Who /nostalgic for BBS culture/ here?
>you will never post on &totse or zoklet again
>you've lost contact with your fringe internet peers who were simultaneously complete strangers and close friends from your formative years
>fucking around on 4chinz just isn't the same because it's too temporary and anonymous
>leddit is garbage because it's full of epic bacon IT-guy losers
>normiebook is considered a medium for discussion despite being so de-anonymized that your opponent can call up your boss and get you fired if you piss him off enough just by scrolling through your profile
>deepweb might as well be dead and everything else is getting increasingly regulated by government and big business
It was a better time robots. Yeah, there was a decent amount of shitposting, but the community would filter it out organically, or join in on the fun. I learned the foundation for everything I know about my major interests that normies IRL can never share or even discuss with me (drugs, guns, cars, bombs, religion, politics etc.) And there was some really goddamn good discussion. I learned more about critical thinking and writing by arguing with anonymous internet users than I ever did in any class.
Now it seems like I all I do is cycle through the same three or four websites. I miss my friends. I miss the truly free online experience.
Does anybody else know this feel?
>>25236808
>long-distance pen pal friend on AIM
>had a Runescape account and only one email address that ended in "@aol.com"
>found porn by searching "hot boob" and whatnot on Google Images on parents' computer
>actually went outside
fuck I miss those days.
>>25236851
>found porn by searching "hot boob" and whatnot on Google Images on parents' computer
I remember being able to search for any number, e.g. "1" or "23" on google images and usually you'd get porn because the filenames would be a series of numbers on the sites themselves. Never had to worry about search history biting you in the ass etiher
>tfw this thread is as dead as the forums you used to go on
Feels bretty lonely man
>>25236808
I miss the late 90s and very early 2000s (2000-August 2001) so much. I would give nearly anything to go back to 1998. This Brave New World-ish nightmare has been the norm for so long now that it's strange to even think about a time when things were different.
>>25237268
What was so great about 1998 in particular?
To me the early 2000s were the best because an explosion of internet freedom seemed to be shaking people up on an unprecedented scale, but it was before it got so commercial and cracked down on by the government.
>>25236808
Easily half the board doesn't know this feel because they were born after fucking 1997
Just let that sink in
huff raid, molotov everything etc.
>>25237400
>>What was so great about 1998 in particular?
>No social media
>Internet memes almost didn't exist
>No smartphones
>Internet was a complete Wild West, an unregulated, unexplored frontier
>Cartoons, TV shows and video games were GodTier
>Far better economy for the West
>Slutty hookup culture was less entrenched, no normiephones and normienetworks to help enable it
>People weren't so afraid, angry and on edge
>No major wars, no constant fear of terrorism, no mass surveillance, life was much more private
>People barely knew what a Muslim was, society's biggest fears were violent video games and Marilyn Manson
>>25237500
fuck flood control amirite
>>25237428
Fuck, that's upsetting
>>25237428
In slightly over 2 years, people born in 2000 will be able to post here without breaking the rules.
