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Friday, 5 November 2004

quote [ i'm going to have a rant.. - matt ]

After digging around this old web of ours because of this post, I figured I would dig around a little more to see what I could find as to the history of SE for grins. For the sake of risking the ultimate repost, I figured I would reveal the results of my search through those archives and present SE: Reset. See more in the extended.

As most people know, SE suffered a computer crash in '02, and its history was lost to the world, only to be saved at http://www.archive.org. By using its system, we can see what was kicking in the world of SE before 2002 going back as far as 2000. According to matt, it might go back even further...

Some of the old articles/posts, especially about the nursing mother who breast fed 16 people while stranded out at sea, were classic--almost vintage--SE. Surprisingly, most of the links are still archived and mostly work. Karma be damned, but I know I can't be the only one who will find these slices of SEcana interesting.

If anyone would like, can people who date back that far provide any of their hindsight memories of SE past?

SE: Typed Format - Id's new doom game back in 2001? http://web.archive.org/web/20010224172249/http://sensibleerection.com/

SE: Graymatter-Based - Akira Fubuki looks yummy http://web.archive.org/web/20010517015717/http://www.sensibleerection.com/

SE: Plain? - SE The Movie? http://web.archive.org/web/20011127155716/http://sensibleerection.com/

[by fedhax@4:44amGMT] [+10 Good]

Comments

racerx said @ 4:52am GMT on 5th Nov
I've never seen how SE looked before the last great crash of '02. Neat.

lsdbeta said @ 4:52am GMT on 5th Nov
repost, old, unoriginal.

http://www.sensibleerection.com/entry.php/2419

lsdbeta said @ 4:58am GMT on 5th Nov
add badly done near incomprehensible post to that. what he fuck is with the fucking machines and reposting chops posts? we all know chop = good pr0n. but this is like posting maddox.

LeavemeAlone said @ 4:55am GMT on 5th Nov
Wow, SE looked ugly as hell before.

matt said @ 5:18am GMT on 5th Nov
Heey, I really liked some of those old designs. Ok, some of them sucked, but not all. I'm especially fond of the grey/red period.

Fenny said @ 6:00am GMT on 5th Nov
ewww

matt said @ 6:22am GMT on 5th Nov
You don't like this one? That's probably my favourite design for the site so far. Well, I'd be more fond of the current design if it were cleaned up a bit. This design started out well but has got cluttered over the years.

Fenny said @ 7:53am GMT on 5th Nov
Well, the design is nice, it's very tabloid style...but that gray, it just clashes with everything, it's so cloying, it overpowers the whole thing. I think if that was around still, I'd send 'Queer Eye for the Straight Website' over to see you.

matt said @ 8:14am GMT on 5th Nov
Hm. Maybe it's your monitor :) It looks a lovely grey to me.

Auricom said @ 2:19pm GMT on 5th Nov [Score:1 Insightful]
It's funny what gamma can do to an image. I agree with you, but I think I see his point as well. IIRC, you're on a powerbook. Same here, only I have a CRT hooked up as well with it's color and gamma adjusted to best match a default PC. Dragging the window over to that monitor suddenly makes it go from a stylish grey on the LCD to a pretty crappy overall look on the CRT.

Fenny said @ 4:31pm GMT on 5th Nov
I was going to mutter something about it possibly looking better on an iBook...

Chop-Logik said @ 4:42pm GMT on 5th Nov
I think it would look best on a Powerbook with some strippers.

Baxter_UK said @ 1:31pm GMT on 5th Nov
Hell I like that one better than the current one. Bring back retro SE!

Class1Product said @ 4:57am GMT on 5th Nov
waybackmachine is very useful for this kinda thing

lsdbeta said @ 4:58am GMT on 5th Nov
yeah, it's a class1product ;)

Dr_SmokeyMcPot said @ 5:12am GMT on 5th Nov
ack my eyes, its so ugly.

matt said @ 5:19am GMT on 5th Nov
It goes back further, I think, if you know the domain name where it used to reside before sensibleerection.com.

Also, a retrospective of early SE wouldn't be complete without plenty of mention of tristan. We don't see him around these parts much now, but back in the day it was tristan who dragged SE out of obscurity and pleased the crowds.

donnie said @ 5:22am GMT on 5th Nov
...with liberal and frequent inclusion of good old pr0nography =)

scarshapedstar said @ 5:32am GMT on 5th Nov
yeah

david_the_bumblebee said @ 7:36am GMT on 5th Nov
*sigh*

fedhax said @ 5:34am GMT on 5th Nov
Care to enlighten us as to the pre-SE days? This post is kinda hit & miss, but I know there are some people who wouldn't mind seeing the past or talking about it, especially since the pre-02 phase is gone to memory and archive.org.

Speaking of tristan, mind chiming in, tristan?

matt said @ 5:46am GMT on 5th Nov
Considering how kind some people have been about my earlier site designs, I don't think I'm going to mention the pre-sensibleerection.com domain. If someone else pipes up with it, so be it, but the further back you go, the more personal the site was to me. Back when no one visited I could get away with talking about myself a lot more, much like livejournal kids do today.

SE didn't start out as SE. SE started out as "Matt's Homepage", which was just a place for me to muck about, talk about whatever, try shit, etc. It's been a very evolutionary process to bring it to what it is now.

