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Taryn Passed away. Thanks for being a part of us, even if it wasn't always on the best of terms. 1987-2014 Level: 204      Posts: 9942/14742 EXP: 121753045 For next: 1596773 Since: 09-01-09 From: Seattle Since last post: 10.1 years Last activity: 9.8 years
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— Bloodstar —
11360      Buy me a trip to the moon So I can laugh at my mistakes 
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Nicole Disk-kun Level: 146  Posts: 1182/6469 EXP: 38286704 For next: 226590 Since: 07-07-07 Pronouns: she/her From: Boston, MA Since last post: 78 days Last activity: 1 day
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— Bloodstar —
11360 Buy me a trip to the moon So I can laugh at my mistakes
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Taryn Passed away. Thanks for being a part of us, even if it wasn't always on the best of terms. 1987-2014 Level: 204 Posts: 9944/14742 EXP: 121753045 For next: 1596773 Since: 09-01-09 From: Seattle Since last post: 10.1 years Last activity: 9.8 years
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Nicole Disk-kun Level: 146 Posts: 1183/6469 EXP: 38286704 For next: 226590 Since: 07-07-07 Pronouns: she/her From: Boston, MA Since last post: 78 days Last activity: 1 day
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YK Permabanned! At some point you just have to cease and de-racist. Level: NaN  Posts: 28/-665 EXP: NaN For next: 0 Since: 06-25-10 From: Oregon Since last post: 10.6 years Last activity: 9.8 years
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Originally posted by Terra Ahh, webrings. My personal favorites were sites that linked to pages of links that lead to other pages of links. They didn't call them "rings" for nothing. You could literally spend hours going in circles from one link page to another, never finding any real content... |
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dotUser From the Grave Level: 91  Posts: 23/2357 EXP: 7428091 For next: 40821 Since: 10-20-10 Pronouns: she/her From: a particularly peculiar tiny store's back shelf Since last post: 34 days Last activity: 6 days
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The internet confused me so much back then. I spent most of my time playing games instead!
But when I find sites that use the webring style now I think "That's actually a really neat idea. If they all contribute to the same subject." ____________________ I'm always sleepy. |
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BlackNemesis13 1150 I am ***** but it's hard to pronounce, so you can call me Geno after the doll. Level: 70  Posts: 950/1155 EXP: 2883965 For next: 131846 Since: 07-23-07 From: Columbus, Ohio Since last post: 10.6 years Last activity: 10.6 years
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Liliana "A horrible person". That's what it says. "A horrible person." We weren't even testing for that. Level: NaN Posts: 1917/-3841 EXP: NaN For next: 0 Since: 07-23-07 Since last post: 10.3 years Last activity: 10.1 years
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What do I still remember from the beginning of the internet?
*Old web-based chats *Newsgroups (oh those were fun) *Guestbooks (I've never seen those nowadays) *Those nice private sites with valuable content, usually hosted on one of the many freehosters that existed back then *RealAudio and RealVideo (the fact they're gone is for the better...) *KaZaA (duh!) *Netscape 4.0 was considered state of the art! When you look back it almost seems nonsensical. *There was no Google, YouTube or Wikipedia. Instead, you searched on Yahoo and looked up stuff using the private sites. Videos were nonexistent in 1999, except for the mentioned Real videos. *everything was better. ____________________ |
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Lyskar 12210 -The Chaos within trumps the Chaos without- Level: 192  Posts: 6845/12211 EXP: 99326129 For next: 547442 Since: 07-03-07 From: 52-2-88-7 Since last post: 7.4 years Last activity: 7.3 years
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paulguy Green Birdo Level: 93  Posts: 1057/2294 EXP: 8032777 For next: 20033 Since: 09-14-07 From: Buffalo, NY Since last post: 9.7 years Last activity: 9.7 years
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Paulguy's Post configuration Originally posted by YKOriginally posted by Terra This is how ROM sites were. They would mostly just link in to a horrible web of top 25/50/100/1000/etc sites where the ROM "downloads" would just bring you back to that, after you had voted for the site in 5 or 6 topwhatever sites. What a disaster. I would like to say the case is different now, but now it's much more about getting people to download your shitty adware to make a few dirty bucks from some advertising group probably funded by something illegal, like stolen credit cards and bank accounts, rather than just wanting to be on the top of a topwhatever site, so we're really quite a bit worse off, but there are actually decent ROM sites around and there's torrents which are usually much more trustworthy, especially when there's reviews and stuff. Back in the day, web design was bad because they didn't know better, nowadays web design is bad because they're trying to market to idiots, so rather than being unknowing, it's evil, now. Idiots seem to like bright colors and shiny things that move and stuff, so that might be the origin of bright color schemes, and other websites just followed the precedent set by that. The web also has gotten a bit more "professionalized" in some areas, too, though, and the "paper" analogy I think gets a bit more weight in a corporate environment than something that's actually comfortable to read. Basically, everything sucks, web standards suck, and nobody's going to agree on anything because it'd cost more money, and they'd rather screw people over or make things shitty for people who actually give a shit about design because it makes them more money in the end, so the web is only going to get worse for the most part. The way of the world I guess! EDIT: Originally posted by Metal_Man88 I'm sure someone here has heard of Sonichu? ____________________ |
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Nicole Disk-kun Level: 146 Posts: 1185/6469 EXP: 38286704 For next: 226590 Since: 07-07-07 Pronouns: she/her From: Boston, MA Since last post: 78 days Last activity: 1 day
