Why was the early internet so much more enjoyable than modern internet?
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.
>>77493828
This, there were literally no normies. It was not cool to know how to use computers competently.
>>77493714
No normies.
Because it was just for video games and not social signalling. Once the normies came it turned into normie signallingnet
>>77493714
No fagbook
No twatter
No plinkedin
No plebbit,
Shall I go on?
>>77493828
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
>>77493714
Novelty.
Men value novelty above all else.
No niggers
No sjw shit
Mostly semi smart competent people online not every faggot in the world
>>77493714
Early Internet was all white males.
>>77493975
>>77493936
pretty much this. When the normie masses started using it everything started being catered towards them for ad shekels
>>77493714
niggers couldn't afford to get online
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
>>77493714
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
>>77494442
Nice bro. My shit was everquest.
Social Network
Cyber Police (god, that used to be a joke 10 years ago)
Fucking normies
>>77493714
Trolling middle aged folks on yahoo answers was so strangely satisfying back in the day.
>>77493714
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
>>77494343
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
>>77493936
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.
>>77494750
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
>>77493916
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.
>>77493828
fpbp
![download[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/avXr6Mf.jpg "download[1].jpg")
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.
![$_1[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/YOLExHs.jpg "$_1[1].jpg")
>>77493714
>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.
>>77495280
>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
>>77495280
>I will never have an internet girlfriend I met in a pokemon chat room.
I forgot about her.
>>77493714
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.
>>77495280
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.
>>77495799
>internet girlfriend
I got something to tell you, anon...
>>77495799
My ICQ girlfriend disappeared one day and I never talked to her again. She may have gotten kidnapped.
I will avenge you my love.
>>77495745
Cybering may be a lost art but I still draw on those skills I learned long ago when sexting.
>>77495838
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.
>>77493936
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 anon, you haven't signed our transphilia, eco-normative and gender fluid code of conduct
>hey anon i am going to this cool grudge and sheep-rock music festival, this was so DANK xDDD
>anon, 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
>>77493714
Saging used to work.
SAGE
>>77493714
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
>>77495280
>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.
>>77493714
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.
>>77493714
less people, less business, less corruption
there's a number of factors, all of them contribute to my crippling depression
>>77493828
Totaly this.
It used to be fun.
Now it only makes me angry.
>>77493714
It was new and there were no black people on it.
>>77495087
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.
>>77496906
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
>>77497152
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 4chan on AIM
Met some brit who loved loli's and introduced me to this shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUvpMhw5ALw
>>77497486
I feel you, maplebro
>>77497539
>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.
>>77497659
>old interwebs
>4chan
Pick one.
The Jews hadn't fully monetized every click. I'm not even joking.
>>77493714
Someone else here played Yahoo Pool to collect rares, masters, stars, symbol, etc... ???
>>77497901
this. i had my driver's license when 4chan first appeared
>>77497901
Classic 4chan 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.
>>77497539
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.
>>77497486
Truly good times in usenet. Its a shame to see that its become a graveyard.
>>77493714
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.
>>77494162
>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.
>>77497901
old 4chan 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.
>>77493714
>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.
>>77493828
>>77493936
this. 2004 - 2007 was the best period
>>77497060
>Brazil
>white
>having Internet in the rainforest
Kek
>>77498744
I have mixed feelings about that period. Those were the days of LiveJournal and MySpace.
>>77493714
Less third world, less women, less media.
In short, no smartphones.
>>77493828
> Because it was only white and yellow nerds
As many have said: this.
https://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.
>>77498891
the iPhone in 2007 killed the internet
>>77495575
Under rated post m8
Exactly how I feel.
>>77493828
correctamundo.
our biggest concerns were star trek and halo, not feminism and black lives.
>>77499745
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.
>>77500203
everyone having a mobile phone is what made them mainstream. 2006 brought in the normie millennials but 2007 brought in literally everyone
>>77500203
>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.
>>77499894
>old wow
>tfw you'll never be abLe to spend countless hours grinding element resis gear again
Feels bad
>>77493828
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.
