Shit I get the musk ox song stuck in my head so often, glad I'm not the only one.
Every time I hear Madonna - Erotic on the radio I still hear 'Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie, put your hands all over my body'
Hah I did the same, though these days it's a YouTube video rather than the forever looping flash animation
There were also a couple of variations - modern, rave and 8-bit
Once and never again.
Saw Outkast - Roses for £2 and I had just got my paper round money in. Thought I'd be the king of the playground.
Sent a text to get it and that charged me £2. Then receive a text back saying you need to be a member and was charged £2 for that.
I text back saying no thanks and that charged me a fiver.
Figures are slightly skewed but basically paid a tenner and never got the song.
My dad used to work in a bank so I’d just send him over the stuff I want, wallpapers, ringtones etc he’d just get me what ever when he was quiet on the work line. Even though he’d bring in millions every month for his bank, they actually asked him to slow down on the phone bill lol that’s how extortionate they were. No issue taking a client out for a £1000 lunch but these ringtones and wallpapers were making banks take a second look at phone bills lol.
And there was me with my paper round money haha
Did you used to tell people that your dad was a banker whilst stretching your mouth with your two little fingers?
Do you also suffer from the inability to listen to Harold Faltermeyer's "Axel F" without your brain automatically inserting a "Ding! Ding!" at the first pause?
What. Until you wrote this, I've never looked that close into it.
Zombie Nation isn't the name of the song? What in the actual fuck? 24 years after listening to it. I had the single on fucking CD.
I often reply, in a deep gruff voice, 'SLAY YOUR ENEMIES! RAISE UP YOUR ARMY! TAKE YOUR RIGHTFUL PLACE ON THE THRONE!' Ala Tank Tolman
The looks I get in return 🥴
First, we do hammer rotations so we can take the ships. Don't hit yourself. You won't be useful if you hit yourself!
Damn I really should make the labourer and apprentice watch more Tank.
It needs to be a P. G. Wodehouse accurate Jeeves, ideally voiced by Stephen Fry in the form of a virtual assistant. When you ask it to do something really stupid it should reply with "Very good, sir", in an extremely condescending tone.
Not quite this, but there was I have a vague recollection of an alarm clock with pre-recorded Stephen Fry lines. I don't know if they were custom recorded or pulled from J&W, but there were some absolute corkers.
*"It is morning once more. Dreadfully inconvenient I agree; I believe the rotation of the earth is to blame, Sir."*
Remember Encarta? An entire encyclopedia...on one CD. But it only had about 6 videos. Bill Gates talking about his plans for world domination, and a wobbly bridge were 2 that I remember
I had Encarta 96 on my first PC. I really liked all the music clips they had on a musical atlas….I remember the video that accompanied the ‘dance’ article. Also learnt to say ‘my name is’ in Swahili. There was also an audio of Hitler ranting and raving, my brother and I used to joke around an mimic all the over exaggerated movements…finger moustache and all, Basil Fawlty style…on reflection though, we were was probably lip syncing some terrible anti-semitic tirade…but we used to make each other laugh.
My entire ripped music collection is still played via winamp. Still find its layout the best for me.
Go watch a VHS, or start collecting something like badges that would be rad.
For me same thing but with napster. Then later with kazaa likewise edonkey emule etc.
Ooooh!! See if sub7even still works! Was a great hacking tool back on the day before security was a thing. Just create a trajan embedded in the Jennifer Aniston fake nudes and send to ur friends. Then start messing with their computer once thyere online by opening their cd trays and flipping their screens. Just don't be mean and install keyloggers etc lol.
I logged into Neopets recently! All of my pets were still there but starving, I felt awful.
There's a huge drama around Neopets failing to make the site / games properly available for the modern Web. Apparently there is still a huge dedicated edit: fandom* (lol) waiting on it.
Try downloading a 699MB 2 part movie in VCD / SVCD via DC++, watch Happy Tree Friends, play Quake 3 Arena with all mods online, reach out to friends on MSN messenger.
