Hey /pol/, do you miss the Internet when it felt like an adventure - before it was ruined by SJWs, cucks, normies, and degeneracy? Older youth speak of the 90s as the time to be alive, but I say naught.
Us youth born between 1995-2000, we grew up in an era of digital pioneering, an era in which the internet, video games, the newest books, and the playground down the street all lived in complete harmony, none at the expense of the other.
Us tail-end millenials will always remember Youtube in the days of Shoes, Charlie the Unicorn, Fred, AVGN, Nostalgia critic, Scatman john, Mario 64 bloopers, Dr. Robotnik, Dr. Rabbit, Leeroy jenkins, Chad Warden, Rick astley, Zelda CD-i, Planet Unicorn Theme Song, Boxxie, and Bon qui qui, just to name a few.
Despite being ~5 when 2000 hit, we still got TONS of 90s toys, movies, music, games, TV show reruns, etc. that spilled over from 2000-2005.
When we were in middle school, "kid culture" (cartoons etc.) started going to shit, so we were lucky enough to jump ship to YouTube etc. as they started rising in popularity.
We'll always remember laughing at the toddlers playing Webkinz while we thought we were so much better playing Club Penguin.
Runescape, Star Wars Battlefront, Halo - They all were pastimes.
When Green Day was cool to listen to, when the newest pop-Punk dominated our ears.
When pre-movie Spongebob and Drake and Josh were shows of choice.
A world that had yet to be explored, a world that looked so fun and optimistic.
How I wish to experience that era all over again.
>>70900750
Nice pasta you little shit, still irritated me
>>70900750
>The feels
Thats what this post gave me OP
I'd be on msn and bebo for hours talking to so many bitches the good old days
>>70901297
What anime that from bro?
lol seriously OP there's such a noticeable faggotry increase in post 2000 millenials where they just missed the cool days and are all faggots
Does anyone remember MPlayer? Used it for chatting also started allowing vid cams. Girls would show boobs before iphone pix lol.
Mplayer
i want to find whomever created this pasta & shit on their face
:/
Do you guys remember, NES? Master System? Pagers? Going outside? Having to walk places?
Yall aint nothing but some new fags on the block.
Shame, you never really got to live.
>>70900750
>1995
>>70900750
This topic is relevant but wrong. The Internet was and still isn't the problem. As far as I can see it the problem is education. I was born in 89 and had a chance to live without a smartphone as a kid... All the degeneracy wasn't accessible for everyone. Also back in the 90's people gave thier life for developments for the grater good instead of being greedy.. Today every good technology is created in order for people to get rich.. I don't Hate capitalism don't get me wrong .. I just miss the days when people made outstanding developments in order to help others without thinking "hmnm I wonder how much money this is worth". This stands for the Internet , music industry , drug industry and so on ..
>>70902010
>Does anyone remember MPlayer? Used it for chatting also started allowing vid cams. Girls would show boobs before iphone pix lol.
yeah those were the days
>>70900750
I didn't read your whole post but
>you tail end millenials are cancer
That is all.
95 is the cutoff for millennials and this is coming from someone born in 96.
Lurk more. Better yet get a job and shut the fuck up you limp wristed faggot
>>70902608
Something something, neat flag, something something.
>>70900750
I remember back then modem 56k times
when I had an issue with my pc I just googled for it 1 time and found the answer on the first site of the first forum I found...
and now...
>have to google through like 50 sites filled with shit and commercials
>finally find a forum first 50 threads related to my issue are "how do I fix it?"
>find a thread with *SOLVED* marker
>sweet someone found a solution
>"I just bought a new one, works perfectly fine"
fuck internet it's full of mentally dead people
Aim instant messaging back in 4th grade
94 here
This post resonated deep within my soul
I guess it's the same reason why I'm replaying spyro
>Us youth born between 1995-2000
lol fucking kill yourself.
>>70900750
> being ~ 5 when 2000 hit
>>70900750
born in 1976, got to witness the birth of video games and the internet in their early years
>>70902762
>remember back then modem 56k times
Fug, I had 56k until last year. Really makes you appriciate some things.
What I notice is that obscure, free, /diy/-style websites are impossible to find now.
Way back when, I could search for a DIY flamethrower, pneumatic bb machine gun, etc. and I would get all sorts of cool shit.
Now it's mostly just popular websites, spam, endless kids posting about DA EPIC FLAMETHROWER I MADE WITH A LIGHTER AND A SPRAY CAN, etc.
