Sometimes when I think about how life in Web was back in 2002-2010 it's just mind blowing from today's perspective. There were no leftists on the web. There was no LGBTQ movement AT ALL. There were no Chads and Stacys up until Myspace went live.
We had tons of top quality forums on almost every topic, starting with cRPG, through PC modding and cars and to occult. It was so alive that today's internet, that stupid blob built around Facebook and Google, is just a shadow of itself
I miss it so fucking much.
Logan Jones
Geocities and Yahoo chatrooms.
David Reyes
>chatrooms I remember a woman that I met in a fantasy chatroom back in 2003 (?). I just realized that I am now older than she was when we met.
My fucking head...
Colton Thomas
This gif hits me in the feels you speak of, every time
Adrian Perry
You guys remember pic rel? 2005, 2006?
William Moore
Yes, but I would put the timespan earlier. The graphical web got going about 1995 with the introduction of Netscape, but Usenet and IRC were still going strong after that. By 2005, more than half the US population was online, so the normie, web-only population was driving things by then.
Austin White
i liked the internet when it was nothing but DBZ gifs, gamefaqs and guitar tabs.
Elijah Phillips
i miss it too
Gabriel Thompson
Nobody even knows what goatse and tubgirl are any more :(
Cameron Watson
Ahh the memories of opening a link of a gaping asshole and not getting fired.
Thomas Sanders
rec.arts, alt.soc and the like had a more discriminating folk than this place.
Google's restriction of information (the very opposite of a "search engine") tells the tale. I mean, try searching for anything Usenet newsreader these days.
Parker Peterson
I loved it when excite and MySpace had just started. The girls on the net were curious and excited by this new, sorta edgy technology and meeting them was easy and fun. Lotsa sex and good times.
Then things normalised and it lots its excitement.
Isaac Perry
those were good days when much was possible on the internet. now every move on the internet has wide-ranging repercussions, the government regulates everything, there are rules for everything, everything is monitored, etc.
the internet back then was the wild west, and it was fun.
Camden Russell
Is this how the old cowboys felt when the wild west was tamed?
Josiah Scott
exactly
Cameron Phillips
yea...
Brandon Cook
You guys remember Maddox? He's a cuck now.
Easton Jenkins
took all day to download a vidya demo and youd get booted if someone tried to use the phone but it was fucking awesome. games werent trash like they are now. chatrooms were fun but irl friend made fun of me because my first gf was from canada on vchat and i never met her. eq was great because i could play with my friends. video on deman with real player. people still called people fags except we would say 'flaming' which i dont hear anymore. fucking ads and malware everywhere. later ytmnd had some of the funniest things id ever seen
Oliver Evans
Google bought the usenet archives from Alta-Vista and edited the best stuff out of them, then just deleted millions of posts. That was really the beginning of the end.
Juan Morales
OP here.
The most mind blowing thing for me was the fact that in 2017 you can type "porn" into google and NOT get any viruses at all, just legit porn with categories. And I was raised in times where you had to know exactly where to go to avoid dialers, and know where to download your shit from not to fry your computer with viruses
No wonder why new generation gets fucked over so easily with all that scamming
Zachary Ward
i ended up selling my eq account online from some forum. gave him the password and i never got the money (???) if u see tillan shadowsynthesis call him a flaming faggot for me
Colton Sullivan
kek
Hudson Barnes
Miss it as well. Normies ruined the internet, just like they they ruin everything they touch.
Landon Carter
Yeah, Usenet still exists, but it's mostly a warez feed now. I still run a leaf server for some groups I used to hang out in. Some of the comp.os and comp.lang groups are still active, but anything that's not tech-oriented is dead. It's a shame.
Caleb Ross
Frostedbutts? I'll show you later.
