#90's internet

[macabremachinery]

I found an interesting relic of the late 90’s internet today when on one of my IHNMAIMS deep-dives, and I haven't seen anyone else talking about it on here. It might take me a bit of time to cover, and I've been having to piece the site together as a coherent whole by jumping back and forth in the Wayback Machine, but it's a hell of an academic and historical ride.

#ihnmaims #i have no mouth and i must scream #teaser #90's internet #old websites #it's a cool af site

[arconinternet]

Octavian (Classic Mac, John Gentry, 1996)

A HTML-based first-person adventure game, distributed on a Mac magazsine coverdisk. You can play it on an emulated Mac in your browser here; run home.html in Netscape.

I've changed the settings so visited links aren't purple. You can still cheat by looking at the bottom of the window when mouseovering.

#internet archive #in-browser #game #games #video game #video games #videogame #videogames #computer game #computer games #retro games #retro gaming #old web #old internet #90s web #90s internet #90's internet #netscape #weird game #weird games #adventure game #adventure games #1996 #1990s #1990's #90s #90's

[nineties-effect]

#90s #90s aesthetic #90s vibes #1990s #90 style #90's design #90's internet #90's Web #vaporwave #Retro Web #Sailor Moon #Geocities #Geocity

[yodaprod]

Cybercafé à Paris (1995)

#internet #paris #france #1990s #90s #90's #1995

[warakami-vaporwave]

Paint IKB XP

#yves klein #vaporwave #windows xp #ms paint #blue #yvesklein #ultramarine #art #aesthetic #90s #pop art #nostalgia #v a p o r w a v e #old web #mspaint #webcore #winxp #y2k #post internet #a e s t h e t i c

[catbountry]

Does anybody remember the origin of this gif? I've seen it online since probably 1998-1999 and it used to be everywhere, but I never knew who made it, where it's from, or if it has an official or even agreed upon name.

EDIT: The gif has been ruined by my attempt to upload it, you can see it better on my Twitter.

#internet history #90's gif #pixel art gif #internet mystery #blast from the past

[earlicking]

listen to Special Agent Dale Cooper

#1990 #90's #weirdcore #art #90s #90s fashion #90s aesthetic #90s nostalgia #nostalgiacore #nostalgia #david lynch #twin peaks #laura palmer #png #transparent #90s grunge #grunge #winter #old web #old internet #vintage tech #old tech #words

[pepperspoppies]

Madou Monogatari (Compile – Super Famicom – 1996) Game gif

#cute #kawaii #2000s #cyworld #sayclub #2000s web #sayclub dolls #anime #pixel gif #pixel aesthetic #cute pixels #pixel art #pixel animation #pixel graphics #pixel illustration #pixel sprite #pixelated #2000s internet #90’s #90’s nostalgia

[angerlstuff]

internet space

#internet #internet aesthetic #90's #90's nostalgia #90's aesthetic #2000s aesthetic #2000s #windows #windows aesthetic #aesthetics #wallpaper #we heart lt #anime #cyberpunk #cyberattack #computer #80s anime #80's tech #best mobile under 20000 #mobile #sf #cyber y2k #y2k #internet explorer

[zobiecute]

Remember your couple Childhood

#2000s nostalgia #2000s #early 2000s nostalgia #2000s emo #early 2000s #2000's/2009's anime #2000s anime #90s nostalgia #nostalgiacore #y2k nostalgia #2000s childhood #2000s kawaii #2000s core #nostaligiacore #y2kcore #y2k era #y2k #2000s internet

[arconinternet]

The Internet Show: Driver's Education for the Information Superhighway (Video, Phillip Byrd & John Meek, 1995)

You can watch it here.

#internet archive #video #videos #vhs #vhs tapes #educational video #educational videos #obscure media #internet history #90s internet #90's internet #1995 #1990s #1990's #90s #90's

[nineties-effect]

#90s #90s aesthetic #90s fashion #90s vibes #1990s #90s style #street style #90's movie #90's horror #90's internet #dial up #goth #urban legend #1998

[yodaprod]

Surfing the web in 1999

#internet #www #web #toys r us #technology #computer #1990s #90s #90's #1999

[warakami-vaporwave]

Y2k Horizon (animated)

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#vaporwave #windows xp #surreal #pop art #digital art #v a p o r w a v e #windowsxp #post internet #windows bliss #winxp #memphis group #90s #memphis design #surreal art #retro computing #cyberpunk #mallsoft #a e s t h e t i c #animation #looping

[dellinah]

I worked at the Bronx Zoo in 1995 and there was an old man volunteering there who in the 1920s saw their live thylacine. Sad conversation with him b/c he'd always known it was a special opportunity to see it, but he couldn't describe it as anything special - what he was saying was what you would say if asked to describe the video clips. The pure experience of it cannot be transmitted. I have loved thylacines my whole life and feel cheated. We were all cheated.

