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"Hank, you fucking faggot, get a LCD already".

I do, even had a BBS up for a while a few years back. I brought it up again a few months back, but my ISP was pitching a bitch at me for it.

This is now a tech related nostalgia thread.
OOGA-CHAKA OOGA-CHAKA OOGA OOGA OOGA-CHAKA

>>6228051
Haha, fuck.

Anyone remember that website 3d-Pokemon.com or whatever?

i liked making xoom and tripod sites that had "shout" boxes, and embedded midi's.

Holy shit yes.

I freaking loved early websites, where content came before presentation. You'd get pages and pages of lovely useful text with a few headers, some bold, maybe a bit of italic, and plenty of horizontal rules.

Image maps were like OMG the first three times you saw them.

Being able to watch interlaced images download in several passes.

Before flash/javascript fucked up the internet. ;_;

>>6228038
Was it against your tos?

What I most hate about the current state of the internet, Web 2.0 or whatever you want to call it, is how it's essentially a business platform. If you want a page, you make a pre-built blog. If you want information, you go to Wikipedia. If you want to connect with others, you go to Facebook.

I'm sure Web 3.0 will just be one singular website with everything on it.

Fuck, I'm making a tripod site right now. All coded in HTML.

http://www.complexify.com/buttons/

I completely forgot about these buttons everywhere.

>>6228184
No. Use your own server.

http://cccp.nyako.net.ru:8800/

Half of the web, back in "the day".

Before it was a festering pile of shit.

Many people don't know that the original concept of Youtube was "Hot or Not", with videos.

>>6228229
OMG I remember
"This site is under construction."
EVERYWHERE
That shit was probably the first meme.
Lol

>This site optimized for Netscape 2.0

>>6228264
ahahahahaha
Netscape...
:3

>>I do, even had a BBS up for a while a few years back. I brought it up again a few months back, but my ISP was pitching a bitch at me for it.

A true old school BBS should be dial-up anyways.

AT&T created the shit that is the banner ad, proving that they are still evil in the modern world. Pic related.

>>6228229
Haha, I remember this.

I also remember many sites that had around 20 different "links" with only around 3 of them clickable.

The Hampster Dance, showing the animated GIF is a crime against humanity.
>Dit-a-dee da de-de do do dee-da-dede doe
>Hahahahaha

>>6228259
>the first meme
The term meme was coined by Richard Dawkins in 1976. It refers to an idea or custom that spreads amongst a population similar to the way a gene might be spread based on evolutionary pressures. A website being under construction is neither a meme, nor could it possibly have been the first.

MIDIs were shit back in the day.
First MIDI I ever heard:
http://www.eadcentral.com/go/1/1/0/http://members.tripod.com/~ZoerMark/PopRock.html

SCROLLING FRAMES ON EVERY SITE

HEY YOUR GEOCITIES SHOULD BE PART OF MY WEB RING FOR NO GOOD REASON

CLICK THE GOLDEN ARCHES TO CONTINUE

Guestbooks were cool, until the spambots and retards came online in full force.

>>6228338
oh man, Webrings...

>>6228326
The term "meme" was coined then, and he points out as an example of one the origami craze that swept his school when he was a child, but "memes" as he defines them have arguably been around as long as civilization.

>>6228352
wow

>>6228380
"Sign my Guestbook!"

I remember on some of my small websites, I would have a few people say stuff like "wow i love your site keep it up! :)".

Also, remember when smiles such as :) were used non-ironically?

I still have a guestbook on my site, it actually doesn't get much spam.

NO ADS
NO FUCKING ADS
NO ADS FUCKING NOWHERE

AND NO STUPID SPAAAAAAAAM

That's why I miss the old internet.

Chain letters. They still exist, but more people were gullible back in the day.

It got so bad that AOL would suspend your account if someone complained that you forwarded chain letters.

Pepsi in 1996:
http://web.archive.org/web/19961219003038/http://www.pepsi.com/

...when more than half of the content on the entire internet didn't consist of bullshit SEO garbage

Remember when Mapquest was good? Or, at least, it didn't totally suck.

Also, Altavista.

Anyone who watched the Dot Com bust is looking now and seeing history repeat itself.

Case in point: Myspace purchase, small investments in Facebook that put it's value at $15B if the rest were priced the same, Youtube buyout.

>>6228498
holy balls, that's awful

>>6228498
@_@ oh God, my eyes!

>Load up Geocities page
>MIDI of Linkin park plays
>Cheesy animated gifs, under construction signs, improperly closed HTML tags visible in text
>Rainbow text images

>>6228471
>NO ADS
>NO STUPID SPAAAAAAAAM

I don't think you ever used the old internet.

