Does anyone else miss early 2000s Internet?
>>27829405
No you dumb faggot it was horrible
nostalgic for what you grew up on? that's original.
>Dad gives me an hour on the net before he plugs the phone back in
>Each neopet game takes 15 minutes to load
>leave limewire songs downloading and come back to an error
not really
>>27829426
I think it was worth the lack of normies tbqh.
Sure internet is faster, computers are faster, and there's a lot more content on the internet... but let's face it, nothing beats the online communities that existed pre-2009. Content created had a much more endearing quality to it. That was a time people made animations and other content for the "lulz" and not just profit or fame.
>>27829405
The culture, The forums, Yeah.
The speeds, Shitty operating systems, No.
>>27829405
>every boy wanted the imac in the computer room on computer day
>it ran like shit but looked cool
>three pcs with backyard soccer
Was a fucking race to snag one of those or be stuck with boring shit for an hour.
>>27829562
popups were kind of fun compared to the sneaky ads we have now
>>27829666
when I was kid my dad fell for the mac meme so it was like heroin when I got to use a PC at school or wherever, those late 90s/early 2000s macs were fucking ass
>>27829547
just think of how people feel now that were on internet message boards in the '80s, this must be hell to them now
>>27829405
Absolutely.
Anyone who says no is a social media normie.
>>27829871
Back in 1993, AOL gave all of its moron users access to usenet. the oldfag usenet users called it the "eternal september". before that, usenet was full of great intelligent discussion
>>27829405
>TFW waiting weeks while downloading 50 porn videos at once that are 200mb-4GB each.
>TFW checking back every hour to see that each video can play another 15 frames since last time you checked.
>TFW someone else needing to use the phone ruined it for a while.
>TFW you actually miss the hell out of it.
>Also, TFW before cell phones and social media ruined generations and humanity.
>TFW never had a cell phone or social media and won't ever want one.
>>27829405
no, it was slow and shitty, stop making these threads
>>27829405
I miss trolling the AOL forums with my buddies when we were 9. Great lulz were had.
Yeah I'm also a manchild who can't grow up and play "retro" video games to look cool in front of high schoolers
>>27830247
Well, according to them. It probably wasn't that great.
>tfw had to share an absolute toaster of a desktop with entire family until I was almost 19
got caught fapping probably like 5+ times on that thing
>limited to 1 hour a day on the pc
fuck that
Who here had an angelfire/geocities website?
>>27829547
>there's a lot more content on the internet
Is that really true though? Maybe technically, yes. But does anyone nowadays stray off more than three or four sites a day?
The internet feels a lot smaller than it did.
>>27830663
The most relevant sites are fucking massive and have everything on them nowadays, it almost doesn't make sense to visit more obscure sites anymore.
The content was nostalgic, but overall early 2000s internet was fucking terrible.
>still had dial-up
>everything took fucking ages to load
>tied up the phone line which made mom mad
>web 2.0
I miss the communities for the most part. Now the Internet is so full of normies because the Internet is so accessible whereas previously you were mostly on the Internet only if you were dedicated to your hobby, a nerdy gamer or programmer type, or looking for a dating service/porn.
Communities used to be more tight knit IMO. Also the rise of clickbait is fucking annoying.
But at least nowadays the selection of yaoi is much much better and easier to access. I don't miss kazaa/limewire.
Yes, it was the best time of my life. And thats not because I happened to be young because I hated everything else about my life.
The internet felt like this vast territory that was entirely separate from the real. Then the normals started pushing for more social networking shit and everything went to hell. Now the internet is just a place for normals to dump selfies.
I had a great experience with it though. Decent desktop, broadband internet, and a single mother that was more than happy to leave me on there day and night.
>>27829405
I'd say that 2006 to 2008 struck a tolerable balance between having speed, having some of the good services (like early youtube) and not being nearly as subjected to the normie invasion. The popularization of Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter in the general public opened the floodgates and it was all downhill from there.
>>27829405
Even just 2000s internet in general was vastly different from nowadays
Memes these days just feel forced, the only one worth anything is Gondola
Also this >>27830792
>>27830792
>the rise of clickbait is fucking annoying
True but we had similar back then. It was nothing to have your browser get hijacked with popups and open new windows until the machine ran out of ram.
Imagine how nice things would be if social media just didn't exist and cell phones could only text and make phone calls.
Also, YT comments don't exist, streaming isn't profitable, no one makes lets plays, etc.
God I hate this "watch me play a video game and listen to me prattle on about dumb shit" phenomenon so much.
