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Viral Stuff Before Reddit, FB etc

  • 27-03-2017 2:06pm
    #1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,380 ✭✭✭


    Just 'membering the old days of the Intewebs, pre facebook, reddit etc, and trying to think of where all the viral stuff that you'd get forwarded in emails etc was hosted?

    4chan is about as far as I can think back, yet that's only started in 2003.

    Anyone remember the old sites that went the way of myspace and became extinct/ irrelevant?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    I reMembR all Da puRRRRe StunNahs on Bebo xoxoxo PUt meee in Ur toP 16 bbz xoxoxoxoxo


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,544 ✭✭✭irlrobins


    b3ta.com


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,400 ✭✭✭me_irl


    Dancing Baby!

    Most of it was probably hosted on GeoCities.


  • Registered Users Posts: 23,442 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    Usenet groups?


  • Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,717 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    Chat rooms where all the rage. mIRC and CollegeChat were good fun.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,100 ✭✭✭ectoraige




  • Registered Users Posts: 2,100 ✭✭✭ectoraige


    Oh, and memepool.com was a great time waster.


  • Registered Users Posts: 40,059 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    Chat rooms where all the rage. mIRC and CollegeChat were good fun.


    The good ol' days of A/S/L.


  • Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    HIV was really viral back before the internets


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete


    I remember first hearing about the Tommy Lee & Pamela Anderson's honeymoon video in a chat room.

    It was the porn star Asia Carrera's chat room... called Asia Chat (here's what it looked like). Was in a somewhat serious accident a couple of years later and Asia sent me autographed photo of herself topless. True story.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    The funnies in Ireland's Own were all the rage.
    Cousins from down the shticks would post them up to us jackeens...


  • Registered Users Posts: 34,276 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    First time I ever heard the phrase if I remember correctly was around when the first Blair Witch Project film was released.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭Noveight


    Wasting hours playing flash games on TeaGames. Gr8 banter.


  • Registered Users Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


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  • Registered Users Posts: 12,808 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    I remember rotten.com - had fcuking nightmares for days after seeing that for the first time.
    This would have been around 01/02 I think.
    I remember using bearshare as well, would download songs and videos from it, it would take an age though - think a song took the guts of a few hours and a movie would be well into 3 days.
    Parents weren't happy with the phone bill..


  • Registered Users Posts: 316 ✭✭sureitsgrand


    Email forwards.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,338 ✭✭✭cml387


    I remember when email was being rolled out to more of our colleagues who were then let loose on the interweb.

    It wasn't long before we'd get an email warning us about a new virus that will wipe your hard drive, there's no defence and that it was just announced by Microsoft this morning.
    Or the "joke" about the British/American/ Russian navy and the lighthouse. Or the technical faults submitted by pilots and the witty reply by the mechanics.


  • Registered Users Posts: 40,059 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    The first email virus is remember is ILOVEU in 1999. The number of people who did a Reply All on that and spread it further was comical.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,387 ✭✭✭D0NNELLY


    Buzzchat.com


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86






    and of course, ring ring ring ring ring ring ring... banana phone!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    bear1 wrote: »
    I remember rotten.com - had fcuking nightmares for days after seeing that for the first time.
    This would have been around 01/02 I think.
    I remember using bearshare as well, would download songs and videos from it, it would take an age though - think a song took the guts of a few hours and a movie would be well into 3 days.
    Parents weren't happy with the phone bill..

    I remember the first phone bill we got after the internet was put in back in 1999 was something like £300... think it was 6 months later before I had worked it off. :o

    I also remember being delighted at how fast a song was downloading on Napster when it managed get to *drum-roll*... 5 kbps!!


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,643 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu




  • Registered Users Posts: 12,808 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    Billy86 wrote: »
    I remember the first phone bill we got after the internet was put in back in 1999 was something like £300... think it was 6 months later before I had worked it off. :o

    I also remember being delighted at how fast a song was downloading on Napster when it managed get to *drum-roll*... 5 kbps!!

    Ahhh napster! I remember the controversy when it was shut down.


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,432 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


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    And for our younger viewers who have no clue what you're on about...



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,400 ✭✭✭me_irl


    You're the man now dog!


  • Registered Users Posts: 25,593 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    And before the interwebs, we used to get funny stuff off the fax machine


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 652 ✭✭✭DanielODonnell


    Limewire in early 2000s, you used to download a clip of a football goal and it ended up being a porn clip.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete


    Or more frustratingly... sometimes vice versa :P


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,385 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    When I started in university in 1991, I got my first ever e-mail account (well, two of them) and our version of the Internet was the newsgroups. Among my favourites were stuff like:
    rec.music.industrial
    rec.sport.soccer
    alt.music.nick-cave
    alt.tv.twin-peaks

    You'd get different newsgroups with lyrics of all the songs of your favourite bands, film scripts, football statistics, whatever. I don't know who originally compiled them but they'd always welcome suggestions for improvements/additions.

    As far as I can remember, there was very little nastiness.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete


    As far as I can remember, there was very little nastiness.

    Yeah. The most heated thing I ever seen back in the IRC days was when someone posted a funny anecdote and another user, who meant to reply with 'LMAO', typed 'LAMO' instead. Convinced was the other user that what they had just said had been labelled 'lame'... mayhem broke out over 56k dial up.


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