Internet nostalgia

well, I found myself in a Blur guestbook (my first website was called Popscene so I thought my best bet was to at least examine every Blur-themed website I could find, for links/clues..)

popscene: A l e x i s D. - 10/26/97 04:30:57
My Email:p o p s c e n e @ i n a m e . c o m
Where did you hear about this page: Found it..
Comments:
I love blur soooooo much, and i've met them each once, and damon twice...My fave songs are popscene, theme from an imaginary film, and far out, and I am in Toronto, Canada...everybody email me, ok?

Did you get any emails

None that I can remember :)

Is Far Out still one of your favourite Blur songs?

Hell yeah! Nothing has really changed aside from the email. Though I now have a Blur themed *gmail* address. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

what’s up parklife420?

Ha, I go through the lyrics to Far Out in my head whenever I get a planet-related crossword clue. It usually comes up with the goods!

what’s up parklife420?

http://www.rsub.com/typographic/

warning: requires shockwave

I still have my old Shockwave, and Dreamweaver, and Flash, installation disks from when I 'borrowed' them from work many years ago. Might even still have Paintshop Pro disks.

I have never seen this amazing thing before:

Julia Stiles as the school newspaper’s cyberpunk editor-in-chief on a 1994 episode of ‘Ghostwriter.’ I will never get tired of this clip. pic.twitter.com/Nzb8q0gwRq

— d. patrick rodgers (@dpatrickrodgers) January 29, 2020

yeah that's something alright.

Amazing.

god remember when it was possible to be enthusiastic and optimistic about Being Online (TM)

brb changing my display name to ManxMouse212

i was stupid enough to use my gov't name on Usenet posts when I was a dumb 16 year old Fundamentalist and let's just say some of that shit still shows up in search engines.

you clearly cannot jam with the console cowboys in cyberspace

that clip came to my attention years ago when it was highlighted in an early Xkcd.

it's good

Anybody want to play some Legend of the Red Dragon or Tradewars?

My band back then had a Geocities page. Will be interesting to see if it pops up.

WestHollywood was *super* important to me back in the mid-90s, because it was when I first came out to my wife as gender-curious, and was one of the first places I could connect easily with other people in my situation.

good account of what Internet use was like right before Berners-Lee and why the web initially seemed to be more of an incremental change than a transformation

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/02/gopher-when-adversarial-interoperability-burrowed-under-gatekeepers-fortresses

The official Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich website is looking a bit internet nostalgia:

http://www.dddbmt.com

Came across this site when doing some important Beatles research:

https://sentstarr.tripod.com/beatgirls/first.html

Love it.

Somehow never knew about Rory Storm's macabre fate. Amongst the pleasant reminiscences of Liverpool Art College and the Cavern,

While Rory was at Stormsville comforting his mother Vi, he overdosed on a mixture of sleeping pills and alcohol. he died on 28th September 1972, and his mother committed suicide upon finding him.

Never seen Rory Storm before. Somehow I expected him to look more like Mal Evans that this, rather startling figure who looks like he's stepped out of the Blitz club in 1980. Photo by Astrid Kirchherr, which helps, I guess.

https://i.imgur.com/JgCa8qW.jpeg

you know what I miss, those little custom link buttons that everyone made. used to be people would connect via forums and they'd exchange buttons and put 'em on the "links" section of their webpage. they were all so ugly but I miss 'em

i stumbled on something that still had its "web ring" materials in place recently, it was like opening up a buried ruin and breathing air trapped centuries ago.

I miss (permanently) under construction pages with the little digging stick figure. Maybe 24 years later he’s still digging.

Wiby - Search Engine for the Classic Web

The Wiby search engine is building a web of pages as it was in the earlier days of the internet.

Oh, how lovely. Except the phallic lighthouse, maybe.

hypnospace outlaw is a great little detective game rooted in that 'webring' era of internet- pretty clever conceit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb4Jul496QE

it's also really *funny*. recommended

http://www.cwgsy.net/community/tosy/images/rabbit2.gif

well damn

Here is a collection of more than 700 88x31 web buttons from the 1990's and 2000's

(Just randomly found this when clicking "surprise me" at the Wiby site linked above.)

https://anlucas.neocities.org/petrape.gif

Wiby and button page are both great finds!

Yeah that "surprise me" button is endlessly entertaining.

https://i.imgur.com/LkM5Fu6.jpeg

Love to see an internet nostalgia site that’s still being regularly updated, complete with guest book and all.

All you Beatles and solo Beatles needs:

https://jpgr.co.uk/beatroot.html

Great find, reminds me of SugarMegs: http://sugarmegs.org

Rediscovering the Small Web

logging on to the nbc supernet pic.twitter.com/Vl3HNYzOz8

— no (@n0wak) April 8, 2022

https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/09/way-back-in-1989-usa-today-launched-an-online-sports-service-i-found-it-at-goodwill/

Wow