ILX: the Momus years
― RR, Saturday, 2 October 2010 06:42 (fifteen years ago)
IRC! I used to be on that shit non stop. I went and got a permanent diaup connection and everything.
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Saturday, 2 October 2010 06:46 (fifteen years ago)
my housemate Chris explaining how these two asshole lawyers posted messages advertising their firm to like, every single board on usenet
― sarahel, Saturday, 2 October 2010 06:54 (fifteen years ago)
http://qodem.sourceforge.net/tradewars1.gif
― funky house skeptic (polyphonic), Saturday, 2 October 2010 07:13 (fifteen years ago)
//roll
― A B C, Saturday, 2 October 2010 07:19 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMLH_QyPTYM
― Not the real Village People, Saturday, 2 October 2010 08:08 (fifteen years ago)
bonus pr0n anecdote,
Taking about a month to amass eight floppies full of pr0n.
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Saturday, 2 October 2010 08:31 (fifteen years ago)
how long did it take you to amass eight stiffies?
― Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile (dayo), Saturday, 2 October 2010 08:37 (fifteen years ago)
I'd graduated to a 20MB hard drive by then.
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Saturday, 2 October 2010 08:38 (fifteen years ago)
early 90s: going to a library meeting about the internet -- full room, with the lecturer showing off gopher (veronica, jughead, etc) and ascii art
1996?: using netscape 1.0 with the status bar managing the files to save, which just disappear if they don't finish downloading
― my sex drew back into itself tight and dry (abanana), Saturday, 2 October 2010 08:59 (fifteen years ago)
not actually owning a computer and having to use the public library to access Hotmail account
nb not actually nostalgic about this
― aerosmith: live at gunpoint (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Saturday, 2 October 2010 09:14 (fifteen years ago)
Printing out a picture of Elvis Costello & The Attractions, then adding text to it with MS Word and getting the image transferred to a t-shirt. Probably 1995 or so, and I had that shirt for 10 years.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 2 October 2010 10:19 (fifteen years ago)
I downloaded and printed a bunch of Kinks tablatures too, enough to make a three-ring binder get pretty thick. I'm sure my dad loved getting back into his office (which doubled as the guest room) the following Monday and finding out his printer had run out of ink.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 2 October 2010 10:22 (fifteen years ago)
xp i did that with the picture of sly on the CD insert for the family stone's greatest hits! it was awesome! i miss that shirt...
― beef lamp (stevie), Saturday, 2 October 2010 10:23 (fifteen years ago)
once I met someone off the internet, and I took the train across the country to see this dude, and I spent the next hour trying to ring him from the station payphone to say I had arrived and could I get a lift, but I couldn't get through, because he was online
because, you see, in those days, online meant no phone callsand we didn't have cellphonesuhhyeah, never mind.
― patapon pataphysics (a passing spacecadet), Saturday, 2 October 2010 10:34 (fifteen years ago)
For that just out of 1998 feel try http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/
― State Attorney Foxhart Cubycheck (Billy Dods), Saturday, 2 October 2010 10:35 (fifteen years ago)
I'm pretty sure I had a geocities page with like five links or something
― aerosmith: live at gunpoint (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Saturday, 2 October 2010 10:42 (fifteen years ago)
web rings
― Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile (dayo), Saturday, 2 October 2010 11:10 (fifteen years ago)
^^^^^^^^^
― sir you cannot be serious (stevie), Saturday, 2 October 2010 11:11 (fifteen years ago)
'Under Construction' GIF, sometimes animated.
