Was 2006 - 2009 the golden age of the internet?
Here's why:
>Almost not social media
>Internet forums at its peak
>Good old YouTube
>Age of MSN Messenger
>Very little smartphone usage
>More affordable broadband connections
At the start of the 2010s, everything started going to shit.
So, this is why I think 2006 - 2009 was the best internet period of time.
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Yeah m8 360p video, HTML4 and ray william johnson were so great. Fuck off nostalgia fag
One of my high school girlfriends loved that nigga so much.
I had social life back there so I used internet only for porn. It was ok
>complaining about the format rather than the content
>newer formats make the content better by nature
Spy Kids 3D confirmed for better film than Apocalypse Now.
>broadband comes out
>prices are super good to get people off dial up
>not even a mutter of bandwidth limits
>yet today you get raped if you go over 1TB a month
And now we have web pages that want to BE videos, Javascript and PewDiePie.
What a better time to be in.
I'd rather the internet go to pure text than continue this current trend of consolidation.
1998-2003 was. Fuck off underage
Most of internet population don't know the beyond the "cybermegalopolises". Just give time to time and 20 years we will return to 2007 scenario.
I'd expand that to 1996-2006.
No we wont. Why would Facebook and Google let that happen?
Pre GE-Runescape and fansites made the internet very comfy. So many good times wasting Friday nights clicking away at a rock or some NPC.
I don't think this infographic factors out amazon's massive CDN and webhosting services or MS's telemetry and updates as they've morphed into more of a botnet over the years.
I miss personal fan sites. I miss personal everything about the web, really.
>This is my Biker Mice from Mars fansite ...
It also doesn't take in to account that Yahoo and Microsoft are the same people, as are Google and Youtube.
how can you honestly look back on MSN Messenger with any reverence? that program was a complete and total piece of shit, start to finish. when it was absorbed by skype my first reaction was like "yep, that's perfect"
>Almost no social media
>2006 - 2009
fucking what
Fuck off oldschool manchild. RS3 funds your shitty private server, shouldn't you be sucking b0atys cock right about now?
>scared of a modern mmo interface
Lmao
start ur own internet if u hate it so much
well in 2008 average shitposter certainly knew how to optimize JPEGs
No, in 2008 we were too busy using rad gifs on our geocities websites to care about stuff like that
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Hi, SSC. Nice to see you here as well.
Oh my good lord, Sup Forums really is jerk happy over faggot internet psuedo-nostalgia isn't it?
-you didn't use social media then or now.
-Internet forums are fucking shit because of butthurt single admins that can ruin 10000+ users in the worst possible way by censoring history about it because it's posted on their own site. Web consolidation in your pic was the best thing to happen to the internet because you can't get butthurt-banned over irrelevant shit.
-old youtube was shit. According to your bullshit anti-web-consolidation, right now is best for youtube since there are more individuals who essentially make their own TV channel. Youtube back then was just news organizations uploading bits of their own stuff in an attempt to get you to watch their real tv show. If you want "a wild west where people make their own shit", you should like youtube now, but you don't because you're a nostalgiashit.
-MSN messenger was shit.
-Smartphones are great for business, remember paying for a seperate 3G stick or wwan on your laptop each month? wi-fi tethering. remember shitty flip phone java "apps"?
-Internet is cheaper today and fiber is available in more areas.
>At the start of 2010s
Usenet shits disagree with you, along with muh eternal september shits, and there will also be the 2007 shits, and there will also be someone saying each and every year. Why is this? Because that was the year they grew up. You grew up in 2010 and started judging things for what they were the whole time.
>-you didn't use social media then or now.
Internet forums are social media. So were web rings.
>you can't get butthurt-banned over irrelevant shit.
lel
Also all the rest of this post stinks of someone who spends too much time online as a consumer of content rather than a contributor or creator of content.
And yes, this discussion is creation of content. Watching the Markiplier "TV" channel is just consumption of content.
Now let's forget all of the above for a moment and pretend that your shitty claim of some year ranges are correct or for that matter anyone else's are.
-Even if you are completely right about what you say, there is NOTHING you can do about this except whine like a little bitch. Stop wasting everyone's time making this fucking shit thread every day and migrate to some obscure irc or bbs circlejerk full of "good people" so you can jerk off and still pretend it's this year every day by limiting yourself. You accomplish NOTHING with these circlejerks.
