Vintage DL on the Wayback Machine

Back then, if you posted a thread about a soap opera, it was immediately deleted.

Scalding tea from 1999 ...

[quote]I read on the He/She message board that there is speculation that Kevin Spacey's good friend Diane Dreyer is pregnant with his baby. Does anyone know if this is true or just gossip (as always when it comes to the talented Mr. Spacey).

[quote]--samara 10/11/1999 11:46

[quote]He enjoys a gratifying sexual relationship with members of both sexes. I have known Kevin Spacey for many years, I am a woman, and we have a marvelous sexual relationship when we are both in the same geographical area. He is a wonderful lover and there are many women out there who will agree! Continue with your gossip and inuendo regarding his sexual orientation because this exceptionally gifted guy couldn't care less!

[quote]--yolanda 10/12/1999 11:11

A Moratorium on Campy Postings

From R3:

[quote] an older gay who still talks like they did in the 1950s

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

I think the first time I wandered onto Datalounge was around 2000. It looked a lot different back then, the navigation was of course significantly slower, and there was noticeably less pointless bitchery.

Je suis Legacy!

[quote]GOLDEN GIRLS VS. DESIGNING WOMEN

[quote]by: anonymous 19 [replies] 06/22/2001 @ 01:50PM

[quote]This is NOT an ad. On Lifetime they are pitting the Girls vs. the Women, so I thought I'd ask the Dataloungers who they prefer. Me: GOLDEN GIRLS all the way. Favorite character: Dorothy.

[quote]Robert Novack

[quote]I know I may be in the minoroty here, but it is my opinion that conservative collumnist and television comentator Robert Novack's teeth look very natural.

[quote]-- Anon.

[quote]Wed Feb 11 15:30:33 EST 1998 (Pending Review)

How fantastic that we've talked about the Golden Girls for over two decades without hesitation, deviation or repetition.

R7 That's it! That's the old Datalounge design I remember.

At the bottom of R7's link there is a thread about David Ehrenstein famous on DL for "Why are straight me so stupid?" Last thread I read about him he's penniless and had a GoFundMe account started to benefit him.

[quote]Jerry Falwell the New Merv Griffin (sp)

[quote]Has anyone heard about the rumors concerning him and his male-on-male adventures? Why am I the last to know? Jerry Fall-on-your-knees-well is GROSS! The thought of him and another guy makes me want to sprint to the drugstore and get something to settle my stomache. Move over Jimmy Swagart. I guess he wasn't kidding years ago when he said that he wanted to take over PTL from Homosexual Jim Baker. Jerry makes PTL stand for Pass The Lube or Praise The Lube.

[quote]-- anon

[quote]Wed Jan 28 0:57:00 EST 1998 (Pending Review)

[quote] I know I may be in the minoroty here

Oh, dear.

R7 was from June 22, 2001, a few months before the world and DL changed.

[quote] (Pending Review)

now that's the bit that refreshes my memory.

So, so, so, so hated. . .

Somebody's testy ...

[quote]Camille Paglia

[quote]Camille Paglia is a no-talent back stabber, and has no clue whatsoever about what turns gay men on. She should keep her stupid trap shut. How dare her make blanket statements about any group, but I guess she has to do SOMETHING for a living.

[quote]-- anon

[quote]Mon May 4 11:48:33 EDT 1998 (Pending Review)

[quote] The Matt & Ben Show

[quote] First of all, Ben did not go to the Golden Globes with Wynona.. he was "stag" with his "best friend" Matt. Also, as for his accomodations while here in LA... He already stated on the Oprah show that he lives "on Matt's couch" in Matt's new house he bought. By the way, Ben is 25, you mean he has had this "girlfriend" since age 13? Possible, but unlikely.

r16 If I recall in that period that's when Paglia was in boylove phase.

An early sighting of Erna at R2 ...

[quote]JEFF STRYKER AND RYAN IDOL

[quote]I was wondering if either of these top film actresses has any money. Miss Idol probably does not as she still advertises in the 'professional' pages, but La Stryker may have a bundle. I mean, she has been at it for over 16 years now and as far as I know does not waste it on dope - can she be worth over $1 million, in property, cash, etc etc? I think she lives in North Hollywood but do not know much else. Thanks for sharing.

[quote]--cinema fan 10/12/1999 14:51

"Loose" Gillian Anderson

I wasn't even born yet when the site looked like that.

[quote]Joan VanArk's 60th Birthday Bash

[quote]by: mandylor 21 [replies] 07/05/2003 @ 02:03PM

[quote]I just returned from Joan VanArk's sixtieth birthday party . Attending were Beverly Hill's biggests and brightest, Mackenzie Phillips, Michelle Phillips, Lisa Hartman, and Teri Hatcher were just a few that were on hand. There was a prix fixed meal that ran 45$ which included a dose of xenadrine and slim down solution pills. "We had a great time," says Joan Van Ark, "and for the first hour of the night it was open bar for well liquor!!" But things got a little out of hand when Michele Lee claimed that Marla Gibbs had stolen her glass of Glen Ellen Chardonnay. "well it was mine! and i paid for it and even gave the bartender (Ted Shackelford) a hefty tip!" said Michele. By then it was well past ten and Michele had taken a male guest upstairs to go over some lines she had for her next film part (she's playing the mother of a 4 year old). "If Donna Mills and Nicolette Sheridan hadn't stepped in i dont know what would've happened", said a guest who wanted to go unidentified. " Im just glad Michele and that antonio sobata guy weren't around to witness the dispute". When i arrived The underdressed Charlene Tilton was being escorted out by the doorman (William Devane) . Something about her not having a proper invite. Charlene appeared agitated spewing into the margarita fountain (for an extra 6$ you got to keep the glass that said happy 60th Joan!) and shouting at Michele " Joan got me fired from knots and i had to go and work for that drunk Larry Hagman!!!" But Michele along with Donna Mills paid little atention as they were both disussing their plans to go in together the next day for chemical peels. I wondered where the guest of honor could be when finally by the end of a long evening (around 8 o'clock) Joan was wheeled out and made her appearance. Joan wore a fierce yellow leather ensemble. There was not a dry eye in the house when she crooned a spirited version of "Don't Dry Out Loud". All in all it was a fun evening Did any other dataloungers go? Got any fun backroom stories about Patrick Peterson? What about Ted Shakelford mixing drinks without using his hands? Please share!

