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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
IlluminatiPirate
How to Send a Email in 1984
In case any of you needed some coaching on how to send an email ... ;D View: https://youtu.be/szdbKz5CyhA
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Jessica3cho雪血⊜青意
Jessica3cho雪血⊜青意
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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ArchailectZoe
zalaz alaza
R.O.B.O.T.S.
These are my favorite robots that i remember from childhood, they look surprisingly similar which I only just realized. Do you have any also? Also, if you are wondering what the acronym stands...
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zalaz alaza
zalaz alaza
s0ren
"Lurking: How a Person Became a User"
In a used bookstore a few weekends ago I picked up Lurking: How a Person Became a User by Joanne McNeil. The book purports to be "a concise but wide-ranging personal history of the internet." It's...
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s0ren
s0ren
90s Hacker Aesthetic
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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Screen.Thief
Screen.Thief
IlluminatiPirate
What vintage macs do you own?
:) Here i have a Macintosh SE/30s that i found on the side of the road with a bunch of keyboards. Only one of them is working but i need to save up for a Floppy Emulator drive to really get this...
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handoferis
handoferis
-SteampunkTraveler-
Space Toon
For people who grew up in third world countries, Most of them probably Know spacetoon(especially in the middle east) It was basically 2000s Nostolgia for people From third world countries. This...
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-SteampunkTraveler-
-SteampunkTraveler-
Rebel
Did anyone used to play Pawn game?
Anyone else used to play this game Pawn? It was a shooter side scroller multiplayer game, where you joined in a deathmatch/CTF. Used to play it all the time, but I'm pretty sure it died a long...
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Jessica3cho雪血⊜青意
Jessica3cho雪血⊜青意
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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RIG
RIG
Ixion_SEROV
The Great Rewatching - The Space Western Trio
Howdy Agora Road. It's been a little while, but I've returned with a new passion project in mind since this is something I've been putting off for quite some time. I have begun a rewatch of some...
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JihyoParkXX
JihyoParkXX
elia925-6
Frutiger Aero - Aesthetics Highlight #12
Hello, i want to write something that caught my eye recently, an aesthetic called Frutiger Aero. You guys may start to talk like how simular it looks to Y2K but it's more focused on zen, nature...
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scaldanon
scaldanon
Emmy Fitz
Utopian Scholastic - Aesthetic Highlight #4
Utopian Scholastic (c. late 1980s-late 1990s) Utopian Scholastic was a popular aesthetic amongst children from the late '80s to the late '90s. Usually paired with edutainment programs, books...
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№56
№56
Hadrian Hardrada Cicero
The First RPGs you ever played as a child.
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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VelvetApe
VelvetApe
elia925-6
Y2K Aesthetic fonts
Hello, i have hard time finding decent Y2K fonts outside of Froyo's Ferrite Core https://github.com/froyotam/ferrite-core.
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explorAR
explorAR
TRXTR
Feelings of What is Really There, And What Was, Without Myself Interfering
Anyone ever feel the breeze of the actual feeling and vibrations of the outside world creep back in, like how you could feel the vibe of your hometown as a kid I remember being able to feel the...
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Taleisin
Taleisin
SentFromMyMinitel
Digital Snark-eology: Something Awful preserving the Weird Web
https://www.somethingawful.com/weekend-web/ Anyone else used to peruse SA's old weekend web feature? I used to enjoy it as a contemporaneous exploration of weird internet subcultures but now I...
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Quinault Victory
Quinault Victory
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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MySpace Tom
MySpace Tom
lain is here
1337 SP34K and Ascii Art Thread
L33T Hax0rs Only!!! Post whatever you want. I'll start by butchering the first couple sentences from Nabokov's Lolita: L0lita, 1igh7 0f my lyfe, fyr3 0f |\/|y l0ins. Mai s1|\|, m3h s0ul...
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Speed Poster
Speed Poster
LincolnJames
SerenityOS - The SerenityOS Browser now passes the Acid3 test
View: https://twitter.com/awesomekling/status/1508953394836353024 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30853392 https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity View...
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elia925-6
elia925-6
1980Miami
The Last Good Year?
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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digital-man
digital-man
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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elia925-6
elia925-6
white0walls
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
have you seen the greatest American show of all time? View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzt6ybS4Pss
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?!MemoryHead!?
?!MemoryHead!?
YuYuYuuki
Does anyone remember playing the Trapped in Hyperspace game on Toonami.com?
