Why was the early internet so much more enjoyable than modern internet?

Why was the early internet so much more enjoyable than modern internet?

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Because it was only white and yellow nerds

because you had to wait 15 minutes for your page to load up and you would use that time being patient and calm rather than a spastic fuck like what we have today.

This, there were literally no normies. It was not cool to know how to use computers competently.

No normies.

Because it was just for video games and not social signalling. Once the normies came it turned into normie signallingnet

No fagbook
No twatter
No plinkedin
No plebbit,
Shall I go on?

This.

Niggers ruin everything they touch, sandniggers shit up everything they touch.

If niggers never invaded my interwebz safespace I probably wouldn't hate them as much

Novelty.

Men value novelty above all else.

No niggers

No sjw shit

Mostly semi smart competent people online not every faggot in the world

Early Internet was all white males.

pretty much this. When the normie masses started using it everything started being catered towards them for ad shekels

niggers couldn't afford to get online

no niggers and tranny faggots

everything was hilarious, no one took each other seriously, no one cared about muh privacy because we all knew we were underaged nerds with no lives anyway, no social media infecting every area of the internet and trying to connect your real identity to all sites you use.... it was great. I consider the friends I made on SWG the best internet friends I have ever had and look back on those years extremely fondly. Not even WoW came remotely close to how cozy and communal we felt amongst each other, just playing our vidya and living our lives as smugglers in the star wars universe with no one pushing a political agenda on us.

>it'll never come back

There was more freedom of expression.

Websites were artistic creations from those who made them.

Your "experience wasn't tailored ~~just for you~~", i.e. You weren't manipulated

Less ads

Less toxicity

Memes were not quanitified, were not the main form of communication

also why these low quality pics, shill?
I know you want to screenshot Sup Forums while we say fck nignogs vote trump, but we're not like this.

Nice bro. My shit was everquest.

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Social Network
Cyber Police (god, that used to be a joke 10 years ago)

Fucking normies

Trolling middle aged folks on yahoo answers was so strangely satisfying back in the day.

Early internet was the wild west. I had AOL back in 95' when I was in high school. I was trolling chat rooms before trolling was even a word. Good times

what kind of dipshit father doesn't have a screen over their active fireplace, especially with a little child and all that flammable shit scattered everywhere

makes me mad tbqh familia

It still isn't cool to have basic understanding of tech. Wearing glasses and being one of five guys in a college program basically made me the unofficial I.T. guy because "lol, how do I connect to WiFi? What's a volume control?" These are people who have trouble typing simple paragraphs in HTML.

Social media was a big killer. Before that normies who were too dumb to figure out an IRC client or anything like that would just stick to their emails and AOL chatrooms. Once social media came onto the scene they spread to every corner of the internet and destroyed everything they touched.

It really pisses me off how every sector of life needs to be remade in the liberal world view. Even video games are infected with it, and when I was growing up that would've been unthinkable.

And that is your typically brain dead apple user.

>lol what, you don't like apple products or something?
>oh him? yeah he's anti-apple. Don't know why since they make the best products

that is not true in my experience. granted, you NEVER had video back then, but the pages back then came from one site, not 20 different ad and tracking java script sites.

and that was on 28K modem, compared to however many MB i'm getting now on broadband.

it's just like software: no matter how fast or capable your computer is, the latest and greatest software will try to max it out.

Everyone has different reasons. When I started out in like 1996 the internet sucked honestly. It was exciting for me, I was thrilled by it. But it sucked. There's no getting around that. Most real webpages looked like geocities pages looked 4 years from then. The content was poor too.

Around 98 things became really cool. I heard about napster on TV and tried it out and thought it was the best thing mankind has ever came up with. I went on IRC. I learned that people trade music and other pirated content on there. I didn't have a computer in my home but I would try to get access to this stuff whenever I could, be it at school, the public library, my grandma's house...

One of my best ever memories was going into Circuit City in 2001, downloading mIRC and going into #RNS on EFnet, downloading the Ludacris CD Word Of Mouf on their demo computer that had a cable modem, I was amazed that it only took 10 minutes, then I burned it on a blank CD-R I bought right there in the store. The manager came up and he was pissed at me and booted me out.

The internet now is better than it was then. Way better. It just won't ever be exciting for me again. I'll never learn to use winzip or winrar for the first time. I'll never have to send xdcc commands again. I will never have an internet girlfriend I met in a pokemon chat room. I have better things now, just not the same feelings about them.

The keyboard was a tool that filtered out retarded monkeys from pouring into our world, the touch screen interface was a death sentence for the old, good internet.