Just useless shit.
It has become diluted by the average fucking idiot and social media.
Also:
Anyone &ToTSE here?
Huff raid!
This thread is shit.
The upgrade from 28.8 to 56k was something else though.
>>70902521
>without thinking "hmnm I wonder how much money this is worth".
>Israel
DOES NOT COMPUTE
>>70902950
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qguwr6qmn8beoum/AACcd_Z6QLJ2AUAVaLtSvwQKa?dl=0
yo yo motherfucker
>>70902824
>Thailand
Kill yourself
>>70900750
>Us youth born between 1995-2000
You're literally what's making the world go to shit.
So make something out of it fag
honestly the best internet was when I was on dialup, years before Youtube was even made
maybe because I had that feeling of wonder and exploration though
I'm glad I'm not a part of the generation that considers watching some faggot on youtube ranting for hours cool, you faggots aren't even playing videogames anymore, you're so fucking lazy you'd rather watch someone else do it
Pure cuckolding
>>70903345
Oh fuck, something neat to look thorugh. Thanks anon.
>>70900750
Being born in 81, I truly grew up along side technology and the internet. My first modem was a Hayes 4800 bps that I'd use to call BBS's. Those were the days. Then came the 90's and having 14.4k dialup and using trumpet winsock on Windows 3.1 to access the internet before the web was even a thing. All the porn still images you could download via fserv over IRC channels. This was when the internet was free Anon. You have no idea.
>>70903287
Yah yah what ever man. I'm in pol and always will be for the hate. And I play along .. But some of us are just stuck here
>>70900750
I hate you. I hate this blurb. I can not relate to you. You were the beginning of the inevitable end. Weak as fuck and i could spend all night explaining why.
just use Tor. it's like dial up and all the web pages are 1.0
you lil fuccboi's will never know the struggle of forcing everyone in your house to stay off the phone so as not to fuck up your hour long download of a single dank meme.
>>70903607
I was there, anon. I remember using Mosaic browser to get onto Yahoo! for the first time. Windows 95 and Microsoft Network...
>>70903751
>not to fuck up your hour long download of a single dank meme.
>Spend weeks torrenting Red Alert 2
>Totally worth it
>>70900750
>image.jpg
>>70903630
Board full of nasty racists who despise jews. Jew hangs out here like its cool. Cool.
>>70903607
bruh
t. still have my old 300 baud modem somewhere in the garage
the only reason you're nostalgic about 1995-2000 is because that's when you were born you literal five year old pissbabby
>playing Quake with 500 ping
Bless you all who didn't kick me.
>>70903790
Cool fagot some of us remember spending our youth gutting gooks. But tell me about mosaic...
>>70900750
back in the day...
>>70900750
Daily reminder the Nostalgia Critic turned into a SJW cuck.
>>70903935
Goddamn, finding games that work on dialup is a bitch.
>TFW went from dialup to comcast
>Then went from comcast to DSL
Sometimes it's 50, sometimes it's 800.
>>70900750
I know this is pasta, but what an absolute cancer the generation described here is. Jesus, I'm glad I'm not a millennial.
>>70903837
Bants is good for the soul
>>70904095
DSL isn't dial up
your pings shouldn't vary that much. make sure you have the phone filters installed
>>70903859
I got a Hayes 300 from a swap meet before my 4,800 but could never get it to work :^(
>>70903630
>But some of us are just stuck here
Arbeit macht frei, you lazy Jew.
>>70901691
Boku no Pedro
>>70904186
I didn't mention I went from dialup to comcast 1mbps, then to DSL.
I kind of miss dialup honstesly. It made finding useful things that much more rewarding.
>>70900750
>Hey /pol/, do you miss the Internet when it felt like an adventure - before it was ruined by SJWs, cucks, normies, and degeneracy?
yes, I do.
Around the time you little faggots were born I was 15, and had use of the internet.
I loved the chatrooms, icq, and usenet.
It was great. What was even better, was that there were no niggers or other shitskins shitting up the internet.
They even ruin cyberspace.
Getting lost in a nostalgic mindset is quite dangerous.
Use caution when reminiscing about the past.
>>70903837
>Board full of nasty racists who despise jews.
Jews don't feel normal without people hating them.
They need it to survive.
>>70903607
I would start downloading an image and before her boobs were even clearly rendered I would cream myself.
