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Anyone remember this? (lemmy.world)
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[–] 59 points 1 year ago* (7 children)

Peak internet 1.0:

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I remember thinking Netscape was way cooler than IE based purely on the throbber animation

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    "Throbber" animation? 🤔

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    in case you didn't know: the animated icon (usually the cursor) that indicates background processing is called a throbber.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago

    Normal people say hourglass yeah even when it's not a hourglass yeah even when they design them yeah even when they can be confused and the reason is not that throbber would be a useful word, it's that it's extremely sexual and now I get to feel sexual too for saying it back and have to take a shower

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    I've seen that some dude on here has the Netscape throbber (for Gen Z: that's what the animated doohickey in the corner that shows your page is still loading and your computer has not frozen is called) as his profile icon.

    Maybe you've just summoned him up, Beetlejuice style.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Agreed. 1999-2000 was also peak internet for me. Netscape, Napster, Neopets, Newgrounds, and Nick.com (and StarCraft multiplayer). It didn't get any better than that.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Limewire… downloading all your favourite songs, wait no… typing in names of any song you could think of in hopes you’d find it. Then you did find it and it turned out to be the same damn song you can’t stand with the file misnamed. A whole generation grew up confused about who sang their favourite songs, and found constant frustration in waiting like 12min (on a great day) for Smells Like Teen Spirit to download, only to find they got Weird Al Yankovich’s parody instead… like 4 times in a row from four different files. Ahhhh memories.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Nah... Netscape Navigator Gold was peak. Netscape Communicator was too bloated and took forever to load. Sure it had an email client, HTML editor, etc. but these should have been separate programs, not all built into a single thing. The original mozilla browser was also this way until Phoenix Firebird Firefox pulled a browser out of the bloated mess.

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