Woah! Lucky you :D There are probably not that many (if any) people alive today who saw a thylacine as kids and were old enough then to remember it still, since the last one died in 1936. Pretty cool that you met someone who did and got the chance to talk to him about it! Even if he didn't find it that special, I'd say that that puts you closer to tassies than most of us will ever be in a way :P Not many people can say they saw an extinct animal alive, so I think that alone is pretty cool too. I'd have asked him to describe so many details he'd probs be annoyed, lol. I can see why some people would think they aren't special, but I do. Yes, a lot of the wonder and mistique around them comes from the fact that they are extinct, but I think they're special on their own.

Possums that looked like wolves. What's not to love?

I love that you sent this ask, actually. It warmed my thylacine-loving heart in a way :'3 have some other pictures I took in the museum as a thank you (the lighting there is terrible for pics, but hopefully you enjoy it still)

But honestly, I get you. There are things that can't be said with words, and I think experiences are one of those things. Even with the most eloquent of descriptions, I think you can never fully understand what someone else went through or felt at a certain situation. I know that if I got to see a living thylacine, I'd never be able to convey what it meant to me. Even if most people found it dumb/didn't get why it was special to me. Heck, people at the museum were probably confused as to why I was crying at a mounted animal oop

It's sad, but in a way, thylacines disappeared twice. Once when the last one passed away, and again when the last people who saw them alive passed away too. First they were gone, and lived on only as memories. Now that the memories are gone as well since those people are (most likely) gone too, we only have the ghosts - the pictures, the drawings, the videos, which shape the ideas we get of them. Like you said, you, and I, and anyone else who wishes to see them, were robbed.

All we have of the thylacine is old. A video I've seen a million times, pictures that will never move or make a sound. We were robbed of so much when it comes to them. We were robbed of their sound, of their colors, their behavior. We have nothing now. We'll never know what they sounded like, or watch them hunt, or learn more about them. Really, all we have is ghosts and other people's memories as we look at the pictures other people took.

And that will have to do.

Little story for yall: when I was at the museum, there was a little girl with her dad there too. She'd jump from one animal to another, asking him to tell her where each animal lived (as the exibitions were labeled by place of origin of the animals). They got to the tassie the same time that I did, and when she asked "where does this one live?" he read the sign and replied "It doesn't live anymore. It doesn't have a home anywhere. They're gone."

And then they walked away, and I didn't see them anymore. But man, that hit hard. I keep hearing that in my head, over and over again.

It doesn't live anymore.

It doesn't have a home anywhere.

They're gone.

That dad and little girl probably didn't think anything of it. But I'll never forget that. How thylacines once lived, once had a home.

And now, there's none.

Been thinking of incorporating those sentences into a drawing of them or smth. I know it's very r/im14andthisisdeep but let me weird about them ok they make me sad

But yeah, that's my thylacine rant for the night. Because there aren't enough of those in my blog :P Thanks again for this, as it allowed me to ramble oops. Hope you doing well!

#Thylacine #Tasmanian tiger #Tasmanian wolf #ask #anon #also if anyone feels the need to comment about how this is probs fake and I fell for it or smth #dont <3 #i know people lie on the internet but let me have this #idec if it isnt real tbh it allowed me to ramble some and also made me happy #also like. some people out there were alive in the 90's and saw thylacines as kids #the bronx zoo had several thylacines until 1919 so. yeah #anon if yoire reading this im not calling you a liar!! i believe you and im really happy you shared this! #i just had to deal with a bunch of people being rude online recently and it left me jaded #thanks again! <3 #Oslo Museum #extinct animals

[vampyreyes]

#tile backgrounds #old backgrounds #old internet #old web #geocities #angelfire #90s #2000's #backgrounds #purple backgrounds #webcore #early internet #00s