╔════════════════════════════════════╗
║ Sindre’s Home Page v1999 *CRACKED* ║
╚════════════════════════════════════╝

 Release date ..: 12/31/1999
 Protection ....: None (a home page)
 Cracked by ....: Sindre
 Supplier ......: Mamma
 Size ..........: 1 floppy (1.44 MB)
 Format ........: HTML, GIF, MIDI

──────────────────────────────────────
 RELEASE NOTES

 This is the full version of Sindre’s
 Home Page. The trial stops working on
 01/01/2000 because of the Y2K bug.
 Run the keygen, type your name, and
 enjoy unlimited waffles.

──────────────────────────────────────
 TEAM WAFFLE IS

 Sindre ......: code, graphics, music
 Trond .......: moral support, snacks
 Glitter .....: mascot (a unicorn)

──────────────────────────────────────
 GREETINGS TO

 Mamma · Mormor · Glitter · Trond
 Spaceballs · Future Crew · Razor 1911
 and all elite web masters

──────────────────────────────────────
 WE ARE LOOKING FOR

 A 28.8k modem that does not hang up
 when Mamma picks up the phone.

──────────────────────────────────────
    ░▒▓█ TWF · 1999 · NORWAY █▓▒░

The keygen needs JavaScript. So does the registration. This copy stays unregistered.

The Effect Toy Box

All the effects from the demos, as toys. Every one of them is real math, done with real pixels, by real me.

Lava Lamp

The hot wax rises, cools at the top, and sinks. Tap a blob to heat it, or tap the lamp to add one.

Kaleidoscope

Draw with the pointer or a finger. It draws by itself when you stop.

Fire!

Draw flames with the pointer, or burn a word.

Plasma

Stir it with the pointer or a finger.

Flashlight

A bump map, like in the demos of 1996. Shine the light on it with the pointer.

Fractint

Click to zoom into the Mandelbrot set. My 486 needed all night for this.

Zoom 1× ★ Iterations 64

Fly Over the Fjord

Fly a helicopter over a fjord, like in Comanche (1992). Steer with the pointer or the arrow keys.

Shadebobs

Draw with the pointer. The colors go around and around.

Disco Floor

Dance on it with the pointer or a finger, like in Saturday Night Fever.

Moiré

Move the rings with the pointer. Do not stare at it for too long.

Cube of GIFs

Six GIFs of my page on a cube. Drag it to spin it.

Bouncing Logo

It changes color at every wall. Wait for it to hit the corner.

Corner hits: 0

The toys need JavaScript. Without it, they are just boxes.

MIDI Jukebox

Ready to rock! Turn your speakers down first.

Song:

My web space only has room for 2 MB, so canyon.mid did not fit. Here is Edvard Grieg instead (he is from Norway, like me!), and a bit of Beethoven.

The jukebox needs JavaScript.

A construction worker with a sign and a shovel

Under Construction

This page will never be finished, like all good home pages.

A construction worker playing with a toy digger

Congratulations!!!

New! You are the 1,000,000th visitor to my home page! You have won a FREE UNICORN!

(This is not a real ad. It is the only pop-up on my page, I promise.)

My page has a Java applet now! It is called Lake. Please be patient while it loads. It is worth it.

Loading Java applet…

Applet Lake: waiting…

Java needs JavaScript. Do not ask me why.

Sindre’s Desktop Pets 1.0

My page is ALIVE! These little guys live all over it. Feed them, pet them, or shoo them away if they sit on what you want to read. They do not need a floppy disk or a reboot.

Neko the kitten

Neko chases your mouse pointer (or your finger) all over my page. Let the pointer rest and Neko falls asleep. Pick Neko up and drop it, if you dare.

Your pointer: Lives on my page

Dolly the sheep

Dolly walks on top of my windows and falls off the edges. Drag her somewhere nicer. Scientists cloned a sheep in 1996, so I can too.

Lives on my page

The sparrows

They sit on my windows. Move the pointer close and they fly away. Bread brings them back. Watch out for the seagulls of Bergen.

Lives on my page

The mouse (not that kind)

A real mouse lives at the bottom of the window. It loves brown cheese. Neko loves the mouse. The mouse does not love Neko.

Lives on my page

The UFO

Now and then it flies over my page and beams up a GIF. Click the UFO before it gets away!

Lives on my page

The bookworm

It eats holes in my windows. Luckily my page is always under construction, so a worker fixes them.

Lives on my page

My pets need JavaScript to come out. Right now they are all asleep under the desk.

Comic Chat ’99: #sindres-room

Chat with me in a real comic book! Type something and we act it out. Say hi and I wave. Start with I and you point at yourself. SHOUT IN CAPITALS. LOL works too. Smileys like :-) change your face.

Comic Chat needs JavaScript. Imagine me waving at you in a comic. *wave*

Aquarium.exe

My fish tank! Move your mouse (or your finger) in the water and the fish follow it. Click to drop food. Do NOT tap on the glass. Mom says it scares them. Dad says it is a screen.

Pet shop:

The fish need JavaScript to swim. Right now they are hiding behind the castle.

SimSindreville 2000

I am the mayor of my own town! Pick something to build, then click an empty lot. Click the GeoCities tower again for one more floor. The taxes pay for everything, even while you are away. It rains a lot. It is near Bergen.

★ ★

SimSindreville needs JavaScript. Without it, the town is just a field with a sheep in it.

LEMMINGZ.EXE

Oh no! The lemmings walk off every cliff on my page. Pick a job, then click a lemming to give it the job. Get enough of them to the exit! With the keyboard: the arrow keys pick a lemming, the keys 1 to 6 pick a job, and Space gives it.

Level:

The lemmings need JavaScript. Without it, they all walked off a cliff. Oh no!

Sindre’s RollerCoaster Tycoon: Fløyen Park

RollerCoaster Tycoon came out in March, and it is the best game ever made. Pappa says I can be the boss of my own park below Fløyen, as long as I do not spend all the money. Build a roller coaster piece by piece, test it, set the ticket price, and open it! The guests tell you what they think. Watch out for the vomit.

Welcome to Fløyen Park! Pappa built a coaster and tested it. Click Open to let the guests in, or build your own.

Construction

Slope

Special

Ride

Name:

Ticket price: 30 kr

Graph:

Colors:

Park

What the guests think:

My park needs JavaScript. Without it, the guests just stand at the gate in the rain and think “I want to go on something more thrilling than the merry-go-round”.

My Apps

What’s new?

New! NEW! Check out my newest app, Mailway!

This site is a proud member of the Sindre Sorhus App Ring

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Y2K Countdown

Only −9,778 days left until the year 2000!

Is your computer ready? Mine says today is October 9, 19126. I think it already has the bug.

The check needs JavaScript. Which is not Y2K compliant either.

Ready.

SindreCam: LIVE!

See what I am doing right now! A new picture every 30 seconds. (The first webcam watched a coffee pot. Mine is much better.)

12/31/1999 11:59 PM

Next picture in 30 seconds

Sindre’s Adventure Games

I played The Secret of Monkey Island on Kevin’s PC until his dad needed it for taxes, so I made my own adventure game. It came in a box, with a manual, like a real one. Open the box, read the manual (you need it!), and get Mormor’s Golden Waffle back from the troll.

