Internet nostalgia

"_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.

Remember the feeling that you couldn't go on internet unless you were a "cyberpunk"??

On a related note, everyone I know who did raves stayed off the internet!

They Might be Giants - Fish Heads.mp3

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

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.

mine were Sean Lennon but I was on fake plastic (no?) looking up Radiohead lyrics, I assure you
actually met most of my first internet friends on a RH chat room. a BeSeen chat room.

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.

*used to do website designs for diaryland*

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.

lol Andrew!

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!!***

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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!

I webmailed her and was like "Uh, this prob sounds nuts and I'm fairly certain you won't remember me but . . .".

Anytime I feel like feeling old, I go see how old Ms. Smartypants' little girl is these days.

OMG FFM that was 12 years ago!!!

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!

TWELVE YEARS?
oh Lord. Amazing. Happy 12th baby! <3

Wait - really? I wanted to open a store?? Funny. That was probably when I had a PT job in one, actually. We should!

Holy cow - the whole thing is still up? That's nuts. I don't think I realized that!!

HAha, yeah! I found mine a few months ago and had a field day reading through the old entries. Then I locked it 0_0 Your username is safe with me! Sad the design didn't survive, haha.

found this in the course of my internet nostalgizing:

Name: Sean Lennon
Comments: I just wanted to say hi! Thanks for making this web page. I'm
very flattered. You know the picture to the left of list?
Well If you don't mind changing it, I hate that
picture...thanks.

love,

Sean

p.s. I'm working on writing new songs now...hope you'll like
'em

Tuesday, August 3rd 1999 - 07:35:21 PM

There are usenet posts from the mid-90s where I'm talking about magic the gathering I think

how mortifying

dude, a significant portion of my friends still play magic - be happy it's just in your past!

LOL

Oh my God I was so young and angsty and annoying lol.

I actually went through a phase where I purged or just gave away a lot of stuff that I now kind of wish I had. Fleeting impulses, I guess.

hahahaha, E, I know what you'll be doing all day! ;D

Are you kidding me? I'm gonna read this whole damn thing start to finish. This is hysterical.

i was making really bad ok computer skins and posting them on Green Plastic.

i may have used one of these at some point! iirc i couldn't work out where any of the buttons were so reverted to my awesome legend of zelda: a link to the past skin.

E - U/P for mine is lex/lex - a glorious snippet when I was still hanging onto a pseudonym:

Well, Adelaide has to go to school now. She'll try to seduce her teacher for the umpteenth time, and come home and complain about it being unsuccessful. Bye!

Wait- what's U/P??

lol nm - I'm in! :)

Not much, what's U/P with you?

(Jokes nostalgia!)

winamp - it really whips the llama's ass!

I still use Winamp and installed it on a new comp yesterday and it still uses that DJ Mike Llama thing when you first load it.

I still have fond memories of "Cliff Yablonski hates you", the Jeff K website, and all the Newgrounds.com celebrity assassinations, but I suspect I'd find them all very unfunny if I looked at them again...

MIKE JITTLOV

the guy was a usenet celebrity, he seemed unimaginably cool and knowing to me at the time

about:jwz

  o================================o:; ,::::,*.:::::.*.::::::::::::
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  | c/o 902 Maltman, LA 90026-2714 |,',.::.. .' .' |\^/|:. `*:.. `*
  | (213) No-Human (noon, to moon) |...May All Your \Y/ Good Dreams
  | {Please allow 1 yr 4 response} |and Fine Wishes /_\ Come True:)
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gah, auto-replace email address code!

i like the ascii cheerer in the middle of the inspirational quote on the right

listening to belle & sebastian last night and the line 'boo to the business world!' triggered some early message board nostalgia

was anyone else on dc++ back in the day?

is that actually old enough to count as "back in the day"? :)

I spent the entire summer of 1996 playing Quake and talking on irc

/slap mh

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sure! why, youtube wasn't even a gleam in dc++'s eye...

i still remember ICQ...*whap whap whap whap whap whap* "uh-oh! uh-oh!" my God

early 2000s def qualifies as pre-web 2.0

i met two of my best friends on dc

I know a few old-skool ilxors used to chat on WarpComm - anyone else?

what is wrong with that? I had a great summer that year!

my ICQ number is 1071xx /braggin