IMAGE THREAD (56K WARNING!!!!!!111!)

The only thing I miss about the "old internet" is that most pages were simple HTML 4 and could be loaded quickly even on slow dial-up connections. Plus pages written entirely in HTML were easy to navigate using text only web browsers like Lynx and Links.

Nowadays webpages are packed full of so much crap that just loading a single webpage can take more than 1Mb of bandwidth! And with all the Javascript, Flash and other shit, it can be difficult and sometimes impossible to use a text mode browser to surf the internet.

YOUR FLASH GAME IS LOADING, PLAY THIS ONE BUTTON GAME WHILE IT DOES.

>>6228490
I completely forgot about chain letters. I think I recall my mom sending me one around 3 years ago, but other than that, I haven't heard of them since. They were annoying as hell, but I laughed at a lot of them.

>>6228551
Sorry, what do you mean about history repeating itself with the dot com bust?

The hallway!

lol

>>6228631
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble

Stupid websites that people overpay/invest in. Grow intellectual property now, worry about a sustainable business model later.

One site, primarily backed by Liberty Media that is getting spammed to death here and is blocked by the wordfilter, is a good point.

Oh, and I think that Mark Cuban is a douche, but he did wrap a turd with gold foil and sell it to Yahoo for over a billion.

>>6228588
>it can be difficult and sometimes impossible to use a text mode browser to surf the internet.

Ever thought you might be better off using a non text-only browser?

fuck web 2.0, i was blogging in 1995

also trolling IRC

>>6228498
>Warning: if traveling on speeds less than 28.8 BPS then jump on the Low Road
haha

>>6228575
I don't think you have used the actual old internet. Sure, ads are old, but not as old as the internet.

>>6228654
Anyone remember Flooz, or the Cue Cat?

Cue cats are handy, if you declaw them. Cheap barcode scanners.

Honestly the internet was never good. Back in the day it was full of assburgers suffering UNIX geeks and as AOL and Compuserv gave their users unfettered internet access it became full of brain dead end users who sucked just as bad as (but in different ways than) the asburgers UNIX geeks with their university provided internet access. Anyone who was there can tell you that the internet has always sucked, the ways that it sucks always changes but it always continues to suck.

Personally I prefer the old pre-internet dial-in BBS days. Back then everyone was local. If someone was trolling there is a good chance that you would get a chance to kick his teeth in at the next BBS users meetup. That sense of geographic closeness dissapeared when the internet became widespread and BBSing died off.

http://web.archive.org/web/19970404064352/http://www.apple.com/

The Learning Company was a BIG example. Not a site, but as a part of the tech bubble.

1999: Mattel buys for 3.5 BILLION dollars
2000: Mattel sells it for 27.3 MILLION dollars

Geocities, as we all know, is about to shut down.

Yahoo spent 3.57 billion on it, in the 90s.

I remember MSN as an ISP back in 1995. I believe you paid $2.50 an hour and my aunt had it at her house. My brother and I used it when we stayed at their house for three weeks while they were out of town. They came back to a $400 bill and their cache was full of early Internet porn. I blamed it all on my brother. Shit was so cache.

>>6228573
Dear god, so many memories.

Anyone use Freeinternet.com?

There was a way to dial without the adware client.

>>6228654

I think they have a sustainable business model. I just don't think its goal is longevity. That, or dump the venture and create a clone ad infinitum.

>>6228730
You get ~18 points when you join- 16 in the game, 2 for answering an open-ended question. An iPod is 600 points.

Essentially, they're paying $8 for you to join the site and $1 more for ANSWERING A SINGLE QUESTION.

That's not a sustainable business model.

>>Ever thought you might be better off using a non text-only browser?

Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. I have been in situations where the only way to get unfiltered internet access was to SSH into a shell server in another country and surf from there using a text mode web browser.

I am not in that situation any more but I still have friends who are former coworkers who regularly end up in that situation.

hay guise

>>6228749
You can configure Firefox to use an SSH tunnel as a proxy, ya know.

>>6228695
>World's Fastest Laptop
>The blazingly fast (240MHz) PowerBook 3400 gives you state-of-the-art multimedia, advanced communications capabilities, and flexible expansion options.

:3

I remember back in 94 using MSN always browsing their BBS and one day clicking on a room titled Sim Tower and finding my first chatroom. I was stoked and really got into chatting with people. I managed to convince a 23 year old college girl into thinking I was 24 when I was 12.

