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If you set your HTTP proxy to "theoldnet.com" with port 1999, and add an exclusion for "web.archive.org", then all your web pages will come from 1999, via the Wayback Machine. You can pick a different year by changing the port. Edit: It may have been hugged to death...
In a few decades or so I could see setting that up for a nursing home so the residents could relive their youth. Might also be good for a young kids pc.
The website is wellmade and cool and stuff, but I am a bit tired of these all-quirky-in-the-same-way retro 1990s geocities homages...
Nostalgia comes from forgetting that we got tired of these all-quirky-in-the-same-way retro 1990s geocities homages in the 1990's.
Or from remembering the Angelfire/MySpace DIY aesthetic from before the world became consumption-only and flatly Material.
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That was XDrive. I don't think the name MySpace came around till the social network in 2003. The sale to Murdoch was 2005.
It was definitely Myspace in 1996+. Perhaps they didn't start marketing the brand until 1999? I had to register about 50 variants of that domain name in 99' for them using the all so much fun email template with Internic. As to what relationships they had with other companies I have no clue. The HP SureStore's left the dataceter in 2002 or 2003. I met their CEO in 1999 when they were going to launch the drive space f…
The word "blog" seems like a giveaway this isn't from a real archive. I don't remembering hearing it until years later.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_(protocol)
Excerpt: "The program would supply information such as whether a user is currently logged-on, e-mail address, full name etc. As well as standard user information, finger displays the contents of the .project and .plan files in the user's home directory. Often this file (maintained by the user) contains either useful information about the user's current activities, similar to micro-blogging, or alternatively all manner of humor."
I really miss independent voices. I feel like social media is a hollow version of what was, kind of like a bowling alley with bumpers on the lane.
The web felt vital to expression in 1999, and today it usually doesn’t. It feels corporate. Wish we could find a way to recapture that feeling of connection with one another.
You know these kinds of nostalgia capture an aesthetic, but what made the web special in 1999 was the voices of individuals publishing websites of their own… their movable type sites were usually high brow affairs, but ‘99 added LiveJournal and Blogger to the mix. I really miss independent voices. I feel like social media is a hollow version of what was, kind of like a bowling alley with bumpers on the lane. The web…
Let me share what revolutionized my tech experience.
#getoutside
Edit: Not being snarky, I’m totally serious. Online only goes so deep…then…nothing…
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I like https://oldweb.today ... actually emulates old OS/browser combinations and proxies stuff from archive.org
I never get over the weird feeling seeing something like Windows 95 which was released with such spectacle, Jay Leno and millions of dollars in launch events, requiring the latest available PC equipment to boot the same day, and of course the looming threat of the SPA sending you to PMITA prison if you didn’t pay your $209.95 being reduced to a small square on my mobile phone still running faster through a million la…
For you younger members of the audience, this page is a great demonstration of how animated GIFs were originally used on the web and why a lot of us were so surprised when they made a big comeback in a totally different style in the 21st century.
this is exactly how GIFs should have remained. The new generation calls these "stickers" which are all over Tiktok and Snapchat, and they're all Canva-made identikit garbage. It's sad to think that GIFs that still remain are movie/TV scenes that are clipped to use as reactions to online comments.
Those under thirty should be aware that this occurred because the owner of the GIF spec (H&R Block) began a legal strategy that caused most of us to move to JPEG.
Laughing hard at the Olean ad. As many won't get that, it's the brand name for Olestra, a fat substitute with similar nutritional qualities but zero calories because humans can't digest it, that was briefly popular in low-calorie foods in the late 90s. But since you can't digest it, it leads to horrible shits and was mostly taken off the market.
The official phrase was "causes anal leakage".
It's funny because it's true. Instantly took me back to the late 90s. I remember trying to optimize images for 16k colors, and dealing with all the weird, disparate javascript versions.