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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Cool site that emulates those old CRT TVs, it doesn't work on mobile though https://www.my90stv.com/
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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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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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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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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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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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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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