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Old school internet

My family moved back to Japan in ‘97 🫣 and the military base commander held a town hall. The subject? The base’s residents having American cable or the internet. We mostly watched old ‘70s and ‘80s U.S. tv shows while occasionally receiving current U.S. shows a season or two behind. Overall, having internet won. I was excited since it meant freedom outside our bubble and better educational experiences. I remember the day my dad finished building our new internet accessible computer–my sister and I fought over who could use it first. I won. First sites I hit up and kept coming back to: Hotmail.com (had to set up an email account to email my friends) MSN.com HotBot Excite Ask Jeeves Lycos (was mainly used to search for music videos) AOL/AIM BBS (early forums) about various subcultures A lot of times I randomly ended up on some Geocities site dedicated to whatever obsession the site owner had. Some of them were pretty cute and cool, while others were questionable (the internet wasn’t censored back then). And I couldn’t read half of them due to it being in a different language and/or because the site was so badly designed. But I didn’t care–I had the whole world at my fingertips.

@edina_x_patsy

Apr 10, 2024

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I CANNOT FOR THE LIFE OF ME FIND MY OLD POST ABOUT MY NEOPETS HEIST

So I just expanded it and posted it on Substack… But yeah I loved Neopets more than anything as a kid. The plot events, the games, gambling (scratch offs and the wheels were my favorite!), investing, maintaining a store, trading, having stocks, decorating my house, doing dailies and grinding for Neopoints (is this how I built my work ethic?) to paint my Lupe baby, the FORUMS, Neomailing my friends, hunting for rare Neopets in the pound. I adopted a green Jubjub once named Nuggbro (as an adult) who looks like a piece of weed I love him and I think his petpet is a ball of fire. Also: * Newgrounds (this is why I’m sick and twisted) two of my favorite games were The Dead Case where you play as a ghost investigating his own murder and Entering Town… all I remember about that is chopping a guy’s head off with a shovel and also fighting a dragon? * EverythingGirl and probably the other dress up games for girls sites too * all of the kids’ games that were just advertisements for various TV shows, Mattel products, and processed food companies * Gaia Online * Charlie the Unicorn * Salad Fingers * a custom vampire role playing forum my friends and I made in middle school * DeviantART… I would over share on my journal just day to day things about my life and the (evil) boy I had a crush on found it and tormented me over it. but I also would post art and not to brag but my edgy Twilight style retelling of Little Red Riding Hood where she falls in love with the wolf was one of the hottest serialized stories on there LOL 💅 I am trying desperately to get up the strength to overcome my cringe and write that into a novel series because I think it would be a hit with the Booktok girlies * Omegle (yikes). My mom would never let me do that but I would go on with my friend when I slept over at her house. Dark place * Tumblr obviously. Unfortunately * omfg also PETA’s website for teens Peta2. UNFORTUNATELY

@taterhole

Oct 14, 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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green yuri cookie dough

there were no dinosaur chicken nuggets in the supermarket and i decided to buy a cheaper brand ice cream because i thought how much different can cookie dough flavour taste and apparently a lot. anyways, i started this manga and it’s pretty sweet.

@schprl

Dec 10, 2024