Internet nostalgia

nostalgia is the 'naive reading' of history/cultural memory, preparatory to any meaningful act of criticism

Welcome back, bernard snowy! How may I help you now?

criticism is not what is needed; what is needed is dispassionate analysis and action, action, action.

I'll have to think about that one for a while.

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got mah hater-blockers on (||)_(||)

there is no hate to block, only the blinding light of truth (to use a hackneyed metaphor)

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

did anyone spend hours looking at these? i did. http://www.somethingawful.com/d/cliff-yablonski/

oh god yes, and jeff k

My favorite site circa 1997
http://www.alcyone.com/oo/

-exchanging .wavs of sound clips from star wars in an IRC channel called #sw_wavs

-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

savagery

setting all of the windows alert/startup/error/etc. sounds to the most obnoxious sound clips I could find

"i wanted to know what she was up to, so i fingered her"
"... YOU WHAT?!?!?"

sorry banaka but my petit-bourgeois class position renders me structurally incapable of apprehending this 'truth' of which u speak ¯\(°_O)/¯

this attempt at subterfuge does not serve you well.

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

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

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

building websites using <table></table> tags

email accounts @yahoo, before Gmail existed

Waiting for YouTube vids to fully buffer before hitting play.

having to use RealPlayer because there was no YouTube

a song taking ten minutes to download per MB

Fighting over the one ethernet cable in the house.

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

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

AOL WAREZ like
/server SEND LIST
/server SEND 129

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

AOL IM Punters

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

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

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

Do You Ever Miss The "Old" Internet

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

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"

does anyone else remember this place?

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

mirsky's worst of the web

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

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

^^^ in retrospect a pioneer in how people use the internet today

http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/uu92/damien_stone/Ukoad3.jpg

This is my page .......

WELCOME TO MY HOME PAGE !!!!!!!!!

I KISS YOU !!!!!

I have in front of me a copy of 'The Internet Directory', a 700+ page book published in 1994. It has two pages about the WWW.

Also from 1994, 'The Whole Internet - User's Guide & Catalog'. 538 pages, and 35 pages on the WWW.

:30 second mark here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl8a2RkjRpU

Unlike most of you, I first encountered the internet as an adult, roughly aged 40. I had just been hired as a technical writer for a high tech company and it was early 1994. My wife was a librarian and she had already attended talks about how the internet was the coming thing, and she'd spoken with me about it, but at work I became familiar with it.

I'm not kidding when I say I was exposed to Mosaic within a few months of its introduction. First I'd ever heard of CERN. The software engineers were very excited about it.

I recall being shown some web pages, too. They were mostly the "personal" pages of other techies at work, with long lists of links to their favorite sites, like NOAA and various university computer programs, with maybe a poorly digitized, low res photo of the techie embedded on the page, and a simple HTML text about the page's owner.

My first reaction was, if this is the WWW, I don't see where this is such hot shit stuff. More like a clunky toy for tech heads.

I swear that within months of my first seeing the web, one of the software engineers got in trouble for downloading pr0n to his company workstation and showing it to all the other engineers who came into his office.

As for nostalgia for that version of the web, I have none. I do sometimes hate on how commercialized it all is now, but that's just me bitching and moaning about the world, not really serious.

I was an adult as well, and in the fortuitous position of being at university. Still it took our Communications Networks lecturer saying "You're at university. While you're here, you have a free e-mail address and free Internet access. Use it, because in the outside world people have to pay and right now it's very expensive." before I looked into it seriously. But once I was hooked I became a bit of a missionary about it. This brought up the first real problem of the early WWW - I remember saying to a sceptical housemate "yeah, you can find anything", and him writing out a list of not particularly obscure stuff, and saying "OK then snoball, find this stuff", which I more or less failed to do.

Actually the university even supplied students with a small amount of personal webspace, so I could have been sitting here in a rocking chair on the porch saying "hmmm yes, youngster, before you were even a 1% complete in your papa's progress bar, I had my own personal webpage...". Except I can't because I didn't use it, except for a single assignment where the the text had to be published online. Excuse me... (snoball jumps into time machine and goes back to 1994 to slap some sense into 20yr old snoball)