1. Dolly Parton

2. Patricia Arquette

3. Whitney Houston

4. Mariah Carey

5. David Duchovny

6. Gillian Anderson

7. Cameron Diaz and Ewan McGregor

8. Tori Amos

9. Bjork

10. Stevie Nicks

11. Drew Barrymore

12. Leonardo Dicaprio

13. David Bowie

14. Faye Dunaway

15. Madonna

16. Uma Thurman

17. Britney Spears

18. Tupac Shakur

19. Elton John

20. Michael Jackson

Rest peacefully, legendary actor Tim Curry. One of the most profound voices of my childhood. I found the Muppets: Treasure Island tape the day after his passing, and took the tine to watch it today.

Sheets, phones, furniture, kitchens baths fireplaces.

Tbh, I kinda miss it.

Found this in some of my archive footage…

Man, what happened?!?!

Mom is gone now and the wife I married when that photo was taken is long gone…sheesh!!

I can assure you, this is not what I look like now lol! (However, I am so much happier with my new wife!!!)

You younger folks, please don’t take what you have now for granted!!

(And please, tell your mother you love her, every fucking chance you have!)

It really whips the llama's ass!

filling out the picture day form.. surprised to see this background! I'm so tempted to get it for my kids 😂

Who else had this background?!

I feel like everybody had these growing up in the 90s. The wife doesn’t think guys wore them. I thought I remember them being unisex. Do you remember?

Can't wait to start reading these with my 7 year old 💪

It's incredible how quickly this went by. When is it Goggle's turn?

Easily one of the best Super Heroine designs imo. Image 4 i think was done by Dave Abbott aka DaveA69.

Storm in her classic silver/white costume is genuinely so sick, her lightning bolt earrings, the double red X-Men logo's, the yellow line going down the left side, the baggy sleeves & the white eyes/hair. It just looks super clean and visually strong.

In the past few years, as I was getting more and more into self-hosting, I was wondering which parts of the internet of the 90s I missed the most. I came to the conclusion that it definitely wasn't the slow modems, or waiting five minutes for an image to load (though there was a certain charm to it), but more that it wasn't centralized, there were some really nuts places, and a lot of it was still not in the hands of big corporations.

Then it did strike me that one of the things I really, really loved was chatting, especially on IRC! You never knew who's gonna be online, if you'll meet a random person, or get hit by the usual a/s/l constantly.

IRC didn't disappear, but a lot of the networks did, and that's where I was like hmmm, I could actually host my own IRC network on my home servers :)

It really did start as a small place, named MansionNET, and then oddly enough, and thanks to r/irc, it actually grew to 150+ regulars that are around, chatting about everything and anything.

Additionally, the privacy part was important to me, as more and more online services are harvesting so much data that it's just ridiculous at this point.

Anyhow, not to make this post too long, I wanted to share the place with you all and see if anyone would be interested in checking it out and eventually joining us in our silly conversations.

The details are:

Server: irc.inthemansion.com

Port: 6697

Channel: #lobby

There's also a web client at https://webirc.inthemansion.com/ if you're a bit rusty at setting up your client, which we can gladly help you with if you decide to stick around :)

Also very open to any questions about the setup, more details about what drove me to do this, and pretty much anything else :)

Cheers!