>>6228274
>A true old school BBS should be dial-up anyways

FIDOnet and Bluewave offline email readers; FOSSIL drivers, xmodem, ymodem, zmodem or kermit for file transfer; PROCOM+, etc etc.

Remember the Turbo button?

Needed to turn Turbo (a.k.a. run at actual clock speed) off to run Grossology.

>>6228684
>Evidence indicates the company was at least partly brought down by fraud. In 2001, Flooz.com was notified by the Federal Bureau of Investigation that a Russian organized crime syndicate was using Flooz and stolen credit card numbers as part of a money-laundering scheme, in which stolen credit cards were used to purchase currency and then redeemed.

>>6228785
>I managed to convince a 23 year old college girl into thinking I was 24 when I was 12.

>I managed to convince a sweaty fat balding 56 year old man into thinking I was 24 when I was 12.

>>6228720
I used NetZero when it was free because my parents put a time limit on my AOL account.

>>6228785
Hint: She wasn't a 23 year old college girl either.

I remember when I was a kid trying to log on to the Internet at 2 am to browse porn and listening to the modem blaring away. Also when was the last time you heard the phrase "log onto the Internet"?

>>6228811
>time limit on my AOL account
fucking hated that shit, would shut off at 10pm ever fucking night

>>You can configure Firefox to use an SSH tunnel as a proxy, ya know.

Working as a civilian contractor for the US DoD managing and maintaining network infrastructure in various countries throughout the world. Lots of times we were not allowed internet access. We were only expected to have terminals open on our computers to connect to the routers that we managed. We were monitored so we couldn't have Firefox (or anything else) open.

But once SSHed to a router we could bounce from it to a shell server and surf with Links. If anyone looked at us over our shoulder, it looked to them like we were just configuring network devices.

>>6228746

I think you underestimate the number of idiots using the internet. All the while, they're feeding focus group information to huge media/corporate clients for large sums of money. It will die, but they are almost guaranteed a large return. Thus they do it again with a different brand, etc etc.

>>6228837
My parents enabled parental controls on my account (before we got Cable in 2002).

I ran our troop Boy Scout site.

AOL banned it because it was "tasteless". My web design skills weren't that bad. Successfully appealed over the course of 2 months.

>>6228015
Fuck man, i miss the web when it was like that.

Me and a bunch of friends all made forums for RPing, gaming and such.

All the nice simple websites that weren't filled to fuck and back with a million images. (OH GOD, don't get me started on those awful excuse of websites that use images for positioning, and worse, defend it!)

>>6228229
Oh god, that image haunts me everywhere ._.

>>6228403
I know memes have been around before we had a term for them, I was merely trying to educated the misinformed dipshits who think that /b/ is the ultimate source of memes.

>>6228813
>>6228810
This was back in the day before parents knew of the dangers of the Internet so I actually gave her my address and she wrote me an actual letter. Thank god she never visited.

>>6228847

Your tax dollars hard at work!

I remember using ZTerm, Gopher and Netscape 0.96 with the embossed, purple N logo. Everyone else had 14.4 but I was lucky enough to get the newest and fasted thing on the market, the 28.8 US Robotics High Speed Modem.

Those were the days.

>>6228828
BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

BEEEEEEEEE BWHOOOOOOO BE BWHOOOOOO

BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>6228847
underage b&

>>6228847

sounds awesome.

Cyberrebate.com was a dumb as fuck idea, but bro tier for consumers. Bought a computer from there- free after rebates. Got all of them (I figured I'd chargeback if denied)

>>6228889
http://www.sonnyradio.com/dialupkid.htm

>>6228810
If it was a girl, she's now 37. If it was the guy, he's now 71

;_;

back when yahoo wasnt a mess

and people actually uses astalavista ...

Discuss.

AOL sucked balls. The limited account settings I had wouldn't let me play Starcraft over battle.net. Eventually I got access to my moms account but anytime someone picked up the phone I discoonected from the game. My record was around 65-20-96.

>>6228828
Oh, I nostalgia'd hard on this one.
I remember when 19.2Kbit/s on the Internet was the bomb.

You now realize that 1999 was 10 years ago.

>>6228766

When i was 12 or 13 i remember installing bonzibuddy on the shared computer in the house, it only had a 2gb hard drive, 200mhz pentium and 32Mb ram, my god how fucking slow that thing ran with it's 56k internal modem. I do get nostalgia whenever i think of the "old" internet but when i really think about it, it was a depressing time.

>>6228944
I remember that 1986 was 23 years ago.

I still get hits from Netscape browsers on my site.

I wat.

