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30 August 2006

This thread is for posting retro 20th-century links. [More:]Inspired by this, let's see how lame-o we can be.

Look! Here's a silly guy's funny website!

Look! A dancing baby!
Check it out! It's a screensaver of little pictures of toasters -- that fly! So funny and crazy.

posted by Miko 30 August | 14:23
OMG this is so funny...

And hey, I just found out about this great website... It's called 'News for Nerds'. In fact, that's where I found out about the "All your base" site. You totally shouldn't miss it!
posted by Daniel Charms 30 August | 14:42
This is so funny! Dancing hampsters!
posted by Daniel Charms 30 August | 14:48
This is the best thing I have ever seen. Forward it to everyone you know!!
posted by essexjan 30 August | 14:49
Bollocks!
posted by essexjan 30 August | 14:50
Google who?

posted by amro 30 August | 15:23
I Kiss You
posted by seanyboy 30 August | 15:28
OMG! Dancing Baby
posted by seanyboy 30 August | 15:31
Death Clock
posted by seanyboy 30 August | 15:33
It says I'm going to die on Sunday, November 20, 2039.
I'll be .. 70.
*sniffs*
posted by seanyboy 30 August | 15:37
That death clock sucks. I'm a "normal" non-smoker with a BMI of less than 25, not to mention female, and it says I'm only going to live to be 79.
posted by amro 30 August | 15:44
Oolong!
posted by Zack_Replica 30 August | 15:45
Mr T Ate My Balls
posted by Zack_Replica 30 August | 15:51
Star Office 5 pre-Final release. I bet Microsoft are quaking in their boots..

That's the earliest slashdot article I could find.
posted by seanyboy 30 August | 16:01
≡ Click to see image ≡
First Ever Banner Ad. Ever!!
sorry, dabitch
posted by seanyboy 30 August | 16:05

IM IN UR SITE, EATIN UR POSTS
posted by dflemingdotorg at 5:06 PM PST on August 29 [+] [!]


I'm embarassed by how funny I find this.
posted by pieisexactlythree 30 August | 16:54
Lame-o and geeky, ok. And wickedly obscure, too.

Everquest! That huge and popular MMORPG. The game you loved to hate. And loved to bitch about. There was once a guide in the game who started a blog called "Bowl of Mice" under the name of Tweety which was basically her venting steam at some of the mind-numbingly stupid things people would do in-game. Thanks to the Wayback Machine, we can go to the archive of it. Tweety Rant. Note that a lot of the references are specific to EQ and can get a little bewildering, but the rants are fun to read. 'The Rant Heard Round The World: Try Being a Guide, You Nutless Assmuncher' was the one that she wrote and then got found out by Verant (EQ's makers) and was fired for not being nice. Tweety was then picked up by Mythic, creators of Dark Age of Camelot. The linky above will be slow due to the archiving.

Speaking of rant sites, Lum The Mad used to have a site called "The Rantings of Lum The Mad". When that went under, some enterprising souls created "SlowNewsDay", a site about pretty much the same thing. That site went into spectacular meltdown, but I have found an archive of the banners that were used on it. Gamers and general geeks may find 'em interesting.

Note for true geeks: I still have the article that was the "pulling of the reactor rods" that caused SND to tank out, if you're interested, though that is pretty lame, and I'm sure no one really remembers what I'm talking about. :P
posted by Zack_Replica 30 August | 17:07
Ana Voog ate my balls
posted by caddis 30 August | 20:15
Well, it's retro and it's definitely 20th Century.

I'm not sure it's what you're looking for, but . . .
posted by deadcowdan 30 August | 20:30
Pointcast
posted by caddis 30 August | 20:41
Bert, Bert, Bert, what have you come to?
posted by caddis 30 August | 20:45
Oh, I liked that Death Clock one! I'm a non-smoker, female, but with a high BMI, and I'm supposed to live until 2059-when I'll be 93!!! I'll take it!
posted by redvixen 30 August | 20:48
Anyone else having trouble compiling Mosaic under AIX? Guess it's back to Lynx for me.
posted by hangashore 30 August | 21:35
Ah, got it running. Now to settle in for today's pick's from Mirsky's Worst of the Web.
posted by hangashore 30 August | 21:43
Pick's? Ugh.
posted by hangashore 30 August | 21:45
Forget FTP, Hobbes is now available via the Http protocol (kind of like gopher with pictures).

Or for those of you using windows, Stroud's has moved again.
posted by GeckoDundee 30 August | 22:36
I do hope that the music of a creek from me will echo in the deep valley of you. || Admit it!

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