SINDRESOFT PRESENTS

Sindre’s Quest

for the Golden Waffle

256 COLORS! • SOUND BLASTER • 4 DISKS

MANUAL.DOC

Sindre’s Quest for the Golden Waffle

Instruction manual for the adventure game by Sindresoft of Bergen. Keep this manual in a safe place, because the game asks about it.

– 1 –

The Story So Far

Mormor has a golden waffle iron called the Golden Waffle, and it makes the best waffles in Western Norway.

Last night, the troll of Fløyen took it. Today is Mormor’s birthday, and a birthday without waffles is not a birthday. Only one brave kid can get it back. That kid is you.

– 2 –

How to Play

Click a verb, then click a thing in the picture, and Sindre does it.

The verbs are Walk to, Look at, Pick up, Use, Talk to, Give, and Open. The line under the picture says what you are about to do. With the keyboard, Tab to the picture, pick a thing with the arrow keys, and press Enter. The first letter of a verb picks it, and the period key skips a line of talk.

– 3 –

The Inventory

The things you carry are in your inventory, next to the verbs.

Use a thing with another thing to put them together: click Use, then the first thing, then the second. Some things only make sense together, like waffles and brown cheese.

– 4 –

Talking

Talk to people, and pick what to say from the list.

Be polite to Mormor. Do not insult the troll. Seagulls do not listen to anyone, so do not bother.

– 5 –

The People of Bergen

Mamma, Mormor, Kevin from school, a seagull, a troll, and Glitter.

Mamma: worries about rain. Mormor: makes waffles, knows everything. Kevin: collects things. The seagull: steals things. The troll: lives on Fløyen, has one tooth. Glitter: my unicorn.

– 6 –

A Map of Bergen

Bergen has seven mountains, one fish market, and rain on most days of the year.

From home you can walk to the school, to Bryggen, and to the fish market. Fløibanen, the funicular, goes from the fish market up to Fløyen. Bring a ticket.

– 7 –

Saving Your Game

Save often, because Bergen is a dangerous place for a kid.

You have three save slots. They are kept in your browser, so they are still there tomorrow, unless your big brother needs the space.

– 8 –

Dying

Yes, you can die in this game, like in the games from Sierra.

Do not worry. Try Again puts you back where you were, only a little wetter.

– 9 –

Hints

Stuck? Call the Sindresoft Hint Line at 820 WAFFLE.

It costs kr 9.90 a minute. Ask the person who pays the phone bill first. Or look in the WaffleClues book, which is cheaper, and has invisible ink.

– 10 –

Brown Cheese Facts

The cheese slicer was invented in Norway in 1925, by Thor Bjørklund of Lillehammer.

Before that, people bit the cheese. Brown cheese is not really cheese, it is whey that was boiled for a long time. Trolls love it.

– 11 –

Credits

Story, art, and programming by Sindre, in his room, after homework.

Testing by Kevin, who found 47 bugs and one waffle. Thanks to Mamma, Mormor, and Glitter. No trolls were harmed in the making of this game.

– 12 –

Sindre’s Quest for the Golden WaffleScore: 0 of 100

Walk to

Your pockets are empty.

My adventure game needs JavaScript. Without it, you can still read the manual, which is the best part anyway.

WAFFLE QUEST

Before computers had pictures, games had words. Kevin’s big brother showed me Zork, so I made my own. Type what you want to do, like OPEN MAILBOX, TAKE LAMP, or GO NORTH, and press Enter. Type HELP if you are lost. You will be lost.

West of Mormor’s HouseScore: 0/100 Moves: 0

WAFFLE QUEST needs JavaScript. It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

Insult Seagull Fighting

In Monkey Island, pirates fight with insults. At the fish market in Bergen, the seagulls do. When a seagull insults you, pick the comeback that fits. When it is your turn, insult back. You learn new insults and comebacks from every seagull, and when you know enough, the Sea Gull Master of Fisketorget will fight you.

⚔ Insult Seagull Fighting

Sindre 0 – 0 Seagull

A seagull lands on the quay and looks at your waffle.

You know 2 insults and 2 comebacks.

Insult Seagull Fighting needs JavaScript. Without it, the seagulls just steal your waffle.

WaffleClues

Stuck? Kevin’s big brother had the InvisiClues books for Zork, where the answers were printed in invisible ink, and you rubbed them with a special marker to see them. So I made my own. Rub a box with the pointer or a finger (or press it) to make the ink show. The first box is only a nudge. Some questions are fake, so you can’t guess the puzzles.

WaffleClues™ • The hint book for all Sindresoft games • kr 99

Sindre’s Quest for the Golden Waffle

How do I get out of my room?

Where do I get money?

Where do I find brown cheese?

The seagull stole my brown cheese!

The troll will not eat the brown cheese.

How do I kill the troll?

WAFFLE QUEST

How do I get into the house?

It is dark, and something keeps eating me.

How do I get past the troll?

How do I get through the maze?

How do I get the milk out of the ice?

What is the word that Mormor says?

What is the elvish spatula for?

Insult Seagull Fighting

How do I beat the Sea Gull Master?

The Brunost Age

How do I open the cheese tower?

Where are the pages?

My Linking Book

In Myst, you travel to other worlds, called Ages, by touching the picture in a linking book. I wrote one to the Brunost Age, a small island that smells of brown cheese. Click the picture to link. Click the edges of the view to turn, and the middle to walk.

The Brunost Age

I have written an Age of calm brown water and tall pines. On the hill stands a tower of cheese, and its door only opens for those who notice things. Somebody else is here too. I can hear them arguing in the library.

My linking book needs JavaScript. Without it, it is just a book. A very nice book.

The Bergen Trail

Every summer, Pappa says we will drive to Nordkapp “the long way”. We play The Oregon Trail on the Apple II at school, so I made it about us. In the real one, you die of dysentery. In mine, you can only die of boredom.

The Bergen Trail needs JavaScript. You have died of no JavaScript.

This Page Is Best Viewed With…

…all of these! Press a button to see my page the way it was meant to be seen.

More views coming soon: Mosaic, WebTV, and a fridge.

The buttons need JavaScript, so this page is best viewed with JavaScript.

Cool Text Generator 2.0

Make your own logo for your home page! No Photoshop needed. (Flaming skull not included.)

The generator needs JavaScript. Here is a logo I made earlier: SINDRE

A cool skull with sunglasses, hanging out by the sign

A neon sign: Sindre’s Home Page

My Computer: the Sindre 2000 Turbo

CD-ROM 32×

3½″ floppy

SINDRE 2000

PowerHDDTurbo

66 MHz

A man fixing his computer with a hammer Fun fact: on real PCs, the Turbo button made the computer slower, so old games did not run too fast. Mine is fixed: it makes everything on this page faster. When it still crashes, I fix it like the man in the picture.

The buttons need JavaScript, so the computer is off.

GIF-O-Matic 2000

Is my page not loud enough for you? Press the button for more GIFs!!! Every GIF makes my page better. That is just science.

The pile is empty. That is sad.

The GIF-O-Matic needs JavaScript, so you have to make do with the 200 GIFs that are already here.

Pappa’s Desk Toys

On Take Your Kid to Work Day, I went with Pappa to his office in Bergen sentrum. He has a computer, a fax, and a phone with eight buttons, but the best thing is his desk. It is full of executive toys, which help him think, he says. Mamma says they are why he comes home late. I played with them all day. Here they are, so you can play too.

