What were the Early Days of the Internet like?

What were the Early Days of the Internet like?

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Awesome. I pwned so many n00bs with AOHELL

Slow As Fuck

Awesome!

>visit friends of family
>they have a computer
>left alone with it
>search what passes for porn at the time
>too naive to know about search histories or viruses were

It was an exciting, but dangerous time.

Intel 386 with 33.6K modem -- Big shot!

they were glorious OP

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Start a torrent and try to open a 4k image of tits

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This

shit

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Only fucking weirdos used the internet back then, it was glorious.

Vastly superior, alot less of the world was on there.

infact the last 18 years of internet have done nothing but prove that america, japan, and britain are the only people with meaningful contributions to make on the internet.

everyone else should just be Read-Only.

>when you're online but the phone rings

It was fun until someone had to make a phone call.

Any 'streaming' video would buffer forever.
Far less people, so far less content.
Bad web design.
P2P file sharing sites like Kazaa, Limewire and eMule were full of CP and other disgusting shit which would be disguised as regular porn or videos.
Messageboard culture wasn't as great. Lots of autistic geeks and not too many real people.

Things only started to get better once MySpace got off.

regardless there was nothing more satisfying than getting a piece of software to work after muh 9001 drivers and system components needing to be installed and having to manually locate them all so that you could play a game that inevitable illegal operations and eventually BSODs setting you into a furious downward spiral of hatred and breaking things.

oh the good old days

>inb4 wikipedia

>alot

It was heaven. We called it arpa net, and there were very few retards. You will never know the joy of forging sendmail headers and grabbing unencrypted TCP/IP traffic.

When AOL showed up, if was the beginning of the end.

My BBS is down! Looks like I can't play Legend of the Red Dragon today...

I remember when pokemon gold/silver came out, and I was looking at leaked pokemon online, waiting about 5 minutes for a large res picture of Elekid to load on a 56k connection.

Truly glorious. It was the whitest place on earth.

>Kazaa, Limewire

I had a 300 baud modem on my Commodore 64!

You'd spend days downloading some shit

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>modem noises.
>looking at Hentai load one page per minute.
>Complaining that those 56.3 kps elitist ass holes have an advantage looting in The Realm.

that game was great tho

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it was fucking awesome

I loved playing ultima online, subspace continuum, tribes and turok 2. fucking normies and womyn hadn't been there to ruin everything

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So fucking comfy

>early days
>post 9/11
Fucking kids.

i remember playing Tales of Phantasia translated and Pokemon Crystal on emulator.

also muh d2maphack and dupe haxx0rz

LOL U THOT U HAD SOJ? LOL NO IT IS FAK

Www.nakedjapan.com

My first porn site, the good old days of 2000. I didnt even kniw how to jack it back then. Found that site by accident to be quite honest just by typing shit into the address bar.

how about napster when you could just change a file extension to mp3 and just share anything? i started with scour.net

My modem once called up a pizzeria in stead of establishing an internet connection.. could hear them answering the phone through the modem speakers.

Got an angry call because of it afterwards.

slow and gay

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Mostly email. Chat was pretty novel. IRC server were a thing.

Email forums were a thing. You'd post a forum message and replies would come back on email. Emails would distribute on every reply.

One of the first popular MMO games was Ultima Online (its still around). Used to play that shit on dial up. Pogchamp.

Flash was pretty cool and new back in the early days. Made web pages much more professional.

Geocities was a popular free web page farm where people would upload their shit.

Files were uploaded by FTP clients.

Linux was new and owned by computer enthusiasts.

Mp3 files were a big deal when they came out. Pirating was rampant but nobody could stop it or attempted to slow it down.

It was all the wild west, in a sense

>when you got a second phone line to fix the aforementioned problem and felt untouchable

also, everyone will say slower, and that is factually true.
but that doesn't mean you couldn't get what you wanted faster, back then many websites were less corporate, early google was like the libertarian of countries, often pushing websites like bugmenot and google video was often a way to bypass most copyright protections with its own embedded player that often bypassed login screens.

i'd take 750kbps in 2003 over 150 mbps today.

Metallica_- _Goatse.mp3 [168kbps] (NEW!!!!)

War games auto dialer that logged numbers with legit mod on other end. Fuck that was fun.

