Bend, Oregon
I'm down with this
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rainbowbunny@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 month ago Guck that, move it to summer 2001 so we can at least use ICQ and constantly warn everyone about 9/11
honestly right now ain’t so bad. we got microbreweries and shit.
Flower@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Anything with a processor inside of it and connected to a high speed internet connection will enshittify. One wat is to limit CPU speed and internet, say use solar/wind powered mesh routers instead of fiber connections, so good enough to get info and simple communication, not enough for lots of pictures and video. That means you need a blockbuster for video.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 1 month ago
Blockbuster doesn’t carry pornography.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They don’t carry anything
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 1 month ago
That’s not entirely true.
kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
and the economic crisis?
neidu3@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I think I have enough hardware laying around to serve as a dialup ISP for this. And the upstream bandwidth I already have is probably more than that of my dialup ISP 30 years ago.
SalmonTractor@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Instead of AIM, MeshCore. Cheap, off-net, encrypted, solar-powered, simple.
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This guy is doing it https://openpath.quest/2026/i-am-retiring-from-tech-to-live-offline
AI was the last straw. Have you heard of that island off India where the indiginous population kills any outsiders fool-hardy enough to land? They are doing the rest of us a favor by preserving a way of life we may need again someday, or at the very least should not want to see completely extinguished. A reminder. Never forget your roots. Here in Pennsylvania we have the Amish performing a similar function. Significantly less hostile, though still set apart, they bear witness to what was normal for all of us a couple short centuries ago: horse and buggy, wood stoves and lanterns. My intent is to be AI Amish, which means Internet Amish. Not 1780, but 1980. Neo-Amish. I’m fine driving a car and flipping a lightswitch, by which I mean that they don’t make me into something I hate, which AI and doomscrolling do.
Zorque@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The technology isnt the problem, though. Its how people are using it that is.
This is just the “80s were so much better… as ling as you werent gay” or “50s were so much better… as long as you werent black” but for the 90s.
The people making our lives arent going to stop just cause you slap a fresh coat of
denialnostalgia over it.
mlg@lemmy.world 1 month ago 
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago Count me in.
fireweed@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Can we keep the “no smoking inside commercial establishments” policy at least? Otherwise I’m down.
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Also can we keep the progress (what little there has been) we made for LGBTQ folks?
a_random_fox@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
As long as we make it taste like pizza hut from the early 90s, cause they went down hard and their pizza is kind of ass, now.
Drewmeister@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Take me back to the time when I would finish before the bottom half of jenna jameson even manages to load
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Well, with dial-up that could be 10 minutes.
You’d still beat me by 50 minutes, though.
paultimate14@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I would probably choose the era of roughly 2012-2016.
Blockbuster went out of business for a reason. It was worse than Redbox and worse than Netflix’s mail service. And eventually Netflix’s streaming reached a magical peak where it was still affordable and had a great library. Almost everything was either Netflix or Hulu, and HBO waa only for really expensive high-budget stuff. Used to be Disney movies on Netflix.
Also… Idk how old this tweet is but it’s weird to suddenly zee Nikki Limo pop up. I used to really enjoy her Tasty Tuesday show years ago.
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Your wish is granted. You’ll forever live Trump’s first campaign
paultimate14@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Better the campaign than the presidency
Also technically his first campaign was in 2000. Officially, 2016 was his 2nd campaign. Unofficially, it was his 4th.
TIEPilot@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Oh we need LAN parties too! Bawls and pizza and Total Annihilation!
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
ICQ, please. Mine was 737916.
ilovededyoupiggy@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago I had a six digit number too and I have unfortunately forgotten what it was and this is now one of my life’s greatest disappointments.
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Mine was using the password “buddha” for my ICQ account and getting it stolen by somebody in Russia. Shameful.
TIEPilot@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Have you seen those Pizza Hut Classics? Old school as hell!
