/slap mh
― frogbs, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 15:59 (twelve years ago) link
xpost sure! why, youtube wasn't even a gleam in dc++'s eye...
― Z S, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 15:59 (twelve years ago) link
i still remember ICQ...*whap whap whap whap whap whap* "uh-oh! uh-oh!" my God
― frogbs, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
early 2000s def qualifies as pre-web 2.0
i met two of my best friends on dc
― tanuki, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
I know a few old-skool ilxors used to chat on WarpComm - anyone else?
― I want your nose, your shoes and your unicycle (dog latin), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
what is wrong with that? I had a great summer that year!
my ICQ number is 1071xx /braggin
― mh, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 16:13 (twelve years ago) link
I had an 805xx IIRC! Wish I knew it. It was such a source of pride.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
UH OH
― mh, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
I had a livejournal from 2001-2007
I still have one, but I have a different one now and its private entries for my eyeballs only
― homosexual II, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
all the Newgrounds.com celebrity assassinations
The Arnold Schwarzenegger one is pretty good - he's dressed as a ballerina dancing around on a bandstand, and the 'you win' message is 'GOOD JOB SICKO!'.
― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 18:33 (twelve years ago) link
Also I remember the first time a colleague showed me Mr. T Ate My Balls!. He thought it was the apex of comedy.
― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 18:36 (twelve years ago) link
the AIM screen name of a good friend of mine has been mrtatemyballs for many, many years
― Z S, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/03/Aybabtu.png
― i couldn't adjust the food knobs (Phil D.), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
No. Just no.
― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 18:51 (twelve years ago) link
I did always enjoy this iteration:
http://jmz.iki.fi/static/images/2007/04/ayb_calvin_and_hobbes.jpg
― i couldn't adjust the food knobs (Phil D.), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
lol, never seen that one before
― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
realultimatepower.net already feels like a long time ago
― Chris S, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
I remember seeing the "All Your Base" photoshops and not thinking it could possibly be fake, like I didn't think you could actually use photoshop to create something that real-looking (also I was like 13 at the time)
― frogbs, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
Academic type pages unreadable due to 3-inch letters.
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Don Nots (Mount Cleaners), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
I have a 5 digit ICQ # as well! Fuck if I can remember what it is anymore though :( It'd be set up on one of my old laptops I spose.
Also have had a livejournal since 2000, and before that was running a literary journal type blog on my own website in 98-99, before the word "blog" ever existed.
― thanks to denial, I'm immortal! (Trayce), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
FIDONet vs. RBBS
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 21:56 (twelve years ago) link
I miss AOL keyword NICK
― tinker tailor soldier sb (silby), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 04:03 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQeQvhp9ftg
― Lana Ballantine (latebloomer), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 05:22 (twelve years ago) link
I have zero internet nostalgia. Days-worth of time c. 1993 was spent staring at the Netscape logo, waiting for the page (with images turned off) to load.
I do miss BBSing though, I miss trading MP2s, having a 80-character e-mail address, and watching ANSI animations made with thedraw.exe
― Dancin with Mr. ====D (Ówen P.), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 05:57 (twelve years ago) link
spent many an hour using thedraw.exe
― Just to the left of her pelvis is Lord of the Flies (los blue jeans), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 06:04 (twelve years ago) link
never used RBBS but I used to download massive conspiracy theory threads from FIDOnet
― Just to the left of her pelvis is Lord of the Flies (los blue jeans), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 06:06 (twelve years ago) link
a guy that I ate lunch with in high school was a w a r e z courier, he is now a subject matter expert in digital forensics
― Just to the left of her pelvis is Lord of the Flies (los blue jeans), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 06:10 (twelve years ago) link
he's published like 7 books
― Just to the left of her pelvis is Lord of the Flies (los blue jeans), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 06:11 (twelve years ago) link
word.com
and no one's mentioned suck?
― McCrisco/Cocaine (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 06:17 (twelve years ago) link
SUPPOSEDLY the guy who wrote AOHell also went to my high school, but I'm not sure if I believe that. If it's true, then the guy who took credit for it died a couple of years ago. He had a heart attack / possible overdose, at the time he was selling "life extension" drugs.
