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[Willco]

... And you didn't have to be an Insider to read IGN64.com!
... Sandbox had free fantasy games!
... FGNOnline.com updated every morning!
... Napster was free!
... Undergrounds.com was the scourge of society!
... Flash ads didn't exist!
... NetZero was free!
... GameSpy was good!
... We all used WinAmp!
... Nintendojo could afford to send staffers to E3 to ask developers questions in bungled Japanese!
... Magazine racks were safe!
... There was that one week where The Matrix was awesome and had no shitty sequels and Star Wars was awesome and had not shitty prequels!
... People thought THIS was cool!

Good times. Good times.

 

[Date of Lies]

"cool"? You mean back when girls didn't use it?

 

[Cerebral Palsy]

I remember this time you speak of

 

[Rorschach]

Indeed. Doesn't seem like that long ago, but it's actually been a while. Good times.

RIP Gamespy.

 

[rc213]

Hey....Heeeeey.... Hamsters are still cool.

 

[impirius]

N64.com
next-generation.com

Good times, good times

 

[galeninjapan]

I miss the care free days of Napster.

 

[Boomer]

...Nintendojo could afford to send staffers to E3 to ask developers questions in bungled Japanese!

Don't forget....he was wearing a ninja headband.

I remember when Brandon posted DRCs every day.

 

[Willco]

Hey, I'm so old school that I remember when Brandon posted DRCs on the front page! Plus, my best friend is THE SUPREME READER. Top that!

 

[Boomer]

Hey, I'm so old school that I remember when Brandon posted DRCs on the front page! Plus, my best friend is THE SUPREME READER. Top that!

I forgot who that was. Carl Johnson?

 

[Mike Works]

Holy shit, I forgot about FGN!

 

[Willco]

I forgot who that was. Carl Johnson?

Yeah. He won an award too, for one of his E3 Experience thingies from IGN. I should ask him if he still has it.

 

[StoOgE]

plus, back in the day you could get on AIM and would know about 30 people on it (like actually know them in real life) and you could chat for HOURS about whatever the fuck. That might still be the case were I still in high school, I dunno.

Plus, all the stuff that is on the net that is played out was new and funny..

monkey drinking piss.
donald duck getting a BJ
Dahler Mehndi
All your Base are Belong to us

the internet hasnt actually had a new idea in YEARS... its just someone thinks they find something new, posts it, everyone laughs, realizes they laughed at it 5 years ago and goes off on the poor 12 year old who thought he was cool.

Although, I still prefer this internet to the net back when Magellian was the search engine of choice, Mozaic was the browser, all pages were grey with black text and it still took 5 hours to load a page... and AOL didnt even have the real internet.

 

[Willco]

Fuck AIM. Back THEN, everyone used ICQ!

 

[Culex]

I miss the Gaming Intelligence Agency and old (not current) Nintendorks :-(

I guess I'm the only one who misses Daily Radar, too.

 

[StoOgE]

Fuck AIM. Back THEN, everyone used ICQ!

I was never that into ICQ.. but yeah, alot of people had it.. then yahoo and everyone else came out with thier IM system... so some fucktards are all like "Yeah, I'll start using Yahoo IM so I'll be cool and different" and before you knew it you had about 30 different IM services installed on your PC so you could talk to everyone.

Of course, this was back in the day before adware was a serisous problem, so it was all good.

 

[rc213]

I remember all the l33t hackers with their AOL Punters. :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol

 

[GLoK]

Fuck AIM. Back THEN, everyone used ICQ!

This is the truth.

I remember when I first got ICQ. On the ICQ homepage, it was talking about how the UIN would be your personal identifier, and in the not so distant future, ICQ was in a position to become the next way of giving contact to a person. On your business card, you'd have your land line number, cell number, fax number, and your UIN.

I was like "WHOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA, WAVE OF THE FUTURE MAN!"

 

[nomoment]

RIP Daily Radar

 

[Willco]

I guess I'm the only one who misses Daily Radar, too.

I miss the paychecks I used to get from them, but not getting mocked and ridiculed everytime other staffers wrote retarded articles. Like that guy who reviewed Book of Shadows: Blair Witch Project 2 and called it the best sequel since The Empire Strikes Back.

 

[FortNinety]

monkey drinking piss.
donald duck getting a BJ
Dahler Mehndi
All your Base are Belong to us

Ah, good times, good times...

 

[Mugen]

It's called DAILY GAYDAR guys. Fuck I hate them and their anti-Nintendo rants. I mean wut's the point of a Nintendo section if they only update it once a week. FUCK EM.

 

[MC Safety]

I miss the paychecks I used to get from them, but not getting mocked and ridiculed everytime other staffers wrote retarded articles. Like that guy who reviewed Book of Shadows: Blair Witch Project 2 and called it the best sequel since The Empire Strikes Back.

He wasn't a staffer. He was a freelancer and we all wanted to strangle him.

That was the worst review ever.

 

[Burger]

This is the truth.

I remember when I first got ICQ. On the ICQ homepage, it was talking about how the UIN would be your personal identifier, and in the not so distant future, ICQ was in a position to become the next way of giving contact to a person. On your business card, you'd have your land line number, cell number, fax number, and your UIN.

I was like "WHOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA, WAVE OF THE FUTURE MAN!"

Haha yeah that shit was awesome, and it made that little "Uh-oh" sound when you got a message!! Those were the days.

