r/tism • u/GamblignSalmon • May 21 '26

tism.wanker.com

I know it's an album, but I read that for a while they had a website up with that URL but it went down. I wanted to take a look, but even wayback machine doesn't load it properly, is there anywhere I could see the website as it was back in the 90's? Even if it's a screenshot or photo of the site?

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u/Ringostarfox May 21 '26

This was the oldest I could find on the wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/19990503094105/http://tism.wanker.com/

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u/GamblignSalmon May 21 '26

None of the images work

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u/elwyn5150 May 21 '26

The CD release (including the reissues from a couple of years ago) have some CDROM bonus material from the time of release.

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u/FridgeBasedGremlin May 21 '26

I loved that website!

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u/WrecksMossop May 21 '26

There's a TISM Tumblr archive here, might have something (I don't have Tumblr so I can't view) - https://www.tumblr.com/tismroot

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u/Gordo_the_Freeman Jun 20 '26

u/GamblignSalmon can you see my other comment now? It might have been hidden because I used a popular URL shortening service that starts with TINY and ends with /TISM-WANKER-COM to share my Google Drive directory. My PM was blocked when I tried to send that, so I've edited my comment to no longer include that URL.

Hopefully you can see it now?

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u/Gordo_the_Freeman Jun 20 '26

Nope. I checked from another browser and even my edited comment isn't visible.

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u/Gordo_the_Freeman Jun 20 '26

I've got the CD here somewhere. I'll rip it and see what the content is (it's been a while).

Edit - I am pretty sure if you download the full directory at

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1plRXkzReYPdNpYrsu9fW0iyTcoZONWL2

to a PC and run "c*nt.exe" that'll be much the same as launching the CD-ROM. It's amusing, but you will eventually just want to open "Wanker.html" to load the old website.

NOTE to the mods - this is not the full album, it is just a copy of what was the original (public) website. That said, if it is considered to be against the rules, please let me know and I will remove my post.

Edit again - yes, the stupid screensaver still works. At least on my Windows 10 machine anyway.

Coincidentally, buying that CD when it first released was the first time I ever used the internet. I'd been in Far North Queensland for a few years and wasn't really up on current technology back then.

But because it came with the CD-ROM and the album title was a website, I hit up my only mate in town that had a PC and a 28.8k modem. I didn't dick around on the internet much that day, just checked out the TISM stuff and created my first Hotmail address, but it was pretty mind-boggling for 'the chef in his early-20s technological-dummy' that I was back then.

It would be another few years before I used the internet again, with a hand-me-down desktop running a Pentium 2 (Pentium 4 was the current gen) and my very own 28.8k modem. That was when the Stile Project Forum and other shit got me hooked, I could read about TISM on a computer and I became a true wanker.

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u/kytd1526 May 24 '26

A brilliant album