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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
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
Mеченый Яков
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
kenetic.wav
ENCYCLOPEDIA
Does anyone remember using ENCYCLOPEDIA. Definately nostalgia vibes. I remember using this cd a little bit for research for a school project growing up. I happened to find this compact disc and...
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kenetic.wav
kenetic.wav
Ixion_SEROV
Internet Anthropology and Archaeology (Adventures In Atariland)
For the last 20 years, I've always had a fascination with niche online communities and groups that always existed on the periphery. While MySpace and Facebook eventually sealed the fates of many...
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wwwdotcom
wwwdotcom
vaporwavemaster1
若い頃にテレビで見た中で最も奇妙なことは何でしたか？
私たちの初期の記憶の多くは、私たちがテレビで見ているものによって形成されています。ご存知のように、日本は奇妙な放送に見知らぬ人ではありません。電車のアナウンスとお化けティッシュのコマーシャルの両方があります。私は若い頃、どちらも見ることができませんでした。...
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vaporwavemaster1
vaporwavemaster1
Ixion_SEROV
Mixed Drinks
Alright, everyone. Here's something different. I found a site that's been up since 1995 and is still in use. Though it handles like an ancient GeoCities clunker (which I love) it still gets the...
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Ixion_SEROV
Ixion_SEROV
Catskill
80's and 90's Anime art style
I have to admit that I didn't get into Anime until around 2012 and shouldn't have nostalgia for older Anime (except maybe Pokèmon and Yu-Gi-Oh as a kid) but for whatever reason, the colourful...
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Hraelth
Hraelth
Immersive Advertising In The 2000s
Today I want to talk about immersive advertising, specifically on some of our favorite childhood sites/games on the net. If you existed on the internet in the early-to-late 2000s you were either a...
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naa
Ixion_SEROV
Adventures In Atariland II: Aesthetics In Schools
After getting amazing reception on my previous thread, I'm continuing on in my exploring the many interesting aesthetics of yesteryear. For a long time, I could recall my childhood in the mid to...
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naa
Those mimi raindrop races
Didn't you love those mini raindrop races down the car window. You guess which raindrop is going to win and the competing raindrops join with other raindrops as they travel down the window. It's...
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Emy_SJ
Emy_SJ
IlluminatiPirate
You guys wanna watch some 90s TV?
Cool site that emulates those old CRT TVs, it doesn't work on mobile though https://www.my90stv.com/
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Rikstah
Rikstah
admin
Cool MacOS Emulator to play with Abadonware.
Hey MAcintosh Cafe Shoppers! As you know that I am a big mac fan as I love the old school macintosh design which I skinned the forum to replicate. But Ive been experimenting with this program...
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vaporwavemaster1
vaporwavemaster1
IlluminatiPirate
Back to the BBS - The return to being online (Documentary)
Here's a cool nostalgic documentary on BBS'S apparently this is only part one. View: https://youtu.be/n0OwGSX2IiQ From the description of the video "Bulletin Board Systems (BBS's) were what...
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vaporwavemaster1
vaporwavemaster1
vaporwavemaster1
誰がこれらを覚えていますか
これらは、お互いにパンチするロボットのようなものですが、バットマンを備えています。これは大きなセットの一部にすぎません。他のものは何でしたか？誰か持っていますか？
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vaporwavemaster1
vaporwavemaster1
vaporwavemaster1
過小評価されているアミガクラシック-不滅の王子
午後をデスクトップに座って長い間これをいじって過ごしたのを覚えています。大阪周辺で大人気で、ディスクもよく取引されていました。これまでのところ私のお気に入りの吸血鬼ゲームではありません。それは悪魔城ドラキュラに違いありませんが、不滅の王子はまだかなりよく発達した地元のゲームです。優れた自作ゲームとして、日本のゲーム雑誌でもスポットを獲得しました。...
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vaporwavemaster1
vaporwavemaster1
admin
YouTube trolling in 2007
Anyone remember the old ass YouTube trolling communities from 2007 or perhaps earlier? These were the years when you could produce direct video responses to a specific user, and dialogues would...
