#retrointernet — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #retrointernet, aggregated by home.social.
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Ah, the digital resurrection we’ve all been waiting for: a website that reincarnates the thrill of loading times and Geocities-era aesthetics. 🌐✨ Because nothing screams "modern innovation" like a domain name that sounds like it's been blessed by a dial-up modem priest. 🙄💾
http://bornagain.com/ #digitalresurrection #Geocities #nostalgia #loadingtimes #retrointernet #dialupmodem #HackerNews #ngated -
Kevin Boone has discovered the "small web," a magical utopia where pop-ups don't exist and corporations aren't mining your data 💾✨. He even dives into the elusive Gemini protocol, which is so obscure it barely qualifies as a protocol 🔍😅. Because who needs Netflix and Amazon when you have a text-based internet that screams 1995? 💻📜
https://kevinboone.me/small_web_is_big.html #smallweb #magicalutopia #geminiprotocol #dataprivacy #retrointernet #HackerNews #ngated -
Kevin Boone has discovered the "small web," a magical utopia where pop-ups don't exist and corporations aren't mining your data 💾✨. He even dives into the elusive Gemini protocol, which is so obscure it barely qualifies as a protocol 🔍😅. Because who needs Netflix and Amazon when you have a text-based internet that screams 1995? 💻📜
https://kevinboone.me/small_web_is_big.html #smallweb #magicalutopia #geminiprotocol #dataprivacy #retrointernet #HackerNews #ngated -
Kevin Boone has discovered the "small web," a magical utopia where pop-ups don't exist and corporations aren't mining your data 💾✨. He even dives into the elusive Gemini protocol, which is so obscure it barely qualifies as a protocol 🔍😅. Because who needs Netflix and Amazon when you have a text-based internet that screams 1995? 💻📜
https://kevinboone.me/small_web_is_big.html #smallweb #magicalutopia #geminiprotocol #dataprivacy #retrointernet #HackerNews #ngated -
Kevin Boone has discovered the "small web," a magical utopia where pop-ups don't exist and corporations aren't mining your data 💾✨. He even dives into the elusive Gemini protocol, which is so obscure it barely qualifies as a protocol 🔍😅. Because who needs Netflix and Amazon when you have a text-based internet that screams 1995? 💻📜
https://kevinboone.me/small_web_is_big.html #smallweb #magicalutopia #geminiprotocol #dataprivacy #retrointernet #HackerNews #ngated -
Kevin Boone has discovered the "small web," a magical utopia where pop-ups don't exist and corporations aren't mining your data 💾✨. He even dives into the elusive Gemini protocol, which is so obscure it barely qualifies as a protocol 🔍😅. Because who needs Netflix and Amazon when you have a text-based internet that screams 1995? 💻📜
https://kevinboone.me/small_web_is_big.html #smallweb #magicalutopia #geminiprotocol #dataprivacy #retrointernet #HackerNews #ngated -
MUDs, IRC, and Go: peak entertainment of 1994!
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MUDs, IRC, and Go: peak entertainment of 1994!
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MUDs, IRC, and Go: peak entertainment of 1994!
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MUDs, IRC, and Go: peak entertainment of 1994!
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MUDs, IRC, and Go: peak entertainment of 1994!
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Back to Usenet. Learn from them. Retrospective.
Plain text, threaded conversations.
Ideas shared freely, no flashy UI — just thoughtful messages.
Author references propagated over network.
Small, readable, decentralized — lessons in simplicity and clarity.
Echoes today in IndieWeb: own your content, control your identity.#Usenet #TextCulture #RetroInternet #ASCII #Hackers #FediTech #DigitalNostalgia #IndieWeb
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Back to Usenet. Learn from them. Retrospective.
Plain text, threaded conversations.
Ideas shared freely, no flashy UI — just thoughtful messages.
Author references propagated over network.
Small, readable, decentralized — lessons in simplicity and clarity.
Echoes today in IndieWeb: own your content, control your identity.#Usenet #TextCulture #RetroInternet #ASCII #Hackers #FediTech #DigitalNostalgia #IndieWeb
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What’s Cool About Text Culture?
