Remember when?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxM8C71GB8w
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 1 October 2010 18:08 (thirteen years ago) link
caught an old episode of Buffy the other day. Here is a joek I hope to use soon:"I met him online.""On line for what?"
― elephant rob, Friday, 1 October 2010 18:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Unable to connect to SQL server. TURN BACK YOU POXY FULE
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Friday, 1 October 2010 18:17 (thirteen years ago) link
xp Requires you be in New York, though, doesn't it?
― jaymc, Friday, 1 October 2010 18:19 (thirteen years ago) link
what if I use a new york accent?
― elephant rob, Friday, 1 October 2010 18:20 (thirteen years ago) link
It's like FIDONet, but with more bandwidth and faster response times.
― Aimless, Friday, 1 October 2010 18:27 (thirteen years ago) link
And if you get this browser thing called Mosaic, you can do all kinds of neat shit. But it's a resource hog and you'll want to be running a Solaris workstation or a UNIX box.
― Aimless, Friday, 1 October 2010 18:31 (thirteen years ago) link
If you don't want people to know what sites you've been surfing to, simply delete the .HST file.
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Friday, 1 October 2010 21:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Sticking to Gopher myself.
― Brad C., Friday, 1 October 2010 21:30 (thirteen years ago) link
http://screenshots.en.softonic.com/en/scrn/39000/39464/2t_netscape_logo_150.jpg
― Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile (dayo), Saturday, 2 October 2010 01:34 (thirteen years ago) link
"Can you get off the internet? I need to make a phone call."
― markers, Saturday, 2 October 2010 01:35 (thirteen years ago) link
http://chaco.laberintobbs.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/LegendOfTheRedDragon.gif
― homosexual II, Saturday, 2 October 2010 01:36 (thirteen years ago) link
omg is that a MUD?
― markers, Saturday, 2 October 2010 01:38 (thirteen years ago) link
sad dad in video writing himself emails from his daughter jill at college
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 2 October 2010 01:39 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 2 October 2010 01:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Ah, that brings me back.
― http://tinyurl.com/hommphommp (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 2 October 2010 01:43 (thirteen years ago) link
anyone who says they didnt hum along to that shit is a fucking liar
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 2 October 2010 01:49 (thirteen years ago) link
or a balanced individual, one of the two
SHAREWARE
― i'm gonna be straight with y'all, my name is banaka jones (Z S), Saturday, 2 October 2010 01:55 (thirteen years ago) link
ICQ
― markers, Saturday, 2 October 2010 01:59 (thirteen years ago) link
browsers w/o tabs
― markers, Saturday, 2 October 2010 02:00 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i56.tinypic.com/20f2as9.jpg
omg
don't bring me back to that world
― i'm gonna be straight with y'all, my name is banaka jones (Z S), Saturday, 2 October 2010 02:02 (thirteen years ago) link
having to get off the internet to use the phone
*shivers*
― i'm gonna be straight with y'all, my name is banaka jones (Z S), Saturday, 2 October 2010 02:03 (thirteen years ago) link
― markers, Friday, October 1, 2010 9:35 PM (29 minutes ago)
;-)
― markers, Saturday, 2 October 2010 02:06 (thirteen years ago) link
unreg ilxors
― elan, Saturday, 2 October 2010 02:06 (thirteen years ago) link
http://stopthecap.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/prodigy-online.jpg
― Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile (dayo), Saturday, 2 October 2010 02:07 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.ethomaz.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/palace.gif
Referred by: Just Surfed On In!
― zvookster, Saturday, 2 October 2010 02:08 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.qweas.com/downloads/games/puzzle-word-games/scr-snood.jpghttp://i.iinfo.cz/s/87/4285-icy-tower.gif
― waka flocka flame judi dench (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 2 October 2010 02:17 (thirteen years ago) link
also
fake cybersex in AOL chatrooms
― waka flocka flame judi dench (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 2 October 2010 02:18 (thirteen years ago) link
dudes i love snood
― Honey, I squirted jizz all over the baby (the table is the table), Saturday, 2 October 2010 02:19 (thirteen years ago) link
SNOOD CHARACTERS POLL
― waka flocka flame judi dench (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 2 October 2010 02:20 (thirteen years ago) link
popup ads
― markers, Saturday, 2 October 2010 02:25 (thirteen years ago) link
(the ones that actually open a child window)
<font></font> tags
the Yahoo directory
― markers, Saturday, 2 October 2010 02:26 (thirteen years ago) link
I have had a problem when trying to reminisce about Prodigy. Lots of people don't remember it or didn't know it in the first place. So trying to say something like, "I loved trolling the Prodigy message boards when I was 12" gets this look in response, a look that says 'you think you were a genius kid or something?'
