/vr/ - Retro Games

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9DST-6jIBU

>>1458384
>>1458384
>>1458384
I was going to post that

>>1458380
SHIIEET I remember making a geocities page when i was about 6 where the entire background was that gif tiled

How the Internet has changed since then... :(

>>1458384
>Expand Dong

THIS SITE IS CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION!

>>1458401
holy fuck right in my childhood

>>1458376
>>1458379
>>1458401
I remember all of these.

If you never played Battlefield
Then you don't know SHIT about MMO's

>>1458434
>>mfw I forgot the fucking pic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4B9gd2AJVc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWX_p2GgHzY

there was a 2D MMO where you are a ghost and wander around a graveyard.

forgot what it was called, but I last remember the game being on it's last legs.

>

>>1458379
thehun still exists lel

Old circa 1996 Space Jam movie website is still up, operational and unchanged.
http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm

heavensgate.com

>that red alert warning

gopher.su
>typical /g/ tripfag site

When I was about 12 mainstream internet was new to where I lived. I used to go on IRC and chat under the moniker 'slickboy'. Used to try and find girls online and talk so much shit, like I was rich, had a Porche and and all this crap. Straight alpha male, and they all believed it. People will believe anything you tell them on the internet. One time this girl wanted to cyber sex and I didn't really know what it was but I said fine. She started saying the typical crap, sucking your dick, etc. Then she asked me if I came and I didn't know what it meant, top kek. I discovered masturbation not too long later though, also on the internet by accident, at 13 years old.

The main channel I used to go to on mIRC was #irc4kids or something on dalnet. One of the mod's names was 'charity' and she was so fucking hot - if it was really her. She had short blonde hair and was just a total qtp2t. Of course, in retrospect, I have no idea if it was actually her; could have just been a fat neckbeard. I think it was legit though because she put up so many webcam pics that were from those prehistoric, blurry webcams, and there were so much less girls on the internet back then. Nothing slutty, just her in her room, and stuff she'd buy like a new discman or whatever. She was a lot like Rose in terms of personality but she was much hotter. I remember she was in her 20's I would think damn, that's so old.

>Tfw 27 and still on the internet

Later on I ended up making my own channel with some internet friends. The biggest one we had was #bad@$$es and it grew to be quite a big channel at some point. All the mods (I think they were called Ops then?) were in touch with each other via ICQ. Man I had so many internet friends in the past. I've lost them all over the years, too bad. Oh well.

I miss Web 1.0.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0

>>1458401
I was the fucking bomb at this.
I suck at actual minigolf though, it just makes me want candy.

Here. Have a 30 megaton nostalgia bomb.

>>1458730
Aaaaa I was literally thinking yesterday about making some kind of post or thread here about it. While staying with relatives and holidaying I used to play the hell out of that and Demon Star.

>>1458730
I played way too much of this my freshman year of college.

>>1458759
I miss the old Web so much

I loved this site so much.

Quite a shock to realize it's been 15 years, and like 12 years of it being dead.

Fucking up your games has never been this much fun.

http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm
Did you buy your cassette copy?

>>1459408
>open link
>do not immediately hear COME ON AND SLAM
;_;

>>1458716

I remember irc4kids. A group of friends and I also made our own little room that we all hung out on, irc4kings. I don't remember how old I was but I remember being in 6th grade or so.

>>1458434
>>1458439
I played the shit out of that game on Bonus.com

I was 9, so I didn't really know what the fuck I was doing but I liked it so whatever

>TFW Mr.T will never eat your balls

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pPCkhYMQgY

Who's way, way too young, here?

>>1459063
I liked that site a lot too, it had a pretty cool start page with a Majora's Mask flash animation and I actually got what felt like a brief moment of "fame" when I solved the "mystery" of the weird little Deku Tree in Majora's Mask. I still remember fruitlessly attempting to log on to the site for weeks when it went down.

>>1459686
That's helluva depressing.

>>1459676
>I don't remember how old I was but I remember being in 6th grade or so
Same, I was in 7th-8th.
Dude we probably met each other at some point.
We walk the same paths in life.
I hope you're approaching successes...

>>1459686

Fuck man, literally old as the internet, kudos

Why did it have to become what it became, /vr/?

>>1459921
itfb
I still have something like 15 thrones from when I played that. Would be nice if I could sell them for real cash.

>>1459924
Use Sythe, Darkbox, or Virtual Trades to sell your shit Anon. Just don't get banned.

What was your username back in the day Anon? If you're an old player (00 - 03) from UK, FI or JP I might remember you. I was Fizzle for a while on .co.uk before I got banned for bruteforcing, and scripting.

I had favorited a link that led to some old as fuck threads on rec.games.video, and it was hillarious how exactly the same video game discussion was. Sega vs Nintendo flamewars, everyone writing whole paragraphs of ad hominem, people calling you an idiot for buying a console instead of a PC, all that.

But google changed their layout and I can't figure out how to filter out all the buying/selling threads or jump back a few years, so scroll down a bit until you start hitting 1999ish, post something funny if you find it

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/rec.games.video

>>1459063

Where did this come from?

>>1459938
Nah. Unless you were from starmen.net, through which I was introduced to habbo, you wouldn't know me. for the most part I wasn't social and just popped into trade rooms.

>>1459939
Ah, just figured out you can apply date filters if you log in to google.

Comedy goldmine.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.games.video/v5vHif9afFA

>>1459948
Oh well, have a screenshot of what got me into Habbo (or at the time, Hotelli Kultakala) back in 1999, or 2000.

RIP Mobiles Disco.

