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 (fifteen years ago)
LOLLLLL @ pitchfork.com
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Sunday, 3 October 2010 01:17 (fifteen years ago)
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 (fifteen years ago)
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 (fifteen years ago)
a world without gifs is a deeply impoverished world
― markers, Sunday, 3 October 2010 01:53 (fifteen years ago)
massively impressed by herb albert's modem listening diagnostic skills!
― NI, Sunday, 3 October 2010 02:08 (fifteen years ago)
yeah, that's hero-level
― markers, Sunday, 3 October 2010 02:10 (fifteen years ago)
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 (fifteen years ago)
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 (fifteen years ago)
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 (fifteen years ago)
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 (fifteen years ago)
wizard jon fucking loves the blinky text
― Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile (dayo), Sunday, 3 October 2010 02:39 (fifteen years ago)
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 (fifteen years ago)
Bloody marquee tag...
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Sunday, 3 October 2010 09:04 (fifteen years ago)
Personal home pages with ENORMOUS 3" font!
― Party with Your Poodle (u s steel), Sunday, 3 October 2010 10:01 (fifteen years ago)
Every webpage with grey background!
― ledge, Sunday, 3 October 2010 10:04 (fifteen years ago)
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 (fifteen years ago)
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 (fifteen years ago)
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 (fifteen years ago)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ate_my_balls
http://flamesgif.com/archive/ate_my_balls/img/ba01.jpg
Ate my balls was an early example of an Internet meme. In the late 1990s, some web pages were created to depict a particular celebrity or fictional character's relish for eating testicles. Often, the site would consist of a humorous story or comic featuring edited photos about the titular individual eating testicles. The photo editing was often crude, a reflection of the state of software at the time.
― ed chilliband (max arrrrrgh), Sunday, 3 October 2010 20:12 (fifteen years ago)
A compendious repository of old internet memes.
― Aimless, Sunday, 3 October 2010 20:50 (fifteen years ago)
Oh god frog in a blender I remember that one from my days on nightshift on an ISP helpdesk.
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Sunday, 3 October 2010 23:00 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvz8cTuleG0
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 4 October 2010 21:47 (fifteen years ago)
Related:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyKmoPhAebw
One of the student workers I know regarding this:
http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm
"Good god. I didn't know websites were this ugly in 1996."
Oh, poor innocent.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 07:47 (fifteen years ago)
That looks significantly nicer than the ANSI art from my BBS.
― I Am Kurious Assange (polyphonic), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 07:49 (fifteen years ago)
Yeah I was expecting a disaster and I'm all "Well, it's not very dynamic but my god there was a lot worse then."
Another friend: "at least it doesn't have FRAMES!!!"
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 07:58 (fifteen years ago)
did a view source on that site. here's the first couple lines:
<html> <!-- Copyright 1996 Warner Bros. Online --> <!-- Badda Bing, Badda Boom -->
― markers, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 08:06 (fifteen years ago)
later:
<!--**************Ads - Don't Touch!*************************************-->
yay html comments
― markers, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 08:08 (fifteen years ago)
there ARE frames on most of the subpages!
also
Cool links and hijinx!Click above to find out more about our sponsors and the various hip sites that make WB Online the jammin' place that it is.
Click above to find out more about our sponsors and the various hip sites that make WB Online the jammin' place that it is.
― Stay J0rdan Fresh (sic), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 13:52 (fifteen years ago)
I am willing to bet whoever wrote that still thinks that's of-the-moment slang.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 14:10 (fifteen years ago)
Clicking on "Warner Bros. Studio Store" reveals, via frames, a little Internet before-and-after.
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 14:17 (fifteen years ago)
why tf is that site still online??
― this guy ☜ (stevie), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 18:34 (fifteen years ago)
No Spacejam news at the moment!
― I will always think of you, while (quite) fondly, myself (Evan), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 22:00 (fifteen years ago)
http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/cmp/bball/img/n-games.gif
― svockster (buzza), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 22:04 (fifteen years ago)
Hello my future girlfriend; this is what I sound like
― frogbs, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 23:21 (fifteen years ago)
Hanson Sucks!http://lord.xopl.com/ulpage3a/band.gif
― call me king bubbles and sound like a sheik sheik (CaptainLorax), Thursday, 17 February 2011 21:20 (fifteen years ago)
http://lord.xopl.com/ulpage3a/no!!!.gif
― call me king bubbles and sound like a sheik sheik (CaptainLorax), Thursday, 17 February 2011 21:21 (fifteen years ago)
napster...the very first thing i downloaded over my 56k was fucking Deon Estus - Heaven Help Me. 45 minutes later i was on my way to my first ever mix cd with a friends burner that took approximately 30 minutes to burn a 10-12 song cd.
― OLD MAN YELLS AT SHOUT RAP (chrisv2010), Thursday, 17 February 2011 21:26 (fifteen years ago)
it was filled with such classics as the theme from Welcome Back Kotter, Deon Estus, The Goats, Chucki Booker. One of my greatest.
― OLD MAN YELLS AT SHOUT RAP (chrisv2010), Thursday, 17 February 2011 21:27 (fifteen years ago)
http://www.getzsome.com/picts/SlapSpice.jpg
― the most cuddlesome bug that ever was borned (James Morrison), Friday, 18 February 2011 00:56 (fifteen years ago)
http://cheshirecatalyst.com/lynx1.gif
― na pohybel juno roxas (Schlafsack), Friday, 18 February 2011 01:11 (fifteen years ago)
The first website my friend and I ever made: http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/camels/
― chandelier falling through a bar in a batman costume (dog latin), Friday, 18 February 2011 01:40 (fifteen years ago)
Sign my guestbook!
― chandelier falling through a bar in a batman costume (dog latin), Friday, 18 February 2011 01:41 (fifteen years ago)
Oh man, I made this huge one with loads of frames and hidden links containing rude words. Had so much fun doing it. Would have to be dead now.
― na pohybel juno roxas (Schlafsack), Friday, 18 February 2011 01:43 (fifteen years ago)
dog latin at age ??
DISCLAIMER ACHTUNG! This site has nothing to do with camels or camelling asides from the name. If you do see a camel or even a dromedare on this site, please inform us and we shall have it shot promptly in the head. Don't think that we won't - me and Adam are total and utter bastards that way. So anyway - you know the score.
― Aimless, Friday, 18 February 2011 02:03 (fifteen years ago)
I made it yesterday. what?
― chandelier falling through a bar in a batman costume (dog latin), Friday, 18 February 2011 02:20 (fifteen years ago)