#vintageinternet — Public Fediverse posts

Tubefilter: ‘The Guild’ was an iconic web series. Nearly 20 years later, Felicia Day is reviving it as a movie.. “19 years ago (has it really been that long?), Felicia Day created and starred in a show that poked fun at the gameplay and interpersonal dynamics of World of Warcraft clans…. Flash forward to 2026, and the same cultural climate that propelled The Guild to the forefront of the […]

Evert Pot: Burrow, a new Gopher client in the browser. “After building a gopher server and website, I couldn’t quite get enough of the Gopher bug, and decided to build a Gopher client in the browser. To be honest, this is actually more like a HTTP proxy for Gopher, but I might at some point turn this into a standalone client or even port it to some native platforms.” Those of y’all old enough […]

Evert Pot: Burrow, a new Gopher client in the browser. “After building a gopher server and website, I couldn’t quite get enough of the Gopher bug, and decided to build a Gopher client in the browser. To be honest, this is actually more like a HTTP proxy for Gopher, but I might at some point turn this into a standalone client or even port it to some native platforms.” Those of y’all old enough […]

Evert Pot: Burrow, a new Gopher client in the browser. “After building a gopher server and website, I couldn’t quite get enough of the Gopher bug, and decided to build a Gopher client in the browser. To be honest, this is actually more like a HTTP proxy for Gopher, but I might at some point turn this into a standalone client or even port it to some native platforms.” Those of y’all old enough […]

Evert Pot: Burrow, a new Gopher client in the browser. “After building a gopher server and website, I couldn’t quite get enough of the Gopher bug, and decided to build a Gopher client in the browser. To be honest, this is actually more like a HTTP proxy for Gopher, but I might at some point turn this into a standalone client or even port it to some native platforms.” Those of y’all old enough […]

Evert Pot: Burrow, a new Gopher client in the browser. “After building a gopher server and website, I couldn’t quite get enough of the Gopher bug, and decided to build a Gopher client in the browser. To be honest, this is actually more like a HTTP proxy for Gopher, but I might at some point turn this into a standalone client or even port it to some native platforms.” Those of y’all old enough […]

TechCrunch: Digg lays off staff and shuts down app as company retools. “The startup had set out to offer an alternative to existing community forums, where people could post and share links, media, and text, and engage in topical discussions. But while Digg had clever ideas on how to better moderate content and verify that users were who they claimed to be, the company admits it was overwhelmed […]

Alex Plescan: Just for fun: animating a mosaic of 90s GIFs. “…let’s go behind the scenes of how the GIF mosaic came together. We’ll look at sourcing the GIFs, cleaning them up so they’re safe for public display, and animating them.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/17/just-for-fun-animating-a-mosaic-of-90s-gifs-alex-plescan/

Geeks Are Sexy: From 300 bps to 56K: The Glorious Noise of Getting Online. “Remember when the internet screamed at you before letting you online? Youtuber Retrocet has preserved the full symphony of dial-up modems in a compilation that takes us on a journey from the snail-paced 300 bps connections to the lightning-fast (at the time) 56K. Each shriek, screech, and static hiss is historically […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/01/from-300-bps-to-56k-the-glorious-noise-of-getting-online-geeks-are-sexy/

Geeks Are Sexy: From 300 bps to 56K: The Glorious Noise of Getting Online. “Remember when the internet screamed at you before letting you online? Youtuber Retrocet has preserved the full symphony of dial-up modems in a compilation that takes us on a journey from the snail-paced 300 bps connections to the lightning-fast (at the time) 56K. Each shriek, screech, and static hiss is historically […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/01/from-300-bps-to-56k-the-glorious-noise-of-getting-online-geeks-are-sexy/

Tom’s Hardware: AOL will end dial-up internet service in September, 34 years after its debut — AOL Shield Browser and AOL Dialer software will be shuttered on the same day. “AOL, now a Yahoo! property, will end its dial-up internet service, the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)-based internet connectivity service, on September 30, 2025. Its dial-up service has been publicly available […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/11/toms-hardware-aol-will-end-dial-up-internet-service-in-september-34-years-after-its-debut-aol-shield-browser-and-aol-dialer-software-will-be-shuttered-on-the-same-day/

Andy Bell: I think I need to change my attitude towards webrings. “I’ve always been a bit meh about webrings but I’ve noticed they’ve evolved a bit, like this one. I clicked through to Ariel’s site because I knew she would have nailed the UI for that typically, footer-based nav. Imagine my surprise when I found this interesting alternative instead.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/25/andy-bell-i-think-i-need-to-change-my-attitude-towards-webrings/

Found in my RSS feeds: GeoCities.live. Turn any Web pages into a 1990s GeoCities blink fest. Lots of fun.

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/14/geocities-live/

Indieseek: OMG Look at All the Linkblogs!. “A year or two ago, the linkblog category of the directory was pretty dead. There were one or two active and a couple of legacy linkblogs, but not much had changed since blogs fell out of favor. Well there has been a blog revival, and a few other things happening and it seems like a whole bunch of quality linkblogs have come across my desk in the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/30/indieseek-omg-look-at-all-the-linkblogs/