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Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
"You wanna chat: you yearn to chat. If strangers keep turning down your talk requests, maybe what you need is a ride on the IRC (Internet Relay Chat). But what if your stiff-o weenie systems
administrator doesn't have an IRC client installed? Bummer. Here's some public clients you can telnet to..."
Telnet
Those servers may not still be online, but there are some browser-based IRC clients (Duck Duck Go search), if you want to see what's the fuss. Also, there are thousands of users on hundreds of servers to this day. IRC ain't dead!
Life Assistance
The Oracle
"All of your questions answered—for a price. In return for your problems being solved, you must answer someone else's question in return. If you don't return the favor, you'll still probably get your answer, but you'll be plagued by horrible facial boils and hourly hard drive crashes until you submit."
Still online? YES! YES IT IS! Well, you can't email that old address, but The (Internet, or Usenet) Oracle lives on! If you aren't sure about groveling before The Oracle in hopes of an answer to your question, you can browse past digests.
Mind Expansion
Psychology software
FTP
"Mucho software written by real doctors with real scientific applications. A good place to start looking for software to mess with your wetware."
Still online? Nope.
Still remembered? Yes, and then some! Check out this list of 68 [dated] resources and [dead] links to Psychology Software Sites! I'll dig into those links later, and see if I can actually dig up some retro psych software.
MindVirus
Email and FTP
"An INCREDIBLE multimedia extravaganza. Part toy, part interactive movie, part game, part digital brain wrecker. MindVirus is well worth the time to track down and download."
Still online? No, and it looks like it's faded from the internet! It might have become Mindflux, "Australia's premiere virtual-reality distributor," or maybe something by the same folks. Or maybe there's just some key word overlap.
FNORD-L
Mailing list
"They might not tell you what fnord means, but if you have to ask, you don't belong here. Warped discussions by equally warped minds."
Still online? No.
Still remembered? Somewhat, in this summary of the listserv. It's a pretty short summary, though.
Homebrewing List
Mailing list and FTP
"Sometimes mind expansion and smart drugs need to be tempered by some good or fashioned dumb drugs, like beer. Do it yourself!"
Still online? No, but yes. The FTP is no more, but the Home Brew Digest lives on as a website, which has an extensive archive, and you can still sign up for daily emails.
Weirdness
FTP
"Strange and wonderful stuff on everything from the Net to DMT elves, Extropians to quantum physics."
Still online? No.
Still remembered? Sort of, in this [old] list of FTPs, and here in an archive of The High Weirdness.
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