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
did anyone spend hours looking at these? i did. http://www.somethingawful.com/d/cliff-yablonski/
― john water (harbl), Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link
oh god yes, and jeff k
― Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile (dayo), Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:19 (thirteen years ago) link
My favorite site circa 1997http://www.alcyone.com/oo/
― Mormons come out of the sky and they stand there (Abbbottt), Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:19 (thirteen years ago) link
-exchanging .wavs of sound clips from star wars in an IRC channel called #sw_wavs
― Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile (dayo), Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:20 (thirteen years ago) link
-writing sweet IRC scripts that let me play my sweet star wars .wavs and final fantasy .mid's using keyboard shortcuts
looking up wavs of fart sounds with my brother
― john water (harbl), Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:21 (thirteen years ago) link
savagery
― banaka, Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:22 (thirteen years ago) link
setting all of the windows alert/startup/error/etc. sounds to the most obnoxious sound clips I could find
― haven't you people ever heard of theodor a-goddamn-dorno (bernard snowy), Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:23 (thirteen years ago) link
"i wanted to know what she was up to, so i fingered her""... YOU WHAT?!?!?"
― zappi, Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:23 (thirteen years ago) link
sorry banaka but my petit-bourgeois class position renders me structurally incapable of apprehending this 'truth' of which u speak ¯\(°_O)/¯
― haven't you people ever heard of theodor a-goddamn-dorno (bernard snowy), Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:24 (thirteen years ago) link
this attempt at subterfuge does not serve you well.
― banaka, Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:25 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www2.b3ta.com/catgame/
― john water (harbl), Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:25 (thirteen years ago) link
- people getting really upset b/c they thought bansai kitty was a real thing
― haven't you people ever heard of theodor a-goddamn-dorno (bernard snowy), Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:33 (thirteen years ago) link
my friends and I getting kicked out of the computer lab for playing MUDs using Telnet in, like, 8th grade
― markers, Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:41 (thirteen years ago) link