― Mormons come out of the sky and they stand there (Abbbottt), Saturday, 2 October 2010 02:26 (thirteen years ago) link
snood was not 'internet' jordan, also i have it on my computer RIGHT NOW
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 2 October 2010 02:28 (thirteen years ago) link
lol abbott. my most prominent memory involving prodigy is stumbling upon a wheel of time forum and having no idea wtf wheel of time was at the age of 9
― Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile (dayo), Saturday, 2 October 2010 02:39 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/
300 baud acoustic modem -- you dial the phone -- I mean, with a DIAL -- and then press the handset into the cradle. Now that was Internet.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 2 October 2010 02:46 (thirteen years ago) link
dudes, i'm playing snood right now
― Honey, I squirted jizz all over the baby (the table is the table), Saturday, 2 October 2010 02:59 (thirteen years ago) link
for my 8th algebra class ('95) i had a bearded, yet relatively young (35-ish) grateful dead fan "hippie" algebra teacher named mr. whitaker. mr. whitaker was really fond of "abtract" mathematical concepts such as fractals. he had lots of fractals posters in the classroom. one day, as a way to encourage us to fool around with The 'Net and thereby enrich the part of our brains that abstract mathematical concepts live in, mr. whitaker told us he'd kick us down us a few extra credit points if we could manage to successfully transmit to him, via the inter net, one (1) electronic mail aka E-MAIL. a few months prior, i'd convinced my dad to buy us an account with a local dial-up ISP, and i was already relatively savvy with it, so it was really no hassle at all. as it turned out, i was the only one in the class sophisticated/advantaged enough to have access to such technology at this time, and mr. whitaker was kind enough to point that out to everyone as he wrote my little extra credits down in the gradebook.
― del griffith, Saturday, 2 October 2010 02:59 (thirteen years ago) link
first time watching a video on the internet: some sort of 1 minute video about a space shuttle from NASA which took several hours to download and only played for a few seconds before crashing computer
― i'm gonna be straight with y'all, my name is banaka jones (Z S), Saturday, 2 October 2010 03:03 (thirteen years ago) link
oh man, that's fantastic
― markers, Saturday, 2 October 2010 03:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Another 1994 clip. Note how proud Crow is of the setup he describes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GoMoeV3Y4A
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 2 October 2010 03:15 (thirteen years ago) link
"And you think that'll make you happy, huh."
"YES."
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 2 October 2010 03:16 (thirteen years ago) link
you're a liar Z S and I don't believe you, unless 'space shuttle from NASA' is code for 'nude scene from fast times at ridgemont high'
― Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile (dayo), Saturday, 2 October 2010 03:16 (thirteen years ago) link
it's the truth! bonus pr0n anecdote, though, is not knowing how to delete search history (or knowing that you could delete it, or knowing that it existed)and getting called out by dad - "...and tell me, what exactly is "hotsexvideos.com"?
― i'm gonna be straight with y'all, my name is banaka jones (Z S), Saturday, 2 October 2010 03:22 (thirteen years ago) link
hah, I can't remember my URL but scrolling through a section I thought it might (or might not) have been in and then giving up halfway down I suddenly saw my ex's page sitting there(there is no content, it just says he has a new page somewhere else, with just enough personal information that I am not pasting it here, no sir)(I am fairly sure Camaraderie at Arms Length is not my ex)the first section I dipped into was fairly plain stock backgrounds and I felt not much nostalgia, but then I clicked into one of the SunsetStrip subcategories and there were band photos and hand-pixelled logos and moody black backgrounds and people trying to be cryptic and arty and yes, yes, this is my internet, take me back― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, January 28, 2020 11:37 AM (nine hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
(there is no content, it just says he has a new page somewhere else, with just enough personal information that I am not pasting it here, no sir)
(I am fairly sure Camaraderie at Arms Length is not my ex)
the first section I dipped into was fairly plain stock backgrounds and I felt not much nostalgia, but then I clicked into one of the SunsetStrip subcategories and there were band photos and hand-pixelled logos and moody black backgrounds and people trying to be cryptic and arty and yes, yes, this is my internet, take me back
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, January 28, 2020 11:37 AM (nine hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
My page was on a subcategory of SunsetStrip, um
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:31 (four years ago) link
I was also a SunsetStrip...per and spent some time scrolling through but nothing yet. :(
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:33 (four years ago) link
well, I found myself in a Blur guestbook (my first website was called Popscene so I thought my best bet was to at least examine every Blur-themed website I could find, for links/clues..)
