Which meme eras do you remember?
u/OverallEstate2 — 19 hours ago
r/oldinternet
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Childhood Pop Culture of the Boomer to Gen Alpha generations.
u/dafalsu — 15 hours ago
▲ 3 r/oldinternet
More from “The Legend of Bloodninja” chat logs from the early 2000’s
BritneySpears14: Ok, are you ready?
eminemBNJA: Aight, yeah I'm ready.
BritneySpears14: I like your music Em... Tee hee.
eminemBNJA: huh huh, yeah, I make it for the ladies.
BritneySpears14: Mmm, we like it a lot. Let me show you.
BritneySpears14: I take off your pants, slowly, and massage your muscular physique.
eminemBNJA: Oh I like that Baby. I put on my robe and wizard hat.
BritneySpears14: What the f*ck, I told you not to message me again.
eminemBNJA: Oh ****
BritneySpears14: I swear if you do it one more time I'm gonna report your ISP and say you were sending me kiddie porn you f*ck up.
eminemBNJA: Oh ****
eminemBNJA: damn I gotta write down your names or something
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Bloodninja: I lick your earlobe, and undo your watch.
Sarah19fca: mmmm, okay.
Bloodninja: I take yo pants off, grunting like a troll.
Sarah19fca: Yeah I like it rough.
Bloodninja: I smack you thick booty.
Sarah19fca: Oh yeah, that feels good.
Bloodninja: Smack, Smack, yeeeaahhh.
Bloodninja: I make some toast and eat it off your ass. Land O' Lakes butter all in your crack. Mmmm.
Sarah19fca: you like that?
Bloodninja: I peel some bananas.
Sarah19fca: Oh, what are you gonna do with those?
Bloodninja: get me peanuts. Peanuts from the ballpark.
Sarah19fca: Peanuts?
Bloodninja: Ken Griffey Jr. Yeaaaaahhh.
Sarah19fca: What are you talking about?
Bloodninja: I'm spent, I jump down into the alley and smoke a fatty. I throw rocks at the cats.
Sarah19fca: This is stupid.
Bloodninja: Stone Cold Steve Austin gives me some beer.
Bloodninja: Wanna Wrestle Stone Cold?
Bloodninja: Yeeaahhhh.
Sarah19fca: /ignore
Bloodninja: Its cool stone cold she was a bitch anyway.
Bloodninja: We get on harleys and ride into the sunset.
u/Padre1980 — 1 day ago
Usenet Posts from 1993?
While trying to look up how old my Sony SRS-88PC speakers I stumbled on what appears to be Usenet posts from 1993 discussing them.
I was very surprised to see posts from 1993. I was hoping some of you could explain to me what exactly I was looking at (hopefully link attached successfully). I realize I’m not seeing the posts as they originally appeared (Google hosts them now?) I remember the old Internet but I’m ignorant to Usenet, or what it was like to be “online” in 1993. Are most of the things that were created/posted in 1993 still out there but buried?
I know I could find some of these answers by searching but I just want to talk to real people.
u/Parker51MKII — 2 days ago
hey,
i'm b0zy, computer engineer, online since 1998. dial-up at home, 14.4k modem then 33.6k then the magical 56k. ttnet billed by the minute back then so i remember planning every download.
last week i made https://rip.so - a memorial site for the dead corners of the internet. each grave is a 800-1200 word obit for something i either used (icq, msn, mp3.com, kazaa) or remember from the era (geocities, friendster, sodaplay). 100+ entries plus a small companion list called "things that survived against odds" (vlc, irc, wikipedia, slashdot).
the writing is in my own voice. when i never used something i say so directly: "i never used path. it was a US-focused product, by 2010 the social network audience in turkey had settled on facebook." honesty about distance matters more than pretending to know things i did not.
it went viral on hacker news on 29 april (~30k pageviews in a day). the early version shipped with AI-generated placeholder content that i rewrote by hand after HN ripped it apart. that critique was the right call. the rewrite was the part that made it real.
other small things:
- you can leave a rose on any grave (anonymous ASCII tribute, IRC-color)
- atom feed of recent burials
- weekly digest newsletter (opt-in)
- suggestion box if you remember something missing
a few things people brought back via the suggestion box that surprised me:
- sodaplay (the flash physics toy with the spring creatures)
- nabaztag (the french wifi rabbit)
- swatch beat-time (the 1998 attempt to replace timezones with ubeats)
- the palace (the 1995 graphical chat)
- origami flowers (a niche android flower-growing MMO that died in 2017)
comments and rose tributes welcome.
u/bozdemir27 — 2 days ago
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The internet is quietly disappearing. What "dead" corner of the web do you miss the most?
We were always told the internet is forever, but digital decay is extremely real.
I was trying to find a certain forum post from the late 2000s, and the whole site is just gone. There’s not even any backup in the Wayback Machine. It’s millions of old fan sites, defunct forums, and image posts (RIP old Photobucket) that have been disappearing because hosting costs money. Large swaths of internet culture from the 2000s and 2010s have simply disappeared.
