The Internet sucks now. It was way better in the early 2000s.
As long as you block the ads and scripts, it's tolerable.
>Le back in le good old days
Piss off, do you know how annoying you sound
>>29027947
Quite possibly.
Web development is fucked up nowadays. JavaScript everywhere. It took me years to discover and embrace the simple beauty of simple GET and POST, array input names (name='foo[1][2]') neatly converted into server-side variables, similarly arrays in the query string (?foo[bar]=baz&baf), proper applications of things such as hidden inputs, values of submit inputs, or disabled fields. Neatest sites are without JS and even CSS -- browsers' builtin sheets are most soothing to the eye. Visuals only obscure the true, immortal beauty of the function.
>>29027947
No, it really wasn't. Take off your nostalgia lenses and enjoy your slow-ass and virus susceptible windows xp and archaic msn/aol far away from here
>>29028024
>>29028039
found the shills
>FBINSA Jewnet is so much better than the alternatives you guys
>>29027947
When it was for normies? 90s Internet was the shit
>>29027947
It's just a funny meme you guys, don't get ass blasted.
>>29028079
Normalfags didn't start to really come on to the scene until around late 06.
>try to play some old games
>nothing works on windows 10
>go to all the old forums, no one is there
>instead of people coding something on adobe flash for fun and sharing it on newgrounds, everything is an app
>app app apps apps
>try to talk about the same things on "social media"
>only want to talk about pop culture or circle jerk in safe spaces and echo chambers
>any new ideas or original views and people assume you are against social justice and ostracize you
>go to more niche areas of the internet and you only find altright memelords
just end it now tbqh
>>29028038
In fact, the last site I designed for myself I wrote in XML-mode XHTML and formatted usingbgcolor, text, link, alink and vlink.
>>29028038
true that my brother
>middle click link
>page not found
>javascript:void(0);
FUCKING WEBDEVS AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
post old websites still running
http://animegifs.free.fr/
>>29028038
Most pretentious and cringe-worthy thing I have read recently. It's giving me 2nd hand embarrassment.
>>29028102
It's like you've never heard of the Internet boom.
>>29028146
why are you white-knighting the current state of things
in what way do you gain
>>29028122
Indeed. There are just some practices that aren't (or at least, weren't) taught enough -- for instance that href refers to locations not behaviours. It's like breaking the rule that GET requests are safe (have no power to change user data) and it is only POST requests that aren't, which would result in the browser prefetching the links in the current document, and possibly erasing the user's profile via <a href='wipeprofile.html'>.
i miss talking to a handful of people on small forums. now it seems unless people get likes/karma/shares they barely bother to put effort into comments.
>>29027947
>The Internet sucks now
Life sucks now, it's a husk of its former self, even with the normies
>>29028102
been using the internet since 98 there were almost no females and the ones that were on there were ugly
>>29028217
>>29028122
There are more examples. For instance, this stupid trend -- perhaps it's decreasing now -- of making separate domains for subinitiatives, like mcdonaldsmenu.com rather than menu.mcdonalds.com, thus crippling me if I want to do a site:mcdonalds.com in Google.
Or, language subdomains, e.g. en.wiktionary.org, are wrong, because it is strictly speaking a variable of the resource, like ?makelanguage=simpler . Should be ?language=en . Except, sadly, query strings are unfashionable, so they disappear, to the effect of reducing user navigation to the in-site interface. Consider some tool for, I don't know, generating times to move somewhere with respect to a number of parametres. If it is hardwired into some fucking JavaScript smooth sliders, I can't automatize requests to it from my PC.
tl;dr people make technology prettier to the effect of making independent hacking harder.
>tfw
>>29028102
fuck off nigger. I was using the internet in the 90's and chat rooms were full of teenage girls and other assorted normal types.
>>29028142
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/
>>29028389
they weren't female nigger
>>29028380
>If it is hardwired into some fucking JavaScript smooth sliders, I can't automatize requests to it from my PC.
I mean, because you can't request tool.html?distance=x&person=y&fast .
>>29027947
It only sucks in the social aspect. We are actually in the wild west age of piracy.
>>29028389
Yes anon, those were actually teenage girls.
>>29027947
the world ended already a few years ago, we're just living the aftermath and eventual fullscale collapse
Anyone remember in retrospect how easy it was back then? Anyone who wanted could meet a cute girl on the Internet and fuck them. That is impossible now of course.
>>29028142
http://www.89.com/
first porn site i went to
>>29028444
You're completely deluded. It was never easy to meet a cute girl on the Internet.
http://www.warnerbros.com/archive/spacejam/movie/jam.htm
What the fuck is this shitty website.
thats the nostalgia talking OP. the internet has always been this shitty. you're just a little more mature now and are sick of it.
