Do you miss the web circa 1997?

Do you miss the web circa 1997?

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I miss my life back in 1997...

you were a middle schooler

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>Do you miss the web circa 1997?
Absolutely not.

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why not? it was so simple back then

Can't believe he's still making music almost 20 years later.
His new song is pretty decent though.

god yes

Most people using the internet back then had half a brain.

Here's hoping we'll somehow still be alive to make this image relevant

>tfw peaked in middle school

Yes, lots. You actually need to have any kind of technical knowhow to connect to it.

i have never liked his music but that doesnt mean others dont i guess im cool with it so long as people are cool with me liking die antwoord

It was kinda shit.

Tell me more about Facebook and twitter...

You don't have to use them if you don't want to.

oh and its so much better now? io mean ther isnt even chat rooms anymore thanks to peadophiles

I fucking hope not, I wanna die as soon as possible

Slow internet
Malware everywhere
No adblockers
Shit browsers
Horrid looking websites
20 minutes to download a single song
Having to get off the internet so that a family member could use the phone if you only had one line
Chatrooms
Low quality porn
50/50 chance of downloading you know what through Kazza
No Sup Forums
No reddit

Don't miss it in the slightest

But there's eternal hell after that.

whats wrong with chat rooms?

I think under "we" he means the human race dipshit

>io mean ther isnt even chat rooms anymore thanks to peadophiles
You're basically in a chat room right now, if you hadn't noticed.

things people who didn't use the internet in 1997 say

>Malware everywhere

That happened later.

>this
>chat room
>not even ERP

Nothing, you're replying to a millenial.

>No reddit

Oh god, that's even worse!

>tfw staying up past bedtime to download Sims nude mods over dial-up

>millenial
Millenials love chatrooms idiot.

false information.

reddit
hahah fuckoff kid
god thats a shitty site, shitty UI, shitty UX. I dont fucking get it

>implying average person in 97' knew what serial ports are, let alone dial-up

The Internet was the wild west back in the 90's.

Truly glorious times we had back then. Now everything is tightly controlled and regulated.

reddit is an objectively better site for news and information than Sup Forums now.

You didn't need to know anything about ports to connect. ISPs gave you very simple instructions, it was pretty easy.

Only if you are part of the liberal lefty feminist cuck hivemind

Nice buzzwords junior

This.

But replace 1997 with 2007. Life was so much simpler when I was 13.

Nothing has changed, in fact, is getting kind of worse
Today:
Search engines pull from google instead of running their own bots. You cannot find the porn you were looking for because for some reason, google's algorithm sucks nowadays

13? Shit, I was only 8.

Man, thats some scary ass shit

>staying up late on dial-up reading anime fanfiction

atleast I grew out of it, unlike some people on this website

but its not
how do you know where to begin or what sub reddit ladeedaa bullshit do you go to

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Google "niche interest + subreddit"

E.g. "PCB subreddit"

reddit.com/r/PrintedCircuitBoard/ first result

>Shit, I was only 8.
:O

>implying this whole board isn't fan fiction

>dialup
Man, runescape was the shit back then.

>google's algorithm sucks nowadays
This. Especially image search

>muh Sup Forums boogieman
SJW feminist detected

Google is by far the most censored search engine, anyone who knows what they are doing stopped using it years ago

What are you searching that's censored on Google?

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Anything critical about China's communist regime.

Anything that might even hint at copyright infringement for starters

How is it that image search is getting less and less accurate over time?

I was in first grade

jesus christ how old are you?

What logo is this??

25

>hearing a floorboard creek and quickly trying to cover your tracks

Post your face.

Rym

Fuck no. Even with SJWs the Internet is better now than it was back then.

People from 1997 are 18-19 right now, you know that right?

Kazaa didn't exist in 1997 kid

jesus christ i am old

oh well time to go kill myself

Nostalgia is a lie. The web wasn't better in 1997, you have just retroactively removed all the bad memories. This is only going to lead to ageism, trust me on this. Except you won't, go join some faux facebook circlejerk and keep reposting the same 5-10 images.

Here's some top tips you've conveniently left out as you meander down psuedo memory lane
>Browsing sites on sub 56K
>No videos above 300x300, download is 2-3 years, have to have a certain media player to view it that only each play one media format type
>No web standards, nobody obeying the few ones there are, sites consist of giant "CLICK HERE IF YOU'RE USING X BROWSER" and they have to make six copies of everything because browsers don't even honor standard html tags
>No competent search engines

Best of all there was no cheap tech yet. Cry and whine your irrelevant little ass off about how "normies ruined the net", then crack open that old best buy ad you keep masturbating to and actually read the prices and not just look at the pictures. Would you pay $3,000+ now for the most basic, entry level desktop? This isn't a workstation, it's garbage consumer hardware that barely lasted 5-6 years and even if it did, you were fucked because during your "golden age" of tech, it was impossible to buy anything at any time without it being obsolete. Keep in mind these are 90's dollars so it would be 4-5K we're talking about.

Most neo-luddites would insist this was a good thing because it "keeps the normies out". Again nostalgia is oh so perfect, you conveniently blot out your dad/parents had to drop his hard earned cash on this for everyone, to have it be worthless a year later and you remember it as being free and it just appeared one day. *You* were the normies that invaded the internet at the time, ask any eternal september fuck when they're not jacking each other dry. Instead, you call yourselves pre-smartphoners.