And then ICQ became a big advert that you signed into to get more ads, plus some spam if you especcialy didn't want it.

 

[Aruarian Reflection]

It's called DAILY GAYDAR guys. Fuck I hate them and their anti-Nintendo rants. I mean wut's the point of a Nintendo section if they only update it once a week. FUCK EM.

Maybe if Nintendo decided to put out more games. LOL AM I RITE?!

 

[GG-Duo]

and now it's a bloated, slow piece of crap that's playing catch-up with MSN messenger. It also forces you to upgrade even if you don't want to.

Man... why didn't they just keep ICQ 98 around?

 

[AntoneM]

Hotmail wasn't owned by Microsoft.

I remeber being proud of my 6 digit ICQ uin

 

[FortNinety]

So exactly how many people here wrote for Daily Radar anyway?

 

[andthebeatgoeson]

Holy shit, I forgot about FGN!

FGN was probably what got me hooked. Not only did you have nightly updates of all the big sites to check up on but now, you had to check in during the morning/midday. I remember going to the computer lab just to catch FGN and what happened the previous night.

 

[StoOgE]

So exactly how many people here wrote for Daily Radar anyway?

between them and next gens web staff, I think about half the net wrote for them at one point or another.

 

[Pochacco]

-Jay Boor @ PSMonline.com
-n64.com
-morning updates with FGNOnline.com
-rpgamer.com
-made money with alladvantage
-icq!
-gaming age didn't suck
-webcrawler.com!



It's not so bad nowadays...
-google.com
-gmail
-maps.google.com
-engadget.com
-msn messenger
-bitorrent!!!

Actually, the net rocks nowadays. I think it's just nostalgia.

 

[galeninjapan]

I remember back before i had broadband and I wanted to download a demo for a game I would have to have the DL going all night. LOL I used to download demos for some pretty shitty games.

 

[MC Safety]

So exactly how many people here wrote for Daily Radar anyway?

Stinkles was my boss when I was there. I did the Sega part of Daily Radar.

I think Galaron visits Gaming Age now and again. He was the PC guy.

One of my co-workers from Xbox Nation posts here sometimes, too. I'm not sure what his screen name is, but he worked as a staff writer for us.

 

[Burger]

Things I remember:

-Stileproject wasn't totally porno, and didn't have 50 spin offs.
-XXXPasswords flowed like wine
-Warez Websites were all the rage (and totally sucked)
-Netscape always sucked
-IE for the Mac had tabbed browsing/sidebar
-Richard Kyanka was the sole author of Something Awfull, and it was great.
-Using Altavista/Infoseek for searching (haha they suck shit now)

 

[aoi tsuki]

Sailor Moon MP2s
Saturnworld
94MB of hand downloaded porn that suffered the Zip drive Click of Death
Newsgroups actually being usable vs. spam, idiots, spam

 

[galeninjapan]

What was the zip drive click of death?

 

[Cubsfan23]

I remember all the l33t hackers with their AOL Punters. :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol

:lol :lol

 

[Teknopathetic]

The lack of worrying about pop-ups.
There was no spyware.
You could find 100s of new things on the internet every day. I dunno about you guys, but when I first got the internet (like 95-96 on MSN) it seemed like there was stuff for me to waste my time on *daily*. New stuff too. I also miss Netwits and Spike's world. And Heat.NET.

 

[aoi tsuki]

What was the zip drive click of death?

Insert a Zip disk into a Zip drive, and access it.

KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK
*spin*
KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK
*spin*
KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK
*spin*

No files found.

 

[demi]

Hotmail wasn't owned by Microsoft.

I remeber being proud of my 6 digit ICQ uin

don't forget the 3chr names on aol

 

[goodcow]

I miss SegaNet and Saturn World.

 

[impirius]

Hotmail wasn't owned by Microsoft.

I remeber being proud of my 6 digit ICQ uin

HoTMaiL!

I remember that they kept a lot of the old code even after the MS buyout; HoTMaiL was in a lot of the URLs.

And 647684!

 

[Che]

RIP Daily Radar

 

[Deleted member 1159]

My old ICQ UIN was 209606. UH OH!

And of course the whatever horn that blew when you opened the damn thing, I always had my speakers up and it'd scare the crap out of me.

I also remember seeing the ULTRA 64 on Nintendo's website back in the day. Quake Team Fortress was the bomb.com, Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II was even better and Starcraft ruled until the Koreans ruined it ^^

All my gaming went through Microsoft's Zone.com, the ultimate in matchmaking! X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter was the best flight sim ever. My brother actually won a tournament in XvT at a local cyber cafe circa '96 or '97...Got 100 bucks and a bunch of other stuff.

Robotech MP2s were my fetish too. Still probably have them burned to an old school CDR somewhere

 

[Gazunta]

N64HQ.com

 

[Cerebral Palsy]

I still use ICQ

 

[Pochacco]

"uh oh!" rocked. I'm gonna change my MSN soundbite..

 

[aoi tsuki]

"uh oh!" rocked. I'm gonna change my MSN soundbite..

It was also used in a song by Prozzak ("Strange Disease" IIRC). i'm not making that up.

 

[Hitokage]

I remember when getting sound in an SNES emulator was a big thing.

Oh, and Netbus/Back Orifice and when C:\CON\CON still worked wonders.

 

[Sagitario]

Those were the good old times, almost everything amazed you... the Internet is boring now...