>>77500951
I think about that AND my time on golden age runescape a lot.
There will not be any new people to know those feels.
>>77500539
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.
>>77500542
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...
>>77494271
This is the correct answer.
Remember fucking RuneScape guys? Just look at the old 2007 logo and bathe yourself in pure nostalgia.
>>77498891
>>77498744
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?
>>77493714
>1 post by this ID
The shills are getting crafty
sage
>>77493714
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
>>77501711
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.
>>77498891
>Myspace
That was okay, but its all about Xanga
>>77501501
Selling Red p hat press 999
>>77501501
2007 runescape still exists
http://oldschool.runescape.com/
it's a little different called oldschool now
>>77493714
Less normies
>>77502214
kek, didn't know this exists.
>>77494602
Especially on the religion part of the website
>>77493714
Because it wasn't really subject to mass media and mass movements thanks to the low density
>>77498913
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?
>>77494169
White normies caused way more damage to the Internet than niggers.
>>77502505
you should check it out on twitch, some pretty dank memes over there
Because normies weren't on it. The more normies started getting onlir, and the more the internet started to cater toward them and not the nerds and outcasts and 1337 hax0rz the lamer it got. It became just another way for corporations to rake in the dough.
>>77502687
At least niggers are funny. Can't say that about tumblrinas.
>>77493714
Social media ruined everything
![main[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/K9Vl6ZX.png "main[1].png")
>Downloading lesbian_sex.mov
>2 days and 8hours remaining
>>77493714
ONE POST!!!1
It bloody wasn't, unless you were a paedophile, I guess.
It was like going into the largest magazine store in the world, and only being able to read the first four pages of anything that took your fancy. Really slowly.
>>77502956
>download finishes
>CP
Those were the days, I suppose
>>77502687
The white normies saving the repressed people of color.
>>77493714
Because autists and psychopaths had less sway on the casual internet user.
Now they dominate discussions, and thus the more easily manipulated form opinions around them.
Basically the modern internet is more like a bad version of highschool where no one really learns to think for themselves.
>>77493714
Because to use the internet you had to be atleast average intelligence.
Now any braindead fuck can do it thanks to facebook and google.
>>77503298
I'm guessing they didn't have AOL in your country.
>>77494729
Dad detected
>>77503375
I doubt it.
>>77493714
Yahoo Answers was and still is shit.
Because it was only geeks.
>>77494750
Isn't that just illiteracy? All you have to do is stick <p> and </p> on either side, it's not even complex in any way
>>77493714
anywhere normies go things turn to shit with their desperation for attention and lack of creativity / wit
>>77493714
Because you had to be able to configure IRQs and shit to get on the internet in 1996
>>77493714
No smartphones. Now every shit brained nigger and vapid whore has access to the Internet, so the culture devolves into shit.
>>77493714
I used to shitpost on yahoo answers so much back in the day
>>77500539
I feel like the iphone 4 is when everyone got on board. It was the first iphone to come on all mobile carriers and was much cheaper than the previous iphones.
>>77503290
plebbit is a prime example of this. If you say something against the reddit norm you get downvoted almost immediately and most cases get shadowbanned or outright banned from the site.
>>77493714
>Why was the early internet so much more enjoyable than modern internet?
Economics is one of the biggest reasons.
It used to cost lots of money to host anything on the web. When you saw a web site it was because someone at some point took it upon themselves to pay for it and keep it going. This resulted in lots of niche hobby communities(I still remember some model warship combat forum) springing up that weren't ever intended to attract a large audience. There was also a lot of text and not much that would attract a casual visitor. So there was a distinct culture and attitude.
Now hosting is cheap and you can make money relatively easily either directly through ad revenue or selling user data or both. Websites are designed to attract the largest number of users because they are there to make money.
A big shift came when youtube started paying channels, suddenly people were getting money to upload their videos which is the extreme inversion of the 90s when bandwidth was so expensive.
Of course the proliferation of smartphones is another major factor in the modern internet, the skill floor is now vastly lower and the social stigma is much less. The internet was something a computer nerd would do on a desktop in the corner of a room in a house...not carry around in their pocket all day taking selfies.
