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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In the future, what do you think you'll be nostalgic for from the current time period you're living through? In 10 years, what about right now will make you nostalgic? I know a lot of people here...
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ITT: YouTube videos you're nostalgic for. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX0D4oZwCsA
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Some time ago, I started making my way through shows I recall from my childhood as background noise while busy with other tasks. One of these shows is one which I had never properly formulated an...
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Before you press play, you must know I want you to watch this video once and never again. Contemporarily this kind of dance compilation would've been shown on something like MTV. It's a sanitized...
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I tried looking for a thread like this, but I couldn't find one. What are your favorite trash movies from the 80's? Mine is probably Surf Nazi's Must Die because it has a killer soundtrack, I was...
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The thread to remember software from the past. Software that died because it was mismanaged, couldn't adapt, it was shit to begin with or fell out of flavour. Stuff you remember fondly or the...
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I stumbled across this in YouTube and it brought back so many memories. Just looking at it is mesmerising, especially with that music!
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Is anyone else interested in Usenet kooks? I mostly read newsgroups related to computers (comp.theory, comp.lang.*) and cryptography (sci.crypt). I'm not sure if other groups are the same but it...
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The first internet controversy/viral prank I remember was Bonsai Kittens in 2000/2001. It involves kittens, the FBI and the world trying to remove a website from the internet. Article: I was...
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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7bmz3iBRHc In 1990 Miramar Images released The Mind's Eye: A Computer Animation Odyssey, the first full-length film to be 100% CGI. The film is a...
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What's your earliest memory of the internet? Here's mine. I was like, 11 or so and my parents were really against internet access, but I had to do research for some school project, I don't...
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At the turn of the century, when y2k cyberpunk was a real thing, what was the general political zeitgeist? Now, i'm not a child, but i was certainly too young to remember what was actually going...
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Which soundtracks from old media have a special place in your heart? Hearing it again will either make you tear up or smile fondly, sometimes both. Feel free to share & discuss here. for me...
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Share your moment that something make you feel sad for growing up and getting old, longing for the good old days.
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Many years ago, I was once a little Nintendo fag. Some of you might have been as well, and you might have posted dumb shit on Miiverse. Try looking up your old Nintendo ID on Archiverse if you...
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Currently wearing a red Pebble Time but have like 7 Pebbles in the collection lol
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I originally wanted to make this thread this coming winter when more people will be inside. However, Agora seems to be growing quite a bit, and I'm curious what era or decade you're the most...
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Which is your preferred aesthetic? Each have their own unique qualities and strong points. Personally, I think early-mid 80s is my favorite and Cyndi Lauper videos really hit the nail on the...
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The Sony MZ-N610 was my first minidisc player. I purchased it around 2003 after seeing them in record stores and electronic retailers for years. I finally had a decent job just after graduating...
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I fucking love them and its sad that they will never make a comeback. Post your favorite car/cars with pop up headlights.
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just remembering the good ol' days with these two handsome young lads. truly icons of their era with great taste in music and a wicked fashion sense. sure you can argue that they were never as...
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I know this may seem cheesy to some people but lets have some fun & reminece =)... Did any of you watch Saturday morning cartoons growing up and remember the line up? My brother and I would get...
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This is from 2000. It contains the character profile for Brainiac, who was the most Y2K villain at the time, especially this version! I had such a crush on him as a kid. (Funny thing is, when I...
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I was lurking /vr/ and spotted this post (link below related) detailing an edgy half-life mod with some sex scene. https://boards.4channel.org/vr/thread/8978542 Now, I personally never have...
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Hello everyone, I recently got a hold of a Toshiba 26HF85 to watch my treasure trove of classic 4:3 anime on. Its not the optimal tv I wanted for such an experience, as it is from the same year as...
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In case any of you needed some coaching on how to send an email ... ;D View: https://youtu.be/szdbKz5CyhA
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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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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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:) 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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View: https://twitter.com/awesomekling/status/1508953394836353024 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30853392 https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity View...
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have you seen the greatest American show of all time? View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzt6ybS4Pss
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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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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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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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