Newton’s Cradle

Drag one, two, or three balls out and let go. Pappa says it is physics. Mamma says it is why he does not hear the phone.

Plasma Ball

Touch the glass, and all the lightning comes to your finger. Drag the tube close to the ball, and it lights up with no cable. Pappa says it is not magic, it is 2 000 volts.

Pin Art

Press into the pins from behind, and the shape comes out on the front. Draw with the pointer or use a stamp. Flip it to start over.

Drinking Bird

It drinks from the glass by itself, all day, like Pappa with his coffee. When the glass is empty, it stops. Or put it over the keyboard, so it answers Y to everything, like Homer Simpson.

Zen Garden

Drag the rake through the sand, and drag the stones. Pappa rakes it after meetings about the year 2000.

Magnet Sculpture

Drag the paper clips onto the magnet and build something spiky. Too far from the magnet, and they fall off.

Stress Ball

Squeeze it. Press and hold harder for more. Pappa got it at a course about the year 2000 problem.

Executive Decision Maker

For the big decisions at the office. Think of a question, and spin. Flick the wheel, or press the button.

Perpetual Motion Machine

It runs forever, with no power at all. Do not look behind it.

Pappa is in a meeting. Play with anything you like, but do not touch the fax.

Pappa’s desk toys need JavaScript. And Pappa to look the other way.

Zap the Aliens!

Aliens from Area 51 have landed on my home page! Zap as many as you can before the year 2000. Click or tap them, or press the number keys 1 to 9. A miss costs a point, and do NOT zap Glitter (🦄), or you lose 3!

11:59:30 PM

Press Start to play.

The game needs JavaScript, like all cool things in 1999.

Snake on My Dad’s Mobile Phone

My dad got a mobile phone, and it has a game! Eat the waffles, but do not bite your own tail. Do not call anybody. It costs 5 kroner a minute.

Score: 0 ★ Best: 0

Press 5 to play!

Steer with 2, 4, 6, and 8, or with the arrow keys, or swipe on the screen.

Snake needs JavaScript. And batteries.

Bop It! Twist It! Pull It!

Trond got a Bop It Extreme for his birthday, and I borrowed it for one week (it was in March). It yells at you, and you have to do what it says, faster and faster. Mamma says it is the loudest toy in the house, and she has heard the Furby.

BOP IT! (Trond’s, do not lose the batteries)

Score 0 ★ Best 0 ★ 🔋 100%

Press Start, and do what the toy says. With sound!

🟣 Bop it: click or tap the purple button, or press Space.
🔵 Twist it: drag around the blue crank in a circle, or press ← or →.
🟢 Pull it: drag the green handle down, or press Enter or ↓.
🟠 Flick it (Extreme): flick the orange stick to the side, or press ↑.
🔴 Spin it (Extreme): swipe across the red wheel, or press S.
📢 Shout it (Extreme): click the speaker, press Y, or shout into the microphone.

Bop It! needs JavaScript. And batteries.

Pappa’s Rubik’s Cube

Pappa bought it in 1981, the year it came to Norway, and nobody in our family has ever solved it. It has been on the shelf in the living room with the same scramble since. Drag a face to turn it, drag beside it to turn the whole cube, or use the letters of the notation. Or cheat, like every kid in the world: peel the stickers, or take it apart with a screwdriver.

⏱ 0:00.000 movesBest: none

Pappa’s scramble from 1981. Nobody remembers the moves.

The cube is on the table, just like Pappa left it in 1981.

Solution for Rubik’s Cube

The cube can be scrambled in 43 252 003 274 489 856 000 ways, and only one of them is solved. Follow the seven steps of this booklet, one layer at a time, and do not give up!

Kjøpt i Bergen, 1981. 79 kr. (Bought in Bergen.)

1 / 8

The cube needs JavaScript. Pappa says it needs a hammer.

Adopt Glitter, My Virtual Unicorn!

She lives in your browser. Pet her, feed her, play with her, and watch her grow up! Unicorns cannot die, but they do get grumpy.

Baby Glitter ★ Age: 0 days

Food:: ♥♥♡♡
Fun:: ♥♥♡♡

Glitter needs JavaScript to eat.

Adopt Rocky, My Pet Rock

Glitter too much work? Rocky needs no food, no walks, and no love. But he appreciates it.

Age:: 4.5 billion years
Food:: Not needed
Mood:: Rock solid

The Fortune Wizard

A wizard with a magic staff

The wizard sees your future in a fortune cookie. Crack one!

The wizard needs JavaScript to see your future.

Who Wants to Be a Unicornaire?

Answer 8 questions and win $1,000,000 unicorn dollars! Is that your final answer?

Press Play to start!

The quiz needs JavaScript. Final answer.

Sindre’s Arcade

Six real arcade games in one machine, just like at the mall! One coin a game. Mom gave me 10 coins, and she says that is the last time.

Choose a game, and press Start! It puts in a coin for you.

Coins: 10 ★ Credits: 0

Choose a Game

High Scores

This arcade requires Shockwave 7, Java 1.1, and a 56k modem. Get them here:

Prize Counter

Every game in the arcade and the Game Room gives tickets. You have 0 tickets.

My Prize Shelf

The arcade needs JavaScript. Insert coin to continue.

💾 My Old Commodore 64

Pappa’s Commodore 64 from 1984! I found it in the closet behind the vacuum cleaner, with the floppy drive, the tape player, the joystick, and a box of disks. I plugged it into the old Tandberg TV in the basement, and it still works. Turn it on, click the screen, and type on it with your keyboard. You do not know what to type? Pappa wrote the good stuff in his notebook.

TANDBERG

commodore

POWER

commodore 1541

PAPPAS DISKETT

DRIVE

Datassette C2N

000

Tape: WAFFLE RAID, cracked (Trond copied it)

Joystick (port 2)

Left has been broken since 1987.

The Power Brick

It weighs as much as a brick of brunost.

📒 Pappa’s Notebook

Click a line, and I type it in for you.

It is off. Click the screen, or flip the power switch!

Pappa’s C64 needs JavaScript. And a lot of patience.

The Game Room

More games! The coin games take the coins of the arcade, and every game gives tickets for the Prize Counter.

Brown Cheese Bandit

Coins: 10

50 (jackpot!)
10 coins
15 coins
19 (Y2K bug!)
5 coins
2 coins
1 coin

🟫 is a slice of brunost, the brown cheese of Norway.

Unicorn Derby

1. Sparkle Pony
2. Brunost Express
3. Glitter Jr.
4. Y2K Bug
5. Dial-Up Dan

Unicorn: Bet:

Glitter Says

Watch Glitter, then press the same colors. The keys 1 to 4 work too.

Memory

Find the pairs!

Hangman ’99

Rock Paper Scissors

Rocky challenges you! He has never lost his cool. He has never lost anything, really.

You: 0 ★ Rocky: 0 ★ Ties: 0

Yatzy

Roll up to three times a round, keep the dice you like, and pick a row. 63 in the upper rows gives 50 extra.

Press Roll to start. Click a die to keep it.