>>6228682
>>6228471
Spamming and ads have been on the internet since forever.
Yeah, it wasn't instantly happening when it came about, but it certainly did happen well before the web came about.

>>6228964
Me too. I wat.

a shitload of terminal servers had bugs that you could use to knock people offline by sending their IP an ICMP ping with "+++ATH".

"+++" of course is the Hayesmodem escape code, but most third-party terminal server manufacturers didn't want to pay Hayes for the patent that requires a wait time of a couple of seconds before acknowledging the sequence and dropping out to command mode.

so what happened is their computer would get the ICMP ping, send +++ATH (hangup) back over the line, and the terminal server would see it and be all like "durr, ok!" *click* NO CARRIER

People don't remember how terrible XP was before SP2.

FCKGW

Too bad you couldn't apply any service packs.

>>6228712
Still can't believe they are killing it, it was fucking awesome.
If they just spent some time updating it, they could rake in millions.

I met my wife on the internet in 1999. I know that's not really the old internet, but a girl using the internets in 1999 was still pretty awesome.

>>6228964
>>6228986
Wait, -- what? Netscape users in 2009? Wat.

Remember me, guys?

>>6229023
They used to rebrand Firefox. Client hasn't been distributed since 2008, IIRC.

Also, Netscape's digg ripoff was LOLworthy.

Digg was, at some point, good. Then the 14 year olds joined en masse.

>>6229003
Oh yeah, ALLLLLLL those years agoooooooo...
So many years that I need to use half my fingers to count them

i installed XP for the first time the night before 9/11.

it was an upgrade from Windows 2000 and my ethernet card wasn't working properly so i had to dial in to get updated drivers while shit was going down the morning of 9/11.

>>6229042
digg was never good.

kuro5hin, however, was.

>>6229034
You're not the internet, but your older bother, Encarta '94 did write a lot of essays for me when I was in school.

BIG RED BUTTON THAT DOES NOTHING, GET THE FUCK IN HERE.

Anyone here have a good HTML guide? I'm ready to make some notepad pages, and I forgot most everything except <marquee>.

www.suck.com

It's not pr0n people. It's suck.
Polly Esther was my hero.

I don't remember xp being that bad except for the first time I tried it. I was frustrated about how you hooked up the network.

>>6229003
Dude, XP was fucking amazing since launch.
I never had any problems with it.
My 600MHz laptop with 512MB RAM ran it perfectly fine.
In fact, scrap that, 256MB, i forgot i added another stick in later on.

oh hi don't mind me, just being the JenniCam

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Ringley

>>6229099
I sure do. Windows 2000 screamed on my 166 MHz 192MB Pentium MMX box. But Windows XP? When I pressed the Start button, I could actually WATCH each individual line and fill be rendered. It took something like five seconds for the Start Menu to finally come up.

I remember downloading hackquake off Hotline and playing it in a postage-stamp sized window. It was even better than the actual port that Id did some months later.

I actually fired up an old laptop that was running window 3.1 and it surprising still worked, and fairly nimble. Tried calling into an old BBS... it's offline.
I forgot about this machine. 10 pounds 12" screen and fucking whopping 420mb harddrive. That shit was fucking cutting edge circa 1995. Now only if I can find my old jazz drive. I'm pretty sure I can find some old porn on one of those things.
I was thinking about starting a bbs again just for the hell of it.

>>6229100 In fact, scrap that
I see you still have not yet discovered the backspace key.

>>6228957
BONZI BUDDY

It used to sound so realistic when it said "Hell-ooh-ooh-ooh exclamation point exclamation point"

Trolling Slashdot from 1998-2002 was where it was at.

You 4chan faggots aren't trolls. You're amateurs.

>>6229166
I voted you down and your karma burned.

>>6229166
Slashdot linked to a CAPTCHA story. One of the CAPTCHAs was a distorted Goatse.

THAT was some good trolling.

>>6229161
you have no idea the hours me and my friend spent getting stoned, typing out as long and as insulting stories to each other with bonzi buddy. ah, being a kid was fun.

>>6229192
That's why any true troll has a network of shill accounts to balance the karma out, bro.

>>6228670
I was blogging then too, but I called it "updating my webpage on Geocities" back then.

Trollaxor has a ton of old Slashdot troll shit on his blog:

http://www.trollaxor.com/

>>6229220
That's a new idea. It's not true. Back then no one did sock puppets.

Anyone remember this bitch?

I remember making a Quake model that looked like him, it sucked.

>>6229262
Then I guess I was a pioneer. I had it all automated with a few perl scripts.

>>6229266

I have him on my desk.

