What ruined the internet?
Women.
>>79512176
>>79512176
Having this same shill thread posted again and again.
>>79512176
wide availability + social media
It was probably when mass amounts of people realised it could be used to organise movements and shit.
But desu fuck 90's kids and their sense of superiority just because they grew up in their sunshine decade. 97' here, try growing up with the Twin Towers being merely nothing more than 9/11.
>>79512176
Social media.
>>79512176
Normal people. And Jews, don't forget the Jews.
But seriously though, if the internet was still a utility that was only heavily used by research institutes and corporations, and only used for fun by NEETs, modern life wouldn't be nearly as degenerate.
Reddit and political correctness
who remembers the glory days of 4chan '06?
smartphones...it let nigs into internet and it all has went to shit since then.
t. online since 2400 baud
Normal people, corporations and centralization
>>79512274
and other assorted normies
>>79512176
Corporations and when they realized the internet could be monetized. Google, facebook and iphones sped up the decline.
>>79512556
We have a time traveller lads.
Did Trump win?
Did Britain rid itself of muslims?
How's Europe?
When it became normal for people to spend all day on the internet
I mean, I spend all day on the internet but in weird niche places like /pol/ and strange forums about race and television. When it became normal for sorority girls to spend all day on facebook and twitter and shopping online, to the point where they even bring their laptops to class just to browse their favorite websites, that's what ruined the internet. Just like any other hobby it was destroyed when the normies showed up.
>>79512176
Popularization. 90s and early 2000s were damn fine and fun.
normies
but then again they're the reason im here
women and normies
>>79512176
MySpace was the beginning of the end, and YouTube and Facebook secured it.
>>79512176
Social media
When women became women
Back in the beginning everyone was male even the women
No one cared or believed you were a women on the net, everyone was treated like shit equally
but when it was proven that women were among us the simps, saps and white knights rushed to defend them and so the thick skinned women who were always here suddenly played up their weakness and shitted it up for everyone.
>>79512457
Well I guess when you're 97 feet tall the Twin Towers are nothing more than 9/11.
The Jews
>>79512645
The UK is called New Pakistan and mainland Europe is now known as North Somalia. All ethnic whites are dispersed among the Northern United States and Canada. Supreme Chancellor Obama cancelled the 2016 election after declaring the idea of a white man winning the presidency "too offensive for minorities."
I miss the World Wide Web on the late 90s and early 00s. I know it was shit and slow but I'd take it over this
Narcissism and greed.
>>79512969
Google was the beginning of the end desu.
It was fun when there was websites that you couldn't find in the normal ways. You actually had to explore, look at links on web pages, try random url ...
We should migrate to gopher, create dank holes and make it non-meme anymore.
>>79512176
/pol/
>>79512176
Normies.
The further out of the anglosphere www usage got the more the internet went to shit tbqhf
>>79513549
>Normies
WWWeberz
>>79512176
smartphones, tablets, and social media. it brought normies into the fold who had no idea how to use a computer.
>>79512176
>>79512176
World governments criminalizing the Internet. Including the UK's. I swear half the things on TV criminalizing IT seem's made up or done by actors so the authorities can pounce on anyone.
>>79513396
Btw here's a gopherchan
gopher://port70.net/1board/b
You can post with a script
gopher://port70.net/1chan
>>79512176
Facebook, MySpace, tindr, tumblr, reddit, fast internet, global internet, Amazon, Google, iPads, Apple computers and new YouTube. Old YouTube was good.
fucking normies
How is it supposedly ruined?
Selfies
>>79512176
These.
Call the cops I don't give a fuck.
If you've ever unironically inserted this shit into a PC, you ruined it.
>>79512176
Going mainstream.
Australians
>>79513166
Jews were on the internet from the beginning
Muslims are now crawling all over the Web
>>79513396
Angelfire/ Geocities and other amateur sites were the pinnacle of internet, prove me wrong.
Proliferation of smart phones from 2007 onward.
June 29, 2007 was the second Eternal September.
The Internet from the mid 90s to a bit beyond that date was awesome.
>>79512621
There are people on here now, who never saw pre google youtube.
>>79512536
I do and even then people were talking about newfags ruining their board and how much better it was 2 years ago
>>79514801
There are people on here now who never used Netscape Navigator.
>>79514891
There are people on here now who never heard this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHW1ho8L7V8
Seriously....what fucked up the internet?....dumbass people and corporate shitheads did
The internet was great was it first started....nobody knew how to control it
>2008
There are no women or blacks on the internet lol!
