Internet nostalgia

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!

Yeah geez I still think of myself as kindof a n00b because I *just* missed BBS/pre-WWW days, only started using the 'net in 1995 when the first (was it Mosaic or Mozilla?) browsers came to be.

How can email be nostalgia?

the real action is on fb msg and bb etc

Which is hilarious cos dont most ppl still use FB's email notification function to know they GOT a FB message anyway? It seems so *pointles*.

Maybe I am just old.

I used to edit the URLs of Altavista by hand so I could search without having to wait for the page to load.

I still did this until I downloaded Chrome last year! In fact I still do it when I am browsing at work in lynx/elinks, so I don't have to press the down arrow like 10 times to get to the search box.

(I am also still intermittently mad at Yahoo for making Altavista rubbish, and at various other search engines for not having the same features they did 12 years ago)

I used a couple of BBSes when I first got my modem 1996 but the only one within local rate call area was rubbish and my dad was not very pleased when I spent 20 minutes connected to a national rate raytracing BBS, so I sent a cheque to an ISP and waited for my 3.5" floppy with Trumpet Winsock and some crappy no-frames browser to arrive instead.

I remember before search engines were a big thing, there was a brief window where publishers would actually release "yellow pages" books of internet sites. Whoever thought that was a workable idea was insane.

i found a notepad where i used to write down useful web addresses. like, the full things. wtf.

xp Ha, mr spacecadet has a "Best of the 'Net" listings book 1995 which I have, uh, spent some drunktime flicking through in a haze of nostalgia. It has lots of references to cyberspace and lists of hot guitar tab newsgroups.

Haha yes, and in those days URLs were always long and completely non-intuitive as well, like https://www.sparklingpondscum.com.au/~fredsplace/chookshed/myphotos/lol.jpg

OK lol I wasnt expecting that to turn into an actual link.

I have a couple of those directory books - 'The Internet Directory' and 'The Whole Internet', both from 1994. And a smaller book from 2002 called '500 of the Weirdest & Wackiest Web Sites', which a relative got me for Christmas that year. Sample entry with long non-intuit URL:

Walking Machine

http://www.fzi.de/ipt/WMC/walking_machines_katalog/walking_machines_katalog.html

If it walks and is a machine, then you will probably find all the details about it's invention here.

http://photosurf.net/photos/celebrities/shae-marks/shae-marks-163423.jpg

my youth = downloading 45-second mu-law .au files and later (drum roll) newfangled .mp2 files (which would take like 10 minutes to open in CoolEdit, the only software I had which could read them - so much for realtime decoding) from Addicted to Noise

sometimes I would snip them into 1.6-second samples and load them into ScreamTracker 3 to stitch into my own terrible noises

and then draw "artwork" for the resulting largely imaginary albums using NeoPaint

http://img802.imageshack.us/img802/1126/screenshotqd.png http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/6073/screamtracker321.png

I have been on the internet six billion years and still don't know how to work the img tag obv
http://img802.imageshack.us/img802/1126/screenshotqd.png http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/6073/screamtracker321.png

I remember once setting my pc and its 33.6k modem to download a new install of Netscape, which was iirc something like 30mb which was HUEG back then and it was going to take 2-3 hours.. so I went to the shops... came back, saw it was at about 96%... and accidentally bumped the ESC key and cancelled the download ;_;

try begging your teen sister not to pick up the phone for three hours in evening primetime.

try beggin your friend's dad!

So glad I was in my mid 20s by the time the internet got going properly.

(actually, also glad of this bcz it means I didnt spend my young teens being an utter spaz all over the internet, which I *know* I would have done had I been 14 or 15 when it came to be).

yeah, am pretty glad most of my internet stuff from then went into the memory hole. The thought of being 25 and having a FB timeline that went back to being 15 or w/e is horrifying

having an ilx timeline that goes back to when you were 23/4 is quite bad enough i assure you