Internet nostalgia

Those forums are all still active! Man, they look even more Windows 3.1 than we do

just the fact that that URL has both Netscape and CompuServe in it gives me the lulz

Oh dear

http://io9.com/1997-explains-how-to-cybersex-in-glorious-nsfw-instr-1613953635

Is that Laura Palmer?!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/events/clinton_under_fire/latest_news/238784.stm

late shift @ the paper. shit to do. may as well try and win some loot. treeloot.
http://sydlexia.com/blogstuff/treeloot.bmp

i totally forgot what the internet used to be like. wasn't much on the web so most time was spent on IRC, messageboards, and usenet. i feel like the internet now is turning my brain into mush and making me into even more of a dumbass. reddit, gawker, huffington post, buzzfeed, it's all so fucking stupid, yet seems totally normal now. i think i need to take an internet hiatus so my brain can recover.

"Hot Searches"

1. Cheescake Factory

https://dir.yahoo.com/ will be closing on Dec 31

http://www.cnet.com/news/yahoo-directory-once-the-companys-cornerstone-to-shut-down/

i had no idea that was still there.

Here is a screencapture that was made on October 3, 2014 A.D.

http://i.imgur.com/z0T2gCV.png

http://i.imgur.com/uPgTkCB.png

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/02/27/magazine/Netstalgia.html

http://i.imgur.com/nROojTW.gif
omg thank you for this

http://i.imgur.com/Q2HSFUa.gif

http://theballreport.com/the-story-of-ate-my-balls-one-of-the-first-internet-memes/

http://www.cameronsworld.net/

<3

http://losernet.tripod.com/loser.html

http://mashable.com/2015/07/31/quiz-do-you-know-your-windows-startup-sounds/

http://imgur.com/a/ZPJyv

https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/yahoos-old-internet-life-magazine-is-amazing?utm_content=buffer08a12&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer&utm_term=.bqbPONRy7#.hhzDnP8YE

http://i.imgur.com/JjV6AH1.jpg

Slipping away, these sites

http://www.loeser.us/

https://i.imgur.com/MGssQ2i.png

http://accounts.utk.edu/uact/help.pine-setup.html

I've gotten a lot better at using the wayback machine these days, that's for sure

i miss the old internet, when things could be interesting and not just loud

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z30oQIEzzvo

I miss 2003 blogosphere, MSN and 2005 - 2010 Youtube :(

I had a diaryland. Before Myspace/LJ/Pitas. Remember that community fondly

pitas and diaryland launched very close to one another. by the same guy!

winner if he made ANY money from that, hope so

*wonder

he didn’t and the kickstarter to relaunch pitas just failed. he’s doing other stuff though.

he was also one of my favorite comedic writers on the old school internet

the other day for some reason i really wanted to see nice images of all the toys and vehicles from the mid-1980s care bear line (the small action figure size). did some googling for a few minutes, confident i would quickly find some collector nut's exhaustive resource dedicated to these toys, the different years of the line, how there's a rare version of this one guy with blue hair by mistake, maybe scans of toys r us newspaper circulars..... nothing! or rather, such pages are obviously out there, but unfindable: page after page of search results is e-shopping, mostly for present-day care bear items. it is so, so much harder these days to find sites that are not in some way selling you something, or robotically generated clones of sites trying to sell you something.

otfm

and, (somewhat related I think), so many image searches lead to just a bunch of Pinterest pages! where, for some reason, it seems difficult to navigate to the image source or even save/share the image

yeah that's a huge problem ime

Like these guys, or the stuffed versions?

https://i.imgur.com/C8N68iD.jpg

those guys!

Looked up 80s care bear plush and got a bunch of hard plastic. Go figure.

80s care bear -ebay -etsy -store -shop -pinterest -vintage

still no closer to the imagined repository. the other problem is countless quick words-for-dollars clickbait articles for websites that need content in order for people to share it on facebook. 14 things only 80s kids remember. 20 things you might be an 80s kid if you remember. 10 toys you had to have in 1985. 5 best toys of the 80s. 11 awesomely cutetastic toys of the 80s. 7 80s shows we loved as kids in the 80s, and the toys we loved that went with them.. products of the 80s flashcards | Quizlet. 9 times the care bears cared about something.

this stuff is like the kudzu of the web. it's filled in every available space and the main things you want to accomplish on the internet are becoming impossible.

at least there's a flickr group photo pool, thank god: https://www.flickr.com/groups/gluecksbaerchis/pool/

site:geocities.com 80s care bear
or tripod or angelfire or aol

brb making a poll of the songs posted here:
http://thetotsbox.tripod.com/id78.html

ok, here's the best I could come up with:

https://web.archive.org/web/20021030001249/http://carebears.scritch.com:80/merch/pvc/pvc.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20011105073854/http://www.oz.net:80/~carebear/Pvcs.html

fwiw I searched for site:angelfire.com "care bears" "collection" and came up with this link page, which I ran through the wayback machine (circa 2002) so that I could access a bunch of defunct fansites at once

it's frustrating that you can't access a dead site unless you happen to remember the url or stumble upon a link to it somewhere. the beta version of the wayback machine had a basic keyword search, but it's closed now, and that feature hasn't yet been integrated into the main version.

sometimes you can sidestep all that pinterest/ebay/buzzfeed dreck by limiting your search to a particular date range, say 1995 to 2010. the downside is that if you get even a little bit crafty with your searches these days, google hits you with a "we've detected some unusual traffic..." citation and makes you identify street signs or storefronts for 5 minutes. it's like someone out there doesn't want us to know the raw, unfiltered truth (about '80s Care Bear action figures) 🤔

http://www.wishbear.net/2011/05/poseables.html

^this seems to be the best resource currently on the net. it has better photos but not as many variants as the links in my last post

damn, unreg, nice work. you made my quest your own, thank you!

np! I feel strangely invested in a topic I didn't particularly give a shit about an hour ago :)

one final link w/ additional Care Bear trainspotting:
https://web.archive.org/web/20010620142532/http://www.oz.net:80/~carebear/poseable.html

(do people like this even exist on the internet in 2018?)

god, that's great. the old internet was wonderful.

https://web.archive.org/web/20010609215115im_/http://www.oz.net:80/~carebear/Copyrightpic.JPG

I often find myself adding "reddit" to my google searches (esp when looking for technical info) since it's become the easiest way of filtering the countless irrelevant SEO'd infomercial sites, usually there's some Reddit thread with the info I need

Unreg otm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1550622.stm

The comments on this are brilliant