#pre-internet

[lightyearsandbeyond]

Before the internet people did stuff...like...in person?

Image credits: https://dnd.wizards.com/resources/press-assets Plunge decades or so into the past. PRE-INTERNET DAYS (wtf? is that a thing? the internet hasn’t always been here?) The scene: A tavern in a roughshod sorta townA table made from a tree felled from the forest south of a tor outside of townTwo benches held together with spit and prayers The tavern bar that acted a barrier of entry to…

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#book #D&D #dnd #dragons #dungeons and dragons #Fantasy #friends #fun #games #great book #high school #internet #pre-internet #sci-fi #sci-fi book #sci-fi books #science fiction #science fiction book #scifi #scifi book #table top role playing game #table top role playing games #table top rpg #tavern #ttrpg #warriors

[theoldbrewery]

#pre-internet #before tumblr

[invincible-selfxmade-punk]

Watch "WHITE TRASH - "Apple Pie" MUSIC VIDEO (Elektra 1991)" on YouTube

The old intro of this looked so cool ---- so I tried to make a video clip but I have no idea what I'm doing.

#short clip intro #intro #youtube #90's #pre-internet

[xaviergalatis]

#📓 #png #diary #logo #logos #collage #web3 #web1 #pre-internet #sketchbook #stickers #crime #legal #illegal #Earth #🌎 #🌍 #dishwasher #computing #computer #how to #DIY #music #💾 #🖲️ #x

[sp0o0kylights]

You know what I want to see, I want to see more of Steve, Eddie, and Robin being 1980s small town kids from Indiana, by which I mean;

Robin is The Source of Gay Knowledge purely because her parents host Hippie Christmas and she managed to sneak away to find a neat bookstore in Indiana once. 

Her knowledge is not in depth. It's patchy, woven together through rumors, stories she heard or things she picked up from her parents' old pictures. She's got a handful of zines, one book, and some movies she managed to order for Family Video behind Keith's back.

She acts like she's Queen of the Queers because in Hawkins she pretty much is.

(Max and El ask her what a lavender marriage is once, something they overheard snooping around. 

Robin confidentially answers that it's code for when one woman dresses up as a man, fooling officials into wedding two woman.

She does not live this down two years later when they find out what it actually means.) 

Eddie doesn't spend every weekend in Indianapolis. 

Gas is expensive, his busiest days of his "job" is Friday and Saturday, and he has no fucking clue what the hanky code is. 

He's wearing that bandana because Metallica front singer James Hetfield has one on all their tour posters. 

Eddie does make it down to a gay bar though, by accident. Rick needed some back up for a shady deal. Promised Eddie a boatload of free drugs to sell if he agreed to just stand there and look mean. 

He was warned the bar they were meeting in was 'weird' and to not 'freak out' --which Eddie thought was hilarious given his nickname and general appearance, but whatever.

He doesn't understand when they get there, because it's just a bunch of hot men with hanky's in their back pockets everywhere.

Then he sees two women kissing and it clicks. 

He can't out himself in front of Rick, but one of the bartenders playfully dresses him down for his own hanky, letting him know all about the code and teasing him through his embarrassment. 

He's got an offer to come back and learn what color and which pocket his hanky should actually be in, a prospect Eddie was salivating at until Chrissy Cunningham up and died on his ceiling.

(He still wore the hanky, because the feeling of that bartender tugging it out and stuffing it back in might be the closest thing he's ever had to sex and he absolutely wants a repeat. 

He's young and horny, sue him.) 

Steve Harrington may not be academically smart but he's not dumb. 

He figured out a while back that the basketball team as a unit probably crossed the queer line more than once--or at least it did before Hargrove came in. 

( Brad Handly for example, went around slamming kids into lockers and screaming slurs like a fucking movie villain one Monday because the varsity team got dead drunk at Laura's party on Sunday and hey, look, there weren't that many girls there, okay?

They all had fucking hands and mouths. Everybody but Tommy was single and hot to trot. Nothing gay about it.

Its not even like they were kissing or treating each other like chicks. It was just Brad's first time and they got to tease him later for overthinking it. 

Dude graduated soon enough after and given Steve was on the team as a sophomore, he hadn't thought about the guy and why he might be freaking out so bad in years.) 

