woooooooooow
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 20:48 (thirteen years ago) link
This is nearly like plunging the depths of ulillillia city.
― rendezvous then i'm through with HOOS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 21:33 (thirteen years ago) link
gimme your balls FOOL
― some velveeta morning (electricsound), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 21:41 (thirteen years ago) link
my favourite early internet find
http://www.alcyone.com/oo/
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 22:29 (thirteen years ago) link
still the 5th result for Yinka Dare: http://www.angelfire.com/stars/yinka/
― methanietanner, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 22:35 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.almostamazing.com/flash/hyaku.swf
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 22:45 (thirteen years ago) link
I remember loving this back in the early 90s:
http://www.realchange.org/quayle.htm
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 22:54 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.realchange.org/tallskl2.jpg
― unusually tight body for a comedian (Matt P), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 22:57 (thirteen years ago) link
― plax (ico), Wednesday, March 2, 2011 3:29 PM
This is a decade-plus favorite of mine, too!@
― wizards of wonder are the keepers of knowledge (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 23:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Trumpet winsock scripts!
Congratulations to Trayce for really giving me a blast of nostalgia. Haven't thought about Trumpet Winsock for God knows how long and I never really knew what it meant. I think it was something I clicked on in WIndows 3.1 when there were problems with the internet connection. Beyond that, fuck knows, but what a phrase. Trumpet Winsock!
― Alba, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 23:42 (thirteen years ago) link
And it had a little windsock as an icon. I think they were based in Tasmania.
― gnarly gnarlingtons in my life (Trayce), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 23:56 (thirteen years ago) link
My modem was always crummy so I was constantly writing dialler scripts to make it re-dial, handshake repeatedly, etc. I completely forget how to do all that shit now.
Guy behind Trumpet Winsock basically made no money out of it, because ISPs worldwide gave away the pay-for version without paying him. Now nerds are donating money to him, just because http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2282875
― stet, Thursday, 3 March 2011 15:03 (thirteen years ago) link
caught an old episode of Buffy the other day. Here is a joek I hope to use soon:"I met him online.""On line for what?"
― elephant rob, Friday, October 1, 2010 1:09 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i was literally just watching a buffy episode from season 7 (ie the last season) where willow explains what google is to xander
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 3 March 2011 15:06 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.superbad.com
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 3 March 2011 15:12 (thirteen years ago) link
that's ca 1997
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 3 March 2011 15:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Space Potatoes The Internet Oracle (still going after 15+ years)The Cleveland Freenet...and the other Freenets
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Friday, 4 March 2011 01:55 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.tiedyes.com/thetofuolympics1996.html
http://www.tiedyes.com/tofuimages/tofuwtorchline.gif
― wizards of wonder are the keepers of knowledge (Abbbottt), Friday, 4 March 2011 02:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Lol at nerds making it completely baffling how to actually donate until someone intervenes halfway down.
― Alba, Friday, 4 March 2011 09:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Art!
http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2011/06/06/f-digital-archeology-exhibit.html
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 9 June 2011 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
Those iMacs are 13 years old?!
― Madchen, Thursday, 9 June 2011 14:42 (twelve years ago) link
Of a sooner kind of nostalgia -- Web Sheriff, still around! Fronted by Ricky Gervais! Oh wait...
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-web-sheriff-20110609,0,2614591.story
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 9 June 2011 14:43 (twelve years ago) link
I have wondered when "digital archaeology" was going to become a common term. I guess that time is arriving.
― Kim, Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
Hey, the grad students in sociology etc. need to write their thesis papers on something...
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
I like the internet archive - it IS nostalgic!
― Latham Green, Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
http://laughingsquid.com/mtv-news-takes-a-look-at-the-internet-in-1995/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 29 July 2011 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
~cyber journalist~
― mh, Friday, 29 July 2011 16:40 (twelve years ago) link
Remember when Adam Curry was some sort of Cybergod because he hosted a chatroom on his own website?
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 29 July 2011 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
Tunak Tunak Tun always makes me nostalgic. I kinda think this may have been the first "truly huge" viral video among my generation. I honestly think you could play it in a nightclub and it would kill.
― frogbs, Friday, 29 July 2011 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Ultimate_Power
― swaguirre, the wrath of basedgod (bernard snowy), Friday, 29 July 2011 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
still can't hear "Big Pimpin'" without thinking about ninjas
― swaguirre, the wrath of basedgod (bernard snowy), Friday, 29 July 2011 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
from Ned's link
"web enthusiasts talk of many marvels to come. the wonders of virtual reality, which can talk to someone pretending to be a penguin"
― could've been a baller (CaptainLorax), Saturday, 30 July 2011 02:52 (twelve years ago) link
Remember when "speaking to people in other countries" was such a huge deal? Now a FAP with foreign pals is u&k on any holiday.
Hard to remember when people maybe had a penpal somewhere and that was it.
― stet, Saturday, 30 July 2011 10:57 (twelve years ago) link
I found a webring last night.
― salsa shark, Saturday, 30 July 2011 11:59 (twelve years ago) link
Remember when "speaking to people in other countries" was such a huge deal?
In the early Nineties, I chose Compuserve over AOL specifically because it was international.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Sunday, 31 July 2011 23:00 (twelve years ago) link
i am feeling early-Internet nostalgicbut is there a thread for pre-Internet nostalgia?
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Saturday, 20 August 2011 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
because i was talking to friends yesterday about how i can hardly remember how i used to make plans with people. and then i remembered: we called each other in advance and made actual plans and stuck to them! those were simpler times.
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Saturday, 20 August 2011 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
A neighbor could walk down the block and make conversation. Now a man is staring at facebook lamenting a lack of invitations and no friends online.
― mh, Saturday, 20 August 2011 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
xp wow i don't know anyone who makes plans via the internet
― Summer Slam! (Ste), Saturday, 20 August 2011 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
plans as in, "so what we doing tonight then"
― Summer Slam! (Ste), Saturday, 20 August 2011 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
i think facebook sometimes makes plans for us, but often they are fake plans, or hoped-for plansand then, if we are serious, or old-school, we email/txt/phone to see if those plans are real
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Saturday, 20 August 2011 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
I message via google talk a lot at the end of the work day and it transitions into text messages if plans weren't finalized.
― mh, Saturday, 20 August 2011 21:55 (twelve years ago) link
i am bad at plans despite all newfangled communication devices
― mookieproof, Saturday, 20 August 2011 22:02 (twelve years ago) link
Roffle:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,977654,00.html
Oh 1993.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 26 August 2011 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
That issue of Time got me into a bunch of interesting books
― los blue jeans, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 03:19 (twelve years ago) link
"we will all be cyberpunks"
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 03:22 (twelve years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberia_%28book%29 was such a dope book to me when i was about 13 and none of the people mentioned in it have mattered for fifteen years.
― dylannn, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 03:27 (twelve years ago) link
Wow, the post-hippies of the 90s really aren't that relevant anymore, are they?
I've read a book by one of those dudes and met another in person and he was waaaay creepy.
― unwarranted display names of ilx (mh), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 03:45 (twelve years ago) link
"Huzzah!"
I remember seeing this everywhere on the net in the '90s, yet not actually hearing it anywhere
― the four HOOSmen of the STEENpacolypse (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 06:09 (twelve years ago) link
to my shame, i still say that
― not bulimic, just a cat (James Morrison), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 06:18 (twelve years ago) link