Internet nostalgia

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was just thinking that

Yes, it's a horse inside a car. Click to enlarge.

heh-heh!

http://www.metaphoriclabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/suckcom.jpg

http://home.bway.net/slutboy/home2.html

Does anyone remember the "Wonderwall", a wall with a lot of band website links?

"to-day is gonna be the day that they link it right back to you"

http://replay.waybackmachine.org/19971108163436/http://www.beat.co.uk/beat/wonderwall.html

This is what it was like (the backing wall has gone tho)

http://paulkatcher.com/archives/000219.shtml

Yeah that's right stet. Eat your heart out. ZMODEM BABY

JUSTIN'S LINKS TO THE UNDERGROUND

I remember crying my eyes out with laughter at this, back in the day.

http://web.archive.org/web/20010605230406/www.thespark.com/science/stinkyfeet/day1.html

Does anyone remember the "Wonderwall", a wall with a lot of band website links?

that were good that

holy cow, www.niftyness.com is still online.

http://www.niftyness.com/graphics/mrjohn.jpg

Trumpet winsock scripts!

one of my favorite insane places (non-political) on the webbernet is still alive!

http://taxi1010.com/

I just got ahold of a copy of the Details "music issue" from '96. It has a big article on "The Internet's Greatest Hits-A music lover's guide to the best sites and sounds on the World Wide Web" and is just dripping w/this stuff.

The lead for the "Music Shopping" section (which singeled out CD Now*, CD Europe, Music Boulevard, CDWorld & BMG Music Service):

Shopping online is convenient, but nothing like walking into your local megastore. Most online "shops" are simply text lists of artists and albums, with an occasional album cover on display. Without the stimulating sensory experience of walking through an actual record store, browsing isn't as likely to inspire that I've-gotta-have-it reaction. However, if you know exactly what you want beforehand, these services are great places to come and get it.

*Which they claim was the best, using for an example buying a double-lp jazz album for $25.97 with next-day delivery for an extra $5.48 and yr encrypted AmEx #.

totally miss geocities

i remember my earliest internet travelling and coming across Stile Project, and being like OMG INTERNET JUST HAS EVERYTHING

My first online music-discovery sight was IUMA: Internet Underground Music Archive. ISTR finding out about a lot of cool bands at the time, but I couldn't tell you now who they were. There was also Garageband.com, where musicians and bands could put up music and critique each other; used to spend a lot of time on there.

one of my favorite insane places (non-political) on the webbernet is still alive!

http://taxi1010.com/

Dude, wow. There is bucketloads of crazy on that site.

i know it is the best

woooooooooow

This is nearly like plunging the depths of ulillillia city.

gimme your balls FOOL

my favourite early internet find

http://www.alcyone.com/oo/

still the 5th result for Yinka Dare: http://www.angelfire.com/stars/yinka/

http://www.almostamazing.com/flash/hyaku.swf

I remember loving this back in the early 90s:

http://www.realchange.org/quayle.htm

http://www.realchange.org/tallskl2.jpg

my favourite early internet find

http://www.alcyone.com/oo/

― plax (ico), Wednesday, March 2, 2011 3:29 PM

This is a decade-plus favorite of mine, too!@

Trumpet winsock scripts!

Congratulations to Trayce for really giving me a blast of nostalgia. Haven't thought about Trumpet Winsock for God knows how long and I never really knew what it meant. I think it was something I clicked on in WIndows 3.1 when there were problems with the internet connection. Beyond that, fuck knows, but what a phrase. Trumpet Winsock!

And it had a little windsock as an icon. I think they were based in Tasmania.

My modem was always crummy so I was constantly writing dialler scripts to make it re-dial, handshake repeatedly, etc. I completely forget how to do all that shit now.

Guy behind Trumpet Winsock basically made no money out of it, because ISPs worldwide gave away the pay-for version without paying him. Now nerds are donating money to him, just because http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2282875

caught an old episode of Buffy the other day. Here is a joek I hope to use soon:
"I met him online."
"On line for what?"

― elephant rob, Friday, October 1, 2010 1:09 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i was literally just watching a buffy episode from season 7 (ie the last season) where willow explains what google is to xander

http://www.superbad.com

that's ca 1997

Space Potatoes
The Internet Oracle (still going after 15+ years)
The Cleveland Freenet
...and the other Freenets

http://www.tiedyes.com/thetofuolympics1996.html

http://www.tiedyes.com/tofuimages/tofuwtorchline.gif

Guy behind Trumpet Winsock basically made no money out of it, because ISPs worldwide gave away the pay-for version without paying him. Now nerds are donating money to him, just because http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2282875

Lol at nerds making it completely baffling how to actually donate until someone intervenes halfway down.

Art!

http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2011/06/06/f-digital-archeology-exhibit.html

Those iMacs are 13 years old?!

Of a sooner kind of nostalgia -- Web Sheriff, still around! Fronted by Ricky Gervais! Oh wait...

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-web-sheriff-20110609,0,2614591.story

I have wondered when "digital archaeology" was going to become a common term. I guess that time is arriving.

Hey, the grad students in sociology etc. need to write their thesis papers on something...

I like the internet archive - it IS nostalgic!