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There was this guy on an old forum named "budsmoka" that once very shittily spray painted a cannabis leaf on his ps2
Phoenix - before it became Firefox. IRC and then early days of IM. Zork. The Pawn. The 56k modem sound. Compuserve nodes. Lots of great memories.
Configuring a TCP to PPP socket so I could dial in to my college account. I always like getting things to work more than the end result. Like I have more memories of editing autoexec.bat and comfig.sys files than actually playing the games that helped me boot up.
If you aren't a selfhoster maybe you should be :)
GeoCities and spending a whole summer playing Microsoft Ants! on my dad's computer.
The "download complete" Godzilla roar using the GoZilla! download manager. And using WinAmp to play my newly downloaded mp3's.
The owner of a site called zug dot com wrote a lengthy and hilarious essay on his treatment for an anal fissure. There were MS Paint illustrations of the procedure.
I was enthralled but also learned a lot about using humor to discuss situations that a person would otherwise be ashamed of.
The AOL kids home page with all flash games. I played a lot of the tom and Jerry blueprint game.
BBS, ftpmail, archie, veronica, news, mail !! tons and tons of information never before available to me..
The dancing Spider-Man gif.
Probably that happy zing you got whenever anyone signed your guestbook on your homepage.
Staying up till 2am to play BRE (Baron Realms Elite) on a local BBS. 2am because that was a time I could dial in without the line being busy.
I also played a little LORD (Legend of the Red Dragon), but BRE was my favorite.
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Having my own email address, making a website and pirating a metal album
being on prodigy chat and seeing people posting "LOL" and i was like, what is that
I wasn't born back then, but it would have been the fact that search results weren't total crap like today: only reddit seems to offer decent results if you don't want sites like wikihow to come up... I wrote a more elaborate blogpost partly about it.
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My dad trying and failing to dial out and connect to AOL italia to send his sister an email. I have no idea how much he paid for the service and the fact that local calls still cost money and I'm not even sure AOL was local, but it was so slow it took forever to send anything. Forget pictures.
I was on 14.4 and one of my friend had 36.6. holy hell it was faster (but still slow to load babylon-x).
I remember waiting for downloads that always took 1h+ and would always fail at 99% ๐
It's not that early, but eyezmaze.com (which apparently still exists) was one of those sites I found one day and regularly played on for years.
If you want to get a feeling of the old internet, look here: https://search.marginalia.nu/explore/random
To be clear, those are not (only) old sites, but a lot of them feel like the old web.
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