Low-cost, no permission needed.
Anonymous or pseudonymous — words > names.
Needs imagination — no flashy noise.
Free to copy, remix, and spread.
Quiet but hits deep — a time-delay bomb.
Reboot the spirit:
Write .txt / .md ZINEs, poetic README files, or manifesto code.
Text is your code, your weapon, your poem.#TextCulture #ZINE #DigitalRebellion #HackTheWord #Gemini #Markdown #RetroInternet
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What’s Cool About Text Culture?
Low-cost, no permission needed.
Anonymous or pseudonymous — words > names.
Needs imagination — no flashy noise.
Free to copy, remix, and spread.
Quiet but hits deep — a time-delay bomb.
Reboot the spirit:
Write .txt / .md ZINEs, poetic README files, or manifesto code.
Text is your code, your weapon, your poem.#TextCulture #ZINE #DigitalRebellion #HackTheWord #Gemini #Markdown #RetroInternet
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What’s Cool About Text Culture?
Low-cost, no permission needed.
Anonymous or pseudonymous — words > names.
Needs imagination — no flashy noise.
Free to copy, remix, and spread.
Quiet but hits deep — a time-delay bomb.
Reboot the spirit:
Write .txt / .md ZINEs, poetic README files, or manifesto code.
Text is your code, your weapon, your poem.#TextCulture #ZINE #DigitalRebellion #HackTheWord #Gemini #Markdown #RetroInternet
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Vi manca l’epoca d’oro di IRC? Quando i nickname erano arte e i ping la nostra rovina Tornate indietro nel tempo con noi su FAILNET → irc.fail porta +6697 (SSL)
#IRC #RetroInternet #NerdVibes #ircfail #failors
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Vi manca l’epoca d’oro di IRC? Quando i nickname erano arte e i ping la nostra rovina Tornate indietro nel tempo con noi su FAILNET → irc.fail porta +6697 (SSL)
#IRC #RetroInternet #NerdVibes #ircfail #failors
@roughnecks @ndo -
Recently, as I was sweltering hot - I was curious what my friends around the world were feeling. The KTCZ News Station was born.
Add yourself, check the 'forecast', and see whats going on around the world!
Before Discord, before Minecraft, before social media… we were already hanging out in worlds made entirely of words.
Come see what it’s like in 2025: thechattingzone.uk port 8342!
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Recently, as I was sweltering hot - I was curious what my friends around the world were feeling. The KTCZ News Station was born.
Add yourself, check the 'forecast', and see whats going on around the world!
Before Discord, before Minecraft, before social media… we were already hanging out in worlds made entirely of words.
Come see what it’s like in 2025: thechattingzone.uk port 8342!
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Recently, as I was sweltering hot - I was curious what my friends around the world were feeling. The KTCZ News Station was born.
Add yourself, check the 'forecast', and see whats going on around the world!
Before Discord, before Minecraft, before social media… we were already hanging out in worlds made entirely of words.
Come see what it’s like in 2025: thechattingzone.uk port 8342!
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Recently, as I was sweltering hot - I was curious what my friends around the world were feeling. The KTCZ News Station was born.
Add yourself, check the 'forecast', and see whats going on around the world!
Before Discord, before Minecraft, before social media… we were already hanging out in worlds made entirely of words.
Come see what it’s like in 2025: thechattingzone.uk port 8342!
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Recently, as I was sweltering hot - I was curious what my friends around the world were feeling. The KTCZ News Station was born.
Add yourself, check the 'forecast', and see whats going on around the world!
Before Discord, before Minecraft, before social media… we were already hanging out in worlds made entirely of words.
Come see what it’s like in 2025: thechattingzone.uk port 8342!
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@sarajw
I do actually check in occasionally and the only other one from the old gang I sometimes see there is Gabe ('the babe').
If it's of interest, I can recommend https://www.eternal-september.org/
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@sarajw
I do actually check in occasionally and the only other one from the old gang I sometimes see there is Gabe ('the babe').
