Relive the information superhighway as it was in the 90s [Cool]

Skip to content Try Ads-Free Fark It's Not News, It's Fark How To FarkLog In | Sign Up » Forgot password? Turn on javascript (or enable it for Fark) for a better user experience. If you can read this, either the style sheet didn't load or you have an older browser that doesn't support style sheets. Try clearing your browser cache and refreshing the page. Discussion Entertainment (Some Guy) Relive the information superhighway as it was in the 90s (restorativland.org) More: Cool, History, Archive, Museum, tiny band of nonprofits, living museum, real work, major inspiration, Negativland 1995 clicks;posted toMain »and STEM »on 22 Oct 2025 at 12:05 PM(3 hours ago) | Favorite | Watch | share: Copy Link 77 Comments Enable JavaScript for Fark in order to vote for entries. Log in (at the top of the page) to enable voting. View Voting Results:SmartestandFunniest | Show all (6) Funniest 3 hours ago No thank you. One por--ummm kitten pic took a minute to download and video was in a one inch by one inch box that just kept saying "buffering". foo monkey (14) Funniest 3 hours ago My default ringtone is the 56k modem connection sound. Jake Havechek (0) Funniest 3 hours ago joseelsegundo (1) Funniest 3 hours ago Tranquil Hegemony (0) Funniest 3 hours ago Ah yes, the information superhighway. Visit our new website at aitch tee tee pee semicolon backlash backlash double-you double-you double-you dot clownpenis dot fart. Ragin' Asian (3) Funniest 3 hours ago (0) Funniest 3 hours ago foo monkey: My default ringtone is the 56k modem connection sound. I'd like to have get that. Chthonic Echoes (13) Funniest 3 hours ago The magic is gone, and it's not coming back. Jake Havechek (0) Funniest 3 hours ago (1) Funniest 3 hours ago Which Simutronics game would you like me to play, GS3 or DragonRealms? GS3 - wander around killing things. Oh another player! "Hello, good sir!" Why am I a ghost now? Oh right, the other player killed me. DR - wander around killing things. Experience accumulates and then drains. "Hello, good sir!" Valter walks the starry road. Yeah. Fun days. I remember those. Woody Guthrie's Guitar (0) Funniest 3 hours ago Bith Set Me Up (0) Funniest 3 hours ago Where are all the Mr. T memes? Mr. Fuzzypaws (1) Funniest 3 hours ago Dr Jack Badofsky (0) Funniest 3 hours ago Oooh, frog in a blender!!! oldfarthenry (0) Funniest 3 hours ago I remember teaching my dad how to use Napster - ON DIAL-UP! My mum threatened to murder me as she couldn't use the phone for two weeks (as my dad was downloading Sergio Mendez' entire album library). little big man (3) Funniest 3 hours ago (1) Funniest 3 hours ago Stephen_Falken (0) Funniest 3 hours ago Jake Havechek: [Fark user image 425x318] How far back you goin? WAY BACK Jake Havechek (9) Funniest 2 hours ago Chthonic Echoes (1) Funniest 2 hours ago Walker: No thank you. One por--ummm kitten pic took a minute to download and video was in a one inch by one inch box that just kept saying "buffering". And in the end, you appreciated it so much more. FarkingReading (10) Funniest 2 hours ago (7) Funniest 2 hours ago so young then, such hope we had for the world wide web please prove you are real Jake Havechek (4) Funniest 2 hours ago (1) Funniest 2 hours ago Jake Havechek: [Fark user image 425x285] Doesn't have enough plugins installed. Just look at that pitiful bar at the top. Also where isn't a malware friend rolling around on the screen? Tisk tisk. Hoopy Frood (15) Funniest 2 hours ago I wish there was a search engine as good as Google was 20 years ago. (1) Funniest 2 hours ago Jake Havechek: [Fark user image 425x318] Ok, that's slightly better. But only just so. Chainsaw Turd Elf (2) Funniest 2 hours ago Number one, Ninjas are mammals. Number two, Ninjas fight all the time. Number three, the purpose of the ninja is to flip out and kill people. (3) Funniest 2 hours ago Bring back flash video long enough to finish the story of Radiskull and Devil Doll and all will be forgiven. Irresponsible Homeowner (0) Funniest 2 hours ago People today look back and think that things were the way they were, for some reason other than necessity, and I'm not buying it. The Irresponsible Captain (10) Funniest 2 hours ago There's still Zombo. EnderWiggnz (0) Funniest 2 hours ago foo monkey: My default ringtone is the 56k modem connection sound. Try 300 baud, ç64 (0) Funniest 2 hours ago Gonads and strife? (14) Funniest 2 hours ago Sadly, the very very best part of the Internet of the 90s was who wasn't on it. The Irresponsible Captain (2) Funniest 2 hours ago Irresponsible Homeowner: People today look back and think that things were the way they were, for some reason other than necessity, and I'm not buying it. [Fark user image 148x124] (1) Funniest 2 hours ago I mainly stuck to chatrooms like Foothills and Resort. Then to Mirc and eventually Palace, until that went to hell. That part of the web is never coming back. TrashcanMan (1) Funniest 2 hours ago I do miss RealPlayer The Irresponsible Captain (1) Funniest 2 hours ago Ah, and the DFC. I think it's all gone now. https://www.zompist.com/dfcindex.html (1) Funniest 2 hours ago 90s internet, where I have my parents with a 450 dollar phone bill. Jake Havechek (0) Funniest 2 hours ago (4) Funniest 2 hours ago FirstDennis (8) Funniest 2 hours ago Baron Krelve (3) Funniest 2 hours ago Ragin' Asian: a/s/l? 16/f/cali, u? CptnSpldng (1) Funniest 2 hours ago benelane: 90s internet, where I have my parents with a 450 dollar phone bill. Mrs Spldng used to 'volunteer' working the AOL game boards. She was 'paid' with access to a toll free number to access the internet. (2) Funniest 2 hours ago What the Information Superhighway was really like in the 1990s phimuskapsi (1) Funniest Ahhh good to see FortuneCity is getting restored, I hosted an MP3 link site on there back in the late 90's. Not sure how the URL has stuck in my head for 26 years, but it has, so it can be visited on the Wayback Machine. monkeyboycjc (1) Funniest https://web.archive.org/ (0) Funniest Baron Krelve: Ragin' Asian: a/s/l? 16/f/cali, u? You're not a cop, are you? stuhayes2010 (5) Funniest Can we just have a search engine again that searches the web and doesn't try to sell me something tangentially related to what I was looking for? yet_another_wumpus (3) Funniest https://www.forteinc.com/agent/ Well what do you know(?), it's still there. Going to stick with Linux for NNTP, but might be worth checking and firing up wine. Agent was *that* good in the day, not sure they've bothered to update to modern standards. https://winworldpc.com/product/procomm-plus/30-for-windows At 15MB and windows graphics, it just isn't the same. You need PROCOMM (PLUS?) for DOS. Pretty sure Rusty forgot to update the Kuro5hin.org maintenance database and haven't heard of it in decades. Probably lost all the backups I made of localrodger's posts and others. /yes, this is the early 90s //especially before the Eternal September ///was on the internet in 1988, via a Sun 3/50 system. I was the "computer room help" (luckily by/for engineering students, so much less stupid questions). (0) Funniest Just in time for ICQ's dying gasp earlier this year. Displayed 50 of 77 comments | Show all Enable JavaScript for Fark in order to vote for entries. Log in (at the top of the page) to enable voting. 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