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I miss how customizable the candybar style phones were, with whole mall kiosks selling different faceplates you could put on them, sometimes with little LEDs and stuff inside. I guess smartphone cases and/or wallpaper images have replaced this, but it doesn't feel the same. This was early 2000s, not 90s, but the best cell phone I had was an LG Shine, which I bought because I was obsessed with Lauren Conrad and she did the commercials for it. If you had walked into an AT&T store in 2006 and said "Give me the absolute girliest device you have in this entire store" they would have brought you an LG Shine. The goddamn thing had a built-in makeup mirror. I loved it.
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I loved the phones with the sliding keyboards. I hate typing on a touchscreen, even if it's more useful for non-typing poo poo
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I remember the days when there were entire services that would just text you a joke of the day or something similar for a monthly fee. Just insane to think about now, but they were so popular that there were tv ads for them.
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I’ve subscribed to email lists like that when I was new to it, but it got old real quick when they were all variations of the same joke that started with “so [guy/woman] is loving [woman/guy] who isn’t [spouse] when suddenly [spouse] shows up” or whatever tired boomer humor poo poo. Yeah, haha, that old battleaxe is just the worst, ha 
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And before that, I think there were phone numbers you dialed and you'd get charged for the call to get some crappy joke.
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Chip McFuck posted:I remember the days when there were entire services that would just text you a joke of the day or something similar for a monthly fee. Just insane to think about now, but they were so popular that there were tv ads for them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChaCha_(search_engine)
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I had a friend who did ChaCha. It was so novel, and goofy. She'd be like, Oh! We gotta stop what we're doing. I have to answer a ChaCha.
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Chip McFuck posted:I remember the days when there were entire services that would just text you a joke of the day or something similar for a monthly fee. Just insane to think about now, but they were so popular that there were tv ads for them. Jokes, or often ringtones. And it was usually buried in the smallprint that you weren't buying one ringtone, you were subscribing to something where they would send you five ringtones a week until every penny of your phone credit was gone.
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Human-guided search was the thing for a little while, before AI/ML took over. Amazon briefly piloted a program where you could take a picture of an item and then someone would find it for you and provide a link to buy it. I used it for clothes I saw on TV sometimes.
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Apr 13, 2024 21:26
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I just Asked Jeeves.
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dialhforhero posted:I just Asked Jeeves. What did he say about the y2k bug?
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“Invest in beanie babies”
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Unperson_47 posted:And before that, I think there were phone numbers you dialed and you'd get charged for the call to get some crappy joke. When I was little I remember a local mall having these fiberglass oak trees in the middle of the promenade with small child sized payphones sticking out of them. You could put in 50cents and pick up the receiver to get told a fairy tale. During Christmas they dress up the facade and you could use them to call Santa.
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Unperson_47 posted:And before that, I think there were phone numbers you dialed and you'd get charged for the call to get some crappy joke. Our newspaper was always running ads for a dial-an-insult number. Never quite understood what the point was meant to be.
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I remember calling a number on MLK day and listening to a recording of the "I Have a Dream" speech.
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https://archive.org/details/cdrom-ultimate-shareware-games-1 I think one of these was where i first played crystal caves https://www.playdosgames.com/play/crystal-caves
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If you were a fan of the 90s X-men show, its definitely worth watching X-men 97 on D+.
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I was not, but suggestion noted
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twistedmentat posted:If you were a fan of the 90s X-men show, its definitely worth watching X-men 97 on D+. Is this a new show or what? I keep seeing people talking about it and I figured people were just memeing on the 90s show for some reason.
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twistedmentat posted:If you were a fan of the 90s X-men show, its definitely worth watching X-men 97 on D+. I was, not least of which is because it had an amazing intro song.
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Heath posted:Is this a new show or what? I keep seeing people talking about it and I figured people were just memeing on the 90s show for some reason. Its pretty much a direct continuation of the 90s series. They even got a decent amount of the VA back, though with some changes, with some being dead and the actor for Jubilee stepping aside so they could get a Chinese person to do her voice.
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dialhforhero posted:I was, not least of which is because it had an amazing intro song. The best part of the last Dr Strange movie was the hearing the theme song sting during a certain character reveal.
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Early 2k as well, but I remember paying a non-zero amount of money for ringtones (I think I ultimately escaped that era only paying for three ringtones: a Super Mario Bros themed one, Aerith's Theme back when video game music was novel outside of specifically video game contexts, and Threshold from Scott Pilgrim.)
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^^^^^ did you or any other goons ever say for "achmed" as your ringtone?? Back to something that I'm pretty sure was very early 90s, but possibly late 80s, did anyone here ever have any Barnyard Commandos? Or Food Fighters? E: or Army Ants?
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wesleywillis posted:^^^^^ did you or any other goons ever say for "achmed" as your ringtone?? Barnyard Commandos and Food Fighters are things I've only experienced through Robot Chicken skits.
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God, I was just looking for the commercial for the toys and had no idea there was a cartoon for that too.
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wesleywillis posted:^^^^^ did you or any other goons ever say for "achmed" as your ringtone?? I was born in 87. One of my earlier memories is winning a raffle at a mom and pop video rental store that had tons of stuffed animals hanging off of fishing line or placed around the top shelves throughout the whole store. I got to pick one, and I picked a sheep from Barnyard Commandos. He had green arms, a red bandana, white wool, and a weird toothy grin. Near as I can guess this might have been 1990 or 91. I cannot remember if my little brother was around for this.
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Did anyone else do that Blockbuster NBA Jam competition like I did?
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I know that song entirely from the Pure Moods CD commercials.
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Yes, such a weird fun show for its era.
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I want cool teeth like that, but I guess I would also play with it all day
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I remember watching that as a kid even then being like, " this is on TV?"There was this block of programming on MTV called Liquid Television that was full of weird poo poo. I remember a show about a dude with a giant head that an alien lived in.
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Wait til you see the external context of that kiss. it's happening between open windows on two high-speed trains travelling in parallel.
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Chip McFuck posted:I remember the days when there were entire services that would just text you a joke of the day or something similar for a monthly fee. Just insane to think about now, but they were so popular that there were tv ads for them. In Norway it provided alibi for a suspect in a murder case. On the night of the murder she received a joke on her phone and the cops were able to determine that she (or her phone at least) wasn't on the place where the murders took place.
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deoju posted:I remember watching that as a kid even then being like, " They did a new attempt at LTV in 2013, not sure how it holds up (I've seen it around but haven't watched it).
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I had the Super Soaker 2000 and that sunofabitch kicked like a mule a max pressure. You only got like 3 shots but they struck fear across the park.
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Neito posted:They did a new attempt at LTV in 2013, not sure how it holds up (I've seen it around but haven't watched it). I will always remember: “gahghhh! It’s a pair of human eyes!” From that shows intro iirc
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