Internet nostalgia

http://www.hoary.org/now/mn/nets30.gif

I thought excite was gone
http://www.dogpile.com/

stil l goin strong

Forgot all about Dogpile! A search engine that ran your query through multiple search engines to increase your chances of finding stuff. Used it quite a bit before Google took over.

Most of the old search sites are still there, but not what they seem. Altavista.com is owned by Yahoo and returns the same results as Yahoo does, which itself is powered by Bing. Netscape.com = AOL.com, etc.

http://nostalgia4net.tumblr.com

http://airshipdaily.com/blog/the-first-white-house-website-is-still-online

http://youvegotmail.warnerbros.com/flashintro.html

http://rookiemag.com/2013/08/what-wd-lacewednesday-do/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I33u7P-XokE

Never saw Lawnmower Man - was too young when it came out - but wow it looks pretty insane. I saw a clip last night as part of a Rifftrax 90's Internet thing (that also included 4-5 minutes each of Hackers and The Net) and there was a part where his mouth turns into a lawnmower which he uses to eat a brain, and it's all done in glorious early cartoony CGI. Also I LOL'd when the riffers said it looked like he was being sucked into a Trapper Keeper.

http://partners.nytimes.com/library/cyber/hyperwocky/0504brickman.html

Remember when?

http://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/371890/a-1990s-guide-to-cyber-dating/

OMG, I just tried http://www.ilxor.com/1996/

I feel so ... young

― Brad C.

My new ilx template

everything feels really real

http://deephousepage.com/images/gifs/logo2.gif

http://webcenters.netscape.compuserve.com/tech/

Those forums are all still active! Man, they look even more Windows 3.1 than we do

just the fact that that URL has both Netscape and CompuServe in it gives me the lulz

Oh dear

http://io9.com/1997-explains-how-to-cybersex-in-glorious-nsfw-instr-1613953635

Is that Laura Palmer?!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/events/clinton_under_fire/latest_news/238784.stm

late shift @ the paper. shit to do. may as well try and win some loot. treeloot.
http://sydlexia.com/blogstuff/treeloot.bmp

i totally forgot what the internet used to be like. wasn't much on the web so most time was spent on IRC, messageboards, and usenet. i feel like the internet now is turning my brain into mush and making me into even more of a dumbass. reddit, gawker, huffington post, buzzfeed, it's all so fucking stupid, yet seems totally normal now. i think i need to take an internet hiatus so my brain can recover.

"Hot Searches"

1. Cheescake Factory

https://dir.yahoo.com/ will be closing on Dec 31

http://www.cnet.com/news/yahoo-directory-once-the-companys-cornerstone-to-shut-down/

i had no idea that was still there.

Here is a screencapture that was made on October 3, 2014 A.D.

http://i.imgur.com/z0T2gCV.png

http://i.imgur.com/uPgTkCB.png

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/02/27/magazine/Netstalgia.html

http://i.imgur.com/nROojTW.gif
omg thank you for this

http://i.imgur.com/Q2HSFUa.gif

http://theballreport.com/the-story-of-ate-my-balls-one-of-the-first-internet-memes/

http://www.cameronsworld.net/

<3

http://losernet.tripod.com/loser.html

http://mashable.com/2015/07/31/quiz-do-you-know-your-windows-startup-sounds/

http://imgur.com/a/ZPJyv

https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/yahoos-old-internet-life-magazine-is-amazing?utm_content=buffer08a12&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer&utm_term=.bqbPONRy7#.hhzDnP8YE

http://i.imgur.com/JjV6AH1.jpg

Slipping away, these sites

http://www.loeser.us/

https://i.imgur.com/MGssQ2i.png

http://accounts.utk.edu/uact/help.pine-setup.html

I've gotten a lot better at using the wayback machine these days, that's for sure

i miss the old internet, when things could be interesting and not just loud

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z30oQIEzzvo

I miss 2003 blogosphere, MSN and 2005 - 2010 Youtube :(

I had a diaryland. Before Myspace/LJ/Pitas. Remember that community fondly

pitas and diaryland launched very close to one another. by the same guy!

winner if he made ANY money from that, hope so

*wonder

he didn’t and the kickstarter to relaunch pitas just failed. he’s doing other stuff though.

he was also one of my favorite comedic writers on the old school internet

the other day for some reason i really wanted to see nice images of all the toys and vehicles from the mid-1980s care bear line (the small action figure size). did some googling for a few minutes, confident i would quickly find some collector nut's exhaustive resource dedicated to these toys, the different years of the line, how there's a rare version of this one guy with blue hair by mistake, maybe scans of toys r us newspaper circulars..... nothing! or rather, such pages are obviously out there, but unfindable: page after page of search results is e-shopping, mostly for present-day care bear items. it is so, so much harder these days to find sites that are not in some way selling you something, or robotically generated clones of sites trying to sell you something.

otfm

and, (somewhat related I think), so many image searches lead to just a bunch of Pinterest pages! where, for some reason, it seems difficult to navigate to the image source or even save/share the image

yeah that's a huge problem ime

Like these guys, or the stuffed versions?

https://i.imgur.com/C8N68iD.jpg

those guys!