Internet nostalgia

early 2000s def qualifies as pre-web 2.0

i met two of my best friends on dc

I know a few old-skool ilxors used to chat on WarpComm - anyone else?

what is wrong with that? I had a great summer that year!

my ICQ number is 1071xx /braggin

I had an 805xx IIRC! Wish I knew it. It was such a source of pride.

UH OH

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

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!'.

Also I remember the first time a colleague showed me Mr. T Ate My Balls!. He thought it was the apex of comedy.

the AIM screen name of a good friend of mine has been mrtatemyballs for many, many years

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/03/Aybabtu.png

No. Just no.

I did always enjoy this iteration:

http://jmz.iki.fi/static/images/2007/04/ayb_calvin_and_hobbes.jpg

lol, never seen that one before

realultimatepower.net already feels like a long time ago

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)

Academic type pages unreadable due to 3-inch letters.

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.

FIDONet vs. RBBS

I miss AOL keyword NICK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQeQvhp9ftg

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

spent many an hour using thedraw.exe

never used RBBS but I used to download massive conspiracy theory threads from FIDOnet

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

he's published like 7 books

word.com

and no one's mentioned suck?

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.

http://battellemedia.com/images/1995.jpg
http://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

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

$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.

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Ah, the days of Kibo, and sig.file humor.

I really liked the game on encarta

mindmaze

Oh my God I remember that game!

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.

Yeah me too, wow xp

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.

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.

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' :*)

omg netphoria you are throwing my mind back to dark days.

right? You're welcome. My friend wasted many, many hours there as hmm, Mayojar I think. :)

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.

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.

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

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.

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 :)

Hehe, online buddies is a very internet nostalgia thing too :)

When I entered this thread I thought we were going to talk about sending e-mails and myspace or smething

I had no idea you people were so old lol

average age on ilx is nearly mid-30s by now!