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Re:Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow-Torches (1994) by Shebanator on Monday August 13, 2018 @03:57PM (#17753099)
"At this point, the researchers also realized that the heat could inadvertently melt the adhesive cellophane and cause the flaming SPTs to suddenly eject from the toaster. Unfortunately, this did not occur."

QOTD!

Re:Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow-Torches (1994) by bgongfu on Monday August 13, 2018 @04:26PM (#17753345)
Reminds me of the stinkymeat project [0] for some reason.

Sweet memories from a more playful online experience, and probably part of the reason I turned vegan.

[0] http://www.stinkymeat.net/stinkymeat/day1/

Re:Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow-Torches (1994) by dpeck on Monday August 13, 2018 @04:53PM (#17753555)
90s web was a weird weird place and this was a truly disgusting project in many ways. One of my earliest memories of something turning into a "meme", there were t-shirts being sold referencing it at one point.
Re:Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow-Torches (1994) by trentlott on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @01:25AM (#17755759)
I think an excellent use of someone's time would be to curate a website that corrals as such old/classic 'project' webpages and protoblogs.

I would love to spend hours clicking around on the twenty-years-past internet of my youth.

I particularly miss an old game called Vagabonds Quest; essentially just a perl chatroom with basic DnD classes/leveling built in for competition.

Re:Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow-Torches (1994) by testudovictoria on Monday August 13, 2018 @09:49PM (#17755025)
If the site layouts and design weren't clue enough on how old this is, the high res photo links are 640x480 pixels!
Re:Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow-Torches (1994) by TeMPOraL on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @01:17AM (#17755726)
Surprisingly, in this context, it's a good thing. I'm not sure I would be able to stand those photos in >1 megapixel size.
Re:Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow-Torches (1994) by TeMPOraL on Monday August 13, 2018 @05:40PM (#17753835)
... what on Earth did I just read?
Re:Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow-Torches (1994) by dTal on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @04:57PM (#17761830)
Well that was an adventure.