EchoCranium

It became a short-lived fad back in the mid 90’s when I was in college. The goth and art kids leaving messages on dorm doors using black sticky notes written in silver sharpie marker. Not like we had texting yet.

It looks like they wrote with a silver sharpie on black paper.

That’s what I figured it was when I was a kid. Same letters as the compass rose, information from around the world.

I’ll have to look at Ublock. I used AdGuard for a while but can’t get it to function with a VPN (except for the one they offer, which was terrible).

I’d played Doom with people on networked computers in college, but that wasn’t really “internet”. But right at the end of the 90’s when we started getting online game servers was great. Being able to play Unreal or Battlefield 1942 with random people from anywhere was amazing, and very addicting. Servers would have like 8 or maybe 16 player slots. More than that and lag would make the games unplayable. You’d keep refreshing the server lists looking for an open slot with a low ping, and join in. Actual early internet wasn’t terribly exciting. Pretty much just text only, maybe some tiny graphics, since download speeds were unbearably slow.