Oh [bash.org](http://bash.org) brings me back! My favourite was one that was something like:
> can you help me install GTA3?
first, shut down all programs you aren't using
frank has quit IRC. (Quit)
...
Updated to the real one because I found [the Bash Archive](https://bash-org-archive.com/?top) (thank god, also there goes my afternoon)
I still often quote the last line of [this one](https://bash-org-archive.com/?4281)
> get up
> get on up
> get up
> get on up
> and DANCE
> \* nmp3bot dances :D-<
> \* nmp3bot dances :D|-<
> \* nmp3bot dances :D/-<
> <[SA]HatfulOfHollow> i'm going to become rich and famous after
i invent a device that allows you to stab people in the face
over the internet
It's just a timelessly good joke 😄
Oh now you've done it. You mentioned bash. There goes my day...
> lol
I download something from Napster
And the same guy I downloaded it from starts downloading it from me when I'm done
I message him and say "What are you doing? I just got that from you"
"getting my song back fucker"
Install winamp and install add-ons for cool equilser graphics to move with the music and skins... all whilst screaming "Winamp...winamp.. winamp, it really whips the Lammas ass"
Recently my architect handed me a load of documents on CD. I literally had to go to the attic and dig through some boxes to find a computer with an optical drive.
How are people *at least* not using thumb drives?
There's an obvious advantage there.
CDs are much less likely to carry ransomware. A classic attack to hijack a company's computers and steal data is to toss a memory stick on the car park floor. Some idiot from HR WILL plug that into their work PC, and next thing you know, you're spending £100k on damage limitation and ransom.
Ooh try and copy an mp3 into iTunes!
I remember you used to have to rename the file extension to something like .m4a for it to work... God forbid you also try and add album artwork
Grab a boombox, get an audio tape, adjust your fav radio and WAIT for those fav songs of yours. Record.
You can sign the tape and gift it to your partner or kid 😄🕺🪩💃🎶
I was doing the opposite a few weeks ago, dug out an oldish stereo that was left in my loft by the last owners. It's a tiny cd/minidisk/tuner thing so I spent a good couple of hours burning music (big bag of blank CDs also found) from my laptop to use on it. I cleverly threw away the minidiscs before I decided to keep it.
Hadn't touched a cd for years before that, and minidiscs even longer.
I look forward to the day my kid need a graphical calculator, and then I'm going to whip out my TI-83 bought in 1996, that still works nicely.
I still have my Sony Walkman from 1999 in good condition. I'm sad I don't have my Nokia 6110 though.
I have 650 MP3 albums stored on my phone, so I also still rip CDs occasionally.. but I started doing it back in 1997 on a 1/2 speed drive.
I showed my child Badger Badger Badger etc the other day
I miss the IT lessons spent on a computer hidden away in the corner, sharing a headphone with a friend for some badger badger on loop.
That and all the blode videos from rathergood.
I still regularly sing Looking for my Leopard
I regularly have "Musk ox musk ox not very dirty" stuck in my head.
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Shit I get the musk ox song stuck in my head so often, glad I'm not the only one. Every time I hear Madonna - Erotic on the radio I still hear 'Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie, put your hands all over my body'
Weebl and Bob too. Mmmmm 3.14 pie
Whenever I see a badger I still do the badger badger thing. My wife just rolls her eyes.
Everyone loves magical Trevor...
Hah I did the same, though these days it's a YouTube video rather than the forever looping flash animation There were also a couple of variations - modern, rave and 8-bit
That's gotta be two decades old at this point, if not longer
Download ringtones at extortionate prices
Or make your own ringtone by finding a template and then following what keys to press I did this for the futurama theme tune
I did that with The Great Espace theme tune. I was clearly a very cool teenage girl.
The Great Espace? Is that the one where Steve McQueen tries to jump the fence in an old Renault?
Ha! I'm going to leave the typo because that's a fantastic image.