Also, OP is a faggot who never experienced a pleasure of building his own Geocities web page.
The sun was literally brighter and warmer back in the 90's. It was more orange as well, nowadays it is a pale watery yellow.
Something happened around 2005/2006 - the supercollider fused our dimension into another one.
The Berenstein Bears changing into the Berenstain Bears (look it up) is all the proof I need.
>>70900750
GLORIOUS LEADER LIVE STREAMING NOW AND THEY LAUNCHED MISSILES >>70902114
>>70900750
Except the people in that picture are clearly around 15 years of age and playing xbox, making them born in the early 90s or late 80s. You fucked up, anyone born past 97 had a shitttt childhood compared to us, sorry
i miss the internet before the alt right stunk it up
>>70902950
>It has become diluted by the average fucking idiot and social media.
pic related
>>70900750
>while we thought we were so much better playing Club Penguin
Fuck OP how do you know.
>>70904648
It might be hard to believe, seeing as how you're autistic, but as you mature, you perceive the world differently.
Times change
>>70903630
i was born in '91 so i kinda get you man
>>70904764
No, it is a fact. The sun is burning out.
>>70900750
You're making me feel old even though I'm only 23
>>70904722
pic related
>>70904734
It's a strange mix of both.
>>70904575
>geocities
My nigga!
t. SiliconValley/9320/
>Had to walk or ride to friends house to know if they wanted to hang out or do something
>No mobile phones
Things were much better then
>>70904832
Its burning out over the course of a BILLION OR SO years.
What the fuck are you doing staring at the sun anyways?
>>70904774
>>70904900
I don't know how you inferred I stare at the sun, I don't. I merely recall it's lovely warm glow shining down onto my little bare buttocks, penis and testes as I went skinny dipping with my schoolyard chums in the old fishing pond.
>>70904734
>blatantly using Neil Postman's title with out even so much as a name-drop
triggered
>>70904734
I'm on the last chapter of that book. Sad but interesting stuff.
>>70904292
I always see the same anti jew Norwegian. There isn't a place where you don't say something against jews you fucking faggot
>>70903345
I think I might download all of it desu
>>70904722
damn that hurts
now
>30 years old
>dropping out of college for the 3rd time
>living with parents
>debt
where did i go wrong? Actually where didn't I go wrong?
>>70902800
The same reason I keep re-installing RTW one and Knights of Merchants because I want to relive those sweet child moments :(
>>70904774
Every kid wanted to go there. Be slimed. Be a contestant on that Hidden Temple show.
The dream is gone.
>>70904859
> Chatting on icq while playing Ultima Online
https://youtu.be/qHRhq8bc-58
Life will never be that good again, will it /pol/?
Born in 91. I still remember playing GTA 1 and Diablo when they first came out.
>>70905233
Don't drop out. You can make it, and you aren't a failure
>>70903691
Because feds will totally not knock on my door.
>>70905138
When I graduated from college I cleared out my stuff back home and sold all my mighty max. Sad day.
>>70900750
Newfag. The Internet has been shit since the September of 93.
>>70904648
As the other anon said you're autistic. But I remember going to awesome beach house in the summer which stopped around that time, so maybe I'm equally autistic.
ah the nostalgia, first IT job with DSL back then, downloading movies spilt into 2 VCD's all day.
>>70904991
That's gay as fuck.
>>70905483
Remember the never endeding september.
>>70905233
Me too. I couldn't accept that I had so many mental disabilities that it hampered my ability to perform at a college.
Some people are too retarded to learn. I just didn't want to accept it.
Have you tried a trade?
>2004
>grade 11
>friend im's me a link on MSN messenger
>says its a pic from an awesome anime board he found on the SA forums
>shittingdicknipples.jpg
>>70903935
LOL I thought you said 500 FPS. I'm like what?
>>70903630
Take it easy, Chaim. I'm just busting your balls.
>>70905512
Why do you use "autistic" to describe everything?
Make Video Games great again
>>70905233
You can stick it out anon, we all love you
>>70905137
muslim
>>70905654
DDUDE
>>70903345
the actual fuck?
>>70905683
Because you only provided an occurrence, not a scientific phenomenon based on facts.
>>70904898
>Hi is anon there?
>Can anon come out and play?
>play sports with neighborhood kids
>be last generation of true Westerners, not cucked nu male betas
>>70904774
Now it looks like a rape hospital.
