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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.

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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Yabba
The code of the geeks
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
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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Another Name
Another Name
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
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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Deleted member 1930
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
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
[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
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
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
スーパー Meidoメイド
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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SEVEN
Gunter Glieben Glauchen Globen
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtTR-_Klcq8 View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJUx410ju_o
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nagolbud
Discontinued Foods Thread
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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selfKaiHarness
selfKaiHarness
Classic PSAs
Hey, made this thread to help share interesting old PSAs you may have come across; ones that may be dated by today's standards or still stand up today. I recently came across the early McGruff...
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Weary traveler of the web
Weary traveler of the web
MacWarez / AOL scene
Nice site! I really like the classic aesthetic. It brings me back. I'm a long time mac fan and currently I collect and restore macs from the early 90s. I was part of the AOL hacking/macwarez...
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WALFTEAM
WALFTEAM
doggg
figure out this actor tweaked by me.
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CognacDefender
CognacDefender
lain is here
Classic Game Room (the first online video game review show from 1999)
I'm curious if anyone else here used to watch Classic Game Room? For those who never heard of it, Classic Game Room was an online video, video game review show that started in 1999 and ended in...
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スーパー Meidoメイド
スーパー Meidoメイド
Nostalgic2000s
My fellow Cafe enjoyers, what was your favorite cartoon?
Laying on my drunken ass at the PC right now, wanna ask all of you what was the cartoon that was just your favorite back when you were a kid or a tenn and shitttttt. I used and still use to love...
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ZTheNetrunner
ZTheNetrunner
elia925-6
Gen X Young/Adult Contemporary and Soft Club - Aesthetic Highlight #14
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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kenetic.wav
kenetic.wav
Merek
Early '00s CG wallpaper was amazing. Post some of your favorites!
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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tofuDWU
tofuDWU
IlluminatiPirate
NostalgiaTube Thread - Post those old school youtube videos for pure nostalgia
Post direct links to videos, or start discussion about videos that may not exist anymore, that give you a sense of deep personal nostalgia. No limit to how recently uploaded it was; if content...
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Ogerch
Ogerch
Weary traveler of the web
i have an old gameboy color and 20$ what games should i get for it?
:pugPls:i already have kirby and rampage buuut thats about it
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rootsudo
rootsudo
AlmostHalf10
EyeToy Play
Who remembers this game? I randomly thought about the tutorial video today and had to search it!
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AlmostHalf10
AlmostHalf10
True Capitalist Radio
True Capitalist Radio was a radio show ran by a Texan businessman known as Ghost between 2010-2012 & 2016-2018. It aired on most weekdays and discussed everything from current politics to business...
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CognacDefender
CognacDefender
Emmy Fitz
Googie and Lounge Revival - Aesthetic Highlight #10
Hey y'all! Sorry for my absence lately, been busy with real life stuff. Hopefully I can get back to these weekly threads. Anyways: Googie and Lounge Revival (c. early to late 1990s) The Googie...
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elia925-6
elia925-6
Emmy Fitz
Superflat Pop - Aesthetic Highlight #5
Superflat Pop (c. mid 2000s-early 2010s) Superflat Pop was a graphic design aesthetic popular from around 2006-2012, and was seen in fashion, advertisements, and other various mediums...
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vaporwavemaster1
vaporwavemaster1
Neonriser
Do you remember MaMaMedia?
I used to go there a lot when I was a little boy. I used to play games and travel all across the site. I enjoyed the part where you mix and match parts of your avatar. Do you too remember this...
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Neonriser
Neonriser
H1ssss
IRC Channels
I miss irc channels, I hate all this new instant messaging shit, it wasn't flashy or anything but to me it felt more pure and more interesting. I could just sit for hours scrolling through the...
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Sweet n' Comfy
Sweet n' Comfy
スーパー Meidoメイド
Do you remember Microsoft Encarta?
I was just searching some stuff in wikipedia, when out of nowhere, i remember the existence of microsoft encarta, and how i used to spend hours and hours using this stuff when i was a kid, this...
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NoSlacking
NoSlacking
Username
Optometrist aesthetic?
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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FlangerFobia
FlangerFobia
Emmy Fitz
Corp. Grunge - Aesthetic Highlight #8
Corp Grunge (c. early-late 1990s) Corp. grunge, or Grunge™, is an aesthetic that was popular throughout the 1990s. It was, in essence, the corporate reaction to grunge culture, and the...
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elia925-6
elia925-6
What was your first computer system?
Mine was this one
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Plasmawiz
Plasmawiz
Retro Phone Thread
Let's post about retro phones, feel free to share ads or just talk about old phones these scans are from Tajimax
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elia925-6
elia925-6
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