Did all the posters who have actual gossip die or something? This is gold!

r23 Yes, or moved on, though many return here now and again, just have to be careful of more convoluted laws now... and more people that can connect the dots.

[quote]Elijah Wood and Dominic Mongahan: ugly midgets

[quote]by: anonymous 5 [replies] 10/28/2002 @ 05:06PM

[quote]I've finally given up any hope that the E&D obsessees will let it drop after 12 thousand plus posts and a new movie just round the corner). But just why are they so obsessed with them? I'll grant that Elijah Wood is pretty in a girlish sort of way--but he comes to most people's belly buttons, for Christ's sake! And Dominic Monaghan is pretty ugly--I mean, they cast him because he doesn't look quite human.

r23 and to be, there's a lot of more stans online now that don't want to hear the sleazy details of their favs.

Facebook and Twitter is what happened to the real gossip.

[quote] My stalwart second cousin is running for state office against one of the Rabid Right. This poor misguided conservative fool is ruining his children's life with home schooling. How will they ever join the drama club! Please, for the sake of children like them everywhere, get out an do your duty and vote for the men and women like my cousin who have some sense. And if they don't have any sense, well, I like my cocktails poured liberally, and the same with my politics.

Muriel dropped the idealism but kept the alcoholism then?

LEAVE CHERYL ALONE!!!

[quote]"People Are Just So Sexist!"

[quote]MARIAH CAREY is angry people still fail to acknowledge her as a talented songwriter in addition to her soaring vocal skills, and blames this on her stunning appearance.

[quote]"So many people, after all of this time, are like, 'Oh, you write your songs?' It is so irritating.

[quote]"I do play into the diva thing because it is fun to dress up, put on a gown, and sing a song, but if ELTON JOHN wanted to dress up he would still be recognized as the artist he is.

[quote]"When it comes to females, it's different. Unless you're sitting behind a guitar or a piano, people don't look at you as a producer, an artist, a writer."

[qyote]by: Anonymous 7 replies 04/11/05 @22:03

From the Flames and Freaks forum, 5/11/2004. The last post is from someone impersonating "peg," a vintage conservatroll whose name would display as "troll bait" when she would post during this period.

[quote]Keep it up!

[quote]by: anonymous 3 [replies] 05/11/2004 @ 11:15PM

[quote]The Dems are going to lose worse in November than they did in 2002. And do you know why they lost in 2002? Think about it.

[quote][bold]Frequent Poster ID: 410 (racist)[/bold]

[quote]DATALOUNGE...........

[quote]by: anonymous 3 [replies] 05/09/2004 @ 03:03AM

[quote]The only site on the web for 60ish or older fags who have nothing going for them except their past, which is usually a big bore...

[quote]I'm a hateful cunt

[quote]by: troll bait 5 [replies] 05/07/2004 @ 11:37AM

[quote]Leni Reifenstahl-like, but w/o the talent.

From R22:

[quote] Is Bruce Willis ill? by: Not Demi or Ashton, really 14 07/05/2003 @ 02:20PM

[quote] I know he's probably a major league asshole, but he's looking SO thin these days it appears that he's withering away, like Burt Reynolds years ago when he had that "mysterious" disease. Any rumors on his health?

He is now.

[quote] Joan VanArk's 60th Birthday Bash

I never read that thread, but I remember seeing it back then. Ah, DL memories.

[quote] The judgmental queens are out in force today? by: jus wunderin

[quote] Why are there so many egotistical bitter posters here? Are you one of the nasties? Have you been one?

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

[quote] Oh! by: anonymous The humanity!

[quote] FLAMES AND FREAKS HAS BEEN PURGED! by: anonymous CRAP!

Two classic-style posts next to each other.

A 1,000-plus-reply QAF thread!

I'm going to vote for Ralph Nader in 2008

From R37:

[quote] Do you know anyone like Condi Rice?

That troll was around even back then?

Career/Beauty Advice to Starlets at MGM, 1936

Wit & Wisdom, 2007

Mandylor's Joan Van Ark posts were always great. Thanks for sharing one.

The original "Let me tell you about Deb Messing ... " thread. Now 16 years old.

Annoying Trick Behavior

From R40:

[quote] Do you believe in linear time and object permanence?

That was a great thread.

[quote] Joan VanArk's 60th Birthday Bash

[quote]I never read that thread, but I remember seeing it back then. Ah, DL memories.

Some of us remember seeing the thread about Joan OF Arc's birthday bash.

