You know like 2006?
>4chan newer and less filled with shit posters
>people actually customized their computer theme for fun
>Windows XP(still the best)
>shitty flash cartoons and games we all loved
>no let's plays
>AVGN was the best
>Classic YouTube
>YouTube poops
>no Tumblr
>no Reddit
>life was good on the internet
>no phone posting
Who else's missed the old comfy internet?
Ever since it got mainstream from social networking everything has to look and be all corporate and professional and too much people use it now
>>27300252
>shitty flash cartoons and games we all loved
Robot wars on miniclip.
Fucking balloon duel on whatever site would host it.
Fancy pants adventure.
I can't be despaired or nostalgic if I am dead.
>>27300252
It will be this way again even if Facebook and Youtube would go down since people only wanna use the internet nowadays to profit rather than simply express like those old days
Funny how the modern golden age only existed for 10 years, 97-07. Yet historically the golden ages last centuries or multiple decades.
>>27300252
Regularly browse the geocities archive because old internet is best internet.
>>27300427
Post us some good ones, senpai.
De-centralized fanclubs and groups of people who shared the same interests made you feel like you were in a secret club. Nowadays every big website has something for everybody, so there's no character anymore. It's pretty gross.
>>27300319
>Fancy pants adventure.
Damn, I remember that shit! I was fucking hooked on that.
I feel like the old YT was way more fun/likable, but I was also a kid and actually liked vidya at the time.
Idk, the whole VG Youtuber scene now just seems to be full of scum when I give it an occasional peek
>>27300508
It was - I remember making videos in hopes people would view them or find them funny instead of trying to get money from it. When the Partner Program came out in 2008, that became my main goal and all the soul left YouTube around 2010.
>>27300508
http://www.zippcast.com
Literally old YT.
>>27300252
Anybody have a transparent Pepe?
>>27300463
Do not currently make notes of anything because I don't have the full archive downloaded locally, but this page is pretty good for snapshots.
http://oneterabyteofkilobyteage.tumblr.com/
>>27300556
We need to somehow make this popular without being too mainstream.
>>27300578
PLEASE I DON'T EVEN WANT TO SEE ANYTHING TUMBLR IN THIS THREAD EVEN IF IT IS TO SHOW PICS.
Seeing Tumblr in general is just bumming me out.
IT WUZ BEDDER BEFORE!!!
shut up you dumb faggots it was always shitty satire website and that's the point of the place.
>>27300608
Ok ok right to the muthafuckin source then
let's browse together :3
http://www.oocities.org/
>>27300585
Check out the channel customizations
The stupid owner didn't put the multiple themes at the top but its 90% alike old yt.
>overhear some kids at school talking about a website called "Newgrounds"
>apparently there are cartoon BOOBS on it
>check it out
>see this
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/2318
Those poorly drawn titties were like a goldmine to me as a kid.
Good times.
>>27300556
>http://www.zippcast.com
Holy fuck
We need to spread this
>>27300676
Not too much, we can't have the normies ruin r like everywhere else.
>>27300252
Remember when women and black people didn't know the internet existed?
I remember. I still remember.
>>27300252
I agree with you there. The only thing I don't agree with on their is Youtube Poops. They've always been garbage, and I implore someone to show me good youtube poops from around that time frame. That doesn't involve Mario or Zelda.
>>27300642
http://www.oocities.org/timessquare/2598/
>>27300699
>tfw I loved the garbage ytps
>tfw cheesy garbage internet humor used to be loved
Didn't think I'd see the day where I could watch high definition porn on my phone in a sparsely populated area sitting in the middle of a field.
>>27300252
I just miss 2006 because I was still naive and happy.
Myspace really kicked off around that time and led to the overabundance of social media that we have now.
There are, however, some great things about today's internet.
>faster internet speed
>superior netflix
>streaming sites like watchcartoononline.com and putlocker
>way more information in general
>steam isn't buggy as fuck
>no longer have to apply to most jobs in person
>no need for shitty limewire, kazaa, eMule, etc...
I'm sure there's more.
You gotta take the good with the bad. If you went back in time, there would be things you miss about modern internet. It's just that people take those things for granted.
>>27300762
>limewire
Geez haha. Didn't expect that feel.
>>27300556
When the hell was this made?
>>27300699
This isn't from that time frame, but this guy makes something that transcends Youtube Poops, while still maintaining the spirit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ8nN6hTnmM
It's David Lynch-tier editing work.
>>27300729
>you will never laugh heartily as a 12 year old at shitty Windows Movie Maker produced YTPs of Hotel Mario
Damn
>>27300762
>>27300777
Remember looking for songs/movies and some file names on Limewire would be like "man fucks wife while she's giving birth" - I never downloaded because I thought it'd be something far worse.
>>27300786
*never again
origorigorig
>>27300642
oocities was swept of fun blogs in 2011. Literally nothing interesting left.
>>27300556
That website looks familiar
>>27300818
What are you trying to say. There's tons of gay shit still here
>I will never enjoy funnyjunk again
>tfw I'm too good for my old hangouts now
>>27300790
Lol yeah man, I remember. I'd sometimes try to download a game or something and end up with a bunch of random porn. Or sometimes a bunch of exe files that would create more exe files when you open them, causing my computer's hard drive to fill up.
