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Star Man posted:I think you'd all appreciate this. this is amazing
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Star Man posted:I think you'd all appreciate this. This is flawless. It's perfect. I love that this exists.
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Jul 20, 2016 06:11
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Star Man posted:I think you'd all appreciate this. I had to mute the thing, but when I scrolled to the very end I realized that the whole thing is very, very cool. Hard not to get a bit of nostalgia from it.
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Jul 20, 2016 06:49
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I remember seeing it like 10 years ago. Definitely a great resource for old gifs.
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Jul 20, 2016 08:02
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If only you could hang homepages over mantles.....
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Jul 20, 2016 18:06
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 this is the image of a generation..
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Jul 20, 2016 18:29
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8 track betamax posted:After reading these equalizer posts I have now doubled the amount of time I've spent in my life ever thinking about music sound settings. Username/post combo
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Jul 25, 2016 04:07
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I am in the ASCII guitar tab.
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Jul 25, 2016 18:39
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What was the website that was like a bunch of colored balls in a room that everyone currently viewing the room could grab by clicking and moving them? So you had 20 people working together to draw a giant dick or spell out "gently caress YOU" with the balls
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EugeneJ posted:What was the website that was like a bunch of colored balls in a room that everyone currently viewing the room could grab by clicking and moving them? Drawball?
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Jul 27, 2016 03:53
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No, it was similar but there was literally little colored balls (I think they were balls) that you had to click and drag around the room
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Jul 27, 2016 03:58
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I remember a site called FSU, or "gently caress poo poo Up" It was a CGI script with a textarea of the source of the site itself, and you could just edit it and put whatever the gently caress in it and save. No authentication. I don't think it lasted very long
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Jul 27, 2016 05:58
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That reminds me of a site that was like a blank "text document" thing, but anyone could write stuff live on it and you could go seemingly infinitely in any direction. There were different "rooms" or "documents" or something, I think, so things could be kinda saved if no one happened to overwrite it. Goons were constantly loving it up in the most amazing ways, and me and a few others got our own little area like 600 screens north and made a little ascii village thing that was constantly evolving and moving higher and higher. The starting screen was always a seizure-inducing mass of swastikas and dicks, since it had dozens of people all competing to type in the same area at once. No clue what it was called or even when it was (somewhere from 2005-2009 maybe?), but I think it came around the time that the "defacing" (read: drawing over) web pages live site became popular. The Gasmask has a new favorite as of 06:08 on Jul 27, 2016 |
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Jul 27, 2016 06:04
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Data Graham posted:I remember a site called FSU, or "gently caress poo poo Up" there were also rudimentary guestbooks which didn't strip out HTML, it was good times when you found one
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Jul 27, 2016 06:42
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Data Graham posted:I remember a site called FSU, or "gently caress poo poo Up" haha wait what? so the second person would be changing whatever the first person changed and so forth?
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thathonkey posted:haha wait what? so the second person would be changing whatever the first person changed and so forth? They invented Wikipedia then? 
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Jul 27, 2016 07:25
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Actually I just remembered the things you moved around weren't balls, they were multicolored letters that looked like the letters you'd see stuck to a refrigerator, and the group would either use them to form words or arrange them to draw dicks/swastikas/etc. You'd sometimes get assholes that would try to put all the letters in one corner of the screen while you were trying to do something with them
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The Gasmask posted:That reminds me of a site that was like a blank "text document" thing, but anyone could write stuff live on it and you could go seemingly infinitely in any direction. Was it this? http://www.yourworldoftext.com/somethingawful
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Can't get it to work on my phone, but the website name sounds super familiar, so I'm pretty sure you've found it! Can't wait to try it on a real computer, I hope there's still some ancient goon relics tucked away, like ascii dickbutt and goatse.
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Well this is really something. Is there anything south? I got bored.
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Jul 28, 2016 01:19
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Dotz for the Amiga https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjetL7zOkzA One of the guys who wrote this runs a computer museum in Southern Ontario http://pcmuseum.ca/ He also has the largest video game collection in Canada. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-tdnHlpCco
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Reaganomicon posted:the notbencejon blog I discovered this back in the days of per-minute dial-up so obviously used a web spider to mirror it to read "offline" (what a quaint concept) and remember backing it up to CD. Years later I stupidly tossed the CD and the website seems to be lost forever. I still occasionally check to see if there are any signs of the guy resurfacing but he seems to have disappeared after a short stint on LiveJournal.
