What is Digg?333 Comments
- chillmandan, on 10/11/2007, -15/+276Where's the porn?
- luke16, on 10/11/2007, -7/+250This is what digg.com looked like in 2004 http://web.archive.org/web/20041209040106/http://digg.com/
- Sayde, on 10/11/2007, -7/+173Sad thing is that I remember those days...
- MISDIREK7ED, on 10/11/2007, -1/+162Still looks better than MySpace!
- obliviousfool, on 10/11/2007, -1/+149I kinda miss that web sometimes. People put information online out of a sense of pride, or accomplishment, or to make an idea generally accessible. There wasn't really this whole ad-driven profit thing. The internet is a completely different creature these days.
- implied, on 10/11/2007, -2/+130Prodigy internet @ 2400bps > *
With REAL PICTURES! - richgustavson, on 10/11/2007, -2/+128Ahh, Angelfire, web-rings, animated horizontal line breaks, and Times New Roman. Those were the days.
- BlackStar77, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11810 BG (Before Goatse).
- 01001001, on 10/11/2007, -1/+91***** that...anyone here old enough to remember BBSes? We didn't need all that fancy 1994 graphical *****. Command line and ASCII art, baby!
- shoppingkart, on 10/11/2007, -5/+92Porn back then wasn't as good to watch. There were only 256 colors.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -13/+93to tell you the truth, much better than the seizure inducing crap that is todays web..
neatly formatted text and on-context images.. ah.. bliss. - aywwts4, on 10/11/2007, -0/+71For a real simulation pause the movie for roughly 20 secconds every time the page changes, make a cup of coffee, perhaps randomly make yourself wait 2 minutes, and make boop boop boop noises, Enjoy the experience.
- dirtyfratboy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+56I remember that my internet speed was so slow that I used the option to disable images from being loaded in my browser. Ghetto.
- vroom101, on 10/11/2007, -3/+52Lynx still is a useful browser!
- villainousT, on 10/11/2007, -0/+48I'm just glad all the ridiculous animated gifs are gone. Every once in a while I'll see them and it's good for a laugh.
- spudnic, on 10/11/2007, -0/+47Back in my day we had to listen to the internet over the phone and draw what the beeps told us to. It cost thruppence ha'penny per imperial minute. Of course back then there was no email because it was before the letter e had been invented.
- InfiniteNothing, on 10/11/2007, -0/+478008135
- RuffRidr, on 10/11/2007, -2/+48I remember then as well. A guy I worked with spent several days working to get Mosaic up and running. He had an article showing the different websites that were available that you could go to. There were probably less than 20 listed. He pulled up one of them and it was a coffee pot where you could monitor how full it was. I was less than impressed and didn't think it would take off. I guess I might have been wrong on that one.
- mattcoady, on 10/11/2007, -1/+44Why, back in our day, we didn't have your fancy-schmancy googles to find our porn. We would consult friends of friends and walk fifteen miles up the tubes, both ways. When we got there, the images were lossy and the video resolutions we're smaller than the vista video thumbnails. Now get off my lawn you damn whipper snappers.
- Snakedal337, on 10/11/2007, -0/+43*Sighh*
It had so much potential :-P - techpr, on 10/11/2007, -0/+39I'm connected to the Internet Now, I will send an email to info at digital.com for more information.
- mostapha, on 10/11/2007, -2/+39Kinda looks like reddit now.
- Coded1, on 10/11/2007, -3/+38it was good enough goddammit!
- wonderchemist, on 10/11/2007, -0/+35Back then there was a huge argument over .GIF (256 colors) vs. .JPG (2^24 colors). Now you think .JPG would always be better, but back then not all JPEG decoders could down-sample an image to fit a 256 color-space correctly, which lead to the common complaint "JPEGs suck, posts GIFs!"
- kamisama, on 10/11/2007, -0/+34Look no ads !
- rkritzer, on 10/11/2007, -0/+32I think my library's search engine still looks like that.