>>70900750
Austism: The thread.
>>70904774
>tfw you went there and got slimed af
>>70903607
My first interwebs experience was through Prodigy on a 1400 b/s modem... Online Text based game called Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego... Got bored and went offline to play Commanche (nova logic) and WING COMMANDER...
Probably dialed up 10 times max on that piece of shit... When that 14k came out, things changed...
>bbs
>Netscape
>yahoo
I feel old as fuck (1982)
>>70902824
>Thailand
m8 are you sure your mother doesnt have a dick? I guess "she" wasnt feeding you breast milk but her other sauce hence why youre such a faggot
>>70905575
no. I'm still deny that I can't learn. I think school is not made for us. We suposed to learn for ourselves. That's how I prepare for finals anyways. I don't go to lectures. I just read slides and youtube all on my own the night before the exam.
>>70905361
>361 â–¶
>>>70905233 (You)
>Don't drop out. You can make it, and you aren't a failure
two days til first exam. Already too late. Need a time machine or a miracle.
>you believe in miracles, don't you?
nah man that's just a freak accident
Everyone born after 1985 is just a waste of time, space and air, the wasted generation. Just do the world a favor and kill yourself.
>>70905871
Brace yourself
Feels are coming
>>70905742
I would use Serb, but they're so much better than you so it doesn't count as an insult.
>>70905789
I did that too. But called each other at home or talked each other at home.
>>70901671
I lost my virginity to a slut I met on AOL (America Online).
I used to hook up with so many sluts on AOL and Yahoo Messenger via the chatrooms. Those were the best. The women were awesome and eager to have sex and none of the anger issues that you have today.
I miss those days. Saw so many women from all over the world via webcam. They had no problem masturbating for me on webcam. Some would sit on the washing machine during the spin cycle and I would see them almost collapse from the vibration.
Good times were had. I would see so many things that today we can't talk about for obvious reasons.
Just like in the real world things are good till the SJW cunts get in the way.
I feel sorry for kids today. They never got to enjoy things before the nanny state took over.
>>70900750
1994 here.
>grow up poor
I didn't dive into the internet until fucking 2009/10.
>>70905977
Checked
I miss that shit too senpai.
>>70900750
I was born in 88, you fucking underage, get out
>>70905787
Autistic people only use facts though, not emotional traumas like mine.
>>70906060
I joined some online chat. This is what it feels like desu, too bad everybody is so afraid of chatting with strangers because of muh pedophiles
>>70905977
never used that. Instead we used AOL. I still know that modem sound dialing in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1UY7eDRXrs
>>70905334
Mah nigga! So few see to know that feel, always reminiscing about rune scape or whatever fag shit.
>TFW fucking around on furcadia with my UO friends cause our server was down and it was free
'97-'01 best and worst years of my life. Bittersweet memories.
>>70900750
Plz be pasta, tho im only 3 yrs older than a '95 kid lol
>>70900750
90's sucked in comparison to know. Plus Trump wasn't running for president in the 90's. We're closer to striking back than ever before.
>>70900750
Maybe send this message to a friend instead of posting it online.
>>70906060
Maybe you're just getting older that is why they don't want to masturbate for you anymore.
>>70905138
I not only have mighty max toys from my childhood, i have VHS tapes of recordings of mighty max off the TV from my childhood. Best parts are the commercials
>>70906229
>using emotion
>not facts
you sound just like SJW, but it's probably bait so I'll stop talking to you.
>>70906229
How were you supposed to play that anyway? Were you really just supposed to throw the metal one at the rest, and whoever had the most land face up was the winner, and could then chuck the metal one at the loser as hard as you could?
Because that's the way we played it.
>>70906187
More feels incoming senpai
>dat icq
People were friendlier and food tasted better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYbe-35_BaA
>>70906382
Yes, that is the basic idea of the game.
The metal one was officially called a "Slammer" but in the UK we called it a "Keanie" for some reason.
Also those are "Tazos" not "Pogs"
Tazos were a rip off of pogs that you got from bags of crisps.
I've been using the internet since the mid 90s much less born then. Back then the internet was completely lawless and like the wild west. It was better. That's two decades I've been on the internet. If you've been around as long as me you'd have an understanding of how the collective IQ of the average internet user has been in decline year after year. I'm sure the people around in the 80s were even more intelligent than my time. As the internet has become more accessible less intelligent people came online.
