Internet nostalgia

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")

TECHNO-EROTIC PAGANISM
VIRTUAL SEX

AKA any My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult song around that time.

you guys

real audio

http://www.oocities.org/suonnoch/Mythmyst/rnmark.gif

dammit, we could listen to these awesome 30 second clips of the upcoming Vines album, but this computer doesn't have the Real suite of tools installed!

.asx

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

― haven't you people ever heard of theodor a-goddamn-dorno (bernard snowy), Saturday, October 2, 2010 12:23 PM (1 year ago)

AOL CDs regularly appearing under coffee mugs as coasters.

Remember the feeling that you couldn't go on internet unless you were a "cyberpunk"??

On a related note, everyone I know who did raves stayed off the internet!

They Might be Giants - Fish Heads.mp3

lol frogbs

many xp I never used Real Player because I was too busy making WinAmp skins & hosting them on my XOOM website for people to download

I was too busy making WinAmp skins & hosting them on my XOOM website for people to download

winamp - it really whips the llama's ass! i was making really bad ok computer skins and posting them on Green Plastic.

mine were Sean Lennon but I was on fake plastic (no?) looking up Radiohead lyrics, I assure you
actually met most of my first internet friends on a RH chat room. a BeSeen chat room.

i was making really bad ok computer skins and posting them on Green Plastic.

yeah I think I remember you mentioning that on your diaryland.

*used to do website designs for diaryland*

fuck my friend and I went out and met the guy who created diaryland at 2am on a beach in toronto. we were dumb kids. he was dumb too luckily, because I live on.

lol Andrew!

Andrew was short! He said he'd buy us cigarettes.. that's what gets two 16 year olds out to the east end of Toronto at 2AM.

full circle to ILX
***I designed ENBB's diaryland account, this is why we are such buds!!***

x-post

I know we've mentioned this on other threads but FFM actually designed my Diaryland page when she was like 15 or something. lol. We were friends on there for a years but eventually we both stopped using that site. FF about 10 years and she posts a picture on WDYLL and all of a sudden it just clicked and I was like woah Toronto, that pic - OMG that's Alexis!

I webmailed her and was like "Uh, this prob sounds nuts and I'm fairly certain you won't remember me but . . .".