i am feeling early-Internet nostalgicbut is there a thread for pre-Internet nostalgia?
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Saturday, 20 August 2011 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
because i was talking to friends yesterday about how i can hardly remember how i used to make plans with people. and then i remembered: we called each other in advance and made actual plans and stuck to them! those were simpler times.
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Saturday, 20 August 2011 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
A neighbor could walk down the block and make conversation. Now a man is staring at facebook lamenting a lack of invitations and no friends online.
― mh, Saturday, 20 August 2011 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
xp wow i don't know anyone who makes plans via the internet
― Summer Slam! (Ste), Saturday, 20 August 2011 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
plans as in, "so what we doing tonight then"
― Summer Slam! (Ste), Saturday, 20 August 2011 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
i think facebook sometimes makes plans for us, but often they are fake plans, or hoped-for plansand then, if we are serious, or old-school, we email/txt/phone to see if those plans are real
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Saturday, 20 August 2011 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
I message via google talk a lot at the end of the work day and it transitions into text messages if plans weren't finalized.
― mh, Saturday, 20 August 2011 21:55 (twelve years ago) link
i am bad at plans despite all newfangled communication devices
― mookieproof, Saturday, 20 August 2011 22:02 (twelve years ago) link
Roffle:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,977654,00.html
Oh 1993.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 26 August 2011 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
That issue of Time got me into a bunch of interesting books
― los blue jeans, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 03:19 (twelve years ago) link
"we will all be cyberpunks"
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 03:22 (twelve years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberia_%28book%29 was such a dope book to me when i was about 13 and none of the people mentioned in it have mattered for fifteen years.
― dylannn, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 03:27 (twelve years ago) link
Wow, the post-hippies of the 90s really aren't that relevant anymore, are they?
I've read a book by one of those dudes and met another in person and he was waaaay creepy.
― unwarranted display names of ilx (mh), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 03:45 (twelve years ago) link
"Huzzah!"
I remember seeing this everywhere on the net in the '90s, yet not actually hearing it anywhere
― the four HOOSmen of the STEENpacolypse (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 06:09 (twelve years ago) link
to my shame, i still say that
― not bulimic, just a cat (James Morrison), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 06:18 (twelve years ago) link
"Huzzah!" was an MST3k popularizing of a vague Renaissance-Festival vibe, right?
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
For damn sure. I know that because that's how *I* started using it.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsxfMZLKsgw
Heavens!
― Aimless, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
pre-internet nostalgia = you had to live next door to ned raggett to know who he was
― mark s, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
NOT THAT I'M NOSTALGIC FOR THAT TIME ;-)
― mark s, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
You were always a kindly neighbor, a bowl of sugar whenever I asked.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
i said "huzzah!" about something not an hour ago! i started because of MST3K, but Futurama reinforced it
― FLIP FLOPPING HILL BILLY! (reddening), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
My step-brother had a cat named Huzzah, but he did work at Renaissance Festival.
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 1 September 2011 01:51 (twelve years ago) link
Nevertheless, cyberpunk may be the defining counterculture of the computer age. It embraces, in spirit at least, not just the nearest thirtysomething hacker hunched over his terminal but also nose-ringed twentysomethings gathered at clandestine RAVES, teenagers who feel about the Macintosh computer the way their parents felt about Apple Records, and even preadolescent vidkids fused like Krazy Glue to their Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis games -- the training wheels of cyberpunk. Obsessed with technology, especially technology that is just beyond their reach (like BRAIN IMPLANTS), the cyberpunks are future oriented to a fault. They already have one foot in the 21st century, and time is on their side. In the long run, we will all be cyberpunks.
