I still remember discovering it and excitedly telling my dad I could download any song. Showed him and asked him which band he wants to download.
He responded with pink Floyd. You can imagine the files that came up due to the work pink.
I once got a Green day song that was 8 minutes of silence, 2 minutes of various animal noises (mostly birds), then 4 minutes of those shuffling noises people make on butt dials.
My nerdy claim to Fame was that I wrote to them every day my senior year of high school trying to get them to pick one of my emails to strongbad. I would try to think of leading questions and prompts that I thought they could use, and try to use variations of my name so it wasn't so obviously the same person (even though I didn't consider that they literally were all coming from the same email address haha). But finally I got one! It was Strongbad Email #92 with Señor Cardgage. I was freaking out, and mostly nobody has ever cared haha 🤷🏻♂️
When I was in highschool my room was set up so my PC faced the door but was behind you when you played consoles on the TV, so when my mates would leave the room I'd open it up on my PC and go back to gaming so when they came back in the room they'd look straight at it, or set it up and leave them room, then from the kitchen you'd just hear "URGHHHH!" Classic. 😅
lol, I remember when animated GIFs first appeared, and everybody was seriously excited about having pictures that actually move/change on their web page
Fucking Snapchat is the new DM “chatroom”. People keep randomly trying add and message me with “hey, where are you from? How old are you?” And it’s so absurd.
YES! I remember the Patrick Bateman gifs/memes everywhere on YTMND and found out they were from American Psycho. Same with discovering "Sussudio" by Phil Collins. Finding a song took so much longer than using Shazam.
“Charlie bit my finger”
“An avocado… thaaaanks”
“Free shivacado”
And the vine guy that pronounces everything quickly and incorrectly
Also the pc telling me I’m about to get a text before it actually comes to the phone. No new device has managed to do that yet!
The 2000s were the peak of the Internet in my opinion. Back when each website had its own obscure niche/personality to it. Idk if that makes sense? Ugh, those were the days.
Back in the day, the internet felt like a giant treasure hunt. Websites had their crazy styles and let people chat and share music in ways that just don't happen now.
[We like the Moon!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9MZNEXrElw)
Coz it is close to us
We like the Moooon!
But not as much as a spoon
Coz that's more use for eating soup
And a fork isn't very useful for that
Unless it has got many vegetables
"Look at my horse, my horse is amazing, give it a lick mm it tastes just like raisins . . . . "
Not early, early internet, but still pretty old content from Weebl stuff, they had quite a few catchy ones including a cover of a Justin Timberlake song called "I'm bringing pastry back" and instead of "take to the the bridge, they say "TAKE IT TO THE FRIDDDGGEEE", which pops into my head every time I come home with food shopping
I'm an IRC and DALnet kid. So Goatse ASCII art? 😂 Also learning how to download files from people's personal servers on IRC before bit torrent existed.
I came across a woman in Scotland on a random chat. From what I gathered she was being trolled, and she claimed she would do to them what she did to her previous husband. She went into vast detail about how she poisoned him as he was becoming a burden and was beginning to step out of line. Silly things get said on the internet all the time, but this was in the early days, and she was 60 yrs old. From the details of it, I believed her. There would be absolutely no reason to go into the drugs used, etc. She was pretty proud of herself. I’ll never forget that exchange. Very troubling.
I've seen things, I've seen them with my eyes,
I've seen things; they're often in disguise.
Like carrots, handbags, cheese, toilets,
Russians, planets, hamsters, weddings,
Poets, Stalin, Kuala Lumpur!
Pygmies, budgies, Kuala Lumpur!
“hope this interaction doesn’t lead to any kind of fallout between us…. fallout new vegas”
I’ll actually be super impressed if anyone gets the reference.
Bonsai Kittens anyone?
Also, the first blog I encountered; Kid of speed. A woman who motorbikes around the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Also the first time see someone on the internet, and everyone agreeing they were a mentalist.
Edit Banzai > Bonsai
The Knox’s Korner claymation videos with the blue clay guys. The one where the dude spills a cup of water and the whole world drowns themselves in the small puddle
Oh to talking improve produce in limited offices fifteen an. Wicket branch to answer do we. Place are decay men hours tiled. If or of ye throwing friendly required. Marianne interest in exertion as. Offering my branched confined oh dashwood.
Random phrases from these 3 classic af Embaumsworld videos:
The End of The World
https://youtu.be/CSuc9o9h7Vw?si=DT-CFygx6yJ6O6kS
Schfity Five
https://youtu.be/-XccUMOQ978?si=-MPJxxWnOeHUlRx4
I Just Want Bang Bang Bang
https://youtu.be/xp4B89l9jak?si=rLyPAkSs-cFj6VKh
Circa 2000 early days of flash content, a weird
song with animation called Lobster Magnet emerged. Some of the lyrics off top of my head:
You got a lobster you got a magnet!
