>>53775588
Boring until the 2000s desu

Mommy, why do you have a peepee?

>>53775588
It was all about clicking jump scare pseudo hard loading porn images everywhere.
Spent most time on various forums or made communities and tried to rank up on others.

>>53775588
you could either be on the internet or someone can be on the phone
can't be both at once though

you could have meaningful conversations with people without being asked to watch youtube videos all the time

Overrated tbqh, you didn't miss anything much m8.

>>53775588
The internet sucked pretty hard until Google came along (but usenet was ok). The early 2000s were still the best time on the internet. It was the best era of web design. Tasteful, information-dense pages. Slashdot was good, and Adequacy.org trolled better than anyone out there today.

>>53775608
something something shitlord

>>53775588

Altavista and Yahoo search engine suck donkey ass and always full of malware links.
Literally no adsblock or decent trojan protection.
Netscape and Opera Browser is shit.
Real Media is cancer but quicktime was much worst.
IRC bot quizzes was fun.
Angelfire and geocities was the old facebook.

Newsgroups and sites hotlinkingto related content were how you found things.

My dad had a Mac, so I didn't have any viruses to worry about. He pirated me Ranma 1/2 way back in the mid nineties.

>be 11
>it's 1998, hammering away on IRC
>Tigereyes joins the channel
>Hey there femanon
>A/s/l'd her in private
> having fun chatting with her friend
>They were 13
>I lied and said I was 13 too
>Ended up arranging to meet them in a mall for a movie, couple of days of getting to know them
>Got a friend of mine to join us so the numbers were even
>13 year old girls are way more physically mature than 11 year old boys.
>Sandy was tall and had dark curly hair and the start of beautiful tits.
>Romy was short with frizzy hair and not as hot but kinda cute.
>See disappointment on their faces.
>Go to movie anyway, 0 action.
>Go for kiddie drinks and cake after, no idea what the fuck we spoke about.
>Awkward goodbyes, call a few times and slowly lose touch..
>See Sandy a few years later in the same mall browsing a music shop, fucking sexy bitch.
>Awkward greeting and pseudo catch up.
>B-bye Sandy..
Never saw her again.

Dial-up made that shit a serious effort. Also downloading music from PhazeNet from bots overnight so I didn't block the phone line from my family.

I don't remember much of those days, I was seriously obsessed with IRC though, and I probably did some really illegal shit when I started posing as a lesbian and getting girls to send me nudes. I remember one 12 y/o sending me a pic of her and her girlfriend (white girl living in Indonesia) or so she said. Was probably a pedo hoping to get me to send one back. I never sent shit to any of them, always made up some excuse. I was catfishing decades before I ever learned it was a thing apparently.

When it wasn't IRC it was gaming, Baldur's Gate for single player and Diablo 1 for multi. Duping obsidian everything of the whale, farming ears for my clan..

Damn, this was actually a lot of fun to think about.
Grandpa, signing out.

>>53775588
The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it. White shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise.

You came to 4chan and SA for the maymays
Now we come here to escape stupid normalfags

The days when fansubbing Animu was fun and didn't have to worry about lawyers coming for you.

Days when I could charge 4 months worth of rent on some stupid 30sec flash intro to Corporate America.

>>53775588
SA was the shit.
YTMND was also the shit.
4chan is also the shit.
Anglefire and GeoCities was the old facebook.
Dial-up was horrendous.
Limewire was full of viruses and CP.
Everything else was shit.

>>53775588
Flash anime porn everywhere
The year zone was born