>Used to cyber with desperate post-college women when I was a senior in HS
>Inevitably always turned into a relationship
>I had 3-4 of them on the hook and they messaged me multiple times an hour when I wasn't around and offered to pay for me to stay with them
>They sent me pictures of their walls with my pictures printed out and tacked on
>They sent me packages around the holidays, not expensive bullshit but personal things like stuff they use
>Really liked all of them
And then it all went to shit
>Now they have tinder and every pic they post gets 700 likes
>I don't think I could get the time of day from a landwhale with down syndrome
What's the most fucked about this is that a 700:1 attention ratio causes them to massively undervalue men. They no longer feel an attraction to men, but they are obsessed with the power their worship brings.
It hurts to think about how the balance of SMV has shifted so astronomically.
>>27300868
88ninenine? It was like old text files going back to the late 80's. An archive of private networking before archives existed.
>>27300252
Did Reddit and Cuckerberg ruin the entire rest of the internet?
or was it phonefags?
>>27300923
That sounds amazing unfortunately I've never heard of it.
>>27300976
Don't forget Tumblr and Twitter.
>>27300252
I strangely nostalgic for early-mid 2000s internet culture
http://www.angelfire.com/anime/amshrine/eng/phrases.html
>tfw no more angelfire shrines
>tfw people will never have this innocent reverence for their anime again
>now you have to discuss your love of anime with others live while they post avatars of lewd hentai characters and generally shitpost
I know it's cringeworthy, but just imagine a time when we weren't stopping to judge the cringe value of every, fucking, thing we said because of the social acceptance necessary in the hiveminds of social media we've created today. Even 4chan is at fault despite anonymity.
>>27301003
>Twitter.
yes
Tumblr had 5 minutes of "meh iz breddy good" before reaching abomination status
>>27301055
>I know it's cringeworthy, but just imagine a time when we weren't stopping to judge the cringe value of every, fucking, thing we said because of the social acceptance necessary in the hiveminds of social media we've created today. Even 4chan is at fault despite anonymity.
Deeming things cringeworthy is just a stupid trend. It'll die.
>>27301055
Shrines are the reason I browse old archives. They're such an adorable and unguarded form of self expression.
>tfw musiconline is dead
>tfw Reverbnation is now trafficless
>tfw bandcamp is all /mu/core now
>tfw Uvibe hasn't had a single decent artist in 6 years
>tfw soundclod always has been and will be cancerous faggotry
>>27301107
>being this much of a cringeworthy faggot
>2006
No, 06 was when humanity started dipping our toes in the Bieber iPhone shit era
Late 90s and 2000-2005 was where it was at.
>>27300762
>I was still naive and happy.
Same for me, 2006 - 2010 I was pretty happy. Everything back then felt quite amazing. I do think around that time things were more frivolous. I think everyone was more optimistic back then.
>>27301085
No, it won't. This is why the meme cycle continues. People opt for a guaranteed positive outcome from an already accepted social cue.
What you see in a world without streamlined memes is that people are willing to have cringy, yet original, contributions. They can type what's on their mind without concern as to whether that contribution will get them shunned.
That might sound like a healthy aversion, but it stifles creativity in the long run by removing the incentive to gradually coalesce your embarrassing individual aspects with a sense of discipline and respect. Unfortunately, the internet has made people self-conscious, and this has dragged reputations into the center of every conversation.
It's very late and I'm rambling and I forgot why I started this, but I'm just trying to put my finger on how there was a time when girls could enjoy something without looking over their shoulder every 5 seconds to see if its getting them attention.
>>27301281
my god totally spies is still my fav
Who /wantinternetandcellphonestoend/?
It's not even a plea for a simpler time, I just feel that texting and memeing have made society more unbearable
>>27300252
>you remember that you alone didn't cause this and shouldn't be the only one punished again
>>27300252
I really miss old normie drama when the internet wasn't their playground. Random videos of them beating each other up, drama, having fun. Now the only thing left is black people beating each other up.
I WANT A TIME MACHINE WHY DID IT GO SO BAD IN SUCH A SMALL TIME WINDOW
>>27301392
The problem isn't the Internet, it's social media's explosion in popularity. Pre-2008 Internet was better and less obtrusive.
Back in 2007, social media drama and memes bleeding into real life was mostly unheard-of.
>>27301346
>there was a time when girls could enjoy something without looking over their shoulder every 5 seconds to see if its getting them attention
Girls have always been self-absorbed attention-whores, you white knighting faggot.
>mom's showing your sister affection while making sure you see it again
Step 1: Make a forums that has the goal of making a normie-free internet (a network of sites, not the whole net)
Step 2:Gather people from 4chan and other older forums
Step 3:Enjoy
I'd do it if I weren't depressed and lazy.
>>27301392
In 2002 30% of Americans didn't use internet.
Wifi is what truly killed our heaven.
>>27300319
This brings back memories of coming home after school and hopping on the computer to eat handfuls of grapes and play fancy pants til dinner time...... what a time
https://youtu.be/BzWTyR6ykbE
>tfw normalfags killed the internet in less than 10 years
The current internet doesn't even feel like the Internet.
I used to browse tons of different sites a day, now I browse two.
Why is the new internet so small?
>>27300762
The only good thing you really listed is internet speed, more info (debatable) and better trackersand maybe jobs since robots don't want to talk to people
>>27300252
>no let's plays
That's bullshit bud, people just called them walkthrough's back then.
There used to be this fat fuck I used to watch back in like 2005/2006 called cloud something who was quite famous on youtube, but fucked himself over after people started shitting on him for asking for money. Nowadays nobody gives a shit about let's players or video game-playing roasties asking for money, there's always dumb people and beta orbiters who will shower them in cash, but back then people got pissed off.