― Just to the left of her pelvis is Lord of the Flies (los blue jeans), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 06:33 (twelve years ago) link
http://battellemedia.com/images/1995.jpghttp://files.codeulike.com/uploaded_images/yahooearly1995-734813.jpg
'Entertainment' had its own 'Ate My Balls' category with over 200 sites. I had totally forgotten any of this. Thanks for reminding me snoball
― rubber belly hand necker (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 07:18 (twelve years ago) link
guys, guys - The New Times York! The Washington Pissed!
http://c3f.com/nty/ntyarchv.html
I preferred it to the Onion because it was way more crazed
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 11:33 (twelve years ago) link
$249 Billion will go to a project in Newt Gingrich's hometown, which will police all sci-fi anti-novels of the future and make sure they're written in sections short enough to be read entirely while holding in a single hit of pot.$248 Billion will go to Henry Hyde so he can do intensive research to determine the answer to the question, "Yes, but where is the face-sitting oral madness? The lesbo hooch humps?"$10 billion will go to Tom Delay to personally train clandestine para-military troops to deal with the consequences of actually finding out just where the face sitting oral madness and the lesbo hooch humps really are.$20 billion will go to Dick Armey's wife to develop a complete line of expensive clothing designed specifically for losers going nowhere.$20 billion will go to George W. Bush to make sure nobody cheats during the upcoming November electrocutions.
$248 Billion will go to Henry Hyde so he can do intensive research to determine the answer to the question, "Yes, but where is the face-sitting oral madness? The lesbo hooch humps?"
$10 billion will go to Tom Delay to personally train clandestine para-military troops to deal with the consequences of actually finding out just where the face sitting oral madness and the lesbo hooch humps really are.
$20 billion will go to Dick Armey's wife to develop a complete line of expensive clothing designed specifically for losers going nowhere.
$20 billion will go to George W. Bush to make sure nobody cheats during the upcoming November electrocutions.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 11:38 (twelve years ago) link
Encarta95 Microsoft Encarta It's my time! Finally, my shot at the spotlight! It's only taken me seventeen years! Wikipedia? Who needs it! Encarta '95 is here to stay.7 hours ago Favorite Retweet Reply
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
Ah, the days of Kibo, and sig.file humor.
― stop me before i eat again (j.lu), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
I really liked the game on encarta
― iatee, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
mindmaze
― iatee, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
Oh my God I remember that game!
― Simon H., Wednesday, 18 January 2012 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
Grew up with BBSes, mainly through the Doom mod scene. I ended up making some Doom II level packages and putting them on boards. One of them was featured in a PC Gamer magazine in 1996, when I was 15.
When I got on the internet I had a Beatles bootleg blog that hosted MP3s of outtakes, started around 1997 or so and going for a good 2 or 3 years. I remember my first MP3 ever was downloaded from a site called The Inner Light and it was something from the Get Back sessions.
Also I had a big Flaming Lips fan site too, I think on fortunecity.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah me too, wow xp
― tinker tailor soldier sb (silby), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
I remember the first time I heard an mp3, on headphones, it was like somebody had invented magic. "It's only like 2.5 megs!!!!!" In the days of 1GB hard drives that was pretty major. I got everyone else in the office to come over and take turns with the headphones.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
In '95 and '96 I had a Smashing Pumpkins website which in fact I put on dark one day, just like wikipedia today, after a fan died at a concert in Dublin or so. I used to scan in pictures from magazines and such, and it was a thrill to see those pictures being linked to all over the world. Lol teens.
― I certainly wouldn't have, but hey. (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
My best friend in HS was a big Smashing Pumpkins fan, I remember her talking about that Dublin death ;_; Slightly related (or very if this was your site!) - I got a posted signed by the band and gave it to my English teacher because her son was a big fan - got back a note thanking me and asking if I ever 'post on the message board Netphoria' :*)
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
omg netphoria you are throwing my mind back to dark days.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
right? You're welcome. My friend wasted many, many hours there as hmm, Mayojar I think. :)
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
I actually didn't spend much time on netphoria, I was on the "O-board" back in the day, just before they broke up and it turned into the ZOMB. But there were always netphoria "invasions" on the O-board.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
Ahh, gotcha. I was never much of a fan (hence giving away the poster) so never went to any of them. I was all about a Radiohead chatroom called Polythylene.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
Lex, you didn't get the signed poster from me/my site. I still remember the name of the girl that died in Dublin, Bernadette O'Brien.
I was on Listessa and its "secret" spin-off June, which was a mailing-list more like ILE tbh
― I certainly wouldn't have, but hey. (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
Days-worth of time c. 1993 was spent staring at the Netscape logo, waiting for the page (with images turned off) to load.
I used to edit the URLs of Altavista by hand so I could search without having to wait for the page to load. I sent them an email moaning when they changed the URLs to something complicated, telling them I was going to switch to the Google Beta.
― stet, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 19:57 (twelve years ago) link
LBI: I got the poster signed by the band at an HMV meet-n-greet here in Toronto, the kid who I gave it to wondered if I ever visited Netphoria - presumably so we could be online buddies or something :)
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 20:02 (twelve years ago) link