What were the early days of the Internet like?

What were the early days of the Internet like?

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Devoid of Google.

>35 minutes to download one song
>Search engines that didn't work
>couldn't stay on Internet all day because parents needed the phone line

You could be reasonably sure that nobody was watching what you were doing.

by the time AOL CDs were going around it was basically over.

Internet or www?

Got my first analog modem in 1993 and it was all usegroups and shitty comic board discussions. Then a friend of mine came over to show me new shit, called the world wide web. We "browsed" a few sites on first-gen shitty search engines. After 30 min I said this was all bs and will never amount to anything.

We went back to play Doom I - deathmatch.

And here I am 24 years later and the www is still shit.

P.S. those were amazing times actually, X files was on and awesome, McGyver too, blockbuster films such as Twister and Independence Day coming up, the Soviet Union was dead and I was programming the hell out of my 486DX 33Mhz.

>Sup Forums

Sounds like my youth too. I miss bbs's desu.

My first porn site was called teenbeat.com and you would wait a minute or so for some 250x500 pixel jpgs of cute young girls to load.

Yeah. Except that the internet was only available in paranoid university campuses, and if you downloaded some ASCII boobies you'd get put on academic probation

Source: I'm actually old enough to remember it

Comfy

>kazaa/limewire porn
good times. i was only a teenager at the time so i didnt really appreciate it until recently

A lot of actual pedos on ICQ bothering you.

>1/2
Another one got caught today, it's all over the papers. "Teenager Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal", "Hacker Arrested after Bank Tampering"...

Damn kids. They're all alike. But did you, in your three- piece psychology and 1950's technobrain, ever take a look behind the eyes of the hacker? Did you ever wonder what made him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have molded him? I am a hacker, enter my world... Mine is a world that begins with school... I'm smarter than most of the other kids, this crap they teach us bores me... Damn underachiever.

They're all alike. I'm in junior high or high school. I've listened to teachers explain for the fifteenth time how to reduce a fraction. I understand it. "No, Ms. Smith, I didn't show my work. I did it in my head..." Damn kid. Probably copied it. They're all alike.

I made a discovery today. I found a computer. Wait a second, this is cool. It does what I want it to. If it makes a mistake, it's because I screwed it up. Not because it doesn't like me... Or feels threatened by me.. Or thinks I'm a smart ass.. Or doesn't like teaching and shouldn't be here... Damn kid. All he does is play games. They're all alike. And then it happened... a door opened to a world... rushing through the phone line like heroin through an addict's veins, an electronic pulse is sent out, a refuge from the day-to-day incompetencies is sought... a board is found. "This is it... this is where I belong..." I know everyone here... even if I've never met them, never talked to them, may never hear from them again... I know you all... Damn kid. Tying up the phone line again.

>2.2

They're all alike... You bet your ass we're all alike... we've been spoon-fed baby food at school when we hungered for steak... the bits of meat that you did let slip through were pre-chewed and tasteless. We've been dominated by sadists, or ignored by the apathetic. The few that had something to teach found us willing pupils, but those few are like drops of water in the desert.

This is our world now... the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons, and you call us criminals. We explore... and you call us criminals. We seek after knowledge... and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals.

Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for. I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual, but you can't stop us all... after all, we're all alike.

NOW THIS IS A STORY ALL ABOUT HOW. I can't help myself guys, I just fucking love Simple Squamous Epithelial.
It's all I think about, I eat sleep and breath Simple Squamous Epithelial. MY LIFE GOT FLIPPED-TURNED UPSIDE DOWN.
I want to be it's Senpai, its guidance an example of what a great Epidermis is supposed to be.
I want to watch over it and protect it when things get too heavy to handle in my pants, and carry it back in my arms if it does get irritated.
AND I'D LIKE TO TAKE A MINUTE JUST SIT RIGHT THERE, I want to show it why I have such great feelings towards him. Why when it sees me, my heart flutters and gives me weak knees,
and why its sweet strawberry scented mane, its soft velvet feeling, makes me want to wrap my lips so tightly around its big frame to provide sensation unbound. ILL TELL YOU HOW
I can't help but think of its pulsating thick veins in contrast to its rough mushroom head, brushing it on my face as it gets tsundere with me while I stutter the words "more please" causing a smile upon my lips.
I BECAME THE PRINCE OF BEL-AIR it's almost a nightmare at this point knowing my dreams cut off before my lips make contact with it's dark dangling flap, its so taunting that I don't think I can live without tasting black-cock foreskin. In west Philadelphia born and raised
On the playground was where I spent most of my days Chillin' out maxin' relaxin' all cool
and all shooting some b-ball outside of the school when a couple of guys who were up to no good started making trouble in my neighborhood I got in one little fight and my mom got scared she said, "You're movin' with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air."
I begged and pleaded with her day after day
But she packed my suitcase and sent me on my way

Like what now is referred to as the "deep web"

cp was common but nobody cared

Slow porn.

