What happened to theGlobe.com?
Yesterday, I just remembered theGlobe.com, the place where I actually ventured into creating my first website and web presence.
I don't know what reminded me of it, but I just was curious to know what they've done with themselves now.
theGlobe.com was one of the first big free email, free hosting, free chat, free everything portals that the internet became full of back in the days.
All I ever used was their free hosting, but they had a bunch of other interesting services too, or so they thought.
I remember my username was mmmmusic there. Ok it sucks, I know, but back then it seemed like a good name for a website by me "MMM" about Music.
Anyway, as always, I start with one thought and end up with another, so in the end I started my Tina Arena website there instead of making it a general music site, and I created a little website about Tunisia.
So effectively, the name sucked even more because it had nothing to do with the content.
Anyway, I was later lured to tripod and I never used theGlobe again. Only for occasionally hosting an mp3 or video file for my website.
Through the years I watched from a distance as theGlobe changed and mutated from form to form trying to find some logic and some way to make money out of offering free services.
When will they ever learn?
It seems as though they're still at it.
Their latest reincarnation is called voiceglo which offers a free p2p internet telephony service.
Seems like an interesting service, but I just have this feeling that the cycle of reincanations is still far from over at theGlobe.
As if it never happened (But not really !) Whatever happened to Maktoob? Whatever Happened to Arabia.com?!I remember theglobe.com as well. There always seemed to be a bunch of us who went to the 30something room. We called it the dirty thirties. I had a LOT of fun there. I met a LOT of peeps there. I wish there were a place to re-aquaint with those folks again!
I KEPT my name.... also to do with music. Erocker
Posted by: Eric at April 21, 2004 12:42 AMHey Eric! I remember you...this is Tweety...did a search for theglobe.com and found this. You are alive and kicking eh? *hugs*
Posted by: Susan at June 6, 2004 09:38 PMYes tweety. I remember you. I wish there were a way to get ahold of all the members of the 30-somethings room! We used to have a blast there.
Posted by: Eric at June 29, 2004 01:14 PMtheglobe.com was fun back in 97-99. I actually met my wife (RAINN) in The Crypt in early 97. If anyone remembers, feel free to e-mail. Keywords: DIGITAL, PSYCONUTT, ANGELDREAM, RAINN, SYNAP, CHESHIRECAT, HCV.ORG, FIREBREAK, MISSMOJO, IRONLUNG, DRAGONFYRE, DESTA, DESTEPHENES, JULES69, SYNAPTIC SURGE, AUTUMNBABE, ZOE.
Posted by: Synaptic Surge at September 12, 2006 09:57 PMi am happy to see people still thinking about the globe after all these years.....i was a youngin' then and kinda grew up in the crypt.....and i am lookin to find sum old friends from there....after it closed everyone kinda lost contact with each other......and i found this by doing a search as well so hopefully every one else will possibly do the same at some point......and i was known by most as Garmy...and it was nice reminiscing with ya!
Posted by: Garmonbozia at January 25, 2007 10:39 PMSynaptic Surge, All those names you listed really bring back memories! The Crypt was the first place I went to when i found out I couldn't get into AOL chat rooms from a non-AOL internet connection. I made a lot of friends there, but lost contact soon after it closed down. Wow, I totally forgot about most of this. It's sad when you think about it, the people of the Crypt were who I spent so much time with, and now it's all gone... BTW, I remember Rainn and I'm glad you're still with her!
Posted by: AndySS at February 8, 2007 05:25 AMLOL...Good ole Desta, he taught me my first HTML tags in The Crypt, along with Tattman as well...I recall The Crypt was the very first chat room I found on the web in the early days when the internet first hit South Africa...I used to hang out there during the day and hav a blast.
On occassion I wonder what happened to the people who used to go there...I also found this page searching for Destephenes on Google...
Glad to see some folks still remember it, the black scary walls with the ghosts on them...lol
Posted by: B4EYE4QRU17 at February 19, 2007 09:43 AMThe globe was the first online community I could say I was part of. I don't know what it was about the place, but many of the people I met in the Crypt I still have ties with. Our little community has not been duplicated anywhere else.
Posted by: Due at March 2, 2007 12:26 PMI was eurob and was hated across most chat rooms cause I was so frickin annoying. Yet, I still loved that place, it had something that I never saw back again .... Was always in Red Square...oh btw there still is a chat room with the same interface and some of the same annoying people who don't have a live: www.othius.com
Posted by: eurob at September 13, 2007 08:52 AMMan this brigs back memories...just did a search for theglobe.com and The Crypt and this site came up. I used to spend way too much time on there and made so many great friends (and enemies too, heh). I remember a mix of screennames and realnames...Kathey, Ginny, Sam, ThreeVix, Desta and Deste, Cory, basically too many to list...I had a ton of nicks myself, DarkUltima, xPIKACHUx, NctrnlSprmcy, BurninInside, BrokenDreams, ShatteredDreams, etc etc. Real name is Justin for those who knew me that well.