- AriaStar, on 10/11/2007, -1/+32Porn was in magazines. You know, those paper things every teenage boy stole from his dad and hid under his mattress.
I still remember my brother thinking he was all slick for stealing a Playboy. And he thought that I, his older sister, would be impressed. - stupergenius, on 10/11/2007, -1/+32OMG Java Chatrooms, talk about a misspent youth.
- nikkilai, on 10/11/2007, -0/+30I remember those days of AOL, dial-up, an unaesthetically pleasing Yahoo, slow java chatrooms...
- ngmcs8203, on 10/11/2007, -0/+30I always got a kick out of the under construction animated gif where the stick figure was shoveling away like a crazy digdug.
- ubuwalker31, on 10/11/2007, -1/+28On usenet's alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.hamster.duct-tape, thats where. Or on gopher or Archie.
- Nerfdude, on 10/11/2007, -0/+27i like how the narrator sounds like he's straight out of one of those 50's informational films.
"A global electronic mall is under construction!" - jeremymccurdy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+27If you wanted to wait a while.
- roostersheep, on 01/16/2009, -2/+29I just fixed the stylesheet error that came with the transfer over to archive.org, and in fact, digg.com looked closer to this rather low quality image...
http://img520.imageshack.us/my.php?image=picture1ml3.gif - knightblade2oo4, on 10/11/2007, -0/+24It's 2011?
- michaelfrankie, on 10/11/2007, -1/+24Buy AOL, Microsoft and Home Depot you fool! and for god sakes stay away from pet.com
- lgc90, on 10/11/2007, -5/+27Dugg for being a girl on digg.... talking about porn.
- trghpy, on 10/11/2007, -13/+35Ahhh, the good old days where Lynx was a useful browser.
- shadokast, on 10/11/2007, -1/+21wow, digg sure was different back then, not a single story on the iphone
- mapkinase, on 10/11/2007, -1/+20It is even sadder when you miss those days..
- simeonb, on 10/11/2007, -2/+21I used prodigy on a blue monochrome laptop and 'experimented' with sending email to a friend on AOL. I once asked my friend how to get to yahoo. I once ran up a $200 AOL bill downloading gifs of Beavis and Butthead that took 16 minutes, along with doom and heretic shareware (didn't know the cost until the bill came obviously). I once downloaded a 24 meg .mov overnight that took over 8 hours. The first time I used vi was when I was 11 (I didn't get too far). Is this the thread where we brag about being old school or am I in the wrong place?
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Please note that nowhere did I say I was knowledgeable, I just started very early. - yatoobin, on 10/11/2007, -0/+19wait...you mean it doesn't look like this anymore? damn you aol!!!
- Shorties, on 10/11/2007, -0/+18With GIF's couldn't they animate them too?
- speaker219, on 10/11/2007, -0/+18It actually looked more like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Digg1.6.png
Wayback Machine didn't catch the CSS. - vanadium77, on 10/11/2007, -2/+20I remember those days (I started using the Internet in '93) and, well, if you like the idea of doing everything via mail-order, it was great. There certainly weren't as many folks on the web back in those days (telnet, usenet, gopher, and IRC were still supreme) so anyone with a website got insane numbers of hits just (in proportion to how many people there were on the net) for putting their site up on whatever webserver they could find. They were great times, until the AOLers started invading. ;)
Digital was bought by Compaq in the 90s, who were then bought up by HP. that's why it links there now. - superrandomguy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+16apparently beige was a popular color back in 1994 for websites
- norbiu, on 10/11/2007, -2/+18Oh man, and when you dugg something it used to take you to a "thank you" page. Remember that?
- MikeonTV, on 10/11/2007, -2/+18nothing a little CSS wont fix
- michaelfrankie, on 10/11/2007, -2/+17They offer Bioinfomatics but no porn? Good lucky buddy, your going to need it!
- Scruffydan, on 10/11/2007, -0/+14A network called internet
http://archives.cbc.ca/400d.asp?id=1-75-710-4205 -
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