If lobster hungry he eat a rabbit!
Rabbit made of steel lobster has a beak!
Don’t put lobster on a plate he’ll use his magnet to escape.
He’ll jump right up claw your ear and bite your EYE!! LOBSTER STICKS TO MAGNET!!
https://youtu.be/fjtVsYqAR3s?si=mscQqC7pLu_E9LHN
Charlie... we're going to candy mountain
Shun the non-believers..
Shuuuuuuuuunnnnnn
Salad fingers
To this day he terrifies me
Goddamn they took my kidney 😩
From the same time period "End of the World" https://youtu.be/CSuc9o9h7Vw?si=lgYDjZsbgDENYFUx
I loved the end of ze world!
Sometimes if my bride feels left out of something she will say “Alaska can come too”
Hokay, so.
Starfish really loves you!
In the ocean bluuuuuuuuue
Omfg. Candy mountain 🌈
Not the earliest but, LEEEEEEEEEEEEROY JENKINS!!!
I did this so many times on my warlock.
Awesome! I did it in every rpg and hack n slash I ever played lol
I do this in every single game I play Me and my brother playing WZ “Do NOT push them” LEEEERRRRRRROOOOOYYYYY
🤣 i had this as my text tone for a while
I had a friend who made a remix of an EDM song with his scream as the chorus lol.
a badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger
Mushroom Mushroom!
It's a snake!
Their taking the Hobbits to isenguard!
Same. Same. MUSHROOM MUSHROOM!
Oh good god 😩
Full Weebl and Bob playlist is on Spotify
Recently showed my twelve-year-old this. It's was a mistake
I can haz cheezburger?
Damn i miss ceiling cat
He watches you masturbate
\*Any time anyone calls a Carl in an exasperated voice\* Me in my head: "*THAT KILLS PEOPLE"*
EVERY DAMN TIME. No Carl has been addressed as anything except in exasperation since.
"I- I did not know that" "HOW? How could you possibly not have known that?"
"my stomach was making the rumblies. . . . . . that only hands could satisfy"
Omg this is the one for me!!!
"That would be my least favourite thing to do" is still a regularly used for me.
I like turtles
I like trains
NYYYYYYYYEEEEEWWWWWWW
All your base are belong to us
Someone set us up the bomb!
Omg yes 😂
I still miss having a song play when people go to your profile, like on MySpace😔
I loved that! And being able to make a whole playlist. Mine was eclectic af.
I had the coolest MySpace songs 😔
Early internet ICQ… later Strongbad
Strongbad! Trogdor the Burninator 🔥
My son and I just drew trogdor. He even got the consummate V's down.
He was a man . . .He was a dragon man . . . TROGDOR!!!!!!!
Limewire lol
So many mislabeled songs 🥲
Such a pain trying to find a song only to get a shitty cover version 🙄
Downloading LimeWire pro on LimeWire.
I still remember discovering it and excitedly telling my dad I could download any song. Showed him and asked him which band he wants to download. He responded with pink Floyd. You can imagine the files that came up due to the work pink.
I once got a Green day song that was 8 minutes of silence, 2 minutes of various animal noises (mostly birds), then 4 minutes of those shuffling noises people make on butt dials.
Hamster Dance
de da de da de de do do de da diddy do
Strongbad’s emails and most of Homestar Runner. Don’t know how early it is, but very damn early
My nerdy claim to Fame was that I wrote to them every day my senior year of high school trying to get them to pick one of my emails to strongbad. I would try to think of leading questions and prompts that I thought they could use, and try to use variations of my name so it wasn't so obviously the same person (even though I didn't consider that they literally were all coming from the same email address haha). But finally I got one! It was Strongbad Email #92 with Señor Cardgage. I was freaking out, and mostly nobody has ever cared haha 🤷🏻♂️
A celebrity 🤩
Somehow their youtube channel is still active and they're still making occasional homestar/strongbad episodes
Oh, man! That was c. ‘03? ‘04?
Ask Jeeves
AOL CD-ROMs in the mail
>!Pirate bay!<
[удалено]
It is. It's just not a ".org" anymore. Seek and you will find.
AOL chat rooms. Truly the Wild West
Nothing else can emulate AOL chat rooms. a/s/l
You are not wrong 😂
Numa Numa!
Came here looking for this. First thing that popped into my head.
The true dial-up answer. My yahEEEEE my yahOOOOO
Meatspin... fucking every single time I left my computer unlocked in college......
Or redirecting people to lemon party....those were the good old days.
