just the fact that that URL has both Netscape and CompuServe in it gives me the lulz
― Lee626, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:51 (nine years ago) link
Oh dear
http://io9.com/1997-explains-how-to-cybersex-in-glorious-nsfw-instr-1613953635
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:43 (nine years ago) link
Is that Laura Palmer?!
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 31 July 2014 16:13 (nine years ago) link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/events/clinton_under_fire/latest_news/238784.stm
― I only listen to Vantablack Metal (snoball), Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:57 (nine years ago) link
late shift @ the paper. shit to do. may as well try and win some loot. treeloot.http://sydlexia.com/blogstuff/treeloot.bmp
― andrew m., Thursday, 31 July 2014 21:04 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Spectrum, Friday, 1 August 2014 15:04 (nine years ago) link
"Hot Searches"
1. Cheescake Factory
― Bus Sex Teen Busted After Queef Beef (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 1 August 2014 15:17 (nine years ago) link
https://dir.yahoo.com/ will be closing on Dec 31
http://www.cnet.com/news/yahoo-directory-once-the-companys-cornerstone-to-shut-down/
― Alba, Friday, 3 October 2014 22:15 (nine years ago) link
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
― pplains, Saturday, 4 October 2014 04:06 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/uPgTkCB.png
― Devilock, Saturday, 4 October 2014 05:48 (nine years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/02/27/magazine/Netstalgia.html
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 27 February 2015 21:11 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/nROojTW.gifomg thank you for this
― rip van wanko, Friday, 27 February 2015 21:19 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Q2HSFUa.gif
― Flow-through nonresident pass-through entity (los blue jeans), Sunday, 8 March 2015 06:06 (nine years ago) link
http://theballreport.com/the-story-of-ate-my-balls-one-of-the-first-internet-memes/
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 17 June 2015 22:27 (eight years ago) link
http://www.cameronsworld.net/
― Alba, Tuesday, 18 August 2015 23:38 (eight years ago) link
<3
― kinder, Wednesday, 19 August 2015 12:04 (eight years ago) link
http://losernet.tripod.com/loser.html
― rip van wanko, Wednesday, 19 August 2015 12:54 (eight years ago) link
http://mashable.com/2015/07/31/quiz-do-you-know-your-windows-startup-sounds/
― rip van wanko, Wednesday, 26 August 2015 14:51 (eight years ago) link
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
― Alba, Monday, 25 July 2016 14:15 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/JjV6AH1.jpg
Slipping away, these sites
http://www.loeser.us/
https://i.imgur.com/MGssQ2i.png
― Alba, Saturday, 21 October 2017 07:06 (six years ago) link
http://accounts.utk.edu/uact/help.pine-setup.html
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 21 October 2017 23:59 (six years ago) link
I've gotten a lot better at using the wayback machine these days, that's for sure
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 22 October 2017 00:00 (six years ago) link
i miss the old internet, when things could be interesting and not just loud
― maura, Sunday, 22 October 2017 02:43 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z30oQIEzzvo
I miss 2003 blogosphere, MSN and 2005 - 2010 Youtube :(
― ANML__, Saturday, 2 June 2018 21:38 (five years ago) link
I had a diaryland. Before Myspace/LJ/Pitas. Remember that community fondly
― rip van wanko, Saturday, 2 June 2018 22:36 (five years ago) link
pitas and diaryland launched very close to one another. by the same guy!
― maura, Saturday, 2 June 2018 22:38 (five years ago) link
winner if he made ANY money from that, hope so
― rip van wanko, Saturday, 2 June 2018 22:42 (five years ago) link
*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
― maura, Sunday, 3 June 2018 06:34 (five years ago) link
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.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 19 September 2018 23:14 (five years ago) link
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
― rip van wanko, Wednesday, 19 September 2018 23:46 (five years ago) link
yeah that's a huge problem ime
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 20 September 2018 00:22 (five years ago) link
Like these guys, or the stuffed versions?
https://i.imgur.com/C8N68iD.jpg
― pplains, Thursday, 20 September 2018 00:24 (five years ago) link
those guys!
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 20 September 2018 00:26 (five years ago) link
Looked up 80s care bear plush and got a bunch of hard plastic. Go figure.
― pplains, Thursday, 20 September 2018 00:31 (five years ago) link
80s care bear -ebay -etsy -store -shop -pinterest -vintage
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 20 September 2018 00:43 (five years ago) link
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.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 20 September 2018 00:48 (five years ago) link
at least there's a flickr group photo pool, thank god: https://www.flickr.com/groups/gluecksbaerchis/pool/
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 20 September 2018 00:49 (five years ago) link
site:geocities.com 80s care bearor tripod or angelfire or aol
― rip van wanko, Thursday, 20 September 2018 01:36 (five years ago) link
brb making a poll of the songs posted here:http://thetotsbox.tripod.com/id78.html
― rip van wanko, Thursday, 20 September 2018 02:41 (five years ago) link
ok, here's the best I could come up with:
https://web.archive.org/web/20021030001249/http://carebears.scritch.com:80/merch/pvc/pvc.htmhttps://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) 🤔
― ilxor-com-dog-meat-drawer-7-840-x-600.jpg (unregistered), Thursday, 20 September 2018 02:59 (five years ago) link
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
― ilxor-com-dog-meat-drawer-7-840-x-600.jpg (unregistered), Thursday, 20 September 2018 03:06 (five years ago) link
damn, unreg, nice work. you made my quest your own, thank you!
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 20 September 2018 03:12 (five years ago) link
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?)
― ilxor-com-dog-meat-drawer-7-840-x-600.jpg (unregistered), Thursday, 20 September 2018 03:40 (five years ago) link
god, that's great. the old internet was wonderful.
https://web.archive.org/web/20010609215115im_/http://www.oz.net:80/~carebear/Copyrightpic.JPG
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 20 September 2018 03:50 (five years ago) link
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
― niels, Thursday, 20 September 2018 06:34 (five years ago) link
Unreg otm
― Ross, Thursday, 20 September 2018 06:35 (five years ago) link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1550622.stm
The comments on this are brilliant
― stet, Thursday, 25 October 2018 16:07 (five years ago) link
Take pictures of friendly dogs I see when I walk around. John, US
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Thursday, 25 October 2018 16:08 (five years ago) link