I never get tired of this. Still makes me fucking giggle years later!
Spiderman: Friend or Foe.
Yes. They thought planes would be literally falling out of the sky. Was ridiculous, but it sums up the purpose of American mass media rather nicely.
Y2K was real, but mostly a mainframe/COBOL thing. Lots of old timers were pulled out of retirement and made crazy bank in '99. The media did overhype it, as they tend to do with just about everything.
i would probably get one of these if it was real (or is it?), gives me sort of an old but new/futuristic feeling? something that would probably fit in a Blade Runner alike world?..maybe itâs the display or something, donât knowâŚ
hear that dude
Itâs so sad. You donât see internet art like you used to. A lot of internet history is lost, Flash was really amazing for artists
this one was it for me and the circle I was in at the time. You can only watch it as a video now. Oculart
https://bash-org-archive.com/ I spent too much time on the old bash dot org.
I think the melancholy and broadly generalizable truth here is that the internet was better/more creative/more interesting/more fun before people figured out how to use it to make money. Masterâs tools 
Damn thatâs awesome, totally an aesthetic Iâd like to use for my own work but I lack the knowledge or skill to put it together. Reminds me a lot of the crazy shit lurking on the fringes of Newgrounds.
I discovered the band Jaga Jazzist through weird Flash stuff. There was an interactive animation called Karnov Pokey Thing that I cannot find for the life of me anymore, it was a trippy kaleidoscope thing which played Animal Chin by Jaga Jazzist. The rest is history. 
For me the nostalgia is Mosaic browser, Yggdrasil Linux, and dialling in my 28k8 modem to the SGI Indys at the university where a friend of mine studied (gave me a permanent user/password). CuSeeMe, BBSâes, etc. Great times exploring that new phenomenon called Internet.
Man, I havenât listened to Jaga Jazzist in years - indeed their stuff is great from memory. Time to revisit - cheers for the bump!
actually this thread is making me throw back a bit. there used to be a uk label and website called insine.net. you canât find anything on it now, url is over, pre-wayback I suppose. But it was a bit like oculart in vibe.
Iâm imagining back to being on one of those translucent bubble iMacs with a puck mouse, on os9. I can still see the pixels on that tft display.
But the label had a very different ethic, pre-streaming, pre-torrent, all music was available for free, url link via download, it was just a long run of artist names as hyperlinks that read like track listings on an autechre album.
A friend and I just used to sit their scraping albums down all day, burning them to cd or recording to minidisc, which took ages. I still have some of the stuff on minidisc. It was so obscure, abstract minimal, ambient. really between field recordings and electronica.
itâs funny thinking back to that time. Zip drives that held like 200mb. Digital cameras were like big hamburgers. And you had to use a computer to get on the internet, no portable online devices yet. It was a small slice in time where the internet was reasonable but very much contained to desktop terminals.
It was that thing where âcreative commonsâ as an ethic was emerging, free, no copyright values of music. unknown, unsigned artists: insine
Itâs funny how some parts of time and tech seemed to go by in a flash, theyâre part of a movement forward, then we arrive to others which feel much longer. This current phone tech time feels like itâs gone for a really long time - like 15+ years now almost. And even though it improves itâs the same general vibe that hasnât really changed yet