We all used to read the anarchist cookbook online at school, then 9/11 happened.

I remember being like 13 on aol and some middle aged woman sent me nudes

test

>you will never be a teen on the tech explosion at the start of the Internet where anyone with a garage and a few programming friends could make anything.

do u still have them

Back then, Yahoo! was just a list of websites. Big step up from using qarchie.

Google didn't exist, but at first it was amazingly good because it was just the old PageRank algorithm.

>tfw you accidentally downloaded CP because you were looking for "teen porn"

SHIT SHIT SHIT

I played world's away as a kid. It was on CompuServe.

-porn was there, but no movies, just pics, and they were small
-56K modem to access the net.. very slow
-Netscape Navigator was the browser to use
-Movies were grainy and the size of a postage stamp if you found one
-IRC and Yahoo Chat could be used for cybersex/sharing pics
-ZERO women on the internet.. mostly just male freaks/nerds/pervs back then

google didn't exist, best way to find websites was to use local directories

online gaming didn't exist

the most advanced part of a website was a basic contact form and some animated gifs

it could take you hours to download a 3MB mp3 and there was no resuming of download

>the cp kids were older than you

ask.com I used

any question i asked would be futile, only porn came up

very popuppy

BRRRRRRRRRRRRBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABRRRRRRRRRRRRRDINGDONGDINGDONGBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>and if you downloaded some ASCII boobies you'd get put on academic probation
lol I remember my friends' older brother got to go to noice university in California and he used to complain that he couldn't send email with the text
>that it
because they had some stupid regexp that would see that as
>tit
and then block the email

>google didn't exist, best way to find websites was to use local directories
so it was basically what is deep web now

>accidentally
>implying cp is not what brought you to Sup Forums and now here

you had to be careful when surfing for porn, a wrong click and you could end up in a pizza parlour

Took forever to start up.
Couldn't connect and take phonecalls simultaneously (mobiles were still expensive).
Porn was in .gif and .jpg form.

This gif was everywhere.

It sucked balls. I mean, even for the time. Every time I used the internet in the 90s I was like "This shit is slow as fuck and these videos look like shit" and went back to playing my N64.

I'm nostalgic for 1999-2009. Mostly for absurdist flash animations, shock sites, old Sup Forums, p2p sharing, classic Chris Chan.
There were sites like Portal of Evil where I would spend hours reading about all sorts of weirdos, ideological cranks and bizarre fetishists.
In the late 2000s, though, gradually everything came to be funneled through social media and a few large portals (facebook, youtube, twitter), and people became more conscious of the fact that the stupid shit they posted would come back to bite them.
Things seem more restricted and there isn't as much of that anarchic frontier sort of feeling, except on imageboards, and even those have their limits.

I don't remember seeing any that were obviously CP, and they were all at least 3-5 years older than me. Don't have any of those videos anymore.

I did find some really fucking weird porn though.

>online gaming didn't exist
online gaming has existed forever

>tfw once contemplated trying to blow your whole country/continent off the interbutt just to check the power level

News groups, the web was shit, not much on. But news groups the alt groups, where the place to be.

I remember hearing about google and thinking "eh webcrawler is better. This shit is just for elitist cunts/"

They most certainly were, but if I was 13 and they were 16, that's still CP.

the only reason to pay for internet before was sc: broodwar

No social media. People taked to each other online by using messenger programs like aol instant messenger or msn instant messenger.

Those were the days when i couldn't make money selling peoples personal information on the darkweb.

Those were sad days.

There was a time when Google was looked at like Ron Paul.

>N64
Your generation was the worst.

My generation was using the Sega master system and the NES and we were happy when we could play the first direct connect multiplayer desktop games such as Quake and Doom.

We played Simcity (original 2D version) and Civilization and fucking Dune II.

Fuck yeah dude. I spent a lot of time playing that. Lots of fun custom maps out there (I was shit at regular melee, or maybe it was there were too many good korean players out there)
until after a while it became nothing but tower defense maps and big gay hunters

fpbp

and playing the MP3 used like 75% of CPU resources

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It felt a bit cooler and more underground so the escapism was better imo.

Computers were crappy beige boxes, a 17 inch crt monitor was kind of a luxury. Having a 21 inch was like having a Bugatti.

I was the Super Nintendo generation. I'd never even seen the internet until N64 days though, not even any of my schools had it. Was all just shitty learning software.