If it's of interest, I can recommend https://www.eternal-september.org/
#Usenet #ProperInternet #RetroInternet -
@sarajw
I do actually check in occasionally and the only other one from the old gang I sometimes see there is Gabe ('the babe').
If it's of interest, I can recommend https://www.eternal-september.org/
#Usenet #ProperInternet #RetroInternet -
@sarajw
I do actually check in occasionally and the only other one from the old gang I sometimes see there is Gabe ('the babe').
If it's of interest, I can recommend https://www.eternal-september.org/
#Usenet #ProperInternet #RetroInternet -
Internet horror was objectively better in the 90s and early 2000s. It wasn't uncommon to stumble on stuff you felt like you shouldn't have seen.
#retro #retrotech #retrointernet #oldweb #90s #2000s #horror
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Internet horror was objectively better in the 90s and early 2000s. It wasn't uncommon to stumble on stuff you felt like you shouldn't have seen.
#retro #retrotech #retrointernet #oldweb #90s #2000s #horror
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Internet horror was objectively better in the 90s and early 2000s. It wasn't uncommon to stumble on stuff you felt like you shouldn't have seen.
#retro #retrotech #retrointernet #oldweb #90s #2000s #horror
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👾 Behold! A tool for "non-robots" (aka humans) to do what search engines and AI have been doing since the dawn of time. 🤖 Because who needs automation when you can manually sleuth through the interwebs like it's 1999? 🔍
https://github.com/pirxthepilot/wtfis #nonrobots #humansearch #manualexploration #retrointernet #techhumor #HackerNews #ngated -
👾 Behold! A tool for "non-robots" (aka humans) to do what search engines and AI have been doing since the dawn of time. 🤖 Because who needs automation when you can manually sleuth through the interwebs like it's 1999? 🔍
https://github.com/pirxthepilot/wtfis #nonrobots #humansearch #manualexploration #retrointernet #techhumor #HackerNews #ngated -
👾 Behold! A tool for "non-robots" (aka humans) to do what search engines and AI have been doing since the dawn of time. 🤖 Because who needs automation when you can manually sleuth through the interwebs like it's 1999? 🔍
https://github.com/pirxthepilot/wtfis #nonrobots #humansearch #manualexploration #retrointernet #techhumor #HackerNews #ngated -
👾 Behold! A tool for "non-robots" (aka humans) to do what search engines and AI have been doing since the dawn of time. 🤖 Because who needs automation when you can manually sleuth through the interwebs like it's 1999? 🔍
https://github.com/pirxthepilot/wtfis #nonrobots #humansearch #manualexploration #retrointernet #techhumor #HackerNews #ngated -
Remember when you joined your first chatroom in the 90s and it was super super exciting to talk to someone overseas?
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Remember when you joined your first chatroom in the 90s and it was super super exciting to talk to someone overseas?
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Remember when you joined your first chatroom in the 90s and it was super super exciting to talk to someone overseas?
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Remember when you joined your first chatroom in the 90s and it was super super exciting to talk to someone overseas?
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Remember when you joined your first chatroom in the 90s and it was super super exciting to talk to someone overseas?
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I want both. The people doing #retrocomputing are doing some of the work towards a #retrointernet of sorts.
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I want both. The people doing #retrocomputing are doing some of the work towards a #retrointernet of sorts.
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I want both. The people doing #retrocomputing are doing some of the work towards a #retrointernet of sorts.
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I want both. The people doing #retrocomputing are doing some of the work towards a #retrointernet of sorts.
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I want both. The people doing #retrocomputing are doing some of the work towards a #retrointernet of sorts.
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Part of me will always live in 1998. The information super-highway is still a world of endless possibilities, where anybody can have their own website. If I don't like one website, I can just visit a different one today, or even make my own. A social media site is still only one website among billions. The internet is so much bigger. Each of us makes it bigger. The cyberspace utopia lives in my heart.
#internet #retro #RetroInternet #cyberspace #InformationSuperhighway #IndieWeb