Posted by: GenTechJ at September 24, 2007 05:05 PMwow, those names bring back memories. i posted a lot in red square; panik, peaches, glittergirl, where are you guys?
EK
Posted by: michael at December 20, 2007 03:52 AMI miss Red Square in The Globe!! I was mostly Beth there. Still in touch with a few people from back then. Someone should bring it back!!
Posted by: Lizzie at January 30, 2008 05:11 PMWow.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels like I had a tie to theglobe. I didn't hangout in the crypt, I was in the Rapture Cafe as Elise4. I would love to get in touch with old friends from that time.
memories, 10 years ago i met my wife in 20somethings and i frequented the crypt, was sad to see the globe go, but it did. remember me email me jonkouba@hotmail.com
_Kuba
Posted by: _Kuba at February 26, 2008 11:41 PMHaha... wow flashback. I remember ThreeVix the most and Desta and BurninInside bring back memories as well. Crazy.
Posted by: Cixpack at March 5, 2008 12:08 AMholy crap!
synap and rainn are still together? and _kuba, i JUST thought about you the other day...
garmy is an adult now. omfg.
people seriously need to email me.
semi lard-o-matic ftw!
Posted by: pocketlint at March 29, 2008 12:40 AMmight help if i posted my email huh? sheesh.
pokketlint(at)hotmail(dot)com
Posted by: pocketlint at March 29, 2008 12:42 AMI used to chat there too! Although I used to go into different rooms, I was trying to remember the names, and only "plasma" comes to mind, can anyone name more? I have found a facebook group - but there are only 3 members so far .
Posted by: Lubiloo at April 25, 2008 08:29 PMWhat a trip down memory lane! It was a lifetime ago but I'd be hard-pressed to forget some of the crypters. Synaptic_Surge, Cashmire12, Morgana88, mr_satanism, femme_gothiq, MadProfessor, NightGrrl, B4EYE4QRU17, CheshireCat9, Cherokee407/Tattman, Dawn69, CrazedAngel, liquidblu, Skiler, Blondiloxx, Phening, VikingGirl, ThreeVix, sleeeping, and 300 other crypters (mostly females) if I keep going.
I met 7? crypters over the years, I still have the socks tHeShEeNy sent me for Christmas and the card from Tracy with her schoolgirl pic! But it's sadly a place we can't go back to. Othius was an attempt to recreate the Crypt yet most of us had gone seperate ways already and the quality of the place was a shadow of the Crypt. I've never been chatting since. I was addicted to you crypters, not chatting period. I'll always miss you guys. =)
destaphenes hotmail com
Posted by: Destaphenes at May 15, 2008 06:54 PMThis is complete craziness. I don't even remember all the names I had there but I remember going by...oh my gosh, now that I'm old this is embarassing...princess696. My how we grow.
Posted by: Jillian at June 23, 2008 09:56 AMOMG! I'm so glad to find some of my old Crypt buddies! Desta, garmon, pocketlint, duelicious! Oh man...I'm in heaven. I just went looking for chat rooms and they all suck these days. I miss the crypt. Remember the old coffee cup? Good times....feel free to keep in touch. :) Miss y'all!
Posted by: einsteinjade at July 4, 2008 02:26 AMe-mail einsteinjade at yahoo dot com
Good times...must start facebook group :)
Posted by: einsteinjade at July 4, 2008 02:30 AMI occasionally look up “The Globe” as well. I had some great times there And met numerous amounts of awesome peepz and a few of those I actually met IRL. I was a regular in Absinthe, my most common username is and was MoonGodezz. Now a dayz I go by Moon_Godezz,WyckedMoon or enviouz_eyez. I Occasionally hung out in the Crypt but Absinthe was my spot. Met lotz of cool peepz, kinda like, Intensity, Necromancer, Woew aka Cara ,Alabama Momma, Illuzionz aka Jeremy, NyghtHawkez, aka Tony, DarkDreamer aka Tim, Swoosh, and the late NitezOwl aka Pam, I cant remember this one chicks name but she lived in PA and worked with Frito Lay, we freaking talked a lot, so I should know her name.. sheeeesh *smokes another bowl*. I agree “The Globe.com” was fantastic. I started using the globe in 1997. I also agree, it’s hard to forget something like that. It seems like many of us, have a strong unique connection with the memory of “The Globe.com”. I often look for something similar but to no avail, nothing found. Yahoo, AOL,MSN, they all blow, hacks ~N~lamerz. I see there’s a group with face book, but it seems to be mostly peepz from The Crypt.. sooooo anywhooo…. Email is moon_godezz hotmail dot com .
You know, today I was thinking about theglobe.com. I too had a free email account with them back in Middle School! When the internet started to take off, my friend in my computer class had an email account there and suggested I do the same. So I did! My username was "actristocrat" like my current email address. I still have it to remind me of my first email at theglobe.com :)
Cheers
Posted by: John at July 23, 2008 10:47 AMWe recently revitalized the GlobeChat.Org site. Now we have member blogs, photo galleries, a live chat and message boards. Stop by and visit sometime y'all: www.globechat.org
Posted by: Due at August 16, 2008 12:08 AM