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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWq4DWfrpu8
A weeb from 1998 spending his Saturday night on the internet.
>>47542709
>bump
How did he record it?
>>47542724
Hooked up his PC's Video Out to a VCR somehow.
>>47542709
This is vaporwave as fuck.
>>47542742
Damn, I'm not very old myself, but I remember catching a bit of the dial-up era. I kind of miss "the old" internet. Everything centers around mobile now.
>>47542802
Also internet advertising is cancer since the early 2000's.
We don't need it.
We never needed it.
THEY wanted it.
>>47542709
dialup internet truly was suffering, my old '90s shitboxes run faster on the modern internet than this thing did on the contemporary internet
>>47542709
Serious question, why are all IRC clients so fucking ugly?
Even in 2015, the default settings on mIRC and Hexchat are ugly as fuck.
>>47542832
This. I first got internet in like 95. Even on dial-up it was faster than this shit.
HAI GUIS ! LIEK MAH DESKTOP ? I HAVE DRAGONBALL AND AOL !
>>47542881
They are supposed to be practical and minimalistic, not a shitfest of emojis.
I've always enjoyed this video, mostly because of that short-sighted 80's feel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZerV5WcnBAo
>>47542881
>>47542941
There's no way Apple would make something this... '80s
>>47542900
>that feel when you boot a shitbox fresh out of the recycler for the first time in 10-15 years
>desktop looks like some variation of this
>>47542941
Why do I find this so funny?
>>47543056
>we build them simply, so they're easy to fix!
>>47542941
top kek
>>47542881
Use Trillian.
Or any normal-looking IM software with an IRC feature... it's the only way.
You guys remember directory pages and web rings?
Good times. :'(
>>47542941
Lost it.
>that mini floppy disk
I remember this era quite well, 1998 is when I got my first computer.
Pentium 2, 266MHz, 32MB RAM and 4GB HDD. I got a 56k from the start, but quite a few were still on 14-33k.
Geocities along with tripod? if I recall, was the norm for personal sites, file sharing didn't really exist on a mass scale only private FTP occasionally, maybe XDCC via irc as well. There was also Hotline which was considered kind of a hidden thing around that time (but it really wasn't).
I was probably playing Quake2 during the same era in Software mode, before I grabbed a Voodoo3 video card.
Everyone was using Netscape in 1998, but it shifted to Internet Explorer very quickly because it was faster and more stable at the time.
>>47542881
HydraIRC is literally the best looking on windows, it's not pretty,but it's very windows 2000 pro in style
Textual on mac is fucking A
>>47543194
Either we go back to things like this or we will end up with a censored internet that's no different than a cable box/dvr in choices. Google and other big companies are already going full retard on deleting/censoring things from their SERPs. We cannot rely on a few centralized companies if we wish to still have an internet in even just a few years from now. Principles of Web 1.0 such as making your own website, hosting your own server and storing your own content on a harddrive/disk and not a "cloud" are for the best and will hopefully make a big comeback soon. Remember IRC was often used to bypass mainstream media and propaganda and to spread real info around the world in the early 90's.
>>47542941
It's funny cause apple fucking BOMBED in the 90s...
>>47543275
I hope we do. The internet was better back then, and we have the capability to recreate that.
see:
http://liteweb.neocities.org/
I really wish we'd start using gopher.
>>47543368
>advocates gopher
>hates loli and by extension, pedophiles like in >>47543220
Something doesn't add up.
>>47543275
>Google and other big companies are already going full retard on deleting/censoring things from their SERPs
in a few more years its going to feel like the 90s again with search engines.
to find something on the internet we will have to search through 5 different search engines.
>dogpile.com
>>47543368
>http://liteweb.neocities.org
It's not going to happen, what might happen is that in 10-20 years there might be a shift from http:// completely with a different protocol and replacement of html/css/javascript until then it's going to get even more bloated. There might be some type of a all-in solution to bridge content, filesharing, servers and possibly cyrtocurrency.
What I would actually like to see is an internet run like bitcoin, every browser session helps move the content through and adds to the capacity so we depend less on centralized services. (They will still exist however) Then maybe you can add in some form of crypto currency, the more capacity you add the bigger the reward then you basically remove most advertisement, the more popular the service the more reward. You can also add filesharing and stuff like that and reward the people who first share popular content, therefore studios/networks/media industries will flock to be the first to release their own content for free before pirates do it, so they can monetize on it via some form of crypto.
>>47543368
haha good fucking luck getting everyone to downgrade to proto-japanese web standards of 100kb images MAX.
>>47543391
better than the gimp
>>47543368
I see your point. But you're missing rulings on a few items:
What about:?
* Web Fonts
* CSS (Animations, Layouts, etc)
* WebGL
>>47542709
fake
FRAPS didn't even exist before 2005.
>>47542941
dat apple sattelite
>tfw born mid 90's
>tfw got a computer at 5 and fooled around with things
>tfw never had internet access
>tfw I missed out on the old internet
>>47543580
>no green pepper support
fucking dropped
>>47543413
What's wrong with gopher?
>>47542941
holy fuck.
I still can't believe this company is a trillion dollar super company.
>>47542709
>guestbooks
>frames
>20 eons to load low res images
>nonfree software EVERYWHERE
lel
holy shit; fuck I hated the 90s
Still using the same mIRC folder since 2001.
Has logs kept since 2001, in those logs is my entire teenage life, along with the logs of me losing my virginity (talked to my friends over IRC while I was in a hotel room fucking a 16yo repeatedly, "what do I do, it won't fit")
>>47542709
why aren't we recording ourselves texting on facebook and jacking off to porn so people can know what the internet looked like in 2015?
>>47544493
Because Google and the NSA is doing it for us.
>>47542881
Do your books need to have fancy shit on the pages, too? Maybe different color paper and text for each chapter?
It's meant to be read, you autist
>>47542709
I think this is the first time I've seen an irc channel that wasn't totally desolate.
>>47544636
>not idling in several active channels
what a pleb
>>47543877
>>47543368
You never answered my questions:
>>47543624
>>47543079
It was true at the time. There's a reason so many Apple II family systems are still running.
>>47544724
sure as fuck wasn't the case in 1987 when they were shitcanning Apple II systems
compact macs are god awful to work on
t. I use a Macintosh Plus unironically
>>47542832
This. Cannot possibly agree more.
>>47543194
Yep.
>>47543275
The problem is the "endless summer". It's the people. It's the whole Facebook mentality. It's trying to cram the entire fucking internet into a browser, instead of having a separate news reader, email client, IRC client, ftp client, and so on.
>>47543275
I want this to happen too, but the average person just doesn't get it. They never have and never will. The internet has gotten steadily worse as more "normies" (to borrow a term from /pol/) populate it. It's turned into exactly what we used to love it NOT being... The same fucking thing as the rest of retarded society.
Sure, there are little pockets of the old ways, like /. but even those are steadily succumbing to the cancer that is Web 2.0 and capitalism.
>>47545238
If I've only learned one thing, it's that normalfags ruin everything they touch.
The worst part is that they don't even know what they're doing.
>>47545238
at least it's easier to avoid normalcucks on the internet
kind of
even this shithole is infested with them now
>>47545272
At the same time, they act like their mere presence is the greatest possible blessing, and we should be thankful for it. They try to make everything fit in one browser, on one SITE, because they're only dimly aware of the difference between the internet, the web, a browser, and a website, even after having decades in which to learn.
>>47542941
That was fucking great.
>>47542941
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZerV5WcnBAo&feature=player_detailpage#t=306
is that this guy from elders react?