I miss geocities.

No you don't. Go download the torrent archive and actually browse it. Your memories have had 15 years to mold the shit you saw into something else.

I think it's a mix.

Some memories, even the bad ones, are pretty funny looking back on them now. I didn't block out all that stuff, but the amount I was able to tolerate was amazing compared to now where I get agitated when HD video won't load properly.

Chill.

>I get agitated when HD video won't load properly
>Chill

>Bad memories, looking back on them now, are pretty funny!
This is the "lie" that nostalgia teaches you to tell yourself. I've known victims of abuse talking about it as a positive experience, as long as it happened 20 years ago. Also seen veterans talk about getting shot as a positive experience. Yeah sure. Honestly whenever someone starts a story off with "Back then..." I just mentally replace it with "I've forgotten everything bad, ignore me"

>Slow internet
>20 minutes to download a single song
Essentially the same argument.

>Malware everywhere
It's a LOT worse nowadays.

>No adblockers
>Shit browsers
Not really needed when websites didn't have much content anyway.

>Chatrooms
>50/50 chance of downloading you know what through Kazza
>No reddit
All good things.

>Having to get off the internet so that a family member could use the phone if you only had one line
>Low quality porn
>No Sup Forums
These actually sucked.

It's a joke more than anything, dude.

Seriously.

Getting caught doing dumb shit with the 56k wire running through the house is, in retrospect, humorous to me, and even to my parents now. Sorry you equate your childhood with abuse.

Your memories, experiences, and associations with them aren't the same as everyone else.

>Downloading CP
>Good thing

Post is dangerously on the edge of being a 9faggot and calling everything harmful

The same could be said for film and television. Sure, the special effects and graphics are amazing now but the content has all gone to shit.

>>Browsing sites on sub 56K
No needed, except maybe for QuakeWorld.
>>No videos above 300x300, download is 2-3 years, have to have a certain media player to view it that only each play one media format type
Videos are overrated, also back then we had MTV
>>No web standards, nobody obeying the few ones there are, sites consist of giant "CLICK HERE IF YOU'RE USING X BROWSER" and they have to make six copies of everything because browsers don't even honor standard html tags
Pic related.
>>No competent search engines
For what exactly? Web rings and directories were enough.

simpsons lemon eating gif.jpg

90's internet was UseNet and IRC. I didn't need anything more.

>tfw you still have files you saved back then

Why stop with videos, let's also do pictures too. You cannot just cut out an entire subsection of media. Unless you are a nostalgiafaggot of course. Just call videos "harmful" to show your neo-ludditry so everyone can more quickly ignore you. Best way is the freetard way, pretend you care about this, and since there were no decent free formats back then, everything must be taken out and ruled away as if it didn't exist.

That's hilarious

I was playing Diablo in 1997.

I was 23 and we had our second kid.

>23 and we had our second kid.

I was playing shitty educational games in 1997 and would shortly become obsessed with simcity 2000

I should have been enjoying the golden years of Quake

>tfw you weren't alive in 1997
>tfw you're old enough to legally post on this site
I must have missed a lot

>I must have missed a lot
Not really. But respect your elders senpai.

Isn't too bad back then, you are a true cuck if that's you today though.

You didn't, it's just 25 year olds falling for the age meme trying to pretend their particular garbage they had when they were young wasn't garbage. When it comes to technology, the best time to have been born is always later, not before.

Baby boomers are going to die and/or stop "working" in their industries in the next 15-20 years and that will be a golden generation who can actually work with people without having to deal with the constant
>I didn't have this stuff when I was a kid so don't expect me to learn it xDDDDDDDDDD
>Kids nowadays, and their better technology, all "we" had at the time was some bullshit I only managed to learn after 30 years at it, fuck as if I can even attempt to change from that now

are you 's wife's son?

No

are you certain?

Fairly certain
As far as I know, my dad is dead

18 year old: Do not, under any circumstances, respect your elders. They exist only to sequester you. They are full of shit like you always have secretly thought.

How old people work:
>They make mistakes for 40-80 years
>Choose to call this "experience"
>You on your smartphone, google it (fukken kids amirite) and get information and along with it don't have a social disease that tells you not to listen to new information that isn't just made up fear/FUD
>Don't make the same obvious mistakes
>Start to have a better life at 30~ than they did at 50
>They get buttjello
>Try to give you shit for it

You wouldn't trust them with a car turning signal so why would you take their advice on major life and career decisions?

As long as it has free wifi I'm good.

today's internet is demonstrably better than it was in the 90s in many ways. not least of which being its fast and not dial-up. There's a lot more content, though it seems like the signal-to-noise ratio has gone down. e-commerce is an everyday thing instead of an exotic dream.

what's been lost was the wild-west experience. In the mid-90s government and law enforcement didn't really have any idea what this internet thing was. The DMCA wasn't a thing until 1998. You could just pirate stuff without worrying about crypto. People traded CP in AOL chatrooms. Nothing was tied to your real identity, nobody had figured out all the tracking shit they do today.

whether that means things have gotten better or worse is up for debate.