He also threatened to close his channel a bunch of times and got into a bunch of youtube drama, where he would usually get BTFO. I think he eventually closed his channel and disappeared into oblivion.
From what I remember when I was like 12 his videos were pretty comfy and he had decent commentary, he would usually walkthrough the old Silent Hill, Fatal Frame and Siren games or other psychological horror type games.
I wonder what became of him. He would probably be rich now if he hadn't been so dumb.
https://web.archive.org/web/19971211090850/http://www.anipike.com/
I'm 46 years old, why should a dead jap cartoon site make me cry?
>>27301477
>Wifi
Nope, it was 3G or 4G, I don't fucking know what it is.
The moment normies got the ability to shit up the internet and real life 24/7 is the time we truly died. Even the cancer of 2010s internet doesn't compare to the DEGENERACY of today's internet
>>27300252
I miss RuneScape
>Before impact font
>Before every teenager and 20-something had a radical political blog
>Before console wars on all gaming sites
>Before top 8 on Myspace
>Before porn was incorporated one way or another into every non-porn website
>Before Hardcore overtook softcore porn
>Before WoW and Everquest drama with guilds and shit
Is there something I can drink to make me forget all the influence the internet had on me this past decade?
>>27301565
You mean EARLY 2010s Internet? We're still in the 2010s, though the mid-2010s
>>27301556
>https://web.archive.org/web/19971211090850/http://www.anipike.com/
>25% off Slayers tapes
>Tapes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWq4DWfrpu8
Do you remember, /r9k/?
I just want to receive a message on AIM or Windows messenger again.
>>27301656
What's your AIM?
>>27301556
>https://web.archive.org/web/19971211090850/http://www.anipike.com/
>>27301628
Am I the only that gets a weird feeling in their stomach or a weird feeling in general when you see a website from the 90's - early 2000's? The Web 1.0 feel, it just gets to me. Makes me feel weird.
>>27301529
Walkthroughs and long plays were just the game without any commentary. Let's Plays became a huge thing around 08' or '09 when SA came up with them
>>27300252
Y'all need to go watch Eddsworld - The End. It's sad seeing the last vestiges of your childhood end.
free instant porn with an archive of over 1 billion videos and images beats any "muh nostalgia internet" anyday
Web 3.0 is approaching fast
>>27301676
It's long-gone. It's not so much the messages I miss, just the excitement and thrill that came with a message and friendly chat.
I miss a lot of pre-2010 memes that I barely see anymore, sad
>>27301085
>>27301055
I can't escape the feeling that's never actually going to die. As far as I'm concerned, the worst thing about the modern internet isn't Facebook or Twitter, it's how self aware and up its own ass everything is. Even on an anonymous Vietnamese shitposting website, everyone is too afraid of looking silly to ever have fun without hiding behind 7 different layers of smug, obnoxious irony.
>>27301027
It's not that strange. A lot of older stuff is still perfectly accessible (it's easier to see movies from 1975 now than it was back in 1975), but due to the nature of the internet that whole world is just... gone. I went on a bit of a nostalgia trip a few weeks ago. It brought me honest to god joy that killfrog.com is still up. I nearly cried when I watched Dad's Home for the first time in a decade. But it also reminded me of how much of the stuff I used to love has been lost. Not only can you not experience it like it was intended to, you can't experience it period.
The internet is like a city that burns to the ground every 5 years or so and is completely rebuilt, with nothing left of it's former self but tiny scraps scattered here and there. Maybe the new buildings are taller and shinier. Maybe the new trains run a lot better. Maybe the streets are even safer. But every time you see a remnant of the bad old days you're reminded that even if you'd rather live in the new city- and you're not even sure you want that- you can never even visit the old one.
>>27301712
Nigger, free porn existed in the early 2000s, as well.
There was free porn with 256k all day.
>>27300252
i miss my life and my soul
>>27301693
No, that dude would walkthrough the games with commentary, "Let's play's" just wasn't a term that people used in 2005/2006 but I remember watching and being subscribed to a good amount of gaming channels back in the day, and it was pretty much the same thing.
That cloud guy I was talking about had like 100k(which was a fuckton for the time) subscribers in 2006, and he was doing the same thing as let's players these days.
>>27301712
And it's all a bunch of website owned by political bitches who manipulate view numbers and shit to promote cuck porn and imply certain states watch mom porn more than big tits or pov.
You can keep your billion images and videos of girls who were fucked in the head by the social media long before they dyed their hair purple and got gangbanged by 20 meme thugs.
The internet fucking sucks now and it's not nostalgia. Making normie shit easy to access doesn't make it any less normie shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdHTGUSk5Ms
>>27301712
No it doesn't. No amount of favorites on sadpanda can return the blissful ignorance and childlike environment of the early internet.
Maybe, and I know this sounds crazy, but you didn't even like the internet in the first place and are a *gasp* NORMALFAG
Any anon remember tech tv back when it was good, also when you had to be invited to have a gmail account
>>27301802
damn, that struck a chord.
>>27301724
Getting messages on Facebook isn't fun because you know Mark Uglyfuckerberg doesn't give a shit about your privacy.
>>27301712
Nigga, that's like saying fapping now to hardcore is as fun as your first fap to softcore.
