::Opus suddenly appears out of a cloud of black smoke::
Greetings, bar patrons. I am Opus.
Online Host: Opus rolled 2 6-sided dice: 2 5
30s/m/your mom's house
We didn't use the AOL ISP for very long in our house. I did everything I could do to get my mom to get us a different ISP, since everyone at the school computer club made fun of it for being "newbie Internet"
I did use AOL IM for over a decade probably though.
I do remember those RP chat rooms vaguely but that's an old memory.
It seems like I'm always talking about how I wish there was a version of neocities that had fewer children. Then I think it through and realize that's like saying, "I wish there was a version of Nickelodeon that had fewer children." It doesn't really make sense. The early years of neocities where it was all nerds from HN was always going to be temporary.
Meanwhile there are small web services that are intrinsically more appealing to adults where we could be connecting with others. Bear blog reminds me of a stripped down, non-corporate, FOSS inspired LiveJournal for the 2020s.
I've only just started messing around with it but here's some links:
Main Site: https://bearblog.dev/
Discover Blogs: https://bearblog.dev/discover/
I started one, although there's nothing there yet except bad omens. https://nobo.bearblog.dev/
I'm going to try to update this thread with links to interesting bear blog posts so feel free to do that if you want.
Sleep is mostly back in order again. But I slept in today just a little bit too long, probably because I was having the most fucked up dreams ever. It was not good dreams either.
I should have written down what I remembered but it's all lost now that I've been awake all day.
I had a dream that one of my servers got hacked. I was on the phone with some guy who was playing vigilante white hat. And he was saying, "I need to report an issue? Can you go to your computer?" So I go there and the site is completely defaced. So... I immediately click the phone off and disconnect the server. But weirdly when I go to the domain, it's still loading a defaced site, which means they didn't hack my server, they got into my DNS records or something.
The weirdest thing about this dream is how vividly I was processing tech problems. I guess it's not so bad when you can diagnose the issue in your sleep.
These guys are awesome. It's historically accurate that ninjas and pirates both had their faces eaten off by dinosaurs. In TV and movies they like to portay the dinosaur in a fantasy way, like not grinding rails on skateboards and other things that dinosaurs were known to do.
No need to explain. No need to point us to the front page of anything. Just give us the most random thing on neocities/nekoweb/whatever. It can be your page. It can be someone else's page.
https://goeshard.nekoweb.org/picard
https://goeshard.neocities.org/getout
You try.
it's this status updating website that you can post to anonymously. Statuses will auto delete in 48 hours. It seems like its very new and not a lot of people know about it yet. Could be fun to mess with it.
I have black and white puma high tops that I keep clean like a black person would. I don't wear them unless I know there won't be mud and stuff like that.
Then... yeah, I have that old basic ass black tennis shoes that I wear through anything.
Having a job where you're on your feet all day makes it worth it to get new shoes so they're not old but yeah.
My shoes are probably 3 or 4 years old and don't have any holes in them yet
This is a thread for discussing, link sharing, gossiping about, and advertising forum websites ...
My favorite forums are old, but old can have downsides. A lot of times the community will have changed a lot from the past (Something Awful) or the users will be really bitter about the fate of their communities (&totse). From a new user's perspective, old can also mean more impenetrable.
Perhaps the best forums are just the ones that are so niche and the users are so fixated that its impossible for their core idenity to be lost.
I prefer forums that don't have huge documents of rules and mission statements, but that's a personal preference.
Here is Something Awful in 2004
https://web.archive.org/web/20040804005305/http://forums.somethingawful.com/
This is the best example I've seen of a modernized old forum.
At some point they switched to discourse.
https://boards.straightdope.com/
I never knew about the old one but it's pretty neat that they've been around for so long and someone's been holding it together and keeping people posting in an on topic way.
Very much an effort posting forum.
You can poke around on the old one, too.
https://web.archive.org/web/20110320033400/http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/
Since I'm not from this community, I don't feel comfortable telling you what it is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOTSE
You can explore it here.
https://web.archive.org/web/20010202061000/http://totse.com/
The site no longer exists but it spawned a child forum, zoklet.
That forum died, and it spawned a child, NiS. https://niggasin.space
I probably wouldn't have started with racial jokes in the title of the forum since it seems the effect is that people rarely post unless they are shitposting. But overall I like the freedom of the place and its a window into the world that used to be totse.com. I believe that's part of their identity anyway: formerly being an information resource for taboo topics, and now just being composed of shit posters that know each other from the past.
There's also this one, although I haven't looked at it much: https://newtotse.com/
https://www.freeones.com/forums/
literally a porn site with forums, up since 1998
the whole forum went behind a paywall last month
it used to be funny because you could go all the way back to 1999 and looking at what porn sharing culture looked like back then. it's probably not worth paying for though.
I never posted on forums much unless you count RYM.
But have you heard of the Kanye West forum?
https://www.kanyetothe.com/forums/
Most people left that forum and started a new forum
It's a general hip hop forum now, not focused on Kanye anymore, more active.
Do Odinists really think that the old, one-eyed god who hung nine days and nights on the windswept Æsc tree, sacrificing himself to himself, wouldn't smash on a big booty latina? Thunor himself was the offspring of a Giantess. If the ancients of northern Europe had a chance to enjoy foreign fruit, they absolutely would have unless they were retarded inbred faggots.
I agree that the old gods of northern Europe are intrinsically tied to European culture and anyone who has no respect for celebrating that shouldn't invoke them. But racial mixing is based.
the aesir and the jotun aren't different species but different rival families that live in different places.