>>1459961
>You see in America there is a lot of
> racial mixing.
>You don't have that in the Far East. You don't know what you missing.

ahahahahahahahahahah
the poor soul

is it possible to get internet thru dosbox with windows 3.11?

You know this was the coolest shit.

Is there any alternative to IRC? I mean, I'm not complaining or planning to change or anything. I'm just wondering how do kids chat nowadays.
I've been using IRC since I first started to use internet somewhere in the late nineties.

>>1460027
IRC is still a thing as far as I know since I use it with some regularity.

>>1458384
>Windows XP

I'm glad he deleted Sys32.

>>1460037
Yeah I use it every day as well, but I'm just wondering if kids nowadays use something else. I can imagine IRC clients looking way too tech-y for people who have never used non-graphical user interface.

>>1459939
I love posting examples from those threads when people bitch about how shitty modern games are.

>>1460064
>all graphics, little plot. Which is exactly the reason why the classics are great.

Nostalgiafaggots: Delusional since beginning of time.

I miss the internet of the 90s. Good times, even on dial up.

I played a lot of this game, then I found out about furries. Anyone else?

I remember when I first discovered hentai. That was about 16 years ago. I remember printing my favorites and then fapping to them in my room. Good times.

>>1459686
pity that fool

>>1459979
Doubt it.

>>1460094
>>1459979

It is, but you'll need to install WinSock. Windows 3.1 couldn't network properly without it

Obligatory, nostalgia-inducing video right here, my friends.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWq4DWfrpu8

>log onto Sony station
>play infantry
>be happy

Is this game still playable? Shit was EPIC. Especially when you got a tank or mech.

Screenshot found online. My res was 640x480 when I was playing this

>>1458658
Man, I wonder what happened. Maybe they forgot the unmarked server somewhere in huge server room.

I was using Windows XP on my main computer about 5 months ago and then I upgraded to this high end machine with Windows 7.
I thought my rig was old, but then I realized that my dad has been using his computer for almost 13 years without upgrading it once. He still uses it every single day and probably will use it for another 13 years if the computer doesn't explode.

>>1460114
I like to think Michael Jordan hosts it personally

Worlds.com, the creepiest shit internet has to offer.

Remember to watch out for them hackers!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3qHepWxn-k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymZPPCLQaTc

>>1460136
Are you currently on worlds? If so, I'm in the mood for some exploring.

>>1460149
Still one of my favorite flash animations of all time.

>>1460056
Unfortunately most people seem to use facebook chat and iPhone app based chat apps lately.

My close friends tend to use a hodge-podge of old instant messaging accounts through pidgin. Or they just use Skype. Skype's pretty popular as an all in one voice/video/instant messaging/group chat program.

>>1460075
My nigga. I must have played through that whole game like seven times.

>>1460092
>Not discovering the temp internet files folder on the family computer
>not discovering your father's fetishes through the parts of the browsing history in there
>not being amused that your dad had no idea what he was doing when it came to finding internet porn
I still find the occasional stash printed out around the house, at some point later he must have found literotica and seems to have stuck with it for those. Thankfully he now has a smart phone he's decently competent with. I still remember leaving a page open on the computer about erasing your internet history so I wouldn't have to search through his smut when I wanted to find a page I visited a few days earlier.

>>1460136

And I had a fun ass time spooking the shit out of people there.

>>1460147

Dat smug mug sip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFMNC3UYYjw

Oh how I miss the nineties.

>>1460169

>>1460198

You earn 1 internet

>>1459082
>N64 on 4 TVs

>>1460103

Wow, that video man..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1VV1p4NIVY

casuals

>>1459686
http://dpsycho.tripod.com/Pikachu/

>>1461194

>>1461208

>>1459063

>Dat Satoshi Urushihara face

heh

>>1458401

HOLY FUCK
THE NOSTALGIA

>>1461232
Satoshi who?

>>1461257
>tfw no more strongbad emails

>>1459940
The darkart section of the long-defunct website Hyrule: The Land of Zelda, one of the earlier Zelda fansites after the net became mainstream and OoT gave Zelda a huge boost in popularity. However, archives of the website are now available, allthough the entire site can't be seen, some sections are down, most depressingly, the Miyamoto interview ones, but other, such like the "Amanda Almandoz finds the Light Temple" rumor shit (remember that? we were so young and gullible) is still up and available.

>>1458395
>visit one of those poor forsaken sites from the mid 90's
>still has that little under construction picture on 75% of the pages

cant w8

>>1459735
>>1459063

https://web.archive.org/web/19991105012609/http://www.htloz.com/ Fuck. ;_;

>>1461232
My afternoon got a whole lot better after seeing that. Thanks.

SO SILLY

This was my favorite browser game until falling sand

>>1459063
I remember, being in a bullshit school, I actually had that printed and sticked in my locker with scotch tape, among with other "Dark Art" Zelda pictures..

Somehow that was bad/against the rules and got into trouble.

Pic related, another of those pics I had in my locker.

Oh man, I remember GeoCities sites about various n64/PS1 games. Shame it's all down now, it may have not seemed like much, but GeoCities offered a convenient way for anyone to make a website.

>>1461681
people legit found that picture amusing...

>>1461689
this guy gets it

i used to spend hours fucking around in that.

>>1460078

Still play with a group of friends I've known for a few years, though we stay away from the 'main' maps and just shoot the shit together because it's nicer to look at than a chatroom or someshit.

Am I the only person who remembers playing this game during the late 90's, early 2000's?

>>1461841
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrmUh3kJzX0

>>1460078
One thing I could never figure out.

Was this thing MADE by furries, or were they just drawn to it?

>>1460147
Hey, remember when these guys ruled the world?