>>27301879
I remember going to lesbo101 dot com and watching their sample videos.
good times.
remember when you could actually "browse" youtube? And almost always find enjoyable content?
nowadays the related videos are vine compilations with tits in the thumbnails. or lets plays. or some other fucking bullshit.
The internet is a place of infinite space and it feels crowded. What the fuck is that about?
Everywhere just feels crowded. It's like walmart on saturday everywhere you go.
>>27301954
Remember when you could see the most popular videos, channels and whatnot? Remember when you could see what's popular around youtube and not shit that's specifically targeted towards your country?
FUCK
What I miss most is browsing the internet on Myspace or YouTube or unpopular sites with peoples personal profiles on there and think it was unbelievable that was a real person with a real life. Anyone remember IMVU? I remember feeling like I was cool for getting the other avatar to make out with my avatar. Jesus Christ the nostalgia......
>>27301712
>tfw used to fap to fan art porn because fucking dial up and my imagination
As time went on, more and more people started to reveal thoughts they kept to themselves to the internet and as people agreed, those thoughts became acknowledged and accepted.
Just those general bad thoughts people used to push to the back of their mind to be at peace, like the ones that held marriages together, or the ones that kept the definition of racism from becoming a matter of opinion.
When those thoughts became accepted and socialized, it also became acceptable to act on them, and eventually people began to borrow the conscience of others.
This will be the beginning of our creative bankruptcy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_w9b3Tl9EA
>>27302016
creativity has been dead for decades.
Morality is what the internet has killed.
>>27300556
I've been on YT since 2005 and I don't remember it ever looking like that.
Did anybody ever play Neopets? I thought it was fun as shit back in the day, but mostly I'd RP on the forums
By 2006 it was already in decline, 2001-2004 was the peak if you think of it in terms of ease of use for robots vs comparatively difficult use for normies. Myspace and youtube was the beginning of the end.
>>27302045
lol okay kid.
>>27302016
>You will never see Goku instant transmission and kamehameha Cell in the chest even though it won't hurt him but you don't know that
Nothing feels magical anymore... I tried to watch Madoka but I couldn't get past the first scene. All I saw were a couple dozen middle-aged Japanese animators in a sweaty, crowded room making a short-term anime they didn't really care about for mediocre pay knowing they'd get made fun of on their way home that night for being ugly and eating salty ramen for dinner before falling asleep to the thought that the anime lives they illustrate are a lie they will never live
>>27302045
try harder then. this is literally old youtube.
>Scientists at the CERN large hadron collider are developing time travel RIGHT NOW so they can go back to 2001 and found Facebook then
>>27302045
>le 12 year old lies on the internet macro
https://web.archive.org/web/20090702011737/http://www.youtube.com/
That is pretty fucking comparable.
>>27300252
>windows
>ever being the best
WAKEE MEE UP INSIDEE
I'm not sure if the internet was better then or if I'm just too dead inside now
>you'll never have that feeling of weightless power the first time you hit up limewire on decent broadband again
>tfw you will never go back to trolling girls on lastfm for nudes
>>27302273
the internet was actually better then
>everything is a blur past 2007
>can barely recall anything good happening after 2007
>autistically can pull out facts about 2007 including things im not even interested in such as sport
>wasn't even that special, spent most of the year playing runescape
>you will never wake up to cheeseTV in the morning and watch beyblades
>you will never go back to habbo hotel with emo's from your classes
>you will never rate a youtube video 5 stars ever again
>you will never fish for lobsters in karamja with dozens of others
>you will never go on msn again and talk to actual teen grils
>you will never send people gifs of text over msn again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGJ9wuk_Yyw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9F7FKcz80k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kFPM3sZ2WA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2MK5jTm3-o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xyd7moA_Q_M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDJ6KFkJZBM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYZfKWO92oM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4MGKeQgS-o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkOA_HAVoqU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzZDOJkFBqE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrQSbGoRrnM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0y2huQoOnw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkR7zClEkAo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvELT5aIo9A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uywvgq_LUF8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9fIjYnPazc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9gHZI1_UXI CHEESE TV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjXohtL7CP4 BEYBLADE THEME
http://www.zippcast.com/ OLD YOUTUBE
SONGS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjTV8i_KjXM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68ugkg9RePc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWaB4PXCwFU (Breaking Benjamin - The Diary of Jane)
>>27302002
>IMVU?
Yes I used to chat to a Canadian girl that I met from there. That was 2007. It's weird to think about. I don't know what happened to my account, I abandoned it I think.
It's weird but the website is still going on, which is extraordinary when you think about it. A lot of social media websites that popped up in the 2000s went defunct after a short while.
>>27301314
Yeah, the 00's were a pretty good decade. Or maybe it was just that I hadn't truly experienced adult life yet and didn't get weighed down by all the bullshit you have to put up with.
I really miss being a teenager. Times were simpler.
>>27302319
Blue is not from 2007
>>27302364
Nor is it anything anyone should remember fondly
>>27301219
>and on this day anon contributed absolutely fucking nothing to the conversation
>>27302364
yeah, more like 1998.
>>27302354
the worst part about nostalgia is that I objectively know that at the time I was hating life.
I can remember being in pretty much the same situation I am now. I had no girls ever. I had few friends. I was weird and outcast. Anxious and depressed.
I played video games most of the time. I watched a lot of TV. I wasted time with friends who were just as cool as me.
I had a few rare shining moments of normalcy but for the most part these "best days of my life" never were a reality. I was always looking ahead to the future in them, thinking things would be better once I was 16, or 18, or 21.