The internet is entering a descending IQ spiral. The downward spiral has been accelerating ever since smartphones hit the market. And Africa is due to come online soon. That'll be fun.
>>70906304
AOL came way after Prodigy.. Like 8 years later.
I know this is bait, but I miss being 6 years old and not feeling so fucking self-conscious all the time. Back when I didn't know what a virgin was and didn't spend everyone waking hour telling myself how pathetic I am.
Big game hunting with this beast
>>70902438
I'm 40 and I remember leaving the house with nothing in my pocket but loose change and a plastic R2D2. I was literally OFF THE GRID till I returned home for tea. If something exciting happened, I couldn't take a picture of it and send it back, had to store it in my brain using "memory", and tell people about it on my return.
Strangely enough, by the time I got home, it never seemed worth telling everyone what I'd eaten for lunch. And, strangely enough, no-one ever asked me for a photograph of it.
Catch pa: select all images with waffles
>>70906554
You sound 16
>>70902748
>something something
back to rebbit faggot
>>70906357
The AOL chatrooms don't exist anymore.
Nor do the Yahoo chatrooms. Nor do the Microsoft (MSN) chatrooms. They were all shut down due to the "pedophile scare".
So because shit moms were shit moms we all got punished.
I don't use omegle or any of those other programs because if I want to see tits or anything I just go down to the corner to this Asian Massage Parlor where I get a everything I want for a low price. So no need to see that stuff online anymore.
Yes ... YESSS
Let the feels flow through you...
>>70900750
>the Internet before degeneracy
I'm 19 and I know there is no such thing
>>70902906
>there are people twice my age on this site
i-i thought i'd outgrow it guys
>>70906643
Pffft I fucking used AOL and Yahoo all the time growing up, I never got raped, you'd have to be retarded
Actually I was 13 and getting chicks to send me pictures of their tits by being annoying and insistently bugging them about it
>>70906608
I'm almost 22.
>>70906476
Same here been on since just after eternal September.... The biggest problem is accessibility. Internet has become too accessible now we've got retarded inbred trailer trash fucking everything up. The kind ofmidiots who get online and find others just as retarded as them and leads them to believe that being a retarded degenerate is somehow okay just because they're not the only one.
Seriously the internet was a billion times better when you had to actually be at least somewhat well off or educated to access it. Also back before it was so ubiquitous and you didn't have all these fucks trying to scam it and make a living off of it, when it was more an curiosity and people actually put interesting useful content online simplynbecause they wanted to share their knowledge or interest or hobby. No desire to make a living from it, no ads, no click bait bullshit or retarded sjw media/"journalism".
>>70906640
back to /b/ nigger
>>70906768
Damn dude, get passed six at least, fuck
>>70906825
Fuck you Jew. Die
>>70906826
Kek
>>70906825
>i got called out on being a faggot but im too much of a limp wrist to admit my wrong doing so i'll just throw a similar insult back at him even if it doesn't make any sense in this context
>>70906826
Well it's really any age before 16. After that my social anxiety made me more and more pathetic. I have pretty decent career prospects but no hope of ever having friends or a romantic life.
>>70900750
God dammit OP. I loved all of this shit. Especially fucking Webkinz.
>>70906595
And especially fucking this.
>>70904832
> hero
>>70904514
Car ridessssssss
With tor it can still be an adventure
>>70900750
>Us youth born between 1995-2000
1988 here. to truly experience the "old" days of the internet, i think, the cutoff birth year year should be 1990
The YouTube shit I don't care about. The internet was so much fun when it was new though. Everyone on it seemed like they were mad and everything felt homebrewed. You always had to try really hard to find anything and 90s web design had its own style.
But then now you have nearly infinite amounts of high quality content. For free. So I don't really miss Geocities, dancing hamster gifs, and rainbow fonts that much.
>>70906771
Fuck Steve Case
Fuck Mark Zuckerberg...
>>70900750
>Us youth born between 1995-2000,
>Us youth born between 1995-2000,
Good b8 this triggered me.
>>70903607
Yeah, then AOL happened and the NORMIES started showing up. REEEEEEEE!!!!!!!
>>70900750
Iv been saying for months now that the world went full clap insane when every single normie had the ability to use the internet on a smart phone.
The biggest idiots among them all congregated on social media and the LGBT, Open borders shit went into over drive.
The internet was so much better before 2007-2008 when smart phones were only just starting to come out.