popscene: A l e x i s D. - 10/26/97 04:30:57My Email:p o p s c e n e @ i n a m e . c o m Where did you hear about this page: Found it..Comments:I love blur soooooo much, and i've met them each once, and damon twice...My fave songs are popscene, theme from an imaginary film, and far out, and I am in Toronto, Canada...everybody email me, ok?
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:49 (four years ago) link
Did you get any emails
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 22:11 (four years ago) link
None that I can remember :)
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 23:04 (four years ago) link
Is Far Out still one of your favourite Blur songs?
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 23:08 (four years ago) link
Hell yeah! Nothing has really changed aside from the email. Though I now have a Blur themed *gmail* address. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 23:25 (four years ago) link
what’s up parklife420?
― chet san telmo (alomar lines), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 04:41 (four years ago) link
Ha, I go through the lyrics to Far Out in my head whenever I get a planet-related crossword clue. It usually comes up with the goods!
― Madchen, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 07:52 (four years ago) link
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 12:29 (four years ago) link
http://www.rsub.com/typographic/
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 30 January 2020 22:18 (four years ago) link
warning: requires shockwave
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 30 January 2020 22:22 (four years ago) link
I still have my old Shockwave, and Dreamweaver, and Flash, installation disks from when I 'borrowed' them from work many years ago. Might even still have Paintshop Pro disks.
― Ste, Friday, 31 January 2020 13:22 (four years ago) link
I have never seen this amazing thing before:
Julia Stiles as the school newspaper’s cyberpunk editor-in-chief on a 1994 episode of ‘Ghostwriter.’ I will never get tired of this clip. pic.twitter.com/Nzb8q0gwRq— d. patrick rodgers (@dpatrickrodgers) January 29, 2020
― Alba, Friday, 31 January 2020 13:30 (four years ago) link
yeah that's something alright.
― Ste, Friday, 31 January 2020 13:45 (four years ago) link
Amazing.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 31 January 2020 14:05 (four years ago) link
god remember when it was possible to be enthusiastic and optimistic about Being Online (TM)
― the main character Cooly and his fart attack (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 31 January 2020 14:14 (four years ago) link
brb changing my display name to ManxMouse212
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 31 January 2020 14:17 (four years ago) link
i was stupid enough to use my gov't name on Usenet posts when I was a dumb 16 year old Fundamentalist and let's just say some of that shit still shows up in search engines.
― ... that's Traore! (Neanderthal), Friday, 31 January 2020 14:24 (four years ago) link
you clearly cannot jam with the console cowboys in cyberspace
― I wanna publish memes and rage against machimes (rip van wanko), Friday, 31 January 2020 14:27 (four years ago) link
that clip came to my attention years ago when it was highlighted in an early Xkcd.
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Friday, 31 January 2020 17:17 (four years ago) link
it's good
Anybody want to play some Legend of the Red Dragon or Tradewars?
― ... that's Traore! (Neanderthal), Friday, 31 January 2020 17:18 (four years ago) link
My band back then had a Geocities page. Will be interesting to see if it pops up.
WestHollywood was *super* important to me back in the mid-90s, because it was when I first came out to my wife as gender-curious, and was one of the first places I could connect easily with other people in my situation.