Jayden Garcia
Yup. Niggers.on.nimp org Totse BBS Ytmnd Afrotechmods was a legitimate haxker, not a how2solder faggot IRC>discord/ other faggotass centralized third-party closed shithole program No need to defend your opinions or speech, gonna get called a faggot no matter what People were laid back and not on edge all the time No fear of losing job due to shitposting Shit put on the internet stayed on the internet Javascript was optional Newfags were the minority and had to assimilate No audience = no shills Newgrounds Web indexes gave you what you wanted, not what they wanted you to want
Jason Rogers
Yes, online chat kinda confused them, I think. They felt safe because of the distance, but it was also intimate in a way, so they'd let their guard down fast. You'd just be chatting, and suddenly nudes would appear, without even asking. Only downside was it was easy to start chatting with someone too far away, and waste a lot of time.
John Sullivan
I do, aside from the speed issues.
Nothing like finding an obscure Angelfire/Geocities site or clicking on a Top 100 website list to find some new sites.
I REALLY miss The Sims Exchange and Sims fansites around 2000. That was my main thing for a while.
One thing I do not miss, however: RealPlayer. Fuck RealPlayer.
Owen Jenkins
>excite
Holy shit. You're the only other person I've ever seen mention excite. I used to use their chat before migrating to Yahoo! Chat.
Now, all the big chatrooms are dead. Fuck.
Oliver Smith
>newfags had to assimilate My first Internet account in 1994 came with a folder of instructions for all the services. It also had a section on "netiquette" that explained how you should lurk for at least 2 weeks and read the FAQ before posting on any forum. And people did it, because they wanted this amazing new thing they'd discovered to stay that way. The good old days.
Jonathan Roberts
Time for us to die, old men. Low T numales, purple haired traps and Reptilian overlords are the ony future in this timeline.
Cooper Torres
Unfortunately being in my mid 20's I missed out on the prime internet years. I can remember using dialup up until about 2000, but not the websites I would go to. I remember getting DSL that was 768k in 2001 and mostly going on cartoon network and nick.com (lol) and playing starcraft online and getting my ass kicked most of the time.
Then in the mid 00's I remember myspace, ytmnd, newgrounds, ebaums world, int he late 00's I started looking at totse and Sup Forums. I remember people joking that THE INTERNET =/= SERIOUS BUSINESS, well it sure as fuck is serious business now isn't it.
My top 2 cyber regrets are not being 10 years younger to see the real rise of the web, and not playing ultima online.
Josiah Peterson
E-celebs were people back then
Parker Rodriguez
Holy shit, that might be it... I've been pondering the distinct link between the people of my generation, like myself, who were kids in the late 90s that were hardcore into the internet in it's infancy and the current wave of anti-establishment politics (not edgy teenager, anarchist anti establishment but actual knowledge of the system of bondage we're in, how it started and how to destroy it). I mean, I was barely into my second decade of life when I was on usenet groups/BBC message boards amongst what I know now were super pedophiles, government agents and Eastern Bloc gangsters, all of them posing as something other than that online, and we made it out without a scratch. I mean, we've been cutting our teeth on those types of faggots for years, our sense of discernment is top notch as a result. And I think it is that discernment, having operated with the shitstains, dipshits, geniuses, retards and CIA niggers in an anonymous fashion, since we were fucking 12 that makes it easy to look at our world and innately understand that it is currently fucked.
I don't know, something about that time shaped me, at least.
Levi Fisher
Mosaic. Manly tears user.
Samuel Carter
What's a computer?
Isaiah Harris
>Rose posted again
Robert Diaz
I am not that old, but I remember a decade ago I could call people faggots and niggers or troll and grief people off servers without getting banned. Today you get mad at someone on your team and you are banned. The low T betas took over.
Liam Barnes
Goatse and tubgirl used to be mind-blowingly shocking. Now traps are normal and gore is cheap.
Jack Baker
Agreed. But what constitutes a pure normie?
