Early 2000's Internet

What do you like of 2000-2007 internet, Sup Forums?

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Less retards overall.
It was truly the golden age of the internet.

web 2.0 was the beginning of the end

shit in different ways

This.

Oh cool you made the thread again. Didn't get the alternate reality you were hoping to jack off to?

you conveniently only remember the good parts either by forgetting the bad or in that the screenshots you'll find aren't of the bad as nobody will keep records of that stuff. You generally tend to pine for your teen years when you're a total fucking failure and you aren't making any money at some shit job and have less freedom than when you were 6.

Web consolidation was the chemo to cure forums and IRC cancer and overall the best thing to happen to the web because you can't get silently banned anymore for disagreeing with whatever stupid bullshit the admin was peddling. No matter how hard you jack off on IRC pretending you're some "internet oldfag historian aristocrat" because you showed up first, doesn't change the smelly history.

Everyone else is going to insist their own 5 year teenager period was the best, you'll hilariously see 10 year groups form but as the thread gets too big you'll see them turn on one another and split into 5 year groups. Again this is because your memories are 15 years old at this point and are unreliable because you only remember the good.

But it's ok, you can keep making the thread again so you can jack off instead of actually trying to make it. Just keep making the fucking thread again. Because that's totally going to bring it back.

When I wanted to learn something, I could type it into Yahoo and get trusted text tutorials. Now I get 20 minute ad-infested YouTube videos by 35 year olds who are trying to become millionaires with overproduced how to videos.

nothing

things now are objectively better

the only things i would change are less normies and women, but that is an obvious one

>you can't get silently banned anymore for disagreeing with whatever stupid bullshit the admin was peddling
You haven't been paying much attention to what's been happening lately, have you?

>Now I get 20 minute ad-infested YouTube videos by 35 year olds who are trying to become millionaires
I admit, I do miss the days when people posted things because they wanted to, as opposed to modern e-beggars trying to make a fucking career out of it.

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Stuff was slow and didn't work good all the time

but less kikery and retards

Opera 12

web dev getting toasty

>slow as shit, with frequent downtimes on both ends
>barely functional search engines
>not even anything to search for to be honest
>multimedia content is in absolute dogshit quality, but you don't care because your bandwidth can barely handle it as it is
>very little free porn, what is available is boring

The only thing I remember fondly is hanging out with weebs on IRC, and that's after I filter out the fact it was all just retards talking about retarded things.
That and no social media.

It was relatively retard prone and had a lot of ideologically diverse communities to surf. It was an interesting place. Also, less jewing by big corporations and it was too wild for even the gov't to think to censor it.

I miss that 800x600 resolution. At least I was a happy pepe during those times.

The forums. Specially the anime and technology related ones.

Reddit essentially killed forums with niche themes

kek. must be getting harder and harder to do mental gymnastics like this

Playing games via Gamespy or MPlayer.

I think you are just salty that you missed out on the best years of the internet. You have no idea.

>not even anything to search for to be honest

Oh please. I can predict the exact results google will return to you on ANY subject:

>1: wiki article
>2: sponsored content
>3: some mainstream news articles

fuck off

>open video
>...hey guys!
>close tab

Where's the boundary between 1.0 and 2.0? To my knowledge the latter very much encompasses old Youtube, Sup Forums, and much of the early 2000's internet.

>early 2000's internet, everyone calls you a faggot for no reason
>current internet, only get called a faggot sometimes but they really get into it

I think I can complete that puzzle

Yeah monetization was a mistake. People were duped into thinking that "if the creators earn money, they can make better content"

In reality though all it did was give an content creation into a gimmicky business where nothing is more than flashing graphics, attractive women and clickbait.

I miss ls magazine and such.

I liked the forums, catching up with friends on AIM, endlessly speculating on crushes AIM profile to see if she liked me, and playing dominoes on pogo.

All while keeping a XANGA of sound recordings my dumbass friend and I made. Good times.

Firefox 0.7
Trillian
KaZaA
Midis
Geocities
No social media

myspace is not social media?

livejournal and the other blog sites were more notable than myspace

>Geocities
I'm so glad someone archived that junk so we can rub it in the face of nostalgiafags who think there was anything good about it: oocities.org/
Find a single redeemable page. PROTIP: you can't.

Nostalgiacucks will unironically defend this

Facebook ruined the internet and so did smartphones which were somewhat a result of facebook

You could actually do other things and have fun back in the day and alot less normies

What the f*ck?????
*begins to visibly sweat*
Is that a KKK flag??
*starts shaking*
Just... wow.

>to see how this is done please watch the next video
>we'll see more of that in the next video
>that'll be in the next part
>we'll get more in depth next time

^^^Some pajeets online lessons that were next to useless.

