| ★ wanayoo — archive 1999 http://memepool.com/Subject/Internet/ | Nouvelle recherche | Portail wanayoo |
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| Monday Jul 31, 2000 | Relive the sloth-like speed, nightmarish user interfaces, and new-car smell of the web browsers of yesteryear, at Dejavu.org. to Internet by succa |
| Saturday Jul 29, 2000 | The people who wrote "Sharezilla", a program to spam Gnutella, are obviously pure evil. to Internet by peterb |
| Thursday Jul 27, 2000 | If you're a mail admin and you really hate spam mail, you're probably familiar with the RBL list of spam tolerant mail relays. However, if you're the average user and you hate spam, there's only one way to go: msgto.com - the email service that stops all spam mail by requiring people who mail you to 'prove' that they are not software. to Internet by faisal |
| Tuesday Jun 27, 2000 | Cyber Stalking on IRC is a serious crime,
but do we need to be afraid of the Web Gestapo
coming after us because we're all
voyeurs at heart, who're addicted to following a regular person indulge their narcissistic tendencies by
posting every mundane detail of their entire life on the
web for our entertainment (or theirs?)
to Internet by rich |
| Monday Jun 26, 2000 | Tuvalu is a small island in Oceania, about 26 sq. km. in area, or so the CIA world factbook entry says. Although they have no potable groundwater, no known mineral resources, and only ten thousand people, it has one very modern resource: it's the center of a hotly contested bidding war for the .tv domain
to Internet by urog |
| Thursday Jun 15, 2000 | People are still trying to screw chumps out of millions for stupid domain names. Guh. to Internet by che |
| Monday May 29, 2000 | The rudest search engine online is appropriately named SearchBastard. to Internet by pjammer |
| Thursday May 11, 2000 | There's free email all over the net, but none quite as expressive as this
service in the UK. I desperately want the t-shirt. to Internet by gen |
| Monday May 8, 2000 | Chad Frick's YukYuk.com is a consistently bright spot for the difficult-to-define, short-attention-span entertainment for at which the web excels. The "interactive cartoons" of Mr. Furd are particularly inventive, recycling the same bleeps over and over into a cute alien language. And the dancers are good examples of Frick's trademark: Graphical User Interfaces which manage to be exotic without being irritating.
to Internet by cricket |
| Tuesday Apr 25, 2000 | Bulgaria.com is a central point for exchanging information on Bulgaria, offering Bulgarian personal web pages -- both elegant and simple. to Internet by rsf |
| Identity thieves: now make your life easier with AnyBirthday.com - the site that lets you find out anyone's date of birth based on their name and zip code.
to Internet by faisal |
| Wednesday Apr 19, 2000 | myNetSales.com lets you manage a sales pipeline online. Now your small business can waste time on "process" just as easily as the big players. to Internet by faisal |
| Monday Mar 27, 2000 | I'm not sure I feel safe getting free internet access from The Simpsons. I can just imagine the sysadmins: Homer-types who are lazy enough to set up a Drinky Bird to tap on the keyboard while they are away. to Internet by enigma |
| Thursday Mar 23, 2000 | I had been trying to find Iridium gear for cheap before it gets scarce, when a friend alerted me to Save Our Sats, an Internet-powered grassroots effort to purchase Iridium, stop it from falling out of the sky, and make it useable as the first open access and open source LEO network. Volunteer today!
to Internet by dnm |
| Friday Mar 3, 2000 | Okay, lets face it, we all know that AOL sucks, but few of us really know in what manner or how hard. I especially liked reading the AOL vulgarity guidelines and readng about past security problems.
to Internet by keith |
| Tuesday Feb 29, 2000 | Freenet is like Blacknet, only without the threatening sneer on its face. to Internet by arkuat |
| Monday Feb 28, 2000 | Send digital voodoo curses to friends and enemies alike. Pinstruck is a modestly beautiful webtoy created by Steem.com (who's corporate site is a work of art). to Internet by cricket |
| Here's how unprofitable Amazon.com
is. Jeff Bezos'
Amazon "member page" has a
picture of him as Austin Powers. And where is this
picture hosted? Why, on a
GeoCities account. Makes you wonder, doesn't it? to Internet by tregoweth |
| Sunday Feb 27, 2000 | EarthStation1 is small "internet
media museum," i.e. a big collection of funny or
interesting mp3s and wav files, cross-indexed by subject.