>>70906925
>>70906977
Back to /b/ nigger
>>70907197
Fucking Steve case haven't heard that cuck''s name since last century.
>>70907077
>1990
>old days ended in 1993
>implying 3 yr olds used the series of tubes...
You can still get together with dorky friends in the basement and tinker around with computers.
You don't even have to invite your SJW sister.
>>70904401
>It made finding useful things that much more rewarding.
I wonder why...?
Fucking little shits.
I saw in y2k by double dropping some mitsubishi turbos and getting on it. You were all asleep! Anyone born after 1990 missed out. Your generation is doomed.
Cheers.
>>70907374
3 years and 9 months bruv.
>>70907435
Nevermind. I take everything back.
As long as I never have to see the IE download box again, I'm happy.
>>70907435
I almost miss that sound of the dial up modem…
mmm, not really though.
>>70900750
The internet was better when you were wiping shit on the walls millennial scum.
>>70905962
Kill yourself before the muslim kills you.
>not missing exploring the wilderness in runescape for the first time
>not missing questing, exploring, crafting etc
>>70906472
>tfw I still have all my Pokemon pogs
If you want to relive the way the internet used to be there's http://sdf.org/. It's a public access UNIX server. If you want the mid 90s experience there's Tor and I2P
>>70906740
I would say between my junior year and senior year of high school I probably had sex with over 50 I met from AOL. It literally was this: Go home from school. Quickly do my homework as fast as I could. Make sure it was done right. Go on AOL. Enter chat room. Look for someone in my area. Talk. Ask if she wanted to meet at this park that was close by. Went there, banged them in these comfy lounges they had behind the senior center that had privacy. It was perfect. Worst day of my life was when I hit 18 because I was then afraid to play with them anymore.
>>70906720
There are people in there 40-70's here.
>>70907197
>>70907370
Steve Case is my cousin lol
saw him for the first time in a long time last summer at my uncle's funeral reception...
I remember playing Delta Force 1 with my neighbor while listening to tATu... those were the days.
>>70900750
That was the worst time of my life, but thanks for showing me that not everything was bad and some things got worse with the normies coming in. Most things get better though. We have hope, we have Trump and people are fed up with SJW bullshit.
Also well played in rustling my jimmies a little.
>>70907435
Fake. A 180 MB file @ ~5 kbps = ~10 hours of downloading. Just let it go overnight and it's OK.
>>70906720
Remember, you're here forever.
>>70900750
On a side note, anyone remember playing Pocket Tanks?
>>70907946
Those dialogs fucked up all the time and might still show the last speed it was transferring at despite the connection freezing or some shit so you'd end up with that pic where everything appears to be going fine except its not actually transferring and so you get some ridiculous time like 39 years.
>>70900750
>Us youth born between 1995-2000, we grew up in an era of digital pioneering,
What a load of bollocks!!!
You'll never know the joys of bbs, baud modems, calling cards, securityless phone companies and government institutions, black boxes, infinite amounts of games, having color, gfx and sound while pcs were still monochrome eggfriers.
>>70907871
I fucking loved those games. Used to play them with my neighbor across the street
>>70903630
We wouldnt if you were pro White.
>>70906720
1988 here. thought i was ancient.
>growing up in the 00s
I would've killed myself desu
>>70908224
>bbs
& the Temple of the Screaming Electron
Raw Data for Raw Nerves
>>70908288
I came to 4chan when I was 17.
I'm 29 now.
>>70900750
well this is the 3rd article i read on internet nostalgia.
Maybe the elites are pulling the cable soon.
>>70908423
Are you me?
>>70908158
You mean Scorched Earth, faggot?
>>70906597
Remember when you made plans to meet someone and they had to actually fucking turn up when and where you agreed because nobody had a cellphone or way to contact each other once you left home. Fuck that was great.
>>70908423
Woah I first came here around 19, 31 now.
The fuck am I doing with my life?
>>70906388
Checked
I remember when ICQ was a novelty, an alternative to AIM, which IMO was superior.
>>70907435
Netscape communicator 4.7 32b :^)
>>70908288
>1988 here. thought i was ancient.
Same here.
>nice 88 get
>>70908423
Shit. I've been on this fucking site since my early 20s, 33 now.
>>70908799
Yeah thats the one
>>70900750
>Us youth born between 1995-2000
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>70900750
>implying people who played runescape played club pinguin
what in the everloving fuck, i am fucking triggered
When youtube has 5 stars rating
>>70907013
Get a hobby, meet people with said hobby, congratulations you now have friends.