>open notepad
>"Hello guys Blazing90 here, today i will show you how to make windows shows BSOD"
>unregistered hypercam 2

> no social media
That is the best part of early internet

>there were a lot more fun little hole in the wall sites but now everything is youtube or facebook
>no smartphones available to make the internet accessible to retards and attention whoring women
>websites were more efficient and not bloated with all sorts of bullshit to monitor you or have a flashy real time ui
>very limited censorship

internet was a lot more interesting back then.

there were social networks back then but they were more niche activity. now its a mainstay for all sorts of dumb asses.

C'mon guys, let's put nostalgia aside and get real.

It was pretty shitty. Sites we're slow (due to slow connections mostly), FUCKING GIFS WERE EVERYWHERE, Flash Player was freaking killing your CPU, Sites simply looked ugly, people might say todays web design looks worse, but I appreciate minimalism, even if the sites themselves are bloated af.

Yeah, the web in its current state is still shit, but it is better than 10-20y ago.

Almost no normies
Almost anything goes
Less people trying to make a quick buck from something shitty
Calling someone a nigger or a retard had zero risk of getting you thrown in jail for hatespeech

Those, to name a few, are why I miss the early 00s internet

the only mistake was facebook/social media

underrated

>Sites we're slow (due to slow connections mostly)
i have cable since 2001, lmaoing at your smoke signal internet connection

I miss the mid 00s

I like how it was a virus ridden nightmare.

Social media consisted of MSN messenger and MySpace, both had basically no niggers

I like how I had a Mac for important shit and a Wintendo for everything else :^)

back then: tried to get normalfags I knew to use messenger but they refused
now: normalfags try to get me to use FB messenger/whatsapp/similar but I refuse

>Reddit essentially killed forums with niche themes
This is true. I've seen so many die. Kinda sad, but I never invested much time in them so eh

>there were a lot more fun little hole in the wall sites but now everything is youtube or facebook
I know people who basically only use reddit, YT, and FB on their computers. They only venture outside of those sites when they click a link on FB/reddit

>Fancy Pants
Ejaculated

>Forgetting YTMND

well that is a depressing picture

How do we stop the Eternal Normie?

+ internet literally killed print magazines, which is a shame. I loved those

You can't

I did too a moment ago, then that image fixed it.

corrupt them slightly overtime. Which is basically another name for advertising

More greentext and edgy memes
GenZ eats that stuff up

quints of truth

wiby.me

some good ones on there

lel got scaruffi.com/ by clicking surprise me

>tfw Shitdobe is killing an art form

whats the meme on this guy? I dont get it

Too much comfiness.

Any of you, still on newgrounds?

Honestly, who still visits dozens of different sites when he's browsing the web? I can't remember the last time I actually surfed the web by hopping from site to similar site by using the 'links' section.
Most of the content I consume comes from the same couple of sites.

this is a problem. the core of internet was always about diversity and decentralization, but the trend we see now is basically oligopolization witg ultra popular websites which de facto control the whole rest of the web

Kek'd

What the fuck is Grooves Circles?

> the core of internet was always about diversity and decentralization, but the trend we see now is basically oligopolization witg ultra popular websites which de facto control the whole rest of the web

Because you need money for hosting content 24/7, thanks to adblock small websites and content creators cant exist anymore except if you are a giant corporation

this. for any worthy results you have to skip at least the first three pages and then you'll still have sponsored links at top and bottom, it's basically fucked

Youtube killed gaming forums as much as Reddit did IMO. The more popular and mainstream the likes of AVGN and Irate Gamer got, the more the game forums I used to post on died.

And they didn't die in the Neogaf sense, where plenty of people still post but everyone is cringy and retarded. They died in the sense that 75% of the userbase stopped participating. Every year, a few more classic guys that were the face of the forum would quietly stop logging in anymore.

A very few people still are. Oney did a couple of LP vids recently where he played some games on Newgrounds. But no genuinely good new content comes from there anymore.

Flash games are dead, and cell phone gaming is responsible.

>nostalgic for run escape
Never even figured out what you're supposed to be escaping.

The web today is technically superior but it has regressed socially somewhat. I certainly do not miss the old Flash sites, Java applets, ActiveX shit, poorly standardised web technologies, highly fragmented and difficult to find information, exploit-ridden software in general, seizure-inducing flashing animated gifs, far more obtrusive advertising, virtually non-existent online shopping, and just how slow everything was.

Today's internet is very well standardised (the fact you only have to have 1 browser installed instead of 2-3 is a testament to this), you have convenient access to all sorts of information and services that would have been unthinkable 10-20 years ago, and despite the fact that modern websites are undeniably bloated, they load far faster on an average connection of today than an average website did on the average connection 20 years ago.

I do miss old internet communities, but it was often a horrible experience actually using the internet. Overall the internet has changed for the better, I certainly do not want to go back to the shitfest of the late 90s/early 2000s and I doubt very many people who aren't just experiencing childhood nsotalgia do either.

