Does anyone have anything to contribute?
 

I'm writing this:

https://vimeo.com/141343241

EDIT: I realized this was more early 2000 shit.

yeah I got something to contribute
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Watching videos over 56k dial-up
Before we were aware of internet history

ICQ still existing

titles for picture-heavy threads on forums starting with something like [56k STAY AWAY]

tower records

-floppy disks
-Walkmans
-TV Guide
-1 GB hard drives
-Blockbuster
-paper maps
-no cells... so when you made plans with people you had to agree on a certain time and place, and just hope they met you there.

kids trying to watch porn through a scrambled cable channel

having to deal with guys who play with hackey sacks that listen to pearl jam

pro wrestling being well liked

lol scrambled pay per view porn. that's a good one

you'd have to sneak into the computer room late at night to use 56k to look at porn o nthe computer. and the sites weren't well established either so it was kind of a crapshoot. the pictures took a long time to download and you didnt have much time so you'd have to be judicious with what you downloaded. then you'd have to carefully erase all the evidence

90s had lots of speculative buying

trading cards, comic books.... everyone pretty much thought they'd buy some piece of shit baseball card and it would be worth millions someday

a shitty playlist on napster with like 1 song by each band, and the bands are all things like evanescence and POD. and you listen to it repeatedly over and over, occasionally adding a new song. and for some reason it also has like some internet song like "the Ultimate Showdown" or something a 3dmmer made

mouse-over captions for pics

altavista
Maddox
fark.com
Bill Clinton

usenet

these things are still around

the satanic panic was pretty cool

http://zombo.com/

yeah but nobody fux with em

Yeah this. Let the bodies hit the floor, Fade to Black by Metallica and a bunch of slipknot always reminds me of this

Almost all of these suggestions are early 2000s.

Solitaire, Minesweeper, and Skyfree

i thought that was the point?

Making custom scenes in 3dmm is hard!

not knowing how to resize images so they showed up way too big on forums.

Windows ME

using amigas or RISC OS

L33t h4x0r$

Those few golden years when home computing was still relatively new & authority figures such as parent or teacher were easily impressed by your ability to do basic tasks like run a ms-dos command. They told you that you were a computer genius & the "next bill gates". Sound familiar?

Now Web 2.0 is here and your skills have no place in the brave new world.

AOL trial disks
Paying for web browsers
Geocities
DOS
Hours staring at 3D screen savers
Everything being made out of that plastic that turns piss yellow the second you brought it home for some reason
Palm pilots
Ergonomic keyboards

lol i remember getting a copy of "MSDOS for DUMMIES" at a booksale at the community center and teaching myself basic shit like how to make it run a program from a floppy or whatever. i felt like a fucking genius

this was caused by shitty plastics that used a fire retardent chemical. they can be restored by letting the plastics sit in hyrdrogen peroxide overnight.

oh dude i remember that fuckin shit

thank god that nonsense died out

Not being aware of an online community who also enjoy playing 3DMM so trying to make movies with out any mods or tools and saying "no that's Darth Vader, it's as close as I can get"

beanie babies

Liking any of the following bands:

Sleater-Kinney
Radiohead
Tool
Built To Spill
The Smashing Pumpkins
Marilyn Manson
Blur
Faith No More
The Prodigy
The Chemical Brothers
311

90s problems?

Kelly Kapowski isn't 18 yet.

That point when you stop letting your parents dress you and come up with your own fashion choices:

It's Saturday and the Keller Twins are having a party. Absolutely everybody's going to be there, but you can't go unless you can't go unless you get all your chores done first! And you've got to Get Ready! And you've got to get your mom's stamp of approval! And you've got to get it all done by 6:00 PM.

Not being able to beat Vectorman




Also:

Kurt Cobain kills himself

The girl in homeroom says it's because I'm not Jonathan Taylor Thomas and I never will be.

How about positive aspects of the 90s?






For sure people will say the same about Computer Guys come ten or fifteen years

I wouldn't watch those grown-up shows, I was watching the newest episode of Pokemon.

recipe for a winning TV show that people remember:

characters with memorable names:
Homer, Bart, Marge,... Kelso, Hyde, Fezz,... Erkel... The Fonz, Potsy... Kramer,... Chandler... Fraiser, Niles... Cartman, Chef,... Beavis & Butthead... Wally, The Beaver... Carlton... Sheldon... See you already know what shows these people are from. Nobody remembers characters Jeff and Mike.

stupid gags that no other show has done:
Simpsons - couch gags
70's show - the 360 camera pan when they're all stoned
Family Guy - cut-aways to pointless "jokes"
Family Matters - DID I DO THAT
South Park - main character dies every episode
There are probably more but I hate television

also you need a B- or C-list celebrities in the supporting cast
It doesn't really matter who, so long as people say, "Oh hey! I know them!" Their presence on the show has to feel like a special treat. That's the key. So don't write them into every episode and if possible get someone that's not in television or movies. Like Steve Balmer would definitely make guest appearances. He'll attract tech nerds to the show. Then get like, Tom from Blink 182. Bam! Millennials are watchin'.

Computer Guys is gonna be awesome

Loud Model M keyboards
Bent pins in cables/connectors
Driver CDs/floppies
Kazza
Trackball mice
PowerPC being shilled in everything
SCSI cables

what the fuck is Computer Guys

magic eye

I still have some of those books somewhere

I think my computer at my parents' house still has a Zip drive

'just make sure it doesnt have the Click of Death!!!

this is what JTT looks like now

does he look like someone who was molested at a seedy hollywood producer party?

i don't know, i think perhaps so!

He looks like a high school music teacher

Re: Does anybody really have anything to contribute?
 

every time i see this thread title i read it like a vague philosophical question

indeed the asker vanished after posing the quandary

Nah i'm still here dood.

I only care about Proust/Nietzsche erotic fanfiction but this is pretty exciting.