to Internet by riotnrrd |
| Monday Feb 21, 2000 | One of the sadest tales of the Internet is the demise of GNN and The Whole Internet Catalog. With the potential to be greater than Yahoo, this massive project got swallowed up and shut down by AOL. You can still find remnants scattered about. to Internet by rsf |
| Friday Feb 18, 2000 | Take the hard line against spam and relay abuse! The Mail Abuse Prevention Center can provide you with a great tool: lists of open mail relay IPs. to Internet by borges |
| Friday Jan 28, 2000 | DoubleClick is an Internet advertising company behind a lot of the banner ads you see. DoubleClick recently acquired Abacus Direct, manager of "the nation's largest proprietary database of consumer catalog buying behavior used for target marketing purposes." DoubleClick plans to link online activities with personally identifying information. You might want to get an opt-out cookie while you still can. |
| Monday Jan 17, 2000 | What USENET was like before trolls, spam, Kibo, Cattlovrr, Speedbump, net.kooks, CFVs, killfiles, binaries, Nosers and cascades: the USENET OldNews Archive, 1981-82. to Internet by rogers |
| Thursday Jan 13, 2000 | Can you fool a spammer's robot into traveling an infinite loop through thousands of fake Web pages collecting phony e-mail addresses? Erik Schorr's Blackflag does. The script could make the world safe again for the mailto: url.
to Internet by rogers |
| Friday Jan 7, 2000 | Send your wishes into space. to Internet by jon |
| Wednesday Dec 29, 1999 | Nasty, short, brutish. Need
To Know is the site for all your techno-centric sarcasm needs. to Internet by lee |
| Monday Dec 27, 1999 |
Remember how you could listen to Christmas tunes and warm yourself by the Yule Log on TV?
Well now you can do it on the Internet. to Internet by moose |
| Thursday Dec 16, 1999 | Who It Is! Finally, a whois for da playas! to Internet by tregoweth |
| Monday Dec 13, 1999 | Everyone does ego searches, but all you really want to know is do you get more hits than your friends. Thanks to Altameter it's quick and easy to compare hit counts between different
people,
places, and
things. to Internet by rsf |
| Sunday Dec 5, 1999 | Why is it that one must know how to use the internet to look at NetLingo, which likes to think it's for beginners? to Internet by djinn |
| So you've met someone on the web. Well, now there's a foolproof way to tell if you two are soulmates. to Internet by djinn |
| Saturday Dec 4, 1999 | Dammit, someone registered pneumonoultra to Internet by tregoweth |
| Friday Dec 3, 1999 | Never forget a birthday/anniversary or oversleep for a early-morning flight ever again -
iPing's free MrWakeup
/Ms. Reminder service
will call you with a recorded wakeup/reminder call at home or to your cell/pager/office
number) so forgetful goofuses who can't afford personal assistants can better manage our frenzied
schedules without forgetting the important people in our lives. to Internet by pjammer |
| Monday Nov 29, 1999 | Java-powered encrypted webmail? Check. Voice-command-operated email? Check. Personal 800-number voicemail/fax/webmail account? Check. But absent a cool domain, who gives a rip about stupid features like encryption of fax capacities? From now on, my memepool posse can reach me at pjammer@nigga-please.com, thanks to the good folks from Datapimp. to Internet by pjammer |
| Take (almost) all of the headaches out of planning events by using mambo.com. to Internet by faisal |
| Monday Nov 22, 1999 | Those of us who use Lexis/Nexis (the world's most comprehensive indexed collection of major global newspapers, academic/law journals, and other such) know how hideously expensive digital archives of copyrighted material can be. Search engine Northern Light not only provides access (for a small fee) to articles in pay-subscription periodicals related to your search query, it also organizes hits by topic-driven folders. to Internet by pjammer |
| Wednesday Nov 17, 1999 | Have you had e-nough of e-everything? Well, check out Persistence Software's Society For The Preservation Of The Other 25 Letters Of The Alphabet. The scariest example is definitely eemail.