Maaaan. No one saw it coming. First they guessed everyone's passwords with their hacker knowledge, then they began deleting everyone's porn, drawing dicks in microsoft paint and setting them as everyone's wallpapers... Shit was MAD KR1ZAYZY yo, haha.

That motherfucker with the keyboard. I remember him. He was the one that downloaded over 400MB of gay porn to my hard drive.

FOUR HUNDRED FUCKING MEGABYTES.

The brilliant motherfucker...

>>1461898
It was.

>>1460078
>I played a lot of this game, then I found out about furries.

You could've known about them through, you know, playing the goddamn game.

>>1460147
I love cheesy stuff like this. Like this Win 95 thing with Matthew Perry and Jennifer Aniston

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGYcNcFhctc

share all your demo disk experiences.

I remember that being the coolest thing about subscribing to pc gamer, you would just get a demo disk in the mail and be able to play games before they were out. And then there were those misc demo disks with like 500 random games on them and just playing them one by one trying to figure out what the hell they were about. It took me a while to find out what the hell starcraft actually was.

I still have that demo disk with duke nukem on it too.

>>1461869
Holy shit is this fucking real?

>>1461462
bummer

>>1458401
It's now replaced with a 3d one or something

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhaClGB99EA

Not sure just how old this game was but does anyone remember this?

>>1461958
>dat desktop at 38:50
what the fuck

>>1461957

I got this PC demo disc from a friend that had a menu, nice music, some games like Aquanox, some baseball game, Wizardry 8, Zoo Tycoon. Now that I think of it they actually put a lot of effort into demo discs. This is later but does anyone remember the Official Xbox Magazine demo discs? They were nice tooo

>>1462025
The Windows 95 Plus! pack came with several odd desktop themes.

>>1460187
>That image

I know the feeling.

>>1462021
I think I remember playing a similar game, but it was based on Orbit gum and you only played as the ball (which naturally looked like the O in the Orbit logo)

>>1461958
Fuck that reminds me...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApN2eLI4d-4

>>1460125
That's the way to do it really.

Keep it until it stops doing what you want it to.

Like if newer games come out and you can't play them without them looking like garbage THEN you upgrade.

But there's really no need to improve it if all you do is browse the internet like your dad probably does.

>>1461860
I used to play that shit all the time with friends.

We'd have half a dozen games going at a time so we wouldn't get bored between turns

I remember when The Matrix was released and all the edgy cool kids had some matrix related nicknames.
>the_1
>neo-the-one-87
>neone-matrix
>xXx_the-one_xXx
>n30-1
>nospoon90

Also, check out this crazy kids guide to internet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfMrVKnGzwg

I miss the times when the internet and computer games were for people who were ready to learn how to use them.
Yeah, I love how fast and simple everything is now, but at least back then the complexity of things turned away the unmotivated people.

Well, is it?

Challenge for you oldfags out there:

Get out the oldest picture you can find on your computer.

I AM THE RADISKULL
AND I WILL KILL YOU ONE BY ONE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A9EBq0Thy4

>>1462262
This pic is from January 2001.
Not as old as it could be, but it's still 13 years old.

>>1462262

http://dbzu.3gkai.com/

>yfw Zophar's Domain is still alive

http://www.zophar.net/

>>1459914
>TFW I remember when it was the only thing on the internet.

>be a kid
>want to look up something about Dr.Who because I live in america have no information
>go to the new thing, the internet
>only page Dr.Who Ate my Balls

>look up something else
>EVERYTHING ATE MY BALLS!!!!!!!!

I'm getting to old

>>1462310
>tfw I always end up there at least once every two years to redownload IPSXP to play some shitty Japanese SNES ROM

>>1462221

Anyone remember Bradthegame? It's still up apparently.


www.bradthegame.com

>>1459924
You can always trade for in game coins and sell the currency for $. Not sure how much thrones are now after the merge, but I'm sure you can probably get 200-300 dollars.

>>1462326
And we have a winner for a new banner. I like it.

Shit, /vr/

I'm looking for an old-ass RPG info site, does anyone have an idea of what I'm talking about? It had big ass walkthroughs of FF9, EarthBound, and Chrono Trigger, and a lot more.

>joecartoon.com
>superfly

>>1461860

Oh shi~
Thanks for the nostalgia
Though i always preferred the sci fi Star Knights game they made to Metal Knights

>>1462196

Those are the most impractical jeans for skating

>>1462262
1994

Anybody ever interested in working at mcdonalds?
http://www.conceptlab.com/simulator/

>>1461860
Fucking hell, Metal Knights 98. That's a blast from the past. Came on one of those shareware CDs and I just used to expand my forces as much as possible as I could never get multiplayer working as a kid.

>>1462262
January 27, 1988

>>1462776
Eh, I'll post a few more.

does anyone remember SURF MONKEY

>>1462196
>what's a web page, something ducks walk on

Ten thousand photographs of humans vomiting all collapsing into and through each other in a discordant sonic fuck.

>>1462776
I remember being blown away at how colorful and high-res these were. CGA has nothing on this.

http://www.pfharlock.com/ihor/

one of the first places to get ROM's from back in 1996, when NESticle was the shit and ZSNES was in its first phases of coding and didn't support transparency or sound yet, and lagged my 133 Mhz IBM aptiva computer to hell and back

>>1458668
The fact that you can still access a long-dead cult's website is more amazing to me than the fact that there's still an official Space Jam site still up. Also,
>Our Position Against Suicide
I had to close the tab after choking on all that irony.

>>1462885
Has anybody ever actually seriously registered Winzip like ever?