[quote] it is sad, but true. Once a woman hits 30 she's past her sell-by date for most men. Men can't seem to look past the superficial and they see one lump or wrinkle and it's all over. Perhaps I exaggerate slightly, but I speak from experience.

[quote] As a 32-yr old bi-f, I've pretty much cancelled the idea of any guy being interested, so it's either women or nothing. So far, it's been a whole lot of nothing.

tedious, bitter, sexless fraus don't find this thread funny.

[quote] How in the hell do you consider Gwyneth Paltrow to be beautiful? She reminds me of a droop eyed dog. (and with an attitude to boot)

[quote] While I have no doubt that Lindsay Lohan is a crazy bisexual drug addict with a death wish, I felt the reporter should have pointed out that the Mariah Carey groping could easily have been accidental. We must remember that Ms. Carey is a whole lotta woman, and sometimes parts of her breasts and ass start to come through windows and doorways and crowd rooms as she attempts to make her way down a street or narrow hallway. The Butterfly songbird is often unaware of the wily antics of her sizable curves, which have come into contact with 85% of Hollywood at one point or another.

...

RE: Screaming Babies in FIRST CLASS!

Personally I wear the leather hood I got at the Eagle as I find it's wonderfully off-putting to most families and talkative busy-bodies. Then I slap on my noise-cancelling headphones and crank up the music, maybe read the latest "Bound & Gagged" while I sip my scotch. Usually that's enough to scare away the most hardened and clueless breaders and cube-fraus.

-- Sir Mince-a-lot

....

RE: OMG I Just Fucked Myself In The Ass!

Only on the DL would such a sexually graphic post be met with a yawn but the grammatical correctness of the use of the word "whilst" cause apoplexy. Hilarious.

...

RE: Is there something wrong with Barbara Walters?

The poor dear really hasn't been the same since she witnessed the President taking a bullet to the head at Ford's Theater. It really fucked her up.

And then when that house fell on her sister and that horrible little girl who stepped out of it went off on that crime spree, well that finished the job good and proper. Really, it's a wonder she can function at all.

-- Lucifer McMeany

....

I don't understand why anyone would WANT to be heterosexual. They seem so miserable. They have trouble forming and keeping meaningful relationships, they are made neurotic by rigidly defined social and gender roles and their admitted fear of the opposite sex tends to lead to sexual dysfunction. All that frustration makes them extremely difficult to deal with on a social level. They only place they seem to feel comfortable enough to unwind is in Gay clubs where they make normal people uncomfortable with their inherent messiness. And they have the nerve to think WE want to recruit THEM when they are the only ones with active and aggressive conversion programs. It is a national tragedy.

....

[quote] So you think your a Datalounge addict?

1. Who is fa?

2. What was David E's catchphrase?

3. Who is Danielle Egnew and why is she important to the DL?

4. What Oscar-winning movie spawned the notorious "Why is ___ in the middle?" cliche?

5. Fill in: "It's just a big picture of ________ face."

6. What state is "peg" supposedly from?

7. Who was the object of the original "Cheryl"'s affection?

8. Why did the Little Sisters of the Immaculate Beaver sue Martha Stewart?

9. Name one celebrity who claimed intimate relations with Kevin Spacey in "The First Time I Had Sex with Kevin Spacey" thread.

10. What does "Dustin DeWind" say his real name is?

11. In what city is the restaurant that famously refuses to give free refills on soda (bonus points if you can name the restaurant)?

12. What politican did kirker say was going to be outed?

13. Why did White Belt Man leave the Datalounge?

14. What department store ignited a furious argument as to whether or not soccer moms shop there?

15. What disease does "Mariah Carey" claim her sister has?

16. Who is Matt Hoops?

17. Who is Mr. James?

18. What is the converse of "insatiable bottom"?

19. Whose farts can erase the memo

OMG, it's a - I've posted this before, but she's precisely how I arrived here at Datalounge all those many years ago. In the late 90's there was an ad in the back of the bar rag, HomoXtra for an online dating site, and she was the mascot.

Been here ever since.

*kisses doll*

R49, that's what I imagine Muriel looks like.

^^^it's a^^^

[quote] Camilla Parker-Bowles

[quote] by: anonymous 3 08/18/2004 @ 02:51PM

[quote] Will Charles marry her before the cancer kills her or are they already secretly married?

God this thread is making me nostalgic.

Shit, I kept thinking that I fucked up my post, but now realize that DL automatically censored my posting because the mascot's actual name is a feminized version of a certain trolling sea cow that shall no longer be named.

Wow - that's some Nostradamus shit right there.

[quote] RE: Anyone ever been inside The Dakota?

[quote] I know what you're thinking, bitches, and don't even fucking go there.

....

[quote] One of my favorite Datalounge anecdotes belongs to the guy who claims he slept with Rex Reed just so he could see the inside of the Dakota. I wonder if he still posts here. by: Anonymous reply 10

[quote] R10 I'm the one who slept with Rex Reed to get inside the Dakota, if only for one night. Picked him up at The Works on Columbus Avenue, which no longer exists. He seemed like a very nice guy. Was in mopurning over a partner who'd recently died of AIDS. Seemed to have something of an infatuation with a porn star named Mark Baxter-I had to agree with him that Baxter was very handsome and too good for porn. He bitched about what a horrible neighbor Lauren Bacall was and he showed me Shirley McLaine's panties which were embossed and hung on a wall in his bathroom. He lived in what used to be the servant's quarters (8th or 9th floor) so his kitchen, living room and bathroom were really small but his bedroom was fairly spacious. Very cozy, though. we had a nice experience and he made me Gumbo. We both knew it was for one night only. He was a good kisser, which I expected from those big ol' lips of his. The rest wasn't particularly memorable but there you are.

