Nothing built trust issues like a Windows progress bar. Two minutes remaining. Forty minutes remaining. About 39 years remaining. You’d sit there afraid to touch the mouse like moving it would somehow fuck up the entire transfer.
Flaming text, a guestbook, stars in the background and an under construction sign that stayed up for three years. Your visitor counter said 7 and six of those were you checking if the damn counter worked. Still had more personality than half the internet today.
Lol we would put up an away message and then sit right there watching the buddy list. You weren’t away. You were waiting for one specific person to notice your extremely dramatic song lyrics. Basically a status update with more effort and worse fonts.
Robert Caskin Prince III, also known as Bobby Prince, has died at the age of 81. The iconic video game composer and sound designer worked on classic FPS video games Doom, Doom II, Wolfenstein 3D, Quake, and Duke Nukem 3D back in the 1990s and his work helped legitimize video game music as an artform. The sad news was made publc via an obituary posted on legacy.com:.....