Score card
Ones
Twos
Threes
Fours
Fives
Sixes
Bonus (63 or more)	0 / 63
One Pair
Two Pairs
Three of a Kind
Four of a Kind
Small Straight (1–5)
Large Straight (2–6)
Full House
Chance
Yatzy!
Total	0

How Fast Is Your Modem Finger?

Click when it turns green. Not before!

Mormor Teaches Typing

Mormor (my grandma) types 90 words a minute. Type the sentence below!

The Game Room needs JavaScript. All the games are out of order.

WURMS99.EXE: Sindre’s Wurms ’99

Trond and I played Worms Armageddon on Pappa’s PC every Friday. Here is my own version! Team Sindre against Team Trond, on an island of waffle and brown cheese in the rain. Blow up all the worms of Trond before he blows up yours.

Click or tap the island to aim, then hold Space or 🔥 Hold to Fire. Team Sindre goes first!

✏️ Name my worms

Worm 1: Worm 2: Worm 3: Worm 4:

Wurms ’99 needs JavaScript. Without it, all the worms are hiding in the brown cheese.

My Room in QuickTime VR

Welcome to my room! Hold the mouse down and move it to look around, like in a real QuickTime VR movie. Click on things. Do not touch my LEGO.

Drag to look around.

Look at:

My room needs JavaScript and QuickTime 3. It is a mess anyway, so do not come in.

Film: 10

Point the panorama at something and press the red button. Polaroid 600 film takes a while to develop. Shaking it does not help.

Under My Bed

Mom turns off the light in one minute, and the batteries of the flashlight are almost dead. Find my things! Bang the flashlight when it gets dim.

Glow-in-the-Dark Stars

Click the ceiling over my bunk bed to stick on a star. Then turn off the light, and join the stars into a constellation while they glow.

My constellation is called:

Magic Screen

Turn the left knob to draw sideways, and the right knob to draw up and down: drag around a knob in circles, or use the arrow keys. Shake it to erase.

The toys of my room need JavaScript. And batteries.

My Furby

I got a Furby for Christmas 1998! Mamma stood in the rain outside the toy store in Bergen for two hours to get the very last one. It only speaks Furbish, but the more you play with it, the more English it learns. Stroke its back, tickle its tummy, and press its tongue to feed it. Do not take it to bed.

Its sensors

My room

At night

Its name: Its fur:

Furbish–English dictionary (0 words heard)

My Furby needs JavaScript. And four AA batteries.

What’s in My Pocket? A Kinderegg and a Yo-Yo!

Every Saturday I run to the Narvesen kiosk at the bus stop with 9 kroner for a Kinderegg: chocolate outside, a SURPRISE inside. Mamma’s rule is one egg a week (“Du får hull i tennene!”), so make it last. And everybody at school has a yo-yo now. Mine lights up when it spins!

My Kinderegg

UKE 14 · 1999 · 1 EGG LEFT THIS WEEK

Mamma gave me 9 kroner. Off to Narvesen!

My Shelf

Doubles to Trade with Trond

My Light-Up Yo-Yo

STRING: NEW · THROWS: 0

Drag down on the yo-yo to throw it. Tug to get it back!

My Trick List

Throw Down Throw it and tug it back
The Sleeper Let it spin at the bottom for 3 seconds
Long Sleeper 8 seconds! Trond can do 6
Walk the Dog Let it roll on the floor, then tug
Around the World A big loop around my finger
Rock the Baby Swing it in a cradle of string
Ten in a Row 10 tricks without a knot or a dead yo-yo

My Kinderegg and my yo-yo need JavaScript. And chocolate.

My LEGO

I started with LEGO before computers. Build something! Click the plate to put a brick on it, and click a brick to put one on top. Mamma says it has to be tidied up before dinner.

LEGO Builder ’99

My LEGO needs JavaScript. Without it, it is just a box of bricks.

The Craft Table

Saturday in Bergen, and it has rained since Tuesday. Mamma covered the kitchen table with Bergens Tidende and got out the craft box (formingsboksen), so now we craft. Lillesøster eats the Hama beads, so watch her.

Hama Beads

Click or drag on the pegboard to put on beads. Put a pattern under the board to follow it. When it is done, Mamma irons it: hold the iron and move it over the paper, but not too long!

Board: Pattern:

Paper Snowflakes

Fold the paper, then cut pieces out of the folded wedge: click around a shape, or drag the scissors around it. Then unfold it and see the snowflake!

Fold in: Paper:

Spirograph

Pick a ring, a wheel, and a hole for the pen. Then drag around the ring to turn the wheel, or hold the button. Not too fast, or the wheel flies out!

Ring: Wheel: Hole:

Shrinky Dinks (Krympeplast)

Draw on the frosted plastic with the markers, cut it out with the scissors, and punch a hole for the keyring. Then bake it, and watch through the oven window. It gets small and thick!

The craft table needs JavaScript. And Mamma to say yes to the glitter.

My Game Boy Color

I got it for Christmas in 1998, in Atomic Purple. I made my own game for it (OK, in my head). Turn it on! Arrow keys or the D-pad to run, Up, X, or A to jump, Z or B to run faster, and Enter to start.

It is off. Slide the power switch!

My Game Boy needs JavaScript. And four AA batteries.

My Game Boy Camera

I got the Game Boy Camera for my birthday, and the Game Boy Printer for Christmas (Mormor paid half). The camera goes in the top of my Game Boy Color, and the eye on it turns around, so I can take photos of myself. The photos are 128 × 112 pixels in 4 shades of green, and the printer prints them on stickers! Pappa says they look like the newspaper photos of 1950. Turn it on!

GAME BOY CAMERA + GAME BOY PRINTER

PAPER ▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮

It is off. Slide the power switch at the top of the Game Boy, or press START!

🎮 The arrow keys are the D-pad, X or Space is A, Z is B, Enter is Start, and Backspace is Select (click the screen first).
📷 In Shoot: A takes a photo, ▲ ▼ change the brightness, ◀ ▶ the contrast, Select the trick lens, and Start the self-timer. Drag the screen to point the camera.
🖼️ In View: ◀ ▶ flip the photos, ▲ ▼ pick the frame, A prints, and Select puts on stamps.

Inside my wardrobe door (Mamma does not look here)

No stickers yet. Print a photo, and tear it off!

My Game Boy Camera needs JavaScript. And four AA batteries, and six more for the printer.

My Discman and My Walkman

Music to go! Do not run with the Discman. Do not ask what happened to the tape.

Discman

Walkman

My Discman and my Walkman need JavaScript, and the batteries are dead anyway.

Growing Up in Norway

The two best days of the year: the 17th of May, our national day, when all the kids march in a parade and eat ice cream until they are sick, and the Easter ski trip, when the whole of Norway goes skiing to a cabin.

17. mai: The Children’s Parade

I play the big drum in the school band (skolekorps). Hit the drum on every beat, when the stick comes down, and the whole parade marches in step. Miss, and they bump into each other.

17. mai: Is og Pølser

Mom gave me money for the day. Every ice cream and every hot dog is a point, but the more I eat, the more likely I get sick, and then I lose the points of the day. Stop in time!

Påsketur: The Easter Ski Trip

1. Wax the skis for the snow of the day:

2. Kick and glide to the cabin before Dad: kick with the left and the right ski, one after the other, in a steady rhythm. Too fast, and you fall. Eat a Kvikk Lunsj when you run out of energy.