How many Muriels have there been?

I imagine they've had to go through them like Lassies.

r2, the Spacey cadets were really something.

I'm enjoying this thread immensely. I wasn't around back then.

R40 & r44 that was a wild rabbit hole, WW to infinity, both in linear and non-linear! The Janeway comment made me lol.

Brokeback Mountain and Ted C. blind items

God. I recognize one of my old posts in here.

Is NPH next? Outings usually come in threes

We like your confidence about not having alzheimers (sic) but

Oh, dear.

We hope not.

[quote] This is why we hate them.

[quote] Straight women, that is. Okay, so I don't really hate all straight women, but thankfully I don't know any like this shrewish, hysterical harpie.

[quote] "Figure It Out? Figure It Out? O.K., You Figure It Out!

[quote] By CATHERINE LLOYD BURNS

[quote] In my next life I'm coming back as a man. I will have sex with my wife and knock her up, and then in the hospital I will watch while she figures out how to get the baby out of her. And after my daughter is born, I will play with her when I'm in the mood and stop when I'm not, and I won't get all psycho about it. I will throw her up in the air super high and get her wound up right before she's supposed to go to sleep, and then I will let my wife, her mother, put her to bed.

[quote] I will have the best body I've had in years because having a newborn means that I will get up so early in the morning, I will end up going to the gym regularly. If my child doesn't eat or sleep or move her bowels for days or weeks on end, I won't worry about it.

[quote] Yes, it's true. AmeriKKKa loves you!!!

[quote] I'd be lying if I didn't admit that I howled with laughter, thinking of all you hysterical, racist DL queens, doing spit takes into their apple martinis as it was being announced that "Crash" won best picture over "Brokeback".

I have very much enjoyed this walk down memory lane on a Sunday evening. Thanks, OP.

It makes me feel about a thousand years old, though.

[quote]samara

They posted for years, if I recall. They may still be here for all I know.

Pretty sure that the person posting "The Dems are gonna lose bad in 2002!" is very much still here.

I wish the threads from 2010 to 2014 (just before the current design) would load, but whatever code/scripts were used are broken in the archives.

I also noticed there don't seem to be any site captures from 2008 or 2009.

[quote] I also noticed there don't seem to be any site captures from 2008 or 2009.

I think there was a period in late 2008/early 2009 when the site was on permanent Primetime.

I'm guessing sometime around here is when the soul was stolen from this place? The thread survives and yet I'm disappointed in you, eldergays. So much potential wasted.

[quote] Miss Deaf Texas struck by train, killed

[quote] Okay I just have to.....

[quote] So what do you think would have been on her ipod?

[quote] Ozzy's "Crazy Train

[quote] Ladies and gentlemen, it's 2002: do we know where this community is headed? Are we on the verge of living out the Post-Gay ideal?

R63 I worked with her in the late 1980s and very early 1990s. She was extremely short and very annoying.

frustrating is trying to find surviving early threads in other sections... like military.

handles (screen names) I wouldn't have been able to recall for the life of me.. does help a little.

*

Lesbians in '99

This is a great find! I’ve only been here a couple of years so it’s really cool too see all this from DL history.

A long...proud history, r79.

Yikes, some of these threads discuss Billy Masters blind items.

Now that's OLD.

Reading some of the W&W's from the past. That was when stuff was piss your pants laughing funny.

The old style web page is really nostalgic. Not that I was here then but it is very similar to how the internet looked in general when I first got access to it at school.

1996

[quote] The Interview

[quote] Scene:

[quote] Small but clean and drearily depressing motor court room somewhere between the Rockies and the Appalachians. A site chosen for its anonymity and oh so jejeune.

[quote] Time:

[quote] Cocktail hour my lovelies, of course.

[quote] Enter Elise Harris, young lady reporter of infinite potential, dressed in a smart tailored pinstripe suite, grey I would think. She is blindfolded, and you can see her nostrils flare as they react to the smell of cheap disinfectant and luncheon meats lingering in the room.

[quote] She is lead into the chamber by an unidentified Frenchman, possibly Belgian. Elise hears a growl. Off comes her blindfold as the large cantankerous German shepherd stares intently at her quickening breath. Suddenly she smell something else, yes, this IS Lancelot. As her eyes adjust to the flourescent glare off the shiny tiles, she gasps as she focuses on the vision opposite her, unexpected and terribly pleasing. It's Trudy. Trudy is wearing a striking pair of Oliver Peeples sunglasses, with dark green lenses (very year 2000, don't you think?). A comparision could be made to Sophia Loren, very mysterious and I always got a kick out of Houseboat? You too? Perhaps you are too young. More's the pity sweeties.

(The Draginatrix may show a true glimpse of Madame Mu)

[quote] there was noticeably less pointless bitchery.

Well, better quality pointless bitchery, to be sure.

Datalounge Dating Service

She who shall not be named

This time on BARBARA's

Barbara LaTouraine, like Trudy, suffered a personal crisis and was thrust into financial turmoil. Previously living with her lover in a tony penthouse on the upper west side, subletting, she was thrown out by her evil and unfeeling porcine landlord from Queens whose names are ... we digress. Soon after being evicted she and her lover split. Barbara, a natural femme, could not offer her lover Sally the emotional support required to maintain their relationship.

