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  • Wow, it's still there! (Ancient internet content.)
  • midlifecrashes
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    Yes, I know some us remember bulletin boards and before, but we’re on the web now. So much of the web is slick and dull now. Remember the old days when it was all new and amazing. This gang thought it was a good idea to just have the web catalogued by subject rather than all this new fangles search engine nonsence, and for a (short) while they were almost right.

    Ladies and gentlemen, I give you:

    http://www.dmoz.org/

    It even links to loads of pages which haven’t changed for decades.

    Anyone got any more web oddities to share?

    dawson
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    dknwhy
    Full Member

    Wow, STW is old. I was too off my face to know what the Internet was back then.

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    integerspin
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    I still use Mosaic;-)
    OK not that often.

    wrightyson
    Free Member

    I looked at
    Stickdeath.com the other day. Still found it childishly hilarious.

    knottinbotswana
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    Wow, STW is old. I was too off my face to know what the Internet was back then.

    I remember some great rides, beer and curry with the GoFar gang. Did any of you have a square-shape Jeep Cherokee in the last century?

    bigrich
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    Malvern Rider
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    https://web.archive.org/web/20020326105853/http://singletrackworld.co.uk/

    STW’02 = eyes hurt! Maybe the red flashy was just preparing us johnny-come-latelys for the endless Tudor Watch-ups 8)

    Badger badger badger BADGER mushroom MUSHroom

    Cougar
    Full Member

    I know some us remember bulletin boards and before

    I still use one. http://www.mono.org

    dabaldie
    Free Member

    I used to use BBS all the time via TELNET commands. Shadow in Illinois and Thanatos in Manchester. Its amazing how forums have moved on….hmm
    Not a lot has changed although trolls hadn’t been invented then!

    Cougar
    Full Member

    Seriously? Between Usenet, BBS systems and MUDs, they pretty much invented trolls.

    You still can telnet to a BBS if you like. As above, mono.org (though SSH is preferred, get with the times!!)

    Malvern Rider
    Free Member

    The internet was created in order to distill all human intelligence ever by making all knowledge In the World Ever instantly and freely accessible at the touch of an index finger or spoken command.

    This was then condensed further into visual code in the form of youtube. To make it more interesting – comments are free – which further distills all human interaction into easily quantifiable bite-sized snippets.

    And finally (after 21+ million views) pseudonymous human no. 38,443 ‘Ginny Tant’ was browsing idly, chanced upon this video, clicked ‘play’ – and then unwittingly absorbed the sum total of the Interwebs. Whereupon she was inspired to respond:

    ‘I liked when it said mushroom IDK why :/ ‘

    [video]http://youtu.be/EIyixC9NsLI[/video]

    DezB
    Free Member

    Wow, that dmoz looks really familiar, but I don’t remember using it! I worked for a Uni when the web was starting up, so we had open access to everything.
    I remember this artist had a website, one of the very first art showcases, can’t remember his damn name though, would love to see if his stuff is still out there, it was pretty bizarre. Gonna trawl dmoz see if I can find him.

    integerspin
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    I suppose it would seem sad fingering a coke machine?

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