Hey /r9k/, 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 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.
The late millenials will always remember Youtube in the days of Shoes, Charlie the Unicorn, Fred, AVGN, Nostalgia critic, Planet Unicorn Theme Song, Boxxie, and Bon qui qui, just to name a few.
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.
>>27396175
rose tinted glasses
i dont care, all i do is browse 4chan anyway. torrenting and porn is way better now
im not mad its gone, Im just glad I got to experience it
>>27396175
Sounds a bit gay the way put it, but it was definitely a beast of its own. Now it's literally just an extension to real life. And places like 4chan are become more and more normie filled despite the content that gets posted here.
>>27396485
>Now it's literally just an extension to real life
That's it basically.
The internet is now designed to augment a normie lifestyle. Works great for that purpose, but shit for anyone who actually wants to do something interesting with it.
>>27396175
i miss old youtube ;_;. i was internet noob i didn't know of anything beside what's the popular website are. i usually just google stuffs and saved awful quality of pics and hang out in youtube where i constantly watches the same thing all over again but still those were fun times i can't never get them back
>>27396175
>Us youth born between 1995-2000
Try 1990-1995
Everyone born after 1996 wouldn't actually remember what old youtube looked like, or really even care because they would be like 10 years old and not know how computers worked beyond playing games their parents downloaded on there
The majority of people who "remember" all those things you listed were born in the early 90s
Someone born in the year 1999 would be around 5 years old when most of those things happened
Green Day was a band from the 80s and Drake and Josh was essentially just a spin-off of All That
You're lulling yourself into a false nostalgia
You discovered all of those things AFTER they were already popular, if you are as old as you say you are
Which is not at all because you'd still be a teen if you were born in 1997, meaning you really shouldn't be posting here anyway
fuck off you cancerbaby
You and your fucky little friends ruined the comfynet
Leave now
Leave
Ree
>>27396485
>me 8-10 years ago
>o man its going to be so sweet when the internet grows enough to become an extension to the real world
>me today
>jesus, kids these days
yeah really just find something else to binge on
>>27396530
Zippcast senpai
>>27396535
>Everyone born after 1996 wouldn't actually remember what old youtube looked like, or really even care because they would be like 10 years old and not know how computers worked beyond playing games their parents downloaded on there
Not actually true.
I was born in 1996 but due to being a total shut-in from the age of 8ish I basically lived my life on the internet as soon as I got it.
I remember the internet from 2005 onwards very well.
>>27396175
>hating the nostalgia critic
>enjoying drake & josh
>going on shit like club penguin, even as a kid
Dude you sound like a pretty big faggot. I can just feel how much you were bullied as a child.
>>27396175
The fuck are you talking about man, Youtube-era internet didn't feel like an adventure at all. In fact it was the beginning of the end of when the internet felt fun and a little dangerous.
>>27396175
fucking newfag
you are talking about that time when internet was already ruined
internet was better pre-html
You were between 10 and 15 by 2010., and you're talking about shit that happened years ago?
>>27396588
>I remember the internet from 2005 onwards very well.
Not actually true
Your memories of 2005 are more than likely just memories of 2008, and shitty ones at that
If you are telling the truth, tell me some forums that you visited along with your old username for verification
>>27396632
4chan, 2ch.ru, 0chan
they were all anonymous :/
>>27396664
imageboards aren't the same thing as forums and nobody went to 4chan organically out of nowhere
you had to have heard about those sites from somewhere and I doubt someone IRL would tell you to go to 2006 4chan when you were a literal child
>>27396175
Boxxy was fucking cancer.
Back when you could find an entire movie on YouTube and it wouldn't get taken down for a month. When you could click the link from Google and it wouldn't show you the trailer of "Universal Soldier" and offer the chance to buy it, but rather just a full movie on cuck tube.
I remember that
>>27396664
So you're honestly claiming that you browsed 4chan when you were ~10 years old?
Fucking hell, man. I really, really hope you're just lying for le oldfag cred. Because if you actually spent your literal childhood on this website then that's just flat out sad.
>>27396696
Usenet count as a forum?
>You'll never live in a pre-smartphones and pre-social networks era
Why even live ?
Back then I was "That strange guy who uses the Windowswebs a lot". Nowadays I'm sure normies spend way more time on the internet than I do (if counting facebook, twitter, youtube pranks and online shopping)
Post-2007 Internet is, as anon earlier said, an extension to real life. The only things that improved a lot are porn and streaming.
>1995-2000
Lol. Kill yourself kiddo. You were still in diapers during the golden age of the Internet
>>27396750
>Usenet
If you don't know what an actual forum is, you are definitely too young to actually know anything
>>27396632
I'm not him but I'm from 1996 also and I remember seeing in around 2005 all the old YTMND memes like "Secret Nazi" and Brian Peppers and stuff. I don't have any old forum accounts because my three older brothers used to yell at me and force me to delete them if they found out about them, so it wasn't until around 2008-9 like you say that I started to be allowed to have accounts on stuff, but I certainly browsed them.