Alternatively: sit at bar, buy some rounds for someone you're sitting next to and chat. You now have a friend.
>>70907013
>no hope
That's the spirit, you're really helping our cause
>>70909370
>tfw you'll only ever be able to understand people born between 1985-1990
We all know the peak millennial experience
>>70909531
Pretty much this, I think about this from time to time, the people born in this frame have a certain context that no one else shares, and I know that sounds elitist but fuck it, younger people are worse than us, 94 is pretty much the cut off for acceptable
>>70902762
>I remember back then modem 56k times
>downloading porn super slow with Kazaa
>finding out about Emulation and downloading all the games after upgrading to ADSL
>chatting with friends over ICQ
>looking at weird flash animations all day
>everything was new and exciting
>eventually find find YTMND
>it leads me to 4chan
>the nightmares begin
>>70903120
Phone lines in my area could go past 26.4
>>70907013
Talk to co-workers without acting like a anti-social weeb and you should be able to make some friends
If you have a neighbor, start talking with him/her, more often, say hi, wish them a good morning, maybe help them out with menial stuff and get the conversation going
You should be able to make friends like that pretty quickly
Or if you're a drinker go to a bar and start talking to a random guy, doesn't always work out well but if it does, you've got yourself a friend
>>70909634
I found newgrounds at age nine, pretty much on it for years and years, join the clock crew and that, meanwhile AOL and smash bros melee, South park , around sixth grade I got a ps2 also, GTA VICE CITY and discovered punk rock, resident evil 4 came out and sin city in the next couple years, still big into newgrounds but it all faded away in high school when i got into pot
>>70909621
We lived through an era when the majority of people on the internet were born in those years too. We had a collective consciousness.
Now there's people born 1991-2005 all over the internet and more older people too. My mom didn't come online until like 2008 for fuck's sake.
We grew up together on the internet. All white kids born between 1985-1990. It was something nobody else got to experience. When we were 10 so were most other people on the internet around our age. The same when we were 13, 15 and 16. It started to change around the mid 2000s.
>>70900750
4 TV, 4 XBox, 16 controllers, 16 players on 1 LAN playing Halo master race reporting in.
I miss those days...
>>70908856
Those were the times my friend.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain....
>>70910033
Man I just think about places like Bubbleman forums and swearing up a storm on counter strike, calling everyone faggots while my friend is trying to download South park episodes and soad music videos on kazaa on his computer he would bring over and just be up aaaaall fucking night, in way shape or form interacting with other people either by watching their flash cartoons or chatting with them or playing a video game with them, for sure ages 10-15 were weirdly magical and it has a lot to do with the internet. Also being there for Habbo was pretty sick, that was when things got really fun, 4chan was just bonkers at that age
Night senpai
>>70909062
Fuck all by the sound of it
>>70910351
I was playing counter strike and team fortress before steam even existed on dial up. I don't know anything about bubbleforums. I never really used forums. When I was 10 I made a Geocities site about DBZ and made the site into a game. People actually played it too.
>>70900750
>born between 1995-2000
i bet you don't even remember napster.
Or never got arrested for copyright infrigement over translating a bunch of anime subtitles to your native language.
>>70910218
six pcs, two of which makeshift, an almost-flawlessly working switch stolen for the night from someones' parents' company(noone had LANs at home back then) and endless hours of fun with starcraft, oh the good times.
>>70900750
>internet like an adventure
>2000
nigger please go and hang yourself. you was the beginning of the shithole the internet is today
i'd say namefagging killed the internet as we used to know it.
and i mean real namefagging, kikebook style
could any of you imagine, that even being a 10 yo clueless faggot, anyone would use their real name as an online handle in the 90s?
>>70900750
I think the Internet was better before it was ruined by assholes. This includes /pol/tards and any shitbag with an "opinion" that was wrong but kept spewing it anyway in the most noxious way possible.
Also if you didnt used IRC for communication or filesharing youre not an internet veteran
>>70911016
When I was a 10 year old clueless faggot my handle was darksage. I didn't even know what a sage was I got it from Dragon Warrior.
>>70911096
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5TGWtK70-E
>>70902950
>Fug, I had 56k until last year.
>until last year
>2015
>56k
You have some explaining to do.
