1996 Geocities returns from the dead to attack the interweb.

[Michelle Miller]

http://www.wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/index.php

http://www.wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesiz ... haven.com/

Nerd-ly hilarious, if you remember the internet from 1996, when everything looked like it was made by a 12 year old kid on Geocities.

[Kerri]

Funny that!
I never like geocities.
But that apart, the WWW was better back then than it is now.
There was more openness, less pay with credit card.
Loads of stuff was available and to be honest it was more enjoyable.
Now I spend my time chatting as opposed to surfing and downloading.
No more ripping music and films, not much surfing, loads less fun.

[April Rose]

Michelle, honey, you know we love you. But it's time for an intervention. You need help. Maybe one of those 12 step programs in a church basement, with lots of coffee and bottled water, and other "friends of Bill Gates"... maybe an Atari, or a Commodore 64 off in the corner.....

[Kyra]

April wrote:

and other "friends of Bill Gates"... maybe an Atari, or a Commodore 64 off in the corner.....

A friend of mine at work said she was throwing out her old Commodore 64, I gasped and pleaded for her to let me have it. She did, and I have it in my basement. Sadly it doesn't work at the moment, but in my spare time (haha) I'll have a go at fixing it. (Once a geek, always a geek)

Michelle, thanks for the trip down memory lane... I'd forgotten how awful things looked back then.

[Michelle Miller]

Michelle, honey, you know we love you. But it's time for an intervention. You need help. Maybe one of those 12 step programs in a church basement, with lots of coffee and bottled water, and other "friends of Bill Gates"... maybe an Atari, or a Commodore 64 off in the corner.....

The first step is admitting one has a problem, right?


*cough*


NEVER!



And for the record, I still have my fully functional C64, 1541 disk drive, a Commodore 1084 monitor and an MPS 801 dot matrix printer.

[April Rose]

The first computer game I ever played was on a dot matrix printer. It was a submarine warfare game. All it did was give you your coordinates and the coordinates of the opposing sub. Every time your coordinates changed your relationship to the other sub changed as well. There was no graphic depiction, just numbers. It was maddening. I don't think I ever won.

Gave me a lot of respect for what the people who serve on submarines go through.

[Bernice]

Back in the late 80's, I worked for a major manufacturer of mini-computers, and actually walked into a new customer installation, casually commenting to the administrator that my $350 Atari 800XL / Indus GT setup would do everything their new $100,000 system would do. This statement was, after all, more or less totally true. Fortunately for my career, I don't think she really believed me.

Yes, I still have the Atari 800XL (modified with 256K RAM), an 850 interface, a Star Powertype daisywheel, 300 baud modem, and an Atari diskette drive, and as far as I know, it all still works.

Hugs,

Bernice

[Anita]

Lots of crossdressers used Geocities when I first got on the web and went looking for sites. The ads were awful--pop-ups and other annoying stuff that I had to beat down with my mouse every time I hit the next page.