>>1462897
My father bought it once, I think, in 1997 or so.

>>1462776
>>1462781
>>1462785
These are super cool.

>>1461462
ARGH YOU MAKE ME REMEMBER LEVEL 499 FUCK YOU

seriously though anyone ever beat all of the levels in this nightmare? i got to 309 before i found out about qwerty.

Born too late to explore earth, born too early to explore the universe..

Born just in time to explore the Internet!

>tfw you miss the wild lawless maze that the internet was in 1999

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqO5lNS094M

>>1458384

> windows XP
> retro

you disgust me

I came around the time you could find super compressed 12 mb chapters from animu that you could only watch on that shitty Real Player

>>1462948
>all those 64kbps RealMedia South Park episodes

RIP.

>>1462945
Oh fuck, I remember this.

>>1462802
>Last Updated: July 23rd, 1997

>>1462950
Thirteen years ago.

Would you have said the same about Windows 98 in 2011?

>>1458384
There are an estimated one billion people in the world who still use XP on 500 million PCs worldwide (mostly in China, because piracy) even though the OS was officially abandoned nearly a year ago.
Think about it for a second.

I can't be the only one who used Anipike.

>>1462976
>mfw the college I graduated from STILL uses Windows XP, let alone my Middle School.

>>1462982
>visit elementary school
>they still have an Apple II
>this is in 2004

>>1461212
these things are still alive. you can connect with SYNCTerm

>>1463010

The Apple II computers are really cool to use. I have one and won't get rid of it. :)

>>1463010
they sold off all the apple 2s in my school I got one for 10 dollars plus a whole box of games, fucking dumbass me didnt take care of it though cause I was a young shithead. Feels bad man

>>1462982
I used XP until they officially quit supporting it completely. I have a computer plug in my room that still have XP.

>>1462945
>>1462958

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PffpCsDmZPI

I still remember seeing this the first time

captcha; despair

>>1462802
Haha, this was the mindset back then, wasn't it? People felt downloading ROMs was a huge risk.

>>1463103
It was mainly just a way to stop your site getting removed.

>>1462464

That's a skirt, fag

memories. :)

If you don't remember this shit you don't deserve to be here.

>>1463104
That Duck King aw yiss

>>1463210
this guy got it.

>>1460027
im sort of younger, so MSN/AIM was the thing for me, and the kids nowadays must just use fagbook or smartphone IM clients

>>1458716
You know you can mute that sound when you dialup. I almost never heard it even back then unless I was troubleshooting. Dialup was quiet as fuck unless you picked up the phone.

>>1459939
>Sega vs Nintendo flamewars, everyone writing whole paragraphs of ad hominem, people calling you an idiot for buying a console instead of a PC, all that
So it's not much different from /v/?

>>1463326
But then how are you supposed to move your mouth and pretend you're making the dial up noise?

checkmate atheists

>>1460027
>Facebook.
Otherwise not really, IRC is still top for what it does. But kids these days just chat with facebook anyways.
I even end up using it because my friends don't IRC and given that they're still better at computers than your average schlub, I don't want to deal with that hassle with them.

>>1461742
AFAIK you can still play that, and it's free.
You could theoretically run your own server, but I think they still have theirs hosted. /v/ never picked it up because they're faggots.

>>1463330
You don't.
You wave your hands and pretend your dick is a wand your like Harry Potter and shit and magically connect to the Wizard Wide Web.

Checkmate Theist.

just about every forum had a guy with this as his avatar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWq4DWfrpu8

>>1462513
I used to think this was funny, but now it just goves me the feels...

Remember when the golden rule of the internet was to never give out your real name?

>lol, they do digimon porn! I had no idea people could be this crazy!

>>1462439

RPG Classics?

http://www.rpgclassics.com/

>>1463462

Still the premier source of information for Sweet Home. Useful to this day.

>>1460075
I remember when the only PC we had was too shitty to run Lego Creator.

>>1463061
oh good times on this, watching chicks get in massive brawls in super low res

>>1463480

I still use it for a shitload of old rpgs. I always liked their guides better than the gamefaqs ones.

>>1462978

Fuck yeah anime web turnpike! First discovered hentai there. (And that sasami site that introduced me to japans obsession with loli)

>google my old accounts and nicknames
>mfw

Oh god what a faggot I used to be. Gladly I kept changing my nick every now and then so nobody can trace them back to me.

>>1462982
The place I'm currently working at STILL uses Windows XP. They're too jew to upgrade to 7 at least.

>>1462262

This is definitely from early 00s or late 90s. I remember finding this super hilarious.
Remember when this slang was new and people used it sincerely?

>>1463538
I remember seeing tons of this shit in online Quake matches.

>>1463524
aren't they ending XP updates this year?

>>1463552
No idea. Not like they care.

>>1462917
Glad you like, here's more.

Not even sure where they originally came from, had 'em on a 5 1/4 inch floppy labelled 'Pics'

>>1463562
To view them one used a DOS program called 'V.EXE' which only understood .gifs and only up to about 320x200. Drawing each picture took about five seconds on my old machine.

>>1463565

>>1463568

>>1463570
256 glorious colors, all at the same time

>>1463575
Last one

Did anybody 'trade' websites with friends? After school, recess, make a list of cool websites you have found and trade them with your buddies.

>>1458384
>listening to MIDI files of songs
I thought I was the only one

I sure don't miss NutScrape one bit.

>>1463610

Netscape was awesome though. Firefox is basically the new Netscape.

>>1463615
Maybe it was just the version my school used then, but shit wouldn't go twenty minutes without crashing.

her

>>1463524

We still use Windows XP and Office 2000.