>I certainly do not want to go back to the shitfest of the late 90s/early 2000s and I doubt very many people who aren't just experiencing childhood nsotalgia do either.
I wouldn't want that. But I'd be fine with going back to the late 00s.

simple sites didn't need 10MB of fucking javascript bloat to run

It's interesting watching the average time period of nostalgia threads like this advance as the years go on. Go back to ~2010 and it was all early-mid 90s nostalgia, now everyone has nostalgia up to even the late 2000s. Makes you wonder what the average date of birth on this board is now compared to back then.

no, just 10MB of flashing animated banners

most small websites sold out before people started widely using adblockefs

Why don’t these fucking freeloaders get a god damn job like normal people.???

The world goes in cycles: at the start we are one. Then we part ways and grow in different places. Then we come back, fight or get bored, move again because of it, and so on.
There were a billion dialects in Europe, then came the noble Roman Latin. From the lower ends of society the vulgar evolved into modern romance languages. Now English is slowly imposing itself as the new lingua franca of the West.

In a similar way, the internet is right now going through its "globalization" phase: we started with our shitty unique websites and forums, the social media and one-in-all plague caught on, and we're here. In a few years new and current underground communities will grow larger in my opinion, possibly born from distress over these gentrifying forces (think of Facebook) and their harsh and stupid ways of doing things.
2000-2007 internet was the growth period. I don't know if I could've called it better, but it was the rise before the peak of when everybody (in the relevant parts of the world) started getting the internet.
It was more intimate, more centered towards doing things for fun and for free, but while still paying for the goods (both figuratively and literally), whereas now services are ad-based for example.

The only advantage of the internet of now is that you can finally reach every part of the world, form collectives, do things together or make a shitload of money.
The information age is still NOT here, though. The quality of information is the real problem: Wikipedia and even its sources are not as good as a library visit. Hate to say so but Scaruffi was right.

>Wikipedia and even its sources are not as good as a library visit
nigger not everyone has the library of alexandria in their town

Dark Cut got me.

Depends on how you look at it. Most of it to me is nostalgia for how web content looked at the time, but of course things were still pretty shit in some regards. I do miss how some things were back then though.

Social media for example is a key factor in how the internet works now. Before, you had forums, text boards, and shit like that which helped introduce people to the internet by grouping individuals to form a collective over a certain subject. Now social media is just about being social with people, without the set factor of a common shared interest. Facebook is a festering pile of shit, with people from all over the political spectrum whining and sharing fake news to one-up each other.

It's autistic to say that normification is ruining the internet, but there's truth to that.

i like the design of simple static html pages, none of this dynamic javascrip loading shit in from 200 different servers

but i also love the fun of the internet today, messing with normies and watching stuff unfold live

i'd combine the two if i could

Thank you

Everything was better because there was almost no political penetration at this point. Now the whole internet is like one or a few companies with all the internal politics this entails.

Politics seriously ruins anything

Is anyone else saving their classic flash games (.swf files) in case Flash dies?

I got a ton. I don't get why everyone hated flash so much. I been using the internet since 1994 and frankly, never once had an issue using or running flash. Except for the annoying update reminders. I think the hatred for flash is out of proportion with its actual flaws. Its like people are just parroting what the "experts" are saying about it and never seem to be able to offer any actual concrete examples of when they got fucked over by a flash applet.

i think i still have a copy of Madness Interactive somewhere

...

>no social media

You don't remember Friendster, Xanga, MySpace, Netlog and SixDegrees?

Shit videos.

I miss the old Habbo so much.

yep specialised forums were the pinnacle of human knoledge... especially that one demi-mod who new more about the thing or the science that the people who fucking built it

diy valves audio, rally cars, nuclear fusion, drum and bass, mountiain biking, car cruising and meetups...

shit actually got built... people met up things actually happened... i dont know what the fuck happened. well we all do being web 2.0, social media but actually analysing the social exodus

thats why i hate facebook and zuckerburg... i didnt want the social change they forced on everybody

back 10 years ago i was at a gold coast parking lot with a few hundred cars, everybody greasing their own machine... making it faster...learning.. having fun... hooking up with real women

now its all gone and people just have their financed bland stock cars and miserably stare at a smartphone void and get casual sex with the wrong people from tinder and cant into relationships anymore or focus on one person...

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

POOL'S CLOSED

I remember how it was really easy to ignore them all, since no site ever prompted you to log in with any of them.

The social media and tech giants today really are kinda like internet ghettos.

>teach me how to hate
Flash had security flaws out the ass, for one. Not that HTML5 is any better, but it seems smoother especially when used cross-platform.
The Mac version of flash was also terribly slow. But then, pretty much everything on a PPC Mac was, since apart from Photoshop and a few other programs nothing was optimized for it.
I remember not liking how I couldn't seek and scrub through stuff like Newground animations or Homestarrunner cartoons.
Though I did like how there were new Homestarrunner releases every week. SBemails a best.

>Xiao Xiao
aww yiss
>Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
You know what that reminds me of...
youtube.com/watch?v=CO2_yu1o85s

it was comfy af

>Trigun
>Jak and Daxter 2
>Pokemon Crystal/Gold/Silver
>Dan N' Me
Aww yissss