Internet nostalgia

I would use the camera phone to take pictures of my best friend, my dog Benson.

eerie

is it real?

Feels about right, I had gone to Japan about 6mo prior to this and was amazed by phone culture which was using handsets looking like this, and certainly taking photos to use as wallpaper, while people at home were using Nokia 3390s and the 3330 was the brand new 'break your contract if you must have the latest' model on the market and texting each other ringtones.

Having said that

The next logical step, but I think the quality is too inferior to be of much practical use. If someone is going to do it, then at least they could do it properly with a 4 megapixel zoom camera, 1Gb RAM, Global Positioning and fast data transfer via infra-red or wireless or cable to computer/ftp/e-mail account, video transmission to TV preview, and in addition to being a phone, PDA, web browser, internet radio and mp3 player/recorder. We will soon end up with lots of obsolete also-rans when one holy grail of a device will eventually be able to do it all. On the other hand, if it gives people a lot of fun and they can afford it, then each to their own.
Andy Haveland-Robinson, Hungary

feels fake, but possibly isn't as internet radio (which was a pretty niche thing but did exist to a reasonable degree) might just about be a touchpoint for someone commenting on a BBC tech story.

It’s definitely real ha ha

I guess it just doesn't feel that long ago to me that I was reading this stuff, plus I'm used to looking at old BBC pages.

Now where's my RealAudio button?

It's good context to realise why the iPod launch (a month after this) was greeted with a chunk of derision among the nerderati — their heads were already thinking about wireless devices with lotsa GBs hence OG iPod got greeted with "no wireless, less space than a nomad, lame".

iirc that was the official comment of vaunted internet tastemaker... slashdot

oh man, i rolled with a yard-sale nomad from like 2008 to 2010, it was janky and obsolete in so many ways but that capacity was so so fabulous. having built a serious mp3 collection by that point, i saw no viable alternatives.

it also cost a dollar, plus time finding god-bless-em freeware that would let my computer talk to the damned thing

http://www.widescreenmuseum.com/index.htm

good website

Promising:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7jzgm/the-geocities-archive-is-bringing-the-early-internet-to-life

Christ, my band's website might rebound

sweet link (the geocities gallery), thanks

restore Kill From The Heart from nyu.edu and we're talking

My geocities is up there! Unfortunately its final iteration is just a note that it has moved, but still...

The last iteration of my geocities site

hah, I can't remember my URL but scrolling through a section I thought it might (or might not) have been in and then giving up halfway down I suddenly saw my ex's page sitting there

(there is no content, it just says he has a new page somewhere else, with just enough personal information that I am not pasting it here, no sir)

(I am fairly sure Camaraderie at Arms Length is not my ex)

the first section I dipped into was fairly plain stock backgrounds and I felt not much nostalgia, but then I clicked into one of the SunsetStrip subcategories and there were band photos and hand-pixelled logos and moody black backgrounds and people trying to be cryptic and arty and yes, yes, this is my internet, take me back

I will download all your .mod files, guitar tabs and Doom WADs

(thanks, Alba!)

Great find, will eagerly look for my old X-Files fan site that I drew on paper first. Check out http://theoldnet.com/ as well -- it's a front for the Wayback Machine that even simulates browsing in an old version of Netscape.

hah, I can't remember my URL but scrolling through a section I thought it might (or might not) have been in and then giving up halfway down I suddenly saw my ex's page sitting there

(there is no content, it just says he has a new page somewhere else, with just enough personal information that I am not pasting it here, no sir)

(I am fairly sure Camaraderie at Arms Length is not my ex)

the first section I dipped into was fairly plain stock backgrounds and I felt not much nostalgia, but then I clicked into one of the SunsetStrip subcategories and there were band photos and hand-pixelled logos and moody black backgrounds and people trying to be cryptic and arty and yes, yes, this is my internet, take me back

― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, January 28, 2020 11:37 AM (nine hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

My page was on a subcategory of SunsetStrip, um

I was also a SunsetStrip...per and spent some time scrolling through but nothing yet. :(

well, I found myself in a Blur guestbook (my first website was called Popscene so I thought my best bet was to at least examine every Blur-themed website I could find, for links/clues..)

popscene: A l e x i s D. - 10/26/97 04:30:57
My Email:p o p s c e n e @ i n a m e . c o m
Where did you hear about this page: Found it..
Comments:
I love blur soooooo much, and i've met them each once, and damon twice...My fave songs are popscene, theme from an imaginary film, and far out, and I am in Toronto, Canada...everybody email me, ok?

Did you get any emails

None that I can remember :)

Is Far Out still one of your favourite Blur songs?

Hell yeah! Nothing has really changed aside from the email. Though I now have a Blur themed *gmail* address. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

what’s up parklife420?

Ha, I go through the lyrics to Far Out in my head whenever I get a planet-related crossword clue. It usually comes up with the goods!

what’s up parklife420?

http://www.rsub.com/typographic/

warning: requires shockwave

I still have my old Shockwave, and Dreamweaver, and Flash, installation disks from when I 'borrowed' them from work many years ago. Might even still have Paintshop Pro disks.

I have never seen this amazing thing before:

Julia Stiles as the school newspaper’s cyberpunk editor-in-chief on a 1994 episode of ‘Ghostwriter.’ I will never get tired of this clip. pic.twitter.com/Nzb8q0gwRq

— d. patrick rodgers (@dpatrickrodgers) January 29, 2020

yeah that's something alright.

Amazing.

god remember when it was possible to be enthusiastic and optimistic about Being Online (TM)

brb changing my display name to ManxMouse212

i was stupid enough to use my gov't name on Usenet posts when I was a dumb 16 year old Fundamentalist and let's just say some of that shit still shows up in search engines.

you clearly cannot jam with the console cowboys in cyberspace

that clip came to my attention years ago when it was highlighted in an early Xkcd.

it's good

Anybody want to play some Legend of the Red Dragon or Tradewars?

My band back then had a Geocities page. Will be interesting to see if it pops up.

WestHollywood was *super* important to me back in the mid-90s, because it was when I first came out to my wife as gender-curious, and was one of the first places I could connect easily with other people in my situation.

good account of what Internet use was like right before Berners-Lee and why the web initially seemed to be more of an incremental change than a transformation

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/02/gopher-when-adversarial-interoperability-burrowed-under-gatekeepers-fortresses

The official Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich website is looking a bit internet nostalgia:

http://www.dddbmt.com

Came across this site when doing some important Beatles research:

https://sentstarr.tripod.com/beatgirls/first.html

Love it.

Somehow never knew about Rory Storm's macabre fate. Amongst the pleasant reminiscences of Liverpool Art College and the Cavern,

While Rory was at Stormsville comforting his mother Vi, he overdosed on a mixture of sleeping pills and alcohol. he died on 28th September 1972, and his mother committed suicide upon finding him.