This is different from the sarcastic April 1st Daria chatbot, check the comments on the post for links to Github comments laying out the "real" chatbot
We are #LIVE with Retro Web 90s Nonsense! Come get nostalgic and/or cringe from ancient web memes, sites, and just random internet Culture™ from the late 90s/early 00s
Been fiddling around with this blog/website, need to make it a little bit better but hey, I posted a new blog entry about the nostalgia of the yesterweb. (Also will probably need to figure out the social media cards that show up when you link websites)
You know what I miss about old #forums ? The sites they were a part of, a community formed around a site. Yeah you could just browse the forums and talk, or spend time going through the stuff on the main site.
Trying to find an old late 90s website where you would build a 3-D organism thing. Some of them had wheels and goofy trumpet horns for mouths. Your organism would live in a simulation that was running 24 hours a day. You didn’t control the organism but you could check in on it. It was sponsored by a university I think. Had really funny graphics. Does anyone remember this? #retrocomputing#oldinternet
I like Discord, but I'm so tired of every site requiring you to go to their Discord for anything. It's a really shitty tendency because it feels like there is no standalone website nowadays.
I'm gonna do the opposite. I do have my own Discord server, but I want it as an addition to my site. Do you like the Discord experience? Do you want to join it? Then go ahead. If not, you don't have to.
Right now my website has a self-made comments section so anyone who doesn't use Discord can post comments there. You just need a website account which you can make with just an email address, a username and a password. That's it. Don't even need to verify the address if you don't want to. I'm also developing my own forum, because I really really miss them.
We have lost too many things from the old internet, maybe it's time to bring some back.
Had an idea for a #reaction stream/history lesson but I'm not sure how I'd do it.
Is there a site with a curated "best of the old web" kinda stuff, ideally with archive.org links for stuff that's gone?
Talking stuff like earrrrly 2000s Fark, Ling's Cars, dancing baby, the very very few actually good Something Awful threads, JO Crystals, RealUltimatePower.net etc.
The thing I miss the most from (old) #twitter (I stopped using it regularly months before Musky) is the interesting and unique education it'd provide me.
So many times through the years a thread would go semi-viral and be retweeted onto my page that taught me really interesting stuff I never knew before and probably wouldn't have thought to seek out.
I can follow specific hashtags on #mastodon but I really miss getting to learn about things I didn't know I wanted to learn about.
Twitter was such a big part of my education about civil rights, the American prison system, lgbtqia+ history, the art world, museum curation, world history, current events and m. m
I don't know how to replicate that kind of organic feed
I was scrolling around the internet and seeing what cool and obscure browsers I can try out, and it seems I have found an ancient relic of late 90s/early 00s software design called Neoplanet.
It was one if not the first browser to be completely skinnable and customizable. Of course it has been discontinued and broken forever now, but someday I want to see a modern browser like this.
It seems like the people responding to this poll (so far) skew towards those who experienced the Internet in the 1990s and earlier.
Which might suggest there are a lot of people on the #Fediverse that not only remember the #oldInternet , but might want to support, bring back, and re-create & restore the best parts of the "old Internet".