>2013
Why are women and blacks taking my E-culture away from me?!
>>79514977
There are people on this board who never were so limited on internet which was expansive as fuck that you had to actually plug the cable once you were done loading the thing you wanted/had retrieved it.
/pol/
Tablets and smartphones.
A PC was more or less an IQ check to access the interent, but now anyone can get on with their phone or tablet.
So in short Niggers.
>>79514753
Webrings were always fun.
>>79513396
That would be interesting if all the old fags of the Internet migrated away to some new web. But as with all migrations if we don't get a decent influx of new fags it will wither away and die.
We can't just be completely isolated and among ourselves even if that is what we wish. The best case situation would be a decent trickle of new people to our web. Enough to keep the community fresh and active, but small enough to allow people to be brought up to speed and develop a thick skin.
>>79515024
That's why gopher is good. It's forever free of corporate fuckery.
The www is dead, but there's a ton of protocols out there.
>>79514977
NOIZE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXIKZtDQunQ
>>79514977
>56k v.90
noob
>>79512176
Also, if you've used Prodigy you definitely have been through a long history of Internet use.
>>79514977
Feels nostalgic.
>>79515116
There was a giant gap of time where, prior to the mid 90's, I hadn't touched a computer since you had to load and save your files onto cassette tapes.
Unfortunately that's as far back as I got to see.
>>79512357
Source on the book?
If you didn't have internet for free, you are a new fag
Netzero used to actually be zero
>>79515308
prodigy was shitty to the point where it was basically pointless.
compuserve was the real nigga shit.
>>79515627
Wasn't there even a period of time when Netzero didn't have an ad banner, or do I only remember that because I set the connection up manually?
>>79515627
Netzero was free because it crippled you so much you could only read text and lowres images.
Monetization was good and promoted development of software and technology. That's when the internet was during its golden age and the highest quality of software relative to what was the capability during that time was produced.
Radical monetization is what killed it.
>>79515771
That too.
That shit was miserable.
>>79513179
Plausible
Anyone here ever have an ISDN line? My dad worked in corporate IT, he needed it for remote access.
By 1998 we had dual ISDN lines in our house. I can't even imagine how much that cost my parents. Didn't get a cable modem until 2000. It was like 3 MB down, 256k up and hideously unreliable. Still good enough for CS though.
>>79512176
>>79515627
>>79515739
>>79515771
I had netzero set up on my DC to play PSO. It was free and worked great. Great time to be alive
NORMIES STAY ON AOL AIM!!!
>>79512176
>>>79512457
>Well I guess when you're 97 feet tall the Twin Towers are nothing more than 9/11.
Top fucking kek smoothskin
Not a damn thing is wrong with the internet
Facebook and reddit. Facebook drew in all the normies and reddit gave them a stupid internet culture identity that could translate to the real world.
>the narwhal bacons
>trees bro
Horrible things that reddit did to influence and pull in people and Facebook
>check my wall
>you dont have a facebook?
The forcing of facebook was common when it was rising. Before we were Fans now we Like everything. Idk honestly the internet is fucking gay. Literal fags, I hate interacting with you people.
>>79512274
Probably.
>>79514635
Those were the days.
>>79515422
Noösphere vs the Blogosphere: Is the Devil in Your Laptop?
http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2007/eirv34n47-48-20071207/20-21_747-48.pdf
Nothing. Internet just become the "routine".
>>79516766
>mfw I stayed at a friend's house one and seen the retard playground that was the AOL connection manager and browser software.
>>79514635
we used to use them as shotgun targets. fun but it made a bloody fucking mess on the ground.
>>79512176
Well, think of it this way: the internet today is better than tomorrow.
>>79512274
This desu.
All the safe space/heavy moderation shit because whenever you contradict a woman it is considered harassment...
>>79513931
I fucking blame obama's phones.
>>79517870
Hardly.
We're about 2 decades away from Darknet 2: Free in more ways than financially.
I agree. Normies, going public, and becoming an intermediary for gov and corps to spread their agenda much easily is what made the internet cancerous.
I remember back when I was considered weird/out of place for being that guy who was decently skilled with computers and would know how to install roms/emus on the school computers, surpass its shitty proxy design, and find cool shit like ogrish, /b/, ebaumsworld, etc.
Now days, all the normies took over and ruined it with their sjw and meme cancer bullshit once it became available on cellphones.