-Just because you showed up first, does not mean you get to decide what the internet is about. This is REALLY FUCKING HARD for petrified usenet turds to understand. "Well I was butt diddling some random stranger about the weather almost 40 years ago so nobody else should get to talk about the news in any format because the news isn't whatever weather joke I made to some stranger four decades ago". Are you for fucking real?
-You are most likely complaining about this because it is your failure to get any type of income from the technology field, or you know you are just a failure in general and it's finally time where you're expected to support yourself but you're still a manchild. Pining for days when you weren't yet a loser is not the fault of the internet.
-Nostalgia is cancer which only selectively removes the bad over time creating this psuedo perfect "golden era" which didn't really exist. Did you know google has a feature where you can search by date? go put in only by 1999 or 2007 and install a browser plugin that drops css and call your own bluff. But you won't do this because you know the thing you're pining for has been made up by yourself and doesn't really exist.
>2006-2009
2007 was the cancer that killed internet
>Almost not social media
facebook came out publically in 2007
>Internet forums at its peak
No opinion
>Good old YouTube
Agree with this one, i'll miss the days of informative gameplay videos without Screamy McFacecam
>Age of MSN Messenger
Died very quickly
>Very little smartphone usage
iphone came out in 2007
>More affordable broadband connections
true that
This user knows what's up
>right now is best for youtube since there are more individuals who essentially make their own TV channel
>internet becoming yet another TV full of propaganda is a good thing
Baito
Round about 2006-2007 was the tipping point, and by 2009 it was clear where we were headed.
I started using the internet back in 1996 and I can honestly say it was shit ;^)
>>Almost not social media
just flat out wrong
18+
>Almost not social media
MySpace was huge during that time. OP confirmed underageb&
Jesus man, Nobody is making you use any of that. There's still IRC if you like nostalgia.
And if you're so big about your running your own shit, why don't you just write your own blog engine/Static page generator and host your own site?
Are you in the US?
This, people don't realize how good YouTube in its current form.
>>Almost not social media
What are friendster, myspace and facebook?
Apparently twitter also launched in 2006 as well.
Mid-ninties to around 2005
>no scam/malware shit
>lot of cracking sites
>illegal filesharing no issue/no laws
>no social media
>no drm
>anarchism at it's best
a little like darknet today. Bad bandwidth though. Good ol' times
IRC is worse than Facebook. It is cancer kills the imageboards.
>2006 - 2009
>no social media
.....social media was already a web behemoth by 2008. I hate rose-eyed nostalgia faggots like OP and their revisionism.
OP is probably just underageb&. If he was actually old enough to post here he'd probably remember myspace or when facebook went public and replaced it
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this is about right
i'd maybe go down to about 2005 though
BBSes were fucking awesome
I know there are TCP based ones, but they really don't have the same sense of community that the old ones did, people don't get in to massive heated arguments on them like they used to
This. OP is most likely some 16 year old idiot trying to romanticize what grown ups would consider an extremely recent period in time. Web 2.0 brought with it social-web hell.
Wtf, that was more like 1998 than 2008.
ITT: Newfags butthurt that they missed all the fun.
1980s Internet best Internet
I host personal websites on TOR just for the fun of it, TOR kinda reminds me of older internet, sucks theres so much super seedy shit though, probably why my personal sites get so much traffic compared to most TOR sites, because theyre just normal content.
It's still there user. Just not here.
Right. The old forum-centric, pseudonymous-by-default Web died around 2007. There are fragments of it living on, including where they probably shouldn't (XDA is history repeating itself as a fucking joke), but the beast itself is solidly dead. Compare: Usenet.
>MUH IDYLLIC PAST
Speaking as someone who has been an internet user since 1997, There is very little that I can complain about 2016 Internet. Even with all my very fond memories and sweet nostalgia for my web 1.0 experience, i wouldn't let sentimentalism blind me from the unmatched convenience and variety of today's internet.
So many new and convenient ways for companies to shove ads in my face and attempt to track my every move. Actual useful shit? Not much.
Oh you're all wrong, the year in fact was gotcha faggot
nostalgia doesn't do shit but segregate everyone. it's essentially an early form of ageism. no matter what year you post, you are wrong. these threads are shit and don't go anywhere but down.
>Actual useful shit? Not much
Yeah, this post tells me everything that I need to know about you
>segregate
>ageism
Thanks Reddit.