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Saturday, 2 October 2010 11:15 (fifteen years ago)
"_00 hours free!!!" AOL CDs regularly appearing in mailbox
― haven't you people ever heard of theodor a-goddamn-dorno (bernard snowy), Saturday, 2 October 2010 11:23 (fifteen years ago)
leaving the computer online overnight to download the latest game demo from HappyPuppy.com
― haven't you people ever heard of theodor a-goddamn-dorno (bernard snowy), Saturday, 2 October 2010 11:25 (fifteen years ago)
turning off images to surf faster
― haven't you people ever heard of theodor a-goddamn-dorno (bernard snowy), Saturday, 2 October 2010 11:27 (fifteen years ago)
hitting "stop" before clicking a link, because netscape used to crash if u tried to click away from the current page while it was still loading
― haven't you people ever heard of theodor a-goddamn-dorno (bernard snowy), Saturday, 2 October 2010 11:28 (fifteen years ago)
people's personal "homepages"
banners, along with instructions to "contact the Webmaster" to place your banner ad in that space
― dude (del), Saturday, 2 October 2010 14:01 (fifteen years ago)
― dude [yr gettin' a] (del)
― haven't you people ever heard of theodor a-goddamn-dorno (bernard snowy), Saturday, 2 October 2010 14:06 (fifteen years ago)
Nostalgia is useless
― banaka, Saturday, 2 October 2010 15:57 (fifteen years ago)
banaka = smarterchild
― Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile (dayo), Saturday, 2 October 2010 15:58 (fifteen years ago)
I'm not sure if banaka = smarterchild.
― john water (harbl), Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:06 (fifteen years ago)
nostalgia is the 'naive reading' of history/cultural memory, preparatory to any meaningful act of criticism
― haven't you people ever heard of theodor a-goddamn-dorno (bernard snowy), Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:06 (fifteen years ago)
Welcome back, bernard snowy! How may I help you now?
― john water (harbl), Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:08 (fifteen years ago)
criticism is not what is needed; what is needed is dispassionate analysis and action, action, action.
― banaka, Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:09 (fifteen years ago)
I'll have to think about that one for a while.
― john water (harbl), Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:10 (fifteen years ago)
@_@
― haven't you people ever heard of theodor a-goddamn-dorno (bernard snowy), Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:10 (fifteen years ago)
(o)_(o)
― haven't you people ever heard of theodor a-goddamn-dorno (bernard snowy), Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:11 (fifteen years ago)
=||((O))_((O))||=
― haven't you people ever heard of theodor a-goddamn-dorno (bernard snowy), Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:12 (fifteen years ago)
got mah hater-blockers on (||)_(||)
― haven't you people ever heard of theodor a-goddamn-dorno (bernard snowy), Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:13 (fifteen years ago)
there is no hate to block, only the blinding light of truth (to use a hackneyed metaphor)
― banaka, Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:15 (fifteen years ago)
lolin at harbl
banaka how do you pronounce hackneyed, do you say 'hack en eyed' like 'hack en sack'
because I imagine that's how you say it
― Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile (dayo), Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:17 (fifteen years ago)
did anyone spend hours looking at these? i did. http://www.somethingawful.com/d/cliff-yablonski/
― john water (harbl), Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:18 (fifteen years ago)
oh god yes, and jeff k
― Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile (dayo), Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:19 (fifteen years ago)
My favorite site circa 1997http://www.alcyone.com/oo/
― Mormons come out of the sky and they stand there (Abbbottt), Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:19 (fifteen years ago)
-exchanging .wavs of sound clips from star wars in an IRC channel called #sw_wavs
― Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile (dayo), Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:20 (fifteen years ago)
-writing sweet IRC scripts that let me play my sweet star wars .wavs and final fantasy .mid's using keyboard shortcuts
looking up wavs of fart sounds with my brother
― john water (harbl), Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:21 (fifteen years ago)
savagery
― banaka, Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:22 (fifteen years ago)
setting all of the windows alert/startup/error/etc. sounds to the most obnoxious sound clips I could find
― haven't you people ever heard of theodor a-goddamn-dorno (bernard snowy), Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:23 (fifteen years ago)
"i wanted to know what she was up to, so i fingered her""... YOU WHAT?!?!?"
― zappi, Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:23 (fifteen years ago)
sorry banaka but my petit-bourgeois class position renders me structurally incapable of apprehending this 'truth' of which u speak ¯\(°_O)/¯
― haven't you people ever heard of theodor a-goddamn-dorno (bernard snowy), Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:24 (fifteen years ago)
this attempt at subterfuge does not serve you well.
― banaka, Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:25 (fifteen years ago)