Asklemmy

I fondly remember spending hours and hours in the T-Online BTX, which looked something like this: https://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/btx-jubilaeum-so-sah-der-internet-vorlaeufer-aus-fotostrecke-34503.html

There was this chat "village" themed based around Asterix & Obelix. I think it was the first chat I ever used, so it was magical. My older sister would mostly chat, while I watched. I still remember her handle from back then: Gutemine.

We later found out the chat cost 5ct/min (or 5 Pfennig per minute?)

I was a big MST3k fan back in the day. When it was on Sci-Fi, they had a MST3k-themed site called "Caption This" where it took screengrabs of whatever was on the channel at the time and you'd crack jokes about it.

It doesn't sound that interesting now, but if you're familiar with the show you'd see the appeal.

Also having to wait five minutes for a single JPEG of boobs to show up. Really helped teach a person patience.

Discovering that Burning Man exists. I'd never heard of it until I followed a link from Boing Boing and my head exploded.

Creating my own Proboards message boards and discovering Alien Adoption Agency.

Probably watching an old Ed Edd N Eddy fan animation I found on yt that I cannot find a trace of anymore, or just the old yt shit post videos in general. That, or things like getting on Nitrome or any other site to play flash games. Mutiny on Nitrome was one of my absolute favorite flash games and one I never beat since I was still young.

Early Usenet, before the endless September and it being taken over by Spam bots soon after. Made some lifelong friends there.

Configuring my UUCP connection to provide my BBS users with « electronic mail ».

Stock options.

Going to an internet café, filling a CD-R to the brim with whatever I could fetch in 1 hour, and enjoying whatever I brought on my very offline home computer for the next week

Neopets storylines, like the Fall of Faeryland in which players around the world had to fight to defeat an enemy. And the world map grew with every storyline so it didn’t feel stale.

The mp3 predates YouTube but it’s still one of my favorites. The F Word ala Masterpiece Theater.

https://youtu.be/T4kZUrGBMCA

Nyan cat will always be special to me.

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