Robin's entire panic attack at Starcourt, and a few more after had Steve replaying that whole incident. Reframed it a bit, and, yeah.

In retrospect that had been extremely gay, actually. 

It sat with him a lot easier than he'd thought it would. Partially because of Robin, but mostly because that's just who he was.

Stranger things had happened to Steve and this one didn't want to kill, maim or otherwise eat him, so it got filed under 'interesting facts he should never tell his parents if he wanted to keep his trust fund' and then he went about his day. 

(Or he tried too, anyways.

It caught up to him when Eddie and Robin somehow figured out the other was queer and dragged him along to some bar Eddie had a standing invitation at, with demands for Steve to do what he did best.

Babysit.

Their magical trip was utterly destroyed when Brad Handly happened to be the very same bartender who had given Eddie the invite.

 Considering Brad's immediate bark of laughter followed by a hug and introducing himself as "Steve's gay awakening", Steve ended up having to speedrun through Eddie and Robin both having a crisis for him.

It didn't help that Steve had politely, and laughingly, corrected Brad with a casual; 

"Pretty sure that was Tommy man, but if it helps I think that tongue of yours gave Matt Burdon a crisis."

--which ended up with him answering a lot more gay sex questions with Brad than he cared too. 

At least he, through Brad, was able to help Robin connect to some local lesbians and--after a second crisis from Eddie regarding how Steve managed to have more sex than "the resident town freak and guy who actually knew he was gay, Steve!"-- even helped Eddie out by catching the metalheads tongue with his mouth later that evening.

The last one landed him a boyfriend, trust fund be damned.) 

#this started as thought and ended as a mini fic #filing this under shit I'm not expanding on #steddie #platonic stobin #its the “Eddie and Robin drag Steve to a Gay Bar” trope but with a twist #the twist is that Steve skipped his gay crisis entirely #and also that basketball team is not straight #steve harrington #eddie munson #robin buckley #I just want to re-invoke that pre internet feeling of "No one has an easy way to google whether or not their friend is right #so it comes down to who sounds right LOL #or whose known for what

[haunted-xander]

Terra voice how do I tell my teacher slash parental figure I think the new kid might be a victim of child abuse

#i think about pre-bbs ven way more than i should #i had a rant for the tags written but internet fucked up and it didnt post and now i cant be bothered to write it all again #just know i have feelings. a lot of them #terra #aqua #ventus #kingdom hearts #kingdom hearts birth by sleep #kh #kh bbs #art #my art #xanders art #digital art #fan art

[iconstantlythankgodforryro]

my fav thing ever in case you guys haven’t seen it

#pete wentz #fall out boy #ryan ross #ryro #the young veins #tyv #pre split panic #panic at the disco #young veins #2000s emo #2000s decaydence #dcd2 #decaydance #2000s internet nostalgia

[skkpaws]

a lot of people are talking about the new wan chapter and the idea of skk being fanfic writers and can i just propose that if they were fic writers in the canon universe they’d have the CRAZIEST authors notes explaining why they weren’t updating.

Notes:

“Heyyy sorry for not updating, I met this annoying ass kid from the mafia and was forced to work with him so my friends wouldn’t be killed but I guess it worked out cause this dude we had to find was starting shit in MY name (long story 😒). Anyway we found him and dealt with him (I did most the work) so now I’m back! I’m at a new place now but don’t worry, updates should continue as normal 😁”

Notes:

“hi guys sorry for being gone i almost died (bullet wounds suck .. >_>) but then this nice man helped me (i was such a great patient :3) ! then we both got captured by some assholes but dw we both got out! posting this at the bar rn ^_^ hope u enjoyed”

#I WOULD DO ONE FOR STORMBRINGER BUT I HAVENT READ IT STILL feel free to give me ur own version >_< #this is also to show my hc of chuuya using proper capitalization and emojis #while dazai uses lower case only and emoticons #22!skk fic writers would be just as crazy #‘sorry i was in prison but dw i broke out!’ #‘Sorry I had to go break someone out of prison I’m back’ #don’t ask how pre-15 arc chuuya has internet access if there’s a will there’s a way’ #bsd #bungou stray dogs #bsd dazai #dazai osamu #bsd chuuya #chuuya nakahara #soukoku #bsd wan

[jayrockin]

Anonymous asked: Bip, do YOU have a music preference? :)

Another eccentric A.I. form of... music? Temporal decoration? Is huge files of recursive self-deleting code they repeatedly download for the apparent aesthetic entertainment value.