Well now I'm 25 and they're worse than they were at the time. It's not that life didn't live up to my expectations. It's that something that at the time seemed like a shitty situation is such a vast fucking improvement over my daily life.
Since I turned 21 every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. And all from 12-20 I was still feeling the tfwnogf feels.
I am nostalgic for a time that I know I hated. What does that say about my present situation?
>>27302354
I don't think it's solely nostalgia for me. I can remember being miserable in the early 2000s. But that was school-related. There was a sense that everything was going to be great and I remember that. Also the internet seemed more frivolous back then. I was a teenager too so that probably contributed to my perception of everything being magical back then.
>>27302428
Man, that really hits home.
I went through the same thing, and now at age 28, I look back on those times as something vastly superior to the life I'm living now despite it being only really being marginally better.
I guess it's nice to know that I'm not alone.
>>27302428
I feel that too. I KNOW I was miserable during those times. It's not like I was self aware of the "fantastic" TV shows and internet culture or whatever. I'd be watching whatever show while staring off into space in misery, but when it's past I think "ZOMG so good! I didn't know what I had!"
>>27300252
I miss old steam so bad
>>27302503
Fuck I remember that, good times.
>finding pizza was so god damn easy
I missed on those pizza models magazines..
>>27302464
i remember late night irc with bros from around the world so fondly but i also know that at the time i was so fucking lonely
Is blacksheep still around?
>>27302581
Back when Skype was relatively new, I did group chats while looking for BlogTV streams to harass. I want the past.
>>27302568
Shit like bearshare and limewire had so much dodgy content on them but as a horny teenager I had no idea how bad some of the stuff was. People talk about "le epic deepweb and tor and shit" but it can't be any worse than what we used to stumble across.
>>27301734
I'm so sad that he quit. Hard Gay was the best of all those wrestlers.
>>27300252
Honestly you liked those things because it was your youth.
All that shit still exists, you're just not infantile enough to like it anymore.
There were shitposters back then, in fact you were one of them but it was normal to you.
People still customize their themes.
Winows XP was never the best OS.
Shitty flash cartoons still exist and they're as shitty as they have always been.
No let's plays but a lot of other autism-ridden YouTube phenomenons.
yada yada
>>27302109
but madoka was a very successful franchise? sorry you don't have passion for your hobby i guess
>>27302319
ausfag spotted
i remember when cheez got replaced with toasted
>>27302791
>but madoka was a very successful franchise
Not him but I really can't understand why. I tried watching it and it was just awful.
>>27302883
What episode did you get to?
>>27301592
>Before porn was incorporated one way or another into every non-porn website
>Before Hardcore overtook softcore porn
>actually wanting to go back to this
SJW detected
>>27302925
I watched the whole thing and I tried watching some movie that came out later that was basically the whole series repackaged. People say it's a deconstruction of magical girl shit so I suppose you have to be into that sort of thing in the first place to be able to appreciate it. Some of the soundtrack was nice though.
>>27300252
I miss WoW and Runescape being good the most, but I do miss all of those.
I hopped onto Newgrounds the other day just to see what was going on and it's all shit now. Place used to be the Mecca for flash animators and they've all gone to be shitty LPers or washouts. I wish I could blame them but NG just didn't bring in the money like youtube does for them.
>>27302971
Finally someone who agrees.
It was slightly above average at the very best.
>You will never watch another shitty runescape music video
>you will never play the psp again
>you will never play andkon, minilip, and addictinggames games
>you will never listen to daniel powter's bad day for the first time
>garfield movie, ice age 2, nanny mcphee
>>27302883
oh it's a mediocre show but that doesn't discount the fact that it was successful
>>27300252
Some of that stuff is still around, but it goes by different names now, and you have grown out of the demographic.
AVGN of yesterday is the Dunkey of today.
>>27303088
I still play my PSP anon... :)
I loved msn messenger and msn groups. AIM was ok too. I knew so many cool people back then. It makes me sad how lonely I am now that I don't even have interweb friends.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z9ERKK3jrR8
I miss old podcasts
>>27300252
>no Tumblr
blogspot was essentially proto-tumblr. only it was good.
>>27303458
why did you stop talking to them
>>27301055
I remember visiting edgy satanic shit on angelfire way back when. I'm only into the occult for the ritualization as is, but back when I actually believed in the stuff...
>>27301529
holy shit I rememer that faggot, I really enjoyed his resident evil playthroughs though
joanime
>>27300252
acually the best thing about old days is that Youtube didnt exist. It is THE biggest cancer spreader to date.
I will NEVER forgive Blizzard/Activision for screwing over WoW in order to cater to people who don't like playing video games and only use video games as social media and cultural capital. REEEEEEEE
Reddit used to be Digg basically.
People still theme their computers.
Windows XP is awful.
Something Awful was doing let's plays in the 2000s.
The internet now is more than fine.
>>27300883
This is probably the hardest feel for me. I remember the days of being able to talk to girls on the internet fondly. They didn't have some astronomical amount of other men contacting them simultaneously. I was being to hold their attention and develop meaningful relationships as a result. Now, I have to compete with a ridiculous amount of men to even have a conversation with a woman today.
I wondered if I was just better looking or more interesting in the past, but this isn't the case. I'm in the best shape of my life and I developed tons of new hobbies/talents. It's just hard for me to deal with the grind of web 3.0 social networks when in the past I used to be able to easily connect with girls in the past. Whatever, I guess I'm just entitled, lol
>watch political flash cartoons about the Iraq war and don't even know what the fuck it was about.