Yes and no. The early web wasn't filled with ads and useless shit sure, but for that matter there was hardly anything on it AT ALL that wasn't a black-times-roman-on-grey university page. The interesting shit went down on BBSes, Usenet, IRC etc. Even later on, amateur nerd sites like slashdot were over-represented, with their wildly unrealistic ideas of how Linux was going to take over the world any day now ... partly because Bill Gates didn't think the internet was going to be popular (lol) and even when he did grudgingly accept it, tried to get everyone to use MSN's walled garden shit instead (double lol.)

Overall what we have now is better, despite all the commercialisation and bullshit. You can still avoid that if you know what you're doing: adblock, oldskool Unix shell providers like sdf.lonestar.org and grex (cyberspace.org) are still around, etc.

>>6229251
Where? I read the whole front page and came up with nothin'

Anyone else visit ww.com to watch webcams?

That was the first site where i saw another guys dick, some hairy old fat guy fapping away...

>>6229225
Fuck, don't compare shitty blogs to Geocities.

Geocities was having your own website. Blogging is having your own public notepad document.

>>6229316
Archive/Topics on the right hand side

http://www.trollaxor.com/2001/06/surprised-by-cock.html
etc.

>>6229166
y hallo thar Ensign

>>6229313
This is my new wallpaper.
This awesome motherfucker started it all.

20721 Good night sweet prince

>>6229251
>>6229316
Also he's still on kuro5hin.org, not that that's the most active site these days thanks to rusty's $5 signup jewing.

>>6229381
Yeah, I've talked to the crapflooder. Much as stated in the pic it's sort of his tribute to Cracky so she can have the final spoke forever. I'd lol except that I kind of understand ...

You now remember the terms "Webmaster" and "Alliances".

>>6229401
Like Rusty needs any more money after programming Daily Kos.

>>6229401
Hahaha, kuro5hin charge membership fees now? Oh Christ that's funny.

Hands up if you remember &sid=20inchfan

>>6229455
> after stealing user's money, supposedly to setup the CMF

fix'd

I think there is something wrong with 4chan, guise

>>6229477
What's even funnier is why : rustina.jpg

Would post, but in the unlikely event of mods on /g/ it's bannable

>>6228588


Hey; my webpages are still almost entirely HTML. =D

>>6229513
Just post it to imageshack

>>6228964

It's fucking brilliant when it happens though! I have got Windows 3.11 as an OS come up 4 times on my server logs O_o

>>6229517
Post a link to your website :).

>>6229517


This is my website that I currently have:
www.latech.co.uk - not a lot to see here.

www.aviscohomes.co.uk - website I made for a client last

www.smarterbrain.co.uk - website I'm working on at the moment

>>6228720
Or even more hilariously, companies that paid you to use their adbrowser / click on ads. Yeah, that business model worked out well ... a lot of hackers made substantial sums of money out of those tards.

>>6229525
http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/4637/rustina.jpg
Rusty's wife's head (from wedding photos he foolishly made public) poorly shooped onto porn. Forget who did it but possibly NIWS. He went apeshit, b& loads of accounts then shut signups down ENTIRELY for ages before introducing the jewgold tax. It was pretty fucking funny.

>http://www.aviscohomes.co.uk/

>digg button

>>6229615

xD

Don't blame me for that; blame the guy who did the SEO =P lol

>>6229643
Novice here, can someone explain what SEO means?

>>6229674


search engine optimisation
- getting to the top of google

>>Anyone here have a good HTML guide?

http://www.w3schools.com/html/DEFAULT.asp is probably the best HTML guide on the internet. It is done by the people who write the HTML standard.

>>Trolling Slashdot from 1998-2002 was where it was at.

Hell yeah. The GNNA was fucking awesome! People nowadays don't know what real trolling is.

>>6229753
>>GNNA
No, it is GNAA.
Gay Nigger Association of America

>>6229753
http://www.l0de.com/lrh/
So much win.

>>6228051

memes really have come a long way.

Seriously, what a piece of crap

Anyone have any classic chain mail? There used to be some funny shit out there, despite most of it being annoying.

>>6229753

Because they want to troll - but they want to remain politically correct while they do it. Gay Niggers From Outer Space was perfect then, and would be more than perfect now.

>>6229907
Anyone got any .arpa websites?

>>6229753
GNAA? 1998? Fuck off.

1998 was the hayday of trolls from the likes of Trollaxor and spiralx. It gave us OOG, pancake eating ninjas and ridiculous liberal myths like the moon.