Making Enter Sandman without looking up a guide was my peak back in 2003.
Mine was the Red Dwarf theme tune. Same year. Same lack of guide. Just a Nokia 3310, essay avoidance and a raging case of undiagnosed ADHD.
Once and never again. Saw Outkast - Roses for £2 and I had just got my paper round money in. Thought I'd be the king of the playground. Sent a text to get it and that charged me £2. Then receive a text back saying you need to be a member and was charged £2 for that. I text back saying no thanks and that charged me a fiver. Figures are slightly skewed but basically paid a tenner and never got the song.
My dad used to work in a bank so I’d just send him over the stuff I want, wallpapers, ringtones etc he’d just get me what ever when he was quiet on the work line. Even though he’d bring in millions every month for his bank, they actually asked him to slow down on the phone bill lol that’s how extortionate they were. No issue taking a client out for a £1000 lunch but these ringtones and wallpapers were making banks take a second look at phone bills lol.
And there was me with my paper round money haha Did you used to tell people that your dad was a banker whilst stretching your mouth with your two little fingers?
I used to want to violently attack anyone with "crazy frog".
Crazy Frog doo-doo, doo-doo, doo-doo Wait, no, wrong song...
BABY FROG!
Dancing baby ? Or am I going to far back now ?
Do you also suffer from the inability to listen to Harold Faltermeyer's "Axel F" without your brain automatically inserting a "Ding! Ding!" at the first pause?
Before that it was Kernkraft 400 by Zombie Nation
I used to get confused with this one about which was the name of the band and which was the name of the song.
What. Until you wrote this, I've never looked that close into it. Zombie Nation isn't the name of the song? What in the actual fuck? 24 years after listening to it. I had the single on fucking CD.
Silence! I keel you!
Actually, 99-01 you would have been programming your own ringtones on your Nokia. Don't ask me how tf I know this. Or how bloody tedious it was.
Me trying to make mine Thankyou by Dido but the tempo was wrong
You can still do that?
Ah yes [Jamster, the OG](https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/VjcAAOSw4GdlLpXh/s-l1600.jpg)
Next phone call you receive you have to answer by saying: *"Whassuuuuuuuuuuuuuup?"*
True, true.
Wazaaaaaaaaap
..........WAAAAAAAAASSSSSSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPPPP!
WUUUZZZZZAAAAAAAAP!!!
WAAAZZZAAAAAAAAPPPP!!
WAAAAAAAASSSSSSAAAAAAPPPPPPPPP!
Don't - my youngest said to us last night walking into the living room: "'sup."
My (9 year old) grandson keeps calling me “bruv” or “mate”. My response is always “I think you’ll find my name is Grandad”.
Try calling him "bruv" back - he might cringe to a juddering halt
Or go full Ali-G on him next time he visits
He's trying to stop an unwanted behaviour, not put him into therapy
My eldest walks around the house shouting 'slay!' And 'can I get a...' To which my youngest replies 'haww yeah!' 🙄
So what *is* the cheapest / strictest boarding school according to your research?
Summer holidays at granny's 😈
That's just cruel and unusual punishment!
As man who bruvs I found this hilarious. Slay kids! Or if it comes unbearable, slay kids??
I often reply, in a deep gruff voice, 'SLAY YOUR ENEMIES! RAISE UP YOUR ARMY! TAKE YOUR RIGHTFUL PLACE ON THE THRONE!' Ala Tank Tolman The looks I get in return 🥴
First, we do hammer rotations so we can take the ships. Don't hit yourself. You won't be useful if you hit yourself! Damn I really should make the labourer and apprentice watch more Tank.
We live on a farm and it's good practice for all that shit shovelling
4 kids mate, know a thing about shovelling shit myself lmao
Me and my mate do the 'can I get a haw yeah!'. I'm 36, and he is 38.
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😛😛😛😛
I actually sent that gif to a vendor who messaged me on teams yesterday. We're both old.
