What do you remember?

  • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
    1·
    5 hours ago

    This is just barely in the 1990’s, but The Conversatron comes to mind.

    There was quite the cottage industry around Quake in the 1990’s. From GameSpy for finding matches/servers, to news and modding sites for which I can’t quite recall the names.

    There’s also countless companies and startups that either went bust or were eaten by other companies.

    Meanwhile, there’s stuff still online from then that has no right to be. SpaceJam comes to mind.

  • ExtremeDullard@piefed.socialEnglish
    42·
    2 days ago

    altavista - best pre-Google search engine. It would probably be the best post-Google-enshittification search engine today too.

  • psud@aussie.zoneEnglish
    9·
    2 days ago

    Not a site but a feature: web rings

    You’re on a site about radio control toys, at the bottom is a ring control go to a thematically related site, maybe find your way around the ring to it’s start

    • VirtigoMommy@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      1 day ago

      Oh man, you just unlocked memories of a handful of cryptid and urban legend websites I used to crawl as a kid that were all linked together.

      Used to spend hours trying to be quiet in the living room reading weird nosleep-style stories. Fuck I miss the early web. Web 4.0 sucks.

    • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      i ran across a web ring not that long ago. took me back—way back.

      edit: do NOT go to webring dot org. domain is owned by scammers. dot com isn’t the old thing either.

  • Ricky Rigatoni@piefed.zipEnglish
    12·
    2 days ago

    There was a japanese website where you would type peoples names and it would morph the characters into swords, dicks, and anuses. You could type two names and it’ll turn one into a weenie and the other into a butt and see how well they fit together.

    It was amusing. I can’t remember the name. I am sadness.

  • Poop@lemmy.ca
    1·
    1 day ago

    notbencejon.com

    It was a blog written by a young guy who had an amazing ability to put his struggles into words. I was an angry/sad teenager at the time and reading his blog made me feel like I wasn’t the only one. I hope he’s out there and doing ok. He loved the band Sloan and his family.

    I’ve tried a few times to find a trace of his blog, and no such luck.

    • Treczoks@lemmy.world
      1·
      8 hours ago

      I remember watching that page on an Arena browser in an XWindows terminal on Solaris or SunOS. Back then, it was still hosted on the Cube on Tims desk.

      And the description I got for this WWW project was “A system like GOPHER, but with hypertext”.

  • piconaut@lemmy.ca
    9·
    2 days ago

    Not from the 90s but around 2007 I think. There was a private torrent tracker called something like UGS-torrents. Where UGS stood for underground sounds. Pretty sure it was based in the UK and it focused on electronic and club music singles being released at the time from a bunch of smaller producers. Unique stuff I’m not even sure what to call the genre to be able to look for it today but a lot of it was adjacent to drum and bass, 2-step, or break beats. Super active forums with members making and sharing DJ mixes. I’ve been out of the scene for quite a while now but the few times I’ve searched for any mention of this place I’ve found nothing. If anyone has any information I’d appreciate it if you could share.

    • INeedANewUserName@piefed.socialEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      Far from exhaustive and unsure if it is still online but have you checked Ishkur’s guide to electronic music for an idea of the genre?

  • otp@sh.itjust.works
    4·
    2 days ago

    Two games, likely flash, but possibly just JavaScript and stuff. I remember accessing through dedicated webpages.

    One was a puzzle game that had a planet and a bunch of items to place on it. The game let you place each item only once, and the items would have different interactions depending on which order you placed them in. So if you use the seed before the water, it would grow. But if you placed the fan down before the water, it would create a storm which would make the seed grow even more…or something like that.

    The other one was a game where you leveled up like an RPG with stat points, but the stats were just how long or wide your sword is. Power too, I think. Your character followed your mouse cursor, and clicking would swing the sword. You could choose different areas where different monsters with different stats would appear, chasing you, and you could kill them for more experience. Almost a proto Vampire Saviours, I guess