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i'm going to start a cult where everything has to be violently anachronistic. Either art deco, art nouveau, or some distinct pre-1700's style.
Brick skyscrapers next to hobbit holes and swiss cottages; people wearing those chinese scribe outfits and pulling a smart-pocket-watch from their sleeve to read a telegraph they just recieved, while sitting on a horse-pulled tram (electric, the horses just walk in front for the vibes) with wood panel interior and free wifi.
Been spending most our lives...
Yesterweb irl
I was being a smart ass... the site looks like the internet did when I was a teen. I love it
You’re shockingly close to the plot of The Matrix.
Me in 1999: Really? This is the peak of human civilization? Everything sucks though.
Me now: Maybe they were onto something
"I say your civilization, because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization." - ChatGPT
OK, but we demand IRC instead of AOL-IM.
It’s period appropriate, should be fine
uh oh
No, not ICQ
ICQ was pretty good. You could message offline people, which AOL/aim didn't support. Of course, this lead to a whole experience of waiting for your friend/crush to log on, but then not messaging them immediately... but then they log off and the opportunity passed.
This is how you accidentally start a Gen-X commune.
Can we keep the "no smoking inside commercial establishments" policy at least? Otherwise I'm down.
Also can we keep the progress (what little there has been) we made for LGBTQ folks?
I would like to add one exception to this: explicitly for smoking establishments. It'd be nice to have a weed'n'feed is all.
Take me back to the time when I would finish before the bottom half of jenna jameson even manages to load
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...
I hope it doesn’t include 90’s racism, homophobia and transphobia. It was way worse than it is today.
Really, you have the opportunity to recreate the past and I’m stuck with AIM? I’ll stick to XMPP and IRC thanks.
If someone is going to run with this idea, I very sincerely ask that you please do it in one of the locations marked on this map. Then my company will be able to operate a 1990s-technology cellular phone network in the proposed neo-Amish town, a network that will enable 1990s GSM cellphones to actually work! And I do mean it with full seriousness - the linked website is my actual company, with all attendant legal and contact info.
Out of the set of locations marked on the linked map, I strongly prefer the ones in Oregon. I and the rest of my founding team are based in California, and I am a trans woman - hence certain places are, quite sadly, simply unsafe for to me travel to, let alone the intricate tasks of building towers, installing equipment and then operating and maintaining it. There are no PCS spectrum vacancies in our home state of CA, but OR is close, has good spectrum available, and it is a lovely state with strong LGBTQ+ rights.
this is fucking targeted marketing, move the fuck over advertising companies, holy shit
So um is this just millennial retirement? Boomers are getting their senior communities we need our own communities
It's really fucking sad that Pizza hut is seen and remembered in any positive way in the US, it really shows how fucking bad you have it.
A pizze hut opened in my city here in Sweden about two decades ago and it immediately became "ooh, this american thing everyone has heard of through movies is so bad that everyone has to go to it just to experience the unimaginable shit quality and taste."
Even the cheapest street corner pizzerias we have are in a whole other universe comparably.
IRC and newsgroups, too. Self hosted websites and forums.
I hate to be the regressive, but yeah…this was better.
I think we can do better than Pizza Hut and block buster.
Nostalgia is a powerful drug, but the 90s was not so great. But sure, let’s take the good parts and leave behind the CRT screens and 20 mins to load a jpg.
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.
