Memories

Random Hard Drive Notes:

Going through old Hard Drives is a Hilarious & Informative trip down memory lane

• Most of the sites I Bookmarked in 2004 no longer work
• JavaScript was still pretty new, and the simplest things were cutting edge.
• Flash was a huge thing. All my practice sites were tacky as hell.
• I took even more pics back then I do now (private message if you want them)
• In the early days of TXTs, I wrote a webpage that submitted straight to Rogers/Telus/Fido
• ClubVibes.com Kazaa.com Wifi was "wireless"
• FTP/Newgroups were all the rage. Torrents just coming out
• New Buildings: Silvercity Tillicum. Save on Foods Arena.
• You had to save/store the drivers for your motherboards/hardware
• Checking Movie times online was a very time consuming hassle
• My first tech job: http://bcheritage.ca/digitalyearbook/
• Mapquest was the original Google Maps.
• My Dell Axim X5 was the coolest thing ever (very early smartphone)
• I wanted to put Hydrolics & Vertical-Lift doors on my Eclipse for $6K & $9K
• Car stereos were ~$3K. Sub-woofers were so important
• Nash Bridges was my favorite show.
• Gunther- Ding Dong Song(You Touch My Tralala)
• Club Vibes- "adambarstar"
• Tivo was Awesome
• Checking Ferry Times
• Winamp
• It was hard to find internet porn back then
• Stileprject.com
• URL FOrwarding sites (cjb.net)
• MSN MessengerProjection TVs
• IcQ
• Rotten.com
• Wardriving
• Web Cams
• http://www.spikedhumor.com/
• Ebaumsworld.com/
• http://www.car-accidents.com/
• http://hal.cs.camosun.bc.ca/~vrc/
• http://deepblue.cs.camosun.bc.ca/~cst99102/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoMVPoBw_rs