I am this old. C64 was my first computer. (Dad wanted a Coleco ADAM, had already bought the Colecovision game console to connect it to, but the project was delayed and delayed, so we got the Commodore 64 instead.)
Tumblr wouldn't let me reblog from @unforth so I had to screenshot.
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Hi internet 🐦⬛
I’m Magpie. I unfortunately am a fan of Supernatural after making the lethal mistake of deciding to watch it as a 20 year old in the year 2023. And now I’m here. Just when I thought I’d made it out of my teenage years alive.
I’m probably just gonna post stuff about that. I also like other mediocre tv shows and think about them a lot.
This is a place for me to collect my treasures. I like shiny things, even when I have to dig through garbage to find them.
I like Castiel as much as the next queer person and Dean Winchester has taken up camp in my subconscious and I can’t get him out. It’s like having water stuck in your ear after going swimming. If you have a similar affliction feel free to say hi I would appreciate the support group.
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The Harlan Ellison Multimedia Literary Project & The Original IHNMAIMS Game Site
Yep, this was the 90's relic I was teasing about earlier last week. Behold, in GeoCities-esque glory:
Information about the site is discussed under the cut.
The Harlan Ellison Multimeda Literary Project was a student-run site that thoroughly discussed IHNMAIMS with academic analysis. Many of the links, when I first discovered this hidden gem, appeared to be broken. However when I accessed earlier snapshots of this site via the Wayback Machine, I was able to experience the site as it had been so lovingly cherished in 1998.
Unfortunately, like so many sites of its era, the formatting is horrendous. The gaudy white and tie-die tiled backgrounds clash with the pitch-black Time New Roman paragraphs, making many of the pages rather difficult to read. I recommend copying and pasting the text onto a document so that it's easier on the eyes.
Much of the "core" of the site is accessed through the Enter the World of AM link. From here you will taken to the main page.
Pretty straightforward. The 9 nodes listed in fuchsia are essentially pages breaking down separate bits of the I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream short story.
Yeah, I warned you about the gaudy formatting. I would post all 9 of my screenshots here as a backup to this site, however since the screenshots make the text difficult to read on a page already troublesome enough to decipher, I will simply link the project's main archived hypertext here.
Though many of the pages discussing IHNMAIMS do so with some academic jargon, the level of dedication and thought put into this project is commedable, and I cannot recommend this page enough for fans of Ellison, IHNMAIMS, and scouters of long-abandoned internet webpages.
While scouring this page, I cam upon a link at the bottom that caught my eye:
Curious, I clicked the highlighted text, and was redirected to this:
Yes folks, this is the official Cyberdreams website for I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.
It's one of the more in-depth video games sites I've encountered, the creatives behind this game were so obviously passionate about what they were making. That era of the mid-90's for video games was perfect for such a product like this to be made. I don't think it could have been made 5 years earlier or 5 years later. It was released at the right time by the right developer who obviously cared about making art, and here, in full glory, you can read over the process regarding how this project even came to be.
I cannot recommend enough checking both these sites out and taking the time to explore them. They are absolutely worth a scavenge!
I apologize for releasing this post so late, I've had to comb through several links to get screenshots/viewable webpages.
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