80s/90s Internet Politics

What were the Early Days of the Internet like?
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Keep the nostalgia going, lads.

It was extreme leftwing communist ANTIFA led. Thank God for the Emperor Donald J Trump!
MAGA

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Internet ~2002

>LOL!!! She looks like a horse. :) It must be because she's so evil. *stabs her*

There were normies online in the mid-90s, but they were all contained within America Online. We called them AOLamers.

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lamers domain

progs

visual basic

flash games, flash websites, flash viruses

webpages with FRAMES and GUEST BOOKS

making peoples floppydisk drives SPIN using aol/aim HAX

spamming obscene rainbow ascii art in aol chatrooms using corn's fader.

angelfire/tripod/geocities fanpages for *everything*

having 50 angelfire webpages because of 5 MB per account limit

icq profiles and icq pedophiles

irc chatrooms full of children + cia

kino trolling star wars and x-files bbs

being 11 and getting boobie pics from 18 year old "lazygirl420"

ultima online and asherons call

the 'msn gaming zone'

wanna join my webring?

>signing in and out of msn to get your crushes attention

Eh, 1995-2000 dial-up sucked dick because
>you actually ever hit 56kbps
but the newsgroups were the first way I found porn in the internet, pretty sure you probably could have found literally anything on newsgroups back in the day

I didn't get online until around 1997 but I remember being blown away by Napster.
The only was I had of getting free music was recording off the radio with a cassette, now I could pick any song I wanted instead of waiting for it to come up.
Pretty sad when Napster died. Shifted to WinMX and got into IRC.
Most online gaming I got into around 2001 was done at the internet cafe

Yeah I noped the fuck out of quite a few newsgroups very, very quickly back in the day.

>half of the shit that made me want to vomit is probably trending in the Top 10 on Pornhub these days

>wanna join my webring?

i dunno, how cool is the banner?? is it eve animated!

>The only was I had of getting free music was recording off the radio with a cassette
How much did you want to kick the DJ to death when you were taping a song and the faggot started talking about it, or what was coming next, in the last few seconds?

Even worse was getting a few alright songs and then when a song you love comes on and the tape runs out half way through

AIM, steam in the early stages, newgrounds in its prime, efukt, liveleak, ebaums

I remember ripping albums from .wav to .mp3, in mono, and having like 4 albums...and thinking I was the shit. Yes, I am old.

Online services in the 80's were way more expensive because home connections generally traveled through phone lines, and were billed as phone calls, with long-distance charges applying to computers/servers outside of your local area. This is why "phreaking"/phone-system hacking became so big back then - without it, a lot of people could not afford to get online at all.

Newgrounds was pretty dope, discovered it in freshman year uni when I found the glory of T-3

IBM Token Ring used shielded cables with Type 1 or Type 2 connectors in the cable room and regular unshielded twisted pair for the workstations. It featured two blistering fast speeds 8mbps and 16mbps and only one terminal was allowed to use the token at a time.

I was interested in the ideas and wished to subscribe to the newsletter.
Also,
>war was beginning

Early computer networks were generally aimed at three groups: 1. nerds (obviously), 2. academics/researchers (big overlap with group 1), and 3. yuppies/businesspeople with money who wanted to be "constantly connected" and have access to instant news, stock quotes, etc. from home.

its got lens flares and it rotates!

irc
p2p
Fark.com
Some MMA forum where we talked politics and made crude sex jokes

In the earliest days of home networking, people actually built and coded up their own modems. Otherwise, you had to spend an extravagant amount of money on a commercial modem that probably needed extensive configuration to work with your computer anyway.

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am I really posting with kids this young?
jesus fucking christ...

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imagine Sup Forums from that era .......

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TRS-80

>90s
Y2K jokes, Bill Clinton jokes, Surgeon General Elders jack off jokes (i.e. "firing the surgeon general" was euphemism for fap), doctor Kevorkian jokes, OJ jokes, John Bobbitt jokes, Macarena jokes... militia/freemen organizing, gov't fuckups fucking up (Waco, Ruby Ridge, OKC, TWA 800), Hailbop - Heaven's Gate.....