>>29028450
also there weren't any full video back then only 15-second clips on the site
>>29028444
there was a grace period where it was possible right when myspace took off and the internet was easy enough accessible for desperate women but before it became so open that literally any uggo expects chad
>>29028450
Does the '89' refer to the '89' in 'GIF89a'?
>>29028514
i don't think so but maybe
originAL
>>29028473
When will the "nostalgia" meme die?
>>29028602
never this generation is obsessed with their childhood
>>29027947
The internet was always shit.
But computers were more fun, at least that's how I remember.
>>29028473
I really don't get it. Obviously variety of our daily internet activities has gotten limited, but in no way has it gotten worse or is worth nostalgia of the old days. If you are a boring asshole with no hobbies or interests the internet is going to be shit regardless.
Coincidentally, the internet started to become shit in 2006/2007 when the 360/PS3 came out and gaming got popular among normalfags. The huge decline started 2009 though.
>>29028380
>>29028406
Or, does anyone else like Apache's mod_autoindex (listing directory contents with the header "Index of")? I imagine some people might not know that not only does it allow sorting, it also allows wildcard filtering. For instance, you can attach ?P=diary*.txt .
I generally love technology reuse. For instance, whenever I think of writing a board now, I can't help thinking that the most canonical way to do that would be to actually make board account registration system account registration, integrate thread and post making with directory and file making, and reduce administration to file system privileges.
>>29028618
every generation is.
>>29028745
...Because just too big a proportion of the function of a board has been implemented already. Post last edit dates? File lastmod dates. Putting the board online? Just make it available to the web server. Board user groups? System user groups. Fancy editors? Since posts are just files, you just log in and run your preferred editor, customizable in your own config file. Worried about the fact that posters might burden the system by running recursive searches in the board directory? limit the posting group to only a handful of commands such as cd and ls. Everything is already there.
>>29028911
...And if you wanted to for instance make that board anonymous, you would just script a trivial wrapper around ls, and make it replace in the output of the true ls the fileowner (namely, the post poster)/the dirowner (namely, the thread poster)'s username with the string 'Anonymous'.
>>29028911
>>29028963
And think of all the benefits right off the bat! Absolutely zero overhead. Trivial infinitely powerful searching via grep or whatever. Trivial mass moderation/search & replace. Trivial banning (disable logging). Last logging dates. In fact, if you wrap cd as well, you could even banally track browsing history. Infinite nesting hierarchy. Semantic content names (/board/history/middle_ages/peasants_in_Louis_whatevers_France/1.txt).
there was once a site called Japperwhore
I used to kek a lot at that...
>>29029092
Perhaps you could even implement post edit history via versioning systems, but I've never looked into it so I'm not sure.
Everything was better in the early 00s.
One thing I hate about this decade is the psuedo-Geek culture which is all about consuming.
>>29029323
>I'm such a geek XD
>>29029323
this it started in the late 00's
>>29029344
And it's still terrible. I can only imagine what horrors would proceed it but I hate how much hypocrites the entire fanbase are when they more than likely harassed people for enjoying the things they now like before it was cool.
>>29029382
hahah i play angry birds during school #suchageek
>>29029092
The only thing that made me worried with my limited UNIX experience would be triggers, onPost(), used e.g. for notification about unread threads/posts. But perhaps some filesystems can be mounted with a parametre specifying a modification/creation handler. Google says something about some app called 'incron' too.
>>29028389
There were but the technical barrier was still rather high and off putting. You had to use a desktop or other bulky device with a dial up connection which kept the majority away.
Now thanks to smartphones and WiFi boom of 2007 any half sentient ape can get online with one hand grappled around their gonads and the other posting dank memes on Reddit.
>>29029585
>triggers, onPost(), used e.g. for notification about unread threads/posts
(As well as search indexing; sage.)
>>29029323
you mean you aren't le geek Star Wars, cape shit, Big Bang Shit retro console master race? xDpeople like this piss me off the most
>>29029812
I LOVE game of thrones so much :D #suchageek
>>29027947
Ya i loved waiting 2 mins for pages to load. 4 mins for videos. 16-bit games. RS. And wait your serious.........ooooooo fggt
webpages have become so unnecessarily bloated in the past few years. go to leddit Websitesofthe90s and watch how fast the pages load, then go to any modern news site and click on any article. for me old sites load in like 3 seconds while news articles take like 10-20
>>29027947
search for windows 93, its a website thats aesthetic and comfy
try it, its kinda like a windows 95 simultalor
>>29031835
I would use a JavaScript whitelister to only enable JS from CDN sites such as Google or Stack Overflow network or sites I used that required it. Do it.
>>29032712
(I don't mean that NoScript (sp?) extension by the way, it always looked fishy to me.)
