very interesting
Internet Artifacts
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#102I jumped over to the Wikipedia page of early blogger Justin Hall to see what he's up to. He has another distinction that he can probably claim: The longest recorded gap between registering a domain and finally using it to start a business. "In September 2017, Hall began work as co-founder & Chief Technology Officer for bud.com, a California benefit corporation delivering recreational cannabis, built on a domain name…
I think domains were even free in 1994. I think the owner of rob.com told me he just had to send in a form or something back then.
They were. I think it was 1995 they started charging? I had dozens of domains. There was a simple text file form you had to type over. Then they started charging $200/2yr for .com/.net/.org and a lot of us let our domains go which ended up being worth tens of millions a few years later during the boom.
(the story at the time of what killed the "free" is that Unilever mailed in 19,000 forms; one for each of their registered trademarks)
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#103It's a shame it ended right when I started. There's at least a generation or two or three of cool stuff between 2007 and now.
I remember "copypasta" was a hit during late 2000s
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#104That just reminded me of original 128MB MP3 players, loaded straight from Napster. Ironically, I still struggle to fill an average sized modern equivalent with 512GB, even with FLAC.
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#105I'm disappointed that Bad Apple!! is not there.
It's been so bizarre to see that spike in popularity in the past couple years. I was big into Touhou in high school in the early-mid 2000s. I listened to Bad Apple and the rest of the IOSYS Touhou library on burned CD-Rs in my car (yeah I was super cool). Then, 20 years later the tune is suddenly everywhere, hahah.
Bad Apple is basically "Doom" of music video. It has display ? It can play bad apple.
it's quite understandable. The video is in monochrome so very easy to display, the animation is smooth and the detail is not too demanding, so even on low resolution display you can tell it's Bad Apple
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
A photo album that gets more and more depressing.
If your album is roughly chronological like mine... watching the kids grow up, yourself and your spouse get fatter and grayer....they -do- get more and more depressing :).
Yeah, so like life I guess. :-(
(Although you may have read recently as I have that 50 years old seems to be peak happiness for people self-reporting happiness.)
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#107It mentions a few classic flash movies, but doesn't mention the Flash hosting site Newgrounds.
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
They actually left the original Space Jam site up. I think the developers knew its importance. https://www.spacejam.com/1996/
Oh man I forgot all about and tags to create navigation. From the early days before we had dynamic sites or static site generators with templates, we had our browsers do our "templating" for us!
frameset was THE basis for building manual-style resources back in the day!
* nav header; search (if you could figure out how to make it work)
* Table of contents
* main content pane
fun times!
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#109The "first MP3", without the background music, and just the voice, sounds a lot better to me than the original I listened to on YouTube. I liked the MP3 more. Any way for me to find similar stuff? Just a good voice singing stuff, without music? I know acapella, and some of it is good, but I'm thinking of something more specific. Just one person singing without music I guess, something poetic.
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
> A bunch of the early internet brands are being rebranded/relaunched More like recycled to lend credence to dubious grifts and tangential services. Digg is all-in on AI; Napster is another paid music streaming service; Limewire is another file locker and an AI cryptocurrency¹; GeoCities I’m not aware of a revival. > which is collectively is being branded as the nostalgic internet. Nothing about that is nostalgic or…
Besides GeoCities - the rest are being relaunched by SV VCs and PE groups. Napster was acquired and relaunched in crypto a few years ago and just resold for $100M+ to a metaverse company immediately following a new raise at a $1B+ valuation. So yeah it’s acquiring historic IP by VC/PE to resell to friends that are using someone else’s funds. Considering the .com boom and era of publicly traded big tech giving golden…
Napster is so old that I remember its DMCA-compliant reboot from 20 years ago. My college gave students free access to it, all the music was a DRM'd WMA file. Most people who used it also downloaded a DRM-removal program to be able to put it on shared drives and MP3 players.