Tristan lives out in the tranquil wops these days, and as such has a shitarse internet connection. Don't think he frequents these parts all that often.

Modano said @ 6:01am GMT on 5th Nov
This is a good opportunity to say "thanks, Matt." I've enjoyed your little homepage! :D

matt said @ 6:19am GMT on 5th Nov
Thanks :)

eskimonoise said @ 6:23am GMT on 5th Nov
No, that's our line ;)
Thanks :)

mbzn said @ 8:17am GMT on 5th Nov
I just came across the first edition of Pulp espy.co.nz mag which introduced me to the pleasures of matt.virtual.net.nz.... Sigh! Nostalgia and a crappy 28k modem, life was good.

tristan said @ 7:57am GMT on 5th Nov [Score:2]
heh, thanks matt, im here watching over a lot more than you think

matt said @ 8:15am GMT on 5th Nov
:D

Fenny said @ 8:19am GMT on 5th Nov
How's the tranquil wops?

Ill_at_Ease said @ 8:21am GMT on 5th Nov
IT'S ALIVE>>>>>>the porn post originiatior....IT'S ALIVE!!!!

Chop-Logik said @ 4:32pm GMT on 5th Nov
/me madly clicks tristan's name to increase download speed

Happy said @ 5:22am GMT on 5th Nov
I don't get it?

f00m@nB@r said @ 5:42am GMT on 5th Nov
no, you don't?

lord_ashe said @ 5:52am GMT on 5th Nov
I've seen a whole comment thread like this before?

eskimonoise said @ 5:58am GMT on 5th Nov
no, you haven't?

Fenny said @ 6:01am GMT on 5th Nov
Woa, one of the seven dwarfs!!!

f00m@nB@r said @ 6:35am GMT on 5th Nov
15 - Love

my serve.

which dwarf?

thezzie said @ 5:57am GMT on 5th Nov
Great Song!

Ifrit said @ 5:59am GMT on 5th Nov
I like this...I don't mind that it's a repost. I discovered SE in 2001 but then it crashed and even though I was only there for about 3 weeks, I couldn't get enough and I knew that these guys wouldn't let me down. I wear my SE t-shirt proudly around campus. Graham better not see me.

graham said @ 7:00am GMT on 5th Nov
:O

nip said @ 6:21am GMT on 5th Nov
I liked seeing the old site designs. They looked a-ok to me. Of course if i didn't act blase' about everything I saw on the internet what kind of person would I be? I'll toss in another thanks to matt for starting this little webpage.

Archer6379 said @ 6:25am GMT on 5th Nov
+1 Thanks Matt for Startign this kickassness.
+1 I like the old style large thumbs in pr0n posts (even as I appreciatethe utility of the smaller ones)

I do like the current style tho, easier to see stuff without wearing out my mouse wheel scrolling as much :-)

matt said @ 6:43am GMT on 5th Nov
Yea the old bigger thumbs were great. It was wonderful to be able to make a thumb that really expressed the whole post, and made it look good.

There were a couple of reasons why they had to go, one of them historical only. At a certain stage in SE's history, bandwidth became a serious concern financially, so image file sizes had to be pulled back drastically. That's not at all a concern now, but the desire to bring about a bit more post conformity, and the need to rein in growing casual abuse of thumbnail sizes was necessary.

With only a handful of posters on the site, a lack of rules and a completely open approach to posting worked fine, but as things grew there was a need for structure. Believe me, I had a hell of a fight on my hands bringing about thumbnail size changes. People gnashed and wailed.

graham said @ 7:39am GMT on 5th Nov
*gnash gnash gnash*

EPT said @ 7:50am GMT on 5th Nov
*wail wail wail*

Actually, I remember the grey and red fondly, though I don't miss the radio button 'polls' and 'rate this pictures'.

Wish I had known it in Matt's Homepage days.

johnksamson said @ 6:47am GMT on 5th Nov [Score:2 Underrated]
with so much back catalogue here, It'd be cool to have some kind of randomized "post-from-the-past" feature. Or a "on this day 2 years ago", like Popular Mechanics does. 'Cause all that shit is cool!

YakumoFuji said @ 6:59am GMT on 5th Nov
wtf happend to tristan i remember when he was pr0n king and chop was a measly peasant

Chop-Logik said @ 4:40pm GMT on 5th Nov
I'm still toiling in the fields, you know. Not much has changed.

graham said @ 7:00am GMT on 5th Nov [Score:1 Funny]
ahahhaaha...i remember this picture...

ps. it isn't realistic...she's a bit darker.

nip said @ 7:03am GMT on 5th Nov
yeah, didn't that used to be on her profile page? scary stuff.

Gunner v2.0 said @ 2:45pm GMT on 5th Nov
Thanks a lot, graham. That's exactly what i needed to see this early in the morning.

graham said @ 4:57pm GMT on 5th Nov
:D

cloakedguy said @ 7:04am GMT on 5th Nov
Where's the link to the shipwrecked breastfeeding woman, again?

fedhax said @ 5:58pm GMT on 5th Nov
February 8, 2001: Mother's milk saves 16 lost at sea

arikkon said @ 10:09am GMT on 5th Nov
SE has been an inspiration for me, ive based many of my desicions in developing metacafe, which is kind of a video SE, on things ive seen here.
ive also downloaded the code and actually had a hebrew site up and running. i really should return to that, if i have enough time.

thanks matt.