DialUp95 – A 90s inspired nostalgia hit • Hacker News Board

For me it brings back a time when the internet felt more personable. Everything these days is boring, Facebook profiles, Tiktoks and Instagrams all look the same. We need the personal days back where people put their heart and soul into building their geocities page. Where you never knew what you'd find next when you press the next link on that web ring.

Re: DialUp95 – A 90s inspired nostalgia hit

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Post by anta40 » Sat, Feb 21, 2026, 6:44 PM UTC

Ah good old dial up days in early 2000s. Browsing means the phone cannot be used for calling.

:)

Re: DialUp95 – A 90s inspired nostalgia hit

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Post by reactordev » Sat, Feb 21, 2026, 6:47 PM UTC

robputt wrote: post #5

therealmarv wrote: post #4

it felt suddenly expensive to be online again...

For me it brings back a time when the internet felt more personable. Everything these days is boring, Facebook profiles, Tiktoks and Instagrams all look the same. We need the personal days back where people put their heart and soul into building their geocities page. Where you never knew what you'd find next when you press the next link on that web ring.

Seconded. Blogs are great but the old school blogs were David vs Goliath. I remember how much fun it was to cycle through my web ring and see all the extremely creative sites. Some flash, some just clever JavaScript, none of it used jquery or react or components. In fact, one was a giant anchor area image divided up into sections (not sliced designs, one whole image! With target boxes for clickable regions).

I still have my deviantart profile from the inevitable collapse into corporate. Web design took a turn for the smashing and now it all looks the same.

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Post by adontz » Sat, Feb 21, 2026, 6:47 PM UTC

Oh, nostalgia. I had a US Robotics 56K modem, which produced two bell-alike sounds during handshake. It was cool. I search for that specific sounds for years and cannot find.