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no matter how modern, algorithmic and high anxiety things seem now, there were times when the content purity was high and not sullied with ads and cookies. no comments, no hot takes everything stood on its own in a vacuum. things you can’t find on any search engine, but you know if you typed in the URL on archive.org, and went back many years, the purity is still there. what are yours? here are three examples I’ll never forget I purchased a concert ticket from a person from a news group, and when I met them they shouted their domain names at me to go and check out. when I got back to my computer and typed it in, I was met with Looney Tunes gifs, pictures of cats, and a riveting piano performance about postpartum depression from the person I had just met. recently I emailed them to say, hey I never forgot that video, and they responded that they are making videos again all these years later. here is one: https://youtu.be/DMaCbcMHKmw?si=DsWQPnMQNYY2BCDv another: periodic pictures of a turtle named Pooper, seemingly of Nordic origin, available at pooper.com which I would never ever type in now finally: blog of a man who sewed flank steak into a the lining of diaper and rode a bicycle up and down the on-ramp of an interstate |
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ferret cam - the year is 1999 and I found a website where a guy has put up a webcam in his ferrets' enclosure. The cam updates every minute and I only see a ferret one time during all those nights I log on to the site, I don't recall the url any longer. hamsterdance.com and to take the word 'stay' in a more literal sense, i've got a bunch of forum stuff saved locally from a final fantasy forum 20+ years ago - the forums were hacked and afterwards I meticuously saved a whole lot of threads and posts in case it should happen again.
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Dumb Sex-Parrot posted:ferret cam - the year is 1999 and I found a website where a guy has put up a webcam in his ferrets' enclosure. The cam updates every minute and I only see a ferret one time during all those nights I log on to the site, I don't recall the url any longer. thanks for the vietnam flashback to that year at summer camp they had us do the hamster dance 3 times a day minimum Thank You Pot Smoke Phoenix :^)) code:
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Suck.com |
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the coinbird song. he's angry for coins |
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RavenousScoot posted:thanks for the vietnam flashback to that year at summer camp they had us do the hamster dance 3 times a day minimum then you probably recognize this tune: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXJ5oaU940U
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk6omPlM8bw If kids saw this nowadays they'd be like "hell yeah i'm gay"
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First time we connected dad's laptop to the dial-up, we had people over to share the occasion. Dad's friend joined an ICQ channel, calling himself dipso999. He was a distributor for a wine company. I got my turn at the helm and clicked on a user to message. I asked "how do you do?". "with the lights off and a glow in the dark condom" came the reply. I didn't know what that meant at the time, but I had just had my first taste of online, and I was hooked. |
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Stinky Meat Project was a project about stinky Meat http://www.stinkymeat.net/ Maddox hated everyone, how cool and edgy. Millions of views on the original incel poo poo. This website was in an ogoing feud with Drew Curtis's Fark dot com. There were amazing Photoshop competitions. I vowed to learn Photoshop but still never have. I'd read Fark dot com and feel slightly disloyal I read the front page on dial up, I had to watch the images load and probably 50% of the time they wouldn't so I'd refresh the page in hope they would this time around (they don't) YTMND siren noise. I snort laugh. Ate my balls webring. Playing poker with goons and joking over ICQ. 6 digit (natch). Notification says "uh oh!"
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my very first ICQ convo was with someone who advertised for a porn site
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hokay here's the earth chilling drat that's a pretty nice earth you might say WRONG |
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Normally my answer to this conversation would be somethingawful.com |
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I hope you enjoy internet scraps Cos you're in one
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somethingawful.com a hilarious comedy website with great articles by guys like Cliff Yablonsky and Fragmster. Fashion SWAT, Your Band Sucks, Photoshop Phriday, and many other great regular features posted daily on the site. There was a forum too, but I never really saw it because it cost $10 to sign up for.
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RavenousScoot posted:thanks for the vietnam flashback to that year at summer camp they had us do the hamster dance 3 times a day minimum that's a lot of times
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thebest404pageever wasn't early, but I remember it often and flash in general I mean, you can do a lot more with more ease now I guess for videos at least, but the variety of presentation is lacking something when everything's in a youtube player now like even something with some multimedia flair to it now like 17776 leaves me wishing the youtube parts were just a part of the site instead of sticking out oddly plus the interactivity that's gone and the general sloppy d.i.y. feel that's missing now that flash is gone Thank You Pot Smoke Phoenix :^)) code:
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kuskus posted:another: Similarly, doodie.com, which used used to do simple cartoons like a guy straining on the loo so hard his head exploded, etc. |
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Barco Fiesta posted:somethingawful.com there was this time this kid stole his mom's credit card to buy diet pill for the referral reward, but was charged hundreds of dollars for a full supply, so he asked gbs for help they proceeded to find out every detail of the kid's life and background, then some rando goon called his mom and told her everything when questioned about their identity, the goon stated, "i'm...i'm from the internet" i learned a terrible lesson that day |
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DoomCroissant posted:there was this time this kid stole his mom's credit card to buy diet pill for the referral reward, but was charged hundreds of dollars for a full supply, so he asked gbs for help ![]()
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The Straight Dope
The concrete floor is cold; the walls are bare |
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Three words: Mr. Cool Ice![]()
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Also, gotta give a shout-out to the GOAT of the gape, the goatman himself: goatse! ![]()
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I kind of hate it but Badger, Mushroom, Snake.
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I didn't even know about the goat man until I found this god forsaken friendly place
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gonads and strife
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Areola Grande posted:I didn't even know about the goat man until I found this god forsaken friendly place Like seeing a picture of an old friend.
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homestar runner dot motherfucking com ![]()
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Escape From Noise posted:Like seeing a picture of an old friend. more like seeing inside a new nightmare. that was 2015 so I've healed and laughed quite a bit since that fateful day
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Areola Grande posted:homestar runner dot motherfucking com I literally came back to post this Big beefy arm
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I never stopped watching homsar
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TEEN GIRL SQUAD sailing mishap ftw |
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here comes the thnikkaman |
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Hey Splayed(?) Shiggity Shiggity Shwa Guess what idiot What you do today? Uhh... WRONG That and all of the early flash tub nonsense. Hey guys did you hear Dracula is Coming?
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Furniture Porn
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Ominous Jazz posted:hokay I don't even remember where this is from, and yet I still read it in that voice. |
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Finger Prince posted:I don't even remember where this is from, and yet I still read it in that voice. It was that end of the Earth cartoon. I couldn't stand after a while. It got really popular in college and it got played to death
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Nosepilot.com https://alexsacui.com/launch/big/nose.mp4 https://web.archive.org/web/20070716221406/http://animation.nosepilot.com/ This blew everyone's mind back in the late 90s. The audiotracks in the flash version seem to be a bit out of synch, sadly. |
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net disaster
Thank You Pot Smoke Phoenix :^)) code:
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