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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtTR-_Klcq8 View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJUx410ju_o
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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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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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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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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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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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Who remembers this game? I randomly thought about the tutorial video today and had to search it!
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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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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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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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