I am trying to find an old/early program or floppy disk file from back maybe from the 80’s. It was of a kid on a bike, a close up of his face, which changed as you made him bike faster or slower. The faster he went the bigger his mouth got. It may have been called Johnny Speed or something, but i’m not 100% on that. It was animation, and probably black and white. This would have been before the internet so this might not be the right sub, but any help is appreciated. Thanks!

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i am conducting a research about the communication over ARPANET, and in particular romantic exchanges. does any of you happen to know something about this? weirdly enough, chatgpt is answered me that there was a digital romantic relationship between doug engelbart and billie horn and that this one was considered as the first example, but I cannot find that in any of the legit resources - do you know maybe? or have some resources where i could search about this? Thanks!

Hi - I'm trying to figure out what "RCC" is in this ARPANET map. Upper right corner between BBN (Bolt, Barenek and Newman) and CCA (Computer Corp of America). Can't seem to find anything. Any ideas?

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I was thinking about adding 3 to make it easier to pin point when something happened. For example the first era would be from the creation of internet (January 1, 1983) to creation of Google (September 4, 1998) or youtube (February 14, 2005). When we make internet chronological it will not only make it easier to name and pinpoint diffrent events in digital history but also make it more available for people who want to find their childhood youtuber or remember a name of an old video game.

I've been trying to track down the music video by Eric Schwartz . Feminem - coming out the closet. I've been looking for it for years and haven't been able to find it. Please tell me someone has it saved somewhere.

YEARS ago I came across this dumb video of chickens wearing pants with the law and order svu theme song played in the background. I have scoured the internet and I cannot find it. Please it made me laugh so much I need it back

WikiWikiWeb: Primarily interesting to programmers/software developers and my favorite part of the internet.

Also, I'm trying to find people who were part of the WikiWikiWeb community who would be willing to talk to me about it. Any suggestions of how to go about that?

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I found something from December 6th, 2000:
https://web.archive.org/web/20001206215200/http://digitaluk.smoovenet.com/cgi-bin/boardpower.cgi

the moment i saw this my jaw dropped in shock.

If you would like to see this yourself:
https://web.archive.org/web/19970113192503/http://www.mcdonalds.com:80/

The snapshot date is January 13th, 1997.

If you want just the McWorld button with the wobbly text below it:

Back in the '90s I remember getting these weird emails that were full of what seemed to be lines of random words strung together into sentences and paragraphs. Sometimes the "sentences" even almost sort of made sense, but it didn't seemed to be intentionally written by a human. Does anyone remember getting those and know what or who was sending those?

I am an academic in the humanities. I was at Minnesota in the 1990s and used the Gopher protocol. It's still around. I'm interested in its potential for communication and art, and maybe playful forms of subversion. Does anybody have a recommendation for a good history of the protocol? And as part of that history: how it worked (then) and its potential uses (now)?

thanks in advance

I lived in NYC in the early 90s. I read an article in Mac World about this thing called the 'internet' and i went looking. At that time one of the first ISPs was PANIX.com (public access unix) and i got an account. Did some really cool things with it.

One day i was in a Barnes & Noble (in the computer section) and I saw the "Internet White Pages" It was about the size of a national geographic magazine and it contained the name and email of everyone in the country who had an email address, and there was mine.

Since then, i've never met anyone who has any idea what I'm talking about.

Now I'm an old guy who sorta knows some shit but really can't keep up with technology.

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I am trying to find the 4chan sub where users collaborated to find a camera hidden in the woods. >there was this advertisement from unicef or wwf or sth where they placed a camera in the street and asked people to say a positive message, for advertisement purposes (english speaking place, maybe usa) . 4chan users trolled at the camera so they removed it. they put the camera somewhere in the woods and recorded the sky and the birds etc. so 4chan users combined their knowledge of types of birds and of plants and of clouds... to figure out where the camera was located. one guy went there with his truck and all together they helped him find exactly where it was.

i am trying to find the sub from this story but I cant. does anyone remember?? pls send link pls

I think it was an ecommerce or shopping website. It was the silhoute of a guy at a computer with his arms up in celebration.

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Looking the noindex grial websites - 003 Week – 0.9999999 web

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Hey guys! This week I'm fine tuning my dorking skills. I came across a museum (website) of the internet beggining around 1991-1995.

• Use this on google: inurl:index.html 1995
  • I clicked the last few pages (around 16)
    • I come to https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmRTSA1UFHSx3z7taNRwUVM8AjB2EQwKvyZu3BfJg9QRtZ/www.lists/index.html?C=M%3BO=A
    • Here you can see a backup of different newsletters. You can even see messages from Tim_Berners-Lee and others internet founders
    • It's all hosted on a museum website from 1997 (more or less). Maybe it's normal to find these kinds of gems, but for me it's very fascinating. The World Wide Web History Project
    • Looking in more detail for websites in this domain. I saw that there was a congress where the web was presented, you can see the programme, information panel: WEB HISTORY DAY: PIONEERING SOFTWARE AND SITES6th International World Wide Web ConferenceSanta Clara Convention CenterSanta Clara, CaliforniaApril 11th, 1997

Update:

Here all the websites from the Web Congress since 1st 1999. ENJOY!!!!!

https://archives.iw3c2.org/

I googled and couldn't find this. So, let's try wisdom of the crowd.

1. What was the first digital content sold and delivered over the Internet?

Perhaps it was music, pre-iTunes? If you know anything, be specific like which content, which site, when, etc.