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ResearchBuzz: FirehoseBoing Boing: Wondering how to waste time online like a champion? Try the Bored Button. “The Bored Button is a fun way to explore the internet randomly. The bored button will take you to an entertaining website, many of which remind me of the earlier days of the web in their simplicity. I’ve spent way too long clicking away at the bored button, getting distracted by the novelty sites it takes […]<a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/16/boing-boing-wondering-how-to-waste-time-online-like-a-champion-try-the-bored-button/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/16/boing-boing-wondering-how-to-waste-time-online-like-a-champion-try-the-bored-button/</a>

ResearchBuzz: FirehoseFound in my RSS feeds: GeoCities.live. Turn any Web pages into a 1990s GeoCities blink fest. Lots of fun.<a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/14/geocities-live/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/14/geocities-live/</a>

ResearchBuzz: FirehoseIndieseek: OMG Look at All the Linkblogs!. “A year or two ago, the linkblog category of the directory was pretty dead. There were one or two active and a couple of legacy linkblogs, but not much had changed since blogs fell out of favor. Well there has been a blog revival, and a few other things happening and it seems like a whole bunch of quality linkblogs have come across my desk in the […]<a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/30/indieseek-omg-look-at-all-the-linkblogs/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/30/indieseek-omg-look-at-all-the-linkblogs/</a>

Gitano<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vintageinternet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vintageinternet</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/geocities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#geocities</a> Me aburria y me he empezado a descargar el torrent que contiene todo Geocities, 640 GB de nada 😅

Sophie 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌜Looks like CNN finally took down their old O J Simpson trial page: <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/US/OJ/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">http://edition.cnn.com/US/OJ/</a>Seems they did it fairly recently too, the last wayback machine capture was in July this year: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/https://edition.cnn.com/US/OJ/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/https://edition.cnn.com/US/OJ/</a><a href="https://icosahedron.website/tags/vintageweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vintageweb</a> <a href="https://icosahedron.website/tags/vintageinternet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vintageinternet</a> <a href="https://icosahedron.website/tags/90sweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#90sweb</a> <a href="https://icosahedron.website/tags/90sinternet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#90sinternet</a> <a href="https://icosahedron.website/tags/oldweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#oldweb</a> <a href="https://icosahedron.website/tags/oldinternet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#oldinternet</a> <a href="https://icosahedron.website/tags/90s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#90s</a> <a href="https://icosahedron.website/tags/the90s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#the90s</a> <a href="https://icosahedron.website/tags/oldwebsites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#oldwebsites</a> <a href="https://icosahedron.website/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#web</a>

Legit_SpaghettiLet me take you back to the year 2004, when one of my favorite Flame Wars of the Old Internet happened. THE PLACE: The Dumpshock ForumsTHE PROTAGONIST: cutter07, who insists that implanting depleted Uranium is a really good ideaHIS AUDIENCE: an entire forum full of TTRPG nerds (including me) patiently explaining to him why that's stupidEnjoy!<a href="http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?showtopic=4200&st=0" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?showtopic=4200&st=0</a><a href="https://mastodo.neoliber.al/tags/Shadowrun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Shadowrun</a> <a href="https://mastodo.neoliber.al/tags/TTRPG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TTRPG</a> <a href="https://mastodo.neoliber.al/tags/RPG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RPG</a> <a href="https://mastodo.neoliber.al/tags/VintageInternet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VintageInternet</a>

Forgotten Hero<a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@ifr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@ifr</a> Way back in the 1980s the online experience was SOOOO different. Most of us in the text only social groups had 'tags' as signatures. One of mine was:- I know you think you understood what I said, but you have failed to realise that I implied far more than I stated. You could be in that club too. <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/VintageInternet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VintageInternet</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a>

vrolijkefemke<a href="https://mastodon.nl/@hvangalen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@hvangalen</a> zelfs je moeder kent de geluiden van de inbelverbinding, anders je tante wel omdat ze net wilde bellen met haar nieuwe lover en grote zus zat te ICQ’en <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/vintageinternet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vintageinternet</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/theolddays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#theolddays</a>

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