The internet doesn't feel as big or endless anymore. It doesn't feel like it's a treasure trove of creativity and uniqueness.
Anything that isn't on a main site like reddit, twitter, facebook and even Sup Forums will never be found and because of that nobody ever makes their own sites or blogs anymore.
Just the same few websites.
over and over.
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textfiles.com
grammar-monster.com
twitter.com
Do something about it you consumer cattle
It doesn't matter if he or a gigantic group of people try to do something about it. The majority won't care if it isn't on Facebook or Twitter. If the content is that good, it'll be reposted there then it'll be soon forgotten.
yes
you are correct
Them feels
Just wait until the Internet2 comes along and we're connecting to each other's routers via mesh networking and you can host your own big website and it'll be just as big and feasible as any other website on this new internet.
I can't imagine Google will be prominent, so there will be a lot of "word of mouth" for finding all of the best stuff. It'll be the wild west days of the internet all over again.
Novelty fades and the people entering the workforce take the Internet for granted as something that is older than they are.
I always wonder if the same happened with electricity in the 1900's.
>pic related - go see the internet in a museum and feel old
never before have i connected to a comic so hard before.
jesus christ, and this is from 2002?
my personality and mind haven't left the early 2000s apparently. thrilling.
I miss real message boards. I miss when only nerdy white males used the internet, now it's filled with drooling TV watching retards because of cellphones
Shut the fuck up retard
nostalgia isn't going to help tonight my friend.
i want metal gear message boards because i never experienced that before and mgs2 has become something i take great comfort in for some reason right now
>People used to live in small town
>tons of culture
>people moved to cities
>culture died
>People used to live in small websites
>tons of culture
>people moved to big sites
>culture died
Next iteration will be
>People move to small space colonies
>tons of culture
>people move to the next big planet
>culture dies
>tfw you will never post on totse ever again
It's 4 o'clock in the morning, why on earth are you shitposting your opinions on Sup Forums?
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>i hurt myself today
Growing up as a '95 kid, the internet when I was young (say 8-13) seemed so exciting, not just from the youth but because of the unique cultures that permeated all the little forums and such. Getting to run a public forum for a popular game at 14 was a huge deal to me, it felt important in that little sphere and I made connections with people I'm still friends with to this day.
Nowadays, what do you do if you're that kid? Moderate a subreddit? Own a discord? Hell I've done both, and it's just work, you're not meeting anyone or having the sort of unique connections and conversations you would a decade ago.
I realize I was on the tail end of it, but it still seemed like it was different and unique. I was the only person I knew who used Internet forums at all, it was like I was part of a hidden world. Now I'm shitposting on one of the biggest sites on the planet in bed on my phone, and every person I know and their mother has heard of this site or any other site I post on or could post on.
I don't really have a conclusion here, just suffering.
That is depressing
Have a look at 4kev.org and you'll change your mind
Fug.
blame cuckerberg and all the other far leftists
What's so great about mesh networks?
thefacebook was fine when it started. no worse than myspace. it was mobileposting that killed the internet. too many people that shouldn't be using it. you can see it in every cuckpost and praise kek redditpost. shadilay. entertainment news soon picked it up to help fill it's time slots, and it was all over from there. not even an afterglow
>no wrose than myspace
Wrong. FB was the first social site to have a "serious" tone and lure adults and politicians into it. The first to ask for every little thing about you. The first to take away the ability to customize your page. The first to be run by a cuck. Etc. The internet went to shit as soon as cuckerberg jew'd his way into our internets.
It's ogre.
>Anything that isn't on a main site
>Told to make a site that would appeal to a niche
>complain the majority won't care if it isn't on Facebook or Twitter.
You're the problem.
>Just wait until the Internet2 comes along and we're connecting to each other's routers via mesh networking and you can host your own big website and it'll be just as big and feasible as any other website on this new internet.
Pipedreams and living in a dream world: The Post.
Are you me, user?
Who does this?
Independent of big central server. Can't be shut down remotely.
Eh. I was on some forums in 2000 or so and even though that's probably after the supposed golden age, it was still full of edgy 14 year olds
we aren't going to make it to another planet, we'll just rot on this one because of capitalism and exploitation.
> Zuckerberg
> Far-Leftist
He's a cookie cutter champagne socialist
This pretty much, the internet seemed fun because it was filled by underage shitposters.
OP doesn't realise that he was one of the original cancers.
Even in those times there was maybe what, newgrounds pushing the envelope, the rest was shit.
>newgrounds
>pushing the envelope
spotted the underage phoneposter trying to fit in
Stop using google.
Yes.
When can we expect urbit to become commercially available Mr Yarvin?
We will still be under the yolk of the service provider. Expect to see politically correct terms of service and other forms of control move from the obsolete collection of .com aristocrats to ISP oligarchs. Control of the internet will become even more centralized, freedom to share information more restricted.
how a motorcycle is risk free exactly
tfw posting on a site where the mods aren't old enough to remember the wild wild web
Nigra please. There wasn't much else besides normalfag shit like chatrooms and irc on the web back then
>miss when only nerdy white males used the interne
Shitskins and women ruined everything
It's harmless as a form as rebellion, since it poses no danger to the structure of society. You should be able to tell that youth counter-culture is toothless when there are no social control mechanisms punishing you for being "rebellious".
The real act of rebellion in our time is not sharing the general pragmatic realist attitude that seems to be at the core of our current Zeitgeist. People get real upset when you don't play along with the post-truth social structure we've created to keep the different belief systems held across our society from collapsing in on themselves by devouring eachother.
Nietzsche predicted this shit.
I miss the old days too guys, but the internet of our youth was a product of its infancy. It was always going to become what it is, and we can't rely on it to hit the spot any more.
