dudes, i'm playing snood right now
― Honey, I squirted jizz all over the baby (the table is the table), Saturday, 2 October 2010 02:59 (thirteen years ago) link
for my 8th algebra class ('95) i had a bearded, yet relatively young (35-ish) grateful dead fan "hippie" algebra teacher named mr. whitaker. mr. whitaker was really fond of "abtract" mathematical concepts such as fractals. he had lots of fractals posters in the classroom. one day, as a way to encourage us to fool around with The 'Net and thereby enrich the part of our brains that abstract mathematical concepts live in, mr. whitaker told us he'd kick us down us a few extra credit points if we could manage to successfully transmit to him, via the inter net, one (1) electronic mail aka E-MAIL. a few months prior, i'd convinced my dad to buy us an account with a local dial-up ISP, and i was already relatively savvy with it, so it was really no hassle at all. as it turned out, i was the only one in the class sophisticated/advantaged enough to have access to such technology at this time, and mr. whitaker was kind enough to point that out to everyone as he wrote my little extra credits down in the gradebook.
― del griffith, Saturday, 2 October 2010 02:59 (thirteen years ago) link
first time watching a video on the internet: some sort of 1 minute video about a space shuttle from NASA which took several hours to download and only played for a few seconds before crashing computer
― i'm gonna be straight with y'all, my name is banaka jones (Z S), Saturday, 2 October 2010 03:03 (thirteen years ago) link
oh man, that's fantastic
― markers, Saturday, 2 October 2010 03:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Another 1994 clip. Note how proud Crow is of the setup he describes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GoMoeV3Y4A
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 2 October 2010 03:15 (thirteen years ago) link
"And you think that'll make you happy, huh."
"YES."
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 2 October 2010 03:16 (thirteen years ago) link
you're a liar Z S and I don't believe you, unless 'space shuttle from NASA' is code for 'nude scene from fast times at ridgemont high'
― Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile (dayo), Saturday, 2 October 2010 03:16 (thirteen years ago) link
it's the truth! bonus pr0n anecdote, though, is not knowing how to delete search history (or knowing that you could delete it, or knowing that it existed)and getting called out by dad - "...and tell me, what exactly is "hotsexvideos.com"?
― i'm gonna be straight with y'all, my name is banaka jones (Z S), Saturday, 2 October 2010 03:22 (thirteen years ago) link
"...uh, baseball cards"
― i'm gonna be straight with y'all, my name is banaka jones (Z S), Saturday, 2 October 2010 03:23 (thirteen years ago) link
^that's my totally revisionist version of what I would say, when in reality it was more like "nnnghhhh...i'm...nghgggghhhh...sorry...nnnnghhphhh"
"well you see dad, it's actually, um, 'hots ex videos' -- the guy's nickname is hots... no i have no idea how he got it -- and he posts testimonial videos from his ex-girlfriends explaining what went wrong in the relationship... so it's really an educational thing, when you think about it. it's a public service, is what it is"
― waka flocka flame judi dench (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 2 October 2010 03:25 (thirteen years ago) link
ILX: the Momus years
― RR, Saturday, 2 October 2010 06:42 (thirteen years ago) link
IRC! I used to be on that shit non stop. I went and got a permanent diaup connection and everything.
― cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Saturday, 2 October 2010 06:46 (thirteen years ago) link
my housemate Chris explaining how these two asshole lawyers posted messages advertising their firm to like, every single board on usenet
― sarahel, Saturday, 2 October 2010 06:54 (thirteen years ago) link
http://qodem.sourceforge.net/tradewars1.gif
― funky house skeptic (polyphonic), Saturday, 2 October 2010 07:13 (thirteen years ago) link
//roll
― A B C, Saturday, 2 October 2010 07:19 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMLH_QyPTYM
― Not the real Village People, Saturday, 2 October 2010 08:08 (thirteen years ago) link
bonus pr0n anecdote,
Taking about a month to amass eight floppies full of pr0n.
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Saturday, 2 October 2010 08:31 (thirteen years ago) link
how long did it take you to amass eight stiffies?
― Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile (dayo), Saturday, 2 October 2010 08:37 (thirteen years ago) link
I'd graduated to a 20MB hard drive by then.
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Saturday, 2 October 2010 08:38 (thirteen years ago) link
early 90s: going to a library meeting about the internet -- full room, with the lecturer showing off gopher (veronica, jughead, etc) and ascii art
1996?: using netscape 1.0 with the status bar managing the files to save, which just disappear if they don't finish downloading
― my sex drew back into itself tight and dry (abanana), Saturday, 2 October 2010 08:59 (thirteen years ago) link
not actually owning a computer and having to use the public library to access Hotmail account
nb not actually nostalgic about this
― aerosmith: live at gunpoint (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Saturday, 2 October 2010 09:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Printing out a picture of Elvis Costello & The Attractions, then adding text to it with MS Word and getting the image transferred to a t-shirt. Probably 1995 or so, and I had that shirt for 10 years.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 2 October 2010 10:19 (thirteen years ago) link
I downloaded and printed a bunch of Kinks tablatures too, enough to make a three-ring binder get pretty thick. I'm sure my dad loved getting back into his office (which doubled as the guest room) the following Monday and finding out his printer had run out of ink.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 2 October 2010 10:22 (thirteen years ago) link
xp i did that with the picture of sly on the CD insert for the family stone's greatest hits! it was awesome! i miss that shirt...