I do. It's lost media now, but a beta version of the training level has been uncovered. It was a 3D FPS similar to Descent. You played as TOM, hacking into The Absolution's systems to clear it of...
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YuYuYuuki
YuYuYuuki
elia925-6
Abadoned and discontinued software you would like to revisit and revived
Hello, i am opening this topic because i want to share experiences on abandonware and now discontinued software. I've heard about Autodesk Softimage, a software discontinued in 2016 and the closer...
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kriko313
Hadrian Hardrada Cicero
The Blockland Forums, a very "special" social experiment in the making since 2005.
holy fucking shit this is going to be a long ass post. Here's a game you folks may have fond memories of. But yes, Blockland is a brick based building sandbox where you play with virtual LEGOs...
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mydadiscar
mydadiscar
Emmy Fitz
Agora Video: Video Store Memories and Aesthetics
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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Talon
Talon
Rikstah
My own private piece of internet nostalgia
This is my own little piece of 2000s internet When I was a teenager (early to mid 2000s) I came across a forum which was something I'd never seen before. I've tried finding it on the wayback...
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Rikstah
Rikstah
VHSMARONITE
Scooby Doo Villains
There's something special about the aesthetic of the villains from the Scooby Doo series. What are some of your favorites?
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Outer Heaven
Outer Heaven
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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OrientalGrill
OrientalGrill
[Tr4sh_Kun]
[Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers' Aesthetics]
Recently I've been playing this game since the Shin Megami Tensei series caught my interest, by far Soul Hackers has been one of my personal favourites since I bought all the games on 3DS and...
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eefman
eefman
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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elia925-6
elia925-6
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
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
mydadiscar
Obey The Walrus
I was going to post this in the "I feel fantastic" thread but I feel as if this deserves a thread of its own. If anyone has not seen the original video: View: https://youtu.be/iqDXfYHLBeQ...
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mydadiscar
mydadiscar
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
elia925-6
Industrial Americana - Aesthetic Highlight #15
Was an aesthetic around in 90's and it constited of rusty cogs, metallic parts and factory styled intenior. It's also a succedor of Factory Pomo aesthetic but less colorful and more rustic...
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Outer Heaven
Outer Heaven
Discontinued Food & Drink
Discuss food and drink from your past that's no longer around and that you wish was. -- Over here in the UK we had these things called Penguin dippers and they were bloody lovely. Little...
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NW_Cryptid
NW_Cryptid
seals_breakfast
Windows XP turns 20!
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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elia925-6
elia925-6
Aral of Xiaohe
Xiao Xiao and stickman games
I remember my brother watching these videos and I would kinda watch with him. I didn't understand what was happening (I must've been 5 maybe, he was in his early teens), just that those guys were...
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Chen
Chen
SimplyJojo
I miss the early 2000's!
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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NW_Cryptid
NW_Cryptid
Jackal
Yugoslav Wars Aesthetics
I have notice something curious about the Yugoslav Wars, perhaps it's because it was in the 90s, perhaps it's the region and the sociopolitical context, but along with the Soviet-Afghan War and...
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xdsoftware
xdsoftware
Shu
The internet feels smaller than it used to be.
I want to caveat that statement by saying that nothing is forever, and there is so much more possible with the internet now than there was, say, 13+ years ago or so. But it still feels small. Why...
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Hoshi
Hoshi
lain is here
Pre-2000's Anime General
Exactly as the title says, discuss any anime from before the 2000's here. Movies, OVA's and anime series all are welcome! We'll even tolerate very early 2000's as well. Some general questions I'm...
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Shu
Shu
Late 90s noir aesthetic
Thread theme: Listening to the track above (I recommend all of Amon Tobin's early stuff, shit's great) I was reminded of that 'noir'ish aesthetic that was ubiquitous in late 90s/early 00s media...
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brentw
brentw
Arcade101
Tri-County Mall - Cincinnati, Ohio
The Tri-County Mall here in Cincinnati is the oldest shopping mall in the area, originally going up in 1960. As with most shopping malls of this kind, it experiences pretty low traffic these...
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    Like a pork loin. Throw in the oven at 425 for 15 minutes. Lower temp to 375 and cook until you hit 143 internal temp. Take it out, tin foil over it, 10 minutes. The pork will continue to cook, and actually hit peak heat while cooling, and your pork will hit 145. Then you eat it with eggs and chicken stir fried noodles or something
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