to Internet by keith |
| Monday Nov 15, 1999 | Okay, so it's not an urban legend per se, since it's just a warning about a virus, but you would be well to check to see if it's a hoax before you send it to your entire family tree. to Internet by keith |
| Friday Nov 12, 1999 | Thinking about DSL but $50 a month is too high? Want a second phone line but don't wanna blow $30 a month? How does $20 a year sound? E-ring allows you to check out memepool without blocking outside calls. to Internet by rsf |
| Monday Nov 1, 1999 | Call anyone in the United States, from anywhere
in the world, as much as you want, for free, with
Dialpad. to Internet by obvious |
| Monday Oct 18, 1999 | Funmail is an English mail service that allows you to have up to 20 e-mail addresses at any one time, and change them as often as you like (with 3,500 possible names after the @, and infinite possibilities before the @)! Take that Yahoo/Rocket/Hotmail/Hushmail/etc.
to Internet by gen |
| Want DSL? DSLreports
has an agent which will query all the DSL prequalification
engines they know about if you provide the area code and
prefix and your street address. The results will not
only tell you if you can get DSL, they'll also offer
prices, speed estimates, and the estimated line distance.
to Internet by shadow |
| Friday Oct 8, 1999 | Famous people get arrested too. Find your favorite celebrity criminal at Mugshots. Does Bill Gates too a little too happy in this supposed arrest photo in this 1977 or is it just me? to Internet by pjammer |
| From now on, I only want to read email that deletes itself. to Internet by peterb |
| Thursday Sep 30, 1999 | In November of 1988,
Robert
Morris released a
software
worm that brought almost 60,000 machines to a halt.
A
lot has been written about
this
event, but of special historical interest is the federal government's
General Accounting
Office report from 1989 -- their first internet publication!
to Internet by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Sep 19, 1999 | Regardless of what others may have told you the World Wide Web is not the Internet, although the Internet is a web of sorts. How do you map a web? The Internet Mapping Project is an effort that has produced a gorgeous collection of enormous images mapping the interconnectivity of the web. Slow connections beware.
to Internet by urog |
| Thursday Sep 16, 1999 | In the insane world where venture-cash-rich internet firms are
knocking over each other to give away free stuff in order to build market share, the only competitive
advantage a startup has is its ability to give away the house faster than its rivals.
uReach.com could very well be the winner of this bizzare
race, offering webmail, a personal 800-number voicemail box and inbound fax capacities for anyone
who logs in. Since its ability to financially sustain itself on pure advertising revenue is laughable,
I suspect they're trolling to get acquired.
to Internet by pjammer |
| Wednesday Sep 8, 1999 | Attrition.org is devoted to a variety of interesting topics both internet and everyday, but I found most interesting the pages archiving
confirmed denial of service (DoS) attacks and confirmed web mirror hacks
to unsuspecting websites. Now the packet monkeys can keep score.