I remember that
Anyone recall Internet TV.
You got a modem box and a remote control keyboard, but could only access a limited amount of the web.
No PC needed, worked on your TV but no images, it was all text.
Also I recall paying £2,000 for my first PC. It was so awesome it disintegrated a disc spinning it too fast, it was like an explosion. All good fun

16kb

jej

>Reddit the thread
Sage

Probably stupidly easy to hack and penetrate... I wish I was there

Good because it was rare and mostly supplied in libraries. So there was no niggers.

My phone couldn't ring when I was online, they would just get a bust signal. Also we had a program to monitor how long we were online as my parents only paid for 10 hours a month and we coudln't go over or get charged a crap load for the next level.

Same here, Hayes pocket modem. Used to connect to some local BBS' and play text only games. Even the text was slow!

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There was a website called Webradio, that was basically Sup Forums with account names for IDs, and you'd have to wait 2 minutes for images to load. IRC was big. Altavista was the porn search engine.

everything online was legal. I mean everything.

Ally McBeal

Mein Nigger

oh god it was so great when the exploit for the blast worm came out you could literally hack anyone. MS03-026

fuck you you little piece of shit

I WANT TO KILL ALL JEWS AND NORMIES FOR WHAT THEY'VE DONE TO INTERWEBZ AND GAMING. FUCKING KILL THEM ALL GOD FUCKING DAMNIT AHHHHGGGGGGDGSHSJAJS*BK

You could literally watch the text scroll across the screen. I remember accidentally paging a large text file and having to wait 20 minutes for it to end. Good times.

>be 11 have internet
>its slow as fuck
>mom we need better internet it sucks
>deal with it
>mom tries to get tickets for some concert. too slow to process
>orders high speed next day
>play WoW finally
>Praise Kek

This. It took effort, dedication and a willingness to learn the basics of computers to get on the web, not to mention money. There were no girls on the internet, or normies.
These days anyone with a decent credit score and opposable thumbs can go into a store and come out with a smartphone and their own Twitter/Facebook/Instagram account and be uploading selfies and virtue signalling opinions.

The difference between early internet and what people are growing up with is back then you had to have some form of actual skill to be able to use a machine. Now everything is spoonfed to you, kind of feels like mobile phones are just overpriced toys really. Nobody is really learning any marketable or transferable skills, web 2.0 ruined tech or the perception of tech and photography culture.

I remember downloading a porn pic off the early web.
It took 30 minutes. The pic was downloaded line by line.

>Probably stupidly easy to hack and penetrate...
Was amazing, social engineering these days is reminiscent of the ease.

never did internet tv. i remember my mother cut my phone line that ran to my PC's modem and thus began the beginning of my cabling career. her cutting the line in half did not last long

>11
>WoW
are you in the right thread?

I'm still mad about my lost geocities page with my dankest gifs.

Like imagine a proxy befuddling the NSA.

It was. You could crack the /etc/password file on any Unix system.

>Things only started to get better once MySpace got off.
Drown yourself in your counterclockwise toilet

fuck your wow. it's not early internet and that faggot game brought all the fucking normies

>implying it was disguised

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Ebaumsworld

Rotten.com

Tubgirl

>Unix system.

I know this

First time I saw that fucking word. An-ime

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Anyone else remember this?

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Extremely high phone bills, flat rate became the rescue before bankruptcy

i'll never forget the day i learned what telnet was. it was phenomenal to shitpost on D&D fuckers real time over dialup. oh god it was so great.

i was 8.

The Internet.... was always shit.
Long before SomethingCuckful emerged.

>mom get the fuck off the phone please

Really slow. Lots of point and click type games. A bunch of noises that for some reason had to be played through your speaker to let you know you were connecting to the internet.

Old fag here. Back when I was 14-15 I used to chat with girls on yahoo chat and meet up and bang. Good times

well thanks a bunch, Satan

anyone remember THIS!?!?!?!?!

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Fucking newgrounds ftw fuck you ebaumfags

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Really slow! Used to have to wait a half an hour for one titty pic to load.

ask Australia. they're still living it.

This is a taste of some of the early internet videos.

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there was phonebook. but with internet sites

(probably you don't even know what a phonebook is)

kill yourself wayne

speaking of newgrounds

did anyone else fap to the flash games where you could like fuck with the animu girl and make her strip and shit? oh god that shit was so good.

i haven't fapped to hentai in like....14 years... wow.

www.textfiles.com

You'll find me in this story. Not saying who ;)

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Bring gopher back, the web was a mistake.

kill yourself o__o

every adolescent boy ever circa late 90s

you could have just reconnected brainlet