>>70911096
IRC Scripts for flooding and pissing off people those were the trolling time the true ones.
Not the fagottry we have today.
> Connection reset by peer
>>70911195
i love to meditate to this sounds
>>70911096
My nigga >>70903607
>>70911135
i used a handle from a cheesy dungeons and dragons book. I'm too ashamed to admit to which character ive picked
>>70902950
there are really phone companys who got the ear open for 56k sounds? are you from detroit ghetto?
Using winmx to get whatever I wanted, chatting to my gf on msn, playing runescape. I still have the account password somewhere. Logged on in 2013 and people went apeshit about my 2005 Christmas hats and scarves.
I miss running home from school, getting changed, packing a controller and some games and skating to my friends house to play conflict desert storm or tekken 3. Oh boy.
>Battlefront 1/2
>tekken
>Conflict games
>Bebo (I made one but never used it, thought it was gay) due to a girl I liked
>first coming to 4Chan when I was FAR too young at around 13. That really fucked things up. Though I'm actually strangely grateful now.
>cycling around the island with friends
>coming home from sailing to go on weeblsstuff and watch salad fingers when it came out, demolition squid etc.
>early hentai games. Oh shit
>>70911251
I don't think you could do worse than darksage. I used it because it sounded edgy.
>>70911255
Also remember when went from Windows 95 to 98 and the day we got an XP professional machine from my dads work. Ahhhh
If you weren't born in 87 you need to leave
>>70911251
Stfu Drizzt Do Urden
>>70911217
>be moderator of channel
>lookup for the ip
>wait until hes playing an online game
>cmd ping ddos action with 100 windows
>no firewall
> WTF I CALL MY PHONE COMPANY NOW
mfw
>>70911235
feels good man
>>70900750
>Fred
>>70911016
the thought is insane to me, which is why I never had and never will have a facebook account, even though people complain all the time that I don't have an account, that fucking kike has already enough personal data, he doesn't need mine too.
Facebook is public space, I mean, were I to write anything inflammatory or call for violence on a certain group, like I do here almost daily, under my real fucking name, I could get in real legal trouble, it would be like me going down to my local town hall, swinging a swastika flag, while putting up a poster that says GAS THE KIKES RACE WAR NOW, only a complete moron would do this, which is why I don't really have pity with people that do this kind of shit under their real name
>>70900750
I'm shocked at how angry this pasta makes me
how can one OP be such a faggot
>ruined by degeneracy
>muh buzzwords
Well us people born in the 70's are laughing at what a naive little twit you are.
Guess what the very fucking first thing people started doing once uploading and downloading pictures became feasible. Take a wild fucking guess.
You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
All you know is the new web, and you sure as fuck do not know the internet pre-porn because I remember seeing it all over the place before you were even born. I remember ascii porn in the 70's and 80's.
You are the normie. It was a product with high market saturation, packaged for you to consume by the time you were around.
>>70911051
Those assholes have been around since forever bruh. They were on WWIVnet, usenet, The WELL, and everywhere else.
>>70903345
for a second i thought it might be that pack that i know is still around somewhere
it consisted of stuff from old bbs' that were taken down and had all sorts of tuts categorised in a similar way, covering similar subjets, sans the sex and 4chan. it was funny as hell to read about stuff like getting free calls from public payphones, abusing shit airline code for tickets and other nostalgic stuff.
>tfw you'll never have a chance to phreak a payphone to call someone abroad again
>>70911362
not THAT bad, but close
>>70911678
The dotcom bubble didn't even happen until 2000. There weren't even search engines until the late 90s with Yahoo until it got taken over by Google. It was hard to even find something to buy on the internet. Ebay wasn't around until the late 90s. What was there exactly to be marketed that could return a profit? Online marketing was more like a gimmick back then.
>>70912035
Right, it was a lot of industry and hobby communities.
>>70912556
and cunts overusing quotes in mailing lists
>>70904898
Fucking this.
My best friend and I see each other like three times a month at most despite not having jobs.
If we didn't have Steam, Facebook, text messages and all that shit, we'd be seeing each other daily, like actual childhood friends.
I never thought I'd come to hate technology that much
>>70911299
Mine was from .hack. I read it and used that for runescape since its babbys first mmorpg. Been using variations and one other name taken from a spike Milligan calendar for everything
>>70912846
i got a mobile in 98 and hated it, it was an electronic leash put on me by my parents
its still the same, but someone else holds the leash
