>only oldfags will remember this
i remember masturbating to hot girls on youtube when i was young because porn was blocked on my computer
>>47692152
>guitar
>mfw I spent fucking months learning to play that song and its variants
>>47692152
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77_4n7CeiHA
>>47692152
>i've been on the internet longer than youtube
Is there still a page that shows the top videos?
>people born before 2001 are now oldfags
>>47692179
I have masturbated so many times for hot TV presenters on high school on youtube
>>47692152
>My space the movie
;_;7 i remember the times when i had friends
Why did it all go south for me :(
>>47692395
Because you valued things like having friends on MySpace.
>>47692269
People born in 2000 are now 20 years old.
>>47692463
>2015
Are you retarded?
>>47692467
You're the only retarded one here buddy
>>47692428
Not them, but when I was in high school, it wasn't uncommon to make meatspace friends on myspace. You know, people with similar interests who lived one city over from you or whatever. I never did it, but by the time I graduated, a good sized chunk of our circle of friends consisted of people we never would have known without the internet.
>tfw 2003 was 18 years ago
>>47692519
>he doesnt remember the internet before youtube
underageb&
>>47692152
this makes me sad. youtube is shit now
>1990 was 40 years ago
>2010 was 75 years ago
>>47692517
That story could outsell Avatar.
>>47692152
wait, what? I'm only 21
>uncomplicated video names
>star rating system
>No multi-million subscriber splash screen thumbnails - screaming give me your money
Refreshing
THAT HEY CLIP IS STILL TEMPTING ME TO CLICK IT, EVEN THOUGH THEY JUST GOT LUCKY WITH THAT BEING THE HALFWAY MARK FRAME
>>47692428
I had real life friends on myspace but they just went away...
>>47692248
>I've been on the internet longer than google
>>47692152
>lion sleep tonight
never got what people saw on this that made it sooooo funny, such a shit video
>tfw 1997 was 40 years ago
i feel old
I'm 23 and I don't remember the old youtube because I started using the internet at home in 2009. Poorfags will know this feel.
>>47692649
Kevin Smith helped direct that little video of theirs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_CSo1gOd48
>>47692698
What? I always taught google invented the internet.
>>47692649
first youtube video I ever watched
I remember trading [spoiler]music videos[/spoiler] with people on forums via yousendit, and then someone came along like "woah guys, we can just post them on this little video streaming site here." Gamechanger
>>47692747
>2009
jesus fucking christ i'm only 18 and i had internet in my house since 2000
And i live in Brazil
>>47692248
>>47692698
>I've been on the internet longer than "the original hotmail"
>youtube being good
it's like I have literally fallen through time and am in the past now
also fuck these roadsign captchas, I didn't go on the internet today to have to look at things with my eyes
this makes me really fucking sad
i used to browse the internet and fuck around on newgrounds and watch youtube with my friends when i was a wee lad
now all of those friends have moved on and because i was homeschooled i never made any new friends and i am alone
i know it's pathetically autistic to miss something like that which only makes me even more sad because it makes me realize how big of a loser i am
fuck
>>47692778
I had never even heard of the internet in 2000. Up until I first used it at school in 2003 I always thought that the sole purpose of computers was word processing.
>tfw Dec.12th 2005 youtube account got deleted over copyright
do you guys still have yours active?
>>47692870
I deleted mine at around when google shit came up because my mom linked her gmail to my YT for some reason.
RIP shitty pivot animation videos :(
>when youtube used to be 90% anime clip videos set to Evanescence
Now it's only like 60%
time's inexorable march damns us all
Thanks to YT I was a happy footfag in mid to late 2000's.
>>47692152
Literally who?
>>47692839
nah don't worry we all reminisce over shit like that
you're probably a cool guy anon
>>47692152
I don't fucking remember that smosh video having 13 mil views back then, what the fuck?
>>47692961
AMV's on youtube arent really much of a thing anymore, mostly due to copyright protections and the previous generation growing older.
>>47692911
My sides I used to make shitty pivot animation videos with linkin park music on my first youtube account. Haven't logged in in several years.
>>47692463
Woah
>you'll never feel the joy of watching runescape machinimas again
why live /g/?
>>47692248
>>47692698
>>47692806
Fucking kids. I remember when V.34 was the hot shit.
Remember when they introduced audio swap and EVERY FUCKING VIDEO had this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsTegvGDioc
>>47693390
I fucking HATED that song. along with this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8-sMJZTYf0
instant video mute.