Anyone remember an old strategy type game for PC back in the 90's that had you right click on stuff on the tile map and assign tasks for your little people to do (Like boarding up monster caves and stuff)? I remember getting it free from some anime website like Anime Turnpike or something. It had really simple graphics. I remember it was kind of tile based and it had a bunch of different levels. In the first level you played as different kingdoms which each had a different color and I think you were supposed to have your little workers kill the kings of the other kingdoms to advance to other levels. In one level you did the same thing but you were fast food chains in a mall. In another one you were robots on what I think was a post apocalyptic world. The last had you playing as fairies or something and the map looked kinda like candyland I think.

I can't remember the name and I'd really like to play it again for nostalgia-sake.

>>1463639
Heh, makes me remember when Comic Sans MS was a perfectly acceptable font and not bashed by pseudo-artists graphic designer faggots.

Anybody remember a Dexter's Lab game from the late 90s? It was a Doom Clone in which you shot Deedee clones. Shit was fun, and it was turly free at Cartoon Network.com back in the day.

>You will never complete your Love Quest and find a heartsweet

http://web.archive.org/web/20010118151300/http://sonichuchandler.tripod.com/cwcson.htm

>>1461257
>feels like I'm in middle school all over again

>>1463408
[continued laughter]

>>1462326
Cut out the "yes" a bit and that'd be perfect.

>>1462487
>mfw

>>1463784
>>>/v/

>>1460187
>Be in school computer
>Remember I had some porn in my pendrive so I move it ussing MS-DOS
>Some people looks at me like I am le h4x0r
>People keeps asking me if I know how to hack computers

>>1460187
>Ghostwriter
I thought that show was pretty cool

Everybody thought I was a hacker too. Kinda regret not learning.

>>1463627
Like he said, the Firefox is the new Netscape

>>1463580
This is how Newgrounds (and later Runescape) became a thing.

>>1464024

I hate /v/ as much as anyone else, but it's still thread-related.

>>1463034
>fucking dumbass me didnt take care of it though cause I was a young shithead
I can't count how many cool things I'd love to have today that I've lost and/or broken that way...
>captcha: shiploya admits

>>1463552
In about 26 days, as of this writing.

>>1464442
the apple2e was the only one I really really cared about cause Ill never have another for that cheap with dual floppy drives. I threw away my first NES after it stopped working completely but that was before the internet and I knew you could refurbish the ppin connector so I feel conflicted about that.

>>1460103
Wow, this was my life when I was 11. If someone ever made a Web 1.0 simulator, I would play the hell out of that shit.

>>1460187
>that image
is the best image

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=lt9aKgVKNww

>>1464610
>X% of Y

RIP

THE ONLY LIMIT

IS YOURSELF

>>1464610
>>1464637
Here's where I got the pic from.
http://oneterabyteofkilobyteage.tumblr.com/
inb4 >tumblr
Cool content on a shitty site.

>>1464673
http://html5zombo.com/
Also, view the source of the page to see some neat info on how this version was made.

>>1462262
1999 - 2000ish I believe.

>>1461257
>>1461291
>>1463809
Strong Bad shows how to make a cool website.
http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail51.html

>>1464682
their main blog isn't on tumblr anyway, so you're good

>>1462326
10/10 banner

Would love to see it up.

>>1462262
man now you've made me sad I haven't kept all my shit throughout the years

I've gone through so many hard drive changes and I've never kept all my shit when i had to move to a new one

>>1463610
OH HOLY FUCK OLD MAC OS!!

Jesus fuck you gave me a whole fuckton of feels now. I used to have Macs before they were cool, then went to XP when it came out.

Jesus fuck man.

Does anyone remember the old Game Show Network site? You could play flash game versions of the game show that was on TV as it aired, and the best players would get shown on the leaderboards before commercial breaks.

I was a fuckin' beast at Lingo.

Also, Flowgo.com.

>>1464847
>flowgo
>ANTS IN YOUR PANTS MAKE YOU DAAANCE
>YES THEY DO
>UNDERPANTS FILLED WITH HONEY BUGS FIND REALLY YUMMY
What the fuck was with that site

>>1462897
I am more surprised that the people who made Winzip didn't just make it so you can't use it after the evaluation period is over.

>>1464861
Ditto with WinRAR, huh...

>>1462326
Please make this a banner.

>>1463519
At least you probably did all your stupid shit back when it was still somewhat easy to hide it all. Imagine what a kid born in 2001 is gonna have to live with in the five or six years.

>>1462423
>>1464005
>>1464805
>>1464873
Hehehe, thanks for your "opinions", "online friends".

>>1462976
our church uses an original macintosh for the library

>>1464889
>church
Just kidding~

>>1464896
i'm not allowed to touch it ;_;

>elementary school, late nineties
>class has this old computer that runs dos
>I boot the computer and insert some commands I know because my older brother taught me
>mfw other kids look me in amaze and whisper "hacker!" and "computer wizard!"

Hack the planeeet!

ARE YOU THY DUNGEONMAN!?

It makes me sad I will never be able to visit my old Geocities site I made back in the late 90's

>>1465126
If you remember even the slighest bit of information about the page, you can try poking around one of the archives listed here:
https://archive.org/web/geocities.php

There's also this huge-ass torrent (and maybe even a huge ass-torrent if some of the sites had porn on them) here:
https://thepiratebay.se/torrent/5923737/Geocities_-_The_Torrent
Be warned, it's about 640GB, though you should be able to pick through and only download the files you want using your torrent client.

Good luck in finding your site!

