Did normies ruin the internet?

Did normies ruin the internet?

Yes. Internet was best in late 90s, early 00s

This. But let's be real, women ruined the internet, not "normies"

normies ruin everything so yes

Yes. They did.

This so much

surveillence ruined the internet.

this picture looks like a bad idea on so many levels

a 700$ ipad being held in place by a bunch of fragile glass over a stainless steel sink and that cord just dangling down waiting to catch a hand or moving item

someone punch this bitch in the eye

Yes, they created monopolies out of sites like facebook, google, amazon and twitter and such which made them into gigantic nwo tier corporations.

yes. Internet and Sup Forums is not fun anymore

Oldfag here,

I remember in the late 80's playing Gauntlet online with nerds at MIT on my Dads BBC, 5 or 6 years before your 'normies' even got 56k dial up.

>playing the vidya while sitting on his dad's BBC

WAKE ME UP

I think there's some serious rose colored glasses wearing going on here, I remember the internet being nerdy as fuck and cringey in years past, not like the good kind of hentai fapper nerd, the kind who gets upset if you swear. This applies to Sup Forums too, I still have my Sup Forums folder starting from 2004 and a lot of the early stuff was gay as hell. There are communities that I miss, and shootan games have gotten a little too corporate compared to the entertaining chaos that social scene used to be but by and large you can still have fun online. All the real normies are posting on twitter and nosebook anyway not here or on old style forums.

fuck off bitch

Is there anything they didn't ruin?

>tfw my hairline is less receded than a woman's

Protip: nobody was worried about "sounding lame" or "being cringey" before normies and women showed up and, like in every other environment they insert themselves into, immediately injected group-shaming and othering into everything to try to establish a status hierarchy.

Fun fact: if you ban phoneposters by user agent on Sup Forums, the traffic would go down 80%.

dude are you a fag or something

i knew brits were fucked but bragging about getting buttfucked by your dad is a new low

so droll, the BBC were around long before reddit and pornhub

Anyway it full name was the BBC micro acorn

God.. that's not exactly helping..

>women can now shitpost from the kitchen
has science gone too far??

The reality of technological progress is that everything becomes normalized as it enters the temporal field that we call the present. The internet's a lot like air travel -- while flying through the air at close to the speed of sound and crossing the entire world in hours should feel amazing and hyperfuturistic, by the time it reaches the mass market, by necessity it will have passed through manufactured normalization -- it doesn't feel amazing, it feels like being on a bus.

The internet is the same way, it's no longer a frontier technology, it's common, it's completely normalized, and it's boring.

That is not iPad, it is Asus chromeshit convertible tablet.
If you look closer, the glasses are not standing on the keyboard, the bottom half of the notebook clamshell is usually heavier than screen and it balances perfectly.
It would have been better looking if it stood screen up and keyboard down playing a video clip on the screen instead of Google home page tho.

Yes. They ruin it everyday by supporting Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Apple.

>on my Dads BBC

Oh my

Haha

Definitely. I eagerly await the downfall of Fagbook and Instafag so those normie scumbags will scatter like niggers

GET ME BOMBER HARRIS

This.
If not for women, the Internet would still be the place where you joke about niggers in video games and get nigger jokes in reply from niggers themselves.

It's just not the same when people attribute feelings to shitposting.

Well, that depends on where you go.

There's allot online that is pretty much devoid of normies...

I mean, I won't expect them to be on moddb... Neither on anything which is Nerd/geek specific.

Even on youtube, you can check statistically their actual location and general spread.

So, while they now dominate the internet scene... Just like in real life,

There are always dark corner that hold secret doorways that you just need to know the right key-word in order to gain access.

It's odd how much of YouTube is pretty much like a hidden secret... Many odd and obscure videos that just roam about where nobody can easily find them, due both to their odd names, as well as zero mainstream appeal.


So, no... They didn't ruin the internet.
They simply are present here... Just as they are in real life.

As long as you don't go to where they are present, you won't encounter their poop smears and pee marks.

And there is no shortage of such realms around...

Yes.

THANKS FOR THE COORDINATES BEST ALLI

Well group-shaming and establishing a status hierarchy is pretty damn near impossible on anonymous boards. I'm talking more about how people would use a bunch of thesaurus words ironically and call people "sir" as in like "good day to you sir" like that was supposed to be funny. I wish I had the hard drive with my old image folders with me so I could show you guys some of the unfunny shit that was popular online 15 years ago. I have fond memories of that era too, I just like to keep it in perspective. There are some aspects that haven't really gotten worse, probably because women and normies don't come on the sites where there's good shit anyway.

it is true that people pull off pranks and raids and shit way less now but that has more to do with government and corporations catching up to where the public was and that would happen regardless

>Did normies ruin
yes

Yes.

Golden era was roughly 1998-2005, before women and retards were able to grasp computers. All downhill from there.

>1997: don't take anyone or anything seriously what you see on the internet

>2017: freedomeagle dot org said world ends tomorrow, global panic, people sell their sons and daughters in confusion

The internet starting getting shitty after 2007

The busses here have more comfortable seats and more leg room than commercial jets.

>on my Dads BBC

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The real question is, does she REALLY need to use the internet while she's washing dishes? You don't need a screen in front of the sink. You need to look at the dishes. You aren't gonna use the tablet with soapy fingers. If you're listening to something on your tablet, set it down somewhere else, you don't need it in front of you.