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EtymonLegomenon
IlluminatiPirate
Anyone remember GameWinners.com?
man that was THE SPOT, I would get all my cheat codes from there. That the place where I found out you can get the no cop cheat for gta san andreas. I went back there and I saw that it was been...
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PGen98
PGen98
IlluminatiPirate
A thread about old software revival projects
I recently found on a imageboard about Escargot (https://escargot.log1p.xyz/) which is a MSN Messenger revival project so let's have a thread about other projects to revive old software / games...
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AlmostHalf10
AlmostHalf10
IlluminatiPirate
The Dinosaur craze of the 1990s
Is it just me or was anything related to dinosaurs really fucking huge back in the 90's and very early 2000's? You had the original Jurassic Park trilogy, Walking With Dinosaurs, Dino Crisis...
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saint6ix
saint6ix
IlluminatiPirate
What commercials from the 90's scared you as a kid?
For me it was that Nickelodeon commercial that plays every morning. They were breakfast characters i think one was a spoon, pancake and bacon. And they would sing too. Omg it was so creepy to me...
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AlmostHalf10
AlmostHalf10
admin
The Chronicles of George: The Incompetent legend of 2000s
The Chronicles of George was a collection of support tickets from around March 2000 to May 2001. It was a petty popular website that just shared these support tickets and it was back when forums...
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admin
admin
covid2009
finger eleven - Paralyzer (Mario Kart DS version)
I found a Mario Kart DS version of finger eleven's Paralyzer and I would enjoy having a midi rendition of that. Basically, you need to import a MIDI and an SF2 and export the resulting MIDI. I...
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covid2009
covid2009
admin
Pokemon Card Simulator for maximum Nostalgia
This website on neocites lets you open different packs of pokemon cards just like the good old days. It's an awesome little novelty. https://pokemonboosterpack.neocities.org/
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admin
Sega Multimedia Studio - 1992 Sega CD Tech Demo
Ooooo just found this and it's pretty aesthetic Sega Multimedia Studio - 1992 Sega CD Tech Demo https://youtu.be/oRZ2UDR6Nzw
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Welcome_to_the_Plaza
Welcome_to_the_Plaza
IlluminatiPirate
Does anyone remember Bud Light's Real Men of Genius Commercials?
I remember when my two uncles were listening this this on the radio in the car and we would all be laughing our asses off to it. It was simpler times, and not political like everything else. Bud...
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Welcome_to_the_Plaza
Welcome_to_the_Plaza
water bearer
Any Cocteau Twins fans?
:) This song's from the 90's I think but they were just so aesthetic..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhGoZLudKyk
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eric
eric
water bearer
Ｓｍｏｏｔｈ　Ｊａｚｚ CD 101.9 - "The CD Files" (1999 VHS)
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06O4sBPOUxo&list=PLuR_DJbg5hrFNLYOaGorxLcna6yXoG8-a&index=79&t=0s
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water bearer
water bearer
Isaac_Ascii
Best synth pop song of the 80s
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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water bearer
water bearer
admin
What computer accessory would "complete" your collection?
Just curious about what everyone else is looking for to pair with their old Macs to "complete" their computer area. Specifically, outside the realm of expansion cards and monitors. I know a lot...
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Eis-T
Eis-T
C64C with it's new power supply sitting next to the VIC-20
A few weeks back, my last viable C64 power supply tested at a point where I wasn't willing to try to use it anymore. I had been wanting to get one of the Commodore4ever Atom power supplies, and...
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Johnholms
admin
Apple Computer, Inc., System 7 Presentations Training Video. 1991
Apple Computer, Inc., System 7 Presentations Training Video. 1991 :eek: Hosted by Chris Espinosa, a senior employee of Apple Inc. Officially employee #8. Joined Apple at the age of fourteen in...
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admin
admin
admin
Macs You Would NOT Buy?
All of us have Macs we either have or want to have, but what about the ones you would never buy? For me, I have no interest in a IIcx, Classic, Classic II, LC II, or most of the "thousand...
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admin
admin
admin
Computer Porn in 1959 (Computer History Museum)
This is an educational link, but it may or may not be NSFW depending on where you live/work (ASCII picture of a topless woman.) Still hilarious that some things just never change. In 1959, nerds...
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