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Lyskar 12210 -The Chaos within trumps the Chaos without- Level: 192  Posts: 6867/12211 EXP: 99326129 For next: 547442 Since: 07-03-07 From: 52-2-88-7 Since last post: 7.4 years Last activity: 7.3 years
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IIMarckus Member Level: 25 Posts: 62/111 EXP: 82295 For next: 7325 Since: 10-11-08 Since last post: 3.0 years Last activity: 1.8 years
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Please be patient — This Page is Under Construction! ____________________ iimarck.us |
Peardian Magikoopa 16/3/1: KvSG #479 is up! Level: 157  Posts: 4125/7597 EXP: 48605377 For next: 973856 Since: 08-02-07 From: Isle Delfino Since last post: 11 days Last activity: 2 hours
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YK Permabanned! At some point you just have to cease and de-racist. Level: NaN Posts: 29/-665 EXP: NaN For next: 0 Since: 06-25-10 From: Oregon Since last post: 10.6 years Last activity: 9.8 years
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| Ooh, here's a good one... anyone else ever used AOL and their stupid "chat rooms"? Now *there* was a piss-poor setup. Very low limit to the number of people who could be in one, resulting in loads of "This room is full" every time you tried to enter a more popular room. No support for multiple chatrooms; you were in one or the other. And worst of all, no kind of moderation whatsoever. It wasn't possible to kick/ban anyone, which resulted in trolls and griefers utterly ruling chat rooms. I remember many a night on AOL's FF7 chat room, where one Nintendo 64-obsessed idiot would spend the entirety of the night scrolling "THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: OCARINA OF TIME!" over and over again... ...I shudder to think about that time... thank goodness for IRC...
Also... Originally posted by IIMarckus Hey Sticklyman! Whaaaaaat are you doing? |
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Rena I had one (1) message in Discord deleted and proceeded to make a huge, huge mess about how it was a violation of free speech and how moderators are supposed to be spam janitors and nobody should have the right to tell me not to talk about school shootings Level: 135 Posts: 3840/5390 EXP: 29077024 For next: 257981 Since: 07-22-07 Pronouns: he/him/whatever From: RSP Segment 6 Since last post: 342 days Last activity: 342 days
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10-31-10 01:33:09 AM Post #3840 People used to share videos on forums by passing around WMV files. Eugh.
Fortunately, they weren't as difficult to download as they would be today, since not many places required stupid shit like registration and javascript to download a file. There used to be actual free website hosts where you could host whatever pages you like (arbitrary HTML) rather than today's services that only host blogs or images or whatever. You could host whatever you wanted there. No dynamic content (server-side scripting), but there was hardly any such thing anyway. It was pretty nice. They'd inject ads into the page (often just tacking something on at the end, after the </html> - it works, who cares if it's correct) and often people would employ equally hackish methods to remove them (put a <title> at the very end of your page and use Javascript to set the title). People also often used them as file/image hosts, but they'd deny external linking for certain extensions - so you'd see images with .txt extension and instructions to download a file and change the extension from .txt to .zip or what have you. ANIMATED GIFS AND BLINKING MARQUEES EVERYWHERE WITH EMBEDDED MIDIS AAAAAGGGHHH You'd see the same goofy GIFs all over the place. They liked the kind where it looked like there was a hole in the page with gears or sometimes circuits showing, and pulsating bullet points. Not a lot of structure. You didn't have blogs and forums and galleries so much as just pages full of random information about some particular subject with images strewn about here and there. Flaming text, and static glowing text with an IE filter. AOL chat rooms, which tended to be nothing but a flood of broken HTML from 200 spambots at once in all different fonts, sizes and colours. Yeah, there were some nice things, and then some ugly things.  ____________________ ![[loading witty comment...]](http://twitstamp.com/custom-2013.png "this is about the only use for Twitter") |
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paulguy Green Birdo Level: 93 Posts: 1061/2294 EXP: 8032777 For next: 20033 Since: 09-14-07 From: Buffalo, NY Since last post: 9.7 years Last activity: 9.7 years
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Paulguy's Post configuration I do like the simpler nature of older websites, when they were well done. Nowadays sites that really don't need it use Javascript for everything, or they're bloated with way too many features that no one needs, and load slowly as a result (invision power board), or just have atrocious layouts (invision power board), where stuff is just strewn about with no organization, or it's hidden under some random button somewhere that expands some div, and there's no consistency for any of this stuff and it's all really unintuitive and just too busy. This forum seems to work with pretty minimal Javascript, and still provides a good amount of features, and there aren't random controls scattered where you don't expect them, and that's how most websites used to be. If they had a lot of sections, it'd be in a decent hierarchical structure, rather than nav bars thrown around everywhere with no sense of organization with overly ridiculous, busy styles and layouts that just make focusing on the flow of information and navigation and so on very difficult.
Also, websites that are slow on otherwise decently performing computers (older Athlons, Atom, etc.) for some silly stupid features that can be done without Javascript or with much more minimal, less slow Javascript (Youtube channel pages and really youtube in general). There are few sites with nice, usable layouts that feel natural, and have styles that aren't just so overwhelmingly busy where you can't find a damn thing or have adequate contrast or don't burn your eyes out by being so bright. And fucking light grey text on white background, jesus christ why do people do this? ____________________ |
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