This weeks compo :-
"What were you doing on t'internet in 2001" - most of my results are in ascii
(, Wed 1 Oct 2008, 21:31, Reply)
I started reading b3ta, shortly after the colourscheme went all black/white/grey
Christ I'm old.
(, Wed 1 Oct 2008, 21:51, Reply)
Well. Sort of. It was green and white anyway:
web.archive.org/web/20010723123310/http://www.b3ta.com/
(, Wed 1 Oct 2008, 22:00, Reply)
I liked this one:
web.archive.org/web/20010720191544/underground.zork.net/
I'm going to send it out to all of my friends and family as an early christmas gift!
(the above link is NSFW)
(, Thu 2 Oct 2008, 2:48, Reply)
Admittedly sometimes we ran out of ones and had to make do with just noughts.
(, Wed 1 Oct 2008, 22:54, Reply)
No facebook, my staff will get some work done! *installs as homepage on all work pc's*
(, Wed 1 Oct 2008, 21:51, Reply)
We had Usenet, FTP and Gopher.
What more could you want?
Who would ever need more than 3600 baud?
(and 640k)
(, Wed 1 Oct 2008, 22:50, Reply)
2001:
Porn - 4,490,000 pages
2008:
Porn - 217,000,000 pages
Either my maths is totally out or thats a phenomenal increase of about 4800%!
(, Wed 1 Oct 2008, 22:55, Reply)
I like the way that certain results link to the archives. I checked out notorious Saudi construction worker "Osama Bin Laden" and found the following news from 1998: "Saudi Arabia: Bin-Ladin, Others Sign Fatwa To 'Kill Americans' Everywhere".
I wonder what happened to that then?
(, Wed 1 Oct 2008, 23:30, Reply)
but didn't bother going to "landing 101".
(, Wed 1 Oct 2008, 23:48, Reply)