I Miss Winamp

I checkin on Bluesky like once per day — it’s what’s replaced Baseball Twitter for me.

But I also follow an account called Retro Tech Dreams, which is most excellent. It posts 90s tech, and every once in a while will share a Winamp Skin. Today it sent me down a rabbit hole to the Winamp Skin Museum, where I found this bad boy:

I 100% had this skin at some point. Man I miss Winamp.

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