Millie Niss did a take on this.  And, a few years ago, Regina Celia Pinto inaugurated a project that invited practitioners to profile their computer hardware history – a piece which, in its depiction of the hardware of that present, now looks suspiciously ancient.

And, while Uribe’s work itself seems fresh – the computer that created it manifestly does not!

Of course, the look of these old computers was accompanied by the limitations of the technology they employed – limited bandwidth, minimal color display, and elementary navigational features.  Even so, it would seem that the authoring software may have been even more influential in the creation of screen nostalgia. 

In the early days before the widespread use of html, many authors utilized in-hand delivery systems - floppy disk, zip drives, and CD-ROM.  Stand-alone media, coupled with authoring software, provided a useful creative environment and delivery system for poetry and narrative works, but more importantly allowed for the use of larger-sized files (hence better graphics resolution, navigation options, and textual variety).