>>6229922
It's not that, you still have shitty non-politically-correct trolls everywhere. GNAA was good because it was one of the first of its kind.

Plus, how many prominent / popular troll groups do you know of now? No, "anonymous" doesn't count.

"Here is that document you asked for...don't show anyone else ;-)"

On Friday, March 26, 1999, Melissa caused the Microsoft Corporation to shut down incoming e-mail. Intel and other companies also reported being affected. The U. S. Department of Defense-funded Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) issued a warning about the virus and developed a fix.

>>6229967
what about pp4l?

>>6229967
Yeah, pretty much the first to embrace technology (particularly scripted crapfloods) for high-profile trolling purposes. Clever nerds playing at being antisocial jerks, what /b/ likes to think it is but never will be. Also they knew where to draw the line, at least one member got kicked out for ruining random people's lives for no reason.

I remember back when myg0t were seen as trolls to fear on game servers to the point where anyone with the name was autobanned.

Also Trollkore, I don't think they did much other than spam slashdot and fag up IRC though.

OP here, thanks for all the responses, I'm still getting crazy nostalgia. I've been remembering some of my old pages. I completely forgot the days when a background could be an image repeated over and over.

didn't GNAA more recently make that supposed Mac OS X install ISO for the PC that booted up to an image of goatse.cx?

Remember in the late 1990's when the cDc was the shit and they released BO2K and Microsoft flipped out? I miss old school hacking groups like the cDc.

>>6230443
>goatse
>recently
This is why they should be a relic.

>>6230461

>>6230504
.

>>6230461
>cDc

OH SHIT YEAH

>>6230504
>>6230511

old internet nostalgia is the best kind of nostalgia.

I thought I was brilliant when I figured out how to make a horizontal line GIF that inverted colours every half a second. I even had a "TURN OFF THE FLASHING!!!" version of my website. Yeah, I had no taste.

Does anyone remember "Dogpile", the search engine? I was convinced that it was the best one for a while. Either that, or Lycos.

Are you GAY?

Are you a NIGGER?

Are you a GAY NIGGER?

If you answered "Yes" to all of the above questions, then the GNAA might be exactly what you've been looking for!

_Make a first post in a slashdot thread with the GNAA signature.
_Obsessively watch Gay Niggers from Outer Space, and then rate it a ten.
_Join the GNAA IRC channel, #gnaa on NiggerNET

>>6230625
Yeah, I remember dogpile.

But do you remember Jeeves? Not the new ask.com garbage, but the original. This man answered all of my sexual questions.

>>6230698
Everyone remembers that piece of shit. Its hardly nostalgic at all.

Ah who am I kidding. I still miss it...

I remember spending all my time searching for teenaged girls on ICQ to chat up(this was back when I was still a teen). Often, I'd be chatting with 5-10 at once.

Nowadays I just post on 4chan and a couple of other places and that's about it.

>>6230733
>>6230698
I used him a lot for my 5th grade projects and such

>>6229266
That was the first time when I realized how much MTV sucks and how retarded most people are. I think I was 12.

>>Does anyone remember "Dogpile", the search engine?

I had a friend who loved it and considered it the best but I never got into it. It looks like it is still around.

>>cDc

The nineties were an awesome time for hacking. Phrack magazine was still going strong and actually had really good articles. Also the Attrition mirror showing all the sites that had been defaced, with new sites being added by the minute almost! Back then it was a regular occurrence for high profile sites like the New York Times, nasa.gov and other big sites to get defaced. Things were sure different.

>>6230734
>Nowadays I just post on 4chan and a couple of other places and that's about it.
This is an interesting point.

Back then, I had a ton of websites that I viewed all the time. I recall some video game sites (especially pokemon), some anime sites, some "blog"-like sites, etc.

Now, I only view 4chan, a few audio sites, and various wikipedia / google browsing.

>>6230776
cDc was always shit.

>>6228828
>>6228889
>>6228914

those sounds are already part of history

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTQUfSfXjoE

reckognize the first 10" ?

As a teen I remember chatting up 14-16-year old girls and boys and getting their nudes.

Good times, good times.

...back when, instead of tabs, you had to open a new window.

>>6228015
I saved this thread ;_;

Ahh, the nineties.. from C64 to Doom to Duke Nukem 3D to Half-Life to Internet to CS in one awesome decade.

yes the beginning of the internets was a magical time indeed

>>6228081
Embedded MIDIs made a website. If you had it, your site was fucking pro. Greatest day of my shitty middle school life when I discovered the embed tag.

>>6228184
I love you. Can we link to each other's sites and tell people to go vote for us on some shitty top 50 whatever site?

