Internet Habits: Past and Present

For me,

The majority of 1999:

- Half-life (TFC, HLDM)

- Starcraft

- Myth II

- joyrex.com

- Napster

- rotten.com

- newgrounds.com

Now, in 2009:

- Soulseex

- WATMM

- last.fm

- Facebook

- discogs

- spankwire.com

i didn't have the internet in 1999

I check rephlex.com 25 times every day

watmm

ffoc.co.uk

focusowners.com (Hardly ever post)

tube8

persiankitty

youtube

I never had internet 10 years ago.

lol, n00bz

only 9 years here

yeah, half life (CS) and napster ... those where the days

newgrounds.com

sfdt.com

megagames.com

fileplanet and gamespy

planetrapido.com

novalogic.com

never got into napster, i used kazaa

2000:

aphextwin.nu (a bit of joyrex.com as well but i didn't really get into it until watmm appeared)

newdoom.com

random geocities pages

mp3.com.au

kazaa (ugh what a chore it was to find ANYTHING on kazaa)

2009:

watmm

facebook

livejournal

youtube

isohunt

last.fm

quakeworld anyone?

aq2?

Tribes

Audiogalaxy

Cultdeadcow

l0pht

Zombie Girlfriend

grex.cyberspace

2001

autechre/aphextwin.nu

daftcrew.fr

stickdeath.com

newgrounds.com

consumptionjuncion.com/steakandcheese.com

kazaa/limewire

2009

watmm

google

youtube

random blogspot pages

  Drahken said:

Tribes

Audiogalaxy

Cultdeadcow

l0pht

Zombie Girlfriend

grex.cyberspace

lol, i remember all those except Tribes and Zombie Girlfriend

http://www.cultdeadcow.com/oldskool/HoHo94.html classic

warpcomm

watmm

past: www.planet-mu.com/phorum

present: forum.watmm.com

  hahathhat said:

  Drahken said:

Tribes

Audiogalaxy

Cultdeadcow

l0pht

Zombie Girlfriend

grex.cyberspace

 

lol, i remember all those except Tribes and Zombie Girlfriend

 

http://www.cultdeadcow.com/oldskool/HoHo94.html classic

http://packetstormsecurity.org/apoc2k/cdc/cdc259.txt wait i think this is the better one

no wait i still like the first one more.

zombie girlfriend was some old shockwave game where you would battle other zombie girlfriends. I might be wrong on the name, but thats how I remember it.

yea cdc = good times. goon mailing list, dc dirt, enigma piecemeal lasgna et al. those were the days as they say.

99:

- www.persiankitty.com

- joyrex.com

- unreal tournament

- warprecords.com

09:

- www.redtube.com

- watmm

- facebook

- Attack! (facebook version of Risk... real-time multiplayer bitch)

1999:

Diablo

Age of Empires II

Napster

Newgrounds

Now:

WATMM

NeoGaf

tnaflix.com

xnxx.com

Soulseek

  Quote

Audiogalaxy

Possibly the greatest thing to come out of the internet ever. That wasn't '99 though. Was it?

  Oscar said:

Age of Empires II

just started playing Age of Mythology again today

10 years ago being the spring of 1999... i was moving away from using computers as much as i had spent the entirety of high school playing duke nukem/warcraft/starcraft BUT still...

1999

- winamp

- getting around our school's proxy servers (bess) using any number of tricks

- windows 98

- grand theft auto (funny how things never change)

- IRC

- yfn (local bb/free net set up by youngstown state university)

- PINE, which only in the last few years has gmail supplanted it as my all-time favorite email client

- AIM

- ws_ftp

2009

- os x

- safari

- xp only when i absolutely have to (entirely too often)

- audacity/acid

- aim (rarely)

- the myface

- ical/isync, etc

- torrent clients

- whatever ftp client i can find that works

- occasional pixelimator

- watmms/detroitluv/rss/gay purse pr0n

- champagne cocktails

you've come a long way, baby

  Deep Fried Everything said:

you've come a long way, baby

yes, this album.

  Deep Fried Everything said:

10 years ago being the spring of 1999... i was moving away from using computers as much as i had spent the entirety of high school playing duke nukem/warcraft/starcraft BUT still...

 

1999

 

- winamp

- windows 98

- IRC

Forgot to mention these. I almost forgot about IRC. I think in '99 I switched to Windows ME. Now I too own a Mac.

Also,

ICQ (especially for clan/guild meetings)

2000:

-IRC

-programming web sites

-ICQ

-Geocities

-USENET and email mailing lists

-yahoo email account

-Overclocking teh my PC computuars

-phonelosers.org

-team fortress classic

-unreal tournament

-newgrounds

-somethingawful

-slashdot.org

-livejournal

-banner ftp sites, ratio ftp sites

-normal porn

2009:

-IRC, but somewhat less IRC

-programming web sites

-AIM

-serious web hosting

-metafilter

-watmm

-torrents

-what.cd

-kinky porn

~mid-1997 ~age12-13

Windows 3.1 with Netscape Navigator 3.01

comedycentral.com (for south park stuffs, before it had begun airing in Australia)

www.moviemistakes.com

mp3s from regular http websites without logins

cuteftp

unsuccessfully trying to play quake over dial up