Hey /pol/, do you remember the good ol' days? Before the world went to utter shit? Before the economic crash, before iPhones? Do you miss the Internet when it felt like an adventure - before it was ruined by normies and degeneracy? Older youth speak of the 90s as THE time to be alive, but I say naught.
Us youth born between ~1994-1998, we were on the cusp between Gen Y and Gen Z. We grew up as children in the early-mid 2000s, 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.
Watching Nicktoons and Cartoon Cartoons in their golden/silver age from ~1999-2006, before they went to utter shit in ~2006-2007
Trading Yu gi oh cards on the playground.
Listening to Outkast, Gorillaz, Crush 40, Green Day, Blink 182, and Evanescence on our discmans.
Runescape, Star Wars Battlefront, Halo - They all were pastimes.
When Linkin Park was cool to listen to, when the newest pop-Punk dominated our ears.
When pre-movie Spongebob, Teen Titans, Avatar, 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.
>>71976296
>Hey /pol/, do you remember the good ol' days?
>Us youth born between ~1994-1998, we were on the cusp between Gen Y and Gen Z
absolute trash
>We grew up as children in the early-mid 2000s, 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.
it was better to be an adolescent back then, but you are right. please include cell phones and texting though that increased general flakiness.
Also being born between 94-98 still puts you in the Facebook generation. You were still children when social media exploded on the scene and it degenerated before you could even participate in it (while it was still cool).
It went down hill hundreds of years ago
We're just closer to the bottom
>>71976839
I was born in 94 and I was like 13 when social media started taking off. My "child"hood was over by then (unless you think teen years = childhood)
Posting because I was old enough to use Facebook when it was limited to use by people with .edu domains. If you do not remember this you are part of the problem.
>>71977564
Same, I just remember isometric RPGs, using yahoo images to search "boobs", bizarre webpages. Yu-Gi-Oh and Sonic the Hedgehog was for autistic faggots
>friends with kid in elementary school
>really into sonic, and nintendo stuff (sixth grade was kind of pushing it)
>oh ok, I can handle that
>look him up on facebook
>he's into the same exact things
What is it with Sonic and autism?
>>71976296
During the 90s, the conservative right wingers were the sjws. They were trying to get people fired, and get all our video games, music, tv shows, and movies censored.
>>71977564
Most of us are children until our early-mid twenties. The worst of us never grow up.
>>71976296
early 2000's internet was best
total wild west - tons of sketchy shit everywhere, out in the open
now everything is monitored, sanitized, and boring
>>71976296
>born in 1998
>would be 12 years old in 2010, when social media was already firmly entrenched into the internet and normies had already swarmed the place
Yeah nah fuck off dipshit
>>71977924
>What is it with Sonic and autism?
Its not just sonic, but cartoon fantasies continued into adulthood. I like some anime when I was younger, I wasn't a weeboo exactly but i found others on the internet with my interests which normalized it to some degree. Eventually when i went to college I met real "Otakus" and it permanently destroyed me interest or association with anime. I still meet people who are caught up in fantasy worlds and stories because they are unwilling to face their own shortcomings and failures
>>71977935
Ya but it wasn't as vitriolic as SJWs
it was all
"We had violence"
"Save society"
Now it's all
"das raciss"
"dass bigot"
"let's doxx these fuckers"
At least the 90s Right was correct, the stuff they bitched about was genuinely violent.
>>71978323
>normies had already swarmed the place
interestingly enough the great normie invasion coincided with the rise of social media and the death of anonymity ... I never really thought of that before.
>>71976296
>TFW you will never fuck up your computer with viruses after watching 1 porn video again
>>71977564
>unless you think teen years = childhood
Not sure if troll or really that dumb because born after public education went to shit.
>>71978124
this
>>71976296
Why do I keep seeing these threads over and over again?
>>71978666
Lay of the Kazaa Cheese Pizza perv.
>>71976296
>he posted it again.jpg
>>71978849
Edgy teenager detected
All oldfags will remember most porn sites contained viruses back then
>>71976296
Look mummy I posted it again
>>71978602
Indeed. The internet stopped being a place to escape reality, and has become increasingly a mere extension of reality. People don't use handles or anonymity; they use their real names, pictures of their real faces, and talk about their real lives. Very attractive to normalfucks.
Don't worry: 20 years from now you'll be looking at 2016 thinking what a simple and great time it was.
>>71979058
no sir, no the ones i made it too. God bless google directories.
>>71979058
When did they stop?
>>71979140
>The internet stopped being a place to escape reality, and has become increasingly a mere extension of reality
I agree but...
I think it has become more of an idealization of reality. Most people are not their facebook profiles and they express opinions in private that they would never post publicly.
>>71979058
>go to porn site on family computer
>instantly blown up with porn popups
>>71976839
This. To this day I'm still baffled on how Facebook managed to take on the whole market. Everyone was using IRC or MSN messenger back in the day and then started moving to shitty websites like Hi5 or MySpace or whatever and one of those sites was Facebook literally the same as any of the others.
IRC times were the best, everyone on my highschool was there and you knew who the hot girls were and everyone would chat with everyone just for the fun of it. Now everyone is concerned with their social status on Facebook and there is no room for just talking shit. This is one of the reasons I like to be anonymous. Facebook sucks.
>>71979212
I think around 2006 or 2007 when the internet actually started becoming more normie and mainstream but not 100% sure
>>71979485
Kek I had that same thing happen to me
>>71979369
Well obviously. You're not going to post "GAS THE KIKES RACE WAR NOW" as your Facebook status.
>>71979674
Turn on noscript.
>open Kazaa
>type in Halo
>"Halo_CombatEvolved_sexyteen_sucks_fucks_men.wmv"
>>71979514
>Facebook literally the same as any of the others.
Facebook was better platform for "networking" (links to people and groups) it didn't have the clutter of other platforms. (Do you remember Myspace pages with 20 songs playing simultaneously and an endless wall of gifs/polls/tests/images.
> I like to be anonymous
This is also among the reasons why i come to 4chan. It reminds me of th yonder years of the internet.
>it's this thread again
>>71979879
>>71979678
I was talking more about people making false impressions of themselves consistently to gain peer support or "likes" for instance:
>Single Moms: " oh look at my baby i love him\her so much".
In reality they resent their bastard children, and make no real attempt to improve their lives because it means changing their own personal behavior.
>Slacktivist: posts memes/pics that support their supposed political ideals. Said memes/pics lack any citation.
Most of these people have no real beliefs or loyalty they are just looking for something to belong to and feel good about. If you meet them in person you would know they would never take the time to research their cause much less volunteer for it.
Chicks: just girly things... want i really want in a guy... feminism... get likes.
Bullshit, they want to be dominated and "taken care of"...period.
>>71980107
im not that old.
>>71978559
>At least the 90s Right was correct, the stuff they bitched about was genuinely violent.
This is how people justify Obamacare and gun control laws. "Fuck rights, I don't like the way reality makes me feel."
It's even more annoying when it's conservatives that do it while bragging about "muh constitution".
>>71980107
>>71981039
I was born in '93 but we had old computers (windows 3.1 then eventually 95) until like 2006-7 and I played the QBASIC games as well as a bunch of DOS games (commander keen comes to mind) that my older cousin gave me
>>71981778
i was born in 88 but was a console peasant until around 2000 when i had a computer that could actually play games. Prior to that it was IBM386/486
