the good old days before google were dark and involved horses

[seperis]

I am celebrating the fact that this time next week, this testing cycle is over and I will have glorious not terrifyingly days at work in which I will not be in a constant state of panic. Which also coincides with payday, so really, what can be better than that? A pony, that's what. Though not by much.So I was reading about how the internet now

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[laurashapiro]

It's funny because it's true!

I did not know about the horsefucker and I also need to look up "intellislasher" (although I can make some guesses), but otherwise: I LIVED THIS.

[seperis]

It was--I have no words for horsefucker, but it was an experience. I've never had to get onlien that fast to paste to everyone I ever met, because that needed to be shared for the sheer horror factor.

Intellislasher was an HP thing.

[laurashapiro]

I'm bummed I missed the horsefucker at the time, though I probably would've been too horrified to do much but stare.

Having read up on intellislasher, I am *not* bummed to have missed that one. (:

[viggorlijah]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAH!

You knew that Bindlestitch was where the wicked Due South fans went.

Geocities was awesome.

Prospect-L meant something, even if you'd never seen an episode of The Sentinel all the way through.

[seperis]

God, geocities. So much history. So much that really should be gone.

[margi_lynn]

Ahahahaha! Geocities. I don't want to admit to what HP I was reading on there.

I had an altavista account and I was SO PROUD.

Oh and you forgot the NC-17 thing over at fanfiction.net LOL

[jrho]

That is why I stopped reading anything on ff.net, but I had spent months upon months going through all the BtVS, X-Men, and LotR NC-17 fic they had. That was how I found LJ actually.

[patk]

One word:

Usenet

[chrisjournal]

God, yes. Usenet and kermit and red ryder and bboards. Lynx and mosaic, before 'the web' got graphics. And what about 1993/the AOL invasion? There was fic out there, but it weren't easy to find, and Sturgeon's law was just as true then as it is now.

[ratcreature]

I remember looking for fandom stuff with gopher on ftp servers. Mostly comic info though, not fanfic.

[synecdochic]

September 1993! The September that Never Ended.

Did you know that AOL dropped its Usenet access a while back? Many oldtimers celebrated that October was finally here. *g*

[svmadelyn]

Mylarrrrrr

[anivad]

Mylar.

[em_kellesvig]

You forgot the one thing that has haunted fandom and frustrated readers since the very beginning: the abandoned WIP.

[firiel77]

OMG. RIP the poor abandoned WIP. There are still fics from six fandoms ago that I think about and wish that damn bitch would finish.

[inteligrrl]

I think we all can agree with that sentiment. If it's going to be a WIP why can't it be a bad one? I just think that would make it easier to let go of.

[seperis]

*sad* No, I've been bitter over badfic WIPs. Maybe more so. The sheer audacity makes me wonder how much farther they'd go. I will never know.