Barbara now lives in a box on the west side highway at the end of Horatio Street where she longing gazes upon the luxury apartments for which she was destined.

For comfort and social solace, necessary to a gal in her predicament, she's befriended by some of the more attractive tenants of that building (apartment #510) as well as a little girl who lives in a crate down the lane.

Barbara and the little girl, over the space of hours, evolved into a relationship much stronger than a mere sharing of circumstance. Theirs was a love akin to mother-daughter and soon after the little girl moved into Barbara's box.

Mediapolis,... did Joe Jackson's website

(also, there's the other pages.)

Days were spent with Barbara trying to reorganize her priorities and trying to teach the little girl about how to get along in this crazy world. Evenings were spent with Barbara singing to the little girl about home and pussycats. Nights were spent sleeping, that's all. Really.

Warren, the cute one from #510, happened to open his window late one night to get some air after a particularly long session with David, the cute one, and Rob, the cute one. (Why they weren't on The Island that weekend is a mystery to us all) He heard Barbara singing, a cross between Minne Riperton and Suzanne Pleshette, a kind of smoky Doris Day, a light Carol Channing, something unique yet grating. Warren is a bartender at The Data Lounge, and they need a new act and thinks Barbara will wow them.

What Happens?

Will Barbara get the job because she wears this smashing cigarette dress?

Will the little girl die on the day of the audition inspiring Barbara to sing her heart out and get the job with tears streaming down her face?

Will Barbara's evil rich twin, Beulah, show up?

r88 oh, different jackson.

[quote] Transgender Forum

[quote] Information I need to stay connected even from the desert.

(Did Trudy eventually become Muriel?)

Trudy.com originally linked to Datalounge. (Trudy was a New York drag queen). There was a DataLounge Network that linked with other web sites such as gay dating site {sea cow]a.com

R40, I would give anything to have the actual W&W back. I would get way too excited when I found one of my posts made the cut.

Hell, I've published two novels, but nothing felt better than making W&W.

r92 Well, still, I suppose it can be salvaged for future DL debates.

RE: DEBRA MESSING IS A CUNT Let me tell you about Debra Messing.

I used to volunteer at a Sudanese school for blind children with cancer. Yes, blind with cancer. Eye cancer. One day the door opened and in came Debra Messing - she had heard about the school from Charlie Rose, when the two had attended a lecture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on African maskmasking and had run into an Afrikaaner Doctor without Borders. (Debra, as it turns out, speaks several languages.)

Well, she showed up with a copy of the Rodgers & Hart songbook tucked under one arm, a bag of candy in the other arm, and Billy Stritch coming in behind her with a baby grand on a dolly. Debra embraced the children, some of whom had cancer dripping from their sightless eyes, and proceeded to put on a "one-woman Broadway-style show" in that malarial hut we called a schoolroom.

When it was over, she kissed each child tenderly and presented each one with an iPod filled with the great music of the world. While they were squealing with delight, she took me aside, produ ...

(Cut and pasted this from R40 link)

THIS IS KILLING ME! I totally remember this post and this thread. Truly DL's glory days.

[quote] I would give anything to have the actual W&W back. I would get way too excited when I found one of my posts made the cut.

I sometimes joke about this, but I had three of my posts make W&W simultaneously back when that meant something. In retrospect, given what W&W has become (a like button), it means more NOW than it did THEN.

R96 I hate it now. Well, I don't hate it. It's just meaningless. I get scores of them most days.

It was so much better when the entire site was witness to one's glory!

I'm gonna say that around 1997, I posted on DL that there was a rumor among the gays at my college that one of our fellow gays was dating the comedian Anthony Clark. This was post Boston Common and pre-Yes Dear. They were insistent. They were gonna ask his boyfriend to ask him to do a fundraiser for the university's first gay student association. I asked here if anyone knew if he was gay.

IT'S BEEN 25 YEARS YOU BITCHES AND I STILL DON'T HAVE AN ANSWER!!

Neither IMDb nor Wikipedia says anything about his personal life still today.

r98 he was on the outskirts of the 80s early 90s str8 bait boys; So, I really couldn't say.. though there's been rumours for decades and most assume yes, that it's an open secret but no one can point you to any porn.

R1 I remember the old OLTL threads where the Todd/Blair fans and Todd/Tea fans went nuts.

I believe those are what lead to all soap threads being deleted for years.

r64 that was during my off years but there were earlier threads when the who's the boss kid was outed. . . just not accessible now or easily found. so many, so many glass closets . . . that was one reason the DL was feared/hated. Word of mouth actually traveled faster back then... not so much noise.

Excessively obsessive topics like Lord of the Rings actors' purported relationships (blue and yellow wear them fine fellows) and soap operas were banished to their own forums for years (Prancing Pony Lounge and Soaps respectively). Once the entire site became a single forum, they were treated as any other topic.

"I'm gonna say that around 1997, I posted on DL that there was a rumor among the gays at my college that one of our fellow gays was dating the comedian Anthony Clark. This was post Boston Common and pre-Yes Dear. They were insistent. They were gonna ask his boyfriend to ask him to do a fundraiser for the university's first gay student association. I asked here if anyone knew if he was gay."

There was a lot of gossip about him being gay here, back when I started posting in 2000.

What was the other message board we used to trade off to? I might be blurring some of them.

There were different cliques that found their way. I came in with the L.A. irc (and various bbses; delos, beeline, annex) whores that eventually moved to gay com but I know there was another ghetto board we used to let things slip, a lot more bawdy than this one.

