Nostalgic Lounge

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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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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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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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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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It was a show on PBS that was a live-action segment that had a puppet lemur and a real lemur and they will show the lives and aspects of different animals. It was great! you get to see all kinds...
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HEY So, we have a bunch of threads about all the cool stuff from days gone by, so why not one for the stuff that's barely worth remembering if only due to how terrible/stange it was? I present to...
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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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This thread is for Early 2000s webdesign. Post em below
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Although I was born in 1998, I feel like an old soul. My mother got me hooked on her disco collection, while my father got me hooked on 80's alternative music and films. And I was in for a case of...
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Video games, we've played them as a child. Actually, we largely played a lot of games that were mostly either fighting, shooters, racing, puzzle, platform, and adventures with the last one I...
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Personally I like a bunch of system of a down and Korn :neddancE::pugPls::Crash1:
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Sorry, I'm a few days late because this week has been crazy. Anyway, on October 25th, 2001, Windows XP was officially fully released for all use. Do you remember using the operating system? Did...
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"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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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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am i the only one who remember those ? they were 350px by 19px images people used to have lots of them in their signature, most of them kept like the same layout with like the same font (Visitor)...
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I'm actually kind of surprised that this thread hasn't been made already (excluding this thread on the music board), considering the broader themes of Agora Road. It's a simple subject: Post...
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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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I've always been obsessed about the end of the world; for the past few months I've been "journeying" through Second Life, exploring and taking pictures. I imagined this forum would be the ideal...
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I never owned one of the lampshade iMacs, but I remember seeing them and thinking that this was really awesome. And also that I was a kid and would never afford one, lol. What's your favorite...
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Back around 2000, there was a PC shop near me that would have all the CRTs there cycle through a bunch of these early CG images, mostly Bryce3d-style landscapes, and it was wild watching them...
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This is a thread to share websites that have persisted from the old web to the now-web OR to share resources, including those websites, on schizo theories from the late 90s/early 00s. I also...
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Use this thread to dump all the y2k c y b e r a e s t h e t i c era wallpapers you have; if it's early 2000's and makes you nostalgic: dump it. Let's all live the WindowsXP era once again and be...
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Post classic stick animations like those on Stickpage, or some more recent anims from Hyun's Dojo, Newgrounds, or anywhere else.
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I forgot this existed. Sony Mylo COM-1. It's like one of the last Y2K futurist products. The last ounce of non-cellular communication gadgets before everything went iPhone and iPod Touch. Here...
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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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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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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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Hey, hey, hey! View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywM24WWGTfc&list=PL6bxhKnt_fYyUsN5y8GFb_yUpjuri0ejn View: https://youtu.be/nFTLiuKELJo View: https://youtu.be/dqunUthEMAw View...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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