Hackers in movies that type super fast, and always "access the mainframe"

i miss my geocities web sites and netscape browser

Why not just go to a gopher protocol site? There you will see the old internet at its finest

>not Hack the Gibson
You had one chance and ya blew it

There kind of was; there were bulletin-board (BBS) systems for all kinds of discussions, along with Usenet groups from 1981 onward. One of the big-ticket items on the early internet were scanned images from porno mags. The GIF, TIFF, and BMP image formats were all implemented in the mid-late-80's partly in order to make scanner images easier to share and not requiring proprietary software to open each new image extension.

>floppydisk drives
OH DEAR!!! I remember plotting lines to make triangles at school on an Apple II

I will never leave you brothers. I always end up in some weird place.

The pain doesn't hurt

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i invested in netscape in 1997. I retired three years later.

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All I remember from that time is Goatse.cx

>gun pressed against head
>gets blowjob
>hacks into the mainframe

ADVENTURE!!!!!!

ah the early days of the internet. I was picking up chicks like mad online before it became normal. Yahoo chat rooms where people would spend their lives hooking up. It became a community. Then they introduced the ability to speak in the chat rooms with a bought mic. Pop up messages at that time were an absolute chaotic nuisance, especially for the girls. Horny guys from all over the world but mostly pakis for some reason, would fill up the entire monitor piling chat boxes over other chat boxes trying to talk to western girls online. Then all the pedos took over the dark side of the yahoo chat rooms and they shut er all down. But i used to get laid quite a bit online. Spent hours talking to women perfecting my art. It was the beginning of the online sexual revolution that made dating sites famous,

>get half fucked on good wine
>start air fucking your rig while building your worm

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top kek

Prior to Napster and such, I would have to go to Cheapos and short through stacks of CDs and try to find used ones that were good quality. If the CD was new, it would cost at least $20. Finding soneone with a CD burner was great. I was in highschool in the late 90s so I sold burned music cds at school. Napster changed that. With dial-up, you could expect a download rate of ~1-2 kb/s from misc website. Some websites would have music on them, but downloading them was a crap shoot, half the time you would get an auto dialer that would call Madagascar or something, giving you a hefty phone bill. With Napster you could download upwards of 10-15 kb/s and queue up a stack of songs and have ready in the morning.

I would then burn them onto cds and sell them for 3$ a pop.

The same thing happened with porn, prior to napster I would print out shitty quality pictures and sell them for $1 each. Then I was able to download short low quality movies that I could burn to a cd and sell for $10 each.

wheres my totse oldfags
thanks for raising me

1982

fuck im old

You and me both

Damn. That's some Nostalgia. Porn and music on cds

This will sound crazy to the young fags but yes, this actually happened. I remember back around 95-96, we were doing local yahoo and AOL chats and meeting up with girls constantly. It was wonderful.

You have been visited by Zero Cool, reply to this post with "Hack the world" or your mother dies tonight

I met a girl online in about 1996 about 100 miles away from me. I went to the coffee shop to meet her and she was horrible looking. I remember thinking that I could never be drunk enough. Never did it again.

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back in the good old days of 56k modems but before popupblockers there was a prank that had several urls --- the one i sent people to was funny.wizy.org. windows media player would play an endless loop of "HEY EVERYBODY I'M LOOKING AT GAY PORNO!!!" this would blast out of your modem speaker and not your external speakers so there was no way to mute it. and you couldn't just click off media player because 17 bajillion popups of goatse would blanket your screen until you got the blue screen of death. ahhh - good times

I had a geocity dedicated to hentai. First time I saw two nip cartoon 69ing it blew my mind

this still exists

this is old

>Ultima Online
I miss that.

Also finding websites selling software or hosting stuff with unsecured and open FTTP:

TOPKEK

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Usenet Flame Wars

I will AIM the fuck out of all of you young fags

ha ya, there was some crap shoots though. But it was unbelievably simple. Just make sure to talk nice and let all the other pigs basically scare the girls to you.