ISGH, R104.

^ oh, actually, it was delos. I forgot they briefly tried to move to a website format but eventually became just another hookup site and died.

this HUGE dyke...

r105 You'll have to spell it out, dear.

(Also, it's peculiar some of the crawlers, caches.. like Australian libraries for a random review of Suzanne Somers one woman show... no other data, just that one review.)

I was here off and on from the beginning. Is He/She Gay? had better gossip in the late '90s, but I drifted back over here after the "boards on boards" drama wrecked IHSG.

Some IHSG

r110 it seems vaguely familiar but can't recall if I visited it., I'm mostly getting ptsd flashbacks of the horrid geocities site I once had. I'm thankful their format makes it unrecoverable.

yeah, bbses at their end were filled with flame wars (I know of many that still haven't died.) or turned into pure hookup, too. Newsgroups became spam . didn't take too long for the web to embody that too. But we all blamed AOL instead.

I’m hoping some of the missing Bonnie mace stories might be there!

r68, we were on nearly permanent Primetime back then, plus there was about six months where DL was shut down.

Also, DL doesn't always archive properly in Google so I imagine the same goes for the Internet Archive as well.

r113 Yeah, there's some raw file dumps out there too, but there's no guarantee it would even have the site since they're broad archive dumps. so, opening said files will likely drain memory, besides the hassle to find something that could read it plus code... organize in any linear, digestible, manner. The only ones that ever have are government nerds and then they usually had a more isolated dump just set to fed sites.

[quote][R68], we were on nearly permanent Primetime back then, plus there was about six months where DL was shut down.

Was it really that long, R113? I don't remember it being down longer than a week or so since I've been here.

Does anyone remember the Darkspawn/Bonisoli drama?

I'm not sure why no one seems to remember that DL was shut down for several months back in 2010 or so. People made alternate forums for users to go to, and you can still find mention of "Datalounge Refugees" boards on Google (one mention is on Female First, back when straight ladies from FF would come to DL to scream at us about Angelina Jolie).

There was a whole period from 2009 to 2014 or so where DL was a complete garbage fire. There were technical glitches constantly, the site would go down for days on end until one day it went down for something like 4-6 months. We'd be pay-only for months and months, people got banned for no reason, at one point they blocked every mobile IP address so you couldn't post with tablets or phones for a year or more. Someone who works at Mediapolis would log in every few months and have an enormous meltdown and blame users for a variety of things that didn't make any sense.

It was a huge change from the pre-2009 days when the board was so active that you couldn't keep up with it, and things were funny and informative. This is a good thread about the old days:

Just wait until now becomes then. You'll see how happy we were.

God. This is kinda depressing me. I was 24 years old when I found DL in 2004. I would come on here and laugh and laugh.

Now I'm a middle aged loser. Thankfully, you cunts still make me laugh.

(Sorry to make it all about me for a post.)

I accidentally found DL back in 2012, when I was on a site called Tom and Lorenzo. I'm so glad I did too. I didn't start commenting though until recently, which has been therapeutic at times, and informative, especially the threads about traveling, even though I haven't been anywhere yet. That's going to change soon though.

There were several Let Me Tell You About Deb Messing posts but I think the last one was the Haiti earthquake one. It was the height of gloriousness and I think that poster never followed it up because it simply could NOT be bettered.

As for Anthony Clark, I seem to remember a post by someone who had very detailed descriptions of his body and cock.

Remember when we found Erna's scat-video emporia extravaganza?

[quote] Erna

Cunt!

[quote] Erna

Fetid shit eating Nazi pedo cunt!

Does anyone remember Shobe?

Brings back lovely memories. When Forum Nazis patrolled the forums and screeched, "BE GONE! That's gossip!. Get that off our political forum."

I do, r124.

Does anybody remember Pope Buck I?

Now, that poster was hilarious, true wit and he or she did it without being mean, which, imho, is even more skilled than plain old bitchery.

It's kinda sad that witty contributors have slipped this earth, but their contributions live on forever.

I wish I could find the original Freaks You Work With thread.

[quote]Does anyone remember Shobe?

Absolutely. She had good gossip and was super-entertaining.

Freaks You Work With was hysterical. Can anyone find the old "Van Johnson, Golden Age Queen" thread?

R126 I think I knew that poster IRL. He.

I've been bookmarking and screen-capturing the Wayback Machine links, because this thread will probably be attacked by those unhinged haters of older Gays and Lesbians. (Remember what they did to Joe's farewell thread?)

U claim to love vintage DL but u all have a collective meltdown when someone bumps a 2015 thread. Lol. Bunch of fuckin bottom contrarian cunts.

What to bring to a dinner party?

Answer: "Small, ill-behaved children"

[quote]It's kinda sad that witty contributors have slipped this earth, but their contributions live on forever.

Some of these older posts are written so well, I find it sad that most of us don't write like this now. And very, very funny.

Re: Kelly Osbourne:

[quote]She's a genius! Who else would take the trouble to acquire TEN of Michael Jackson's old Korean wigs and wear them all at once as a fashion statement?

[quote]There were several Let Me Tell You About Deb Messing posts but I think the last one was the Haiti earthquake one. It was the height of gloriousness and I think that poster never followed it up because it simply could NOT be bettered.

Well, thank you. I did have a draft post where Deb and Michael Feinstein visited Sandy Hook shortly after the Adam Lanza shootings so she could "bring back the good name of Lanza" by singing the greatest hits of Mario Lanza, but I couldn't make it work. It ended with the mother of two slain toddlers holding their bodies, rocking back and forth, and saying, "Who was that cunt?"