>>79518268
*in middle school
>>79517984
And they're going to end up having to set some kind of legal standard which literally requires you to use cloud computing, because it'll be the most wild free for all ever when IP addresses are no longer tied to paid subscribers.
>>79512176
Jews and millennials.
I did. AMA
>>79512176
The iPhone did it, because it was a fashion statement before it was an internet device. So the worst people possible for an environment based around screen names and reputations suddenly had access to it around the time that speeds were fast enough to upload photos on a regular basis with cameras attached to the very device they were using to browse online.
So now you had attention whores, who live and died based on how much love they got, finding ways to involve and insert themselves into any and everything possible for attention while basking in the narcissism that was their wont.
Factor in that social networking meant that websites didn't have to generate their own content anymore, their users would do it for them all day long and the smaller the amount of content the easier it was to host it and the more they'd come back to check on it and post more stuff.
Couple this with the fact that famous people started using the internet for Twitter and suddenly the Internet went from a place you made money from via a shopfront to a place where you stuck an ad in front of someone's face to make money. And getting people to look at more ads makes more money.
So you have narcissists clogging up the internet, websites exclusively hosting user generated content and advertisements and the social stigma of using the internet being removed(in fact it is now considered weird not to be online AND weird to be online on the wrong non-normal sites) you get an endless flood of shit that infects every part of the internet because the money is too good to ignore.
>>79515627
Juno, motherfuckers.
I can't believe the internet was free. Then us kids jewed my mom into paying for AOL so we could talk to our cunt friends on AIM.
>>79514801
DESU pre-Google Youtube was pretty shit. I never got videos like chocolate rain. I think people's bandwidth was pretty shit as well (56k)
I remember in the early 90's, it seemed like 50% of the websites were devoted to UFO sightings. The internet seemed really fun cause it was just other autistics spouting conspiracy theories. This was well before 4chan and the SA forums.
>>79518268
Basically this. Normies didn't go any further than AIM and maybe some chat rooms.
>>79512176
tablets, smartphones and access from everywhere. The internet had to become trendy as a result.
>>79519153
>SA forums
I miss that era.
>>79518964
>AIM
kek I signed up for AIM in like 1995. Wound up using ICQ and IRC more as I got older due to vidya.
>>79519904
That was a magical time to be alive - Lowtax and his crew. I also remember FARK as well.
Completely forgot about the BBS - that's really what made the ancient web great.
>>79517522
>made a bloody mess
Why are you using the word "bloody" you fucking faggot virgin? There is no way you ever had a friend or wielded a shotgun.
>>79516777
Larouche is redpilled he just replaces Jews with venetians (most of the 'venetian' bankers were kikes or cryptokikes)
>>79520434
k
It went to shit when fragile people became the dominant market force.
Their primary concern is their ego and identity and will go out and buy the safest space available, which is why Facebook does so well as a free safe space.
In order to facilitate this demand, businesses need to control their slice of the internet and expand it.
The Internet used to be a free world. Didn't like the rules of a certain board? Make your own, or find one that does suit you. In essence, a libertarian wet dream.
Today, the bulk of the Internet (besides porn) is a blend of Facebook, Google, Apple, Reddit, etc. Not only do they all dominate people's time on the Internet, they push a leftist narrative. In essence, it's a globalist's wet dream.
Guess we'll have to internexit then.
>>79512274
This as well as SJWs and normies in general. Also, social media networks have fucked up the internet too.
Also, making it easier for more all people to have a platform to express themselves, which leads to more retarded shit since idiots tend to speak loudest and believe loudest.
>>79512176
The internet actually became serious business.
The Internet originally brought people with differing ideas together. Now it's just a bunch of different echo chambers.
>not enjoying the golden age of /pol/ and the alt right
>>79512274
This.
Everything else can be traced back to this particular demographic.
>>79513931
>those feminine hands
Icelandfus are the best.
>>79515196
If I could figure it out I would.
>>79514681
>>79512274
Underrated post
>What ruined the internet?
The site admin who fostered an unrealistic hugbox culture, where the line between being confronted or challenged and being harassed blurred to the point of synonymity.
>>79528410
Moreover, putting "ignore, block, and report" next to the things people say just in case we find our user experience needs more bullshit.
The social network
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtREnrZM43o
>>79514872
The cycle never ends.
>>79512274
fpbp
Hey... has anyone seen my wallet? Goddammit Romania!!
>>79528864
On a related note, there's a reason cowards are afraid of guns.
Because they know how often they feel the need to use one.
>>79512176
AOL being given access in 1993.