I distinctly remember bringing up weird memes like Picard's "just kept talking in one long incredibly unbroken sentence" song and stuff to friends of mine when I was in year 3 and 4 in primary school. 2008 was when I started year 7.
>>27396793
If you remember seeing those things and you didn't have an account because you had 3 older brothers who could tell whether or not you created an account then not only was the reason you saw those things in the first place is because of your brothers but you also didn't have a clear enough grasp of computers to be able to hide your computer activity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF9FPzHkyUI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYxVnfElbE0
hold me bros, it hurts
>>27396792
Forum format changed after 1997, many people consider Usenet an early forum.
>>27396848
>Forum format changed after 1997
Not relevant, especially since we're discussing OP's proposed period of around 2004
>many people consider Usenet an early forum
Get off wikipedia
>>27396834
I knew how to hide my computer activity, but the computer was in the living room so sometimes they'd walk and see me logged into an account or something.
>>27396896
Yeah, totally dude
super believable
>>27396587
>Zippcast senpai
it doesn't feel the same senpai
>>27396896
You should still be able to find old threads you posted in because there are usually always archives
Just because your account was deleted, doesn't mean there's no more evidence it existed
>>27396911
You don't think it's believable for somebody to have a family computer? I had to deal with that shit until I was 16.
I can't wait until we hit the point where it will be physiologically impossible for youngfags to have been on the internet in its prime. Dealing with all these desperate, posturing late 90s kiddies acting like they were fully internet savvy when they were 8-10 years old is cringeworthy.
>>27397007
I don't know why you guys think 8 year olds are retarded toddlers or something. 8-10 year olds are pretty damn capable and remember stuff fairly well as well. Obviously no 8 year old was a grand wizard or anything but it's not too crazy to think somebody was browsing memes at that age.
>>27396175
OP, you are the worst person on the Interbutts today.
>>27396979
I don't think it's believable that you were doing something on the family computer you knew people would get mad at you for, claim you knew how to use a computer, but still get caught often enough to not have an actual account
I don't think it's believable that you created enough accounts and still got caught simply because sometimes your brothers caught you as they were walking by
Most people had family computers, do you really think that's the one thing I had an issue with
>>27396175
DUDE EMO FLASH ANIMATION AND 9/11 LMAO
>>27396175
m8 that all sounds like shit. It sounds like you didn't actually do anything in your childhood - just stare at various screens thinking you were part of something. grow up.
Also if you were born in 95-00 you're too young to be nostalgic. shut up you edgy little prick
>>27397045
I didn't create tons of accounts. I joined like one or two forums and then stopped after getting yelled at by my brothers.
I'm not saying I was some elite forum dweller or something I'm just saying I used to browse YTMND and old school youtube and remember it decently well. My brothers were the ones who introduced me to those sites but those were still what I always visited during my computer time.
>>27397078
>I joined like one or two forums and then stopped after getting yelled at by my brothers
This is one of the most unbelievable parts, they yelled at you and you stopped because you had to
The reason you can't actually claim any evidence was completely out of your hands and not at all your fault, it just happens to be this way
Even though your brothers were the ones who introduced you to certain websites, they got mad when you went to other ones
You didn't even specify why they got mad, you thought your excuse was good enough to just be "they got mad so I stopped"
Nobody, especially not me, thinks you could even claim to be an elite forum dweller
You might have browsed YTMND and youtube, but not at the times you claim and not long enough ago for you to be nostalgiac
>>27397166
They didn't care what websites I went on, only the fact that I posted on them because they were worried I'd get raped by pedophiles or some shit. Hell, even in 2007 when I made a fucking Wikipedia account they went apeshit.
You can believe what you like but I don't know why you find it so unbelievable that somebody can remember when they were 8-9 years old. It's pretty easy.
>>27397217
>I don't know why you find it so unbelievable that somebody can remember when they were 8-9 years old
I don't disbelieve that
I'm just pointing out you're lying about being on the internet during those times
>I'd get raped by pedophiles or some shi
Your excuses are getting flimsier and flimsier
>>27397258
Why do you think an 8 year old wouldn't be on the internet? I never went out except for school. I was always either on the internet, watching Dragon Ball after school or playing video games, much the same as I am now.
>>27396175
Fuck 9ff normie
God damn
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1996 here.
Been using the internet since ~2003 starting with Netscape, and playing Runescape in 2005.
Butthurt 80s/ early 90s babies, please get a job and actually be productive to society instead of arguing with teenagers and college students about cherished memories on an Italian Lemur fetish forum.
