Iowa State Nostalgia: WayBack Machine Edition

[Farnsworth]

I was going through some internet nostalgia with a coworker (maddox, homestar runner, etc), and it got me to thinking of Iowa State related material.

Yes there was life before CycloneFanatic, post yours!

For those not in the know: The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the World Wide Web founded by the Internet Archive, It captures websites throughout time for you to go back and visit.

For instance, let's go to the great Iowa State message board before Cyclone Fanatics. STRANGE TALK!

Wayback Machine

web.archive.org

Here is an archive of the "Focus ISU" forum after the '04 VEISHEA riots. That was my first introduction to a great photoshop threads as StrangeTalk had one for people submitting Riot photos.

StrangeTalk3.5 :: View Forum - Focus ISU

 

[Farnsworth]

Here are a few good articles back from ESPN.com's Page 2 days. Page 2 was more of the softer, comical side of sports. This is where Bill Simmons really took off from.

Iowa State related pages on Eustachy:

Page 2: Larry's big night out

Back on Jan. 21, Larry Eustachy slipped on the turtleneck and headed out to the local frat party. Page 2 reconstructs his evening.

www.espn.com

Page 2: Larry's Guide to Party Schools

In college or just wish you were? Check out Larry Eustachy's inside tips on the best party schools around!

www.espn.com

 

[JM4CY]

I appreciate the poor sap that was trying to figure out if his mug shot from the riot arrests would be made public.

 

[Farnsworth]

Anyone remember CampusAuthority.com.

What I remember of it, it tried to be a newer platform for schools in the online magazine type platform. It started with Iowa State, and had different girls featured in photoshoots around Ames, as well as stories on sports and campus life.

Wayback Machine

web.archive.org

John Neal our early 2000s Iowa game savior:

Campus Authority - Iowa State The Cyclones Reloaded - John Neal

Campus Authority, your Iowa State Connection

web.archive.org

 

[Farnsworth]

Here are some photos from the StrangeTalk VEISHEA 2004 Riot Photoshop Thread:

 

[theshadow]

MonkeyThis -- the short-lived delivery service that was several years ahead of its time.

MonkeyThis.com: The store on wheels

Whether Ames residents are in need of office supplies, health and beauty products, household items, tech supplies or food, an Ames company promises to deliver it all in less than an hour without a delivery fee. MonkeyThis.com, a company launched three weeks ago, offers a wide range of goods...

iowastatedaily.com

 

[Cyclonepride]

From the way way back machine, I remember waiting for my monthly edition of Cyclone Illustrated for about the only Cyclone news I could get outside of game articles and a random once in a blue moon feature in the paper.

 

[NorthCyd]

Here are a few good articles back from ESPN.com's Page 2 days. Page 2 was more of the softer, comical side of sports. This is where Bill Simmons really took off from.

Iowa State related pages on Eustachy:

Page 2: Larry's big night out

Back on Jan. 21, Larry Eustachy slipped on the turtleneck and headed out to the local frat party. Page 2 reconstructs his evening.

www.espn.com

Page 2: Larry's Guide to Party Schools

In college or just wish you were? Check out Larry Eustachy's inside tips on the best party schools around!

www.espn.com

The guy who took those photos came to Deace's ISU fan site (Cyclone Nation I think) and posted those pictures and everyone said they were fakes. That was months before the story broke if I remember right. I remember thinking they don't look fake to me.

 

[JM4CY]

Here are a few good articles back from ESPN.com's Page 2 days. Page 2 was more of the softer, comical side of sports. This is where Bill Simmons really took off from.

Iowa State related pages on Eustachy:

Page 2: Larry's big night out

Back on Jan. 21, Larry Eustachy slipped on the turtleneck and headed out to the local frat party. Page 2 reconstructs his evening.

www.espn.com

Page 2: Larry's Guide to Party Schools

In college or just wish you were? Check out Larry Eustachy's inside tips on the best party schools around!

www.espn.com

Makes me kinda want to know who the no. 1 Supermodel was back then.

 

[Farnsworth]

MonkeyThis -- the short-lived delivery service that was several years ahead of its time.

MonkeyThis.com: The store on wheels

Whether Ames residents are in need of office supplies, health and beauty products, household items, tech supplies or food, an Ames company promises to deliver it all in less than an hour without a delivery fee. MonkeyThis.com, a company launched three weeks ago, offers a wide range of goods...

iowastatedaily.com

Apparently everything around this time period had nonstop Adobe Flash content!!

MonkeyThis

Monkeythis.com is a WILD way to find all the stuff you need

web.archive.org

MonkeyThis was pretty awesome and way ahead of it's time. I remember they did alcohol deliveries near the end. I worked with them on a few projects through the College of Business when they started up. They had a full semi-grocery store setup to pick from that was in the bottom of one of the towers off Welch.

I think they later became Snappy's Delivery or something like that.

 

[Farnsworth]

Makes me kinda want to know who the no. 1 Supermodel was back then.

I had archived it when pictures were still available, so I assume it was Elle McPherson. From the archived page:

 

[SolarGarlic]

MonkeyThis -- the short-lived delivery service that was several years ahead of its time.

MonkeyThis.com: The store on wheels

Whether Ames residents are in need of office supplies, health and beauty products, household items, tech supplies or food, an Ames company promises to deliver it all in less than an hour without a delivery fee. MonkeyThis.com, a company launched three weeks ago, offers a wide range of goods...

iowastatedaily.com

Used this pretty reliably in Ames circa 2008