Remember the good old days of the internet? When there was random shit all over the place? When it felt like the web was a place of discovery?
When there was stuff like this?
http://www.thingsmygirlfriendandihavearguedabout.com/
Lol.
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Remember the good old days of the internet? When there was random shit all over the place? When it felt like the web was a place of discovery?
When there was stuff like this?
http://www.thingsmygirlfriendandihavearguedabout.com/
Lol.
This place is old school internet.
Actually, it pretty much is.Quote:
Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
The OP piece was classic and nostalgic. And there are no ads on it. Reminds me of how I sometimes get a little nostalgic about early Usenet.
1991, IIRC. The good ol' days. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Meadow Skipper
Old Goat, Benny and Wooley know what's up.
https://nowiknow.com/wp-content/uplo...IVflSI_ph.jpeg
Mrs. Plug and I were at a restaurant, and there was a long line, so we shared a booth with two guys so we could speed things up. They were from Silicon Valley. They were talking about how great the Internet was, and we were saying that it’s OK and all…but whatever.
They were talking about how all this information is available and it’s just gonna be so great.
We had no idea that would it actually make people more stupid.
Jerking off to dial up. Those were the days
Ooo. This is a late phase disc. Early offers were like 25 or 30 hours. I schemed hard to stack them and maintain free service.Quote:
Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSKBRWoGvL0Quote:
Originally Posted by byates1
fat chicks in party hats
pirates vs. ninjas
Icy Hot Stuntaz
hamsterdance and the like
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My wife still maintains her Juno account for $20.00/month. She has no desire to get a free Gmail account. Weirdo.
I’m positive my Mom still has a bunch of those discs in a drawer somewhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mazderati
Blue background have me half a chubb.Quote:
Originally Posted by basinbeater
"First Born's name (Jonathan). Then, when that was settled...Quote:
Originally Posted by basinbeater
How to pronounce First Born's name."
That literally happened in my (extended) family. The Y sound won.
And yeah I remember those days. Many of my friends had funny webpages. Amazingly, this one is still up: https://aperson10.tripod.com/projectgarth.html
All your base are belong to us
Would you like to play a game?
Don't need to be that old for those. My roommates and I used them as coasters in the 90s. They doubled as throwing stars.Quote:
Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
We played the Star Trek drinking game too. There was a channel that showed 70s-80s reruns 24/7 so the Love Boat, CHiPs, Three's Company etc worked (almost) as well. I feel like kids today don't really know what reruns are.
Heh. I'm almost positive I was using one of them to rip music off limewire in our college house in the late 90s. The landline would be jammed for days.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ted Striker
Reruns were a staple in that house too now that you mention them. It was the dawn of cable with a "guide" on the screen so you could select a show from the guide and the cable box would automatically change the channel to that show at that time, all day, every day. We lost the remote so for the rest of our time in that house it was:
Back to back episodes of Beverly Hills 90210; then
Back to back episodes of Saved by the Bell; then
Sportscenter for a few hours; then
Back to back episodes of M*A*S*H*; then
Late Night with David Letterman; then
Conan O'Brien.
Repeat.
I think at the time we could get the PC 1 on a deal from the mother corp and so all the computer nerds at work were buying them even tho we were in OP , IMO the world would be a much different place if IBM hadn't shit the bed with the PC
Ha! Yeah I had friends whose cable box was stuck on a channel because they let the batteries in the remote die and leak alkaline goo all over the circuit board. Stuck on one show sounds like one of Dante's Circles of Hell.
Speaking of downloading music... Napster. That's old school internet. And kind of a turning point.
Same. At a rough guess, I think I've probably microwaved a couple hundred AOL cd's.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ted Striker
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A friend of mine had the contract from AOL to send those discs out, it went on well into the 2000's. He made so much money off that shit it wasn't funny. Well okay it was pretty funny.
This has been up since the 90s. It's dynamic, it changes all the time. It's still weird and it's still cool, check it out sometime:http://superbad.com/ click around
I was just wearing my old Napster tshirt last weekend and was bummed noticing it was getting pretty threadbare. I bought it from the Offspring’s websiteQuote:
Originally Posted by Ted Striker
Somewhere, I have an old hard drive loaded w 4gigs of music from back when it to took fuck knows how many minutes per song to download off Napster
A bit too old school. That’s phone freak shit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry
Ahhh nostalgia.
But to be honest the tech pisses me off lately. I think it’s AI bullshit. Searches can’t find what they should
Thinking back to the Napster then Limewire days, anyone else ever get on CD sharing trees from from something like an AOL chatroom using those programs? Roommate was a big Deadhead and would rip a show offline from another 'Head or one of those services then burn 10 copies of it and send it out to the first people on the tree. A few weeks later after the tree was started and that show had made its rounds getting burned over and over again his name would pop back up on the next one and a box full of CDs would show up on the porch with 10 other shows on them. Kinda cool actually how it worked.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ted Striker
That is some OLD skool innernetz.Quote:
Originally Posted by plugboots
Also - fractals.
Ha! Rip some free music offline, then play it using Microsoft Media Player gettin high and watching fractals.Quote:
Originally Posted by skaredshtles
'the cheat is on the limit' gets used at my house frequentlyQuote:
Originally Posted by gointhedistance
https://img.moonbuggy.org/
I miss when Winamp really did whip the llama's ass.
I put on my robe and wizard hat.
There was a time. late 90s when I was fairly addicted to Fighter Ace.
https://youtu.be/WD6NObLom2E
Playing on a 96 Baud Modem was a bit frustrating but I made due.
My first modem was a 14.4k. I missed out on the 2600 baud days. I remember it actually taking a few hours to figure out how to setup the TCP/IP stuff to get connected to the internet. After I figured it out I thought I was a really techie!