Why do you think niggers and women love ipads so much?

Good times back in the days. Asking permission to turn on the 56k modem to looking up guides for games on Gamefaqs. Playing flash games on Newgrounds. Waiting for nudes on Pamela Andersson to load, which took ages.

I think I missed the earliest days though.

fpbp

Because you were 12 and easily entertained.

The internet is much more enjoyable today. You used to have jump through hopes to find movies. Now I can literally stream almost any movie, show or song for free.

Internet culture is now actually shaping the real world. Meme and trends that start online are having a real impact on the real world.

Next level trolling is now a thing.

You can bait celebrities and politicians into responding to you or reacting to something.

Things, however, have gone downhill for the autist. Now they realize how truly lackluster their middle class life is, and the internet allows these rejects to wallow in their pitty in their rooms while posting on an image board.

>Why was the early internet so much more enjoyable than modern internet?
From roughly 1985-2000, you had to have some computer knowledge to even attempt networking. Computers didn't come with modems built-in at first, you had to go to the modem aisle and pick one out. Then you had to open your computer and install it. Then you had to know how to run the software and put in the right phone numbers. And every couple of years there was a new, faster modem on the market which would have you back inside your case swapping out parts.

Dial up internet was essentially an IQ test. 95% of the people on the internet today would fail that test.

From 2000 to 2010 the quality of the internet declined as the speed and ease of connecting declined. Soon, any child with a tablet could surf the same web you do. Any mongoloid foreigner from his shithole cave could connect to your game server and crap up everyone's latency.

And now, for the last 5 years there's no barrier at all. From infants to the elderly, all around the world the normal people of the world all share the internet. It's no longer a technocracy. It's no longer a luxury space for people higher than lower-middle class. It's no longer a first world novelty. It's a place where the average retarded fuckstick checks his facebook every 10 minutes. It's become a shithole, by and large.

>cybering in a chat room
>waiting 10 mins for a porn jpeg to load
>burning a cd that took over an hour to burn
>1000's of mp3s from napster
>AOL cutting out from getting a phone call
younglings will never know these feels

>I will never have an internet girlfriend I met in a pokemon chat room.

I forgot about her.

Actually the internet was decently good until smartphones came out. Before then you needed to invest in an expensive computer to get on so it kept a lot of people away. Thats not racist or economic, just that if you were really interested in getting on the internet you had to make a sizeable investment.

When you could get on the internet with your phones suddenly the normies flooded in and everyone started catering to them, because lets face it, they outnumber the old guard and spend a shitload of money on crap.

Now you have a internet thats being censored all over the place and content that caters to the lowest common denominator. Add jews to the mix and you have the modern day internet.

This. We have so much content and the quality is so much better, but the novelty isn't there anymore. I still use xdcc to pirate anime, though.

>internet girlfriend

I got something to tell you, user...

My ICQ girlfriend disappeared one day and I never talked to her again. She may have gotten kidnapped.

I will avenge you my love.

Cybering may be a lost art but I still draw on those skills I learned long ago when sexting.

XDCC is still a useful tool. There are even huge channels around with hacked bots and pirated stuff still. It's not like the old days where all the bots were on .edu lines and speeds weren't guaranteed, now they're all on like 10gbit servers.

For anime groups and other grey area type things having xdcc bots is easier than ever. Servers are affordable and anyone can have them. I remember in 2002 wishing I could afford the hundreds of dollars per month colocation would cost. Now a few years ago I was trying to set up a free amazonaws instance for myself and marveling at the fact the person who wrote the tutorial learned how to do it because they were trying to help their autistic son set up a minecraft server. Times really have changed.

Man... this hits home. I hate that CS is becoming trendy and attracting all those hipsters faggots or the wall street types faggots who are in just for the $$$.

"Back in the ol'days" we used to talk about CS and cool engineering stuff at the coffee machine, the few women were assistants and there was no open space bullshit... it was all about making good work.

>what the fuck user, you haven't signed our transphilia, eco-normative and gender fluid code of conduct

>hey user i am going to this cool grudge and sheep-rock music festival, this was so DANK xDDD

>user, X is going to grab some mocha frappucino ducci faggotino at starbuck, wanna take one ????

JUST KEK MY SHIT UP

>used to troll as a girl in a French chat room called Caramail or somesuch
>some moroccan wanted me to find him a job here so he could come to Canada and meet me

some things never change

Saging used to work.

SAGE

2 reasons

1) Less people. More people = more stupid cows, and when they become a good share (20%, not necessarly being the majority) they made so much noise everything is set up on them.