Anyway, if Deb returns it will likely be at the scene of a school shooting; she's been through hurricanes and earthquakes and famine already.

I liked when Muriel would post little snippets of posts in the Wit and Wisdom window. What time frame was that?

^ 2005–2006

For the first few years I just lurked on DataLounge.

My first post was in 2003.

I love that the Deb Messing poster is still here!

Thanks for the wheelchair ride down memory lane, OP.

[quote] I liked when Muriel would post little snippets of posts in the Wit and Wisdom window. What time frame was that?

That was still happening around 2011-2012ish. There was some point where the update kiboshed all of that.

R135 Well put!

[quote]Some of these older posts are written so well, I find it sad that most of us don't write like this now.

Which is exactly why people are called out here with oh dears when they don't.

How many people were posting from their phones 12 years ago?

Oh R133. I'll play along with your idiocy.

Bumping one or two 2015 threads for nostalgia's sake (or some other viable reason) would be fine. Maybe even welcomed.

What you do is spam scores of them. For reasons one can only assume are to piss people off.

I know none of this will make sense to you as it involves common decency and non-narcissistic reasoning. But there you go.

Don't engage with him, r147. He isn't well...it's a waste of time.

R145, the tiresome "Oh, dear" trolls were around then, too.

R146 I would say a fair amount. Smartphones were a thing back then. I was late to the uptake of them, but I had one back in 2011.

^ Same—I got my first one in 2011.

My point being how many were posting from their phone in DL's first 10 years?

People didn't even have screen phones from 1995 to 2005. First iPhone came out in 2007.

I totally forgot that for a few weeks I posted as "Mrs. Joseph 'Bunny' Stalin"

^ I remember you—that's a great name! Up there with "Juanita 'Jazz Hands' Bynum."

those must have been wonderful days when soap threads were deleted by Muriel. This place is infested with them and I think Gap Playlist creates a lot of them.

R152 Many people started migrating over from laptops and desktops, to more intensive phone use, in the late 00s early 10s as the development from 3G to 4G took off.

My point being, r157, that I think people were more likely to go into more creative detail and be more accurate in their spelling/punctuation when they were posting from an actual keyboard.

Spelling and punctuation here aren't any more or less accurate than they were in early datalounge days.

I remember Shobe!

Thank you OP for this wonderful thread!

I remember that Gillian Anderson post like it was just yesterday.

I started on DL in 1997 and it was a more basic interface then even these links.

Does anyone else remember when all of the Ellen posts overwhelmed the gossip forum and the webmaster moved them to television after several warnings?

We had disagreements back then, but you didn’t have this culture war nonsense.

[quote]I started on DL in 1997 and it was a more basic interface then even these links.

I remember in 1995–96 when the message board (vs. Trudy's page) was technically part of Out.com.

I used to walk to school in the snow both ways when I started posting on DataLounge.

It was the best use of the InterNet ever.......until....well......it got infiltrated by trannies and loons and women and wokes.

R162 oh I wish I had seen it in the beginning in 1995. I am quite jealous.

Poor widdle r163.

I started my DL run back in 2019, and haven't looked back since. Before Muriel 'expired' a great deal of the old DL archives, I would look up dirt on my favorite old musicians. You guys had tea on almost all I looked up. Then I discovered that this, more than likely, is my online romping room. $20/year well spent. Though, I wish there was more activity lately. This site has been a snooze.

R163, the real loons are the right-wing idiots who whine about trans people and woke people all damn day. Back in the day, people who posted right-wing propaganda here (like peg) got laughed at and trans people were barely mentioned. Everyone hated Bush, Cheney, and co.

I'm flummoxed by the comment that spelling was better back in the day on here.

Surely, given that we have predictive text on our phones, it's got better or stayed the same over time?

[quote]it's got better

Evidently not.

R169 The grammar monitor that never stops patrolling the school hall.

I'm back after a more than ten year break other than an occasional check-in. Plus ça change, plus la même cunty chose with blocking and liking is a pretty good thing.

I can't believe it's been two decades since I used to get stoned and troll the Prancing Ponies.

Probably should have spent that time looking for a better line of work.

The diversity of topics astound me.

We've covered the great events of the day, the economy and The Golden Girls, but we still have so much to explore and uncover.

It's not true that there are no witty posts any more. It's just a lot harder to find them because there is no Wit and Wisdom editor to bring them all together. But whenever I see a line that makes me laugh I copy it into a Word document, which is getting quite long now. I've given a few examples before, but here are a couple of recent ones (heading first, then quip):

Giant Boulder Smashes Through Home (video linked)

Dammit. Gutter ball.

--God

Jeremy Renner in CRITICAL CONDITION after snow plow accident [article linked]

Why tow away the snow plow? Do they think it's like Christine & now that it's got a taste of blood, it will kill again?

Crews responding to the Phila International Airport, reports of a plane carrying several passengers who are sick and vomiting

They must have been screening “Babylon.”

PS Many of the classic threads have already been found. Here's Freaks You Work With.

Is anyone who is familiar with the threads about classic threads able to find any of the famous still-missing ones on this? eg There's one about Cakes that was never found?

Sorry, linking properly now.

Oh, c'mon, r170. Surely even you can see the humor in the irony of that post.

r174, I beg you to post more from your archives.