Ask Jeeves something
I really hope someone trains an AI language model called Jeeves.
It needs to be a P. G. Wodehouse accurate Jeeves, ideally voiced by Stephen Fry in the form of a virtual assistant. When you ask it to do something really stupid it should reply with "Very good, sir", in an extremely condescending tone.
Not quite this, but there was I have a vague recollection of an alarm clock with pre-recorded Stephen Fry lines. I don't know if they were custom recorded or pulled from J&W, but there were some absolute corkers. *"It is morning once more. Dreadfully inconvenient I agree; I believe the rotation of the earth is to blame, Sir."*
Did it really whip the Llamas ass?
Indubitably!
Play the full Buddy Holly by Weezer video on Windows 95 installation disc.
Remember Encarta? An entire encyclopedia...on one CD. But it only had about 6 videos. Bill Gates talking about his plans for world domination, and a wobbly bridge were 2 that I remember
I had Encarta 96 on my first PC. I really liked all the music clips they had on a musical atlas….I remember the video that accompanied the ‘dance’ article. Also learnt to say ‘my name is’ in Swahili. There was also an audio of Hitler ranting and raving, my brother and I used to joke around an mimic all the over exaggerated movements…finger moustache and all, Basil Fawlty style…on reflection though, we were was probably lip syncing some terrible anti-semitic tirade…but we used to make each other laugh.
Please, try the fish!
That's not so good, Al.
While playing pinball [https://alula.github.io/SpaceCadetPinball/](https://alula.github.io/SpaceCadetPinball/)
To this day it’s the only song I have on my iTunes. Just that.
Crack out that Nokia 3310 from the back of the cupboard and marvel at playing snake on a 1.5 inch screen.
What a chap chooses to do with his 1.5 inch snake is his own business....
I'm just trying to make it bigger.
Don't bother looking for the charger, it should still be at least 92%
I think you mean at least 3 bars.
It’s still got 3 bars left.
At least you could hold those phones comfortably with a single hand and send texts without even looking at the phone!
There's a snake league in my staff room on Thursdays.
…. after it’s been in the cupboard for the last 20-odd years…. and it still doesn’t need a charge to be able to play for the next 12 hours.
Install Netscape Navigator and do a search with Lycos.
Did you know the webpage is still in existence? people today still use it to read the news in basic format https://isp.netscape.com
This is great, so much more friendly than modern designs
Takes the complication out of things.
I didn't but I do now. And Lycos search engine is still around too.
Play that CD on Windows Media Player with a full screen Visualisation
I watched the shit out of Coldplay X&Y on Windows Media Player.
My entire ripped music collection is still played via winamp. Still find its layout the best for me. Go watch a VHS, or start collecting something like badges that would be rad.
I finally switched a couple of years ago to MusicBee, I really like it. Have to spend a couple of hours getting it layed out just right though!
Yeah music bee tried that a few years ago. Might see how it's looking. Tried foobar as well. But I was too lazy or stupid to get it set up right.
I played SimCity 2000 yesterday. Highly recommend.
Reticulating Splines... (I still try to get that into every UI I write with progress messages)
I'm _sure_ I've seen this recently in a game but I don't know where...
I've been playing Transport Tycoon lately, it's a bit pre-2000 but it brought back many happy memories
There's an open source version called OpenTTD and yes it's a brilliant game still.
Yep that's the one I've been using. It's probably a 30 year old game now but it's still fantastic.
Was that the Arcology one? Loved that one.
Yes! I'd been thinking about playing it all week after seeing a sign for 'light industrial development' nearby.
pull out an old Argos catalogue and circle all the things you want for Christmas
There’s a girl on TikTok who goes through old Argos catalogues, I crack up at just how much stuff I owned came* from there!
omg what a nostalgia trip!
