I was scrolling through Facebook and look what I found.

https://spelunkr.tv/

I've been slowly cracking away at this website for the past 8 months, and would love to share and get any feedback from my fellow obscure media fanatics about the site. I'm really proud of what its turned into, and have a lot more I want to add. I just launched it public a few days ago. So far, its been a massive nostalgia bomb, and I'm planning hundreds more channels for the future.

I'm not selling anything: this is all already free on the internet archive. I'm just curating the feeling of nostalgia in how it's consumed.

I'm particularly excited about the "Rewind" stations, which host direct-from-TV VHS rips that have been uploaded to the Internet Archive. They're chronological and include all the commercials of the era. I'm a huge fan of those "sold as blanks" tapes and how they're a time capsule for the moment they were recorded.

The joy of finding an absolutely strange oddity on the archive and curating whole channels around them has been a blast.

The ultimate goal with this site is to try and make some organizational sense of the 13+ million video files living on the IA, and transform them into something entertaining, usable, and fun for anyone who loves ephemeral art, analog media, nostalgia, and just weird TV.

It's totally free to use and always will be, and there is a Discord community laid out, mainly to help me moderate inline comments on the tapes lol.

Just wanted to share out with the community, and see if this concept resonates with anyone. Have a great day!

Somehow this one has held up for over 20 years

I think it safe to say everyone has at least seen Winnie the Pooh once in their life from movies, shows, outfits and even those adorable plushies. Happy Birthday to our Wonderful Honey Loving Yellow Bear and his friends!!

Web TV was my first introduction to the internet, at least at home. I know it was not a true PC, but at the time, I was a console peasant and only worried about chatting, emailing and web surfing. I think this was the exact model or one very close to it. I remember the credit card slot, which reminded me of Total Recall, for purchases on the TV, although I never used it.

It came with the main unit, that hooked up to a standard TV and a phone line, a wireless keyboard, a remote and a rather thick booklet on getting started. The remote acted like a TV remote and also a mouse, sort of. I believe you could even type with the remote, but it was slow. I just mainly just used the keyboard. I used it for about a year or so, discovered EverQuest Trilogy and Half Life 1 mods and bought a Dell PC, never to touch WebTV again.

In saying that, it did what it said it did. I enjoyed it and do not regret the purchase. I think it was around $100, but I am going off memory from decades ago. You could download pictures, and play very rudimentary games. I think play by email games were big(ger) back then. I think you could watch videos, but you had to wait for them to load slowly and I usually did not bother.

I mainly, for playing purposes, would go to the RPG chat rooms. One was Peroria Castle or something about a moon. Who ever types the fastest and most accurately won the round in a fight. Other wise, it was basically a tavern setting in a castle.

There were chat rooms that were basically a bar with a juke box. People would take turns playing their music of choice and everyone listened. And then of course, chat rooms that were flooded with "ASL". If you know, you know... All in all, pretty decent for the price. Most people owned a TV. Most people had the phone line. It was just a matter of getting the Internet or paying for the service.

The link below shows how it worked and some of the options, like start up, webpages, chat and email.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHJN9cMo4P4

Hey! I'm Codei. Born in the 90s and I really enjoy making things. Especially when they remind me of growing up. One of my vhs tapes as a kid was Mewtwo Strukes back and the one I made stood 6ft 3. These were all 3d printed, primered, sanded, and hand painted.

Thanks for looking!

Hopefully this is the right place to share this, I've been getting a lot of ads for the Petru record stand/visualiser but was a little put off by the price and limited variety of screens so I thought I might try to put something together in my old busted Talking Computron, it's pretty.... rustic but really happy with the results .