i don't quite understand the capitalization in that article. i mean, i get that most of the time it's supposed to refer to a "new" term, or something that needs to be defined (hypertext, cybernetics, etc), but other times it's just odd ("WILLIAM GIBSON, a 44-year-old American now living in Vancouver")
― IT IS EXECUTION (Z S), Thursday, 1 September 2011 01:57 (twelve years ago) link
TECHNO-EROTIC PAGANISMVIRTUAL SEX
― IT IS EXECUTION (Z S), Thursday, 1 September 2011 01:58 (twelve years ago) link
AKA any My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult song around that time.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 September 2011 02:02 (twelve years ago) link
you guys
real audio
― Z S, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 06:14 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.oocities.org/suonnoch/Mythmyst/rnmark.gif
― Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 06:32 (twelve years ago) link
dammit, we could listen to these awesome 30 second clips of the upcoming Vines album, but this computer doesn't have the Real suite of tools installed!
― Z S, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 06:37 (twelve years ago) link
.asx
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 10:14 (twelve years ago) link
"_00 hours free!!!" AOL CDs regularly appearing in mailbox
― haven't you people ever heard of theodor a-goddamn-dorno (bernard snowy), Saturday, October 2, 2010 12:23 PM (1 year ago)
AOL CDs regularly appearing under coffee mugs as coasters.
― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 10:52 (twelve years ago) link
Remember the feeling that you couldn't go on internet unless you were a "cyberpunk"??
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Don Nots (Mount Cleaners), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
On a related note, everyone I know who did raves stayed off the internet!
They Might be Giants - Fish Heads.mp3
― frogbs, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 14:25 (twelve years ago) link
lol frogbs
many xp I never used Real Player because I was too busy making WinAmp skins & hosting them on my XOOM website for people to download
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 14:27 (twelve years ago) link
I was too busy making WinAmp skins & hosting them on my XOOM website for people to download
winamp - it really whips the llama's ass! i was making really bad ok computer skins and posting them on Green Plastic.
― Z S, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
mine were Sean Lennon but I was on fake plastic (no?) looking up Radiohead lyrics, I assure youactually met most of my first internet friends on a RH chat room. a BeSeen chat room.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 14:32 (twelve years ago) link
i was making really bad ok computer skins and posting them on Green Plastic.
yeah I think I remember you mentioning that on your diaryland.
― McCrisco/Cocaine (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 14:33 (twelve years ago) link
*used to do website designs for diaryland*
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 14:38 (twelve years ago) link
fuck my friend and I went out and met the guy who created diaryland at 2am on a beach in toronto. we were dumb kids. he was dumb too luckily, because I live on.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 14:39 (twelve years ago) link
lol Andrew!
― ENBB, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 14:41 (twelve years ago) link
Andrew was short! He said he'd buy us cigarettes.. that's what gets two 16 year olds out to the east end of Toronto at 2AM.
full circle to ILX***I designed ENBB's diaryland account, this is why we are such buds!!***
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 14:42 (twelve years ago) link
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I know we've mentioned this on other threads but FFM actually designed my Diaryland page when she was like 15 or something. lol. We were friends on there for a years but eventually we both stopped using that site. FF about 10 years and she posts a picture on WDYLL and all of a sudden it just clicked and I was like woah Toronto, that pic - OMG that's Alexis!
― ENBB, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 14:43 (twelve years ago) link
I webmailed her and was like "Uh, this prob sounds nuts and I'm fairly certain you won't remember me but . . .".
― ENBB, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 14:44 (twelve years ago) link
Anytime I feel like feeling old, I go see how old Ms. Smartypants' little girl is these days.
― pplains, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 14:44 (twelve years ago) link
OMG FFM that was 12 years ago!!!
― ENBB, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 14:45 (twelve years ago) link
hahahahahahaha. I was so happy when you webmailed me!
I just did some googling of our combined usernames and you had an idea to open a clothing store & I was going to design the site and we should probably do that!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 14:45 (twelve years ago) link
TWELVE YEARS?oh Lord. Amazing. Happy 12th baby! <3
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 14:46 (twelve years ago) link
Wait - really? I wanted to open a store?? Funny. That was probably when I had a PT job in one, actually. We should!
― ENBB, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 14:46 (twelve years ago) link