Internet nostalgia

And it had a little windsock as an icon. I think they were based in Tasmania.

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

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?"

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i was literally just watching a buffy episode from season 7 (ie the last season) where willow explains what google is to xander

http://www.superbad.com

that's ca 1997

Space Potatoes
The Internet Oracle (still going after 15+ years)
The Cleveland Freenet
...and the other Freenets

http://www.tiedyes.com/thetofuolympics1996.html

http://www.tiedyes.com/tofuimages/tofuwtorchline.gif

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

Lol at nerds making it completely baffling how to actually donate until someone intervenes halfway down.

Art!

http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2011/06/06/f-digital-archeology-exhibit.html

Those iMacs are 13 years old?!

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

I have wondered when "digital archaeology" was going to become a common term. I guess that time is arriving.

Hey, the grad students in sociology etc. need to write their thesis papers on something...

I like the internet archive - it IS nostalgic!

http://laughingsquid.com/mtv-news-takes-a-look-at-the-internet-in-1995/

~cyber journalist~

Remember when Adam Curry was some sort of Cybergod because he hosted a chatroom on his own website?

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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Ultimate_Power

still can't hear "Big Pimpin'" without thinking about ninjas

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"

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.

I found a webring last night.

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.

i am feeling early-Internet nostalgic
but is there a thread for pre-Internet nostalgia?

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.

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.

xp wow i don't know anyone who makes plans via the internet

plans as in, "so what we doing tonight then"

i think facebook sometimes makes plans for us, but often they are fake plans, or hoped-for plans
and then, if we are serious, or old-school, we email/txt/phone to see if those plans are real

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.

i am bad at plans despite all newfangled communication devices

Roffle:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,977654,00.html

Oh 1993.

That issue of Time got me into a bunch of interesting books

"we will all be cyberpunks"

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.

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.

"Huzzah!"

I remember seeing this everywhere on the net in the '90s, yet not actually hearing it anywhere

to my shame, i still say that

"Huzzah!" was an MST3k popularizing of a vague Renaissance-Festival vibe, right?

For damn sure. I know that because that's how *I* started using it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsxfMZLKsgw

Heavens!

pre-internet nostalgia = you had to live next door to ned raggett to know who he was

NOT THAT I'M NOSTALGIC FOR THAT TIME ;-)

You were always a kindly neighbor, a bowl of sugar whenever I asked.

i said "huzzah!" about something not an hour ago! i started because of MST3K, but Futurama reinforced it

My step-brother had a cat named Huzzah, but he did work at Renaissance Festival.

Nevertheless, cyberpunk may be the defining counterculture of the computer age. It embraces, in spirit at least, not just the nearest thirtysomething hacker hunched over his terminal but also nose-ringed twentysomethings gathered at clandestine RAVES, teenagers who feel about the Macintosh computer the way their parents felt about Apple Records, and even preadolescent vidkids fused like Krazy Glue to their Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis games -- the training wheels of cyberpunk. Obsessed with technology, especially technology that is just beyond their reach (like BRAIN IMPLANTS), the cyberpunks are future oriented to a fault. They already have one foot in the 21st century, and time is on their side. In the long run, we will all be cyberpunks.

i don't quite understand the capitalization in that article. i mean, i get that most of the time it's supposed to refer to a "new" term, or something that needs to be defined (hypertext, cybernetics, etc), but other times it's just odd ("WILLIAM GIBSON, a 44-year-old American now living in Vancouver")