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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
AOL WAREZ like/server SEND LIST /server SEND 129
AOL Chat Progslike rainbow text and AOHellall the original bots
AOL IM Punters
― I'm a Grizzily Bear Now (CaptainLorax), Saturday, 2 October 2010 18:38 (thirteen years ago) link
InkLink - the internet shockwave game that is a ripoff of pictionary
― I'm a Grizzily Bear Now (CaptainLorax), Saturday, 2 October 2010 18:40 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm sorry i meant to say some "ECCENTRIC"
― dude (del), Saturday, 2 October 2010 18:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Do You Ever Miss The "Old" Internet
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 2 October 2010 18:48 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
does anyone else remember this place?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebChat_Broadcasting_System
― Kim, Saturday, 2 October 2010 19:12 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/hamsterdance.jpg
― iatee, Saturday, 2 October 2010 19:34 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^ in retrospect a pioneer in how people use the internet today
― iatee, Saturday, 2 October 2010 19:35 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/uu92/damien_stone/Ukoad3.jpg
This is my page .......
WELCOME TO MY HOME PAGE !!!!!!!!!
I KISS YOU !!!!!
― Can You Tape? Learn the rules. (herb albert), Saturday, 2 October 2010 19:47 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Saturday, 2 October 2010 19:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Also from 1994, 'The Whole Internet - User's Guide & Catalog'. 538 pages, and 35 pages on the WWW.
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Saturday, 2 October 2010 20:01 (thirteen years ago) link
:30 second mark here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl8a2RkjRpU
― aerosmith: live at gunpoint (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Saturday, 2 October 2010 20:47 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Aimless, Saturday, 2 October 2010 20:53 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Saturday, 2 October 2010 22:41 (thirteen years ago) link
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)
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Saturday, 2 October 2010 22:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Anyone remember this thing?
http://macarlo.com/images/hotdog6w2kanim.gif
(I actually worked for them for a little bit in 1999)
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Saturday, 2 October 2010 23:20 (thirteen years ago) link
When Napster came out, I had this whole contraption set up where I had a cord coming out of the headphone jack on my work computer's keyboard, going into an adaptor and going into my mic input on my Sony portable jambox. With this, I would tape songs off of the Internet It was the only way I could think of to get stuff like the Foo Fighters' version of "Baker Street" or the 12" version of "The Glamorous Life" back to the house.
Later, I figured out how to save them to my office's network drive. I was lucky because my employer had just got a CD burner for one of the studios. We were only supposed to use it to burn CDs for clients, but I would sneak in there after hours to burn the downloads onto a CD in real time. Most of my tracks from that era has about a 1-2 sec. lead time because I'd hit record and then stretch over to the computer to hit the space bar to play.
― http://tinyurl.com/hommphommp (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 2 October 2010 23:51 (thirteen years ago) link
My dad downloaded and taped a bunch of Harry Potter audio books for his car in that manner as recently as last year.
― Mormons come out of the sky and they stand there (Abbbottt), Saturday, 2 October 2010 23:57 (thirteen years ago) link
so awesome
― markers, Saturday, 2 October 2010 23:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Original video on this thread isn't loading for me, keeps stalling and buffering, just like 1995.
Not v. nostalgic for that time, tbh. You could see how it would eventually be immense in theory, but the practice was dial-up, empty chatrooms with people going "hi!" and "HI!! :-)" to each other and Netscape mail choking on Sinister.
Course now we're here and it's shonky 3G, stupid hashtags and iPhone Mail choking on Amazon receipts.