>>77493714
I miss using AOL as a little kid back in the late 90's/early 00's.
And napster and kazaa.
>Tfw you will never wait 30 minutes to watch a 3 minute music video in 140p again.
>You will never wait half a day to download an mp3 again.
>You will never wait 5 days to download a low quality bootleg of a movie.
Why live?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1UY7eDRXrs
>>77493714
Normies looked down upon people that invested lots of time in a computer. It was uncool, and people were afraid of being classified as "antisocial." Of course that changed with social media, which eased people into the internet.
I joined relatively late since I bought my first computer (a Dell desktop) when I could finally afford it in 2003, although all I did was play Runescape and shitpost in forums.
if only 2007 never existed
>>77497152
>>77494378
>>77494347
>>77494296
>>77494169
>>77493828
STOP THIS MEME
y'all honkies act like you forgot about /b/lackup provided on multiple fronts and operations during the early campaigns...
>>77504638
>that fucking dial up sound
Literal nightmare fuel for kids
>>77496906
Pretty much. Now almost all the content is for the big sites like Twitter, Youtube, and Facebook.
>>77500951
Were you aware of the Nostalrius project before Blizzard shut it down? There are still functional Burning Crusade servers that are pretty much blizzlike aside from a few bugs.
>>77493714
>you will never boot up your windows 98 toaster and connect to dial up after a day of school ever again
>>77500951
>>77508072
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>>77502779
This, black Twitter is the saving grace of mainstream social media.
>>77508986
kill yourself
>>77509411
Fuck off Tucker you humongous fagot
>>77509741
why would you play on kronos at this point? laggy piece of shit and total waste of time.
just quit wow until official legacy servers or play on feenix.
>>77510428
i don't go away and don't ever reply to me again
>>77501398
AOL was heavily controlled, though. That's like comparing the zoo to a jungle
>>77493714
It's still enjoyable if you use it the way you did back in 1998. No Google, Facebook, Twitter etc. Find things relevant to your interests using web rings and links from sites you already know.
In addition, it could just be the stuff you look for. I am interested in computer security, both as a hobby and as a future profession. If I'm looking for rare polymorphic viruses for testing, I can't rely on a search for "rare polymorphic viruses" on Google. I do everything the old way by going to sites I already know that Google tends to bury, using their links and web rings (those that still exist, some of which are now over 20 years old) and chatting on IRC or posting on boards with people who may have been on the Internet as long as there has been one. With the right hobbies, you can avoid the cancerous parts of the Internet, sometimes for entire weeks.
>>77493916
I remember when I first used the Internet (1997 using a dial up service) you could make pages load about as fast as they do on a cable connection today if you tick a setting in your Internet options to not download images. Of course, the typical spastic fuck on the Internet today is probably not going to log on to actually read something.
>>77493714
its called gentrification
>>77502789
T H I S
Facebook was bad, but Twitter and Reddit were the shit that totally destroyed the internet.
Twitter gave the false impression of a mix between news and instant communication. Reddit gave the false impression of intellectualism and hobbyist forums. They usurped unique communities and made everything feel the same and pliable to outside manipulation.
Tumblr only evolved after Twitter succeeded and Instagram knocked out the old school image sharing sites.
The modern internet is basically
Something found on Twitter or Youtube > Post on Reddit > Article on social media news site like Buzzfeed or Salon > Posted to Tumblr or Facebook
Google, Twitter, Youtube, Tumblr, Reddit, Facebook
These 6 basically control the narrative and can make or suppress stories at a whim. 4chan and Liveleak are supplementary crap for autists who reject the sphere above and they have little meaning outside their sphere.
>>77511655
This is only possible because tech-minded people often stick to those kind of underground systems and have the determination and knowledge to reject shiny social media interfaces.
Like using the dark web forums to learn about hacking and web security, because the people go to the effort to post on those onion forums would naturally be experienced.
Going on there to learn about building model rockets as a hobby is pointless because they're not so IT minded and have therefore moved to trash like Reddit and Facebook as standalone forums became harder to maintain.
