Internet nostalgia

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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 1997
http://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

Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile (dayo), Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:20 (fifteen years ago)

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)

http://www2.b3ta.com/catgame/

john water (harbl), Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:25 (fifteen years ago)

- people getting really upset b/c they thought bansai kitty was a real thing

haven't you people ever heard of theodor a-goddamn-dorno (bernard snowy), Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:33 (fifteen years ago)

my friends and I getting kicked out of the computer lab for playing MUDs using Telnet in, like, 8th grade

markers, Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:41 (fifteen years ago)

building websites using <table></table> tags

markers, Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:43 (fifteen years ago)

email accounts @yahoo, before Gmail existed

markers, Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:44 (fifteen years ago)

Waiting for YouTube vids to fully buffer before hitting play.

Rob Liefeld pose (chap), Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:52 (fifteen years ago)

having to use RealPlayer because there was no YouTube

markers, Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:52 (fifteen years ago)

a song taking ten minutes to download per MB

markers, Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:53 (fifteen years ago)

Fighting over the one ethernet cable in the house.

Rob Liefeld pose (chap), Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:56 (fifteen years ago)

I hate most of these things, actually, and I'm not nostalgic about them at all. Fuck dial-up.

Mormons come out of the sky and they stand there (Abbbottt), Saturday, 2 October 2010 17:18 (fifteen years ago)

I don't really wish most of this stuff was back either, but web 1.0 was a thing of beauty

markers, Saturday, 2 October 2010 17:18 (fifteen years ago)

AOL WAREZ like
/server SEND LIST
/server SEND 129

AOL Chat Progs
like rainbow text and AOHell
all the original bots

AOL IM Punters

I'm a Grizzily Bear Now (CaptainLorax), Saturday, 2 October 2010 18:38 (fifteen years ago)

InkLink - the internet shockwave game that is a ripoff of pictionary

I'm a Grizzily Bear Now (CaptainLorax), Saturday, 2 October 2010 18:40 (fifteen years ago)

I don't really wish most of this stuff was back either, but web 1.0 was a thing of beauty

yeah i miss the wild west amateurish atmosphere that used to be. looking at some weirdo's facebook page is pretty uninteresting compared to looking at said weirdo's webpage circa '99

dude (del), Saturday, 2 October 2010 18:45 (fifteen years ago)

i'm sorry i meant to say some "ECCENTRIC"

dude (del), Saturday, 2 October 2010 18:47 (fifteen years ago)

Do You Ever Miss The "Old" Internet

Doctor Casino, Saturday, 2 October 2010 18:48 (fifteen years ago)

It did feel endearingly DIY once but, while it's fun to poke your head into a sod house or miner's shack, I don't really want to live there.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, July 14, 2005 10:19 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark

lol

dude (del), Saturday, 2 October 2010 18:50 (fifteen years ago)

lol at yahoo starting out as "jerry's guide to the world wide web"

tho tbf i guess "jerry's guide" no more unlikely than "craigslist"

dude (del), Saturday, 2 October 2010 18:59 (fifteen years ago)

does anyone else remember this place?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebChat_Broadcasting_System

Kim, Saturday, 2 October 2010 19:12 (fifteen years ago)

mirsky's worst of the web

mirsky's or another "worst" site linking to a mall restaurant that had its own website. how ridiculous!

my sex drew back into itself tight and dry (abanana), Saturday, 2 October 2010 19:32 (fifteen years ago)

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/hamsterdance.jpg

iatee, Saturday, 2 October 2010 19:34 (fifteen years ago)


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