>that one 'hey mister taliban' song which essentially promoted genocide
>girls were appealed but didn't speak up
It's lame how slowly a boys develop. Girls really aren't helping the situation either by being wusses who don't speak their mind.
I didn't know what the fuck anthrax was.
>>27300556
Jesus Christ, thank you anon
>>27301471
Right in the feels. This was pretty much my childhood
>>27302319
>cheez tv
Rollercoaster was where it was at mate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-zWyVk5Amk
And then afterwards I'd be too lazy to change the channel so I watched 'The Cook and the Chef' almost religiously.
The ABC repeated some of that shit recently, and seeing Maggie Beer and that fag sent me into a nostalgia fit.
>>27304549
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4Aaylo_18k
That fucking theme still gets me.
>>27300252
yeah, i miss2011. when i finally got used with the culture it changes too much i don't know anymore. things have been boring and stale recently. i miss magically moments i had in the internet why did everything go so wrong so fast before i realize it
>>27300585
i think it just needs a strong community
>>27300252
>haven't had internet friends since MSN
>only getting back into it now
>>27300627
>shut up you dumb faggots it was always shitty satire website and that's the point of the place.
unfortunately when retards took things seriously that's where things go awry
Remember cp Wednesdays?
Remember when cats got posted every Saturday?
Remember when Boxxy was a thing?
Remember when social media was a "new"?
>>27301476
many chans tried doing that it ended as failure. can't go back anymore anon
>>27300252
>no phone posting
>>27301822
>That cloud guy I was talking about had like 100k(which was a fuckton for the time) subscribers in 2006, and he was doing the same thing as let's players these days.
yeah he used to be a popular youtube channel. you could see him always on most viewed category
The problem is that technology is too accessible.
Too much bandwidth.
If we were to cut everyone back to 256k internet, it would return to 2007 overnight.
The days where you'd torrent for like all day to get a film.
>>27301529
>>27301822
i think his user name is cloud8745
>>27301476
m1a1s1t1e1r1c1h1a1n.org
>>27301824
>gundam wing
>good
you sure like them fujoshi bait do you?
>>27300556
>Pewdiepie videos being the most viewed
SO CLOSE SO VERY CLOSE
>>27301954
>remember when you could actually "browse" youtube? And almost always find enjoyable content?
yes i wasted hours of watching shits on youtube. i remember when youtube related videos had better choices back then
>>27302037
>Morality is what the internet has killed.
stop being edgy
>>27304739
>The days where you'd torrent for like all day to get a film.
i still do sometimes it takes a week
>tfw shitty internet
>WWE
>Newgrounds
>2004 basically giving us every video game that matters
>Devil May Cry 3 and Resi 4 just a year later
>Actually having some people to go to the park or play football with after school or on weekends
>Actual forums
Just Sweet Chin Music my shit up, jabroni
>>27302109
I thought most of the actual animation was done by Japanese women in their 30s?
this is what killed the internet
RIP small sites and actual communities
>>27305339
It dont matter.
None of this matter.
>>27300627
stupid aids peasant
>>27302503
Im sure someone has made a skin for steam that makes it look along the same lines. MAybe not though, but you should search for it.
You gave up the mindset that made it magical and nothing more.
>>27300762
>faster internet speed
>>27300556
It may be the old YouTube but this site is slow as all fuck and unknown, there's no point to using it if there is nobody going to watch what you put on there.
>>27306757
I don't know what you're expecting from it, anon.
Maybe by spreading the word about it it won't end up like YouTube did, who knows.
>>27306703
she'll be sikilmis mate
It wasnt better back then, we were just children and everything is more fun when youre young.
>2006
>old
Who usenet here
Of course jewgle raped the archive and made it a total mess to look at, but filesharing isn't the only thing it's used for today.
>>27301055
http://reocities.com/neighborhoods/
This if you're desperate https://neocities.org/
Op's a fag for thinking THE MANESTRAEM hurt things... in 2006. The dot com bubble burst in 2000. The regular net got killed when aol showed up.
The corporations actually made the good sites even better.
>less porn online
Checkmate, op
The internet of '04-'07 was pretty comfy and the internet was a separate entity. No the internet has merged with real life. Remember the days when there were warnings about posting personal info online?
Anyone also notice how the internet is becoming policed to fuck these days? Ten years ago you called someone a faggot and that was that, forgotten within 30 seconds. Do the same today and you run the risk of having the cops knock your door and being landed a charge of harassment or something.
I miss the older internet where softcore porn was gold, normies were non existent and the internet was left as it's own entity.
>>27304739
This, convenience is good but it kills a lot of the enjoyment
For example, compare how exciting it was to anticipate playing a game or watching a movie when you actually had to go out and buy it vs now where you can just click a download button and play
E-mails are convenient but they just don't compare to a handwritten note in how it makes you feel
When the world was small and it took longer to get anywhere traveling the country was a grand adventure, imagine how the people felt back in the 1800s going on a train ride at 5mph to foreign lands, now we have multiculturalism and globalism which is great in its convenience but it blurs the line between cultures, why travel when you can get the same thing here?
>>27301565
+1. Ability to access internet anywhere 24/7 was the final blow. It makes me sad, because now it's so obvious that most people have given up trying to interact with other human beings when given the chance. They aren't ashamed, they just don't care and show it openly.
