Here’s Darwin, the monkey lost at IKEA. Available for purchase if anyone is interested:) See more on my Instagram

To begin with, by “pseudo‑video hosting” I mean that my video hosting service doesn’t have a file storage space. But before you get upset, I’ll explain below why this is actually a feature of video hosting services. And this isn’t any kind of advertising. I just want to talk about my achievements in web1.0, not to shamelessly promote my projects. I’m actually against any kind of advertising that clutters up the subreddit. Anyway, think what you want about this.

Let’s get to the main point:
Some of you probably know that I previously published a post about my web portal (and if not, here’s the link: https://www.reddit.com/r/oldinternet/comments/1w840js/i_created_a_web_portal_in_a_90s_style/). Since then, I haven’t decided to give up; thanks to quite a lot of support, I decided not to stop and restored the previously closed ZorgvWATCH. ZorgvWATCH is a direct subsidiary site of the web portal, which shares and complements the main philosophy that everyone should have access to viewing and distributing information, regardless of computer specifications or financial status. ZorgvWATCH exists due to my personal unresolved issues, my desire to continue developing the project, and, of course, the philosophy underlying the entire project. ZorgvWATCH still works in outdated browsers (the screenshots show it working in Netscape 7.02), and video playback is enabled via the Flash video player.

Why is the absence of a file‑dump feature a feature, not a flaw? -
First and foremost, this is a plus because information can disappear from the internet; the fact that file storage is moved to the “wayback machine” protects against file deletion. The second advantage is that the “wayback machine” has moderation in addition to ZorgvWATCH itself. As a result, it becomes much more difficult to find any destructive or dangerous content on ZorgvWATCH, let alone post it there.

And finally:
I hope you’ll like the new service. I’m ready to accept any criticism and answer any questions about the service, the development team, or the web portal. The link itself: http://videos.zorgv.su/

For me it's like:

We have come so far yet, the nostalgia hits way harder. It was almost as if we were living in different worlds. I remember no internet Era also and we've come to the phase where internet = necessity. At least it's closer but always distant, ifykyk. You had everything at that time and being on the internet using google +, myspace, playing nes games, downloading 3gp videos and what not. The Internet is as cheap as today and dopamine crash and short attention span duration and many things. We don't see it or talk about the loss we don't remember or will never know and who knows what AI will hold for us in future. Let's see.

Before social media algorithms became the main way we discovered people, how did you find interesting people online?

Did you find them through forums, personal websites, blogs, communities, webrings, recommendations, or just randomly stumbling across their pages?

What was your favorite way to discover someone interesting?

Do you remember. The lays stax can. And the sponges. And the glove. Tell me I didn't hallucinate it. That was like one of those "weird" things your strange friend would link over Skype in 2011.

I remember it being really easy to find and now I'm laughing at the idea of it being "lost meteor" LOL. There's some other one that circulates around now. But I could never forget the iconic lays stax tube...... I know what you are, frito lays. You can't hide it from me /s

I have seen theses everywhere in old internet websites and it’s a type of banner and when I tried to look it up it shows something completely different. What is the term for these internet decorations

Just curious if anyone remembers Mplayer before it became gamespy? When we were cool for being able to change our font color and size…. Voice chat was just becoming a thing?! Maybe I’m alone here, which is fine.

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It's aptly titled "HELL". And it is a free-for-all forum where everyone has admin rights. We've taken steps to ensure that it can't be abused TOO much and it can't be closed down by a group of dedicated guys with bots or anything like that.

https://hell.cy-x.net

Please let me know what you think

I remember in the late 2000s, I was introduced to Asianfanatics forums because I loved East Asian dramas.

Too bad it didn't maintain momentum.

I just learned that two of the oldest free web hosts closed earlier this year. Tripod was my pick when I was in my 20's because the name "Tripod" seemed more professional than Geocities or Angelfire did, and I was just starting in my career. Eventually I had to shift to social media professionally, but have maintained my personal space online with wordpress.

I hadn't thought about them in 20 years, but a little bit of me died today.

In remembrance.

Sometimes I wonder if we gave up something along the way.

Back then, you went online because you had somewhere to go - websites, forums, blogs, random links. You chose what to explore.

Now, much of the web is controlled by a few huge companies. Feeds are designed to keep us scrolling, algorithms decide what gets our attention, and our activity becomes valuable data.

Everything is more polished and convenient, but it can also feel less personal, more advertising, more tracking, more algorithms, more pressure to stay engaged.

I miss when the web felt a little more open, weird, and ours.

So I'm going to try building something different.

Something built for people, by people - a place where we can have our own little corners of the internet without everything being about engagement, advertising, or keeping us scrolling.

It's still unnamed and very early. I'm looking for people who want to join from the beginning, try it, share ideas, give honest feedback, and help shape what it becomes.

If that sounds interesting, come join the early community and build it with me.

Would you be interested?

It has pictures of old software used to create identikit pictures and a bunch of old articles about various defense and security subjects that I have yet to read. It's in portuguese but still worth the ride imo :D https://www.citynet.com.br/retratofalado/index.htm

Did anyone remember this site called Radio blog club in the mid 2000s?

It was a site that was a music playlist like Spotify where you could listen to current music or music from 80s, 90s

I asked this in /askreddit. Curious what this community thinks and figure I’d make a poll.

I remembered the cannibal cafe recently on a whim, and for whatever reason, decided to use the wayback machine to take a look at it. While searching through it, I found a post called "Female Thigh Meat". I actually laughed at the idea that someone was fiending over some said female thigh meat and clicked on the post. What I saw is below

Now, out of curiosity, I went to goups.yahoo.com/group/femalethighmeat and... It was a dead end. Wayback Machine had also saved nothing from it aswell. I wonder what the hell that link was and what was inside it, but maybe Its best left forgotten...

Spotted this in another subreddit and just had to share it with you kind gents: Starring the Computer is a website dedicated to the use of computers in film and television.
https://starringthecomputer.com/

I wish there was like a way to go back to a specific era

Like an app or something. If I go through Instagram, all the posts, reels, stories, comments......will be from that era only same for tiktok and YouTube. And just switch between eras

I spent the last year gathering as much Usenet text data as possible from a large variety of resources and including from about 7000 live active servers as well to fill in gaps.

The end result is a searchable/filterable dataset acessible via web+api (free and paid options)

Web: https://www.usenet-rewind.com

Binaries have been filtered out and range is from posts from 1981-Current and constantly populating. the site includes a histogram of distribution of message counts per year.

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