No clue how they found this but it is true! This would have been around 1996 right out of High School. @tychobrahe.bsky.social and I were teaching ourselves HTML and I was using Truespace 2 to make the letters. - ThreadSky

cwgabriel.bsky.social • 117 days ago

No clue how they found this but it is true! This would have been around 1996 right out of High School. @tychobrahe.bsky.social and I were teaching ourselves HTML and I was using Truespace 2 to make the letters.

Reposted from Filibuster

Does anybody want to talk about the website the Penny Arcade guys made before they did Penny Arcade

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eggypuss.bsky.social•117 days ago

Wow, this takes me back to opening Notepad.exe to start my websites. I so wished Geocities' webpages made it to Internet Time Machine.

fransucks.bsky.social•117 days ago

what was the 'dickwolves' thing about back then? I didn't follow webcomics back then

highscorsese.bsky.social•117 days ago

Hell yeah! Angelfire or Geocities? And were you part of a web ring?

glitterstash.bsky.social•117 days ago

*memories*

And yes, yes I was.

mantonpullpax.bsky.social•116 days ago

you gotta any more of that hot shareware?

siliconkrunch.bsky.social•117 days ago

How does one go from Walrus to wombat?

paradigmpins.bsky.social•117 days ago

What in the Angelfire?! This is glorious 🤣

krcarnegie.bsky.social•117 days ago

That's awesome. I miss the geocities days of the old web.

bearded-tomten.bsky.social•116 days ago

I remember working overnight technical support for a small ISP in Central Maine. Calls were few and far between, and network security was so bad that we had the ability to run FTP servers and build websites in notepad. Those were the days, and I miss them more and more all the time.

geno.avoids.work•117 days ago

up to the MINUTE info??? you guys are writin' checks

lukerezin.bsky.social•117 days ago

Part of me thinks the internet would be better if websites still looked like this.

trianglecore.net•117 days ago

I've routinely debated trying to reconstruct my old websites from the late 90s, but unfortunately all the Geocities archives never managed to archive mine.

Probably for the best though, my early web shit was cringe af as the kids say now.

ravenholm337.bsky.social•117 days ago

kmueller.bsky.social•117 days ago

Vintage 1996 there, man

dtheslop.bsky.social•117 days ago

I miss when websites looked like this.

nathanschneider.bsky.social•117 days ago

Trailblazers.

hypegeek.bsky.social•117 days ago

Sick!

mysterydip.bsky.social•117 days ago

that peak 90s web feel

sailingwolf.bsky.social•117 days ago

True space to make the letters! Damn I feel old. Where the hell is that music coming from!?!?

enjoyertimes.bsky.social•117 days ago

Walrus Den revival when? 🙏

2025 needs this energy so bad.

cwgabriel.bsky.social•117 days ago

We could start a Webring!

danthe3dprintdad.bsky.social•117 days ago

Ahh, Web counters.

I wish I could find my old website. Alas, it never seemed to get on the Internet Archive.

josephlselby.com•117 days ago

I'm having Angelfire flashbacks!

briantific.computer•117 days ago

Oh no I used the same header typography on my AOL homepage around the same time

grumpadawolf.bsky.social•117 days ago

Ahh yes. That is a blast from the past! I haven't heard about truespace in ages!

walkerbrianpatrick.bsky.social•117 days ago

So which one of you was the walrus? Or are you both walrii?

dblandon.bsky.social•117 days ago

The cw in cwgabriel stands for Clan Walrus. And Jerry’s twitch handle is cwtycho, so they both still carry the walrus with them

oggvorbis.bsky.social•117 days ago

Bring back the Walrii

unknownhost77.bsky.social•117 days ago

Can't for the fuck of me remember when I first startrd seeing your comics.

I don't think it was during the early ultima online days but rather during the early days of EverQuest..?

During the days of...that EverQuest comic I can't remember the name of...or when SexyLosers was newish?

danaw.djparticle.com•117 days ago

1996........ I can't believe I'm that much older than you guys. Its frankly terrifying.

coffeepeace.bsky.social•117 days ago

I'm thinking the (CW) in Tycho/Jerry's customary (CW)TB signoff is "Clan Walrus", no?

cwgabriel.bsky.social•117 days ago

This is correct. We both use (CW) in our inline handles still.

tychobrahe.bsky.social•117 days ago

Yeah!

geekyboutiquey.bsky.social•117 days ago

Web counter?! I hardly know her!

yeoldebelmont.bsky.social•117 days ago

In the early Internet era, my parents PRINTED ON ACTUAL PAPER the jokes they found online. It was known in the family as “the joke folder”. My first “website” was basically that concept circling back around for the irony. I forced visitors to scroll SO FAR DOWN because I thought it was funny.

eggypuss.bsky.social•117 days ago

Mosdef, had websites like that! Do you remember in the early 2000s the Japanese websites that will have their image-links vectored, hidden within backgrounds?