>>27308767
This to an extent.
But I don't entirely agree with emails.
Before social media, etc normalised internet communication, things like email weren't nearly as instantaneous.
Protocols like POP actually meant that meant that a person might only check their account once a day (or even less). Now that the internet is so ubiquitous, people can get push notifications the second a message is sent.
I can remember receiving email from the school councillor (one of a few people I actually talked to at school) on a family friend's computer. I literally jumped up in excitement every time I got one.
I think things like Email (especially at the time) got the balance right.
It wasn't *too* slow or difficult, but it wasn't *too* easy or accessible.
2007-2008 was the perfect tsunami of shit to kill the internet
Youtube got bought by google
The iPhone came out
Wifi got popular
Facebook got popular
Japan made pizza illegal
Facebook replaced Myspace
Exploding FOX van bought a bunch of retards in
Project Chanology brought a bunch of retards in
Windows Vista was released and made everything glossy and ugly as fuck
It's a little later than 07 (though it was 6 years ago now), but I lost so many of my cool autist friends when MLP first came out.
I remember being on MSN and them all telling me it was great but it wasn't.
>>27309019
>Japan made pizza illegal
wut why
Man, im 18 and im really fucking bummed out that i missed out on those times. I really love the old internet and just the general attitude of society in general. It was so much better. Fuck this shit man.
>>27309324
Pizza of the cheese variety
>>27300403
Well yeah and before, golden ages also took decsdes to slowly turn to shit, now it took less than 6 months.
>>27300252
The bad things you listed can be avoided or ignored.
As for the good: Web forum dedicated to special interests, or just hanging out with Internet friends.
XP was great for its time, but I fell in love with and still love 7.
Sad thing of course is gradually losing touch with those Internet friends. (And not making any new ones, to my dismay.)
>no let's play
Heh, I remember as a kid pirating games and browsing forums and one day I thought "what if I made threads with download links to vidya, talked about the game, posted screenshots and stories about my play through and called it let's play x".
Back then streaming wasn't a thing neither were let's plays. I didn't do it cause it was against most forums rules to post illegal dl links, but I could've got pretty far if I developed that idea.
I miss old school chat rooms. When they were mainstream they were so cool.
Before the pedo and creeps made them not for normies
I remember they had AOL kids chatrooms and that was my shit.
I remember hearing "I met my wife in a Christian chat room" and that wasn't weird.
I miss those days.
>>27302319
i dont know whether this is nostalgia kicked in or some shit, but holy shit eurodance/dance is so much better than music for clubs and shit these days
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0M703prHw4
>>27302503
it doesnt look "that" good but its sure informative and easy to understand
What were good porn sites back then?
I didn't really look at porn sites since they were virus filled and I didn't have a pop up blocker. I got my porn from Xanga
>>27300252
>DAYS looking on Yahoo for the rights drivers for your XP machine after you upgraded from Win98
>limewire were you tried to download a song and it either came out as randsomware or child porn
>being killed in the wilderness in Runescape after your Pentium III PC froze in mid-battle
no thanks
>>27300627
literally hello r*ddit
cuck
>>27309324
Spot the newfag everyone
>>27300670
Dude
Remember zone?
>>27308767
True, I remember waiting in line with my friends at 1 am to buy Halo 3. We met some new people there, actually played some halo 2 because people brought their tv's/consoles. Was just a fun atmosphere.
Now I just click a few times and I have a new game.
Fuck , i just remember how me and my best friend from school where totally hook by role play forums , we where so into it that we even made our own (one piece and star wars ), later i even get to know some people from a wrestling forum in real life , we went to shows and shit , good times indeed .
All kind of virtual interaction has been killed by normiebook , stay strong 4chin ;_;
>>27300478
>secret club
Secret clubfags are the cancer that killed 4chan. You.
>>27310939
lol suuuure
wtf this comment is original
>>27300252
>tfw 2006 was 4 yeards ago
>>27300699
>They've always been garbage
>hank of the hill
Faggot killed his account so here's a reup http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2xrogy_hank-of-the-hill_fun
I can take the changes to various sites, and all the fucking Chads using the internet...
But the flash game stuff is a sucker punch in the feels. Never doing that stuff again...
>all those dead fansites
I miss when anime all had their own fansites and forums. Now everything is fucking centralised. Wikipedia is efficient, but it's missing that charm that comes from a custom site that fans put love and effort into.
Conversation has shifted from hundreds of sites to just a few.
>>27303458
>>27304165
I feel like kik is the new msn. The thing is that there are so many fucking men messaging these women, but they're still increadibly lazy. Open with something mildly interesting and you've beaten the competition.
>>27302971
I personally disagree with you, but that's okay because people can disagree with each other while still respecting their viewpoints :)))))))
>>27301055
I can relate. Some of my old fandoms from when I was a teenager lived off sites like angelfire. Now most of them are dead and even some of the archives fail to save all the content like fan art for example.
>>27302008
>character is over 10 years old and I can count the amount of porn made on my one finger
Bullshit.
>>27301485
Perhaps every interesting idea for a site that could be done has been done or we just grew tired
>>27311331
>one finger
>one hand
My mistake sorry.
>>27301750
Now you know why weebs have massive storage and save everything.
>>27301441
yes, the media's campaign to normalize facebook caused the entire internet to explode.
http://www.pown.it/most_viewed
>>27311572
Well, I save a lot of shit because all the things I like tend to disappear from the internet.
