2000 - 2006

2000 - 2006

How was it, Sup Forums?

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also AIM, albinoblacksheep, and newgrounds.

Most exploits were for shits and giggles. I don't know anyone who hasn't had all their internet explorer bookmarks filled with porn sites at least once. But these experiences taught me to be humbled by technology and smart with my usage.

Nowadays the internet is so accessible, but exploits aren't for so much fun anymore: identity theft and the like. Kids need to be taught internet safety if not by their parents then at school. The craziest thing to me is kids don't even know how to type on the keyboard anymore; they show off how fast they can type on the phone without even realizing how degenerate society's usage has become.

>Where can I get a gmail invite
That one hurt. I remember a time when I trusted Google. I was so excited when I got my gmail address.

yeah i was probably one of the first 25k users. I should have just used [email protected]. I use my own domain's now. google is only a search engine and youtube to me

Relaxed.

Especially since i was just a kid really, lots of Habbo Hotel and old games like Pawn.

Just seemed like the internet was a chill place with a bunch of casual stuff going on.

IT'S MY LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIFFFFFE

Mine is really short. Every now and again I'm asked how I got one so short and simple. A negative to that, is I often get mail for other people.

I also use my own domain for most things now. I just don't trust Google to not record literally everything about me forever and share that with five+ eyes.

Yeahhh I still use the one i registered from the original invite. I remember getting a bunch of invites to hand out after.

Same as ever, mailing lists.

Golden age of furry art.

Fun. I go back a ways before 2000. I can still remember being in awe of text files (philez) from groups like phrack and cdc. Lots of email bombs, zip bombs, and fucking with people on aol. Got the perma ban from them at a young age. My parents were not pleased.

A lot less rapid fire content, even Sup Forums was much slower.

slow
very slow
but very exciting at the same time

I can still remember searching "south park" on some shit search engine and coming up with nothing. Wow that must have been 7th grade. I'm 33 now.

Gay. Newgrounds and ytmnd were the only sites worth visiting
>inb4 old youtube/your gay ass forum/any other site
no they were shit

>oink
>the orange box

I mean technically HL2 qualifies, but...
Also Steam was hilariously bad

I'm unironically still using winamp

2000-2003 I had to use computers at HS, I didn't have my own. 2004-2006, I was in uni
the memories..
what I remember the most about those years is... I could have had many girlfriends easily, but i was a reclusive, a-social dumbass, and still am
fml, I should just kill myself

cool story bro

glad you like it, pls upvote

I really miss Maplestory now. shit

I haven't used it since around 2003, anything important happen to it over the years?

Bazinga!

xD

don't forget graffiti

gunbound

it was pretty fun desu

coke music

runescape

RPG Maker

It's so interesting to see all this "remember the 90s guys? Everything was better and everything after it was waaay worse!" stuff slowly fading in favor of "remember the 00s guys? Everything was better and everything after it was waay worse!"

I don't know, it's just fascinating how childhood nostalgia can move so many people, regardless of what happened in that period

rocket matches in blood gulch

that faggot ebaum

the real takeoff of memes as we know it

The internet has genuinely gotten worse over the years, you can't deny that

myspace emos, probably evolved into the SJWs we know today

Screencap your post and look at it in 10 years when the 10s were the best, Windows 7 the best OS and the PS3/X360/Wii the best console generation

...

it was a truly magical time
governments and businesses were too inept to utilize the web properly, so it hadn't been monopolized by aggregation services like youtube, reddit, et al; there was no "one-stop shop"

you could spend hours rolling down google's search results looking for hidden gems
that was a thrill
it's much too convenient to find what you want now

you'd never use your true name for any service; that was the norm

you could build a swastika on habbo hotel ironically
fuck, all of that racist shit was meant in irony, till retarded people got access to the internet and poe's law took place

there was less abuse and mindgames; deep down, everybody was simply happy to have access to the internet in the first place

now look at this fucking dump

i miss the dynamism and spontaneity
nowadays the web appears to have stagnated and rotted to corporate interests and human ambition; there's no competition or adventure anymore

do you remember who was getting laid?

is that fucking DR. L337

Fuck this site wasn't even trying to hide the fact that they were just a Habbo port

The greatest. I loved the internet so much more when it wasn't centered around a handful of websites. It truly felt free.

You can still play osrs dude, I do

be honest, how many osama bin laden death simulators did you play on newgrounds

At least 4

oh yeah—to expand on this—the joy of discovery

there would be these dramatic leaps in innovation or creativity; you'd get limewire, mp3 players, flash, podcasts, image boards, gifs, youtube, myspace, macromedia

somebody was always making something unimaginable
you'd think the possibilities were endless; you could make anything or be anybody
now, wealth has become so concentrated, and we have such firm and available knowledge of the web that it's the man with the most money who often makes the next best thing

see how jimmy fallonkimmel dominates youtube nowadays—the old media has finally gotten wise, and brought their money
no wonderful creative shit anymore
and even if there is
nobody's grateful for it; there's eons worth of free creative content out there for you to consume
people have grown so entitled

with every new discovery it was so fucking exciting
it was something beyond what you could've ever imagined
i remember being so stunned by the fact that, fuck, my phone can access the internet? really? really?? really???

maybe i'm just old and jaded

>Sup Forums will be considered nostalgic in 5 years

u got it

Not half as slow as one would think. I miss the days when the web wasn't all fucked up bloat.

Nah. Sup Forums is already older than 90% of its userbase.