Member amusement park?

I'll tell you what. My geocities was a list of fictional odd sexual proclivities made up by myself, like arborsexual and mechanosexual. Who knew that 15-20 years later it would all become true.

I remember putting porn on floppy disks. War has changed.

When MSN messenger came out with emojis it was the shit

back when you didnt get banned over a simple racist joke. nowadays you get IP banned for posting porn

Totse cult of the dead cow back orifice good times

Come at me senpai

I remember porn pics taking 5 minutes to load up on the screen because 56k modem was clogged with traffic. Before that, we had to climb telephone poles and install black box switches to charge the neighbors for our long distance internet use. Shhhhhhhh...

I remember me and my buds visiting all these cars capture Sakura fanfic about doing her while dressing as a furry. we laughed our asses off. 20 years later laughing at this shit would put you in prison in some part of europe

oh shit were you geocities.fire.com/203774/camel/DudeCool69?
I think I remember that page, the one with the flaming skull .gifs?

Holy kek I don't miss those times. Fuck, I still acutely remember the first time I switched from 56k to DSL. Shit was flavortown senpai

>totse
Is there anything online now like Bad Ideas?

Ahh Yes chat rooms of the early days of the internet.
>Be me, 13/14 ish in mid 90s.
>Have shitty computer I Frankensteined together from parts stolen from school.
>Using AOL cds and "free" dial up programs bloated with ad ware to get internet.
>Neighbor kid I didn't like would come over and use AOL chat room to chat with his online "girl friend."
>After a bit, he decides to met her irl.
>Tell him its a dude and hes going to get raped.
>He doesn't listen and goes to met her.
>Next day he is visibility agitated.
>Well, she was a 40 year old alcoholic autistic fat cat lady.
>She gave him boos, fondled him, then begged him with a strap on.
>He kept bragging how he got laid.

i pointed out of my job for attendance back in 2001. mgr emailed some stupid shit to keep in touch (i think it was the cartoon of the eagle filing/sharpening his talons) i emailed him the link. he phoned me at home a few minutes later "DON'T YOU EVER FUCKING EMAIL ME AGAIN!!!" and slammed down the phone. i literally laughed all fucking day. it was a bit after 11 a.m. in the middle of the week so the fucker did this at work in cube city surrounded by 15 other managers.

Shit when I switched to netzero fast internet I fucking lost it. And my first laptop was a Sony weighted 20 pounds and the is system still works today? Fuck yea

Plot twist: Your neighbor turned out to be this man.

Gonna have to be more specific senpai everybody's geocity had flaming skulls

Not me. After a few moments thinking about it, one term I definitely used was "dendrophiliac"

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Does anyone remember the "free" 56k internet they had, but there was ads every few minutes? I can't remember the name...

Fuck you for that btw. I opened that in my cubicle and the whole office lost their shit. I had to turn of my pc to get it to shut up. It was the best prank ever and I still remember that like it was yesterday. Good one bro.

If you get raped by a 40 year old woman with a strap on is that considered getting laid?

ha!!!!

GNAA's Last Resort? I remember they claimed to have obtained an early x86 build of Mac OS and uploaded the ISO; all it did was boot gross pictures and that sound bye.

I used to pirate warez from private BBSes and sell them on 3.5in floppies. My best seller was Autocad to all the drafting students at a nearby college every year.

The only difference between the cheaper 3.5s and the double densities was a little hole. I used to use scissors to make the hole so I could format them as DD and max my profits.

>>Next day he is visibility agitated.
>>Well, she was a 40 year old alcoholic autistic fat cat lady.
>>She gave him boos, fondled him, then begged him with a strap on.
>>He kept bragging how he got laid.

haha visibly agitated but could he walk straight?

I remember having to pay for AOL. Why did I ever do that?

That's net zero when it first game out bro

i remember someone opening that link on a trading floor and everybody stopping what they were doing what they were doing and calling him a fag...good times

there was juno --- it was ok for free. you could lose the ad banner by forking over $9.99 a month