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Relics of the internet.

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J-Roderton

J-Roderton

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TheWednesday said:
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Wow. That takes me back.
 
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industrian

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Mplayer.com
Plasticman.org
The pre-eFront collapse rpgmaker.net
And speaking of which: eFront. One of the first memorable scandals of the internet. I still remember the leaked emails with the "rape her and spit on her" comments.

Stet said:
everyone i knew as a kid had encarta. i had compton's. i guess you could say...heheh...that i'm straight out of compton.
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I got Compton's with my first PC back in 1999. So I guess you can say that we're both OGs.
 
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Ermac

Proudly debt free. If you need a couple bucks, just ask.
Cymbal Head said:
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And who can forget the day they learned <marquee> tags.

Anyone remember having an expage?
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Yes! I was trying to find my expage recently but it looks like the site got shutdown? Any way to access them? I tried the wayback machine; said it wasn't archived.
 
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neocoder

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Lycos.com
Pets.com
Infospace.com
Webvan (online grocer)
WorldCom

The thing I remember most about the 90s was the DotCom stock craze. Stocks like Netscape, Sun, WebMethods, Excite were trading for $200-$300/share. You had people day trading and posting on websites like Silicon Investor to get people to bid a stock up. People really wanted to get in on an IPO.
 
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cajunator

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I think the most shocking thing to me is that much of this still seems to exist in some recognizeable form. the power of the internet to preserve memorable sites.
 
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Chuckl3s

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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.

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spindashing

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Cagey said:
That sounds like simming. I didn't get into the RP thing, but I did "SiM", which was just DBZ chat room combat. Putting your moves into :: :: or -= =-, if your opponent typed something faster as an attack you had to type the attack as if it happened, etc. In essence, it was just one giant typing test.

Example:
::leaping roundhouse kick to the face, sending you flying backwards::

etc. etc.

In the fight you had to type out charging or some shit and not get disrupted, all setting up to using some DBZ finisher to win.

Or the noob version:
::teleport::
::break neck::

I was up to 100 WPM with balls-on accuracy in 7th grade because of this shit. Hell, I knew most of the DBZ names and moves in Japanese because of it as well. Always fond of Piccolo on the show so I rolled with the special beam cannon (makankosappo... had to Google the spelling but damn I was close!).

I can't stress how lame this seems in retrospect. And how awesome.
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YEAH. There were also Dice, which used the outcome of a dice command (I think it was //roll) to decide whether an attack was successful or not.

But TBOP was like writing an essay against your opponents. Instead of just typing ::leaping roundhouse:: you would type something like, "InuYasha jumped as high as he could into the air, his leg left outstretched..." blah blah. And it would go on and on until the opponent could not outpost an attack.

There was also Turn Based Logic which didn't rely on excessive detail: people attacked and defended from attacks "logically", and if you couldn't find a reasonable way to defend or attack without godmodding, you were toast.

Yeah, it was pretty lame. I wasted so much time with that stuff years ago. :lol
 
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Cagey

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spindashing said:
YEAH. There were also Dice, which used the outcome of a dice command (I think it was //roll) to decide whether an attack was successful or not.

But TBOP was like writing an essay against your opponents. Instead of just typing ::leaping roundhouse:: you would type something like, "InuYasha jumped as high as he could into the air, his leg left outstretched..." blah blah. And it would go on and on until the opponent could not outpost an attack.

There was also Turn Based Logic which didn't rely on excessive detail: people attacked and defended from attacks "logically", and if you couldn't find a reasonable way to defend or attack without godmodding, you were toast.

Yeah, it was pretty lame. I wasted so much time with that stuff years ago. :lol
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Yesssss. I hated dice! So random in combat. I was such an elitist dick to the dice people, embarrassing in retrospect.

Now I remember TBOP. You basically tried to write a fanfiction faster than your opponent.

I remember SiM was based on minimum word counts for fights, with the higher number (without approaching the narrative mode you describe) denoting the more elite simmer. Three words was for lamers because it took no creativity and just resulted in spamming the same few attacks to keep your opponent having to "receive" the attack (-= kicks you =- -= kicked =-).

And people would devise their screen names with their guild name + division in them, with generic names like RAGE and FATE and LEGACY. I remember joining FateX, my neighborhood best bro joined RageX. Total nerd rivalry.

Yeah the time I lost... entire days. Insane.
 
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Spunky Monkey

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Actually the AOL stuff reminds me. Remember when we had to PAY for internet time as well as the phone bill?

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Getting one of these on every computer mag ever or in the post every few weeks offering more and more free hours. And once you used up them hours you had to pay for more hours. The internet was expensive back then thats for sure.

I remember in the UK we got freeserve, the first free ISP where you only paid for the phone bill. That was amazing at the time, remembering to disconnect after an hour, random disconnects, redialing etc.
 
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industrian

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Spunky Monkey said:
I remember in the UK we got freeserve, the first free ISP where you only paid for the phone bill. That was amazing at the time, remembering to disconnect after an hour, random disconnects, redialing etc.
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Lots of memories here. I was only able to use the internet at weekends because of this. Fucking 0870 numbers. Then I signed up for a decent service of £9.99 per month to use an 0800 number. That was bliss. Except the hourly disconnects and being disconnected whenever someone phoned the house.

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In retrospect this shit is crazy to even think about. The fact that my town didn't even get broadband until 2004 is hilarious now.
 
oneils

oneils

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I remember a comedy page that had a black background an comic sans font. If I remember right the guy who ran it had a gimmick where he would make fun of how dumb 5 year olds are.

Can't remember the name of the page, though...
 
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cajunator

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Diablos said:
I actually had their mp3's at one point but lost them. :(

And I do not think an archive exists anywhere. Some brave soul will have to a. admit they backed them up and b. upload them.

I hope they do surface, they were truly hilarious.
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The songs are all over youtube.
Still as bad as ever.
 
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cajunator

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I remember Encarta had some hilarious recordings of animal calls and stuff. there was one with a goat and it was the funniest shit ever.
 
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BGBW

Maturity, bitches.
I think my earliest memory of Internet Flash cartoons was one called Scrotum the Puppy. That then lead me to Mr.T vs Tupac. "Did you eat ma Cheetos!"

Oh crude humour.

This isn't that old but it's one of my favourite videos
Michael Quest III.

Weird Japanese humour. Videogame sprites. It had it all!
 
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