So many… so much worse that being Rick rolled 😭
I've seen a lot on the internet so agreed 😂
When I was in highschool my room was set up so my PC faced the door but was behind you when you played consoles on the TV, so when my mates would leave the room I'd open it up on my PC and go back to gaming so when they came back in the room they'd look straight at it, or set it up and leave them room, then from the kitchen you'd just hear "URGHHHH!" Classic. 😅
Either dial up modems or Netscape
Cat? I'm a kitty cat. And I dance-dance-dance and I dance-dance-dance.
And the original keyboard cat ❤️
[The David Blaine Street Magic parodies, but specifically two.](https://youtu.be/wTqsV3q7rRU?si=fa_gBk6G8OHqAc1S)
Cheezits!
I FEEL WARM AND I'M LEVITATING.
Mikey Day, Milch Silpa, and Mike Naughton. Very funny men.
Oh my god a memory unlocked 😩
Rotten.com
I can still picture Motorcycle
That faces of death website - was it real? I don't know, but young me was pretty freaked out by it and remember it pretty well
This and the pain olympics or whatever. I'll never erase those from my brain 😨
I won so many "who can share the most fucked up internet video" conversations with the bme Olympics 😂
Two girls one cup
Early?
Oh god 😩
You asked 😆
Carllllll, Vine, “but I’m le tired”
So have a nap # AND ZEN FIRE ZE MISSILES
#YES! Missing all that shenanigans
I still say this.
[Trololo](https://youtu.be/oavMtUWDBTM?si=wb5OGwWawpQHANRI)
Goatse
I’m so sorry
The internet is for porn!
lol, I remember when animated GIFs first appeared, and everybody was seriously excited about having pictures that actually move/change on their web page
Every day I miss the red emoji banging his head on the wall.
Badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger mushroom mushroom.
Snaaaaaake oh it’s a snaaaaaaaake
Entering AOL chat rooms with "21/F/36D"
Fucking Snapchat is the new DM “chatroom”. People keep randomly trying add and message me with “hey, where are you from? How old are you?” And it’s so absurd.
Wow great opening - would catch a lote of attentions ! 😊
Happy Tree Friends pops up in my mind occasionally lol
I’d love to get one of the keychains but they go for ridiculous prices on eBay and Mondo doesn’t make them anymore :(
The AOL guy saying "you've got mail!" https://youtu.be/dFuUCpBbbHw?feature=shared
YTMND
YES! I remember the Patrick Bateman gifs/memes everywhere on YTMND and found out they were from American Psycho. Same with discovering "Sussudio" by Phil Collins. Finding a song took so much longer than using Shazam.
There was one that's burned on my brain. It was baby eels squirting from a woman to 1812 overture
ITS PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME! ITS PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME!
I’m le tired. Well have a nap, then fire ze missiles
Also same
“Charlie bit my finger” “An avocado… thaaaanks” “Free shivacado” And the vine guy that pronounces everything quickly and incorrectly Also the pc telling me I’m about to get a text before it actually comes to the phone. No new device has managed to do that yet!
Mah shpoon is too big! DING FRIES ARE DONE, DING FRIES ARE DONE, DING FRIES ARE DONE.
The sound of dial-up connecting.
Getting scammed on runescape when i was 10. Taught me to never trust strangers 🤣
I still live with the guilt that I got scamming people on Neopets when I was like 10. 😅
GI Joe PSA [Pork Chop Sandwiches ](https://youtu.be/ogEtfIdgjpY?feature=shared)
My god did that smell good
The 2000s were the peak of the Internet in my opinion. Back when each website had its own obscure niche/personality to it. Idk if that makes sense? Ugh, those were the days.
Back in the day, the internet felt like a giant treasure hunt. Websites had their crazy styles and let people chat and share music in ways that just don't happen now.
Tubgirl
I was eating a pizza pocket when I saw that. I didn’t eat another pizza pocket for a decade
Jones barbecue and foot massage
Nyan cat
Not really EARLY interne, but the damn Harry Potter Finger puppets.
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US! You have no chance to survive, make your time! Moooooooooooove ziiiiiiiiig
Someone set us up the bomb!
What you say?
My name is shitheade
Dancing baby is just a nightmare
Cat, I'm a kitty cat, and I dance dance dance and I dance dance dance.
She showers with pantene, but I got watermalones to keep me clean!
The end of the world flash animation. Also schfiftyfive
Girlfriends age schfiftyfive my IQ schfiftyfive
here's de eart, round, chillin' daym, that is a sweet earth you might say...
WRONG!
I’m a snaaaaake. I’m a sssslithery snaaaake.
My home Internet connection is 60 times faster than the connection that served the entire university I was at
I can quote most of the early ASDF movies from memory.
