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This was amazing and reminded me of the first time I heard an mp3. I was a freshman in college (Fall 1997) and the only music we had access to was either CDs or the radio. Technically, you could download a .wav of a song but it was super slow (even on fast university networks) and they were huge so you couldn't save that many on the hard drives of the time. One day, I hear multiple songs coming from my room. Songs th…
I'm not sure how younger folks would feel seeing this...perhaps that it's ugly, less useful, sparse. And they'd be a bit right. But for me this was a hit of pure nostalgia, flipping item to item. Almost like looking through an old photo album of memories you'd forgotten years back. Thanks Neal for putting it together. Slightly fun fact - the original Space Jam site stayed intact until 2021! https://web.archive.org/we…
A photo album that gets more and more depressing.
I 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…
That reminded me of Orkut, which was a social networking product, but created by Orkut Büyükkökten. So he just reused his personal domain name for the product! https://orkut.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkut
I was blown away with how great of a website and resource this was and the way that things loaded (to emulate old internet) then saw it was neal.fun Neal.fun always kills it with these things. Love them so much.
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Something Awful is also missing from this history. Maybe too niche? Though for geeks and gamers it was well known, and (checks Wikipedia) it was launched on 1999... It was certainly a notable part of the internet culture of the era.
I think it might not be well-known how much of current internet culture cascaded out from the hive that was the SA forums. 4chan was started by an SA goon, as was bellingcat, for example.
I 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…
That reminded me of Orkut, which was a social networking product, but created by Orkut Büyükkökten. So he just reused his personal domain name for the product! https://orkut.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkut
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I was thinking the same. this is a very american centric vision of the internet - especially when it comes to the websites mentioned
Works for me as a German, online since 96. Oh please yes create a version that applies to your cultural background and how you experienced the net!
Man Ask Jeeves was way overhead its time.