Old Web Nostalgia in Deep Space

Description

The image is a surreal retro collage with a skeleton floating horizontally through outer space above a glowing Earth-like horizon. Large top text says, "I WANT TOO GO BACK TOO WHEN," and huge colorful 3D text at the bottom says, "COMPUTER'S WERE FUN." Smaller gray phrases scattered around the scene include "file's," "flash game's.", "secret world," "free web site's.", "disk's," and "no cop's no bosses." The meme expresses messy nostalgia for an older, less platform-policed era of personal computing, Flash games, file sharing, and strange independent websites.

Common Tags

TechNostalgia RetroComputing InternetCulture WebDevelopmentHistory SoftwareHistory DeveloperNostalgia FileSharing GamingCulture HackerCulture HistoricalReferences GenerationalHumor NerdHumor MemeCulture

Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick The old web was freer, but the apostrophe parser clearly shipped without tests.

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

The old web was freer, but the apostrophe parser clearly shipped without tests.
@Algoinde 2y

I feel like the scope of information increased tenfold so it's no longer possible to just "know computers", you inevitably fall into a narrow field, while being oblivious to the intricacies of some other component of IT the complexity of systems increased too, as a result you could read C code and more or less understand what's going on, now you're reading newer libraries' C++ with new paradigms and you're just completely lost
@endisn16h 2y

nah pluton aint fun, macs aint fun, arm64 aint fun, so on so forth
1. @SamsonovAnton 2y
  
  Wait, you mean Forth is fun? 🤔
  
  @endisn16h 2y
  
  :|
  
  @CcxCZ 2y
  
  Fun to write, not necessarily to read. :-P
@MrZarei 2y

It depends on your perception of "fun"
@pixelsex 2y

my disappointment in this apostrophe usage is immeasurable
@MagnusEdvardsson 2y

Just buy a C64 dude