What’s a particular website, fandom, or internet rabbit hole you once loved that has disappeared?
u/meaw_meaw123 — 2 days ago
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Which old app or website do you miss the most?
reddit.comu/Unique_Brother_3653 — 4 days ago
Found this quiet little corner of the internet and it’s genuinely moving — humanitywall.org
Any thoughts on this site called The Wall (humanitywall.org). I’ve been sitting here reading it for the past 20 minutes.
It’s an anonymous, public space where people leave notes. No accounts, no usernames, no likes, no karma. Just words. You can browse by category, venting, ideas, memories, things unsaid, confessions, and read what strangers left behind.
The “about” page says it best:
“a place where words go when they have nowhere else to go… just what you’re carrying, left here for anyone who needs to know they’re not the only one carrying it.”
It’s surprisingly raw. Some of it is funny, some of it is heartbreaking, some of it is just someone’s random 2am thought. But all of it feels real in a way that most of the internet doesn’t anymore.
No ads. No algorithm. No social performance. Just the wall.
Go leave something. Or just read. Either way.
🔗 humanitywall.org
u/LateNightSlides — 3 days ago
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Which old app or website do you miss the most?
reddit.comu/Unique_Brother_3653 — 5 days ago
▲ 6 r/oldinternet
I miss the old internet...
Here's my favorite bit o' nostalgia from Ghostwriter:
u/iTrancelot — 3 days ago
Who still remembers this HTML tag? 👇
Although it has been deprecated for such a long time (really long time), it's still supported by all browsers!
Anyway, not advised to use in production!
Oh man, we are so old ... 😑
u/wanoo21 — 6 days ago
New Academic Research: “Zombies in Alternate Realities: The Afterlife of Domain Names in DNS Integrations”
Interesting paper on a fairly under-discussed issue in DNS: what happens to expired or repurposed domain names that remain embedded in DNS dependencies across systems. The core finding is that these “orphaned” or changed domains can persist in resolution paths and integrations long after their original context is gone, creating real security and reliability implications.
My take: this becomes even more relevant in modern AI systems, where agents, tools, plugins, and third-party APIs are rapidly stitched together. In that environment, domain names and DNS-level dependencies can quietly extend the AI supply chain attack surface in ways that are easy to overlook.
u/VincentADAngelo — 4 days ago
The Warnings Were There
Workers distracted by phone calls, e-mails and text messages suffer a greater loss of IQ than a person smoking marijuana, a British study shows.
The constant interruptions reduce productivity and leave people feeling tired and lethargic, according to a survey carried out by TNS Research and commissioned by Hewlett Packard.
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In 80 clinical trials, Dr. Glenn Wilson, a psychiatrist at King's College London University, monitored the IQ of workers throughout the day.
He found the IQ of those who tried to juggle messages and work fell by 10 points -- the equivalent to missing a whole night's sleep and more than double the 4-point fall seen after smoking marijuana.
"The research suggests that we are in danger of being caught up in a 24-hour 'always on' society," said David Smith of Hewlett Packard.
"This is more worrying when you consider the potential impairment on performance and concentration for workers, and the consequent impact on businesses."
u/lev_lafayette — 7 days ago
We Brought Back the 2000s MP3 Walkman for Desktop
Hey, for the release of the v1.5.0 we made a quick video for introducing Resonance. As well as a preview for the scheduled v2 re-design.
This is the perfect time to tell y'all we made a Patreon for supporting us. We base our work on the trust from 00s enthusiasts community.
Download on GitHub or below for the latest releases.
Apple Silicon
Windows
Linux
We've been busy lately, we come back with a ton of content for the upcoming week about our project.
Keep your eyes peeled!
u/dwcq — 5 days ago
What’s the weirdest rabbit hole you’ve ever gone down online?
I spent about 6 months deep into flat Earth content online. At first it was just curiosity, but the deeper I went, the more videos, forums, and algorithms kept pulling me in. Looking back now, I honestly question how much time and mental energy I wasted on it.
It made me realize how easy it is for the internet to trap people in endless loops of content once you start clicking on certain topics.
What’s the strangest or most intense rabbit hole you’ve personally fallen into online?
u/Powerful_Sun_4061 — 7 days ago
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Anyone still on IRC?
Hey fellow dinosaurs
I run a small IRC network that's been around since roughly 2000. Found this subreddit by browsing reddit and tought maybe people here want a join a irc and feel nostalgic.
Created a #oldinternet channel for anyone who wants to be nostalgic and chat like it's 2002 again.
Server: irc.ircworld.org +6697 (+7000, +7070) or 6665-6669 plaintext
Web client: https://webirc.ircworld.org/#/connect?join=oldinternet
No registration needed but its possible, just connect and say hi.
If subreddit mod wants a chanop, hit me up.
EDIT: If anyone is interested, im adding way to offer free bouncer to users.
u/570194 — 7 days ago
reddit was founded in June 2005 by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian. According to Wayback Machine, this is the first online version appearance (25.07.2005).
u/Prior-Basis-5085 — 7 days ago