to Internet by urog |
| Tuesday Aug 31, 1999 | FakeCounter works just like "real" page counters. With every visit to your page it will display a new number, except that this number has no connection whatsoever to the amount of visitors. to Internet by pjammer |
| Wednesday Aug 25, 1999 | Much like the philosophical web-site-discussion software Third Voice, you can now chat with other people visiting the same websites you visit, with Gooey. to Internet by faisal |
| Tired of keeping your own booklist online? Want the entire world to know what books you've been reading? No? Well, too bad: amazon.com is now listing purchases for all to see. to Internet by faisal |
| Friday Aug 20, 1999 | I bet you didn't know the Internet had an end. to Internet by peterb |
| Wouldn't it be great if Instant Messenger/ICQ could carry voice messages? Firetalk promises multiuser voice-support with just a 28.8 modem. Question: Subversive, anti-telcom-giant revolutionaries or doomed money-hemmoraging Internet latecomers destined for a fire-sale acquisition by Microsoft? Operators are standing by ... to Internet by pjammer |
| Thursday Aug 19, 1999 | Addicted to ebay? Too lazy to write your own monitoring software? Afraid to leave your desk for fear that you'll be outbid on a very important auction? It's time for ebay a-go-go. to Internet by faisal |
| Tuesday Aug 10, 1999 | Ever seen something like this before in your messages log? mountd[6688]: Blocked attempt of You have been owned. Lance Spitzner has a very nice collection of technical whitepapers regarding script kiddies, and their threat to UNIX varieties and Windows NT.to Internet by urog |
| Sunday Aug 1, 1999 | The Public DNS service may be useful to you if you're looking for someone to host domain name service for you for free. to Internet by peterb |
| Thursday Jul 29, 1999 | Feed your junk email to SpamCop,
and it will sort through the email headers,
tell you who to complain to, and even prepare the
complaint message for you. to Internet by tregoweth |
| Saturday Jul 3, 1999 | You want a vertical weblog? How about Russian nuclear news? to Internet by faisal |
| Monday Jun 21, 1999 | While some people prefer simply having webcams for people to look in on their life, this guy not only has two, but he's given you, the lucky surfer, control over his lights, fans, and other nifty appliances...
to Internet by djinn |
| Wednesday Jun 16, 1999 | Sure, everyone seems to be offering free, web-based email these days, from
rap groups to
search engines. But how many of them allow
you to check your email without even using a computer? MyTalk does, with an 800-number, voice-mail style
login that allows you to check your mail even when you are away from a computer.
But then again, how many memepool readers are ever away from a computer
enough to care?
to Internet by pjammer |
| Tuesday Jun 15, 1999 | David Isenberg's The Dawn of the Stupid Network has been hailed by some as the most important article in 1998 on the subject of communications. WSJ Front Lines columnist Tom Petzinger wrote about Isenberg early last year. Read all about it and then go buy some stock in Qwest and MCI/Worldcom. to Internet by gen |
| Wednesday Jun 9, 1999 | Almost no one uses finger any more, but if you need
to, you can
do it via the web,
which can actually be quite helpful if you're
using a library computer or in another situation
where you have no finger client. to Internet by keith |
| Having been stung by quick-acting anti-Bush forces who registered the
gwbush.com domain (and filled with embarassing
facts and links), Presidential hopeful
George W. Bush is taking no chances.
According to numerous accounts, the Bush exploratory committee snapped up over
100 domain names sporting Mr. Bush's moniker, the most amusing of which has to be
georgebushsux.com. to Internet by pjammer |
| Monday Jun 7, 1999 | I'll admit that I don't quite understand the purpose of having
an 18-page photo gallery of Spam Fighters.
I am, however, glad, after looking at the gallery, that unlike certain fictional
crime fighters, these people do not run around in spandex.
to Internet by keith |
| Friday Jun 4, 1999 | Want to Make Money Fast? Here's a complete guide on how
NOT to do it. That's right, it's the
MMF Hall of Humiliation, which
details internet chain letters and other scams and why they
are illegal, nonfunctional, or both. to Internet by keith |
| Tuesday May 25, 1999 | If you're tired of getting falsely accused of spamming in alt.erotica.memepool, as I am, you'll be pleased to hear about Unspammed.com, a forum for those who feel that their bulk-mailing habits adhere to legal and ethical guidelines. Whatever, it's still annoying. to Internet by succa |
| Tuesday May 18, 1999 | Recycle
that spam -- and get a $5 CDNow gift certificate
while you're at it. to Internet by tregoweth |
| Monday May 10, 1999 | If you feel totally clueless about things like ADSL, e-commerce, object-oriented programming, and other computer-related buzzwords, whatis.com is here to help. to Internet by eclipse |
| Monday May 3, 1999 | Find out what insanely optimistic prices domain-name speculators expect to fetch for surrendering their addresses through eBay. A million bucks for www.elocker.com may be a bit steep, but I'd cough up $1.25 to have my private email address @SpankNasty.com. to Internet by pjammer |
| Friday Apr 23, 1999 | Yes, when news breaks, you can count on
domain
name speculators, and those
who would thwart them.
to Internet by tregoweth |
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