― beef lamp (stevie), Saturday, 2 October 2010 10:23 (thirteen years ago) link
once I met someone off the internet, and I took the train across the country to see this dude, and I spent the next hour trying to ring him from the station payphone to say I had arrived and could I get a lift, but I couldn't get through, because he was online
because, you see, in those days, online meant no phone callsand we didn't have cellphonesuhhyeah, never mind.
― patapon pataphysics (a passing spacecadet), Saturday, 2 October 2010 10:34 (thirteen years ago) link
For that just out of 1998 feel try http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/
― State Attorney Foxhart Cubycheck (Billy Dods), Saturday, 2 October 2010 10:35 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm pretty sure I had a geocities page with like five links or something
― aerosmith: live at gunpoint (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Saturday, 2 October 2010 10:42 (thirteen years ago) link
web rings
― Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile (dayo), Saturday, 2 October 2010 11:10 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^^^^^^^
― sir you cannot be serious (stevie), Saturday, 2 October 2010 11:11 (thirteen years ago) link
'Under Construction' GIF, sometimes animated.
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Saturday, 2 October 2010 11:15 (thirteen 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, 2 October 2010 11:23 (thirteen years ago) link
leaving the computer online overnight to download the latest game demo from HappyPuppy.com
― haven't you people ever heard of theodor a-goddamn-dorno (bernard snowy), Saturday, 2 October 2010 11:25 (thirteen years ago) link
turning off images to surf faster
― haven't you people ever heard of theodor a-goddamn-dorno (bernard snowy), Saturday, 2 October 2010 11:27 (thirteen years ago) link
hitting "stop" before clicking a link, because netscape used to crash if u tried to click away from the current page while it was still loading
― haven't you people ever heard of theodor a-goddamn-dorno (bernard snowy), Saturday, 2 October 2010 11:28 (thirteen years ago) link
people's personal "homepages"
banners, along with instructions to "contact the Webmaster" to place your banner ad in that space
― dude (del), Saturday, 2 October 2010 14:01 (thirteen years ago) link
― dude [yr gettin' a] (del)
― haven't you people ever heard of theodor a-goddamn-dorno (bernard snowy), Saturday, 2 October 2010 14:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Nostalgia is useless
― banaka, Saturday, 2 October 2010 15:57 (thirteen years ago) link
banaka = smarterchild
― Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile (dayo), Saturday, 2 October 2010 15:58 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm not sure if banaka = smarterchild.
― john water (harbl), Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
nostalgia is the 'naive reading' of history/cultural memory, preparatory to any meaningful act of criticism
― haven't you people ever heard of theodor a-goddamn-dorno (bernard snowy), Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Welcome back, bernard snowy! How may I help you now?
― john water (harbl), Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:08 (thirteen years ago) link
criticism is not what is needed; what is needed is dispassionate analysis and action, action, action.
― banaka, Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:09 (thirteen years ago) link
I'll have to think about that one for a while.
― john water (harbl), Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:10 (thirteen years ago) link
@_@
― haven't you people ever heard of theodor a-goddamn-dorno (bernard snowy), Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:10 (thirteen years ago) link
(o)_(o)
― haven't you people ever heard of theodor a-goddamn-dorno (bernard snowy), Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:11 (thirteen years ago) link
=||((O))_((O))||=
― haven't you people ever heard of theodor a-goddamn-dorno (bernard snowy), Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:12 (thirteen years ago) link
got mah hater-blockers on (||)_(||)
― haven't you people ever heard of theodor a-goddamn-dorno (bernard snowy), Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:13 (thirteen years ago) link
there is no hate to block, only the blinding light of truth (to use a hackneyed metaphor)
― banaka, Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
lolin at harbl
banaka how do you pronounce hackneyed, do you say 'hack en eyed' like 'hack en sack'
because I imagine that's how you say it
― Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile (dayo), Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah that "surprise me" button is endlessly entertaining.
― Kim Kimberly, Wednesday, 16 February 2022 23:50 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/LkM5Fu6.jpeg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 16 February 2022 23:59 (two years ago) link
Love to see an internet nostalgia site that’s still being regularly updated, complete with guest book and all. All you Beatles and solo Beatles needs:https://jpgr.co.uk/beatroot.html
― Alba, Monday, 7 March 2022 22:30 (two years ago) link
Great find, reminds me of SugarMegs: http://sugarmegs.org
― blatherskite, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 14:48 (two years ago) link
Rediscovering the Small Web
― Kim Kimberly, Sunday, 13 March 2022 05:29 (two years ago) link
logging on to the nbc supernet pic.twitter.com/Vl3HNYzOz8— no (@n0wak) April 8, 2022
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 8 April 2022 23:50 (one year ago) link
https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/09/way-back-in-1989-usa-today-launched-an-online-sports-service-i-found-it-at-goodwill/
― Alba, Sunday, 2 October 2022 20:07 (one year ago) link
Wow
― Misirlou Sunset (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 October 2022 20:29 (one year ago) link