Yes, but it's very hit and miss, they tend to leave a lot to be desired re quality, a lot of them are mirror-imaged to get around automatic copyright detection, or the sound is bad, or...and so on.
Yeah, understood, but what I mean is that I don't want to watch 17 year old bootleg tapes that random people have uploaded to YouTube, I want Viacom or somebody to actually put this content online in whatever is the best quality they have.
For some reason I always knew something like this was coming. All that content form the 90's must be stored somewhere out there and one of us would recreate the channels in a way that we could relive it.
I really wish this gets to something real and that I might be able to show my kids in the future the cartoons that I grew up on.
Yep. Something like ~20mbit symmetric fiber service was supposed to be rolled out by the incumbent telcos nationwide back in the 1990's. Super glad to see that they kept to their promises.
VJTV Wallflower also used to a good one to put on in the background on unused monitors in hip restaruants/lounges/offices/cafes. It makes a seamless playback experience and smooths the transition between videos.
Seems to be down now, but they use a Vimeo playlist for their videos here:
There used to be this great video online, 'Three hours of MTV from 1983' [1]. It began with the VJ giving away t-shirts to promote the new Police album, Synchronicity. Looks like it went down when Youtube ate Google Video.
I laughed at the recent South Park episode where some old guys are talking about the new wave of political correctness: "Yup... the last time this happened it lasted about 6 years"
The room for broad interpretation and the administrative issues with this particular law have never been resolved, so we've been seeing the same complaints emerge over different applications over very many years.
"The more things stay the same" doesn't have quite the same ring to it, though :)
There is one obvious mistake. The 90's didn't officially begin until September 24, 1991 when Nirvana dropped Nevermind. Anything before that is still 80's.
I first heard "Smells Like Teen Spirit" on WUSB 90.1 FM: "The First Station of the 90s". Hacking connection: Eric Corley hosted "Brain Damage" on the same station.
This is amazing. I'm watching a newscast covering the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. They have someone on there speculating about how they could evacuate people off the roof with baskets and helicopters. It's so eerie, watching this now.
Before that, there was a newscast talking about teen obesity in the US--only 15% of teens were overweight.
And the clothes...pleated khaki chinos, jean shirts, paisley ties. LOL.
I need scrambled HBO late night to feel it's real.
I used to be able to slam the top of the cable box sometimes to unscramble the feed. Talking about a proper cable box with a dial. 1-60. This might be why punching equipment is now my first line of recourse when dealing with technical issues.
Anyway, a box I can thunder slam would be a nice addition. If not, that's cool.
I used to have a 90s TV with a bad color chip. To prevent my game of Sonic the Hedgehog from going completely puke brown in hue I had to whack the side of the TV. (Sonic wasn't weird then... another nostalgic memory.)
Of course, much like cartridge blowjobs, hitting the TV may have been based more on superstition than reality.
We had an old cabinet TV that required a good smack in just the right spot on the left side to prevent most of the picture being green. As I recall the green-ness varied in saturation from the left to the right for some reason.
Over time the required smack became more and more forceful, and the smack target became smaller. Fortunately it kept working until the time came for a new TV though. Afterward I kind of missed that. (Sort of like I now miss the great triumph of getting my parents' old lawn mower to start.)
I'd love something like this but for the internet. Wayback Machine is cool, but pretty slow, and modern browsers tend to render things a bit differently.
Someone should be able to compile a 1990s web browser with Emscripten, right?
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I really wish this gets to something real and that I might be able to show my kids in the future the cartoons that I grew up on.
Great work on this project!
T.A. has a regular schedule, and have even managed to dig up old commercials and promos for the channel. It's pretty magical.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kfIFDX9kE4
http://yttm.tv
Words can't even describe...
VJTV Wallflower also used to a good one to put on in the background on unused monitors in hip restaruants/lounges/offices/cafes. It makes a seamless playback experience and smooths the transition between videos.
Seems to be down now, but they use a Vimeo playlist for their videos here:
http://vimeo.com/groups/wallflower
24/7 non-stop music television
[1] http://www.appelogen.be/2008/01/25/3-uur-mtv-uit-1983/
http://www.my80stv.com/#cmhtRHw_Bv0
Oh my! The more things change the more they stay the same.
The room for broad interpretation and the administrative issues with this particular law have never been resolved, so we've been seeing the same complaints emerge over different applications over very many years.
"The more things stay the same" doesn't have quite the same ring to it, though :)
Check it out: http://www.2600.com/braindamage/1991/0991.html
Before that, there was a newscast talking about teen obesity in the US--only 15% of teens were overweight.
And the clothes...pleated khaki chinos, jean shirts, paisley ties. LOL.
Apple's representative talking about packaging was particularly interesting.
There's a demo of MacroMind (now Macromedia/Adobe) Director in there that's pretty 80s.
I used to be able to slam the top of the cable box sometimes to unscramble the feed. Talking about a proper cable box with a dial. 1-60. This might be why punching equipment is now my first line of recourse when dealing with technical issues.
Anyway, a box I can thunder slam would be a nice addition. If not, that's cool.
Of course, much like cartridge blowjobs, hitting the TV may have been based more on superstition than reality.
Over time the required smack became more and more forceful, and the smack target became smaller. Fortunately it kept working until the time came for a new TV though. Afterward I kind of missed that. (Sort of like I now miss the great triumph of getting my parents' old lawn mower to start.)
BTW, if the creator is listening, if you add "pointer-events: none;" to all the elements above the YouTube player we'll be able to close the ads.
Someone should be able to compile a 1990s web browser with Emscripten, right?
"WARNING: This site only works on desktop browsers currently :|"
Does this use Flash or something?