I love how back then the consensus was to never share any personal or identifying information. I guess all that went to hell with social media

Once the pretty girls realised they could use it to mine betabux and get attention, the entire thing went to shit. I blame MySpace, but it only actually died when the iPhone was introduced.

this so much

social media caused the influx of normies and their self-absorbed special snowfake virtue signalling miasma

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No. Sup Forums did

>this so much

They invented this shit, don't do it. I don't care how much you say miasma afterwards, you make yourself look like a fucking SJW using that phrase.

You dumb med kit, Sup Forums stopped the internet from becoming complete cancer. Without this website's influence, the internet would be way worse today.

Indeed

I mean maybe, but in say, 03-05 there were plenty of places on the internet that weren't normie places but also were not cringe-fests. I think surveillance ruined it, no more talking about making practical explosives on the internet lol.

I truly think so. Communities were a lot better earlier on, but good god, because every normalfag has a phone and a data plan now, you cannot escape them. I've seen people try to recreate such communities but it never works because of the people online nowadays. It'll be good at the start until they find out about it.

> Implying that bitch would cook or clean anything.

I remember. It wasn't even that long ago that every company, every government, every charity, every school had campaigns and posters and seminars on DON'T PUT ANY - ***ANY*** - PERSONAL INFORMATION ONLINE!

Now it's all
>Make sure you use your real persona and personal information online! You wouldn't want to be an anonymous TROLL would you?

jesus fucking christ people cant even wash dishes anymore without having their face glued to a screen what the fuck is wrong with these people

The internet is and always has been a cesspit. It's hard to ruin something that's the lowest common denominator.

But it did feel better before the social media cancer metastasized around 2007-8.

That image is stupid. Kick out the people that don't try. Don't blame the new guys for your own fuck up.

Internet before smart phones was the best. AOL wasn't great but it didn't damage the internet as badly as social media platforms and their related apps via smartphones did.
The mass influx of normies allowed lefty (cia funded) social media platforms to manage web traffic via directed links and curating websites, all of which helped push shitty leftist websites like Huffington Post to mainstream levels of success. Sites like that weren't even on the radar of the web before smartphones and (((social media))).

I remember "surfing the net" in the 90's. I really miss those days.

I somehow wonder how the garbage pile that is modern WoW is still alive since it went through this full cycle as well. Pretty sad the game is nothing like when it was released (became extremely casualized pay to win game).

Yes, the internet dies every ~3 years

2001: 9/11. Peak AOL. Retarded web forums start popping up more easily as linux hosting becomes cheaper and easier for idiots
2004: DSL more mainstream, letting people share pictures more easily. Internet "jokes" become a serious thing that people dedicate whole forums to.
2007: Peak retardation. The end of the golden age. Blogosphere exploding, Sup Forums is at its most notorious. "Web 2.0" has completed its takeover of the WWW. After this year, places like SA and YTMND are basically irrelevant.
2010: Rise of reddit. Thanks to smartphones, the internet and its humor is something that EVERYONE wants to be a part of.
2013: Ironic detachment that had been building since 2010 spirals out of control. Nothing makes sense anymore as communities that based their whole existence on making fun of stupid people start hosting them.
2016: Where do I even begin

I'm fucking gay

The internet ruined normies.

See: Millennials

i miss when youtube was small and not monetized

>t. born in 80's therefore millenial

The internet became shit when stuff like MSN messenger became popular

You made 20 mistakes in word Google.

Yes and no.
The monolithic corporations got a hold of the internet and now only a few websites are mostly active. Newgrounds and the really old days of Youtube are now gone. Do, now all we have is Sup Forums,Reddit, Facebook, instagram, Vine (if that's still active) and, whatever the hell instant cash grabs there are..

They didn't help.

Short answer: yes

Long answer: yes, and I want them to GET OUT REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Lmao I have a folder from when I first started browsing Sup Forums to now and the early images in there are so unfunny by and funny at the time I know just what you mean

>t. born in 80's therefore millenial

But, that's correct -- depending on when in the 80s.

Yes, influx of low IQ people tends to ruin things.
Internet used to be shielded from retards by a steep learning curve that was cracked somewhere around second half of 90s with the inflation of dotcom bubble.

>playing games

>allot
time to fuck off, Jew boy.

yeah. I'm glad that's over though, otherwise we wouldn't have much fun harassing random faggots online.

that jacket is one of the most retarded pieces of clothing I've ever seen

I only post from my phone because I prefer the mobile layout compared to the desktop version.

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smaller self contained internets that resemble what we had in the 90s do exist, i2p, gopherweb, tor etc
also the internet is enormous it's just gotten harder to just idly browse and find stuff because search engines give us exactly what we want and nothing else, destroying curiosity and exploration

if women werent on the internet, Trump wouldnt of won

Normies ruin everything, but its always the aim of companies to get the normie bux

yes, they did

CAN'T WAKE UP

Make up and surgery can't hide those hands.

Normies ruined everything.

I post from phone because I am not an autistic NEET.

Yes, and not even in a ">tfw you'll never get the old Sup Forums back" kind of way
They brought enough attention to it to turn it into a nightmare of surveillance and disruptive forces, what was once a new frontier has since been settled and is now owned by a handful of corporations, and people use their lives to supplement their internet experiences instead of the other way around
The world would be a better place if the Chads and Stacies of the world still laughed at people who spent a lot of time using computers

Kek. Ty based wop