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Using the internet for the first time

My mom's friend was an early adopter, mid-90s maybe? I was in 4th grade, and I was obsessed with South Park by proxy (my parents never let me watch it, but since a bunch of other classmates did, I caught on to all the catchphrases and learned how to draw all the characters.) Anyway, I found the South Park website and vaguely remember there being a bunch of mini games in it that I would not stop playing. I basically had to be pried away from the thing.

@theclack

Oct 14, 2024

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websites from childhood

I kept remembering them so I wanted to put them down in a list. May edit as I remember more! Bebo MSN Tumblr Habbo Hotel Omegle Chatroulette MySpace Neopets club penguin Dollz Miniclip This website that only had weird musical animated videos on it? Like the dugong song and this one about like monsters taking over the world? god I wish I could remember the name. Blogspot CBBC games

@mouse

Apr 9, 2024

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Habbo hotel

I am really a huge fan of this topic it fills me with a great sense of childlike wonder for how good the internet was!! I spent so many years on habbo hotel I had a one name username (loraine). My gran would let me use her phone to get HC so I always looked super slick and had loads of furniture. Loved a day spent down in the furni trading rooms and playing games (falling furni the best one). I built so many rooms and I think my favourite project was a like ten room all inclusive holiday where rooms took you all the way through the airport, plane, then to a hotel on holiday. The creative aspect was so fun as well as just being able to be a pretend person. I remember I had a habbo boyfriend called evrule and he would buy me presents like trophies engraved with how much he loved me. Then one day I caught him hanging out with another habbo and calling her his girlfriend and I went into his rooms and moved all the furniture around so they looked bad as revenge hahahaha Big shout out to: girlsgogames, stardoll, neopets, myscene, bin weevils, bebo, myspace, club penguin also. These websites allowed for so much creativity and imagination and they were FREE! Feel like this era of the internet really raised a generation of creatives who were able to adopt this new tool and just make it something actually magical. Like how was I teaching myself coding aged ten to try and make my cursor pink and learning how the neopets stock market worked???

@caskeyc

Apr 9, 2024

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listening to david bowie’s album, young americans, while smoking a joint out of your APARTMENT window on a sunday afternoon

It’s like the week’s ending credits, or whatever.

@edina_x_patsy

Mar 31, 2024

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If you can afford to: Hiding out in a small boutique hotel

Pick a place with a claw foot tub and a small, kitschy bar. Bring edibles and a journal.

@edina_x_patsy

Mar 31, 2024

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17 – Adore by the smashing pumpkins

17 seconds of compassion 17 seconds of peace 17 seconds to remember love is the energy Behind which all is created 17 seconds to remember all that is good 17 seconds to forget all your hurt and pain 17 seconds of faith 17 seconds to trust you again 17 seconds of radiance 17 seconds to send a prayer up 17 seconds is all you really need This is the poem that was included in the liner notes for this song. The song is an instrumental that’s literally 17 seconds long and I feel that the whole album needs to be listened to in order to fully take this last song in. Adore is about loss (the loss of a mother, the loss of a lover, the loss of friends and collaborators) and the process of carrying on. Corgan says in his poem that “17 seconds is all you really need” to find that peace after loss, but is it really? What if more time is needed? 17 seconds is short. This song is short. The abrupt end is too jarring. Abrupt endings in life are too painful and it leaves you thinking, “What now?” Well, 17 seconds is all you’re going to get because life moves on. Shit hurts, but you have to move. on.

@edina_x_patsy

May 5, 2024