#old-internet — Public Fediverse posts
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Before Algorithms Took Over Everything
Which outdated technology do you miss the most, and why? The piece of outdated technology I miss the most isn’t a gadget. It’s the old Internet. Back before every website wanted your email address, your firstborn child, and permis
#dailyprompt #Dailyprompt2826 #internet #InternetCulture #nostalgia #OldInternet #Retro #technology #WebDesign #WebHistoryRead The Whole Post By Clicking The Link Below:
https://ericfoltin.com/2026/07/18/before-algorithms-took-over-everything/ -
Before Algorithms Took Over Everything
Which outdated technology do you miss the most, and why? The piece of outdated technology I miss the most isn’t a gadget. It’s the old Internet. Back before every website wanted your email address, your firstborn child, and permis
#dailyprompt #Dailyprompt2826 #internet #InternetCulture #nostalgia #OldInternet #Retro #technology #WebDesign #WebHistoryRead The Whole Post By Clicking The Link Below:
https://ericfoltin.com/2026/07/18/before-algorithms-took-over-everything/ -
I am glad to see that the bechdel test website still exists and still looks like a simple website. I thought to look it up as we saw toy story 5 tonight and it does pass.
https://bechdeltest.com/?page=2
Also, the "name the countries" game still exists.
https://www.sporcle.com/games/g/world
Sometimes it feels like the old internet is all gone but some is still there.
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Sonic FanFest Cardiff 2026
The con itself is exactly the sort of event I was being wistful about when I started this blog – just taking over a hotel (or at least a floor of it) and having a bunch of fan-run panels, a bunch of traders and enough free time to chitchat and talk with Internet Friends and new people where the hard part of the conversation starting is already done because after all your both here!https://www.leia.cymru/2026/06/28/sonic-fanfest-cardiff-2026/
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Old'aVista – The most powerful guide to the old Internet
#HackerNews #OldInternet #InternetArchive #DigitalNostalgia #WebHistory #RetroTech
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3 Cons
So an Old Internet thing we used to do all the time was share stories from cons. I rather over did it on that front over the bank holiday weekend so have plenty to waffle about! MCM London This was a impulse unwise financial choice almost immediately after Liverpool Comicon only a few weeks earlier but my favouritest of favourite Star Wars characters, even more than my namesake, is Ahsoka... and how often are the American based voice actors over here and and and... So the short version is […] -
3 Cons
So an Old Internet thing we used to do all the time was share stories from cons. I rather over did it on that front over the bank holiday weekend so have plenty to waffle about! MCM London This was a impulse unwise financial choice almost immediately after Liverpool Comicon only a few weeks earlier but my favouritest of favourite Star Wars characters, even more than my namesake, is Ahsoka... and how often are the American based voice actors over here and and and... So the short version is […] -
Up to this day, I love how #Linux wins the #ERBOH between #SteveJobs and #BillGates.
Imagine kids: Once these shitvideos where made by people dressing up as lookalikes, actually acting out the whole thing, filming and recording everything which rarely goes in one take, and then editing it by hand.
And they where more funny than 95% of the AI shitvideos nowadays (I'll give you 5% because some áre really funny. A waste or resources, sure, but really funny).
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Up to this day, I love how #Linux wins the #ERBOH between #SteveJobs and #BillGates.
Imagine kids: Once these shitvideos where made by people dressing up as lookalikes, actually acting out the whole thing, filming and recording everything which rarely goes in one take, and then editing it by hand.
And they where more funny than 95% of the AI shitvideos nowadays (I'll give you 5% because some áre really funny. A waste or resources, sure, but really funny).
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Other People’s Love Letters
The IndieWeb Carnival May 2026 theme of Love Letters gave me some interesting and happy reading. I started trying to work out what this Webmentions business was all about while writing this but failed. I've a plugin installed named that but couldn't quite unpick what dependencies it might have or whether it's working, before I became trapped in a circular loop of documentation, so we'll see I suppose! It was pleasantly old school clicking through list of themed posts by different […]https://www.leia.cymru/2026/05/26/other-peoples-love-letters/
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Other People’s Love Letters
The IndieWeb Carnival May 2026 theme of Love Letters gave me some interesting and happy reading. I started trying to work out what this Webmentions business was all about while writing this but failed. I've a plugin installed named that but couldn't quite unpick what dependencies it might have or whether it's working, before I became trapped in a circular loop of documentation, so we'll see I suppose! It was pleasantly old school clicking through list of themed posts by different […]https://www.leia.cymru/2026/05/26/other-peoples-love-letters/
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People from my #coop don't appreciate my hand-crafted no-framwork, handwritten HTML+CSS+js. They say it looks unprofessional. They are 100% non-tech normies.
#webdev what do I do? They want to take an AI shortcut. It's not an option for me.
Is there a way to make something "look professional"? I don't even know what it means. I don't think they know either.
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People from my #coop don't appreciate my hand-crafted no-framwork, handwritten HTML+CSS+js. They say it looks unprofessional. They are 100% non-tech normies.