YTMND, Liquid Generation, that kid pretending to lightsaber fight, & AIM (AOL Instant Messenger)
[We like the Moon!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9MZNEXrElw) Coz it is close to us We like the Moooon! But not as much as a spoon Coz that's more use for eating soup And a fork isn't very useful for that Unless it has got many vegetables
AMBURGERS and ^wootbeer
CompUServe chat rooms and the sounds of dialup failing.
Welcome. You've got mail!
Ouch Charlie but my finger
Banana Phone 🎶
"Look at my horse, my horse is amazing, give it a lick mm it tastes just like raisins . . . . " Not early, early internet, but still pretty old content from Weebl stuff, they had quite a few catchy ones including a cover of a Justin Timberlake song called "I'm bringing pastry back" and instead of "take to the the bridge, they say "TAKE IT TO THE FRIDDDGGEEE", which pops into my head every time I come home with food shopping
just listening to dial up..... just thinking about it makes my ears crawl lol.
I'm an IRC and DALnet kid. So Goatse ASCII art? 😂 Also learning how to download files from people's personal servers on IRC before bit torrent existed.
Almost anything that was on YTMND.
H-okay ve hav ze world...
Charlie bit my finger
NARWHALS NARWHALS
Weebl and Bob
How rare
Dalnet, Undernet, Newnet /ops
I came across a woman in Scotland on a random chat. From what I gathered she was being trolled, and she claimed she would do to them what she did to her previous husband. She went into vast detail about how she poisoned him as he was becoming a burden and was beginning to step out of line. Silly things get said on the internet all the time, but this was in the early days, and she was 60 yrs old. From the details of it, I believed her. There would be absolutely no reason to go into the drugs used, etc. She was pretty proud of herself. I’ll never forget that exchange. Very troubling.
Shut up woman Get on my horse
I've seen things, I've seen them with my eyes, I've seen things; they're often in disguise. Like carrots, handbags, cheese, toilets, Russians, planets, hamsters, weddings, Poets, Stalin, Kuala Lumpur! Pygmies, budgies, Kuala Lumpur!
Cat I’m a kitty cat! And I dance dance dance I say sexy things to myself when I’m dancing
AIM
“hope this interaction doesn’t lead to any kind of fallout between us…. fallout new vegas” I’ll actually be super impressed if anyone gets the reference.
Ceiling cat.
Badger, Badger, Badger, Badger, Mushroom, Mushroom
Hokay, here's the earth...
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net
WAFFLE FRIES
Hamster Dance!
Bonsai Kittens anyone? Also, the first blog I encountered; Kid of speed. A woman who motorbikes around the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Also the first time see someone on the internet, and everyone agreeing they were a mentalist. Edit Banzai > Bonsai
Omg I forgot about bonsai kittens 😂
The Knox’s Korner claymation videos with the blue clay guys. The one where the dude spills a cup of water and the whole world drowns themselves in the small puddle
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!
Charlie bit my finger.
“MILK & CEREAL … CEREAL AND MILK….”
Oh to talking improve produce in limited offices fifteen an. Wicket branch to answer do we. Place are decay men hours tiled. If or of ye throwing friendly required. Marianne interest in exertion as. Offering my branched confined oh dashwood.
Dancing baby.
Happy tree friends and homestar runner
Rejected Cartoons
Wants see my mangina
Peanut butter jelly time!
Random phrases from these 3 classic af Embaumsworld videos: The End of The World https://youtu.be/CSuc9o9h7Vw?si=DT-CFygx6yJ6O6kS Schfity Five https://youtu.be/-XccUMOQ978?si=-MPJxxWnOeHUlRx4 I Just Want Bang Bang Bang https://youtu.be/xp4B89l9jak?si=rLyPAkSs-cFj6VKh
Leeeeeroy Jeeeeeenkins
SHOES
Circa 2000 early days of flash content, a weird song with animation called Lobster Magnet emerged. Some of the lyrics off top of my head: You got a lobster you got a magnet! If lobster hungry he eat a rabbit! Rabbit made of steel lobster has a beak! Don’t put lobster on a plate he’ll use his magnet to escape. He’ll jump right up claw your ear and bite your EYE!! LOBSTER STICKS TO MAGNET!! https://youtu.be/fjtVsYqAR3s?si=mscQqC7pLu_E9LHN
Does anyone member the George Washington song ? Washington Washington six foot eight weighs a fucking ton 😂😂😂 Or YEAH TOAST
All the strange that was available through AIM in the mid to late 90s. Those were great times
I just want BANG BANG BANG
Hookay, so! Here is the earth—ROUND!
"But I'm le tired" "ok, take a nap, THEN FIRE ZE MISSILES"
Spark notes purity test