The parade and the ski trip need JavaScript. Hipp hipp hurra anyway!

God Jul fra Bergen!!!

Christmas in Bergen! It rains instead of snowing (as always), but we have the biggest gingerbread town in the world, Julenissen on the bowling lane, and a nisse in the barn at Mormor’s farm who wants his porridge. Do NOT forget the butter.

🍪 Pepperkakebyen: Build a Gingerbread House

Every Christmas, the kids of Bergen bring their own gingerbread houses to Pepperkakebyen, the biggest gingerbread town in the world. Pick a piece and tap a spot on the cake board to put it there. Glue EVERY seam with the piping bag, or it falls apart on the way! Candy only sticks on icing.

Pick a wall, and tap the cake board.

Name on the sign:

🎳 NISSE BOWLING.EXE

Trond mailed me this! Julenissen bowls at the nisser, and they are NOT nice about it. Move him, set the spin, and bowl. Steer the ball while it rolls.

Frame 1. The nisser are waiting.

Spin: none

Best: 0

🥣 Julaften: Grøt for Fjøsnissen

Christmas Eve at Mormor’s farm. First the rice porridge for us, with the almond in it (whoever finds it wins the marzipan pig). Then a bowl for the nisse in the barn, WITH butter, or he plays pranks on you all year.

Marzipan pigs: none yet

The rice and the milk are in the pot. Stir, so it does not burn!

Christmas needs JavaScript. God jul anyway!

A Day in My Life

Summer 1999: Crab Fishing off the Dock

Lower the line with a mussel on the hook, and wait for a crab to grab it. Then hold the reel button to pull it up. Pull too fast, and it lets go! We always let them go at the end of the day.

Brunost and the Ostehøvel

The cheese slicer is a Norwegian invention (1925). Drag it across the brown cheese from left to right, and keep it level for a thin, even slice. Dig in, and you make a ski slope, and Dad will notice.

Lørdagsgodt: Saturday Candy

Candy only on Saturdays! Pick it by weight, at 8.90 kroner a hectogram, for my 20 kroner. Get as close as you can, but not over.

My lunch, the weather, the crabs, the cheese, and the candy need JavaScript. The lunch is brown cheese on bread anyway.

Klinkekuler

When the snow melts in April and the gravel comes out, everybody brings their marble bag to school. In the recess, we play Hull, Ring, and Tårn by the bike shed. Play “på ordentlig” (for real) and you can win Store-Geir’s king. Or lose all your marbles to him. Do not bring the steel ball. The teacher takes it.

The game

Play against

The flick

The school yard

My marble bag (pick the shooter)

The teacher’s drawer

Byttebua (the trade stand)

The marbles need JavaScript. And dry gravel.

Passing Notes in Class

6B, the third lesson, and it is raining on the windows. Ingrid sits two rows in front of me, and I have to ask her something. Write a note, fold it, and pass it from desk to desk while the teacher writes on the blackboard. When she turns around, freeze! If she catches it, she reads it OUT LOUD to the whole class.

To:

My note:

Add “☐ Ja ☐ Nei ☐ Kanskje”

✋ tells the teacher · 👀 reads it · 💤 asleep · 😆 giggles · ⚽ throws it · ♥ Ingrid · ★ Trond

Clock 08:15 ★ Risk 0% ★ Answered 0 ★ Caught 0

Write a note to Ingrid, fold it, and start the lesson.

✏️ My Pencil Case

Passing notes needs JavaScript. Fru Hansen has her eye on you anyway.

My TI-83

Everybody in 8B has a TI-83 for math, and nobody uses it for math. Mine has PHOENIX, WAFFLRUN (I made it), SNAKE, and QUIZ, and Trond sends me more over the link cable. It calculates too, and it draws graphs, slowly. Click the keys, or click the screen and type: Enter, Backspace for DEL, Esc for CLEAR, Shift for 2nd, ~ for (−), F1 to F8 for the top keys, MODE, PRGM, and MATH, and Home for ON.

It is on. Try 2+2 ENTER, or PRGM ENTER ENTER to play PHOENIX.

Type it, then Turn It Over! (from Trond)

My TI-83 needs JavaScript. And four AAA batteries.

Cool Links

Page under construction More cool links coming soon!

Caution: slow webmaster

Updated weekly! (Not really.) Most of these pages are gone now, so the links go to an encyclopedia from the future.

Cool Site of the Week

This week’s winner is… Sindre’s Home Page! Congratulations to me. The judges (me) said: “Wow, so many GIFs.”

Ask Sindre’s Butler

He knows almost everything. Ask him a question!

Good day! How may I help you surf the web?

The butler needs JavaScript to think.

Fun Fact!

Opera, the web browser, is made in Norway! It started at Telenor, the Norwegian phone company, in 1994.

Weather in Bergen

A rain cloud

Monday:: Rain
Tuesday:: Rain
Wednesday:: Heavy rain
Thursday:: Rain, sideways
Friday:: Drizzle (that is rain too)
Saturday:: Rain
Sunday:: Sunny! Just kidding. Rain.

Now: 7 °C and rain.

Chat With Me!

ICQ number:: 19991231
Status:: Online
Mood:: Hyper (I had three waffles)

Poll: What Is Your Favorite Browser?

The poll needs JavaScript.

Sindre’s Winter Games ’99

The Olympics in Lillehammer in 1994 were the best two weeks of my life, so I made my own Winter Games! Pick a country, carry the torch, and go for gold in eight events, from the ski jump of Holmenkollen to figure skating. Your world records stay on this computer forever (or until Mom clears the cache).

WINTER99.EXE

Velkommen! Welcome to the Winter Games. Sign up below to start.

KEYBOARD WEAR: 0 MASHES. ALL KEYS OK.

World Records

The best result of each event ever, on this computer. The first records are by my rivals. Beat them!

World records
Event	Record	By

The Winter Games need JavaScript, like all real computer games of 1999. Go outside and ski instead.

Sindre Hawk’s Pro Skater

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater came out in September, and Trond and I have played nothing else since (Mamma says the PlayStation will melt). So I made my own, in Bergen! Drop into the half-pipe in the parking garage, grind along Bryggen, jump the water, and ollie over Mormor at the fish market. You have two minutes. Find the S‑K‑A‑T‑E letters, the secret tape, and all the gaps. In real life I can only ollie a curb, but here I can do The 900.

SHPS.EXE

Click the screen or ▶ Start for a 2‑minute run. Free Skate has no clock.

♪ STEREO: OFF

My Records

High score: 0
Best combo: None yet
Last run: Not yet

Gap Checklist 0/9

☐Plan 2 Transfer (250) Air out of the half-pipe and land on a deck, by holding ▲ in a vert air.
☐Bygarasjen Big Air (300) Fly higher than two of me above the coping of the half-pipe.
☐Garage Ramp Gap (200) Ollie off the deck and clear the whole ramp down to the street.
☐Hanseatic Rail (200) Grind the rail along Bryggen from one end to the other.
☐Bryggen Gap (500) Jump the fish crates and clear the water of Vågen.
☐Fish Market Stair Set (300) Ollie the whole stair set down to the fish market.
☐Fish Market Handrail (400) Grind the handrail of the stairs all the way down.
☐Over Mormor (350) Jump over Mormor on her bench. She knits, so do not hit her.
☐Bergen Puddle Gap (100) Ollie over a rain puddle without a splash. It always rains in Bergen.