>>27397339
There are things that 8 year olds would rather do than be on the internet
There are things that 8 year olds would rather do on computers than use the internet
There are things that 8 year olds would rather do on the internet than post on forums
Watching funny videos, sure, but you weren't a part of those communities
It would honestly make more sense if you said you were active on sites like miniclip or newgrounds
>>27396175
>Pre-normie internet
>Us youth born between 1995-2000, we grew up in an era of digital pioneering
>Runescape, Star Wars Battlefront, Halo
>A world that had yet to be explored
Looks like my definition of "pioneering" was wrong, you learn something new everyday. I think I'm gonna go play Doom and drink heavily.
In other words: wew lad, 2wew4me
>>27397040
Seriously OP wtf is your deal
>>27397750
I never said I was a part of any communities, just that I made a couple of accounts on some forums and then deleted them.
>There are things that 8 year olds would rather do than be on the internet
Clearly you've never met me. I had a bizarre obsession with Windows. During reading time at school when everybody else read Harry Potter or Horrid Henry I read a copy of Windows 95 for Dummies I found in the school library. Does that sound like a normal 8 year old to you?
>>27397435
2010 here.
Been using the internet since ~2015 starting with Chrome, and playing Heroes of the Storm.
Butthurt late 90s/early 2000s babies, please graduate/get a job and be productive to society instead of arguing with kids and teenagers about cherished memories on an American Call of Duty forum.
>>27396175
Kids who are freshman in high school will never know what it's like to pop in astro lounge into the cd player while playing spyro the dragon on ps1.
i know this thread is bait but i'll still bite.
faggots like op make me cringe harder than anything i can remember doing as a dumbass kid.
reading op's post makes it seem like everything i had nostalgia for was actually pretty gay and insignificant.
yes i know i grew up in the emerging time of the internet.. no i don't think i am part of any super cool clubhouse that "today's kids just don't know about"
The nostalgia for YouTube comes from people who watched a handful of videos you'd only find funny as a kid, rather than being nostalgic for what the YouTube community was back then. The quality of what people put out was a lot higher from 2006-2010 because it wasn't as big and there were more demographics than just normies. It's hard to pine for old YouTube when you weren't uploading all the time and were really interested in YouTube personalities and their growth or whatever.
>>27396175
You and all your contemporaries are cancerous fags, OP. Sorry.
>>27396175
>pre-normie internet
>10+ minute videos
8/10 because some people are taking this seriously.
>>27396175
normie internet was like 1999, guys. hate to break it to you, but you're the problem. not the solution. the fucking dot com bubble burst in 2000.
>>27396175
FACEBOOK ruined it all.
Fuck facebook, fuck FACEBOOK, FUCK FACEBOOK FOR FUCK SAKE!
Why the FUCK did they invent that shit, FUCK FACEBOOK, FUCK FACEBOOOOK!
Of you're not below 24 you won't understand, facebook terrorized me in HS because it showed my immense lack of social life compared to that of the huge Staceys and their Chad friends with thousands of phots and posts of them haning out/clubbing.
Fuck facebook, I'm already anxious by nature by facebook multiplied my anxiety by a million, it turned me crazy.
>>27400097
Also Myspace etc were NOT popular in my country (Italy) the normie social network era ONLY started with Facebook, FUCK FACEBOOK.
>>27400097
>having facebook in high school
Normie.
>>27400165
Hum I got facebook when i was 13 and everyone had it during my first year of hs and I still tried to fit in for the first two years before falling completely into depression and deleting my fb.
>>27399960
>pre-normie internet
>not watching realmediaplayer files
>1995-2000
Your generation killed the Internet.
>>27396175
Fuck.
I miss forums they were so comfy.
Now everything revolves around fucking shitbook, it monopolized the internet and videogame forums became a wasteland because they all use normiebook now.
Fuck normiebook to HELL.
And back in the day you could find online friends on social websites.
Now all places like that are dead because Facebook and all those apps took over and you can't do anything on Facebook or snapchat or those places unless you already have a social life.
Non-normals have been successfully filtered from the Internet.
>>27396175
Yeah, I remember roleplaying on IRC in the 90's - I would script bots that emulated Final Fantasy battle systems and run my own text-based adventures on the internet
I'm 32 now
>>27396175
>Hey /r9k/, do you miss the Internet when it felt like an adventure - before it was ruined by normies and degeneracy?
Normies have been online since the 90s.
>Us youth born between 1995-2000, we grew up in an era of digital pioneering
Again, normies have been online since the mid-90s. The pioneer days were in the 80s when BBS's and Usenet were the heart of online communication.
Why do people act like the web is when the Internet began?
What really pisses me off is how everything you do online must be earmarked with your real name
>>27396528
How does creating content that suit the average human limit your ability to do interesting things with it? You can still do the same things with internet as you could before, except you have even more tools and power to do it with? I do not get how the fact that internet is popular limits it. I fact it has made people through money at it increasing its technical abilities. You can do anything with it.
>Us youth born between 1995-2000, we grew up in an era of digital pioneering
Anyone not old enough to remember Eternal September is not a "digital pioneer".
>1995-2000
lol, babby's first rose tinted nostalgia
