WE ARE NOW LIVING IN THE POST-ALTAVISTA WEB.
How the FUCK am I supposed to find the hottest new geocities.com websites? This is fucking bullshit. I'm not going back to goddamn lycos.
Quote from: Cramulus on August 12, 2013, 04:38:47 PM
WE ARE NOW LIVING IN THE POST-ALTAVISTA WEB.
How the FUCK am I supposed to find the hottest new geocities.com websites? This is fucking bullshit. I'm not going back to goddamn lycos.
WHAT'S NEXT? TRIPOD? :horrormirth:
OH GOD NO WHAT NEXT? WHAT ABOUT ANGELFIRE?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
SHIT. I JUST LOST ALL THE WEBSITES EVER!
SHIT DAMN FUCK
okay luckily we can still get a fix of the 90s web here: http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/index.php
For example, view this thread as it would have existed in 1996: http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/content.php?theme=2&music=10&url=http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php/topic,35176.msg1285889/boardseen.html#new
Holy shit, AltaVista and Lycos! Talk about a trip down memory lane. :lol: :lol: :lol:
Brb, gotta remember my Angelfire e-mail so I can log into Xanga.
Not quite as green and black enough to give you your fix but:
https://neocities.org/
I miss the days when the net was an "information super highway" laden with highway metaphors like "on ramp" and "traffic jam".
I miss the days when FREE was bold and blinking
I miss the days when a website would let you know what was "NEW" or "HOT" (http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/images/hot.gif)
I want to read a list of people's favorite bands, movies, and food, in an unordered bullet point list
I want to go to a webpage called "My web page"
I miss the days when websites were organized by "neighborhood"
I miss downloading 3.5-inch diskettes full of "WAVS" and playing them for your friends. "Check out this clip of Donald Duck getting a handjob, you're gonna bust a nut .. from laughing"
But alas, they have taken our blink tags. They have taken our shitty frames. They have taken the tiny spinning skull on fire which you should click to read my weblog.
let's become digital amish, let's get tamagatchis, let's order pizza from the net, let's dial up via prodigy, let's be excellent to each other
I miss dial up BBSs, where you'd get disconnected if you forgot to turn call waiting off.
I miss the early days of usenet, where your post didn't appear for 12-24 hours, and a reply took the same amount of time. Also, you needed a special browser.
I miss my accoustic coupler modem, which ran at a blinding 300 baud rate.
I miss waiting for my tape deck to incorrectly load a program into my Timex Sinclair.
I miss Fortran, Pascal, and COBOL.
I miss compile errors on 8088 assemblers.
I miss my first webpage. I made it in Frontpage and hosted it on Geocities. It had a background from Visual Paradox on there.
Edit: OMG I FOUND IT MIRRORED. *hides it back in the deepest part of the internets*
Quote from: Cramulus on August 12, 2013, 05:01:00 PM
I miss the days when the net was an "information super highway" laden with highway metaphors like "on ramp" and "traffic jam".
I miss the days when FREE was bold and blinking
I miss the days when a website would let you know what was "NEW" or "HOT" (http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/images/hot.gif)
I want to read a list of people's favorite bands, movies, and food, in an unordered bullet point list
I want to go to a webpage called "My web page"
I miss the days when websites were organized by "neighborhood"
I miss downloading 3.5-inch diskettes full of "WAVS" and playing them for your friends. "Check out this clip of Donald Duck getting a handjob, you're gonna bust a nut .. from laughing"
But alas, they have taken our blink tags. They have taken our shitty frames. They have taken the tiny spinning skull on fire which you should click to read my weblog.
let's become digital amish, let's get tamagatchis, let's order pizza from the net, let's dial up via prodigy, let's be excellent to each other
Blink might be gone, but they have added rumble and shudder:
http://leonarnott.neocities.org/
A lot of the day yesterday was spent on my local copy of my old website. Light colored text on dark backgrounds that were loosely based on galaxies and made in paint, tables, and a page about "my friends" because that's totally what websites are for, right guys?