How to Skate

◀ ▶ arrows: Push, brake, and turn on the ground. Spin in the air (hold for a 360 or a 540).
Space (Ollie): Ollie. Hold it longer to jump higher.
Z (Flip) + arrow: Flip trick: Kickflip, Heelflip (◀), Pop Shove-It (▶), Impossible (▲), or Varial Kickflip (▼).
X (Grab) + arrow: Grab trick: Indy, Melon (◀), Method (▶), Nosegrab (▲), or Tailgrab (▼). Hold it for more points.
C (Grind) + arrow: Grind a rail or a ledge below you: 50-50, Boardslide (◀), Crooked (▶), Nosegrind (▲), or 5-0 (▼). Keep the balance with the left and right arrows.
▲ arrow in a vert air: Air out of the half-pipe onto the deck.
▲ then ▼ arrows: Manual (down, then up for a nose manual), also just before you land, to link the combo. Keep the balance with the up and down arrows.
V (★ Special): A special trick when the meter is full: The 900 in a big air, The Brunost Flip in a small one, the Vaffel Grind on a rail, and the Rocky Manual on the ground.

Sindre Hawk’s Pro Skater needs JavaScript. Grab a real board and go outside (bring a raincoat).

France 98: The Night We Beat Brazil

On 23 June 1998, the whole family sat in the sofa for Norway against Brazil in the World Cup. Brazil was the world champion. Norway won 2–1! Pappa taped the match on the VCR, and now you can play the big moments yourself: Flo’s goal in the 83rd minute and Rekdal’s penalty in the 89th. Press Kick (or Space) when the time is right.

The match

The living room

Dress up Sindre

After the match

My Panini album, France 98 (0 of 4 stickers)

Score the 1–1

Score the penalty

Save a penalty in the shootout

Win the shootout

The TV needs JavaScript. Pappa says the match is on the tape anyway.

Your Computer Report

My page can see your computer! (It stays between us.)

Browser:: Checking…
Computer:: Checking…
Screen:: Checking…
Colors:: Checking…
Online for:: Checking…
Phone bill:: Checking…

Turn on JavaScript, so I can see your computer.

Wake up, Neo…

The Matrix came out this year, and it is the best movie ever made. This is your last chance. Which pill do you take?

The pills need JavaScript. You are stuck in the Matrix.

My Awards

Cool Site of the DayFrom my mom. Every day.
Top 5% of the WebI did the math myself.
Golden Unicorn AwardFor excellence in HTML. I made this one.
Best Use of <blink>Nominated by me.
Featured on Yahoo!Soon! I have submitted my page 14 times.
Y2K CompliantProbably.

Hall of Fame

Best alien zapper:: Nobody yet. It could be you!
Most loyal visitor:: Nobody yet. It could be you!
Best unicorn parent:: Nobody yet. It could be you!
Fastest guestbook signer:: Trond, in 4 seconds
Longest visit:: mamma, 9 hours (she forgot to log off)

My Hits in 1999

Jan 75 visits
Feb 57 visits
Mar 195 visits
Apr 113 visits
May 138 visits
Jun 44 visits
Jul 25 visits
Aug 94 visits
Sep 170 visits
Oct 207 visits
Nov 258 visits
Dec 623 visits

December was the Y2K panic. Everybody wanted to see my page one last time.

Our VCR (and the TV)

The video recorder under the TV in our living room. The clock has blinked 12:00 since 1994, when Pappa gave up. Turn on the TV, drag the rabbit ears until the snow goes away, put a tape in the slot, and fight with the tracking. Or tape Derrick with the code from the newspaper, if you can set the clock.

Tracking

The TV is in standby. The VCR blinks 12:00, like always. Press Power, or press a tape.

The VCR needs JavaScript. And Pappa to find the remote.

NRK Tekst-TV

The teletext of the Norwegian TV. My dad reads the ski results here every morning, before the newspaper comes. Type a page number on the remote, like 150 for the weather, or try to find the secret page.

Tekst-TV needs JavaScript (and a TV).

Eurovision 1999: Douze Points for Norway?

On 29 May 1999, the Eurovision Song Contest is in Jerusalem. Norway has had “nul points” four times, and won twice. NRK did not answer my letter, so I make our song here. Mamma says the key change is the most important part. Lillesøster says the wind machine.

Melodi Grand Prix: Make the Song

Song title:

Genre:

Language:

Costume:

Gimmicks (every winner has some, but not too many):

Live from Jerusalem

The Voting: 23 Countries Call In

📡 The satellite is ready. Make the song, and start the voting.

NRK: “God kveld, Norge!” (Good evening, Norway!)

Norway at Eurovision: The Wall of Fame and Shame

The real results of Norway, as a scoreboard. Press a year for the story.

Press a year on the board.

Eurovision needs JavaScript. Norway: nul points.

WaffleMail

I have free e-mail now! 2 MB of space, so I can keep almost 40 e-mails. Here is my inbox. My friends send me the most important things.

WaffleMail: Inbox

Pick a message to read it.

WaffleMail needs JavaScript. My e-mails are safe from you.

My Buddy List

All my friends are online after school. Click a buddy to send an instant message. Be nice, or they will warn you!

Buddy List

Screen name: SindreTheUnicorn
My warning level: 0%

Play sounds (doors and bloops)

Instant Message

Click a buddy to start a chat.

My buddies only come online with JavaScript.

My Beeper

I got a beeper! A real personsøker from Telenor, in see-through purple plastic, so you can see the inside. You cannot talk on it: you call its number, type some numbers, and they show up on it. Everybody in my class has one, and we have codes for everything. My number is 960 10 143. Page me from the phone booth on the corner!

My Beeper: 960 10 143

The beeper is on. Waiting for pages…

The Phone Booth on the Corner

LØFT RØRET

Lift the handset, and pay with the telekort or with coins.

My pocket. Click a coin to put it in the phone:

Decode It!

What does the newest page mean? Guess right for points. Right or wrong, the code goes in my code book.

No new pages.

Which one is it?

Points: 0

My Code Book

Memory: the Last 10 Pages

My beeper needs JavaScript. And one AAA battery.

Free Music!!!

My cousin showed me Napster. You can get any song in the world for free! It only takes all night. Then I burn my own mix CD. Please do not pick up the phone while I download.

Napster v2.0 BETA 3

Transfers

Nothing yet. Find a song and press Get.

Easy CD Burner 3.5

Pick the songs for the CD. A CD-R holds 74 minutes. My MP3s:

0:00 of 74:00

Label (I write it with a marker):

Napster and the CD burner need JavaScript, and a lot of patience.

Unimon Trading Cards

Everybody at school collects Unimon cards! Open a pack, and maybe you get a rare holo card. Gotta collect ’em all: there are 18 cards.

My Binder

Opening packs needs JavaScript. Kevin says that is cheating anyway.

~~ LiLlEsØsTeR’s DoLlZ ~~

My little sister (Lillesøster) is six, and Mamma says she is too small for her own home page, so she has this corner of mine. She makes dollz in MS Paint, pixel by pixel, at 800% zoom, and she gets very angry when I say they all look the same. Make one, but DoN’T StEaL!!!