>only made a youtube account in 2008 because the local video website closed
>only made facebook account because local alternatives closed
>>47692248
I've been on the Internet longer than the web. (Just barely.)
And I have little to show for it.
>they removed the "total videos watched" counter from the user profiles
>>47693446
my oldest still active email is from 2001.
>set youtube to German
>minecraft lets plays and other crap on front page
>set youtube to Hungarian
>normal, obviously non-monetized videos on the front page
I don't get it
>>47692911
>>47693260
Oh fuck I forgot about pivot. I made some but never uploaded them. They were so terrible. I think I remember one where a guy drank from a bottle then tossed it at someone's head and then beat the shit out of a bunch of people.
>>47693260
CRAWL
-ING IN
MY SKIN…
how do we fix the internet /g/? I want the old internet back, no facebook or social media integration. no real names. not getting arrested for calling someone a faggot or SJW bullshit like that.
>>47692843
Well then you're a fucking pleb. And how the fuck are you on /g/? Go back to >>>/b/ you fucking child.
You can only be a true computer enthusiast if you have been using them from the stages of early childhood. My dad got our first computer in 1995 I think, when I was 4. It was a 133 MHz Pentium machine, and I think it had 16 MB of RAM and a 2 GB hard drive. It ran Windows 95. But I also used his work laptop at that time which was even worse, some Compaq machine, that ran Windows 3.1. Then the rest is history... grew up using machines that ran Windows 98 / SE, Windows ME, Windows 2000, XP, Vista, and 7, and also OS X 10.4 through 10.10.
In short, you're a pleb.
>>47693547
>not getting arrested for calling someone a faggot
Speak for yourself man, we don't have that problem here.
>>47693251
>copyright protections
Every time I launch my "music playlist", with various single songs from around the world, there's at least two missing.
Fucking shits.
This is a very average youtube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T6iUMhw11w
>>47693586
>streaming music
AHAHAHAHAHAHA
you deserve it
Is there still something like "Featured videos" on YouTube anymore?
It's all stuff tailored to my history and my subscriptions now, which makes me sad.
>tfw you spent way too much time watching vlogs from girls you followed only because you thought they were cute
>tfw they're long gone
>tfw you kinda miss them
>they removed public annotations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT6WSc9-1aM
>>47693606
>downloading music
>>47693613
In one way it makes sense. You're more likely to click on things similar to what you watched. But yeah, less random serendipity.
>>47693606
Nigga, those are some single fucking songs I heard at one time and sometimes feel like getting back to.
But yeah, you're right.
>>47693613
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrEnWoR732-BHrPp_Pm8_VleD68f9s14-
>>47693681
Yeah, of course. I'm just sad they removed the "global" element of featured videos. They were good most of the time, or at least interesting to have seen.
>>47693689
Hey cool, thanks! That's not too bad
>>47692152
>>47693558
>children calling other people children
>>47693558
>autism: the post.
>>47693739
holy shit
>>47693782
>>47693817
>shitpost: the meme
>>47693597
Why this music was so popular back then ? Like every video had it complementary, I mean how, why ?
>>47694049
It was always the first suggestion when audio swap started on youtube
>>47694049
It was a meme song. What song of today would be its equivalent?
>>47692911
>>47693260
>>47693521
>TFW all the fun that my friends and I had making videos of stick people making jacking it and fighting in pivot.
The other day I found a torrent of The Matrix that had been inactive since 2003. Haunting in its melancholy.
>>47692747
almost exactly the same feel anon ;_;
>the poorfag feel
>>47693547
embracing the freenet
>>47693558
gj kid, you just became new pasta
>>47693547
We build our own web in the overhead of CB radio frequencies.
>1990 was 67 years years ago
>>47692152
>YouTube® was always an evil, freedom-destroying cultsite that had nothing to offer but turning you into worthless, mindless sheeple
>>47694462
don't you think it's a bit early to be declaring pasta?
>>47692622
Don't forget the clean, efficient page layout with no hidden buttons or extraneous memory-eating bullshit. Web design since 2006 has gone to shit.
>>47693547
You can't, any more than you can fix television, radio or the press. When a medium gets corrupted, we make a new one, and the cycle begins again.
>>47693558
>children born in 1991 are 24 now
This can't be right.
>20 years ago was 40 years ago
>>47694731
let's say a child was born on January 1st 1991. they would be 10 January 1st 2001 and 20 January 1st 2011. they would be 24 January 1st 2015.
>>47694762
No I think your math is wrong.
>>47692585
2010 wasn't good though
This week they made the big white empty area in the subscription feeds clickable.
