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Nostalgic Lounge

A lounge to to talk about old tech, retro gaming, Y2K, aesthetics, Web 1.0, and old Internet Cultures.

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Here you will find "E-zines", a collection of stories or files from the early days of the internet!
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Yabba
The code of the geeks
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The Compact Mac CRT Guide
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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admin
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Captain
When modernization ruins the vibe
One of my local malls in 1995ish and today. This modern mall architecture has no soul. I didn't know how lucky we were living in a time when designers could balance neon, modern, and nature. Sigh
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alix
alix
brentw
Retro Tech Aesthetics
There's a lot of beautifully designed old tech out there, lets bask in their aesthetics. I'll start with this awesome portable SHARP VCR: What have you got to share?
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handoferis
handoferis
Rikstah
Classic 2000s LAN
I've been on a LAN party nostalgia trip lately View: https://youtu.be/ch__Ah2iCtQ This LAN party had it all: - Has all the key characters typical of a 2000s LAN - Abundance of CRTs and cables...
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Boxerdog
Boxerdog
bananafuckerz
Worlds.com
I recently watched a video covering Worlds.com and how it still has the servers going. You can download it now and play. It's been around since 1995. Supposedly there have been some creepy /weird...
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Some_porcupine
Some_porcupine
Emmy Fitz
McBling - Aesthetic Highlight #9
McBling (c. early-late 2000s) McBling is was an aesthetic from the 2000s, and one of the most popular and identifiable of the decade. A hard shift from late-90s minimalism, McBling is...
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elia925-6
elia925-6
Emmy Fitz
Cyberdelia - Aesthetic Highlight #21
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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brentw
brentw
Emmy Fitz
Neoliberal Corporate Surrealism - Aesthetic Highlight #19
Neoliberal Corporate Surrealism (1990s) Neoliberal Corporate Surrealism is an aesthetic that was popular during the first chunk of the '90s. A style adjacent to Global Village Coffeehouse, it...
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brentw
brentw
Emmy Fitz
Airbrush Surrealism - Aesthetic Highlight #17
Airbush Surrealism (c. mid-1970s-mid 1980s) Airbrush surrealism was an aesthetic popular during much of the 1970s and 80s. Characterized by its strong use of soft colors and scale, it was...
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brentw
brentw
Emmy Fitz
Factory Pomo - Aesthetic Highlight #2
I think I'm going to do these aesthetic highlights sometime every weekend from here on out. Factory Pomo (c. early-mid 1990s) Factory Pomo is an aesthetic that grew out of the computer craze...
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brentw
brentw
IlluminatiPirate
Tell us why your favorite retro computer sucked
Back in the day you would have never admitted that it was anything less than perfect, of course, but now, looking back... what would annoy you if your favorite retro system became your main...
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PurpleHello98
PurpleHello98
Shu
Old forums/sites you used to frequent.
What I liked about the internet of the past, was that, every site/community felt like it's own village. Every message board had it's own veterans, villains, content, vibe, lore, etc... there were...
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brentw
brentw
Emmy Fitz
Global Village Coffeehouse - Aesthetic Highlight #1
Good evening. I got an idea. I'm going to start weekly threads based on specific aesthetics from long ago, and we can discuss the style, have memories, and share examples of this retro aesthetic...
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alix
alix
Vernam
What OS is nostalgic to you?
I have been reliving my childhood using Windows XP on a VM as that is what I grew up on. What OS did you guys grow up on?
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7Pebbles
7Pebbles
LostintheCycle
Daria
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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brentw
brentw
Emmy Fitz
Teen Punk - Aesthetic Highlight #16
Teenpunk (early-mid 2000s) Teen Punk was an aesthetic geared towards older kids and teens during the first half of the 2000s. It's characterized by fabricated punk inspired clothing, neon...
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eve
eve
IlluminatiPirate
Checking your local news paper for movie times
Checking your local news paper for movie times
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Rikstah
Rikstah
stonehead
What were you ACTUALLY born in the wrong generation for?
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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imnotdeadyet
imnotdeadyet
Emmy Fitz
Corporate Memphis - Aesthetic Highlight #20
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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Fig
Fig
Emmy Fitz
Supergraphic Ultramodern - Aesthetic Highlight #13
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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Emmy Fitz
Emmy Fitz
power gem
burger king virtual fun centers (& early 00s kiddie tech in general?)
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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SolidStateSurvivor
SolidStateSurvivor
WKYK
Thinkpad Thread
I recently got a T400, great machine. Did the whole libreboot process and installed Trisquel on it. What thinkpads do y'all use? And if anyone has a T60 or X60, how are those computers for daily...
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vulonkaaz
vulonkaaz
Dark Agent
What's the oldest piece of technology you use everyday?
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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PurpleHello98
PurpleHello98
Rikstah
A Lament For the Lan Party
Article lifted from rockpapershotgun, back when they were a top tier gaming journalism website in 2016. This article really resonated with me, having been a teen in the early to mid 2000s...
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Rikstah
Rikstah
IlluminatiPirate
Post links to old abandoned forums and websites
Was just browsing around and found this old Irish forum called Boards.ie, its just an amazing time capsule of how people thought and talked with each other. Look at this thread here, it was during...
