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What's your favorite internet "oldie"? (beehaw.org)
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In honor of the death of Reddit (I hope), let's harken back to a simpler time, perhaps when we old-timers were migrating from BBS chatting to Slashdot to Reddit. My favorite "oldie" is "The Website Is Down," from 2009-ish. It perfectly captures what IT support is like.

What's your fave?

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[โ€“] TheAfterman@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I miss AIM. The days where you would race home and log on to see if your crush would come on, and then inevitably not message them if they did. I had the cash register noise set to their screen names.

[โ€“] Celediel 1 points 1 year ago

The days when people had to actually be online in order to message them. I had that Coldplay piano intro set as my outgoing message sound because it was a paid one I somehow got for free. It annoyed the shit out of all my friends haha. And setting your own font style/colours! My go-to were always lime green on neon pink on a black background, and getting messages from people with white backgrounds was startling. What a time!