>tfw you missed out on the wild west days of the internet
>takes the entire night to download 30 second 160x120 Cinepak movie trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DYBICc0nFs
Just buy a thinkpad on craigs list/gumtree, burn a live distro to a flash drive with a write lock switch, pull the hard disk, load tor onto the flash drive, flip the switch to read only and ya good.
>>51289421
>being a millennial
How do you live with yourself, kid?
>>51289421
Just KY, it's never coming back, those days are long gone sonny-boy
>>51289488
>>51289488
>>51289488
>Just buy a thinkpad on craigs list/gumtree, burn a live distro to a flash drive with a write lock switch, pull the hard disk, load tor onto the flash drive, flip the switch to read only and ya good.
>>51289488
>>51289421
>>tfw cowboy during the wild west days of the internet
yippie ki-yay motherfucker
>>51289488
then they fucking track the previous owner of the hardware serial, get your email/mobile from them and you're checkm8 in 2 moves dickhead
>>51291326
For most people they wouldn't bother.
If you just want wild west unrestricted content you should be fine, if you're actively searching out CP they might try.
>>51289421
>wild west days of the internet
A lot of those people work for government now anyway so all you missed out on was a stable career.
>This captcha
what the fuck is a patio I'm not fucking american
>>51292186
he also missed An0nYm00s3 and the whole scientology shit
>>51292247
Blessing imo.
>Implying it didn't die with the decline of Usenet
I actually feel sorry for you, OP
Say what you want about it being nostalgia bs, but hell did we have good times back in the day
Good time indeed
>>51289421
Much like how the railroad took days to cross, the "wild west" of internet meant 50k so just take that with a grain of salt
>>51292247
That's pretty recent desu senpai
>late 90's
>windows insecure as fuck
>literally 2 in 5 computers infected with sub7 trojan
>just scan any ip subnet to get hundreds of infected machines
>connect to them and you can do anything you want
>go on irc
>scan ips of people in the room for infected machines
>connect to them and listen in on their irc private conversations
>take over the keyboard and say stupid shit to the person they're talking to
You millenial faggots don't even know the fun you missed out on
>search for latest Brittany Spears mp3 on WinMX
>half of the results are CP
bitch you have no idea, i was there when bluesnews first began and no one even knew about it
i was there when people got their emulators from davesclassics
i was there when google was the redheaded stepchild of search and everyone was using altavista and yahoo
>>51293091
Hackers couldn't do shit to me on my 33.6kbps dialup.
I never patched Windows, either.
>ordered IE5.5 update CD from MS for 10€
>years later Windows XP SP3 came out, Micrsoft offered free update CDs worldwide shipping
>order like 100
>when I send letters to friends I send them a CD, or three, with it
>>51289421
the early years were pretty terrabad
2002 is when shit was starting to hit the fan
What you don't get through the nostalgia was how shit the technology was.
The reason it was the wild west and normies weren't on it is because it was pretty tricky to use, and there was nothing pretty on it.
dial-up was awful. A screechy slow mess that disconnected every 5 minutes when your mom picked up the phone.
But then it was made better, and easier to use, and normies started wanting a piece. Then smartphones came about and normies could get on it while also doing normie things.
I remember when everyone was using Yahoo!. We gave our IT teacher a funny look one day when he said "use Google" - what a funny name for a search engine.
>>51293835
Hotbot was the best search engine, followed by Alta Vista. Yahoo was cookie cancer.
>1998
>dial into aol
>search porn
>literal advertising illegal shit everwhere
Receipts from supermarkets used to have full credit card numbers printed on them, along with the expiry date. People used to throw these away...
Oh yes...
>>51289421
Huh? It still is the wild west. I've been on the internet since 1995.
>>51289421
stop whining we're still in them. But with ISPs starting to implement bandwidth caps and the TPP they're ending soon.
You're not missing out on anything, the internet back in the days sucked major dick. Also, the internet is pretty much still the "wild west" desu.
>>51294520
Rubbish.
>>51289494
I'm assuming this guy is gone, but wow, what an idiot.
>>51294925
What?
>9600 baud Hayes modem
>CompuServ user
>$90 bill for 8 hours binge surfing
Seems like yesterday...
>>51293698
>davesclassics
Dat nostalgia. Thanks anon.
trust me. today it's still the wild west, at least compared to what it will be in 10-20 years.
>>51291326
Burn phone and email maybe?
>>51293961
Yahoo wasnt a search engine back then, it was a directory. I remember my site finally getting accepted into its listings. So many webring invites after that.
Unless youre into cp you didn't miss that much. And shit was slow as fuck.
Geocities should have never died.
>>51293828
>The reason it was the wild west and normies weren't on it is because it was pretty tricky to use
Have I misunderstood you here? PCs in the late 90s were tricky to use? If that's what you're saying you weren't there.
>>51289421
be glad you missed 'em, trust me
>>51295271
They were tricky to use. Just because you were one of the people who were smart enough to use them doesn't make them tricky to use.
They were still baby-mode easy but that still isn't easy enough for normies.
Normies want iphone level simple.
> WOMEN RUIN EVERYTHING
> AGAAAAAAIN
>tfw you got to see the rise and fall of silk road
>tfw edward snowden, assange, manning, and other cyberpunk shit happened during your life
what are you talking about anon?
>>51295291
>iphone level simple
well thats why the mac came out
>>51295325
This
Maybe it's not the wild west days anymore, but it's definitely the cyberpunk days now. Everyone is being spied on, and the only way to hide is in the darknets,
It's just a shame they're only used for CP at the moment. They have so much potential
>>51289421
>mfw reading Ghost in the Wire
fucking with telephone lines sounds fun
I miss chat rooms and could never learn how to use IRC after they died
>>51295291
They're harder to learn and use now than since windowing systems became commonplace.