Not really but it triggers me i can't do anything on the internet without seeing le dank memes XD and 100 different advertisements
>>27829405
You are literally the only person on Earth to think so, even more so on 4chan and /r9k/
>>27831138
>not blocking ads
Not only do I miss it but I'm pretty much sure post-2008 high-speed Internet is one of the reasons why western society is total utter shit compared to the 90s
Internet back in 2000/2004 :
>Slow as fuck
>A lot of bullshit, kids trying to be edgy
>Viruses everywhere
>Shit tons of websites with lot of great content
>Shit tons of websites with lot of BULLSHIT as well
Internet now :
>Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube
>People taking selfies and filming themselves reacting to this or that or talking about their lives
>Feminism
>YT channels 'Top 100 twerk vids of the week !!!' and makeup tutorials
>Normies everywhere
Don't get me wrong, the Internet back then wasn't perfect at all, but there was waaaay more content imo. Nowadays the Internet doesn't only feels smaller but also worse when it comes to content quality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gi7h654rV8
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I miss that there were things left to the imagination.
When typing 'funny videos' into youtube provided hours of fun.
>>27830792
>yaoipatrician taste
>>27829405
I personally think 2008-2012 was the best
the early 90s would have been nice but the early 2000s sucked. it was all eerie and weird it was a gross looking transition between current and "retro"
plus other than games everything was terrible
>>27831184
>you can never go back to how it used to be, none of us can
>>27832496
We just have to find the next frontier. Packet radio maybe?
>>27829405
>>27829547
>>27830304
>>27830721
you idiots dont miss the internet in the 90's, you miss being a kid in the 90's
>>27832538
there will never be another. The frontier days of humanity are over, at least for the next several lifetimes. Until we make it into space this festering rock is all we've got
>>27830655
i had a million of them. and tripod
I miss the online communities, old school Windows, and also customizing my computer. Nowadays there's really not much to do because most of the Internet is centralized.
Computers originally were purchased O N L Y by enthusiasts and professionals, and tech companies were also founded mostly by enthusiasts and professionals.
Once computers opened up to normies, the big business "lowest common denominator" types moved in.
Now, everything has degraded. Barriers to entry matter.
To buy the equipment to connect to a BBS or the Internet in the early days, you had to be just a few steps away from a HAM radio spergatron.
That made a huge difference in the community.
Post screenshots of memory triggering apps pls.
>tfw no more pre-google youtube
>>27833465
It's wrong to say that only 'super computer geeks' on the internet was a good thing. Most of us experience nostalgia for earlier times online simply because we had those experiences - in the same way that many boomers like the Beatles...simply because they were around.
The thing that drove the internet for the past 20 years has been expansion and improvement. None of the 'super computer geeks' were ever resisting change and expansion, in fact they were mostly behind it. The real threats to the internet come from the nature of the internet itself - for example the internet up until maybe even the mid 2000's was characterised by pretty much unlimited free speech, but the growth of the internet meant that eventually the normies (especially women) would lobby to control speech online.
If people are genuinely interested (and I believe many are), they will put their efforts into building and reforming the internet to cut government and corporations out - through encryption for example, or new methods of searching (we really need to end google), and even perhaps by building an 'indestructable internet' by finding ways to use objects around us to transmit information in a decentralised manner, combined with 3D printing technologies that could eventually make it possible for a home user to build his own wifi hardware which could connect to the wifi hardware of those around him. Or by people gathering together online to create new political blocs of power that could force national governments to recognise complete freedom online.
>>27829405
I sure as hell miss windows XP though
yes my friends
>>27831049
>God I hate this "watch me play a video game and listen to me prattle on about dumb shit" phenomenon so much.
i miss the days where that bullshit didnt exist
>on the computer when i'm not supposed to be
>mom calls from work to check on me
>phone line is busy
>get my ass beaten when she gets home
yea nah i'm good
The internet wasn't that great but the absolute lack of normies was amazing.
Normies did the internet like they did gaming
>>27832547
actually no, the internet in the early 2000's was way different than todays internet. everything wasnt about likes and selfies and getting attention and shit like it is today
>>27833625
>tfw i bought a decade old sony laptop running winxp off ebay for 100$ a few months ago
>works great
feels good man
I love to meme as much as the next memer but memes have made the internet a place barren of magic
https://web.archive.org/web/19971211090850/http://www.anipike.com/
We had muh nostalgy threads about 90's, now it is early 2000's, in 2020 its gonna be "guyz remember 2011 and rage memes?".
You are not missing old internet, you are missing your childhood.
I just hope for a time free of "irony" and less centralization of communities and hivemind among people
>>27833779
please don't make me remember memories
>>27833779
Fuck, just seeing the link takes me back. I totally forgot about anipike.
>>27833828
I wasn't a "child" in the early '00s, as I started HS in 2000.
Still, though, I think the nostalgia I have for the internet of the era comes more from the different perspective on life and the world that I had back then. I was young, I didn't have financial obligations, I was a weeb without shame, I still believed that my pure 3D waifu was out there waiting for me to find her, etc.
Here, a pic I found recently of my "station" from 2004 or so.
>burning hundreds of cds
>>27833513
keeping the meme alive.
>>27834455
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>>27834723
Holy fuck anon, completely forgot this.How can we forgot things like this?
>>27833733
Actually true, the only thing that brought the normies was social media. Literally nothing else, fucking faggots who made that shit. I hate it, I just want to be a edgefag and laugh at dumb shit without having offend someone or seen as wierd because I don't have social media accounts.
