remember the 90s and internet nostalgia

hahahahahahahh

Yes, the 90s were a strange time. Things I miss:

*Dialing in to a BBS or any computer
*Interacting or downloading software/games from other computers doing the above
*CompuServe, etc. (and maybe AOL for a very brief moment, but for all the wrong reasons)
*Security
*GIFs (I don't understand its appeal now, though)

There was also a piece of software very similar to Spotify around the mid-90s that I quite liked, but I can't remember the name of it. It was Internet radio that grouped stuff by similar 'artists'/'genres'.

For the most part, there are very few Internet-related things I miss. It seems like technology and Internet have only been improving while people have been becoming less adept at using it and more clever at misusing it.

Talking about 90s Internet nostalgia, here is a little gem from GitHub:

http://divshot.github.io/geo-bootstrap/

that tumblr thing is an amazing troll.

<3 blink 182.

"when people were happy with themselves" lolololololol

i watched mallrats today and i definitely missed certain aspects of the '90s

Been reading @tweetsfrom97 all afternoon, it's very british childhood-specific but freakishly nostalgic

*GIFs (I don't understand its appeal now, though)

Tiny file sizes, loopable, perfect for short-form digital animation art, works on pretty much any platform ever, no need to install any plugins/worry about crashing Flash player/etc.

although I've had the internet since the early 90s (or some precursor to it, like Prodigy) it really wasn't such a huge part of my mental landscape until probaly the early 2000s - it was more of a novelty entertainment thing, like a video game system, not something that pervaded life. So nostalgic over-associations of the 90s with "early internet" are kind of funny to me.

c234897mizs908un has a point. Gifs were so much better when they looked like this:

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3tznjTVQW1qb14uyo1_400.gif http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3hcksOl0X1qkrwydo1_400.gifhttp://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2nlh9XrjA1rqanplo1_250.gifhttp://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2nt82B5Et1ru71nxo1_100.gifhttp://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2nmcttw1K1qabbzvo1_100.gif

that exploding gif has to have been on about 90% of the angelfire pages i remember going to

http://1-media-cdn.foolz.us/ffuuka/board/wsg/image/1359/18/1359182123932.gifhttp://0-media-cdn.foolz.us/ffuuka/board/wsg/image/1358/91/1358918768962.gif http://0-media-cdn.foolz.us/ffuuka/board/wsg/image/1351/24/1351243485425.gifhttp://1-media-cdn.foolz.us/ffuuka/board/wsg/image/1359/18/1359182123932.gif
http://1-media-cdn.foolz.us/ffuuka/board/wsg/image/1341/73/1341739491744.gif

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2gn3rhhfK1qbzzgco1_400.gif

Xavier: Renegade Angel was way ahead of it's time.

Most of those GIFs are just early CGI animation loops of low-rez polygons.

Only a matter of time before Ironic CGI becomes a thing.

"Only a matter of time"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKosaf5tmpI

That's Next Media Animation's whole schtick

Enjoy:

http://www.internetarchaeology.org/

http://www.internetarchaeology.org/img/IMG/homebox.gif
http://www.internetarchaeology.org/img/Still/Business/welcome-1.gif
http://www.internetarchaeology.org/img/Still/3d/entrance.jpg
http://www.internetarchaeology.org/img/Still/3d/doorlil4.gif
http://www.internetarchaeology.org/img/Moving/WebElements/24hour.gif

^worth poking around; some real gold in there

good stuff

http://www.internetarchaeology.org/img/Moving/PopCulture/Joinbnr798.gif

http://www.internetarchaeology.org/img/Still/SciFi/geologypropaganda1.gif

That is so 90s.

http://www.internetarchaeology.org/img/Still/OccultFantasy/0aprduni1.gif

Ok it wasn't very 90s but I thought it was funny.

Xp

It was from that website.

Guys I have a copy of Game Player's Nintendo Guide from 1991 and the awkward layered-gradient-shapes-dominated design of the letters section is so 90's it could destroy this thread.

The ancestors of FB image macros:

http://www.internetarchaeology.org/img/Still/CausesSentiments/gangel.gif

http://www.internetarchaeology.org/img/Still/CausesSentiments/heroes.gif.jpeg

http://www.internetarchaeology.org/img/Still/CausesSentiments/AngelsAward1.gif

Reminds me of www.hippy.com, which is STILL working and STILL totally 90s.

http://hippy.com/

Actually, crap, it's more mid-2000s at the moment. Not nearly enough GIFs.

http://www.internetarchaeology.org/img/Moving/WebElements/signpenc.gif

does anyone else like to pronounce "geocities" so it rhymes with "atrocities"?

http://www.internetarchaeology.org/img/IMG/Opgether4.gif

http://www.internetarchaeology.org/img/IMG/ani-wrds_Tell-A-Friend.gif

I made so many pages with Netscape Composer, using all the moving GIFs available in its built-in arsenal of GIFs.
~sniff~

I don't know what kind of mental illness you must have to be nostalgic for dial-up though.

hm, maybe nostalgia for the days when you could feel internetted out after 30 minutes (having promised yourself only 20 bcz phone calls cost money but then your selected 3-meg download wasn't finished yet), go offline, and do something more constructive without feeling the need to refresh a webpage every minute

^^^

This could be why 90s nostalgia is as intense as it is. Enslavement followed soon after.

Well I wasn't calling long distance BBSs (well, only occasionally) so until my parents needed the phone I could be online ALL THE TIME! but you're right, back then, one could go "ok, I'm done with the internet for the day" and actually mean it.

http://www.internetarchaeology.org/img/Moving/Recreation/07.gif
http://www.internetarchaeology.org/img/Moving/Recreation/07.gif
http://www.internetarchaeology.org/img/Moving/Recreation/07.gif
http://www.internetarchaeology.org/img/Moving/Recreation/07.gif

yeah there were a few sites that updated enough i could/would check them everyday - suck, feed, arts & letters daily, salon - and most i checked only every now and then cuz that's how often they updated. there were a lot fewer rabbit holes and the holes were shallower then. also: no wikipedia.

unfortunately Andrew Sullivan's site was one of those.

when did sullivan really start? i'm thinking more late 90s, when for example we could not have internet where i worked but it was ok cuz i only spent like an hour on the internet a day anyway (some days might not even go online at all). when you would find a website by going to yahoo and then clicking the category you were interested in on the directory on their first page. the jennicam years.

I started reading him in 2001 and he was already updating every 25-45 minutes iirc

but yeah otm: until 2000 I could check email in the morning and night and not get anxious about missing much.

I can't imagine working at my current job without the internet. xp.

I agree with the feeling of not needing to be online all the time. I was totally cool with going to my university's computer lab once a week to check out the latest on a few select websites (mostly gaming and music news/reviews). I didn't even own a computer until 2005.

I've had a computer since the first Mac came out. Many old games directly associated with nostalgia for specific portions of the 90s.

addicted to noise.