BAD NEWS, GUYS

GEOCITIES IS CLOSING ON 10/26/09

Who else wants to protest the fall of this godly web host?

Archive this thread?

FUCKING MEWHEART.

>>6230853

Actually the c64 was introduced in 1982. If you were using a c64 in the nineties you were pretty ghetto.

>>6230824
I had a 14.4 Kbps dial-up connection, and I used to open about 20 windows of tiny JPG porn and just flick between them all one window a second waiting for them to load. More exciting than just having one window open.

Ivanopolou

F.O.S.I

astalavista

upss carders

AOL roombusters

AOL keywords.
I never used AOL but I remember that term. I had prodigy.

>>6230954

I remember that shit. Everything that was on TV ever seriously had its own keyword. Shit was SO monopolistic.

>>6230921
Well I was. Poor parents etc. Finland. I remember going to my friends house and playing some Zool on Amiga. It was so great! I think that where I lived, in beginnin of 90's only one guy had PC. Rest were still C64 & Amiga.

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shit was so cash bro

>>6230887
Sure, I'd love to be in a webring with you.

I've actually been messing around with an old geocities account I made around 2 years ago as a joke. I'll miss pagebuilder ;_;.

The internet isn't what it used to be. Back then, it was a sprawling place where everyone had their own website, people worked hard to share information to gain more hits (I haven't heard the term hits forever), and everything was personal. Remember About Me pages?

Now, there's more connection, but at the cost of personality. You post on your Blogger, you talk to your friends on your Facebook, and you find information on Wikipedia. The internet is nothing more than a group of dominant corporations. This does have its upsides, but I still miss the old days.

>>6228425
I'm nostalgiaing so badly right now. Oh god the internet used to be so good.

>>6228874
From Merriam-Webster:
Meme : an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture
Date: 1976

>>6229034
You had the best minigames ever. That shit with the knights and hedges? Played the fuck out of that.

Seriously, back in the day forums used to have 100s or 1000s of active posters. All that happened is that sites like Digg and this shithole proliferated and now a site has either half a million posters or a handful, and the sense of community is mainly gone.

>>6230953 F.O.S.I.

http://fosisoft.home.ro/

still there bro ;)

>>cDc was always shit.

When it came to hacking skills, yeah they sucked and were pretty much shit. BO2K just used a bunch of already existing API's and people used to create similar tools with Delphi and VB in, literally, a matter of minutes.

But cDc did have members who had skillalthough they didn't release under the cDc name. Some people from The L0pht were also cDc members, Rain Forest Puppy used to be a cDc member, RadMan from ACiD Productions was a member. I am sure there are dozens more that I cannot think of.

Where cDc really shined was in t-files. If you browse through all the t-files they created, there are some real gems in there amidst the trash.

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>>6231024
>pagebuilder

Fuck, now I'm crying from the nostalgia. I miss being a little kid trying to "make a website."

>>Well I was. Poor parents etc. Finland.

HaHa, using a c64 as a primary computer in the nineties is hilarious. Finland must be a trip. I had a friend who grew up in Finland, he used to make this alcoholic drink called Sima that we would drink. It was delicious!!

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>>6231123

Yeah, Finland with its excellent state healthcare, low crime rate, stable economy and beautiful cities. Such a joke!

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I actually had an idea: we could easily start replicating early internet for free! everyone has google account, so..
1) create a new blog
2) trash the blogging template
3) code html from scratch
4) guaranteed ugly results with simple layout

I'm actually going to try that out some day...

>>6228661
>Ever thought you might be better off using a non text-only browser?

It's not the text, it's the reliance on shitty technologies like weird HTML extensions, or javascript (or worse ActiveX) or Java or Flash.

Most of that stuff, and the way it's used, is death and aids.

awesome thread guys

/g/ is interesting again

>>6231143
In early 90's Finland also experienced the worst depression to hit any country in Europe since Weimar Republic 1933. Might explain. But yes, this country is not as great as we are brainwashed to believe.

>>6228682

Internet advertising predates WWW.

Project Gutenburg started because some faggot wanted to email a copy of the constitution to everyone. :-/

>>6230776
Plus hacking was just more interesting back then. The Unix Terrorist has it right (http://www.phrack.org/issues.html?issue=65&id=2), the hacking "scene" is now 99% the same gay boring web vulnerabilities again and again and again.

>>6231177
>create a blog
You're failing on the first step.

>>6228101

Just no. It was insane but entertaining garbage that wasn't even as useful as Wikipedia, but every so often you'd find either a really amusing crazy page or something cool like a guy restoring a car.