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drguildo posted:I discovered this back in the days of per-minute dial-up so obviously used a web spider to mirror it to read "offline" (what a quaint concept) and remember backing it up to CD. Years later I stupidly tossed the CD and the website seems to be lost forever. I still occasionally check to see if there are any signs of the guy resurfacing but he seems to have disappeared after a short stint on LiveJournal. For some reason this post reminded me of another blog written by a possibly crazy but certainly homeless at times man who was trying to code the best Gameboy Advance RPG. It was a very interesting read. I recall the URL being *hisname*game.com but my googlefu is weak.
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Cripes, and that reminds me of something I followed back long ago, Project Armageddon. It was the first vaporware I ever came into contact with. It was an attempt to make an RTS that was better than Starcraft, and 100% free and free of DRM. I truly believed it would come to pass. Such promises. I even remember the site, if nothing else in the universe does: projecta.cjb.net
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Jul 29, 2016 08:56
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But my real white whale was https://www.word.com the first site I read daily back in the 90's. It was a satire/humor/httpartpiece site that was eventually bought by an oil company and trashed. It introduced me to the Maakies comic, the Cardboard Valise, and an article about a heroin addict wrestling with his own literal poo poo at a dinner at his girlfriend's parents' house.
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Humphreys posted:For some reason this post reminded me of another blog written by a possibly crazy but certainly homeless at times man who was trying to code the best Gameboy Advance RPG. It was a very interesting read. I recall the URL being *hisname*game.com but my googlefu is weak. one man clusterfuck Bob's Game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%27s_Game
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axolotl farmer posted:one man clusterfuck Bob's Game That's the one! Thankyou! EDIT: Holy poo poo it's actually greenlit on Steam. Humphreys has a new favorite as of 03:25 on Jul 30, 2016 |
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axolotl farmer posted:one man clusterfuck Bob's Game Jesus loving christ Also, quote:According to Jim Sterling of Destructoid, he claimed that his stunts "are the mark of somebody who deserves to be a part of the game industry". Of course.
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drguildo posted:+++ATH0 NO CARRIER
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Forgot to add *70 to the phone number, have a download killed by incoming call.
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I got this though: https://web.archive.org/web/19980124141518/http://www.getright.com/
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Jul 30, 2016 23:46
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Yep, I had a USE GETRIGHT link on my site back in the day.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Forgot to add *70 to the phone number, have a download killed by incoming call. Or in my case a game of Age of Empires 
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GetRight was a game-changer, I could finally download Neo-Geo roms on awful Internet cafe connections. It still took Metal Slug 2 an hour to download, and also needed to pay for burning the file on a CD. I left so much money at those dark, badly ventilated places, I probably could buy an actual arcade machine.
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I loved the early days of CD burning when disks cost $4 a piece and failed mid-burn 75% of the time.
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GORDON posted:I loved the early days of CD burning when disks cost $4 a piece and failed mid-burn 75% of the time. Yep, I'd watch as the buffer meter went up and up, desperately hoping it burned ok and didn't cost me an hour's pay if it failed. I'll tell you what though, those $5 CD-R's still work to this day. Any made past 2000 flakes away at any slight movement. It was until at least 2003 that you couldn't do anything on your computer while burning. 1997 though it was like the planets had to align right. I'm really surprised Sega even had the foresight to put copy protection on the Saturn considering I don't think CD burners were even thought to be a thing that could exist. I'm actually still kind of impressed it exists.
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doctorfrog posted:But my real white whale was https://www.word.com the first site I read daily back in the 90's. It was a satire/humor/httpartpiece site that was eventually bought by an oil company and trashed. I remember creating a mock-up rent-a-car website on Geocities for an economics class project back in high school around 2001 or 2002. I completely forgot all about it for years, only to make a mad dash to find it just before Geocities bit the dust. Never did find it. 
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:Yep, I'd watch as the buffer meter went up and up, desperately hoping it burned ok and didn't cost me an hour's pay if it failed. I'll tell you what though, those $5 CD-R's still work to this day. Any made past 2000 flakes away at any slight movement. I've got a CD-R of my band's demo EP from 1994 that still plays. Wouldn't put any money on any of the copies I've made over the years, though. I still remember the sinking feeling I'd get after dropping like $50 on a spindle of CD-Rs, only to discover halfway through them that they were poo poo, and the foil was starting to flake off. DVD-Rs too. More recently, do you remember having to figure out what DVD+/-R you had to buy to make your copies work with your DVD player, or your burner, or your Xbox or whatever? I'm so glad they worked that poo poo out eventually, and everything just sorta works with everything else (when the media isn't total garbage).
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CD burning programs that had locked session ticked by default. Before USB drives got cheap you were lugging spools of CDs to and fro Uni to take home work. I had tons of discs with 40mb on them because I'd forgotten to untick that blasted box.
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