>>51293828
pretty much.
normies ruin everything including the /b/ board.
>>51289421
It's not completely civilized yet. I that suggest you enjoy what is still left and that's quite a lot. Why aren't you embracing the current cyberpunk era? There's never been a greater time than now for cyberpunk.
>tfw I was born
>>51289421
That's cause you're too dumb to get to the new wild west
>>51295140
>Yahoo wasnt a search engine back then, it was a directory.
I honestly didn't know that!
Yup. Trying to troubleshoot problems without the internet or resources was super fun. Or the couple hour drive to get to bookstores large enough to get the information you wanted to learn. Also fun. Or just having BBS that had time limits cause you know resources were scarce. Or writing the for loop in as many ways as you can think of cause libraires didn't exist yet, but it didn't matter anyways cause you needed massive funds to be a software producer anyways. Mailing those disks or finding storefronts wasn't cheap.
At least I held my dick less back then, usable porn was hard to come by
>tfw all the old irc channels are dead
>tfw no autistic circlejerk to shitpost in all day
>tfw no more forums to show off my post count in
>tfw no idea where all my friends went
This new internet sure is lonely
>>51296510
>Or writing the for loop in as many ways as you can think of cause libraires didn't exist yet
what
>>51296511
You can always circle jerk on /g/ and the irc. We're all desu senpai here.
>Searching for porn on Altavista
>Born in the wrong decade
>Probably underage
>>>Youtube pink floyd video comment section
>>>OUT
In the late 90's I would go on AOL dial-up and download these things called "pr0gz" which would allow you to spam aol chats with ascii pictures of Bart Simpson or a penis.
Most of them had viruses which fucked my parents computer up multiple times and then aol suspended our account for chat abuse and I just played dumb and parents believed me.
I never got into computer stuff like most of you but for those two years I truly considered myself the major thorn in AOLs side who was bringing them to their knees with my ruthless spamming of ninja turtles in political discussion chats.
I legitimately believed that aol board meetings probably dedicated 60% of their time to identifying and stopping this absolute madman clogging their chats.
My screen name was "L33t3st" and one time I went in some bullshit room called "h4k ch4t - place to chill with other rogues" or something similarly gay, and I spammed something stupid, asked if anyone had a virus I could use to shut down my middle school, spammed some more, got made fun of, held the button down to spam constantly and send blank private messages to everyone in chat. Got immediately kicked and somebody sent me a message with my dad's email used for setting up the account with some vague threat. I turned the computer off, disconnected the modem cord, TOOK THE COMPUTER INTO ANOTHER ROOM, plugged it back in, deleted aol, reinstalled with another of the millions of aol cds in our garage and chuckled to myself thinking "nice try amateur".
>>51293698
>not using dogpile
Why wouldn't you want search results from 14 different awful search engines at once?
>>51293698
Does anyone remember some emulator and hentai site called Plasticman or something?
I saw my first cp digging through a random BBS's FiLEZ section. Nobody gave a fuck.
>you will never have an angelfire page with a 400x400 picture of Fiona Apple covering her boobs with her hands, surrounded by literally hundreds of rotating skull and exploding fire gifs backed by a truly epic 7 second midi cover of "criminal"
>>51289421
Searching Gopher and Archie networks for hidden Pron.
>>51293197
>try to download the first spiderman game for PC trough limewire
>get a great RTS featuring superheroes beating up villains in a cartoony looking town instead
great times
Although out of everything, I miss the communities, phBB forums for guilds/hobbies/certain topics will never be the same again thanks to the burst of social networking sites such as twitter, facebook and reddit.
Bittorrent killed IRC.
>>51297192
truly, it was a golden age
>tfw don't get to wait 5 minutes for a page to load anymore
>tfw no parents to yell at you for hogging the phone line
I dunno guys, the absolute shit that were forums in late 90s early 00's were what made 4chan appealing in the first place. It wasn't wild west at all but a bunch of power tripping "we take ourselves very seriously" mods. If you wanted shit flinging you were stuck hiding from the high functioning autists in IRC.
Sites were either amateur to the point of uselessness, stick up their ass self serious, early boring corporate endeavors, or just straight porn with no discussion at all.
>>51297252
Believe it or not, IRC is not 100% about sharing warez.
>>51296730
The installgentoo one? Isn't that dedder than ded?
I didn't miss out
>>51293961
>mfw Magellan not listed
>>51297446
this, outside of a few communities like NG a lot of the web was normalfagville.
The internet has ben integrated too much with our daily lives.
>>51297664
By 2000 IRC was mostly file sharing; the channels were huge and the OPs were Nazis.
>>51289421
No I did not. I sold PHP scripts and made a decent money for my own expenses as a kiddo. I remember forums falling ,ircs being shut down, people leaving communities.
I was also a scriptkiddie, now that I got older I wonder how in the hell did they not catch me. I guess the wild west protected me.
>>51294042
It's pretty funny reading the old Jolly Roger Anarchist cookbook.txt that used to get circulated. He talks about stealing the trash from grocery stores and shit to get credit card numbers.
>>51298715
The feds pretty much had zero power until the 2000s. It's incredible really. Somehow the government just failed to form effective large scale anti-cyber crime teams.
>>51293961
>Alta Vista
I remember the babelfish.altavista.org site.
God, that shit was cash
>>51298944
No CCV numbers needed back then.
You could download a Dos credit card number generator (think it was called "Cardmaster"), I recall it was dated 1994. Never used it, personally, but others said it worked.