Yet some personal information I posted many years ago is still readily available.
It fucking sucks.
At the same time I keep looking for good ways to store data, harddrives die sometimes, CD's can rot away, tapes seem good but the hardware is expensive and I'm not sure how to manage it.
I can always print out images and text that I want to store long-term but what about music or videos?
>>27312000
use a program like rsync or synctoy to create a backup onto an external harddrive / server and connect to a webdav / cloud to back it all up in 'the cloud' too.
>>27311767
Is this accurate?
Would explain why it got so shit
>>27312000
Same with you I same a bunch of stuff from old games with dead fanbases. It's a fun hobby of mine and I think it's cool that one day I can meet an old fan again and say "hey look I actually have that picture you made."
Raiding scientology was epic.
>>27300252
13:27
Above the Capital City
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z30oQIEzzvo
>>27312144
As far as the graph, the hard stats are up on WEF (as noted in the lower righthand corner)
What i'm saying has been pretty well documented too. Read all the partnerships from '06-11 on wiki and google search( originally a darpa project) it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook#2006.E2.80.932011:_public_access.2C_Microsoft_alliance_and_rapid_growth
There is a huge vested interest in social media from the government, news organizations, businesses and of course facebook. Press organized what is called a norms intervention in order to get lay people using the site because they were being offered money, consumer data which would help them write stories, advertisement, do public opinion polls etc.
smartphones definitely had some to do with it too, but if you notice the first iphone came out in 07 and the line continued to stagnate another year.
>>27312714
if you go on google trends you can see similarities in the rise of the bell curve to the graph i posted too (note the numbers are %ages from the top not figures)
https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=facebook
The best thing about the "old" internet was the increased anonymity, basically everything was posted through a persona and it was generally understood that what people posted online wasn't connected to their actual life or identity. Also the majority of Web was ran by passionate small companies or individuals, not the few big corporations who basically own the internet.
I wouldn't say the internet culture today is worse, but it is definitely different.
Anyone else here go on the clearnet? Its pretty comfy aside from the weirdos. Kinda like the old internet.
>>27312904
This. I saw some faggot on youtube call another poster a coward for having an alias. You're just a fucking retard if you get a google account under your real name and with an actual foto.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OzWIFX8M-Y
yeah I do. the internet had a certain feel back then, like you were connecting to a different world. also my friends and I would watch porn for 4-5 hours straight together when we were 13. fuck yeah.
Don't mind me, just posting the epitome of nostalgia and the good years (1997-2003).
>wahhh my old shitty websites don't exist
lol grow up with the world, manchildren.
>>27300252
>>Windows XP(still the best)
>>27302428
something in society stalled the progression, maybe it was the economic crash and Obama which was the first breakout of SJWs, and then it turned into the sat 8 years of politics and happenings that we all know well about, leading to the tense an devotional election cycle this year
I know that feeling, but in part i knew it could have been better and I could have indulged more in the culture, , but you know, sheltering and strict parents, which are pretty common for robots
thats why i turned to larding history and following the news so much, giving so much thought that I can post this
yeah, i have no life, but at least i understand why I and people like me don't
>>27300252
I mostly miss Homestarrunner.com
After I beat the game and the site updates basically went to a screeching halt, I knew a part of my life was over
>>27300319
I remember when I first found that on newgrounds, still a classic.
>>27300670
I still go on Newgrounds all the time, I still go on there to post my crap.
This was my first taste of porn as a kid. Now boobs always make me nostalgic and giggle a bit.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/search/movies/brickhouse%20betty
>>27309019
then snap chat, yikyak, kik and tinder,
and it as all over for us
>Old Internet
>2006
>>27302503
>Old Steam
>Nostalgia
>>27300786
>12 year old
>YTP
haha I get it now everyone here is underage and also nostalgia is a cancer
>>27301556
>https://www.homestarrunner.com
the same reason this makes me cry
>>27302428
I know how you feel, my father was starting to get abusive during that time and was fucking other women in front of me and my mother.
"Every day the future gets a little darker, but the past, even the grimy parts of it, just keep getting brighter and brighter".
Things will get better, though, I'm married and I'm perusing a career I like, even though I hate my current day job.
so here is a question?
what is the next internet?
what is the next big thing?
and don't tell me 3d printing
>>27315818
I'd imagine "the internet of things" or whatever it's called where everything you can think of is connected to the internet.
>>27305339
>>27305784
>>27305784
https://youtu.be/vvIrdg-epwA>>27305784
>>27315818
Virtual reality senpai. It's an expensive and one-trick pony meme at the moment, but in a decade or just five years I'm sure it will reach Sword Art Online levels of immersion
>>27315881
I'd hate for the real world to be that shit though
Websites today look really simple, but take 10 years to load.
>>27315861
honestly that sounds depressing, it only sounds cool in a fantastical cyberpunk megacity
not shitty SJW suburbia leftover from the 90s and early 2000s
its only going to be used to collect data and control our lives more, not liberate them, sure uber and lyft is a phenomenal exception, but the rest, i just have abad feeling
>>27315881
VR will be good for games, if we have time to play them, but again I feel society is already in a split and all practical VR applications will allow normies,chads and the elites (Chads come from elites families BTW) to further pull away from the rest of us
I feel future developments of the internet will only result in diminishing returns
the internet empowered us and balanced everything, now it is going to tip in their favor and we are helping create it