WolvenSpectre@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Me watching the original Matrix “That filthy guy willing to betray humanity just to be a little happy” Me living in the post covid/trump ruins the world/Jewish people doing a genocide… “Hook me up, you don’t even have to make me rich, but that Joey Pants was on to something”
Enkrod@feddit.org 1 month ago
Honestly, the 90s was a shit time for many LGBTQ people and often PoCs as well. Can we have (at least) todays levels of wokeness? Oh and today levels of healthcare… and today levels of assistive technology for people needing assistance, oh and…
chaogomu@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Treat it like a Ren Faire.
Wear the No Fear shirts and carry a Walkman, but do it for fun.
Sit back, watch some Reading Rainbow or Erie Indiana.
Maybe sing the Song that Never Ends.
It’s all play acting, but it’s nice. Especially if we focus on the nice parts of the 90s, the stuff that led to the wokeness of today.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 1 month ago
We don’t need to recreate every aspect.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah I really don’t want to have to lie to my doctor and say I’m into men to get my estrogen
mojo_raisin@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ya, and maybe we can have “Blockbuster’s” and it’ll be a co-op clone of the og.
Sc00ter@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Is a co-op clone just a community library with extra steps?
Enkrod@feddit.org 1 month ago
I’m down for anything co-op
Rhaedas@fedia.io 1 month ago
Black Mirror’s San Junipero.
It’s interesting how so many virtual realities tend to offer the 80s-90s as the best world to be in.
pumpupthejam@piefed.social 1 month ago
Sounds like oomer behavior.
NickwithaC@lemmy.world 1 month ago I can’t tell if you meant boomer or zoomer and now I think you did that on purpose because both work.
ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago i’m still gonna run around with an Shenandoah beard, wide hat and wil clothes, and you can’t stop me
PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 1 month ago
What’s a Shenandoah beard?
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 1 month ago
Basically a reverse hitler.
MunkyNutts@lemmy.world 1 month ago
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The nightmare of the 90s is alive in Ft Wayne
Shortstack@reddthat.com 1 month ago
Bruh it’s been gentrified for a long time
Gresham, the former sketchy part of town is posh now lol
RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You’re shockingly close to the plot of The Matrix.
Karjalan@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Also, tangentially, the plot of project zomboid. Basically the zombie apocalypse happens in the late 90s so the survivors are stuck there forever
rustyfish@piefed.world 1 month ago
More like The Village by M Knight Shamalambalan.
I would sign up?
lividweasel@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Whoa, Black Betty, Shyamalan
Godort@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Me in 1999: Really? This is the peak of human civilization? Everything sucks though.
Me now: Maybe they were onto something
MoffKalast@lemmy.world 1 month ago
“I say your civilization, because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization.” - ChatGPT
mrmisses@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Lost me at allowing AOL. I was there as a teenager for the first AOL and looking back it was not a good thing.
SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Warning for /u/mrmisses: 12:15:11 PM You’ve been warned by /u/SpruceBringsteen. Your warning level has increased from 0% to 20%.
otacon239@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Really, you have the opportunity to recreate the past and I’m stuck with AIM? I’ll stick to XMPP and IRC thanks.
Kirp123@lemmy.world 1 month ago
IRC is the shit. I remember wasting so many hours as a teenager just shooting the shit with random people.
Malica@lemmy.zip 1 month ago Our parents playing with fire
HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social 1 month ago Come waste some more hours, I posted the details of the network I’m on in a other comment in this thread (dont want to spam it too much and make people upset about it). Its very active and full of cool people :)
Rhaedas@fedia.io 1 month ago
My channels were niche ones with the same regular people. A safe place to hang out and talk about anything. It was my introvert version of going to the mall.
BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Or at least ICQ!
bizarroland@lemmy.world 1 month ago
We should also have a couple of BBSs that run multiple MUDs.
LoremIpsumGenerator@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Skate parks, bmx(s), towering ice cream, starcraft on battlenet.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 1 month ago
AmyAye@nord.pub
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 month ago
IRC and newsgroups, too. Self hosted websites and forums.
I hate to be the regressive, but yeah…this was better.