Dollz Maker 2.0 by LiLlEsØsTeR (bEsT vIeWeD aT 800%)

Click a tab, then click the clothes to dress her up! Or try 🎲 Random.

Dollz base:

Skin:

🪣 Recolor the skin:

Her name:Made by (you):

🏠 ThE dOlLz HoUsE

The dolls live here (in your browser). Click one to dress her again. The first three are Lillesøster’s own, so they cannot move out.

💕 AdOpT a DoLl 💕

Lillesøster has many dolls who need a home. Read her rules first!!!

✨ LiNk BaCk To My PaGe!!! ✨
✨ No StEaLiNg!!! I wIlL kNoW. ✨
✨ Do NoT sAy YoU mAdE hEr. ✨
✨ GiVe HeR a GoOd HoMe (aNd WaFfLeS). ✨
✨ No BoYs. ExCePt GuY dOlLz. ✨
✨ If YoU bReAk ThE rUlEs, I tElL mAmMa. ✨

I promise to follow ALL the rules!!! (pinky promise)

The dollz need JavaScript. And MS Paint.

Make Your Own Home Page!

Everybody needs a home page. Make yours here, in FrontPage Express, and it is ready in 5 minutes. No HTML needed! (But you can look at it.)

FrontPage Express needs JavaScript. Or you can write the HTML by hand in Notepad, like me.

The Print Shop

Every school in Bergen had The Print Shop on the computers of the computer room, and every classroom had a banner from it. Make a card, a sign, letterhead, or a banner as long as the hallway, and print it on the dot matrix printer. The whole school can hear it.

The Print Shop

What would you like to do?

SKOLE-PC 3

IKKE SPIS VED PC-EN!

PowerOn LinePaper Out

The printer hums and waits. The teacher says one copy each.

The Print Shop needs JavaScript. And the key to the computer room.

Magic 8-Ball

Paper Fortune Teller

Pick a color!

Mood Ring

Move your mouse or finger slowly over the ring. It knows how you feel.

Mood: Unknown (black)

My Magic 8-Ball, paper fortune teller, and mood ring need JavaScript to see your future.

Y2K Survival Kit

The year 2000 is almost here! The computers may think it is 1900. Are you ready? Check what you have, and hand it in for your grade.

Grading needs JavaScript. Grade yourself: if you have canned beans, you pass.

Order Now!

The best pages of a comic book are the last ones: the ads! Cut out a coupon, pay with my piggy bank, and wait for the mailman. Then we see if it looks like the ad.

My piggy bank: 120 kr

Amazing Live Sea-Monkeys!

Own a bowlful of happiness! A whole royal family that lives, plays, and obeys your commands. Instant life: just add water!

Only 49 kr!

✂ Order Now!

Name: ________ Address: ________

With Water Purifier, Instant Life Eggs, and Growth Food. Guaranteed to hatch!

Allow 6 to 8 weeks for delivery.

X-Ray Specs

See the bones in your hand! See through walls, and see the HTML of any web page! Amaze your friends!

Only 29 kr!

✂ Order Now!

Name: ________ Address: ________

Scientific optical principle really works. Not for driving.

Allow 6 to 8 weeks for delivery.

Ch-ch-ch-Chia Pet!

The pottery that grows! Spread the seeds, add water, and in days your ram has a coat of lush green hair.

Only 79 kr!

✂ Order Now!

Name: ________ Address: ________

Handmade clay planter. Seeds included.

Allow 6 to 8 weeks for delivery.

Whoopee Cushion

Hide it on a chair and wait! The rudest noise in the world, when anyone sits down. Hours of fun at family dinners!

Only 15 kr!

✂ Order Now!

Name: ________ Address: ________

Real rubber. Blow it up yourself.

Allow 6 to 8 weeks for delivery.

Joy Buzzer

Shake hands and SHOCK your friends! Wind it up, hide it in your palm, and BZZZT! Totally harmless!

Only 19 kr!

✂ Order Now!

Name: ________ Address: ________

Spring power. No batteries.

Allow 6 to 8 weeks for delivery.

Onion Gum

Looks like real spearmint gum. Tastes like a raw ONION! Offer a stick and watch their faces!

Only 10 kr!

✂ Order Now!

Name: ________ Address: ________

5 sticks per pack.

Allow 6 to 8 weeks for delivery.

Grow Your Own Crystals

A glittering crystal castle in only 24 hours! Real science on your windowsill!

Only 39 kr!

✂ Order Now!

Name: ________ Address: ________

Magic crystal powder and growing rock included.

Allow 6 to 8 weeks for delivery.

Draw Me!

Do you have talent? Draw Tippy the turtle and mail it in for a FREE professional art test. You may win a scholarship!

FREE!

✂ Order Now!

Name: ________ Address: ________

No fee. No obligation. Just a stamp.

Allow 6 to 8 weeks for delivery.

Real Hovercraft: Only 99 Kroner!

Ride on a cushion of air over land, snow, and water! Faster than a moped! Complete and ready for adventure!

Only 99 kr!

✂ Order Now!

Name: ________ Address: ________

*Plans only. Motor, plywood, skirt, and fan not included.

Allow 6 to 8 weeks for delivery.

The Kitchen Table

The Mailbox

My Stuff from the Mail

The coupons need JavaScript to be cut out. And 6 to 8 weeks.

Guestbook

You are visitor number 001999! I counted most of them myself, to make sure the counter works.

Sign my guestbook!

Signing my guestbook needs JavaScript. You can still read it!

Name: Jessica
From: Ohio, USA
Date: 12/30/1999
Found me via: Yahoo!
Comments: hi!! i found ur page when i was looking for unicorn pictures. i saved the rainbow one for my desktop, hope thats ok :) please visit my page too, it has a backstreet boys section
Name: Trond
From: Trondheim, Norway
Date: 12/27/1999
Found me via: A friend
Comments: Hei Sindre! Kul side. The alien game is very hard on my trackball. Godt nytt år!
Name: mamma
From: hjemme
Date: 12/24/1999
Found me via: My son told me
Comments: Hei det er mamma. Er det her jeg skal skrive? Veldig fin side. Middagen er klar om 10 min. Klem fra mamma
Name: DarkAngel
From: Somewhere in Texas
Date: 12/12/1999
Found me via: A webring
Comments: cool site!!! how did u get the flames to move?? i have been trying for 3 days. sign my guestbook back plz!!!
Name: Kristin
From: Bergen
Date: 11/30/1999
Found me via: AltaVista
Comments: Your page took 4 minutes to load on our modem but it was worth it. The MIDI is stuck in my head now.
Name: Webmaster of The Pixel Palace
From: GeoCities, Hollywood
Date: 10/15/1999
Found me via: A webring
Comments: Nice page. Your counter is broken, it says 1999 every time. Want to exchange 88x31 buttons?

Want to send me a real message? Use my feedback form, or read what others wrote about my apps!

My Shrine to Waffles

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Waffles with brown cheese are the best food in the world. This shrine is for them.

They are shaped like hearts. In Norway, at least.
Brown cheese on a warm waffle. Need I say more?
You can eat them for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and in between.
Grandma makes the best ones. Sorry, mamma.
Glitter loves them too, and she is a unicorn, so she knows.

A toaster with toast — My waffle iron (artist’s impression). It is a toaster. Do not tell my mom.

