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E-Zines

Here you will find "E-zines", a collection of stories or files from the early days of the internet!
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The following post was quoted from another user on another forum. It is not mine! There have been some recent discussions about the CRTs used in compact Macs, specificallly in reguards to...
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Youtube has been recommending me covers of songs in the OSRS soundfont. You have two options for musical accompaniment for this thread: The classic Autumn Voyage or a soundfont cover of Depeche...
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Welcome to the virtual... or is it real? In the current era we're accustomed to boring flat design; UIs never made the jump from 2D, Virual Reality is mostly used for porn and basically even...
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One of the net's earliest proverbs is that "the internet is forever". As we've learned, the opposite is true, the internet is transitory. With a physical book, once the original investment of...
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Camcorders are the pinnacle of nostalgia. They capture footage and display it with a near-universal aesthetic of the recent past that evokes memories even if you're unfamiliar with the scene in...
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Is it just me or was anything related to dinosaurs really fucking huge back in the 90's and very early 2000's? You had the original Jurassic Park trilogy, Walking With Dinosaurs, Dino Crisis...
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Thread to discuss Daria and the Daria fandom. I'm gonna kick it off with a couple of things. First I want to show that Daria has a very interesting old-school fanbase. Or rather, had an...
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Nekoweb is essentially a sister site of Neocities, same basic principle of easy/free website hosting and development. It's currently in beta and still being worked on, but you can start a site and...
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I always found these hot air balloon eye test thingies to be really visually apealing for some reason. Do you guys remember these? If you have similar images please do post them.
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This thread is for ANSI art. Bonus points for pre-Y2K art.
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Parallel thread with https://8chan.moe/404/res/17276.html Example: "internet will topple down *Patriarchy*!" related...
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Miyamoto said that the inspiraton for Zelda was drawn from exploring caves near his childhood home, and that the inspiration for pokemon was drawn from catching bugs as a kid. Post your country...
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I've been feeling kinda nostalgic for those times and relapsed into "playing" ROBLOX again only to find that all the games that were popular even back in 2014 and now dead and broken :( Was...
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I remember watching a funny video of macaronis dancing the macarena, on a black laptop with both my parents. I just googled it and it should have been sometimes around 1996. What about you...
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The oldest device I use is my trusty old white iPhone 4 running 5.1.1 for Music/Internet Radio. It has got a new battery and lasts for days without a charge
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Have you ever tried to find a random clip, whether it be a commercial, episode, etc. that you remember from the past but can't find it anywhere? Chances are you're dealing with lost media. Lost...
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Post your own Game Boys, favourite models, and favourite games. I have 3 models my self, an OG, a color, and advanced SP. I loved emerald edition for the advance and have lately gotten back into...
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I think thats that best way I can put it. I was a kid in the 90s but my teen years were the late 2000s so I got to experience the whole first wave internet boom but I wasn't really old enough to...
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Recently I made a pithy comment about my days on GaiaOnline, where I was a young retard who posted edgy and/or XDDDD :3 crap. I first made an account at 11 (and was an absolute terror on the...
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To be on this forum, a literal monument to both the past of the internet and an idealized idea of life 30-40 years ago, you have to have some sort of dissatisfaction with current year. Whether...
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So after watching this video, not only did I briefly wish I had been raised in the 80s, but it got me thinking about all the things in my own life time I've already seen change (often to my...
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:) This song's from the 90's I think but they were just so aesthetic..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhGoZLudKyk
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There's something about the early 2000's that makes me feel wonderful inside! Anyone miss the times? Mandy Moore, bubblegum pop music, bold neon colors on a white background, weird shapes....love...
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In the glory days of Flash games, Stick RPG stood out to me the most. You were set in this world (which was like a floating city), and had to work to get money, level up 'intelligence', get items...
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There's something about these old clunkers that we adore at some point and these promo pics make them seem mythical. Anyway, let's post some fucking car pics we like. I'll start with this.
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anyone else remember those video game kiosks at burger king? apparently they were called "virtual fun centers". i spent a lot of time on these as a kid but unfortunately i can't recall much about...
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Was a popular aesthetic during late 90's and early 2000's and it was overlapped by Y2K aesthetic. The main elements were natural tones, lomo and Bleach bypass techniques in photography, soft...
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I was born in 2001, so I have no real idea how cool the world was back then, I'd like y'all to share your experiences with me so I can know more
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I pull open the gas station door (or push?) and as the cool smell fills my nose I consider my decision: Which of these three will I be eating in the car for the next hour?
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Are there any foods you remember that aren't around anymore? Please discuss and pray for their return Here are some I used to love as a kid Wonder Ball - These were little chocolate spheres that...
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In "celebration" of reaching the 20th installment of my Aesthetic Highlight series, let's take an introspective look at the 2020's most defining one thus far. The infamous: Corporate Memphis...
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Thread title says it all, share high quality (60FPS preferably) videos shot before digital film. Bonus points for candid recordings of the past. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT4lDU-QLUY...
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There are few internet rivalries more fabled than that of Nostalgia Critic (Doug Walker) and Angry Video Game Nerd (James Rolfe). They are some of the longest running series on YouTube so figured...
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welcome to the windows 7 thread /d7t/ copypasta: Feel free to share your experience here with legacy Windows operating systems past their EoL date, such as: >Methods to hack software to...
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If you sent into y2k era than this post isn't for you hahah . Y2k is officially back. well at least in my head it is lol. What is spacehey you ask? SpaceHey is a retro social network focused on...
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I grew up watching Toonami (and the show it was a spinoff of, Space Ghost Coast to Coast) in the Y2K era. I used to invent my own lore about the characters. I dunno if anybody else had this...
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Post public domain things. Yea old animated mouse's oldest shorts fell into public domain this year. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmzO--ox7X0 View...
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Here's my collection I've been working on
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The turn of the new millennium set the stage for a sea of originality and innovation. Almost everything from 2000-2010 was new and fresh. It makes me sad to know that every new app, platform, game...
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Evenin', my lovelies. Tonight we're going waaaaaaay back. Supergraphic Ultramodern (c. late 1960s-mid 1970s) Supergraphic Ultramodern is an incredibly influential aesthetic that was popular...
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For at least the last decade, people have noticed a sort of trend in certain films- these sorts of films haven't come out in a while, but they all share a common plot structure and general...
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I've been looking through old travel documentaries and political vids, and there's really a sense of freedom in them like nothing else today :) feel free to share any you want Lonely planet india...
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everyone has nostalgic games and whatnot, but what are some nostalgic decorations for you? Like picture frames, paintings, Knick knacks and so on? Something that the mere sight of brings you back...
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When discussing nostalgic material, the phrase "I was born in the wrong generation" has become a commonly mocked cliche. Partly this is just because of its overuse. There was a time when you...
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Cyberdelia (c. late 1980s-mid 1990s) Cyberdelia was an aesthetic popular during much of the 1990s, notable for its psychadelic visuals, drugs references, and very, very 90s CGI designs. It was...
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I want to know what is, in your opinion, the biggest and greatest Synth Pop masterpiece of the 80s. Here is my Top 5: 1. Daryl Hall & John Oates - Out Of Touch View...
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