Do you guys remember the old internet? What was it like?

Do you guys remember the old internet? What was it like?

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I believe you kids would say it was "lit"

it was hard to find anything

The bad: slow and no streaming porn,

The good: trolls were everywhere and SJWs had way less traction,

i believe the internet was free
behind my keyboard people let me be

see there used to be a thing called freedom of speech
we were fream to teach each other the freedom to preach
we lost that freedom

not freedom as in free beer but the freedom to be free from fear
even here in the united kingdom
the fact that i'm from england isn't a matter to our new masters and kings

You used to be able to find clips from TV shows, which was dope. And then when Real Player starting putting up full episodes of shit like South Park...

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not if you knew how to look

if you've lived through the entire existence of the internet it went like this

>really bad and slow
>only text and maybe a few pics
(it free and unsupervised like the deep web now)
>more and more people buy computers
>freedom online is becomes restricted and marketable
>slowly improve performance and general capability of internet and computers until present day
>the end

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I remember sometimes typing words into google and no results found message got displayed ;)

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There was this one website i remember that streamed porn... Like actual streaming, live porn, with a couple channels to chose from... Never anything good on.

Pretty much the same as it is now except without the SJWs. You could get away with saying anything you wanted back then and all the popular social places were chat boards. The internet was slow AF for everyone across the board except for schools and anyone would could afford a T2 connection. It wasn't uncommon for someone to download a bunch of crap via Limewire at to a thumb drive and take it back it back to their place.

I used to love exploring and browsing back in the early 00s. Webpages were original, and people talked much more freely without shitty memes and sjw bullshit

Today everything is the same and boring.

Did anyone else use rorta, totse, bombshock etc.?

anyone talking about SJW are most likely under 18 lmao
you would never even think about social justice back in the early years of the internet

It was awesome. There was lots of fucked up shit that can't be talked about anymore.

when i was young i always when to Altavista to search for XXX

r@y

Geocities pages full of animated gifs assaulting your eyes, and 10 second midis on never ending loop was the shit!

more fun for people who arent the facebook.

...

Positive niche communities
A lack of cynicism and mistrust
Genuine opportunities to make new connections.
We've moved from a Couchsurfing culture to an Air BnB culture.

nah.

Old internet sucked balls. AOL pictures taking 10 minutes to download. That annoying fucking start up noise. “You’ve got mail!” Whoopty fuckin’ do! Games grainy as fuck. One song taking 30 min. to download. People are nostalgic because it was exiting at the time because it’s all we had and it was new. If you had to use it today, you’d drop the whole big box shaped mess in your bathtub while you were in it. Websites fucking sucked too. Yeah yeah yeah, they were the stepping stones to what we have to say and blah blah blah, it sucked. Big hairy donkey balls. Smothered in shit.

Slow
Pop-up ads that contained powerful viruses
Awesome wordfilters tbh
Few normies

Dude. Anyone who reads this can tell you're a fucking COOMBRANE

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Lots of gold.

>Smothered in shit
Just that extra tid bit.
i lol'd

Less fascists, less anger, more fun.

yeah you did you jizzape

For you.

You used to ask someone about something you didnt know. You were considered a nerd for spending time on computers this was befor social apps when it was uncool to be on computers. Loading speeds were terrible games graphics sucked but story and gameplay was better. You could find all the illgeal content to your hearts content ungovern.

Old school fun, where people would post a picture in alt.binaries of a japanese gal, dial up mind you so it would load ..and bam she has a cock

Not true. There were a good amount of nazi webpage. My first contact with nazis was a web called NWO. Fucking nazis.

Those quads i win

>you would never even think about social justice back in the early years of the internet

This. SJWs weren't a thing. Nazis weren't a thing. Proles were too poor to afford a desktop PC, so most people here were upper middle class. Conservative values and right-wing conspiracy theories were laughed at. It was a decent place. Even Sup Forums was decent at times.

Nice quads.

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I said less. Now the fascists are shitposting across the entire internet and aren't contained to fringe websites nobody gives a fuck a bout.

>One song taking 30 min. to download
Nigger it took 3 DAYS

pretty much this, the internet used to be the wild fucking west. Complete chaos the good, the bad and the lulz.

If only we had the connection speeds we have now back then...

but yeah, once the normies started to commercial the fuck out of it and brought "order" it's just gone stale and bland.

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89 . com and habbo hotel fuck yea

this. Sup Forums as a whole was way more liberal back in the early days, as only richer liberal families could afford extra computers for their kids.

I built mine myself out of parts I ordered from doing lawn work, which is the other half of 4channers at the time - people with knowledge and skills to make shit themselves.

One thing that's always bothered me over the years is how everyone thinks Sup Forums is some safe haven for racism. It never was supposed to be or intended to be - calling people niggers and fags was only intended to be inflammatory to drive away people with thin skin, though I guess most people would just equate that to proto-SJWs as they weren't exactly a think back in founding days of Sup Forums.

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its not that bad guys. we still have ourselves !

"my fellow americans..."
that was a little too common for any given mp3 on limewire back in the day

>mfw

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Good.

This.

The internet is larger, but it feels smaller. There's a handful of massive sites that people visit and that seems to be it. Plugins like stumbleupon opened up the internet..but it's all gone.

Facts.

Holy shit totse

Yes, before the times of hatred and corporate exploitation.

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"I'm spinning!"

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I was a rortafag but I was way too young to be on that shit, I came up with my own schemes and pyro shit and it was all crap. Made me feel badass at the time though.

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I missed when used to be able to mux music and rars into images doubt pic related will work though since they scrap extra data off now

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Going back and reading the Anarchist's Cookbook today makes everything in it seem childish and ineffective

yeah a lot of that stuff was based off of experimental knowledge, but you can get much better versions of nearly anything in it these days - like how to make bullet-resistant armor out of milk jug plastic or laminated fiberglass.

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sure the internet speeds sucked, but content was way better and more original back in the day.

While SJWs weren't an official thing at the time it's not like people that had a compulsive need to be offended on someone else's behalf didn't exist, it's just that the internet becoming more accessible gave them a megaphone that could reach every corner of the world, and thus came the need to classify them under common identity.

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"WEREREREEAEAEAECRUNCHCRUNCHCRUNCHBIPBIPWEEEERRRAAARARRAAAADSDSD"

Limewire roulette.

Beastiality. Lvlo trolling agains fbi, google, at&t.... We cant have nice things like youtube porn day 2008. There will never be a purge.

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Sup Forums used to be good

why do zoomers constantly larp like you guys fuckin scare me you need a draft to shake you out of these delusions

Draft age ends at 28 bro. Eat shit.

>Not naming that image "cherrypie.jpg"

kids these days need all kinds of stuff they're missing.. Look at these stupid fucking rock cairns.
If these kids would have a community service project or something and build a stone mailbox or a raised bed stone garden, they would learn a valuable skill and get that shit out of their system instead of building these pointless things in nature and posting pictures on their instagram. Kids are stifled and need to experience stuff their ancestors would have done..

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Yeah. Put them in the cotton fields, coal mines, slave galleys and steel mills! They build character!