#it's a bop! #megaforum is a human social media site designed to be used across interstellar internet (sometimes just called mega) #megaforum is like reddit-ish with subforums but beefier personal profiles and the massive usage of pre-musk twitter #bip #runaway to the stars #jayart #comic #character ama #also hi im still alive and finishing these i swear

[prokopetz]

The fact that nearly all institutions are online now literally saved my life. Pre-Internet, if I needed a particular piece of paperwork or documentation and it was issued more than three months ago, I was just screwed. Now, I get to solve the fun puzzle of figuring out how to download a fresh copy without having to pay money for it.

#life #internet #bureaucracy #on rare occasions the pre-internet situation could be solved by calling someone on the phone #but that's sufficiently similar to death as to make no practical difference #death mention in tags

[ijustdontlikepeople]

NHL x Internet 3/?

#nhl x internet #x internet #annies edits #jamie drysdale #Trevor zegras #jack Hughes #Luke Hughes #Quinn Hughes #cole caufield #cale makar #Canucks #devils #ducks #Canadiens #avalanche #hughes brothers #nhl memes #hockey #nhl #pre season has begun so this is in honor #something special cooking for once Trevorjamie sign their contracts like damn guys

[fandomsandfeminism]

Sneakin' (Naga with Pothos Plant)

Ok, I'm real proud of this one.

#art #the summer of art #the summer of (bad) art #i was SO SCARED to put the watercolor over the colored pencil I swear #i took pictures of it pre-watercolor in case I ruined it lol #he's not as internet charming as No Thoughts Just Frog #but I love him #snake #ball python #danger noodle

[meulia]

starfall.com on january 22, 2007 (sourced from the wayback machine)

#me and my sister were homeschooled with this website as a substitute for pre-k #this screenshot is also from the day before my fifth birthday #starfall #nostalgiacore #2000s web #webcore #2000s childhood #2000s internet #2000s nostalgia #kidcore #kidwave #self

[undercat-overdog]

There is more to Tolkien's work than his Catholicism.

I think there's a general tendency in many areas of fandom - fandom broadly, I'm also think academic work and reddit; this post isn't aimed at tumblr fandom specifically. in fact probably a bit more aimed at reddit but there was no precipitating incident that's leading me to write this. Anyways, a general tendency to over-weight the influence of Christianity in his work? Especially when it comes to finding allegories (Andreth talking about her people's beliefs in the Athrabeth is the only thing I think that is one, and Tolkien in his notes talked about how it was too Christian and wanted to change it), but more generally too. And sometimes I think Catholicism is brought into the text in ways that really aren't there. Idk.

Also... I think there is a way that him himself as a creator is. Hmm. I don't want to say under-discussed because it's not. But his work is more than the sum of his influences?

#ok there was a precipitating incident #and that was me being reminded of arguing on reddit a while back with some guy who #thought the story of turin was inspired by the book of job #and dismissed the influence of the kalevala #it remains one of the most baffling internet encounters i've ever had and i've been on the internet since i was a pre-teen in the 90s #so i guess i'm vague-posting about some weird guy on reddit #meta

[corvidsofthedeep]

No Context Crow #365: Imposter! Crow

If this image is yours and you would like it credited or removed, let me know!

#crows #corvids #corvidae #birds #animals #cats #cat #caturday #imposter #this one's silly #sorry for my brief disappearance btw! #no internet and no pre-queued crows haha #but I'm back and hopefully it'll stay that way #daily crows #crow queue #No Context Crow No. 365

[planefood]

Recently I've been seeing nostalgia posting for periods of time that I fully remember (like 2013-2016) since people younger than me have started gaining the ability to make stuff like that. Now I finally fully understand what people older than me are talking about with this kinda stuff. Because I get this visceral gut reaction when I see 2013 nostalgia posting because 2013 sucked so much

#“who remembers frozen” yea I'd rather forget #I know this is rich coming from me and I understand the nostalgia for pre-corporate internet #but do you guys remember how vicious and vile everyone was online back then #I don't wanna go back