Lord British
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Yyyyup. No bullshit. Just Winamp Classic.
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Yyyyup. No bullshit. Just Winamp Classic.
CyclopsRock
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It really kicks the llama's ass.
ZombieTimeMachine
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I never fully understood the point of YTMND, but I'll admit, this one did crack me up when I first saw it...
http://zoidslinkytragic.ytmnd.com/
http://zoidslinkytragic.ytmnd.com/
crazy monkey
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yahoo chat rooms
Velcrochicken
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Fubar 2000 bro, But seriously Winamp is still awesome.
Palette Swap
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Damn, I had forgotten about that: having an argument with someone on IRC and experiencing a "connection reset by peer" in the following minutes.a few things I remember
Jedeye Sniv
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I still sing the moon song.
I remember there was a really good X-Files fansite around the mid 90s that was a clickable image map that looked like a computer desktop. That was futuristic.
and Infoseek!
http://www.planettribes.com/allyourbase/video1_view.shtml
All your base.
http://vgmusings.blogspot.com/2008/11/whatever-happened-to-antagonist-inc.html
Antagonist Inc for people here who were on AOL from 98-00.
All your base.
http://vgmusings.blogspot.com/2008/11/whatever-happened-to-antagonist-inc.html
Antagonist Inc for people here who were on AOL from 98-00.
Ivan A Nguyen
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I was really sad to learn that Planet Namek had shut down for good back in 2002. When it came to DBZ news, that was the place to go.
I know not the internet but any of you remember this? I played this in highschool..same time when the internet blew up.
there was a windows version of BOLO. O_O My friends and I used play this on old Macs that we had in middle school... So much fun. Making groups and go all out.
http://mangatranslation.com/
one of the oldest manga scanlators (i think)
kinda depressing i can remember all the updates on that page
it goes way back to 2004
time.. subtle thief of my youth ;_;
one of the oldest manga scanlators (i think)
kinda depressing i can remember all the updates on that page
it goes way back to 2004
time.. subtle thief of my youth ;_;
This was pretty much the peak of MYG0T.
Oh holy shit no way. I used to go on rathergood all the time, this is still a thing? Fuuuuuck.
This thread brings it all just flooding back.
ElectricBlanketFire
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Interfectum
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Some good ones on Newgrounds from back in the day:
Mario vs. Sonic
No Luck Mikey
Poo Eater
Heroes of Cybertron
Metal Gear Awesome
Nostalgia overload in this thread. The internet was so different back in the 90s. These days everything is so streamlined and easy.
There is sort of a way to get that 90 Internet experience today though, and that is to use hidden services on Tor and eepsites on I2P. A lot of them are built basically like 90s websites because most of the users of Tor/I2P block javascript and the like for added privacy. And the (lack of) speed is also there. At least when you first connect to a hidden service and it has to build the connection. It can take like a minute to connect to a hidden service! And there are guestbooks to sign and simple chatrooms to visit and completely text-based forums etc. It's pretty magical. It's just a shame there isn't more interesting content on there yet.
And for the Swedish gaffers:
Funplanet
Lunarstorm
Funplanet was probably one of the first websites I used to visit regularly. They had cool browser games and chatrooms. I always spent my time in those chatrooms. Some fun times were had there for sure. I provided a link on archive.org, but it's still online at http://funplanet.se
And I think everyone my age had a Lunarstorm account at one point. It was basically a Swedish/Scandinavian precursor to Facebook. I have no idea what became of it but it seems to be down these days.
There is sort of a way to get that 90 Internet experience today though, and that is to use hidden services on Tor and eepsites on I2P. A lot of them are built basically like 90s websites because most of the users of Tor/I2P block javascript and the like for added privacy. And the (lack of) speed is also there. At least when you first connect to a hidden service and it has to build the connection. It can take like a minute to connect to a hidden service! And there are guestbooks to sign and simple chatrooms to visit and completely text-based forums etc. It's pretty magical. It's just a shame there isn't more interesting content on there yet.
And for the Swedish gaffers:
Funplanet
Lunarstorm
Funplanet was probably one of the first websites I used to visit regularly. They had cool browser games and chatrooms. I always spent my time in those chatrooms. Some fun times were had there for sure. I provided a link on archive.org, but it's still online at http://funplanet.se
And I think everyone my age had a Lunarstorm account at one point. It was basically a Swedish/Scandinavian precursor to Facebook. I have no idea what became of it but it seems to be down these days.
rocksteady1983
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Not a big "relic" and not sure of its relevance today, but in the mid 2000's I went all apeshit for stardock and object dock. I had my girlfriends computer looking like this during christmas time. We loved it.
Holy crap. Just re-watched this a few hours ago. Such a nostalgia trip.
CrudeDiatribe
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I know not the internet but any of you remember this? I played this in highschool..same time when the internet blew up.
Yeah, we had an AppleTalk (and then ethernet) LAN at home and played all the time with friends. Was well out of school by the time WinBolo came along.
The author of Bolo, Stuart Cheshire works at Apple with the job title "Wizard without portfolio". He does a lot of work with zero-configuration networking ('Bonjour').
Interfectum
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XMMS, the Linux version of Winamp. I don't think anyone is using this anymore and XMMS2 never went anywhere.
Audacious has support for Winamp 3.x skins, and includes that exact XMMS skin as well. I prefer the GTK interface myself but it's a cool throwback.
I had such a "holy shit" moment when I first read this.
OH MY GOD I DID NOT KNOW THIS
Came across this website today...
http://www.heavensgate.com/
I guess its been up and running since the mass suicide.
http://www.heavensgate.com/
I guess its been up and running since the mass suicide.
I had such a "holy shit" moment when I first read this.
And from that day forward, I wore this little "F" key pendant everywhere I went.
Imbarkus
As Sartre noted in his contemplation on Hell in No Exit, the true horror is other members.
The AOL message boards...
Holy moley. Really was a nice message board interface, as I recall. Looks like you found the one screenshot of it on the internet!
This thread drove me to finally hunt down a picture story I recall reading the start of in the mid-90s but never completed - all I could recall is that there was one page which rhymed "Jerry can" with "pelican", with a character going through a checklist which suggested that the *only reason* he had the Jerry can was *so* it could rhyme with pelican.
It'd been nagging me for a long time since I knew it had a complicated name, but couldn't actually find what from that scant information... until now.
Concuspidor & the Grand Wizard of Many Things
Also:
It'd been nagging me for a long time since I knew it had a complicated name, but couldn't actually find what from that scant information... until now.
Concuspidor & the Grand Wizard of Many Things
Also:
Doug Heffernan
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Those dreaded AOL punters... bad times when you had to dial up again after getting IM-bombed.
Those dreaded AOL punters... bad times when you had to dial up again after getting IM-bombed.
Wow, that's screwed up- I was about to post the same image.
I was looking for FateX3, though.
Who remembers WaReZ in chat rooms and getting emailed MP3s??
Dark Octave
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ZombieTimeMachine
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I had such a "holy shit" moment when I first read this.
Oh my god! This is the same feeling as when I finally learned the trick to those stupid bouncy barrels in Sonic 3.
Dragoon X Omega
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Not a big "relic" and not sure of its relevance today, but in the mid 2000's I went all apeshit for stardock and object dock. I had my girlfriends computer looking like this during christmas time. We loved it.
Oh gosh I remember StarDock. I always wanted to customize my desktop with cool theme and I got a bootleg version from Napster I think since I don't remember the old file sharing name though.
Good times
Oh I remember another one.
for softwares.
Ah the 90's.....
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