AS TOLD BY JUSTIN GELLER:Back in the days of blazing fast 19.2 Kbps dial up modems, before Amazon, before Google, two guys named Nick had a dream. How can we get a really fast T-1 connection dropped to our West Philly house without paying for it? Start an internet company of course! So in 1996, [...]

AS TOLD BY DAVE PAK: I guess we started soundway.com as a means to promote Sorted. This was around June or July of 1998 and at the time the www seemed relatively new and totally exciting. Back then, you could just go into chat rooms and randomly make friends with tons of like-minded people which [...]

A reader writes:
This website brings back fond memories of the late 90’s when I first discovered there was more than porno on the world wide web, www.virtualcrack.com. You can send your friends and family virtual crack cocaine for those special occasions such as birthdays, new jobs, baby showers.
It’s a site that has long been [...]

It is, perhaps, one of the quickest tales of obsolesence ever told: The Cybercafe. Once, when web access required things like sitting in one place the entire time to get a signal, a subscription to AOL or Prodigy, and so on, there was a moment when cybercafes — coffee shops outfitted with desks full of [...]

AS TOLD BY LIRON K. ANDERSON-BELL: This is more of a 6 Degrees of Digital Philadelphia situation. Back in 2000, when I was a new hire at CDNOW — I think I was Senior Manager of Marketing Marvelousness or some such blather — I, along with my boss Joe Bilman (now Chief Product Officer at [...]

AS TOLD BY ADAM FELDMAN: At least since 1993, Philadelphians and others in our metropol have had access to free dial up internet via the Critical Path Project . Although the internet has perhaps outgrown the screeching whistles and pops of the telephone modem, thousands of low income people at least have access to [...]

When we decided last week, in some kind of fit of pique, that this week would be Philly Internet History Week on Philebrity, we did so half-jokingly. Would there even be enough to fill up a whole week? Turns out, there’s more than enough. What started as a list of 10 or so posts has [...]

OK, so, what’s in your satchel of whoa, Kinky Jen?
Best Concert – Devo at the Festival Pier. No, seriously I mean it.
Best Party – Rob’s Best BBQ Ever, July 4th Weekend.
Best New Spot – Any backyard with a grill and friends
Worst New Spot – Tranny Gauntlet at 13th and Locust
Best New Look – Short [...]

FRIDAY:
>>> Hi, August, it’s me, Philebrity! Can you tell that I have been going out of my way to do everything BUT weekend picks today? And you wanna know whyyyyyyyyy, sweets? That’s right! I don’t care! I’m going on vacation! Shit, I’m already ON vacation! Weeeeee!!! Blew out my flip-flop on a pop top! So [...]

Previously: Steve Coogan Philebrity.TV Interview Part 1

These come to us via writer/photographer Natalie Hope McDonald:
Favorite Concert: George Michael
Favorite Party: That afternoon with my gay boys at an outside table at Knock. I’m still in denial about my bar tab that day.
Best/Worst Look: Best look this summer is plaid shorts for boys and girls. Worst look: Retro 80s hideousness. It didn’t look [...]

These come via Jen Miller of Down The Shore With Jen:
Best Concert — Free Beach Boys concert at the Atlantic City Hilton on Memorial Day Weekend
Worst Concert — Brett Michaels’ ‘impromptu’ concert at the Pool at Harrah’s, though the clash of reality show wannabees and Poison fans made for the best people watching show of [...]

NĀCIET VISI, BITCHES! We’re gonna tear it up in a Latvian pool-like game!

From reader Joe Golderer:
Best Concert – Radiohead in Camden – also worst traffic.
Best Party – Making time with Soulwax.
Best new spot – Lunch @ Under the C. Seafood place underneath the Comcast building.
Best look – Girls in short gym shorts – Worst look – Guys in short gym shorts.
Best news story – Jocelyn & [...]

Here’s a bit of a Recession Chic Truth Bomb for ya: We actually look at the furniture listings on Craigslist. Sure, there’s a lot of crud to sift through, but when you’re digging deep for a $100 Herman Miller chair that SIMPLY DOES NOT EXIST SO GET OVER IT, after a while the pee-stained couches [...]

We don’t know! You tell us in the comments below. But if the truth must be told, we probably listened to William DeVaughn’s “Be Thankful For What You Got (1980 Disco Edit By DJ Day)” more than any other song, all summer long. Yes, it’s 28 years old, we realize that. But tell you what: [...]

All in all, it was a pretty awful summer. Or maybe it wasn’t. We can’t quite tell yet. Can you? Since we’re going to be busy cataloging Philly Internet History all next week, we figured we’d give the summer of 08 a big send off. (Next time you see us doing regular posting, it will [...]

Earlier today Urban Outiftters Inc. named two executives to head up the Anthropologie brand. Wendy Wurtzburger was named chief merchandising officer and Wendy Brown became chief operating officer. Says Anthro’s CEO:
“For more than a decade, Wendy and Wendy have played crucial roles in Anthropologie’s development, and I am confident that they will lead the brand [...]

Media Bureau. CPCN. Phillymusic.com. Dummytown. Brainsoap. CDNow. Maybe these words and phrases mean something to you. Or perhaps, ten years ago (or more), you were in Philadelphia, embarking on your own journey through this bold and new thing called The Internet. Got a story to tell? A long-forgotten favorite site? Or perhaps your own [...]

“They’re inside the city limits, not on the riverfront and not within 10 miles of casinos already open in Bensalem and Chester.” Our bets: By the stadiums, by the airport, or please God, somewhere, anywhere, in the Northeast. They totally deserve it. [Clout]