― Pete Swine Cave (Eliza D.), Friday, 31 January 2020 17:31 (four years ago) link
good account of what Internet use was like right before Berners-Lee and why the web initially seemed to be more of an incremental change than a transformation
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/02/gopher-when-adversarial-interoperability-burrowed-under-gatekeepers-fortresses
― Brad C., Saturday, 22 February 2020 14:01 (four years ago) link
The official Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich website is looking a bit internet nostalgia:
http://www.dddbmt.com
― Alba, Thursday, 5 March 2020 20:12 (four years ago) link
Came across this site when doing some important Beatles research:https://sentstarr.tripod.com/beatgirls/first.html
― Alba, Wednesday, 8 December 2021 20:22 (two years ago) link
Love it.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 9 December 2021 10:31 (two years ago) link
Somehow never knew about Rory Storm's macabre fate. Amongst the pleasant reminiscences of Liverpool Art College and the Cavern,
While Rory was at Stormsville comforting his mother Vi, he overdosed on a mixture of sleeping pills and alcohol. he died on 28th September 1972, and his mother committed suicide upon finding him.
― Luna Schlosser, Thursday, 9 December 2021 14:32 (two years ago) link
Never seen Rory Storm before. Somehow I expected him to look more like Mal Evans that this, rather startling figure who looks like he's stepped out of the Blitz club in 1980. Photo by Astrid Kirchherr, which helps, I guess.
https://i.imgur.com/JgCa8qW.jpeg
― Alba, Thursday, 9 December 2021 19:57 (two years ago) link
you know what I miss, those little custom link buttons that everyone made. used to be people would connect via forums and they'd exchange buttons and put 'em on the "links" section of their webpage. they were all so ugly but I miss 'em
― frogbs, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 05:09 (two years ago) link
i stumbled on something that still had its "web ring" materials in place recently, it was like opening up a buried ruin and breathing air trapped centuries ago.
― The creator of Ultra Games, for Nintendo (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 13:30 (two years ago) link
I miss (permanently) under construction pages with the little digging stick figure. Maybe 24 years later he’s still digging.
― Johnny Mathis der Maler (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 14:37 (two years ago) link
Wiby - Search Engine for the Classic Web
The Wiby search engine is building a web of pages as it was in the earlier days of the internet.
― Kim Kimberly, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 15:34 (two years ago) link
Oh, how lovely. Except the phallic lighthouse, maybe.
― Alba, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 15:41 (two years ago) link
hypnospace outlaw is a great little detective game rooted in that 'webring' era of internet- pretty clever conceit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb4Jul496QE
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 15:46 (two years ago) link
it's also really *funny*. recommended
http://www.cwgsy.net/community/tosy/images/rabbit2.gif
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 05:40 (two years ago) link
well damn
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 05:41 (two years ago) link
Here is a collection of more than 700 88x31 web buttons from the 1990's and 2000's
(Just randomly found this when clicking "surprise me" at the Wiby site linked above.)
― visiting, Wednesday, 16 February 2022 07:46 (two years ago) link
https://anlucas.neocities.org/petrape.gif
― kinder, Wednesday, 16 February 2022 16:25 (two years ago) link
Wiby and button page are both great finds!
― The creator of Ultra Games, for Nintendo (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 19:04 (two years ago) link
Yeah that "surprise me" button is endlessly entertaining.
― Kim Kimberly, Wednesday, 16 February 2022 23:50 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/LkM5Fu6.jpeg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 16 February 2022 23:59 (two years ago) link
Love to see an internet nostalgia site that’s still being regularly updated, complete with guest book and all. All you Beatles and solo Beatles needs:https://jpgr.co.uk/beatroot.html
― Alba, Monday, 7 March 2022 22:30 (two years ago) link
Great find, reminds me of SugarMegs: http://sugarmegs.org
― blatherskite, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 14:48 (two years ago) link
Rediscovering the Small Web
― Kim Kimberly, Sunday, 13 March 2022 05:29 (two years ago) link
logging on to the nbc supernet pic.twitter.com/Vl3HNYzOz8— no (@n0wak) April 8, 2022
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 8 April 2022 23:50 (one year ago) link
https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/09/way-back-in-1989-usa-today-launched-an-online-sports-service-i-found-it-at-goodwill/
― Alba, Sunday, 2 October 2022 20:07 (one year ago) link
Wow
― Misirlou Sunset (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 October 2022 20:29 (one year ago) link