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Your memories of the early days of the internet
Your memories of the early days of the internet
author=Deacon Batista
I came into the internet in early 2003. Does that still count as early internet days?
They are your early internet days. It's still interesting to see what someone who came in 2003 might miss or remember- as I perceive it as the end of an old school era.
- The crashing sounds of 56k modems
- Chaotic geocities pages with ZOMG blinking red text in 32 pt fonts. Animated gifts were a necessity on all the "cool" pages.
- pages could take 2-5 minutes to load. We would really complain about sites that were image heavy. Waiting for pages to generate some large images piece by piece at a time.
- Webrings and affiliates were a big deal. These I actually miss as they made me feel like part of a larger community than the site I was actually at. I made some effort to experience all of these sites. There were some large rpgmaker rings for the English and Japanese communities. As there was no translation in those times, it was much easier to find the japanese rm sites that had the more interesting resources.
Your memories of the early days of the internet
Browsing the internet feels like a pretty homogeneous experience in today's web. It is going interesting places, but often I want some of its old spirit back. I miss sensing the common person's mark on the internet even if they came in the form of geocities monstrosities.
I used to use the internet like I was on a safari and would be fascinated with what I found. Feels like its whole cultural pulse is now concentrated in facebook(meh) twitter(stupid) wikipedia(awesome) youtube(half good, half star search) and reddit(sweet). Something feels missing with the internet population being concentrated in these metropolis sites. It could be the sense that users were exploring a frontier but are now just filling out millions of content from the same templates. Businesses take priority over everything in a search engine; unique personal pages are just buried now.
Are there some aspects of your earliest days on the internet that give you a sense of nostalgia?
I used to use the internet like I was on a safari and would be fascinated with what I found. Feels like its whole cultural pulse is now concentrated in facebook(meh) twitter(stupid) wikipedia(awesome) youtube(half good, half star search) and reddit(sweet). Something feels missing with the internet population being concentrated in these metropolis sites. It could be the sense that users were exploring a frontier but are now just filling out millions of content from the same templates. Businesses take priority over everything in a search engine; unique personal pages are just buried now.
Are there some aspects of your earliest days on the internet that give you a sense of nostalgia?
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Well you can grab this image and zoom within a graphics program. Maybe I will edit those leaves at some point.
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This should be written "more mature older brother" ^^
NM dictionary says its a word. Just usually see people use "more mature".
NM dictionary says its a word. Just usually see people use "more mature".
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What Ghost said. I see some great mapping bogged down with excessive overlays, ultimately making your maps look not as good. I always thought overlays are useful if used at the right points, but it does seem you use them for just every map you get a chance to. With that out the way, I think this game will get better as you progress and I will be following it.
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Yeah, I had a bit of doubt about the dragon statue too. Had nothing available to make a better space filler. Its really naked there when that goes out. As for the soldiers, they worked underneath the overlay I used to use, and agree not so much without it. The overlay was used to sort of blend things a bit better, but overall I felt the screen was too dark.
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