Old school internet.

[basinbeater]

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.

[BmillsSkier]

This place is old school internet.

[JimmyCarter]

[Meadow Skipper]

This place is old school internet.

Actually, it pretty much is.

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.

[skaredshtles]

<snip> Reminds me of how I sometimes get a little nostalgic about early Usenet.

1991, IIRC. The good ol' days.

[BmillsSkier]

Old Goat, Benny and Wooley know what's up.

[plugboots]

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.

[byates1]

Jerking off to dial up. Those were the days

[Mazderati]

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.

[MontuckyFried]

Jerking off to dial up. Those were the days

[Not DJSapp]

fat chicks in party hats
pirates vs. ninjas
Icy Hot Stuntaz
hamsterdance and the like

[Harry]

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[spudbumkin]

My wife still maintains her Juno account for $20.00/month. She has no desire to get a free Gmail account. Weirdo.

[BmillsSkier]

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.

I’m positive my Mom still has a bunch of those discs in a drawer somewhere.

[riser4]

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.

Blue background have me half a chubb.

[Buzzworthy]

www.skiingismylife.com

[Ted Striker]

When there was stuff like this?
http://www.thingsmygirlfriendandihavearguedabout.com/
Lol.

"First Born's name (Jonathan). Then, when that was settled...
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

[irul&ublo]

All your base are belong to us

[mcski]

Would you like to play a game?

[Ted Striker]

Old Goat, Benny and Wooley know what's up.

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.

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.

[ex-powderbroker]

[BmillsSkier]

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.

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.

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.

[XXX-er]

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

[Ted Striker]

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.

[toast2266]

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.

Same. At a rough guess, I think I've probably microwaved a couple hundred AOL cd's.

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