Push for something new. Seek out stuff that makes you tingle like the internet once did. You're not alone.
Bullshit. Ive been on the internet for decades.
Fuck. Ive been on the internet for decades. :/
*sniffs
this is what Lacan would term as 'inertia of the real' the lack of resolution, the dragging-on of the "empty time," which characterize the stupid factuality of life.
A crypt of the digitally deceased:
textfiles.com
A wreak of pure excess and waste that communicates its form only within it's redundant state.
Remember when nobody around you used the internet (or even computers) and that made you feel special? Pepperidge farm remembers.
Thinking back to those "magical early internet days" i can't say i've done anything that different or radical from what i am doing now. I just remember being more excited to do ordinary things like checking e-mail and posting on message boards. I guess because it was for the first time? It's hard to get excited over something you take for granted.
Make internet great again!
>ban advertising
>shut down all "social media"
>take back the user handle
>make the competence step higher
this will drive away all normies, seo's & corporations. when they are gone internet will once again become what it was: an open frontier for those willing to learn
The web is already being eaten away by phone apps. Most of those cancerous newfags and normalfags stay in their containment areas.
The problem isn't the interbutts or corporations
The problem is (you)
>make the competence step higher
that's why we need to make it less easy to connect & communicate with others, to sow away undesirable commoners who just looking for easily accessible amusement.
They're already contained
normalfags barely go beyond youtube and facebook
Even the porn industry is suffering from all the selfie sluts, pornstars have to go blacked and do extreme shit just to get pay.
Malware.
2008 is the year it all went downhill
> 2008-2010
> Smartphones become commonplace
> Cheaper than computers, have data plans which let people access the internet
> Niggers and third-worlders get unfettered access to the internet for the first time
RIP
problem is that everything becomes stupid & watered-down in order to cater to average joe. and that spills over on everybody else and generates collateral damage on the internet culture.
>everything gets monetized
>good content drowns in cancer
>good software dies in favor of bad software
>the limits between irl & online gets blurry
>the lack of anonymity threatens free speech
Names that are being addressed directly are said to be in the vocative case. When somebody is being spoken to directly, his/her name must be separated from the rest of the sentence with a comma.
Correct:
"Shut the fuck up, retard."
I can tell you weren't alive before search engines. You couldn't find shit.
A search engine is basically word of mouth. Priority is given by how many sites link to it
With monitization people are encouraged to create OC and not just rip shit from publishers due to legality.
I've seen better content come out every year
Software doesn't age so you can still use old versions or find alternatives
You can always make fake identity
You crybabies need to stop being lazy
I miss chatrooms.
Thank you, faggot.
>Totse
Oh the feels, Were you there when we trolled a preacher on live TV?
>only just realising this
This
creating your own site and community has never been easier or cheaper, blame millenials for having no imagination
There certainly was a prestige to having an online presence, much less self hosted, back in the day. All these drooling TV brainwashed sows don't remember you had to dial a phone number using pots telephony to get muh maemaes.
wow, you can actually see all the information in one screen. How retro.
Good thing modern websites make you scroll down 8 screens just to read a sentence of text
>yfw matches were invented after the lighter
Internet still has everything it used to have, of the same quantity and quality.
Just that now, normies use the internet for Facebook/twitter/Jewtube etc.
Oh look it's this thread again made by the same stupid piece of shit.
>The internet doesn't feel as big anymore
Try to understand this, I know it's hard for you. What happened was: you grew up
"This car seat isn't as big as when I was 4 years old"
Contrary to what spergs baking foot deep into their own feces say, web consolidation was the best possible thing to happen to the net at large, you've already stopped reading of course because you're a piece of shit still living in the 90s model where ultimate power was left in whoever started the site or channel. These result in 100% of people being banned 100% of the time.
Thanks to web consolidation you can't get banned because you accidentally defeat the moderator's shitty 10 year old argument. if you would actually read the old usenet postings you so feverently jack off to you would see they were the normies of times gone by, talking about the same nothing they are now. What is happening here is that only "famous" or interesting conversations were saved so you are falling for the same stupid shit where you think the 1950s were a really exciting time because you only watch fantasy movies and don't watch all the political drama and hate. It was around at the time as well.
Even if the above weren't true, you simply can't do anything about it so please stop making this thread. Or, you can go join some IRC circlejerk and jack off to postings you won't read. nostalgia is total cancer
you don't know WHAT the fuck you're talking about. You're only "remembering" the good.
Growing up as a 90s kid and actually remembering message boards:
-Retarded admins who ban you over absolutely nothing.
-Admins put their girlfriends and other shitty acquaintances as power users who ban even more people over even less nothing.
-Entire sub forums exist to show off banned posts so admins can flaunt their e-dick.
-Thousands of pages of nothing posted in a line called "forum games" worse than any modern "bad" meme
-Forum drama
-10 page bitmap signatures
-internet speed in terms of bytes per second
-shitty forum software
-shitty web hosts
-Shitty admins telling you they need to get $1,000 in donations per month or else they keep turning the site off but somehow it is still hosted when they don't even come close
-shitty arguments like "we have discussed this before" without linking to those threads (because they've all been banned and deleted)
-no web standards
-IE had over 99% market share
Of course if we all just huddle together and pretend all that didn't exist then forums were soooo cool right. Let me repeat that again - you don't know SHIT about what you're talking about. This is what actually happens when "only nerdy white males" use the internet, they have to ban everyone and make it all garbage as they project their social inabilities to the site they ran. Best time for the internet is right now, you are just a bitter spent turd and you've given up
the retarded beefs and spicy drama was half the fun. if you get banned sign up alts or go to any of a million other places
2017 internet is so sterile
Basically this.
>my sides