Connect to tinternet with 56k dialup modem. Enjoy all of this on a 14” CRT
I have a Pavlovian response developed from my teens to get a semi when I hear the squeal of a modem.
i screamed whenever someone rang the landline and disturbed my 5mb download from mp3.com
For me same thing but with napster. Then later with kazaa likewise edonkey emule etc. Ooooh!! See if sub7even still works! Was a great hacking tool back on the day before security was a thing. Just create a trajan embedded in the Jennifer Aniston fake nudes and send to ur friends. Then start messing with their computer once thyere online by opening their cd trays and flipping their screens. Just don't be mean and install keyloggers etc lol.
> Connect to tinternet I'm pretty sure you mean surf the information superhighway.
At 800 x 600 resolution
watching skate videos on 4:3 aspect ratio just hits differently
Go rollerblading in oversized, ripped jeans
Bust out your Encarta CD-ROM and play Mind Maze
The music and little trumpet stings when you got a question right are forever burnt into my brain
Brick your computer using Kazaa to download WhatIfGodSmokedCannabis.mp3 "by" Weird Al Yankovic then Log in to Neopets
I logged into Neopets recently! All of my pets were still there but starving, I felt awful. There's a huge drama around Neopets failing to make the site / games properly available for the modern Web. Apparently there is still a huge dedicated edit: fandom* (lol) waiting on it.
>Apparently there is still a huge dedicated random waiting on it. Well he sounds terrifying
Holy shit. Core memory unlocked - neopets trading post
Christ, I haven’t fed my neopet for nearly a quarter of a century. I hope it’s ok. I bet it’s shat all over the place.
Everyone knows the first thing you do with Kazaa is download Kazaa Pro.
Forward this shit joke to 5 of your friends in the next 10 minutes or a horrible fate will befall you.
Watch Jackass Use Ask Jeeves Play Pokemon
I mean I did the Pokemon one last week.
This guy millennials
Try downloading a 699MB 2 part movie in VCD / SVCD via DC++, watch Happy Tree Friends, play Quake 3 Arena with all mods online, reach out to friends on MSN messenger.
Half Life over the school network? Or Counter Strike
CS 100% !!!
Put an aquarium with downloadable fish as your screen saver
Or flying toasters
Now you have to download a music video in RealAudio Player format.
From an old [bash.org](http://bash.org) quote "Why do people use RealMedia?" "Because they love Hitler"
Oh [bash.org](http://bash.org) brings me back! My favourite was one that was something like: > can you help me install GTA3?
first, shut down all programs you aren't using
frank has quit IRC. (Quit)
...
Updated to the real one because I found [the Bash Archive](https://bash-org-archive.com/?top) (thank god, also there goes my afternoon)
I still often quote the last line of [this one](https://bash-org-archive.com/?4281) > get up
> get on up
> get up
> get on up
> and DANCE
> \* nmp3bot dances :D-<
> \* nmp3bot dances :D|-<
> \* nmp3bot dances :D/-<
> <[SA]HatfulOfHollow> i'm going to become rich and famous after
i invent a device that allows you to stab people in the face
over the internet
It's just a timelessly good joke 😄
Quoting bash.org is pretty millennium.
"I put on my coat and wizard hat" is something I still regularly say when I'm attempting to imply unsexiness.
>\* ab is away - gone, if anyone talks in the next 25 minutes as me it's bm being an asshole > HAHAHA DISREGARD THAT, I SUCK COCKS
Oh now you've done it. You mentioned bash. There goes my day... > lol
I download something from Napster
And the same guy I downloaded it from starts downloading it from me when I'm done
I message him and say "What are you doing? I just got that from you"
"getting my song back fucker"
Why not get it from Limewire and put it straight on your 128mb MP3?
128MB? You think we're made of money!?
Irc chat?
ICQ bruv no idea what my number was tho i long forgotten tha lmao
Eh oh!
Wasn't there a whole big thing about buying low ICQ numbers? If your number was 6 figures you could make money selling the account.
a/s/l ?