I found This ghetto piece of shit (http://www.principiadiscordia.com), the other day. It looks like it hasn't been updated in years.
I remember webrings.
I remember Netscape Navigator.
I remember the first time dad booted up some dinky-ass modem and it made a noise that was very clearly the sounds of things going HORRIBLY WRONG, even though it was just a modem. My child-brain took a while to get over that.
I remember when the Yahoo homepage wasn't completely overrun with crap I never look at.
Quote from: Cramulus on August 12, 2013, 04:44:28 PM
SHIT DAMN FUCK
okay luckily we can still get a fix of the 90s web here: http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/index.php (http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/index.php)
For example, view this thread as it would have existed in 1996: http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/content.php?theme=2&music=10&url=http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php/topic,35176.msg1285889/boardseen.html#new (http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/content.php?theme=2&music=10&url=http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php/topic,35176.msg1285889/boardseen.html#new)
Hospital blocked it. Says it is a phishing site.
At least we still have Webcrawler!
Quote from: Cramulus on August 12, 2013, 04:44:28 PM
SHIT DAMN FUCK
okay luckily we can still get a fix of the 90s web here: http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/index.php
For example, view this thread as it would have existed in 1996: http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/content.php?theme=2&music=10&url=http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php/topic,35176.msg1285889/boardseen.html#new
Oh, wow. I want a retro website like that.
Is there some way I can make that happen without having to learn what the fuck I'm doing?
Hah, I remember having to use MS-DOS to play 8-bit Gulf War based war games.
Geocities is hot shit compared to that.
Quote from: Carlos Danger on August 12, 2013, 08:39:16 PM
Hah, I remember having to use MS-DOS to play 8-bit Gulf War based war games.
Geocities is hot shit compared to that.
Red Storm Rising or GTFO.
Hah, I remember reading that too, actually, though I never played the game.
I had Civ II by that point.
This is kind of sad. I used to recommend Altavista quite a lot, particularly after google started to get popular. It was nice to watch people sell themselves as tech experts and make that exact same recommendation.
Somewhere I still have the code for my first webpage ever. It was on Geocities. :lulz:
Quote from: YOUR Social Science Thinkmonkey on August 12, 2013, 09:29:19 PM
Somewhere I still have the code for my first webpage ever. It was on Geocities. :lulz:
I have never had a webpage. :sad:
Kids in AFRICA had it better than me.
run"*",8,1
(http://i.imgur.com/ksdFFa5.gif)
Quote from: Cramulus on August 12, 2013, 05:01:00 PM
"Check out this clip of Donald Duck getting a handjob, you're gonna bust a nut .. from laughing"
FUCK YES DUCKJOB.
I miss Zork.
Even though I never could get out of those damn woods.
You can play an online version of old skool text Zork on the Internet somewhere. I don't have a link, but it's 2013, QED, it's there.
Quote from: Triple Zero on August 13, 2013, 11:26:02 PM
You can play an online version of old skool text Zork on the Internet somewhere. I don't have a link, but it's 2013, QED, it's there.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/188334
Quote from: Sita on August 14, 2013, 12:37:48 AM
Quote from: Triple Zero on August 13, 2013, 11:26:02 PM
You can play an online version of old skool text Zork on the Internet somewhere. I don't have a link, but it's 2013, QED, it's there.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/188334
Thanks!
I still won't be able to get out of the damn woods.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 14, 2013, 01:37:27 AM
I still won't be able to get out of the damn woods.
You are aware that you just have to turn around, right?
MORE LIES FROM THE LIBERAL LAMESTREAM MEDIA.
Shit, there's my weekend shot. :lulz:
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 14, 2013, 01:44:34 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 14, 2013, 01:37:27 AM
I still won't be able to get out of the damn woods.
You are aware that you just have to turn around, right?
There's probably a metaphor in there somewhere. Fuck if I can see it, though.
_You can't go that way.