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I love the idea and look forward to diving in. There's an anachronism in the first paragraph though... "check out my MySpace page"? MySpace didn't launch until

I love the idea and look forward to diving in. There's an anachronism in the first paragraph though... "check out my MySpace page"? MySpace didn't launch until 2003... Honest question, was this created by someone who was not actually on the web in 1999? Or maybe they're just taking artistic license with the "1999" idea?

extr0pian 3y ago
Looking at his neocities (self made) profile, he's 45-50. https://billsworld.neocities.org/profile/ https://billsworld.neocities.org/profile/
xxr 3y ago
And Tomoyasu Hotei didn't release "Battle Without Honor or Humanity" (the autoplaying MIDI) until 2000 ;)
Apocryphon 3y ago
Was going to say that Friendster is not as cool, but only just realized it came out the same year as MySpace did... whoa
dexwiz 3y ago
The favorites also has a Dr Who page that features David Tennent and Freema Agyeman, who didn't appear on the show until 2006.
- cableshaft 3y ago
  Yeah except it's known that they can travel through time and space, so that one makes sense.
frognumber 3y ago
99% odds artistic license. 1% odds anything else. It's better that way. The feel of 1999 was there in 1998 and yes, the distant future, the year 2000.
LinuxBender 3y ago
For what it's worth, MySpace prior to officially being a social media site was created in '96 and officially launched as a internet network drive around 1999 cant remember the exact date, then was later sold to Murdoch and evolved more into a social media site later on but was already unofficially used as one. People shared music, short movies, porn. It didn't scale well as there was no de-duplication, files were stored in an EBCDIC database on a couple HP Surestore's which I and others upgraded a few times from 9TB to 18TB comprised of 4 and 9 GB drives, then eventually 18 GB drives.
- swozey 3y ago
  Was this just like s/ftp accounts? Or something more complex like a 1996 dropbox? It was a mounted filesystem in your machine?
  - LinuxBender 3y ago
    It was a drive letter mounted on your Windows machine or a mount point on Linux. I forgot what protocol was used and I never personally used it as I had my own SFTP servers. On Windows people would run an app but I think it was just mounting a SMB drive. I only handled the backend storage, HP-UX servers and DNS for them. Other people managed the Windows servers and their company managed the applications.
    - swozey 3y ago
      Neat. I was 10 back then but I remember having to deal with IPX networking to play Warcraft 1-2 with my dad, and over Mplayer, or some sort of online game service IIRC. Never really thought about how you'd do a mounted network share back then. IPX was a pain but we had no idea what we were doing back then. edit: Oh duh, battlenet.. sigh, my how blizzard has changed.
    - devin 3y ago
      I'm going to take a guess this was FUSE.
JKCalhoun 3y ago
Yeah, also everything loads too fast. And maybe too many colors (too high a bit-depth).
- Clamchop 3y ago
  By 1999, most would have been on 24-bit color, or "millions of colors" as Apple called it. Most images are still 24-bit today.

extr0pian 3y ago

Looking at his neocities (self made) profile, he's 45-50. https://billsworld.neocities.org/profile/ https://billsworld.neocities.org/profile/

xxr 3y ago

And Tomoyasu Hotei didn't release "Battle Without Honor or Humanity" (the autoplaying MIDI) until 2000 ;)

Apocryphon 3y ago

Was going to say that Friendster is not as cool, but only just realized it came out the same year as MySpace did... whoa

dexwiz 3y ago

The favorites also has a Dr Who page that features David Tennent and Freema Agyeman, who didn't appear on the show until 2006.

cableshaft 3y ago
Yeah except it's known that they can travel through time and space, so that one makes sense.

frognumber 3y ago

99% odds artistic license. 1% odds anything else. It's better that way. The feel of 1999 was there in 1998 and yes, the distant future, the year 2000.

LinuxBender 3y ago

For what it's worth, MySpace prior to officially being a social media site was created in '96 and officially launched as a internet network drive around 1999 cant remember the exact date, then was later sold to Murdoch and evolved more into a social media site later on but was already unofficially used as one. People shared music, short movies, porn. It didn't scale well as there was no de-duplication, files were stored in an EBCDIC database on a couple HP Surestore's which I and others upgraded a few times from 9TB to 18TB comprised of 4 and 9 GB drives, then eventually 18 GB drives.

swozey 3y ago
Was this just like s/ftp accounts? Or something more complex like a 1996 dropbox? It was a mounted filesystem in your machine?
- LinuxBender 3y ago
  It was a drive letter mounted on your Windows machine or a mount point on Linux. I forgot what protocol was used and I never personally used it as I had my own SFTP servers. On Windows people would run an app but I think it was just mounting a SMB drive. I only handled the backend storage, HP-UX servers and DNS for them. Other people managed the Windows servers and their company managed the applications.
  - swozey 3y ago
    Neat. I was 10 back then but I remember having to deal with IPX networking to play Warcraft 1-2 with my dad, and over Mplayer, or some sort of online game service IIRC. Never really thought about how you'd do a mounted network share back then. IPX was a pain but we had no idea what we were doing back then. edit: Oh duh, battlenet.. sigh, my how blizzard has changed.
  - devin 3y ago
    I'm going to take a guess this was FUSE.

JKCalhoun 3y ago

Yeah, also everything loads too fast. And maybe too many colors (too high a bit-depth).

Clamchop 3y ago
By 1999, most would have been on 24-bit color, or "millions of colors" as Apple called it. Most images are still 24-bit today.