old internet

Post screenshots of old internet posts. There's no cut-off year but preferably anything pre-2010, and preferably posts that are kind of amusing to look at in hindsight.

What are some of the features you miss from the now-despised platforms before their globohomotization? Or even some of the shit you could just do on the Internet of years' past, but that has been ripped along with the smiles on your faces? And do you think they'd fare well in the event of being...

Arfenhouse!!!1 Teh Movie!!!!! 2 (320p) An mp4 version of the classic Flash video which was originally posted to Newgrounds. Arfenhouse is a slice of experience from the mid-early internet.

Here's the article: https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/05/kevin-rose-and-alexis-ohanian-acquire-digg/ It seems they want to turn Digg back into an online platform for link sharing. Some of the language here made me think that this is another attempt to break up the big tech monopoly and make a...

Erowid is the internet's oldest and most reputed database of information on psychoactive substances. One corner of the site which draws my particular attention is the "Experience Vaults" which is a database of user-submitted trip reports for a wider variety of drugs than you could ever hope to...

Hello ALL, What cancelled sitcom best describes your life? I don't know if it describes my life but my favorite sitcom of all time is 3rd Rock from the Sun. If you are interested in checking out one of the original fan sites, it has been internet archived...

Recently, I've been obsessed with reading archived old fanzines from decades ago. I'm talking about stuff that dates back to the 1950s to the early 2000s. It's really fascinating and cool to read these fanzines made by people decades ago. https://fanac.org/fanzines/Classic_Fanzines.html You...

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Recently, I hopped on the abomination that YouTube has become in recent years, as it was my only choice, to retrieve a video I watched plenty of times back in the day. Uploaded in 2009, it was an extended version of a movie OST track, played over a slideshow of images (some dated at the time...

It was tough, even though it wasn't, if you get what I'm saying? These days things just work, look nice and are super fast but back in the days we had to give a DMA about our IRQ in order squeeze as much out of that base memory. Don't get me started on XMS vs EMS and the rest but, as you can...

Lurking on agora long before I ever made an account i've always enjoyed the design and symbolism the site was going for: the road and being a traveler with comfy music on the homepage like you've entered a settlement on your travels. It really captured the feeling of the older web, being a...

One of my favorite things about growing up in the 2000s and 2010s is how unabashedly "autistic" (for lack of better word) people who used the net were, it was charming how everyone wanted to be a tough guy with their srs personas. What really gets me going is videos of people doing like, "fake...

I've been looking through old travel documentaries and political vids, and there's really a sense of freedom in them like nothing else today :) feel free to share any you want Lonely planet india (90s) View: https://youtu.be/neo_H7gj3cM View: https://youtu.be/fjNz1lvXgzU The others were...

I saw a video from Rhett and Link recently and I think it encapsulates a lot of what the old internet was about so perfectly, the song just makes it seem so massive. A lot of the websites in the video don't even exist now or are ghost towns, but I find it funny how back then twitter was just...

Been really getting into forums and old schools forums on the web. What is the best way to find them ??

This post reminded me that being a Girl on the Internet is still a strange and novel thing. Girls only seem to exist in dead internet normie spaces. In places like here, or tech forums, or other "old Internet" style places it's assumed everyone is male. Actually pretty much anywhere you can't...

I saw this YouTube alternative site for a while now. I like the theme and layout. It fits the whole old internet vibe, plus it has a small userbase hence comfy. Sure, the content is lacking compared to YouTube (except Moonman songs and other oldTube videos of the early days.) I was wondering...

I was buming around the Phone Losers of America's website when I stumbled upon a magazine feature of his work in "Internet Underground." I've spent the whole afternoon reading up on old stories and chasing dead links as a result. Some of the articles confront the same issues we see today from...

Are there any old memes you occasionally find yourself thinking about and having a chuckle, or just had such a stirring message you could not forget them despite the years? I'll post two I think about occasionally to start: (Profound repetition, maybe just easy to remember, why can't I get this...

Recently i've been being hit with a problem when it comes to my friends of the internet, in which they're endlessly consumed by big tech media and refuse to look at how the internet has declined and has impacted our generation in the worst way possible. Always, and even not with my friends...