Who can forget the joy of scrolling usenet groups alphabetically to find alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk

[idlestate@toot.cat]

@th

Very Patrick Nagel

[bartholin@fops.cloud]

@th and Tom Cruise had a 230 MB floppy!

[th@social.v.st]

@dymaxion I don't know if it's real or just a prop from Johnny mnemonic's retro future of 2021

[mschfr@mastodon.social]

@th Is that a CD Player?

[dymaxion@infosec.exchange]

@th
I don't either but it's wonderful design work either way

[alice@soc.klan5.am]

@th@social.v.st i was there. it was glorious. technically still is!

[smellsofbikes@mastodon.social]

@th I thought this was a micro cutoff saw for a moment

[7666@comp.lain.la]

@bartholin @th surprisingly not a zip disquette

[th@social.v.st]

Magnifying lenses and TVs also make an excellent aesthetic

[th@social.v.st]

Getting online the old fashioned way with a GPL stealth module

[dymaxion@infosec.exchange]

@th
Those glasses, on the other hand, needed some more form refinement, if that's coming from the same prop shop. Late 90s vr goggles looked way cooler.

[moss@kind.social]

@th
@Texan_Reverend

[argonaut@mastodon.social]

@th yeap, very terry-gillian-esque

[oddhack@mstdn.social]

@th if that was a full alt.* feed then I'm surprised the window system didn't crash from trying have a popup menu that long.

[henryk@chaos.social]

@dymaxion @th Jessica Fletcher had these already two years before.

[uncleslacky@federate.social]

@th alt.sexy.bald.captains and alt.great-ass.wheaton...