Ed the Nerd

RIP to Jesse Jackson. His funeral is today. I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.

Spectacle website in 1996

Urban Diary website in 1997

Conscience Records website in 1998

p2 output website in 1998

Grunge Web Design Style in the 1990s

– Spectacle in 1996
– Urban Diary in 1997
– Conscience Records in 1998
– p2 output in 1998

#WebDesignHistory

Hello there, long time no see. Here are some floppy disks I finished today. #pixelart #vaporwave #lofi #retro

watching you dildo brain cock suckers play w/ AI shit is like watching a dog paw at one of those puzzle boxes that you put treats inside of

Calling AI "slop" has been one of the most effective instances of the public rebranding a product and it pisses them off.

Supernote spotted!
I've been loving my viwoods mini but the manta is calling to me for a bigger writing surface. How do you like it?

📆 ON THIS DAY in 2006 • 20 years ago! 😮 @8bitpeoples.bsky.social releases Information Chase, 6 mp3s of chiptune powerpop. It's since come out on CD & vinyl, & I've performed its songs to audiences who have loudly sung along, despite there being no words. What could be more heartwarming than that? 🙏

Still got my vinyl!
Informatin Chase was one of, if not the first chiptune album I purchased. I still play it regularly.

Raytheon Executive: I know you’re skeptical about buying American again. But hear me out. The MIM-104 Patriot is the only surface to air missile system with a proven track record of success against the US Air Force.

Danish Defense Minister: Continue.

wife chasing me around the kitchen table with a rolling pin because she found me in the epstein files being a Mossad Operative

TEAMSPEAK. YOUR TEAM. YOUR SERVER. WE DON'T CARE. Use crystal clear sound to communicate with your team mates cross-platform with military-grade security, lag-free performance & unparalleled reliability and uptime. Y'know. As long as you're the one hosting it. [FREE* Download]

Ventrilo 4.0 is the next evolutionary step of Voice over IP (VoIP) group communications software. Ventrilo is also the industry standard by which all others attempted to emulate, like, ten years ago. The fact that you're here on this website at all is amazing, to us. We thought you'd forgotten about us back when you started college. We thought we'd never see you again. And now you're back in our life and we're not sure if we should cry or give you a great big hug. Ventrilo was best known for its superior sound quality and minimal use of CPU resources so as not to interfere with normal operations of the computer or during online game competitions. Maybe your computer's good enough these days that this isn't an attractive prospect anymore. I mean, we're not judging, but somehow, we don't think running the entire program in a stripped-back web browser is the most efficient thing in the world. Ventrilo uses a client-server based connection that is always encrypted. User data is never collected or stored, hence it can not be shared/sold to external entities. All text-chat communications/audio-recordings are stored locally on the Client computer. Maybe that's our new selling point. We didn't really expect it was going to be that hard, not to steal people's data and sell it to advertisers, but we suppose *SOME PEOPLE* couldn't help themselves. We're better than that.

ICQ - stay connected ...Hello? Oh. Oh my God it's you. Hello?! What year is it? D-do you have some food? Please? Is the world...OK, out there? We've been down here for so long...

TEAMBEAK. IT'S FOR THE BIRDS. Say goodbye to hunt-and-peck, with our new crystal clear sound that transmits your song to other birds, lag-free.

Let's see how the rest of the online group chat world is faring out there...

Possibly yeah, I’ve brought it along for the past few years

Nintendo zone distribution box. It’s just half of a dsi. They ran Nintendo zone hotspots in places like Best Buy

It’s an enigma

So like, I bring the dev stuff and one time years ago there were Nintendo reps giving out like stickers and shit or something, but at some point I saw them in the museum looking at my devkits, visibly confused by the things labeled “confidential property of Nintendo” sitting in an illuminated case

Two people dressed up as cans of Baja Blast, giving the thumbs up while I'm holding a can of Baja Blast that they just gave me.

Things I thought I hallucinated: last night at about 1:30am, two guys dressed up as Baja Blast gave me a can of Baja Blast #MAGFest2026

Stuff like this is why I have a hard time describing what Magfest is

Aight bet

Jesus Christ

#MAGFest2026

I have big plans for spinny CRT

#ai #mozilla #firefox #fuckAI #genAI #fuckGenAI

Hey maybe don’t shit up your browser with AI slop nobody actually wants.
I know tech CEOs aren’t humans and as such can’t understand anything but lines going up and to the right, but your actual users hate this.

A 3D printed license plate from the RV in the movie Spaceballs. It reads: “INTERGALACTIC, EAGLE 5, KEEP ON TRUCKING”

Goin plaid

"user requested cross-application communication" user: "i'd like browser integration or password autofill" italics: "isnt their someone your forgetting to ask...???" [sic] steam deck with application icons pasted on it: FIREFOX: "I CONSENT" KEEPASSXC: "I CONSENT" FLATPAK LOGO: "WELL I DONT!!!"

technology is incredible

As I get older I actively squash most "the old days were better" feelings like they're intrusive thoughts, but the old internet was an objectively better place, full of actual people making things just for the joy of creation. I'm understanding now why older generations don't stfu about the 1960s.

log in to any(?) atproto oauth app with handle "rr.dev.retr0.id" for a surprise

It's here! We wanted to make a fun scrolling interface for DOOM levels, and call it DOOMSCROLLER. doomscroll.cx is now live!

@johnromero.bsky.social

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

One more reason to open this app, lets go