>>1465223
And speaking of Geocities, here's a humorous site that will "Make Any Webpage Look Like It Was Made By A 13 Year-Old In 1996".
http://www.wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/

>>1462305

>"If you are using that "other" browser from the Evil Empire, then your conscience is in your own hands. Now, if only there was an alternative operating system..."

>>1465225
good lord.

i am going to have fun with this.

anyone have that megaspider screensaver

Just searched FakeTown
That shit used to be cool
now its... I have no idea.

>>1462785
I've seen a few people mention on here how they can only fap to images in that format. Like they got so used to it that they can't move forward.

kinda neat I guess.

>>1458376
>>1458380
>>1458379
>>1458382
>>1460020
>>1462885
>>1463314
LOL, almost forgot some of those^^

Was looking for virtuagirl, the dancing desktop chicks and guess what... it still exists as virtuagirl hd. :o

>>1461704
That's way too lewd.

>only had limited interaction with the internet until about 2004 or 2005-ish
>even then it was only to look up game guides or play runescape
I feel like I just barely missed out on something truely great, that can never exist again. I suppose that 15 or 20 years from now people will say the same about the current internet. but still...

Though honestly, I've been getting into cyberpunk 2020 recently and all the online info on that game is from old webrings and shit. just take a look at this place for example. If the way back machine or web archive weren't a thing, there'd be so much info on this game that would just cease to exist.
http://datafortress2020.oliwy.net/

>>1465225

>>1463103

people say "no copyright infrindgement intendid" on their youtube videos for the same reasons. Either they actually believe what they're saying because they're 12, or it's a "why not?" attempt at plausible deniability.

Also it's just a tribute and everyone's probably seen it but this cracks me up every time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwNVwiHAUUM

leo the chatterbot.

I remember the first time it put together it's own sentence.

"no, you go in the recycle bin"
in responce my my verbal abuse of it and how I kept saying that it was going in the recycle bin if it didn't stop telling me to shut up. that was its response.
I later installed it on a friends computer and taught it how to say penis in 47 languages.

>>1465437
I never heard of that back in the day, but it sounds pretty cool. Would you happen to know where one could procure that bot today?

AM I alone in this /vr/?
i used to love gamewinners to look for guides and shit

>>1465518
Hell no you aren't! Gamewinners.com was the ONLY place I'd go to for cheats/hints/whatnot (as far as websites go) back in the day, and while I don't use cheat codes in games as much nowadays, (and games made these days seem to have less cheats anyways) I still go back there every once in a while. Also, since I unwittingly sold my PS1 memory card along with my PS1 when I got a PS2, (I assumed that a PS2 memory card would hold PS1 saves also, fuck you Sony for not making that work) I'd always look up the "Unlock Everything" code for Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2.
>mfw trying "Flying Skater Mode" in THPS2 for the first time
In fact, I still remember that one by heart. Pause the game, hold L1, and keep pressing "UpX3 or 4 (not quite sure there) X Square" until the screen shakes.

>>1465543
I just looked it up on Gamewinners.com and the full code is "Hold L1, then press Up(4), X, Square, Up(4), X, Square, Up(4)"
Almost spot-on.

>>1465375
You have to be 18 to post here.

>>1463538

I just remembered that I made my first email address about 15 years ago. At the time I was really excited, but then I got kinda disappointed when nobody ever emailed to me. Nowadays I get like 30 important emails every day and I hate it.
I also remember trying to get my friends to use IRC, but they refused because it was "nerd shit".

Oculus rift + firefox 3D browsing thingie = browsing the internet like Johnny Mnemonic

The future truly is here.

>>1462956

That was the first forum I frequented and I still blush when I think of the shit I posted there in my early teens.

>>1465741
>get Hotmail in October of 1999 when I was just 11 years old
>over the next few years, put it on EVERYTHING I create and upload
>this includes awfully autistic-tier fanfiction I wrote and a super-weeaboo Angelfire website written using my awful Japanese Mary Sue character as my avatar
>use email as my MSN Messenger address to
>fast forward to about three years ago
>hyper-embarrassed about all the shit I did in the early-2000s
>mfw it suddenly hits me that people I've added on MSN can Google that e-mail address and uncover all the awful shit I made

I deleted all that I could form the internet, but I wasn't able to remove nearly enough so I got a new email.

Anyone remember the GameSpy Planet sites?
They were pretty big in the late 90s and early 00s.

Fuck I miss sites like these.

>>1465818
PlanetFargo was great, too.

>>1465404

>Classic game room.

My melanin enriched brother.

>>1465818
>just remembered Planet Tony Hawk
>google it
>first result is the site itself, naturally
>second result is this: http://slateman.net/blog/?p=836
I don't really feel like living right now

>>1461462
lol

my fucking grandparents had this game on their computer and i would always play it

that and jezball

>>1465818
Game shrines were the shit, they showed the creator's love for the game.

Now we get shitty wikis, or if we are lucky a text file.

>>1464847
Remember when the Game Show Network used to, for the most part, only air OLD game shows?

Same exact shit is happening to TV Land and Boomerang now

>>1463010
>inb4 John Carmack breaks into the school at night to steal their Apple II computers

>>1464861
>>1464863
Gullible fools!

>sweating man.jpg

>>1465543
>Gamewinners.com

MY. NEGRO.

NO ONE UNDERSTOOD WHY I ALWAYS WENT THERE. BUT IT WAS THE BEST. THE BEEEEEST.

>>1462262

I can't post it, but it's Digimon porn from 2002. Fairymon, to be exact.

I have files from early-1999 though.