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SolidStateSurvivor
SolidStateSurvivor
Emmy Fitz
McMansion/McEclectic - Aesthetic Highlight #18
Can it be? Am I back to creating Aesthetic Highlight threads? Yes, I am. KaReNwInK McMansion/McEclectic (c. late '90s-2008) "McMansion" was a popular aesthetic during most of the 2000s. Found...
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Orlando Smooth
Orlando Smooth
Emmy Fitz
Agora Video: Video Store Memories, Aesthetics, and Discussions
Hello and welcome to Agora Video! This is a space to relive our video store memories, all without late fees! From browsing the hottest flicks of the time... ... to being scared of the...
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Boxerdog
Boxerdog
Emmy Fitz
Whimsigothic - Aesthetic Highlight #3
Whimsigothic (1990s) Whimsigothic is an aesthetic that was popular throughout the entirety of the '90s, growing out of the popularity of Tim Burton, mainstreamification of gothic culture, and...
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Emmy Fitz
Emmy Fitz
Emmy Fitz
Vectorheart - Aesthetic Highlight #7
Vectorheart (c. late 1990s-mid 2000s) Vectorheart is an aesthetic that was popular at the turn of the millennium until approximately 2006. It's notable for it's use of straight angles and neon...
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Emmy Fitz
Emmy Fitz
Emmy Fitz
Curly Girly - Aesthetics Highlight #11
I'm baaaack. Hopefully for realsies this time! Curly Girly (c. early-mid 2000s) Curly Girly was an aesthetic popular during the first half of the 2000s. It's characterized as an extremely...
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Emmy Fitz
Emmy Fitz
Remember_Summer_Days
Key the Metal Idol Thread
Hey hey! I was bellowing back on main back in chat a few hours ago about how I don't do shit... So I thought I'd force myself to watch anime and try getting inspired or something (plus praying to...
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Some_porcupine
Some_porcupine
Sebastian Melmoth
"On the Melancholic Comfort of Late 90's/Early 2000's Horror"
Some days I feel like the Youtube algorithm knows me better than I know myself. The site recently hit me with this little ditty--a video essay discussing the supreme COMF of late 90's and early...
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Emmy Fitz
Emmy Fitz
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Death of Sci-Fi?
One interesting trend I've noticed is that Sci-Fi as a genre has been declining for decades now. Each year, sci-fi is seemingly less popular than the one before. We used to be comparatively...
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manpaint
manpaint
handoferis
The Big Fat iPod Post
In the same vein as the PowerPC Mac thread, here I am again with the iPod thread. They're a lot of fun and still have a place today (I've yet to see anything better at Just Doing Music than an old...
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nakadashi
nakadashi
lain is here
Cultural changes you've noticed in your lifetime
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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pronoundisrespecter
pronoundisrespecter
PizzaW0lf
Favorite year(s) from the 2010s?
Right now, we are in the early 2020s and I think there's enough distance to really see what the 2010s were all about. The 2010s were pretty crazy but really what decade isn't? Anyway, I have 3...
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Emmy Fitz
Emmy Fitz
power gem
Yahoo Answers
i was thinking about yahoo answers today, and its spiritual successor, quora. as a late millennial, I grew up with Yahoo Answers. it seemed like a permanent fixture of the internet. and more than...
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スーパー Meidoメイド
スーパー Meidoメイド
power gem
90s/00s edutainment game aesthetic
is anyone else interested in the aesthetic of late 90s/early 00s PC edutainment games? i'm not artbrained enough to have the proper vocabulary to describe it, but i'd attempt to define the...
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I-330
I-330
Junious
Obscure memorable old memes
Are there any old memes you occasionally find yourself thinking about and having a chuckle, or just had such a stirring message you could not forget them despite the years? I'll post two I think...
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Some_porcupine
Some_porcupine
kliffi
Orion's Arm (90's hard sci-fi + Anders Sandberg art)
Anyone hip to/remember Orion's Arm? I found it incidentally from a DnB mix ( View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK8ilaPZbKE ) Really cool and diverse hard sci-fi with insane old-school...
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CycFL
CycFL
Jessica3cho雪血⊜青意
Resurgence of Older Technology
Time passes. Technology evolves. Old methods are considered "obsolete" by the general populace of the current generation. As a child of the 90's, I've always found this fascinating, as I grew up...
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WKYK
WKYK
Outer Heaven
False sanitization of the internet
Someone shared these screenshots (from Tumblr ew ik) on a Telegram channel I follow and I thought they were spot on. Its sad how few niche spaces there are for different age groups on the internet...
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sleepwalker
sleepwalker
CognacDefender
Game Boy Thread
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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CognacDefender
CognacDefender
pachinkoroomwinnersclub
being old enough to truly experience a certain time period
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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Boxerdog
Boxerdog
Chipps
A ride on the nostalgia wave - Computers
This is going to end up slightly biographical because I'm going to be writing straight from my memory. Circa '93 When I was a wee lad I remember spending hours and hours on a computer. I have no...
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starbreaker
starbreaker
shinobu
The old layout
"The site had a redesign" "What the fuck, it looks like shit" -- A conversation as old as the Web TL;DR post redesigns that made you angry or how a website looked like in the past Remember how...
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bnuungus
bnuungus
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