post cool shit you've found from wayback or wiby, or just old shit in general
obligatory 1998 internet video:
youtube.com
Old internet thread
Cameron Gutierrez
Other urls found in this thread:
web.archive.org
oldweb.today
youtube.com
twitter.com
Michael Lewis
web.archive.org
just remembered this site the other day, full of old tutorials for late 90s CGI software
Zachary Evans
user, that's great, do you know any similar websites?
Brody Torres
Joseph Russell
>humiliate earth
>anal sex songs
based
Elijah Torres
Awesome video.
Comfy as fuck.
Luke Morgan
God I miss it.
The worst part is there's no real way to go back. The way we've communicated on the internet has changed due to the rise of VoIP, IM clients, and Social Media. Jow Forums feels like the last place I can go to for that comfy feel old internet forums made me feel. Maybe that's why I can't leave this hellsite.
Kayden Campbell
The thing that gets me is how much of the past has been LOST. For the past three years I've been asking around for old material from say r9k from 2010 on; and while the desuarchive has a bunch of stuff from about 2012 on, so much of the earlier stuff is gone. I actually remember the day Heinessen archive was closed down by the owner, and there were torrents posted but I told myself "oh somebody else will get that stuff and keep it", and I was on a slow connection anyway.
I'm using r9k as one example, but SO MUCH old content just evaporates forever.
Matthew James
for the specific case of chan archives I wholeheartedly approve, it should be ephemeral unless someone is willing to go to the manual effort of screencapping a post/thread.
Owen Howard
You may have a point there, it may be better for everyone that a lot of that stuff is lost... but I can't even find other robots from the same period with screencaps, even though I KNOW people were taking caps at the time. It's like... people assuming someone else will cap it, and people assume someone else will save it... but then somehow most people disappear off into the world, or lose the data somehow.
I'm not just thinking of of chan stuff, though. I mean try to find screencaps of old programs from the early 2000's or before, and it's incredibly hard. Yet it was within all of our power from very early on the cap stuff. Feels like a lot of history is lost.