>social media
>social network
Stop this faggatory. The problem is the monopoly.
>Tor in caps lock
So is this the new meme that people use to be facetious, just like the smiley with the carrot nose.
I pressed someone like this a few nostalgia-jerk threads ago and the unironic answer was "document processing". It is so hilarious the distance these petrified usenet turds go to not just burst out "immam bettar than u!!!!!!"
>2006 - 2009 the golden age of the internet
>prices are super good
bitch in 2006 i was paying 80$ a month for 8 mbps from the same isp i now pay 40$ a month for 60mbps
>Sup Forums is the best because we don't care about your race, gender, etc and take the posts at face value. But holy shit, except for age, you had better be within 2-3 years of me or else I will disregard everything you have to say!
how do you think this works out with more than 10 people on the site. Just curious.
>you didn't use it then
>you don't use it now
it makes no difference. Why do you care so much about it?
>hey dude are you on leshitbookbook!
>no
that is all it takes
>Actual useful shit? Not much.
7/10. Either you're trolling or you have to got to be the edgiest, angstiest linkin-park 15 year old on Sup Forums tonight. 2006 me would have killed for 2016 Internet.
mid to late 90's
wild west
>kills tons of cyber eco-system
>made the leddit "underground"
>made the Sup Forums the second main board
Oh dear...
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Try this one on for size:
It's about the content, not the way it's delivered. Who cares fuck all about web 2.0 bullshit, that's just the delivery system. The quality of content has fallen off a fucking cliff. Everyone is meming it up for karma or sharing pictures of their cats for likes. News agencies are only concerned about getting the story out first via their big high-tech platforms instead of actually fact checking anything.
The quality of the internet just plain sucks. There are very few honest resources left. Everyone has some ulterior motive now rather than just creating content for people to enjoy.
Wikipedia
StackOverflow
1998-2006 was the golden age, when having a presence on the net meant either being active on forums or building your own personal web site. I loved the creativity of it. Now everyone just has a facebook page and that's it.
2006-10 started the transition to social media and smartphones, and the net getting flooded with normies.
2010+ is web development being controlled by idiot hipsters and their javascript toolchains (including javascript toolchain managers that make it easier to install and manage your javascript dependencies even though 3 of them combined is already fatal), and the death of desktop web.
I dread what the 2020s will bring; not unless we finally switch to optical computing that can get Moore's law back on track.
Wikipedia was founded in 2001.
Stack Overflow is nice but now it's more of than a game that people play to build resumes as opposed to a place where people give answers to just be helpful.
Internet before 2010:
>never use your real name when online, never post your personal information online
Internet now:
>please give us your real name and phone number if you want to use our service
>The quality of content has fallen off a fucking cliff. Everyone is meming it up for karma or sharing pictures of their cats for likes.
...............wow. There is SO MUCH more to the internet than mainstream Big-10 social media sites. You speak like an internet user who has browsing has been effectively ringfenced around twitter+YT+FB+eMail
>News agencies are only concerned about getting the story out first via their big high-tech platforms instead of actually fact checking anything.
How is this new? How is this in any way exclusive to today's internet?
Before we continue, how old are you? Please answer honestly.
>The quality of the internet just plain sucks. There are very few honest resources left. Everyone has some ulterior motive now rather than just creating content for people to enjoy.
en.wikipedia.org
It was the same the entire time, you simply grew up and changed.
Similar phenomenon happens with films, books, any media, etc. You can actually go back and watch it, which is when you hear people finally have to answer to 20-40 year old wrong memories, "wow I didn't remember how shit this was". they might have been 5 years old at the time.
The reason why I hate this "golden era" shit is that it's really hard or impossible to go back and get all the details of the "era", like how the connection would have been shit, along with the server sending it to you. not to mention the browser, or how every browser would render things differently. you could also pick up a period era device for pennies on the thousands it cost which is also being conveniently left out.
Best example is how networking switches have retroactively erased memories of hubs which were complete shit. You see retro shits hooking up their dumpster finds to a switch (ending up a broadband cable or dsl) and then see this weird paragraph about how it was better then.
>*whose browsing
Social Media before facebook was Livejournal, Myspace, and a third site I forgot.
None of them were very big. Normies used them, while older users only signed up to post vulnerabilities that allowed them to grab 1 million passwords.
