old internet

Why isn't it like Cowboy Bebop's version, or like any 90s sci-fi movie/show/anime? Why is everything that's modern so, so goddamn minimalistic and boring and lacking in exuding this sense of adventure and complexity? Just, why isn't it more like how it was in the 90s, but faster and with more...

This website screams 2000's era forums and I genuinely think it would just be cool if some way we had the ability to log in using the XDP browser for Dreamcast and participate. It's obviously not a necessary thing but it would be a nice novelty to have.

Do you miss any old sites, browser games, web services, etc? Back when I was super into Yu-Gi-Oh, before the rules became an incomprehensible clusterfuck, I was active on Yu-Gi-Co, a forum for discussing the card game, tracking prices, and making custom cards. Very welcoming community that was...

Seeing as a lot of people mention that they haven't used one in years during their introductions, I thought it would be fun to ask when they first posted on a board. Me, personally? I joined my first one in August of 2004, right after I had emailed the webmaster of its partner site about...

I really miss that time when you had multiple options for every single thing you wanted to do online, even chatting. MSN Messenger held monopoly on instant messaging among my peer group, but I remember getting to try Yahoo! Messenger, Pidgin, IRC, ICQ, and even VampireFreaks Messenger at some...

I personally miss people's untamed creativity when it came to creating, customizing and presenting their profiles. Visiting sites like MindViz and VampireFreaks showed me an almost endless display of HTML mastery, and I miss the fact that some sites would let you run wild with profile...