Category: 50s to 90s

Found this via Hilaliya, some teacher who was living in Kuwait in the 80s scanned some old pictures he had taken here and uploaded them to his flicker account. Some cool stuff, Kuwait really hasn’t changed much. [Pictures]

Heat Vision and Jack is probably the coolest TV show which involved a motorbike. The TV show stars Jack Black as a super intelligent renegade astronaut and his talking motorcycle played by Owen Wilson. The show is also directed by Ben Stiller so you can imagine its ridiculously funny. Sadly it never made it past the pilot stage but the good thing is you can find the first pilot episode on YouTube. If you are not going to watch the whole episode atleast watch the opening of the show. [Video]

When I first started chatting on IRC (like back in late 95) my nickname was RAVErrr. Nibaq’s nickname was XBS and I still remember the first time he helped me get on IRC, I think I was using the software WS_IRC.
So what was your nickname?

New York: Teen rockers New Kids on the Block joined the ranks of such immortals as Barbie, GI Joe and Pee Wee Herman with the introduction of their own line of dolls. Fashioned after each group member, New Kids on the Block dolls are to be available in July and retail for $12.99 to $15.99. Shown (L-R), holding their own dolls, are: Joey McIntyre, Donnie Wahlberg, Jordan Knight, Danny Wood, and Jonathan Knight.

I haven’t been watching Showtime for ages so I just turned it on now and was checking my Tivo guide and to my surprise I found two new cool shows. Not new as in they are recent but new as in new additions to showtime. The two shows are Moonlighting and Out of this World. Can’t believe they are playing these two shows.. I love them!

This site is amazing! It has videos and audios of our favorite cartoons from when we were kids including shows like Efta7 Ya Simsim, Alshanakel, Zaina wa Na7oul, Bashar, Flona and Heidi. Listening to them makes me wish I was a kid again on a Friday morning. [Link]

[source Fadibou]

Tomorrow by Silverchair

I think the last time I listened to Silverchair was back in 96.

Celebrating 8 years of Duke Nukem Forever as ‘vaporware’ [Link]

[source digg]

Smash Hits, Roxette, Bros, Rick Astley, Tiffany, Soul II Soul, Milli Vanilli, Pet Shop Boys, Debbie Gibson, Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, Bobby Brown, Gloria Estefan, Kim Wilde, Jason Donavan, Wham!.. more.

When I was in university I was a big X-Files fan and while flipping through some old files I found a picture of a painting I had done on my dorm room wall. If you look closely you can see Mulder shooting a runaway alien…

Update: Cool found more pictures of my first dorm room.. [Picture 1] [Picture 2]

I have been flipping through some old backup CD’s for the past hour trying to find my original copy of Dopewars (DOS version) and while scrimaging through my old stuff I have been finding the strangest things. I never delete anything so I have stuff going back all the way to 1995. While flipping through one of the CD’s I found a folder containing Apple’s main website dating back to 1998 and I decided to upload it for everyone to see. Here it is [Link]

Owner Of A Lonely Heart – Yes
Run To You – Bryan Adams
Voyage voyage – Desireless
Self Control – Laura Branigan
Thriller – Michael Jackson
Bette Davis Eyes – Kim Carnes
Maria Magdalena – Sandra
Touch Me – Samantha Fox
In The Heat Of The Night – Sandra
Missing You – John Waite
Stranglers – Golden Brown
Broken Wings – Mr. Mister
Rock You Like A Hurricane – Scorpions
Who Are You – The Who

Wow this site is amazing, it has amatuer pictures of Kuwait from the early 70’s to the early 80’s. I love stuff like this!! [Link]

While flipping through my old sites I found a colophone dated sometime in the late 90’s. Only thing I still have from all this is the Iomega Zip Drive:

My PC
Intel Pentium III 500MHZ
192MB SDRAM
TEAC 32X CD-Rom
Quantum Fireball 17.0GB Hard Disk
Quantum Fireball 6.4GB Hard Disk
Western Digital 6.4GB Hard Disk
100MB/PS Network card
Adaptec 1450H SCSI card
Creative Labs Sound Blaster 32AWE
Creative Labs Riva TNT2 ULTRA with 32MB RAM
US Robotics 56K internal modem

Output Devices
Hewlet Packard 5L Laser Jet
Hewlet Packard Deskjet 1100C
Epson 600 Colored Printer
Iomega 100 External Zip Drive
Kodak PCD Writer 225
Chuntex Electronics 17inch Monitor

Input Devices
Hewlet Packard ScanJet 6100C
Wacom ArtPADII

Software used:
Windows 98
Adobe Photoshop 5.5
Adobe Illustrator 8
Macromedia Dreamweaver
Notepad
Internet Explorer 5
Netscape Navigator 4.7

Web Space made availabe by:
The unex-t network.

Favorite music listened too during making of page:
Paul Oakenfold, Cygnus_X, Paul Van Dyk, Massive Attack, Dj Misjah, Dj Tim, Liquid Child, Keoki, Carl Cox and Clint Mansell.

Places I went to chill out during the making of page:
Dunkin Donuts, Armand Van Helden concert, McDonalds, One with the mountain, Tam Tam beach.

Favorite movies ever:
Brazil, Ronin, PI, Blade, The Lost Highway, Fearing and Loathing in Las Vegas, CRASH, 2001: Space Odyssey, Monthy Pyton and the Holy Grail, and The Prophecy I & II.

I don’t know whats up with this streak of 80’s & 90’s post but this is another one. Its a video of Mr. T singing a song about mother and how you should treat her right.. really gay and corny stuff, he looks cool though. [Link]