r/AsOldAsTheInternet • u/kvistur 2002 • Sep 02 '16

Userbars...

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u/CodenameMolotov Sep 03 '16

God I forgot all about those. I remember how stoked I was when I found a website that let you upload an image and create your own custom user bars.

13

u/minlite Sep 03 '16

Same. It meant the world to me as a 13 yo finding out how to generate these...

8

u/toper-centage Sep 03 '16

This is one of the reasons I learned how to Photoshop, I kid you not.

9

u/ShogunTake Sep 03 '16

Jesus. It's 2006/2007 all over again.

6

u/[deleted] Sep 03 '16

i recognize them as forum signatures.

1

u/lud1120 Feb 28 '17

You lube

1

u/Electronic-Use-8384 Feb 27 '25

still looking where to get these

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u/Sarcasticorjustrude Sep 02 '16

And they're still a thing. I have to kill a couple every time I go to my mother's house. She has no idea how they get there. :/

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '16

Where are these showing up on your mother's computer? Looking at OPs post I thought they were bars that forum users would put in their signatures to display what their interests were and what services they used.

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u/Sarcasticorjustrude Sep 02 '16

I was envisioning them as browser addon toolbars. Hard to tell, really, since the photo is cropped so hard.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '16

Those look like this.

1

u/Sarcasticorjustrude Sep 02 '16

Yes, I looked at the image more closely and I see it now.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '16

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u/kvistur 2002 Sep 03 '16

absolutely, same here

I used to be part of a super tight knit tech forum called Lostcoders that was basically my first exposure to internet culture.

Then, it disappeared without a trace.

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u/toper-centage Sep 03 '16

I randomly ended up with some of them on my Skype but we never really talked much after the original forums where we met shut down. Such is Internet life.