Here's two that I distinctly remember, though I don't have the actual full info about the thread as you do:

In the Tot Drop thread (a grandfather dropping his granddaughter out a cruise ship window), when discussing the funeral someone chimed in with "please don't let him be a pallbearer."

In another thread on COVID relief bill recently passed and what that would mean in terms of who is getting what, this little gem:

I got a rock

--Charlie Brown

Does anyone have a link to the thread where we went on a "field trip" to a UK tabloid shortly after Madeleine McCann disappeared? A lot of posters were commenting things like "the little trollop asked for it!" and the Britfraus in the comments were going NUTS. It was up all weekend until the UK webbie came back on Monday.

This thread is my new favorite. So many happy memories of DL wit and wisdom!

R179 I remember that thread!

The link at R40 almost hurts to read. We're so, so far from what this place used to be.

[quote]Does anyone remember Shobe?

Unfortunately. Be careful, mentioning her might make her materialize again.

Certainly, R178. I apologise about the setting out: I'm trying to do two par breaks between each one but in my last post it didn't "take".

RE: A fascinating look at "God" (not recommended for idiots)

Why is it that those who are Born Again are always the ones you wish hadn't been born even once?

RE: Has anyone here visited Auschwitz or any other concentration camps?

No, but I've been to The Townhouse.

RE: Things parents tell their kids to make them feel better.

Of course you're not adopted. We wouldn't pick you on purpose.

RE: I just had hot fireman sex

"Me and firestud were just staring each other down."

He was probably in awe that in all his years as a firefighter, he'd never seen anything that flaming.

I saw a post from a 20 something me, likely made after an NYC night out, and all that entailed in the 90s. I am going back to bed to think about those glorious times!

ElderLez, were you a poster in the now-defunct DL Lesbian Forum? Along with scullysuit, pornchick, Shobe, etc.?

I'm wondering if our (virtual) paths crossed back then -- that was a great community.

It was R185. And I read it all, but I just lurked for most of my first two decades on DL. I barely posted and I didn’t start my first thread until 2005; long after the separate forums were gone.

[quote]Does anyone have a link to the thread where we went on a "field trip" to a UK tabloid shortly after Madeleine McCann disappeared?

I do. LeAnne DeVette started a thread on the tabloid message board entitled "SHE HAD IT COMING!"

Pandemonium from British fraus ensued.

Hilarious.

Hehe, I still couldn't read or write back in 1995 or speak English.

DL will be 30 in two years.

((((((((((GASP))))))))))

[quote] I still couldn't read or write back in 1995 or speak English.

Well, two out of three ain't bad, dear.

[quote]Does anyone have a link to the thread where we went on a "field trip" to a UK tabloid shortly after Madeleine McCann disappeared? A lot of posters were commenting things like "the little trollop asked for it!" and the Britfraus in the comments were going NUTS. It was up all weekend until the UK webbie came back on Monday.

That would have been summer (May and June) 2007. Unfortunately, the Wayback Machine captures for 2007 redirect to the old Primetime screen if you click an archive link on the main page.

I've also tried checking for captures of the old Daily Mirror boards. They have the Maddie McCann forums but nothing for the field trip, unfortunately. I'm guessing the DM admins made sure our visit got excluded from the search robots.

[quote]LeAnne DeVette started a thread on the tabloid message board entitled "SHE HAD IT COMING!"

Brendad Ickson also started several threads. Trouser gravy was mentioned, if I recall correctly.

[quote]The Britfraus in the comments were going NUTS.

Yeah, lots of hysterical comments à la "OMG SHE'S JUST A CHILD!!!"

[quote] pint-size harlot

Still makes me laugh.

I came to DL in the late 1990's. It fulfilled my expectation of the internet....and in SOME cases continues to do so TODAY.

LeAnne Devette was hilarious. But problematic if I remember correctly.

R194 She went after the ubiquitous troll "Daniel Bexton" and didn't pull any punches.

I hope all those Michfest threads were archived. I only came here around 2020, and finding those threads eventually was so joyous. Extremely funny, but also kinda affectionate as well in some ways. Not quite as nasty as some people get now, at least from what I see.

Hell, there were some old threads on trans people like Meredith Talusan and Chrysanthemum Tran which were very funny with a lot of posters clearly just making fun of the personalities, not their identity. Meredith even turned up in one of them (or so we're led to believe) and had a sense of humour about it.

r168 The difference was in time, speed and data transfer or storage. You might think because everyone being capped near the same speed that it wouldn't make a difference. But given the speed was slower than passage of thoughts, people were conscious of it. Plus elders of the time couldn't grasp l33t and they once dominated sites like these instead of the younger generations that largely saw it as a waste of time and/or too expensive. The more annoying part was waiting for everybody else to see your response and somebody else to respond. Given the limitations of numerous users, it could take days, weeks even months. No one has the patience for that, anymore.

off topic but I've been hyper analyzing myself with a shop, recently, that has technology challenged owners across the country because I've been spoiled by usually buying via third parties where there's greater pressures small business owners to have the same response time and customer service as corporate entities. It doesn't matter that I know they're reputable company and it will eventually be done, and they're just old and move at their own pace because they're overly cautious about online business... old to me because if I was a little younger I would have thought nothing about driving to that hellhole of a state and picking it up myself despite the personal costs or the mileage it would add.

This really brings back amazing memories. I found DL very early on in both its existence and my coming out. I can't recall how I found it, but I've been on it ever since! Makes me miss the 90s and all the cock I got back in those days.

I'll be 49 in June and I'm still at it.