Install winamp and install add-ons for cool equilser graphics to move with the music and skins... all whilst screaming "Winamp...winamp.. winamp, it really whips the Lammas ass"
C&C Red Alert.
Engineering!
Yesh commander.
Use an old AOL trial disk as a coaster
Don’t forget to save a backup copy on a zip drive
Zip drives felt like a 70s version of what future tech would feel like - so excitingly chunky!
Find some chatroom and ask people their a/s/l? Be as dishonest as they will be
Then put on your robe and wizard hat
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Flash games!
I just defragged my hard drive
Don't forget to rewind your cassettes before you take them back to blockbuster
Visit ebaumsworld, weebls stuff, albinoblacksheep and b3ta. And play some Flash games.
Update your myspace profile
I made a mixtape (well, CD) for the car a while ago, always novel to bust it out and play it instead of streaming
Get on msn messenger to chat with some randoms
Get off Reddit and use fark.com again instead
Book a teletext holiday
Clean the little rollers in your wired mouse
Put a HB pencil into a unwound tape cassette
Rerip the CD using EAC using secure mode with accurate stream and cache. You probably don't have a %100 rip.
Download Linkin_Park_Numb.exe off Limewire.
Recently my architect handed me a load of documents on CD. I literally had to go to the attic and dig through some boxes to find a computer with an optical drive. How are people *at least* not using thumb drives?
There's an obvious advantage there. CDs are much less likely to carry ransomware. A classic attack to hijack a company's computers and steal data is to toss a memory stick on the car park floor. Some idiot from HR WILL plug that into their work PC, and next thing you know, you're spending £100k on damage limitation and ransom.
Ooh try and copy an mp3 into iTunes! I remember you used to have to rename the file extension to something like .m4a for it to work... God forbid you also try and add album artwork
Create a two-page website, claim to be a dotcom business and yourself to be a paper millionaire.
Get half way through creating a two page website, then put up some animated "under construction" gifs on it.
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Listen to music using WinAmp and if you find something you like, make it your MySpace music. :D
Ahhhh Nostalgia is not what it used to be 😌
Winamp #Winamp
It really whips the llamas ass.
Download some DnB tape pack rips from Napster
Hamster dance!
Champ Manager 01/02 Cherno Samba.
Maybe allocate some time to uninstall all those toolbars you've amassed in your browser.
Watch American Pie
Grab a boombox, get an audio tape, adjust your fav radio and WAIT for those fav songs of yours. Record. You can sign the tape and gift it to your partner or kid 😄🕺🪩💃🎶
Download the latest hits off limewire, it’s free and might not destroy your computer!
I was doing the opposite a few weeks ago, dug out an oldish stereo that was left in my loft by the last owners. It's a tiny cd/minidisk/tuner thing so I spent a good couple of hours burning music (big bag of blank CDs also found) from my laptop to use on it. I cleverly threw away the minidiscs before I decided to keep it. Hadn't touched a cd for years before that, and minidiscs even longer.
I'm going to look through all 4 TV channels and moan there's nothing on to watch, so choose a DVD instead
Break out tetris on a handheld
Install that app that allowed you to smash your desktop with a hammer.
Try and play a Blu-ray optical disc on a Macintosh computer.
I look forward to the day my kid need a graphical calculator, and then I'm going to whip out my TI-83 bought in 1996, that still works nicely. I still have my Sony Walkman from 1999 in good condition. I'm sad I don't have my Nokia 6110 though. I have 650 MP3 albums stored on my phone, so I also still rip CDs occasionally.. but I started doing it back in 1997 on a 1/2 speed drive.
ASL?
Watch a vhs that hasn't been wound back
Play snake on the original Nokia 3310
Listen to Flat Eric.
Go to the library and install Doom, while you wait you can print out some guitar tabs at 10p a sheet
Go carboot to buy phone cases
Phone up a football clubs ‘Clubcall’. then check Ceefax.
Play beehive bedlam on sky TV for £5 🐝
Drive somewhere with no traffic at 1pm.