>maybe i'm just old and jaded
no, you're right

i think there's a specific group of people who grew up in this era, with these people, who still exist and are out there. the internet savvy, playful, offensive, adventurous pioneers. Sup Forums is one of the last places i feel like you can still see this group, which is one of the main reasons i still come here.

i feel like there will be more to come yet from it

A lot of it is because our memories are tempered by our circumstances and life at the time.

Hell yeah the 00's internet is going to seem like a blast in retrospect if you were a child during then.
As long as you weren't abused, things generally seemed awesome and wondrous, even if you totally didn't get it. Life was also easier, when literally your only worries were hanging out with buddies, getting your parents to let you play video games, and trying to not get into too much trouble in school.

Memories you have of then will be viewed through that nostalgic lens.

Now, as an adult, you are generally aware of the shit nature of people, the fuckery of the world, the added stressors of money and work performance, and the (real or perceived) expectation to make some meaning of your life.

>old and jaded.

>i feel like there will be more to come yet from it
i really hope you're right
but the content here just seems so repetitious now
i've grown paranoid of government and corporate actors running propaganda campaigns here—it's not obvious anymore like it used to be with stormfront—now it's much more scientific

people are so balkanized and ungrateful for each other
it could be that i just can't relate anymore; that the userbase is just younger
nowadays i just visit out of muscle memory and boredom

It was the best time to be in the internet desu

Emos were edgelords, I'm positive a huge chunk of Pol were Emos.

i think it's a lull, we have a lot of the older part of this generation starting families,, and the younger part going to college. we do still get some really fun stuff, like all the Sup Forumslacks finding and identifying antifa and that sort of thing. it's just harder to see, the internet has become so huge and filled with noise from all the normies on it now

they were snowflakes, who wanted to challenge norms while also not being criticized for it

2000 is around when i stopped having my own personal website and participating in webring culture and the like
i feel partially responsible for letting all the big sites take over and kill everything off

i don't miss the 2000- era of livejournals and other various blog culture before social media further refined that garbage

Maybe you are thinking of scene kids.
They were the neon hair faggots

it was the best years of the internet.

>Nowadays the internet is so accessible

what are you talking about nigger, in 2003-2004 everyone was on the internet except for ghetto monkeys because no welfare smartphones yet

Blacks getting internet access was a mistake.

did anyone else play this?

There seemed to be less edgy racists back then.

Oh no.

In 2 months, this site will be older than some 14 year olds, who certainly browse and shitpost on here.

Fuck off Nigger

it was just ironic racism till the next generation showed up and thought we were serious

that's one thing i regret now
making swastikas for fun
shit's not funny anymore—the minecraft generation and the older fossils took that joke

i played this thing instead.

graal was good before the pay2play started

"""old"""school isn't remotely similar to how it was back then though.
If anything you should be playing on a private server. Sup Forums just so happens to run the most era-accurate 2006/2007 server out there.
Sup Forumsscape over on /vg/

I'm 22, I don't think I have the right to be jaded yet, although years in the military probably have increased my salt levels.

That piece of shit deserves death.

i agree; i never had a pay account and pretty much quit around that time. most of my time was spent on n-pulse once it they added the playerworld list or whatever you call it.

Me too. It just werks

he didn't die but he did get jewed out of millions, thankfully

reminds me of this ridiculous shit youtube.com/watch?v=0ZM9-ZbBoAc

He got off easy. Worthless fuck probably set the Internet back 10 years with his theft and general jewery.

>remember 9/11? dat nostalgia bro. allahu akbar

Hell yeah.

I remember being in middle school, and going home to my hand-me-down P3 machine *stacked* with 512 MB of RAM.
We were one of the first neighborhoods to get FTTH, so I had like 20Mbps up/down while my friends had closer to 3 or 4 over DSL.

Looking back, we were being major cucked by verizon since they were able to turn us all the way up to 100 Mbps with no hardware upgrades, and just a GPON terminal upgrade to make it to 1Gbps since it only had fast ethernet on the ONT.

Strangely enough I pirate shit
in more or less the same ways since then.
torrents, direct dl and occasionally irc.

I knocked him out so many times but I never did get that iPod...

I sometimes play runescape main theme, well i forgot my passes for my 80 combat lvl full saradomin account long time ago. But when i was kid i was like WOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA i can do anything i want and there are other players to show myself.

Not everyone was on the internet. Not until social media and smartphones. Your nigger bogeymen have nothing to do with it.

ahhh limewire, where everything on there was CP

It's so sad that we had to grow up anons. Things were so magical back then... :'(

j@ysilver

>everyone used IRC
>ICQ
>ultima online freeshards with population
>audiogalaxy
>usenet
>redhat 9
i want to go back

I still know my ICQ number. It has burned itself into my mind.

same here. got my UIN back in 2001 and recently logged in after years, there was still one guy online.

Me too. It really whips the llama's ass
ftfy

Cuck.
>Google is just a tool for me and my wife.

>>forgot greentext

Whats that CSS theme?

userstyles.org/styles/141626/dark-Sup Forums

damn, thought it was for oneechan

Say whatever you want, your perception of the past is skewed by nostalgia. I think the internet on the whole is more fun now.

I was wasting most of my time one a french website with shit video like the guie singing oozone song and stuff like that.
Also get date with girls online and telling u was a big guie. I was 12.
I don't remember it as better web, just more chaotic

TF2 original release!

Falling Bush Anyone?

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