ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Alex Plescan: Just for fun: animating a mosaic of 90s GIFs. “…let’s go behind the scenes of how the GIF mosaic came together. We’ll look at sourcing the GIFs, cleaning them up so they’re safe for public display, and animating them.”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/17/just-for-fun-animating-a-mosaic-of-90s-gifs-alex-plescan/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/17/just-for-fun-animating-a-mosaic-of-90s-gifs-alex-plescan/</a></p>
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ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Geeks Are Sexy: From 300 bps to 56K: The Glorious Noise of Getting Online. “Remember when the internet screamed at you before letting you online? Youtuber Retrocet has preserved the full symphony of dial-up modems in a compilation that takes us on a journey from the snail-paced 300 bps connections to the lightning-fast (at the time) 56K. Each shriek, screech, and static hiss is historically […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/01/from-300-bps-to-56k-the-glorious-noise-of-getting-online-geeks-are-sexy/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/01/from-300-bps-to-56k-the-glorious-noise-of-getting-online-geeks-are-sexy/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Tom’s Hardware: AOL will end dial-up internet service in September, 34 years after its debut — AOL Shield Browser and AOL Dialer software will be shuttered on the same day. “AOL, now a Yahoo! property, will end its dial-up internet service, the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)-based internet connectivity service, on September 30, 2025. Its dial-up service has been publicly available […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/11/toms-hardware-aol-will-end-dial-up-internet-service-in-september-34-years-after-its-debut-aol-shield-browser-and-aol-dialer-software-will-be-shuttered-on-the-same-day/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/11/toms-hardware-aol-will-end-dial-up-internet-service-in-september-34-years-after-its-debut-aol-shield-browser-and-aol-dialer-software-will-be-shuttered-on-the-same-day/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Spotted on Reddit: MP3.com Archive Search. “There are a few different archives of the audio files from MP3.com but I don’t think any of them are as complete as this one. Artist and song links go to mp3-2003.computer-legacy.com which hosts a copy of the skeleton (some song pages seem to be missing). This website and the skeleton it is based on do not include any audio, instead I embedded the […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/08/spotted-on-reddit-mp3-com-archive-search/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/08/spotted-on-reddit-mp3-com-archive-search/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Boing 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 […]</p><p><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></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Found in my RSS feeds: GeoCities.live. Turn any Web pages into a 1990s GeoCities blink fest. Lots of fun.</p><p><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></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Indieseek: 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 […]</p><p><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></p>
Gitano<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vintageinternet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vintageinternet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/geocities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geocities</span></a> </p><p>Me aburria y me he empezado a descargar el torrent que contiene todo Geocities, 640 GB de nada 😅</p>
Sophie 🏳️⚧️ 🌜<p>Looks like CNN finally took down their old O J Simpson trial page: </p><p><a href="http://edition.cnn.com/US/OJ/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="">edition.cnn.com/US/OJ/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>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"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">web.archive.org/web/2024000000</span><span class="invisible">0000*/https://edition.cnn.com/US/OJ/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://icosahedron.website/tags/vintageweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vintageweb</span></a> <a href="https://icosahedron.website/tags/vintageinternet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vintageinternet</span></a> <a href="https://icosahedron.website/tags/90sweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>90sweb</span></a> <a href="https://icosahedron.website/tags/90sinternet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>90sinternet</span></a> <a href="https://icosahedron.website/tags/oldweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oldweb</span></a> <a href="https://icosahedron.website/tags/oldinternet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oldinternet</span></a> <a href="https://icosahedron.website/tags/90s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>90s</span></a> <a href="https://icosahedron.website/tags/the90s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>the90s</span></a> <a href="https://icosahedron.website/tags/oldwebsites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oldwebsites</span></a> <a href="https://icosahedron.website/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>web</span></a></p>
Legit_Spaghetti<p>Let me take you back to the year 2004, when one of my favorite Flame Wars of the Old Internet happened. </p><p><strong>THE PLACE:</strong><br>The Dumpshock Forums</p><p><strong>THE PROTAGONIST:</strong><br>cutter07, who insists that implanting depleted Uranium is a really good idea</p><p><strong>HIS AUDIENCE:</strong><br>an entire forum full of TTRPG nerds (including me) patiently explaining to him why that's stupid</p><p>Enjoy!</p><p><a href="http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?showtopic=4200&st=0" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">forums.dumpshock.com/index.php</span><span class="invisible">?showtopic=4200&st=0</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodo.neoliber.al/tags/Shadowrun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Shadowrun</span></a> <a href="https://mastodo.neoliber.al/tags/TTRPG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TTRPG</span></a> <a href="https://mastodo.neoliber.al/tags/RPG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RPG</span></a> <a href="https://mastodo.neoliber.al/tags/VintageInternet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VintageInternet</span></a></p>
Forgotten Hero<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@ifr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ifr</span></a></span> <br>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:-<br>I know you think you understood what I said, but you have failed to realise that I implied far more than I stated.<br>You could be in that club too.<br><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/VintageInternet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VintageInternet</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fediverse</span></a></p>
vrolijkefemke<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.nl/@hvangalen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>hvangalen</span></a></span> 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">#<span>vintageinternet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/theolddays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theolddays</span></a></p>
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