Please stop with this already, you are by definition the "normies" in the eternal september usenet circlejerk version, and in turn they are the normies who ruined BBSes. This is all just a bullshit hate circle that goes nowhere but down.
You in pre-2010 internet:
>made up a fake name
You after 2010 internet:
>the exact same
>normies
The only notable memory I have of the Internet from that 3 year time-span was finding MIH. It was one of the most unique hentai sites around. It might have ran on the same software as its sister site lu.scio.us, but MIH wasn't cucked into banning loli/shota.
The community was funny as fuck and the administrator was a chill dude.
Internet before 2010:
(without bullshit)
Internet now:
MSN was big for a few years. But before that you had AIM, before that you had ICQ. And after MSN everyone transitioned to Skype.
I used to use Trillian which could connect to ICQ, MSN, and AIM at the same time, it was great. Skype was always meh, and they are fucking it up more and more with each version.
fuck off back to tumblr.
>Wikipedia was founded in 2001.
The exchange went
>Speaking as someone who has been an internet user since 1997, There is very little that I can complain about 2016 Internet.
>Actual useful shit? Not much.
2001 isn't 1997. Moreover, Wikipedia wasn't that useful until about 2004.
>it's more of than a game that people play to build resumes as opposed to a place where people give answers to just be helpful.
Even if true, what does it matter if the answers are miles ahead of ExpertSexChange and all of SE's other predecessors in quality? If what you dislike about 2016 Web is that it doesn't feel like the weird Web of the late '90s, that's fair, but don't say it isn't much more useful.
>Megaupload existed from 2005-2011
Yep, checks out
yes I must be from tumblr, that's it. I'll spell it out for everyone else
>random people in 2016 fall for the age meme and think they are clever for whining about "normies" who was anyone who bought a smartphone in 2008 and anyone before this were the true pioneers of the internet and are also the normies who ruined the internet after 2001 because of some made up year when we entered web 2.0 which were all normies because they were using websites instead of making them, as anyone before this time were the true pioneers of the net because they were making shitty websites in notepad only for ie because it had 100% of the market share who were the normies that created muh eternal sepdumpter of 1993 who were the true pioneers of the internet and also the normies who ruined it for usenet spergs who were the true pioneers of the internet who were also the normies who ruined BBSes who were the true pioneers of the internet because it was super fun to have complete control and ban people because they didn't suck your 'zine's e-dick
Who is right?
nobody. the best time of the internet is right now.
>remembering MegaUpload fondly
The golden age of the internet was before eternal September.
Fucking kids.
megaupload had a larger download limit, and it was the golden age of piracy
>rapidshare
>megaupload
>not RapidShare
>pic related
Sorry about this. I was "trolling", for old times' sake.
Anyway, MegaUpload was obviously superior to RapidShare (unless you got premium access to the latter for free). However, I don't know about you, but I didn't like either of them that much, nor did I like their million competitors. To me the golden age of piracy was private FTPs and [redacted], which was almost the same thing over HTTP, not this proto-FarmVille waiting game crap.
>Almost not social media
what did he mean by this
How is Sup Forums NOT social media?
Sup Forums is anti-social media.
Though, oddly, 2channel kind of is (or was) a social medium in Japan. Maybe it's because Japan is smaller and 2channel's penetration rate was higher.
>>Almost not social media
What is Friendster and MySpace?
>>Internet forums at its peak
Internet forums were always garbage.
>>Good old YouTube
Mainstream YouTube was always shit.
>>Age of MSN Messenger
Subjective.
>>Very little smartphone usage
le enlightened luddite
>>More affordable broadband connections
You're probably right about that.
Okay, time to end this. Although you do have to tell the truth, so everyone could lie. Let's use 2006 as the circlejerk standard.
post your
>2006 connection, isp optional
>how much someone was paying for it
>2016 connection, same shit.
>2006
>mediacom "cable"
>30kbps up, 20 down
>$80 a month
>no cap
>running server against tos
>2016
>AT&T uverse
>3mbps down 1.5 up
>$30 a month as part of package deal
>no cap
>can do whatever I want
>BBS WAS SOCIAL MEDIA GUYS
>YOU FUCKING NEWFAGS
>CRUISE CONTROL FOR THE WIN
>OLD MEMES ARE THE BEST
Youtube was always shit
Phoneposters ruined the web.
pretty sure that's the joke
i had a mobile device with a web browser before Sup Forums existed
(pic partially related, i don't remember the model i had)