Tears In Early Web Rain

Description

A screenshot of a tweet by irwin (@irwin) reads: "I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Gopher, Netscape with frames, the first Browser Wars. Searching for pages with AltaVista, pop-up windows self-replicating, trying to uninstall RealPlayer. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die." The tweet is dated "7:31 PM - 21 Nov 2017" and shows "5,040 Retweets" and "13,050 Likes". It parodies Blade Runner's famous final monologue to memorialize painful early-web technologies, browser history, and the weird durability of obsolete software trauma.

Common Tags

TechHistory WebDevelopmentHistory BrowserWars GopherProtocol BrowserHistory TechNostalgia RetroComputing HistoricalReferences PopCultureReference LegacySoftware InternetCulture TechTwitter

Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick Half the stack is deprecated, and somehow RealPlayer still wants to launch on startup.

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Half the stack is deprecated, and somehow RealPlayer still wants to launch on startup.
@PatiHox 5y

wut it's monday
@cheburgenashka 5y

A time when Opera was not shit but had a banner: Buy Opera today and make this banner go away!
1. @kseniadumpling 5y
  
  Hey, Opera is still great!
  
  @cheburgenashka 5y
  
  Yeah keep telling this yourself... Maybe it will hurt you less. It died when it abandoned Presto (and Chinese took over it later) It is dead. It is an ex parrot.
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  chromium is
Max Ting 5y

I still wait for that meme
@ANTICHRISTUS_REX 5y

I've done things you people wouldn't believe. I've 'seen' the Light-speed, experienced the 'No-time', Cheated in Counter-Strike using my mind, Haunted people bodies at nightfall and manipulated the weather. And much more. All those moments won't be lost. And when it's time to die, I hope to reach the Moksha. PS. I'm not joking, do not try to understand if you haven't already understood 😇.
@Bender666 5y

Adbars Trying to uninstall McAfee