It's of course only now you realize how bad most of the content was and how car restore guy was doing a pretty bad job, but hey, it was fun.

>>6228688
>Compuserv gave their users unfettered internet access

Except the time they hid the names of the adult Usenet groups hohoho.

>>6231225
trashing the template makes it just another webpage. I'm going to create proof of concept now..

Anybody remember me?

>>GEOCITIES IS CLOSING ON 10/26/09
Jason Scott, the guy who made the BBS Documentary and textfiles.com is attempting to archive all of the Geocities websites.

>>6231143
Calm down dude. Nobody was saying anything bad about Finland.

>>6231257
THAT'S NOT THE PICTURE I POSTED
WHAT THE FUCK

Let's try again...

>>6231219
"the story of /b/"

what

>>6231269
>BBS Documentary
Downloading now, thank you for letting me know such a thing existed.

>>6228994
>"+++ATH".

You could knock out dialup modems by sending the right code. You jsut had to know how to escape it properly so it wouldn't shut your own modem down.

Wardialing free numbers to find the tones.

Checking lists of war dialled numbers and being annoyed at the faggots who couldn't tell the difference between a fax and a modem.

s/internet/web

Now this thread makes sense

I missed webpages with animated GIFs and MIDI everywhere

How about when we get google wave we create a wave called "The old internet" and link all of our old internet websites on it?

>>6231254
Ok, what am I doing wrong here?

>>6229021
>but a girl using the internets in 1999 was still pretty awesome.

The Internet started in universities. It spread from research labs to libraries. Guess what sex most librarians are?

That little old lady, 60 or so, maybe she doesn't know shit, or maybe she's written a TCP/IP stack in asm.

>>6231210

Finnfag here. We went into a serious recession because our economy was closely tied to the Soviet Union (even Finland's forigen policy was dictated by Moscow). When the Soviet Union collapsed in the early '90s, so did Finnlands economy.

The American dominated IMF told us to invest our natural primary resources (trees, lumber, etc...), we said: "fuck you". We are going to invest in our people. We are now world leaders in many technologys and have a robust economy with great social provisions.

Fuck free market structural adjustment idiocy.

>>6231302
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_B
4chan-ified for the lulz, presumably.

ilovethisthread.jpg

>>6229262

you should google sock puppet. I'm pretty sure that exists before WWW did.

I miss the demo scene, and awesome keygen/crack intros

Scene (pre P2P) where groups would "race"

Using a hole puncher on floppies to create double sided disks

Beige computers

>>6231375
the original finnfag making nostalgia about C64 in 90's here: this thread is not to be taken too offtopic. get back to /b/ now

>>6229313

holy shit awesome image.

I really like the early RFCs where they show a baby Internet - just 3 nodes.

>>6231254
GODSPEED BROTHER
We shall be waiting for you.

>>Wardialing free numbers to find the tones.

I used to run ToneLoc while I was at school and my parents were at work. All I ever found were FAX machines though.

>>6231361

Maybe you need opening and closing <html></html> tags.

>>6231425
>Beige computers

Now that I started to think about, why the hell they made all the computers beige? For at least 10 years? Sense, makes not.

>>6231504
Apple Powerbooks were dark grey, pretty cool. Pick related, Shufflepuck Cafe.

>>6231352
>>6231352
How about this /g/?

>>why the hell they made all the computers beige?

The main reason would appear to be that someone , decided that Beige was a nice neutral colour which blended in effectively with the predominantly pastel colour schemes which dominated corporate office spaces in the early 1980s.
At the time, the colour Beige also happened to be the main colour of office technology - fax machines, photocopiers, telex machines, they all came in beige.

>>6231504
Why are most clothes grey?

:)

>>6231592
Drop the Wave idea, how about we all bring back the old internet by making personal pages and BBS forums?

Thread auto-saging.

>>6231670
We would require servers. I don't think anyone would let /g/ host web pages on their servers.

>>6231672
Create a new one and link it here, quick!

>this thread

>>6230041

uh, sporging was common many many years ago.

>>bring back the old internet by making personal pages and BBS forums?

People do have personal pages and there are BBS forums. There are even some BBS forums only accessible via Telnet.

Open up a command prompt and telnet to theroughnecks.net

>>6231660
older

roughnecks.net BBS login screen via Telnet...

dare I yell "ARCHIVE!" ?

>>6231737
By bring back I meant make them the driving force of the internet, not something with the same impact as a small linux distro.

>>6231765
NEW THREAD

posting in a dead thread

Thanks guys.

anyone remember the yahoo news message boards?