2) The web was (almost) free. Surely a lot more free than now.
You have no much information, but you could get everything by spending time and searching it.
Now we have something like 83589358935 times the informations we had, but a lot of big sites (jewpedia, jewgle, jewbook, and so on) take the lead to be seen as the truth. And small sites cannot almost be reached.
I know, it sounds crazy, but if you experienced internet before year 2k you know what I mean

>I will never have an internet girlfriend I met in a pokemon chat room. I have better things now, just not the same feelings about them.

Centralization of the net has ignited tensions and made it shit. No seriously, think about it. Once upon a time you had many many different websites (remember when people had fucking homepages?) that catered to certain interests and built real communities around those interests. Now, major websites have eclipsed them as centralized platforms, bringing everyone together on one platform and surprise surprise, everyone hates each other. Never mind modern politicization of fucking EVERYTHING.

It's basically the same reason multiculturalism fails. People want to stick with the social in-group. Instead of bringing people with similar interests, the modern net brings dissimilar people together on centralized platforms and they just fucking fight and virtue signal. Dumbing-down in technology like fucking smartphones just lowered the bar to who can participate. So normalfags and over-centralization killed the net.

less people, less business, less corruption

there's a number of factors, all of them contribute to my crippling depression

Totaly this.
It used to be fun.
Now it only makes me angry.

It was new and there were no black people on it.

at least apple still puts their phones together with screws instead of fucking glue and adhesive like the idiots at samsung

i don't know what dumb fuck saw a waterproof disposable camera and thought "hey phones should do that" but that person has really fucked a lot of shit up

Another thing, whenever threads like this come up I imagine showing what I have now to my 12 year old self. I used to have to sit around waiting for movies to download, babysitting the dcc transfer or else my stepdad would come around and unplug the computer before it finishes. Now I have a 1tb seedbox with a gbit connection. I think my fucking mind would be blown.

As I wrote 2 posts before yours, I agree.
Internet became so massive, that actually there's no much real difference with any other media

Oh the irony of listening to the AOLamers complain about the good old days when the internet started to go to hell after the "Eternal September". I miss the old school Usenet.

You fuckers weren't around for soc.culture.African, soc.history.what-if, rec.arts.erotica and whatnot

Usenet made this place look like a daycare.

inb4 what is this google bullshit

There used to be some legitimately crazy people on there though. I remember being on AOL chats back in 97 and getting harrassed by some pedo was a pretty common thing.

I miss the old interwebs when it was actually fun to chat with people you met in video games or on Sup Forums on AIM

Met some brit who loved loli's and introduced me to this shit

youtube.com/watch?v=EUvpMhw5ALw

I feel you, maplebro

>There used to be some legitimately crazy people on there though. I remember being on AOL chats back in 97 and getting harrassed by some pedo was a pretty common thing.

Fucking with them was all part of the fun.

Only the retarded kids actually ever met up with them.

>old interwebs
>Sup Forums

Pick one.

The Jews hadn't fully monetized every click. I'm not even joking.

Someone else here played Yahoo Pool to collect rares, masters, stars, symbol, etc... ???

this. i had my driver's license when Sup Forums first appeared

Classic Sup Forums is already old internet to me. It's been 10 years since I started coming here. What was starting to unfold was what got us where we are now though. MySpace became a thing.

Yeah, I used to actually search for chat rooms back then. It was so exciting being 12 and talking to all the old men pretending to be teenaged girls.

Truly good times in usenet. Its a shame to see that its become a graveyard.

Less social media. Social media encourages bad things like loss of privacy (Facebook, google), everyone being able to spout their dumb opinions and circlejerk each other en masse (Twitter, Tumblr) reaching a massive audience, the entire concept of a "profile" is garbage because it sets up the idea that it has to look good, people surround themselves with lots of "friends" so they look and feel more popular to make up for their real life loneliness, etc.

The irony of social media is that it isn't "social" at all.

>No fagbook
Fagbook was actually an improvement here. Before it, people here were using Hi5, which is the same shit as fagbook except you could also rice your page to look like complete cancer. And oh boy, a lot of cancer there was.

old Sup Forums was old internet for me.

Before that all I used the internet for was the random hentai you'd find on like page 20 of yahoo and gamefaqs.