>>1466036
>>1465543

>2002
>submit fake cheat to one of the Digimon games
>they credit me by linking my email address
>get loads of emails about it from idiot players asking how to do it
>fast-forward to 2014
>still occasionally get emails about it every few months

>>1466054
Amazing how Digimon holds the distinction of having some of the oldest porn pictures, as well as new ones coming out.

>>1466057
YOU. IT WAS YOU.

I can't seem to find a proper example of those Punch The Monkey ads, this is the closest I could find.

>>1466086
If you're talking about the Kaseidramon cheat, that was me. I actually did a lot to spread that rumor, and back then, I also started a very lingering rumor that he was from a unreleased movie. It was a multi-pronged approach that included the games and the anime.

People talked about him a LOT up until maybe 2007 or so, but every once in a while, someone will bring him up thinking he's real. Less than a year ago, some autistic Sonic faggot made a video claiming that he once saw him in a game or some shit like that.

>>1466097
...but I did manage to punch him.
Don't believe me?
Here's the proof.
HA.

>>1465382
That's what they told me and I told them "How so? She's princess Zelda and she's been captured and is imprisioned by Ganon until Link comes to her rescue!"

They just stared at me and told me to take them now. Fuck 'em.

>>1459063
Heh, HTLOZ. I liked it...

The very first Zelda sites I found back in 1999 was pic related, my family had just gotten dial-up after... maybe 8 months of owning a Windows computer (Windows 95, I believe? Then updated to 98 via burnt disc the people at dad's workplace gave my dad and other co-workers, as well the entire Microsoft Encarta, remember that?).

I remember going to to that girl Eiji's site (Last updated in Nov. 8 1998) and thinking "Huh, hasn't updated in 4 months, wonder when she'll update?"

Visiting all these incomplete old, especially in the Geocities archives makes me wonder, what ever happened to those people?

I don't know why I ask, or care.

>>1462976
>2007
>saving stuff to floppies at my school's computer lab

downloading in blistering 10 kb/s

>>1465518
The only reasons I stuck with that shithole was because it had the largest selection of games. Other than that the site was horrible because it was filled with fake cheats that were straight out of that kid.

>>1465518
yep, I still have a bookmark for the san andreas page.

I need to clean my bookmarks out some day.

>>>1465741
>warheads
>surge
>are you afraid of the dark
>micro machines
>slim jim dude
>those fucking burger king kids
>that board game where you shot steel balls at each other
>animorphs
>push up pops
I... why do I remember all of this.
God that purple dude from 3D movie maker is even in there. That game is like the epitome of the 90's. Did anyone else think it was creepy as hell?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhRlycZvEx4

>be 1999
>be 14
>be frequent user of planetnamek.com's forum
>end up asking a girl my age for nudes, publicly
>get banned

I miss the days when this site still had functioning downloads

>>1462310

I fucking love zophar's domain.

>>1466553
>tfw you used to be friends with brad all the way back when he worked that calendar kiosk at the mall and you bonded over your shared love of a rather obscure (at the time) vidya gaem
I don't even know what he does nowadays, that filthy Jew.

>>1463538
u r3@11y d0I\|7 s33 1337 sp3@I< ne IVI0r3.

It's funny to think it was once cool and trendy. Nobody ever says "leet" any more, though 1337 has kind of hung on ironically.

>>1466034
Oh man, the paheal of the day.

>Try to download some roms in the early 2000s
>BEFORE YOU DOWNLOAD PLEASE VOTE FOR OUR SITE!
>It's some voting list with hentai pictures all over the place

http://www.nick.com/amandaplease/
>the Amanda Please website is still up

Anyone downloaded anime from... Images? Someone made small parts of a video file, camouflaged them with Kamaleon I think and then uploaded the images to some website. Then they made lists with the urls of the image and you had to copy paste them in a download manager. The images would get broken sometimes... Was a pain in the ass. It all changed once Megaupload and Rapidshare appeared.

>tfw scared as shit incase the cops found you downloading a nes rom

>>1466763
Was that 24 hour limit a real law or just bullshit the sites put up?

>>1466659
fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

>>1466767
Bullshit.

>>1466767
complete bullshit. copyright infringement is copyright infringement even if you do it in less than a day.

what i want to know is how that dumb rumor came about in the first place.

>>1465346
Fuck. I remember downloading something like this in the early 2000s in highschool on my old 1997 Hitachi laptop. It got a virus later on and fucked Windows 98 up. Almost lost an entire class project because of it.

>>1458401
This I forgot all about.

How about these?
Crashme.com, I remember crashed your PC.
SteakAndCheese.com, for many years was a great site for pics, wavs, and exes.
Greetrish.com, eBaums World, dribbleglass.com, same thing good for pics.
Wavsounds.com, got alot of wavs from there.
Stickdeath.com, animations and Escape From Greenville game.
Yahoo Groups, which up to last year were the same as they were for 10 plus years, until they royally fucked them with the Neo redesign. The last 1.0 we had left.
dmoz.org, old ass search engine.
MSN Communities/Groups. Closed to 2009 active ones moved to Multiply. Multiply closed its social networking service in 2013 and now its all dead.
The DAFT Archive, before DA an archive for everything Dinsey fanart
http://users.cwnet.com/xephyr/rich/dzone/hoozoo/hoozoo.html, one of the first sites I ever visited, still online.
FortuneCity, Cityslide, Angelfire, internet hosting services.

I still have my IE favorites folder with shit that goes back ten years easy.

>>1466782
>dumb rumor came about in the first place.
Probably from a similar site which did it to prevent servers overloading and/or to profit off people paying for some kind of increased download limit
Then everyone just copied

>>1465985
YOU WANT SOME LEARN? TOO BAD! HA HA HA!