>>77495745
>>77496428
its not really lost, there still big communites who roleplay (also cybersex) like f-list etc.
>>77493828
100% this. Soccer moms ruined the internet.
>>77494593
>Cyber Police (god, that used to be a joke 10 years ago)
Consequences have never been the same.
>>77494750
>These are people who have trouble typing simple paragraphs in HTML.
>>77494729
Yeah I don't know, seems retarded.
>>77493714
Whats wrong with todays internet?
You have 4chan and youtube
What else do you need
It just opens up the pool for trolling
tfw 07-08 youtube was absolutely prime
>>77493828
First response is always the best response.
>>77493714
No, fuck you, the early internet was a pile of dogshit garbage, and not that the garbage has ceased or not grown since then, but the internet has truly become engrossing and exciting in these times.
Feel free to fucking john titor your ass back to 1995 with shit 26.6k baud and even shittier tier service provider and everyone is a bluepilled retarded faggot and nobody knows what the fuck they're doing. Have fucking fun.
>>77494162
yes plox
>>77502789
>finally got popular on the different forums I was a regular at
>suddenly all userbases dropped like a rock cuz of social media
I don't really care now, of course, but you're right -- it marked the beginning of the end of small-time forums, with reddit being the final nail in the coffin.
>>77513163
Shit from 4chan inevitably leaks into the normiesphere on a regular basis and always has. It's pretty ignorant to doubt that this place does actually have some very real influence, albeit not backed by money and thus not as immediately apparent as the Big Data goys.
>>77493714
>1 post by this ID
Beware of the shills
>>77498744
Pleb. 2001-2005 was objectively the best period
>Tfw you will ever spectator hack on Half-Life and TFC ever again
>>77503161
oh my god
some dude at my secondary school told a teacher about how this happened to him and the school told the cops who came and took his entire PC away for rigorous testing
it was hilarious
It wasn't about agenda-pushing as much as it was about creating a different reality.
Examine everything enjoyable you can remember. Early internet. Hobbies. That videogame you spent hundreds of hours on as a kid. What did they all do? They took you out of your immediate reality.
>>77517951
2001 was not good. I'll compromise with you and say 2002-2005
>>77498744
Wrong. That's the point when normies started using it. Pre-9/11 was the best time.
>>77498891
>LiveJournal
is this worth checking out anymore? what goes on here?
>>77513163
All content is controlled by 6 corporations all owned by kikes, where have I seen this before.....
more things to explore before the consolidation
To much to fast. Over sensitized. Eventually no joy is found in simple things. To beat this. Read a book, stay of this shit for a month.
>>77519216
this is just depressing.
>>77518902
what was there before 9/11 in the non-AOL internet?
>>77519575
also
>>77493714
>1 post by this ID
I got tricked
>>77493714
Lack of poor people, retards, and faggots.
Generally only better off and intelligent people had access in the early days. Also it was not hyper commercialized as it is now.
Less normies, no niggers.
![Ragnarok-Online-Client_10[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/4yYNtlN.jpg "Ragnarok-Online-Client_10[1].jpg")
just let me start anew
i want to be 12 again
>>77519912
pre 2001 there weren't really centralized places to discuss things other than I guess newsgroups. web forums hadn't really been perfected
Interesting thread bump
>>77520861
>tfw used up all our prepaid limited hours internet on idling
>>77494442
SWGemu man
The pre-social media internet was truly the best thing to happen to conventional nerds. If you had no life anyway, you at least had a world open to you with a barrier between on and offline, and the people who ventured into it had to abide by that fact. You could make friends and explore information without any normie prerequisites on your part. In the days of IRC, everyone was on the same footing, and rising higher required more than just tits and selfies. Nowadays, you're fucked without a Facebook. You're fucked without voice comm. You're fucked unless you try to become something you've been marginalised for not being all your life. You're as much a loser online as you are off.
Perhaps it's the way things should be. But it's still tragic to think an entire generation of losers has been robbed of their one sanctuary.
>>77520861
Omg that game was glorious
I miss msn era, kind of
