This is a welcome sign of the times...

I miss the old web (and by old, I mean I'm 27 years old, the internet I knew and loved was at the tailend of the 00s). Between SpaceHey and Dreamwidth, I might actually have a good time on the internet again outside the confines of Reddit. I'm feeling so nostalgic right now. :)

IRC is cool, and another nostalgic rant, AKA "Back In My Day"

Why have I been sleeping on text-based chat rooms?? I've played Second Life for 10 years, had Yahoo and MSN messengers, but never did IRC. I just logged off of IRCNet, and I had a really fun conversation with two other people.

Also completely unrelated, but does anyone remember Google Buzz? I miss that! That was the only social network I could have without my dad knowing about it. It was awesome, I had blips on my feed from all of my favorite people. I was really bummed when they discontinued it.

I know it seems silly to look back with rose colored glasses at that period of the internet, but my laptop hates all these new websites. It can barely handle Pinterest and Facebook. But you know which websites load faster? Dreamwidth, SpaceHey, and other sites like them. That, and the interfaces aren't a sterile boring set of different shades of white. I about had a fit when the last bastion of the Golden Age, MyYearbook, gave way to MeetMe and removed all the features that kept me loyal to MyYearbook.