#webdev what do I do? They want to take an AI shortcut. It's not an option for me.
Is there a way to make something "look professional"? I don't even know what it means. I don't think they know either.
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"Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke." -- "Bob"
#meme #memes #internet #motivator #oldmeme #oldinternet #classicinternet #subgenius #bob #slack
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"Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke." -- "Bob"
#meme #memes #internet #motivator #oldmeme #oldinternet #classicinternet #subgenius #bob #slack
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A love letter to cosplay
Apropos of IndieWeb Carnival May 2026 but that really only gave me the title because I'd been meaning to waffle on this for a while. When I did my tally of things I missed from the old internet there was one particular thing which had endured, and that was what we’re now calling cosplay. We called it ‘hall costumes’ back then and I can’t really recall at what point that terminology shift occurred. I do remember being a bit resistant to it – twenty-something me thought it sounded […] -
A love letter to cosplay
Apropos of IndieWeb Carnival May 2026 but that really only gave me the title because I'd been meaning to waffle on this for a while. When I did my tally of things I missed from the old internet there was one particular thing which had endured, and that was what we’re now calling cosplay. We called it ‘hall costumes’ back then and I can’t really recall at what point that terminology shift occurred. I do remember being a bit resistant to it – twenty-something me thought it sounded […] -
Media Source:
https://www.marok.org/Arte/Mix/0149.htm (14 April, 2003)
https://saigonweekend.tistory.com/73 (20 August, 2004)
https://www.supernature-forum.de/threads/stresstest.44327/ (27 January, 2005)
https://blog.naver.com/lenterl/11171156?viewType=pc (22 March, 2005)
http://www.domaci.de/album_showpage.php?full=&pic_id=3739 (28 July, 2005)
https://www.mobile01.com/topicdetail.php?f=37&t=125735 (10 January, 2006)#wheredidthiscomefrom #wheredidthisimagecomefrom #oldinternet #internetcore #webcore #oldweb #oldinternetvibes #webcorevibes #2000s #00s #2000sinternet #photoshopped #notai #notaigenerated #ai #aigenerated
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What I want to say is old internet images like this, usually memes, especially from 2000s, and 2020s AI-generated images, usually fall into the uncanny valley, where things look almost real but slightly off, making the viewer question the authenticity.
#wheredidthiscomefrom #wheredidthisimagecomefrom #oldinternet #internetcore #webcore #oldweb #oldinternetvibes #webcorevibes #2000s #00s #2000sinternet #00sinternet #photoshopped #notai #notaigenerated #ai #aigenerated #uncanny #uncannyvalley
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If you think this is AI-generated, it's not. This image, as of the time of this post, is over 20 years old. Based on my findings, this image was first posted on 14 April, 2003. This image is photoshopped but not AI-generated. I have seen this picture before back in the early 2010s.
#wheredidthiscomefrom #wheredidthisimagecomefrom #oldinternet #internetcore #webcore #oldweb #oldinternetvibes #webcorevibes #2000s #00s #2000sinternet #photoshopped #notai #notaigenerated #ai #aigenerated
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According to many websites, this picture is used as an illustration in a stress study at St. Mary's Hospital. It is said that a study of a group revealed that even though the dolphins are completely identical, a person experiencing stress would notice differences in the two dolphins.
#oldinternet #internetcore #webcore #oldweb #oldinternetvibes #webcorevibes #2000s #00s #2000sinternet #00sinternet #photoshopped #notai #notaigenerated #ai #aigenerated #dolphin #dolphins #cow #cows
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This is one of the first pictures I saw on the internet back in the day, a picture of a dolphin and a cow jumping out of the water. This is a meme and psychological humor. The joke is that if you see anything other than two dolphins, you are overworked and need a vacation.
#wheredidthiscomefrom #wheredidthisimagecomefrom #oldinternet #internetcore #webcore #oldweb #oldinternetvibes #webcorevibes #2000s #00s #2000sinternet #00sinternet #meme #memes #humor #dolphin #dolphins #picture #pictures
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This is one of the first pictures I saw on the internet back in the day, a picture of a dolphin and a cow jumping out of the water. This is a meme and psychological humor. The joke is that if you see anything other than two dolphins, you are overworked and need a vacation.
#wheredidthiscomefrom #wheredidthisimagecomefrom #oldinternet #internetcore #webcore #oldweb #oldinternetvibes #webcorevibes #2000s #00s #2000sinternet #00sinternet #meme #memes #humor #dolphin #dolphins #picture #pictures
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Why am I writing a blog in 2026?
It took a surprising amount of effort to move off the sofa where I was scrolling the hashtag #indieweb on Mastodon and come back to this site to actually post something. I bought this domain back when the .cymru TLD first became available and then somehow platforms not webpages because everyone's default thirdspace on the internet and I never really used it. I worked in education at the time and read all the drama about how it was all eroding kids' abilty to focus and so forth and having […]https://www.leia.cymru/2026/05/10/why-am-i-writing-a-blog-in-2026/
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Why am I writing a blog in 2026?
