A Museum of the Internet! A lot of the "exhibits" are interactive, too, which I didn't realize at first--eg. clicking "Sign On" on the AOL Dial Up page cues the "modem connecting" sound.
In the late 90s, when I was in college at U of Montana and didn't even have my own computer (wrote my papers on a word processor!), I would spend hours in the campus computer lab on a website called Firefly. It asked you about music artists and albums, and made recommendations based on what you liked. It sounds primitive and simple now, but at the time, it was amazing. Young people have no idea how hard it was to discover new music if you didn't have money to just buy whatever caught your eye (rarely your ear, because listening stations were hard to come by) before all music was available for free or very, very cheap online.
Oh, the internets of yore. I miss TWOP, Tomato Nation, the Chick Lit forums, old old old old Gawker, the Toast, the Awl, the Hairpin. Misadventures of Super Librarian looks fantastic. Subscribed!
Speaking of internet nostalgia, have you seen this? https://neal.fun/internet-artifacts/?fbclid=IwAR0zriHw862k0Ng-G5_6TaWqjBn20uKWWSJvkdeoeat-vKcxF1VY3abthBY
A Museum of the Internet! A lot of the "exhibits" are interactive, too, which I didn't realize at first--eg. clicking "Sign On" on the AOL Dial Up page cues the "modem connecting" sound.
I adore the Neal Fun stuff. The dial up sound immediately reminds me of high school.
In the late 90s, when I was in college at U of Montana and didn't even have my own computer (wrote my papers on a word processor!), I would spend hours in the campus computer lab on a website called Firefly. It asked you about music artists and albums, and made recommendations based on what you liked. It sounds primitive and simple now, but at the time, it was amazing. Young people have no idea how hard it was to discover new music if you didn't have money to just buy whatever caught your eye (rarely your ear, because listening stations were hard to come by) before all music was available for free or very, very cheap online.
I can’t wait to say to my kid, “You don’t know how easy you have it.”
Oh, the internets of yore. I miss TWOP, Tomato Nation, the Chick Lit forums, old old old old Gawker, the Toast, the Awl, the Hairpin. Misadventures of Super Librarian looks fantastic. Subscribed!
Those are some great throwbacks.