Juan Hernandez
I still don't click any unknown domains in the search results. Also, remember .biz and .info? >IAintClickinThatShitNigger.mid On the bright side, there's still bash and qdb, updated ever so rarely as they are. Go search qdb for "pryo" for some good irc keks. Member text based games like cybernations? I member. Remember experimenting with household objects as emergency thermal paste? Mayo works decently for about 6 months btw. Everybody had an f@h or seti@home team Script kiddies were mocked, not called Russians by the MSM agenda SA wasn't a sjw shithole Or even reddit Anyone remember inventgeek? When tits or GTFO was common law? My only hope right now is that some of the crypto projects provide some sanctuary, for a while anyways, until the noobs discover it.
Austin Anderson
It's the normalcy that's the worst. You could show a desensitized user some tubgirl for the thousandth time and they'd still at least be pissed that you got them to look at it. Now people just accept it like orange juice enemas are something people do.
Eli Robinson
RealPlayer was cancer and aids in one download
Logan Gray
You.
Joseph Morales
Oekaki boards. Loved drawing in them.
Luke Turner
>Do you guys also miss the old Internet? No it was fucking awful, slow, and so absurdly lacking in content relative to now.
Angel Bailey
Says the memeflag tripfag.
Lucas Jones
yeah bro being against violent subjugation of others by sociopaths is pretty good meme 8/8
Charles Powell
Angelfire and aim
Jayden Flores
(((content)))
i also miss the biggest villain on the internet being bill gates >B = 66 I = 73 L = 76 L = 76 G = 71 A = 65 T = 84 E = 69 S = 83 I = 1 I = 1 I = 1 >Add these numbers and they equal 666. Coincidence?
Christian Flores
i first got online in 1994, thru compuserve. also local college access. used to visit the local comic book shop bbs. read messages from the owner, ask him about sick fleer x-men cards. was dope af. so fucking cozy.
even 1996, 97 was cozy. here’s a real comfy image.. (i especially miss that OG wacom tablet)
Sebastian Diaz
I'm 29 and dating a 22 year old who doesn't know what Goatse, Lemonparty, or Tubgirl are.
Dammit I'm gonna keep it that way.
Carter Williams
I miss every site having a jailbait thread at all times.
Connor Foster
Icq was my way to talk to chicks after school
Ayden Anderson
icq finally had its plug pulled a couple weeks ago man. end of an era.
Alexander Ramirez
Did she at least have a myspace?
I miss this shit a lot! Early AIM was the shit as well, Still though early Sup Forums was insane with traffic and quality material Sup Forums and Sup Forums golden era.
Kevin Lopez
i miss all of the old school web 1.0 forums, i miss how all of these communities were so isolated form each other as well, i hope one day that whole scene gets revived somehow but the odds of this happening are slim to none
Jordan Baker
Checked. I also remember sending newfags to for lulz
Brody Gutierrez
>memflag tripfaggery
shut your fucking nigger mouth
Liam Green
>When tits or GTFO was common law? Yes, that was only like 3 or 4 years ago.
>crypto projects provide some sanctuary They will. Zcash, Monero, Whisper on Ethereum, and even ancient shit like Tor still has some uses. There are new advances every day. Educate yourself.
Kayden Miller
Anyone who discovered the internet post 2000 iirc
Sebastian Adams
shut up dipshit i bet you suck cock you faggot fucker
Ian Smith
...
Hunter James
She doesn't even have a Facebook.
Lucas Reyes
those dont really compare to the web or tor. i2p is like the old web. blockchain could be used for dns
Parker Rogers
Astute observation. I guess the jury is still out on the Gen Z kids...but in a similar fashion to what you said, I think they are growing up cleansed from the notion that politics should be separated from identity. The thing that fucked my generation (X) was that we held to antiquated ideas like that politics is about the "greater good" etc. With the full on marxist explosion, the upshot is it lays clear that all politics is identity politics....and then this naturally makes an impression upon the mind that every fucker is trying to use everything as a political advantage, so I better do the same. This is a great outcome since it will lead us to subduing and controlling subhumans again.
Zachary Lopez
remember angelfire anyone :)
Aiden Baker
You realize 95% of this board is probably under 20?
Angel Stewart
Holy fuck totse. Nostalgiad hard. Plus everything else in that list spot on.