For all those nostalgic old farts (a good fraction of this here forum). There's a new place to relive the ancient days of the internet - you know 20-5 years ago (and beyond if you want to stretch the definition to ARPAnet):

article:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57559621-1/help-curate-the-big-internet-museum/

museum:
http://www.thebiginternetmuseum.com/

Open 24hrs a day, 7 days a week, closed only during Brazilian carnival for ... "obvious reasons"

Wow the spam exhibit.

"Today, roughly 130 billion spam e-mails are sent worldwide each day"

The most frightening thing about this exibit is that everything after IRC is what I would describe as "new fangled techno crap that I don't understand".

The other day I mentioned Contra on the NES. Someone in the forum said, "NES, yeah, my dad had one of those."

AHHHH!!!!!!!

Bookmarked. Thanks.

I'm old enough to remember a lot (ok, most) of that first-hand.

Ah come on, you skipped chat lingo. We all know the time saved from those saved the internet world from exploding!

which is a fairly big percentage of e-mails actually - according to the Museum total e-mails number 294 billion. So over a 1/3 of all e-mails sent in a day qualify as spam if the numbers are true.

what is it stuff like this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6TzAQXVpB8

Cool site, thanks
I remember most of the things on it, my dad got internet quite early.

Fucking beautiful.

This needs to be on GOG.

GOI? - Good Old Internet? Maybe they should have a section where it emulates what a 56K modem felt like - beeps, speed, and all, not just describe one.

GOI. That's an idea. The sad thing is that I'd actually like that.

Got a good chuckle out of that. These are scary times indeed!