Want to just give focus to your browser window? NOPE YOU CLICKED AN INIVISIBLE LINK
Fucking dickheads I swear.
>>47693475
hungary doesn't have much internet
>>47694785
Oh another thing. Maybe if they made that useful in SOME way, but no, middle clicking that area acts like a LEFT MOUSE CLICK. 10/10 user experience.
>>47693547
Netflix, Google and Amazon are stronger than you. Just let internet die in peace.
>>47694801
More like we don't have as many kids watching stupid minecraft lets plays
>>47694731
nigger are you serious
>>47694543
>>47692717
>>47692585
>>47692563
>>47692519
ITT: Stupid people.
>>47694543
>tfw never caught the brickster
>>47694844
>posted 2 minutes ago
>>47694785
I'm getting pissed off with the increasingly unpredictable outcome of what a standard user interaction will do, as well as visual hints being inconsistent and inscrutible. It's as if web developers (and fucking appers) have never heard of the Principle of Least Astonishment.
>>47694844
>not understanding jokes
>>47693547
You don't fix the internet, because it's not broken. We live in the result of over 250+ years of electronic research, an age of information where it's impossible to control the flow of data through brute force. Even in China, people can still get pirated DVDs of US films.
If you are unsatisfied that your favorite websites have faded as it's userbases grew up, then find/make new ones and accept that this is the nature of digital information.
Also, Facebook will die just like AOL, Myspace and Digg did. It's just a software company. And in the US you can't get arrested for exercising your First Amendment rights, that's a problem only shit-tier countries have.
Welcome to the future. This is exactly what people like Bill Shockley and Claude Shannon slaved away to achieve.
By the way, you should read this, if you haven't already:
http://www.mast.queensu.ca/~math474/shannon1948.pdf
Everything we have now is comparable to the absolute monopoly the TV networks had in the twentieth century. Websites come and go, you're only whining out of nostalgia.
>>47693679
>not using youtube-dl
get out
>>47694655
one person copy pasting shit is enough for a past
Also it has all the points needed by pasta
>stupidity
check
>stupidity told in too much words
check
>navy seal
sadly not checked
its 2 out of 3, that is good enough
>>47694785
I dont want to be that guy but
>using OS that cant follow focus on mouse
I want to kill myself every time I boot win partion, just for that
>>47694543
>>47694735
>>47692717
>>47692585
>>47692563
>>47692519
Newfag here, explain plx :)
>>47694961
It's ok.
The invisible link however covers everything including the description, no quick copy&paste, so it's not just for scrolling
I dind't use youtube when it came out. I didn't have a good enough computer to waych videos in the first place, and I've used linux since I got my first computer (I only used the ones in school and stuff), and flash was.. messy, to say the least.
and I hated the idea of watching videos in my browser.
>>47694915
>BAWW BAWW WHINE WHINE WHINE SHUT UP BABBY
worthless posting
i don't know why you posted shannon's paper on information coding
>Everything we have now is comparable to the absolute monopoly the TV networks had in the twentieth century.
fantastic!
>>47694996
When did you celebrate your centenary, gramps?
>>47695023
>i don't know why you posted shannon's paper on information coding
Because if your read it, he explains the economic effect of it: that big monopolies like AT&T don't need to exist to provide quality and reliable digital service like they are needed for analog. It applies to media in general as well, because with digital information any idiot can easily just copy/paste info and spread it around just as easily as an actual news studio. We're living in that era, where information can't be banned by brute force. Otherwise, bittorrent would have died when the MPAA cried about it a decade ago.
>>47695047
I'm less than 30
enjoy being tracked and having your personal info (a/s/l, tastes, interests, etc) being sold to 3rd party companies, you little faggot
>2014 was 2 years ago
>>47694996
Oh, and I remember being here in /g/ when someone found a bug in youtube... and published an exploit (stored XSS IIRC)... that was fun watching.
>>47694936
>Also it has all the points needed by pasta
>its 2 out of 3, that is good enough
Listen there, buddy.
>5 minutes ago was 2 seconds ago
I remember the design of YouTube back in 2009-2010 was the greatest.
I remember when you could watch someone's videos while browsing through their videos at the same time. And why did they have to make youtube channels look lifeless and boring with the only customization you can make is THE FUCKING TOP BANNER.
They also got rid of 5-star rating syste(they can go fuck themselves on that).
I wonder what goes through their heads when they design their fucking website, because they are not good
>>47695515
>I wonder what goes through their heads when they design their fucking website
"what will improve advertising revenue?"
this explains all of the above changes