>you could humorously post something in poor taste without being accused of being a turbo edge master
>people could actually detect irony and play along
>government and corporations weren't interested in legislating your faggot nerd shit
>gormless old normies and underageb& were only an occasional soft target for trolling
>autistic retards mostly kept to their own hugbox communities
>no social media/real names or faces to incentivize insincere virtue signalling faggotry for social currency
>no eggshell walking to prevent a mooing mob coming for your reputation and livelihood
>girls were a inconsequential minority of camwhores and community drama queens


I miss the wild west.

this. 2004 - 2007 was the best period

>Brazil
>white
>having Internet in the rainforest
Kek

I have mixed feelings about that period. Those were the days of LiveJournal and MySpace.

Less third world, less women, less media.
In short, no smartphones.

> Because it was only white and yellow nerds
As many have said: this.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercialization_of_the_Internet

Because originally the Internet was run by US military and academics.

Commercial downfall:
Then assholes figured out they could monetize it and turned it into network equivalent of Britney Spears.
Low cost solutions at a high price justified by a hefty dose of of bling bling.
5 MiB webpages that require supercomputer power of the '80s just to render.

Cultural downfall:
everyone joined in, not just nerds (ie intelligent people). We don't need to go any further here.

the iPhone in 2007 killed the internet

Under rated post m8

Exactly how I feel.

correctamundo.

our biggest concerns were star trek and halo, not feminism and black lives.

I don't think so. MySpace and Youtube made it what it is now. Facebook, Twitter, etc carried the torch. I hated all the stuff when it first came out, interestingly enough I kinda learned to like MySpace after I was attacking it constantly. I made one real life friend off there, a girl from my town that was homeschooled and had weird strict parents. She was into anime and video games and we started hanging out.

I think it was my fault that MySpace got ruined entirely. I made the quicktime exploit that fucked the site really hard public.

everyone having a mobile phone is what made them mainstream. 2006 brought in the normie millennials but 2007 brought in literally everyone

>quicktime exploit ruined myspace
>not splicing urls to see people's private pages.

myspace ruined myspace but time warner paid $15 million for it.

It became both too centralized and too big, there's too many people on it so it felt like everywhere was the same and as such the magic was gone.
With increased site security nowadays you can barely raid anything too, just old shitty websites and tumblr.

>old wow
>tfw you'll never be abLe to spend countless hours grinding element resis gear again
Feels bad

Correction:

It was only white and yellow MALE nerds.

Women ruined everything and put narcissism in every form of media.

Back in the day, we played games. Now we have YouTube celebrities and twitch streamers, and a bunch of manic-depressive indie girls with fake antler cosplays playing Undertale and pushing the League of Legends and Homestuck audience in every niche.

Shit, even Deviant Art, of all places wasn't like this. Before it was gothic art and really well-made concept art. Now it's a 90% makeup and modeling.

Before women came in, there was quality. Once they came in, they changed the market, and now to please them, things are shitty and mediocre at best, because, let's be honest, their tastes generally suck.

I think about that AND my time on golden age runescape a lot.

There will not be any new people to know those feels.

There were normies on the internet before then though. AOL is what brought them in way back when. If you think that dumb obnoxious teenagers weren't on the internet before smartphones you probably weren't there.

That was newscorp actually. It was getting worse and worse all the time but that one incident was like the straw that broke the camel's back. It ended up fucking up so many people's profiles...

This is the correct answer.

Remember fucking RuneScape guys? Just look at the old 2007 logo and bathe yourself in pure nostalgia.

The MySpace era was shitty. That's when the brodude Xbox crowd came in. Mind you, this was before the dubstep brodude crowd. This was the snarky assholes at GameStop demanding you to buy Halo brodude.

I mean, come on. Don't you remember those god-awful house parties with the "You Spin Me Right Round" remix and everyone going nuts for CKY and Viva LaBam?

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The shills are getting crafty

sage

all i ever did on the early internet was search for bluebird jap porn and download south park

i am not sure it was more fun as much as my life was better back then

While you wouldn't look back on those days as the best at least the people playing halo were getting together and having LAN parties. But yeah if you look back at the stuff you mentioned like CKY/Viva La Bam it was shitty. I was in FYE the other day and someone dressed like those guys would be back then was buying some Wiz Khalifa cds. Being a douchebag with shit taste is timeless.

>Myspace

That was okay, but its all about Xanga

Selling Red p hat press 999

2007 runescape still exists
oldschool.runescape.com/
it's a little different called oldschool now

Less normies

kek, didn't know this exists.

Especially on the religion part of the website

Because it wasn't really subject to mass media and mass movements thanks to the low density

Does anybody have that pic that says
"Computers for work" and shows oldschool computer nerds using PC's, and then steve jobs saying "Computers for everybody else" and then everyone is just posting selfies and being retarded?

White normies caused way more damage to the Internet than niggers.