Internet nostalgia

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...

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 calls
and we didn't have cellphones
uhh
yeah, never mind.

For that just out of 1998 feel try http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/

I'm pretty sure I had a geocities page with like five links or something

web rings

^^^^^^^^^

'Under Construction' GIF, sometimes animated.

"_00 hours free!!!" AOL CDs regularly appearing in mailbox

leaving the computer online overnight to download the latest game demo from HappyPuppy.com

turning off images to surf faster

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

people's personal "homepages"

banners, along with instructions to "contact the Webmaster" to place your banner ad in that space

― dude [yr gettin' a] (del)

Nostalgia is useless

banaka = smarterchild

I'm not sure if banaka = smarterchild.

nostalgia is the 'naive reading' of history/cultural memory, preparatory to any meaningful act of criticism

Welcome back, bernard snowy! How may I help you now?

criticism is not what is needed; what is needed is dispassionate analysis and action, action, action.

I'll have to think about that one for a while.

@_@

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got mah hater-blockers on (||)_(||)

there is no hate to block, only the blinding light of truth (to use a hackneyed metaphor)

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

did anyone spend hours looking at these? i did. http://www.somethingawful.com/d/cliff-yablonski/

oh god yes, and jeff k

My favorite site circa 1997
http://www.alcyone.com/oo/

-exchanging .wavs of sound clips from star wars in an IRC channel called #sw_wavs

-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

savagery

setting all of the windows alert/startup/error/etc. sounds to the most obnoxious sound clips I could find

"i wanted to know what she was up to, so i fingered her"
"... YOU WHAT?!?!?"

sorry banaka but my petit-bourgeois class position renders me structurally incapable of apprehending this 'truth' of which u speak ¯\(°_O)/¯

this attempt at subterfuge does not serve you well.

http://www2.b3ta.com/catgame/

- people getting really upset b/c they thought bansai kitty was a real thing

my friends and I getting kicked out of the computer lab for playing MUDs using Telnet in, like, 8th grade

building websites using <table></table> tags

email accounts @yahoo, before Gmail existed

Waiting for YouTube vids to fully buffer before hitting play.

having to use RealPlayer because there was no YouTube

a song taking ten minutes to download per MB

Fighting over the one ethernet cable in the house.

I hate most of these things, actually, and I'm not nostalgic about them at all. Fuck dial-up.

I don't really wish most of this stuff was back either, but web 1.0 was a thing of beauty

AOL WAREZ like
/server SEND LIST
/server SEND 129

AOL Chat Progs
like rainbow text and AOHell
all the original bots

AOL IM Punters

InkLink - the internet shockwave game that is a ripoff of pictionary