So what's the law for that anyway
Is it still illegal?

Breddy gud desu senpai.

eBaumsworld was king of the internet.

Used to make $1,000+ a month just reposting video clips to that site.

Chatablanca, ymntd, userplane...life was good.

Websites were a lot more interesting in the days before Web 2.0. Geocities, Angelfire, and shit. Every website was unique, had its own flair. Now it seems like almost every website I go on is the exact same bland, identical web 2.0 rubbish.

I blame worthless millennials for taking over the internet with their bullshit. And smartphones for letting any piece of trash in the world get online. And social media accounts supplanting websites, thus enabling people who don't know how to do shit on the computer to have their own pages.

>tfw you upgraded and you're like this can't be real how can it it only take 3% now?
>wait the whole thing won't lag if I install software mixing?
>I can listen to more than one thing at a time?

The number one piece of advise to everyone was never put personal information online and then myspace and facefag happened and now everyone catalogs their life on the internet.

You mean ARPANET? This how it was exactly m.youtube.com/watch?v=GjZ7ktIlSM0

a/s/l?
13 m Florida here.

sounds about right

goddamn it I'm old

You still can.

It was hard to use those programs and not eventually download CP, even if you weren't downloading porn. Every third video/image was CP and songs/programs/etc. would randomly end up being porn.

i remember seeing how big installation of opera was (7mb or so) i was shocked. it took the whole day to download it from the shitty dial-up

This. Gen y massively faggoted up the internet.

Insane retail deals. amazon used to always fuck up pricing and give away huge ticket items for pennies among many many other new defunct retailers

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REEEE urrr NNNGGGG CRRRRcrrrr KEEEEEEE grrr nnnnnng

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Early days for me was 1996.
I was playing UO and Quake all the time.
I cringe thinking of me in 1996.

>Every third video/image was CP
why? was early internet filled with pedophiles or what? i can't understand that

Literally the manosphere.

>old moderms BRAAAPposted before Sup Forums

youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0

>random non-ASCII characters start flying across the screen
MOOOOOMMMM!
MOOOMM! I'M ON THE INTERNET!
MOOOOOOOM!

>pick up the phone because she can't hear you yelling across the house
>she's still dialing numbers
>still can't hear your
at least the modem didn't disconnect through all of this

A bunch of webportals and Geocities. There was only one blog back then; it was called Stileproject and it was basically a combination of assorted fetish porn, gore, and other fucked up oddities/videos found on random corners of the web. Think Sup Forums before Sup Forums.

Anybody else here around for/miss the early days of somethingawful?

28k, 56k was my entry full time into the internet. Around 1995.

A lot of social outcasts and other assholes. IRC, furries, Hentai, Warez (pirated software), Kids thinking Netbus made them a hacker. Underage kids getting taken advantage of left and right. Napster, Kazaa, people who knew better using peer to peer solutions.

Altavista.

When you typed google into google it would say something like 'request too large'.

I did get random porn when I was trying to download movies/music, but I don't remember any of it being CP. I always deleted porn after watching it once or twice because I was paranoid someone would find it (back then I was a teenager or maybe a bit younger, so used a shared computer).

These days I'm kinda paranoid about porn so I just watch stuff on the internet.

you all niggas is gay

I love black dick no homo.

I was always more of a portal of evil guy and stopped lurking Somethingawful after they were delinked by them/started charging 10bux for forum access.

Having access to the internet was a privilege. Therefore, people were respectful, actually wanted to meet people and cared about them, discussed, debated, shared knowledge.

Now people just care about themselves, and the internet is just echo chambers and neo-blogs where they expose their uninteresting lives.

Imageboards are one of those last bastions of the "old" internet, at least there's still anonymity, and people actually exchange ideas and information.

Yeah all that porn that downloaded itself.

>wink.

>when you're grinding magic with fally teles and your mom needs to make a phonecall

life is pain

You will never understand what it was like to have literally about 50 5 1/4" floppy disks for installing the latest beta of OS/2.

noisy
>you are now hearing the atrocious sound of a dialup modem

>>download failed
O V O
V
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It was like running your browser with noscript set to block everything. Except all the websites worked.

A lot like Sup Forums is now, but everywhere.

France remembers. There is still anonymity, but the old times are over.

Vocal trance is really good though.

>there was no BLACKED.com
>there was no beastforums.com
>there was no facialabuse.com

the internet sucked back then.

oulu.fi was the best place to telenet into though

.se didn't become relevant until Pirate Bay.

flash/java games and chat rooms

they had rotten dot com

toot !

not every country is a third world shithole where people think jerking off to CP isn't morally abhorrent. pedophiles deserve the noose