It took a surprising amount of effort to move off the sofa where I was scrolling the hashtag #indieweb on Mastodon and come back to this site to actually post something. I bought this domain back when the .cymru TLD first became available and then somehow platforms not webpages because everyone's default thirdspace on the internet and I never really used it. I worked in education at the time and read all the drama about how it was all eroding kids' abilty to focus and so forth and having […]https://www.leia.cymru/2026/05/10/why-am-i-writing-a-blog-in-2026/
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🌹初音ミク ナチュラルモジュール🍀🩸 / 👑きゅぷら🌎🌈 / August 7, 2025
#2000s #oldInternet #レトロ #Retro #psychedelic #VOCALOID #ボカロ #ボーカロイド #Hatsunemiku #初音ミク
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I love watching curling during the winter Olympics (much to the disgust of Teen). However, when the teammates yell at the sweeper to more! more! it reminds me of that dumb early internet game where you're beating (and cooking?) eggs while an animated whisk yells "Pisk! du pisker, du!" and other snide remarks.
Does anybody else remember that?
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I love watching curling during the winter Olympics (much to the disgust of Teen). However, when the teammates yell at the sweeper to more! more! it reminds me of that dumb early internet game where you're beating (and cooking?) eggs while an animated whisk yells "Pisk! du pisker, du!" and other snide remarks.
Does anybody else remember that?
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It's been one year and I'm still waiting for Tara's new video.
https://www.youtube.com/@webdelic
#sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #tara #taratheandroid #webdelic #youtube #youtubechannel #video #videos #newvideo #newvideos #youtubevideo #youtubevideos #robot #robots #android #androids #animatronic #animatronics #robotics #waiting #imwaiting #iamwaiting #theinternet #internet #oldinternet #oldweb #legend #legends #internetlegend #internetlegends
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It's been one year and I'm still waiting for Tara's new video.
https://www.youtube.com/@webdelic
#sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #tara #taratheandroid #webdelic #youtube #youtubechannel #video #videos #newvideo #newvideos #youtubevideo #youtubevideos #robot #robots #android #androids #animatronic #animatronics #robotics #waiting #imwaiting #iamwaiting #theinternet #internet #oldinternet #oldweb #legend #legends #internetlegend #internetlegends
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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C+ students rapping in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those memes will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C+ students rapping in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those memes will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
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Wow, the dirty punk anarchy machine is still around! This is really awesome, it's been around for 22 years and still as fun as ever.
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Wow, the dirty punk anarchy machine is still around! This is really awesome, it's been around for 22 years and still as fun as ever.
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Hi #fedi, I am looking for the silly, AI-free, algorithm-free #internet.
I miss the internet of the 90s and early 2000s.
Realised I am visiting the same websites, which feels such a confinement, given the vast expanse of human creativity that inhabits the online world.
I am all for #serendipity, #blogs, weird facts, even silly games.
Do you have any recommendations?
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Hi #fedi, I am looking for the silly, AI-free, algorithm-free #internet.
I miss the internet of the 90s and early 2000s.
Realised I am visiting the same websites, which feels such a confinement, given the vast expanse of human creativity that inhabits the online world.
I am all for #serendipity, #blogs, weird facts, even silly games.
Do you have any recommendations?
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Should you ever be looking for information on a weird old plug or socket, or are just interested in such things, the online "Museum of Plugs and Sockets" is one of those sites that makes the Internet seem like less of a terrible mistake than usual.
The page on old British "BS 546" is unmatched, in particular: https://plugsocketmuseum.nl/OldBritish1.html
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Should you ever be looking for information on a weird old plug or socket, or are just interested in such things, the online "Museum of Plugs and Sockets" is one of those sites that makes the Internet seem like less of a terrible mistake than usual.
The page on old British "BS 546" is unmatched, in particular: https://plugsocketmuseum.nl/OldBritish1.html
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New blog post for the millenials and people like me. Check it out:
https://www.amartyadav.com/posts/post2.html
#tech #blogging #blogpost #blog #techblog #oldinternet #lowtech
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New blog post for the millenials and people like me. Check it out:
https://www.amartyadav.com/posts/post2.html
#tech #blogging #blogpost #blog #techblog #oldinternet #lowtech
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VINE IS BACK!!!
https://divine.video/discovery
#vine #divine #socialmedia #sns #socialnetworkingsite #socialnetworkingservice #socialnetworkingsites #socialnetworkingservices #vineisback #oldinternet #2010sinternet #internet #theinternet #2010svibes #2010snostalgia #imhappy #iamhappy #oldinternetrevival #signup #letsgo
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what's the more common (or evocative, nostalgic, etc.) phrasing:
• "this site is best viewed in IE"
or
• "this site is best viewed with IE"
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Last week on #powRSS
The Blogging Years a Rumination by @darice
"I followed tons of personal blogs, people who wrote about regular life stuff, music, books, the web. I blogged too back then, I have like 500 old posts set on private...
The blog years were awesome, I still miss the old internet."
https://darice.org/2025/10/11/the-blogging-years-a-rumination/