― stet, Sunday, 3 October 2010 01:02 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.phreedom.org/cyberpunk-style-guide/
― stet, Sunday, 3 October 2010 01:04 (thirteen years ago) link
http://web.archive.org/web/19961017235908/http://www2.yahoo.com/
― markers, Sunday, 3 October 2010 01:11 (thirteen years ago) link
http://web.archive.org/web/19990117032727/http://www.google.com/
― markers, Sunday, 3 October 2010 01:12 (thirteen years ago) link
http://web.archive.org/web/19961224025757/http://pitchfork.com/
anybody remember the company that would pay you to surf the web, i.e. you would install their program and watch their ads while surfing and they'd send you a check?
also, FTPs
― Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile (dayo), Sunday, 3 October 2010 01:14 (thirteen years ago) link
LOLLLLL @ pitchfork.com
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Sunday, 3 October 2010 01:17 (thirteen years ago) link
i worked dial-up Internet tech support in 99/00 and got to the point I could troubleshoot connection problems by listening to the modem noise:
"Hold the phone up to the modem""skrrrrrrrrch-bing-bong-bing-bong-bing-bong-bing-bong-xxxzsxzxszzzzzzsssxxx""OK, go into My Computer / Control Panel...."
― Can You Tape? Learn the rules. (herb albert), Sunday, 3 October 2010 01:21 (thirteen years ago) link
by the way, I am very pleased to note that not only have animated gifs lived on in web 2.0, they are undergoing a renaissance of sorts in fact
― Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile (dayo), Sunday, 3 October 2010 01:31 (thirteen years ago) link
a world without gifs is a deeply impoverished world
― markers, Sunday, 3 October 2010 01:53 (thirteen years ago) link
massively impressed by herb albert's modem listening diagnostic skills!
― NI, Sunday, 3 October 2010 02:08 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, that's hero-level
― markers, Sunday, 3 October 2010 02:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Haha I used to do modem-noise diagnostics too. *embarassed*. Also had endless strings of DNS addresses memorised. Ah, helpdesk days. I do not miss you and your PEBKACs.
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Sunday, 3 October 2010 02:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Haha yes, I totally got to bust out PEBKAC at a wedding luncheon, and no one had ever heard it. (My mom-in-law was trying to claim she could not open an MP3 because her husband's computer "doesn't have enough RAM," which...was...not true. It turns out she'd never tried to open it.)
― Mormons come out of the sky and they stand there (Abbbottt), Sunday, 3 October 2010 02:33 (thirteen years ago) link
With her it's mostly just PEin generalin ever part of lifea problem exists.
ANd, that 'quip' was my most successful moment in Sept. 2010. It was a great month!
― Mormons come out of the sky and they stand there (Abbbottt), Sunday, 3 October 2010 02:35 (thirteen years ago) link
remember when browsers supported blinking text? now u gotta do that shit in javascript
― best poast - crazy 4 ya (diamonddave85), Sunday, 3 October 2010 02:36 (thirteen years ago) link
wizard jon fucking loves the blinky text
― Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile (dayo), Sunday, 3 October 2010 02:39 (thirteen years ago) link
xxxpost yeah, I was hardcore. advanced technical knowledge soon rendered totally worthless. had a massive celebration when I quit that job and moved on to Web Dev
― Can You Tape? Learn the rules. (herb albert), Sunday, 3 October 2010 02:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Bloody marquee tag...
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Sunday, 3 October 2010 09:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Personal home pages with ENORMOUS 3" font!
― Party with Your Poodle (u s steel), Sunday, 3 October 2010 10:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Every webpage with grey background!
― ledge, Sunday, 3 October 2010 10:04 (thirteen years ago) link
playing Everquest and dinner's on the table. "MOM! i can't just pause it! you don't understand. there are people DEPENDING on me!"
― circa1916, Sunday, 3 October 2010 10:11 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm sure that happens all the time even now, but EVERQUEST!
Bondage and leather people outnumbering norms 5 to 1.
― Party with Your Poodle (u s steel), Sunday, 3 October 2010 10:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Old Man Murray.
Before MP3s took off, amassing MIDIs of popular songs.
Once MP3s took off, Audiogalaxy.
― it sucks and you all love something that sucks (reddening), Sunday, 3 October 2010 10:55 (thirteen years ago) link