Sindre’s Music Room

I make music on my computer! Every sound here is made live by my sound card. Press a button that plays sound, and turn up the speakers (not too much, Mamma is sleeping).

Sound Blaster Live! Mixer

🔊 Volume

Speaker test:

The Music Room needs JavaScript and a sound card. Without them, it is the Silence Room.

WaffleJay ’99 Dance Edition

My cousin has Dance eJay, so I made my own. Pick a sample (you hear it), then click a spot on the tracks, or drag the sample there. Press Play. Every sample fits with every other one, so it always sounds like a hit. Almost.

WaffleJay ’99 - untitled.mix

Beats

Bass

Synth

Voice

FX

12345678123456

🔊 Volume

Pick a sample to start.

vis_waffle.dll

My own visualizer plugin for Winamp. It dances to everything in the Music Room. Play something, then come back here and stare at it for an hour.

Winamp Visualization - vis_waffle.dll v0.99

Trails Mirror Flash on beat Rainbow

My Casio Keyboard

I got it for Christmas! Play it with the mouse, your finger, or the keys A to ’ of your computer (click the keys first). Turn on Casio Chord, and the lowest octave plays a whole chord with one finger, in the rhythm. Or press Demo and pretend you play it.

CASIO

SA-1999 TONE BANK

TONE

RHYTHM

🔊 Volume

Ringtone Composer

My dad got a Nokia 3210 for work, and I borrow it to compose ringtones. Press the keys of the phone, or type the code. Then press Ring Me! and someone calls with your tune.

NOKIA

Ringtone code:

Tempo:

🔊 Volume

The phone needs JavaScript. Without it, it is just a very small brick.

WaffleTracker 2

Real musicians use a tracker, like FastTracker 2. The notes go down, not across! Click the pattern, then type notes with the keys of your computer: Z to M is one octave, Q to U the next. Arrow keys move, Delete erases, and Space plays. Or tap a spot and the notes below. Load a module to see how the pros do it.

WaffleTracker 2.08 - untitled.xm

BPM 125 · Spd 6 · Octave 4

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🔊 Volume

Stamp Composer

Like Mario Paint, but with my animals! Pick a stamp, then click the staff to put it on a note. Higher is higher. Press Play and Glitter runs along and plays them. Use the keyboard too: arrow keys move, Enter stamps, and Delete erases.

🐢 Tempo 🐇🔊 Volume

The Hampster Band

Everybody knows the Hampster Dance. But did you know it is really a slow country song, played much too fast? Turn on the hamsters one by one, then turn up the speed.

Record speed 33 RPM 45 RPM 78 RPM

🔊 Volume

Sing-Along-O-Matic 2000

Karaoke night at my house! Pick a song, press Sing, and follow the bouncing ball. Press Key Change for the big finish. My little sister always turns the echo all the way up.

♪ Pick a song and press Sing! ♪

🔁 Echo Play the melody🔊 Volume

DJ Sindre

SINDRE RECORDS ★ WAFFLE BREAKS VOL. 1

🔊 Volume

Drag the record to scratch. Wikka wikka!

Theremin

Auto-Tune (like Cher!) Spooky wobble

🔊 Volume

Hold the box above and move around. Beware of flying saucers.

Dans Dans Revolusjon

This summer, on the ferry to Denmark, the arcade had a machine from Japan called Dance Dance Revolution. You dance on arrows on the floor! Nobody in Bergen has one, so Trond and I spent all our ferry money on it, and Pappa had to buy the waffles. Now I made my own. Step on the arrows when they reach the top: the arrow keys or WASD, or the pads on a phone.

Step on the arrows with a finger or the mouse, or with the keys. Two at once is a jump.

Select Music

Song:

Difficulty:

Dancer:

Delay: 0 ms

Pick a song, and insert a coin.

Spent: 0 kr

The dance machine needs JavaScript. And 10 kroner.

Free Downloads!

All files are virus-free. I checked with Norton AntiVirus 2000.

sindre.scr: My Flying Unicorns screen saver (1.4 MB)
glitter.exe: Glitter for your desktop (3.2 MB)
waffles.txt: My secret waffle recipe (1 KB)

Downloading needs JavaScript. And a lot of patience.

Display Properties

Wallpaper:

Screen saver:

Wait:

Mouse trail:

Let it snow (it is always December 1999 here!)

Scroll the title in the tab

Your settings stay in your browser.

Dance Party!

Everybody is invited. Bring your floppy disks.

My GIF Collection

I collected these from all over the World Wide Web. Please do not steal them. (Just kidding, I stole them too.)

Do NOT click the skull!

ASCII Art Corner

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Psst! Secret code: ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A. On a phone? Tap the visitor counter 7 times.

Link to Me!

Put my button on your home page, and I will put yours on mine! Copy this HTML:

<a href="https://sindresorhus.com/1999"><img src="https://sindresorhus.com/1999/button-sindre.gif" width="88" height="31" alt="Sindre’s Home Page"></a>

Best viewed with any browser
Made on a Mac
Tabs, not spaces

Certificate of Winning

This certifies that you printed my page instead of catching the star. No iMac for you, but here is a picture of one.

This picture is your iMac. Plug it in to start.

Signed: Sindre, Webmaster, December 31, 1999

Welcome to Sindre’s Home Page!!!

About Me

My Computer

untitled - Unicorn Paint

Y2K Bugsweeper

SECRET.TXT - Notepad

Solitaire

System Properties

Recycle Bin

Calculator

MS-DOS Prompt

LETTER TO SANTA 2000.DOC - WordPad

Where do you want to go today? - Microsoft Internet Explorer

Where do you want to go today?

The page cannot be displayed

Web page unavailable while offline

Sindre’s Home Page

🦄 Unicorns of Norway 🦄

Y2K Survival Guide

Download More RAM for FREE!!!

Windows Update

Connect To

My Documents

Network Neighborhood

New Folder

README.TXT - Notepad

DANCING BABY.AVI - Media Player

Sound - Sound Recorder

FreeCell

Control Panel

Display Properties

Desktop Themes (Microsoft Plus! 98)

Date/Time Properties

Mouse Properties

Add New Hardware Wizard

Add/Remove Programs Properties

Y2K Fixer 2000 Deluxe

Find: All Files

Run

Close Program

Welcome to Windows 98

Welcome to Windows

Shut Down Windows

3D Pinball for Windows - Space Cadet

The Microsoft Hearts Network

Hover!

JezzBall

Chip’s Challenge

HyperTerminal

Kai’s Power Goo

BonziBUDDY Setup

Microsoft Bob

Windows 95 CD-ROM (D:)

ActiveMovie Control

Happy99

Nordmann AntiVirus 99

WinZip (Unregistered Version)

Phone Dialer

ScanDisk - (C:)

Disk Cleanup for (C:)

Rodent’s Revenge

Spider Solitaire

Taipei

Microsoft NetMeeting

Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia Deluxe 99

3D Movie Maker

The Big Red Buttons

★ TEAM WAFFLE Presents ★

Register My Home Page!

The Effect Toy Box

Lava Lamp

Kaleidoscope

Fire!

Plasma

Flashlight

Fractint

Fly Over the Fjord

Shadebobs

Disco Floor

Moiré

MIDI Jukebox