>>1460092
>destroying the world with 1.44MBs

It seems as time went on, programming got less and less efficient. I'm certain one could write malicious code that's INCREDIBLY damaging with a fraction of that space, but nowadays you need bigger, slower software.

>late nineties
>saw my dad browsing the internet
>sneak behind him to see what is he doing
>mfw he was looking at hentai

I remember how my first thought was "Hey those look like people from Pokemon!"

>>1466835
Are you sure he just wasn't trying to download some SNES games and got redirected to a voting site?

>>1466763
>be early '00s
>post on IGN forums asking for ROM download links
>instaban

I must've been attention-whoring, since ROMs weren't difficult to locate.

Funny thing about that 90's hentai is that most of it was screens from shitty PC98 hentai games. Dat washed out 8 color look.

>>1466504
fucking lol'd

>>1463570
For some reason, seeing the Earth displayed in such primitive imaging feels humbling.

>>1460078
This game, even for a fucking glorified chat room, it was alot of fun just bullshitting or heading to Yashma's Gym dream for the RPG scripts running in it. Met a friend on there who didn't happen to live too far away, introduced me to my fiance some years later. Man, there's no way in hell we viewed this thing as a furry kink game back in the late 90's, nobody really knew about that shit, it was just a dumb fantasy thing. Everything feels like it got rotten on the internet somewhere down the line.

Have a dumb 90's reference picture.

>>1466862
How about PC98 Hentai ported onto an SNES cart?

Yeah, get on my level.

>>1462978
Well, in case you didn't know Anime Theme 's site is still up and still updating.

Fucking crazy.

Webrings
Guestbooks
Link Exchanges/Buttons/Banners
Top Site Lists
Hit Counters (are those even a thing, maybe on blogs only)
Frames/No Frames Option

>>1465518
>not cheatcodecentral

>>1466790
>stickdeath
fucking greens

>>1466036
Gamewinners was my whole group's go to resource for yeaaaars. I honestly probably used it exclusively until like 2009 or something.

>>1465882
Do we have the same grandparents? I spent hours upstairs on my granddad's computer playing those two games. Fuck am I full of memories.

Now then, let's see if anyone else remembers the crown jewel of low res puzzle games.

>>1462262
Only from 2004. Damn

>>1467306
I forgot about this

holy fuck
MY DICK

Any other oldfags here that were on #nes98?

A Pokemon site I used to frequent is still up: http://leto_chan.tripod.com/pokemon/

Not updated in 13 years though. I used to chat with people through Bravenet... does anyone even remember Bravenet?

>>1463610
I have to say, I miss the old google main-page, and the general OS9 style of things. (Rounded-cornered, simple-coloured buttons, etc.)

>>1463610
Man, to think Google only did searches, images, groups, and directories back then.

This one's from 2003 of my old house

>CRT master race
>spongebob mousepad
>living in trailer, Trailer Park Boys every day

>>1467306
Better animation than modern day video games.

>>1467349
meant to reply to
>>1462262

>>1467349
Is that you on the computer?

>>1467362
nope, it's my dad. He loves the fuck out of vidya. He's been playing runescape since about 2005 on that same monitor. Every single day since 2005. Still have that monitor I think; the image of IE6 has been permanently burned onto the tube. If I can find it I'll get a picture.

>>1466987
That is a really cute picture of Bertha
And yes, I do find big women attractive

This site.

>Download.com

>>1462262
>oldest
27/03/2000

I doubt anyone else here knows it, but...

The Best of Anime?

>Watching guide to be able to play Free to play korean games.

Anyone here who played Carom 3D ?

everyone discovered Metal Slug via emulation, right ?

>>1463462
I used this site as a reference when I did my first playthrough of FFV just a few years ago.

And thinking about it after I typed that,
"a few years ago" must've been sometime in 2007, because I was playing the GBA version over the summer after getting burned out on the DS version of FFIII. Time sure fucking flies.

>>1467834
I've actually read a couple of reviews of it for the ntsc playstation version first. Then later when I finally had the space to download the full mame set, I was browsing around and noticed Metal Slug in there, remembered about it, figured I give it a try.
I started with MS3 and after about 5 minutes of busting crabs I was like HOLY SHIT THIS IS AWESOME.

This site is a throwback to the 90's, including garish graphics and random awards. The guy was still updating it 2 years ago...

http://www.howdydave.com/

>>1467834
Hell no, the arcade in my mall still has a Neo Geo cabinet with Metal Slug in it to this day, and it's been there since I was 6.

>>1466097

I remember the site that punching the monkey took you to called treeloot. It was a giant image map where each pixel supposedly was a link, and somewhere in the image was a link to win a million bucks or something.

>>1467856
The fact that he just randomly stopped updating it is kind of appropriate.

>>1465790
is that jim neidhart?

One day you will look back at 4chan and have nostalgic feelings for it. What a weird thing to imagine

>>1467912
>One day you will look back at 4chan and have nostalgic feelings for it.
I already do. I've been here for nearly 10 years.

I came late to the internet fad although I was born in 1991. Only thing I can remember was visiting the official pokemon website where you could print out a weekly "who's that pokemon" puzzle

I wonder if I'll nostalgia for current tech anything like I do for the 1990s stuff. At the moment, all I really feel like is looking back. Particularly post-2010, I barely notice the world around me. Except increased smartphone proliferation.

>>1467856
>has a copy of his resume
>and a link to bluelips.com
>on the same site
I hope he never showed this to a potential employer.

But anyways, some of those links are cool, and most of them (the working ones) are still pretty old in and of themselves.
just look under the "bizarre" tab.

>>1468135
>bluelips.com
What's that?