>You will never again live in a time before social media and smartphones
>Then
>"Hey anon, did you hear about this new site called 'YouTube"?'
>"Don't use your real name on the internet, anon. You never know what might happen."
>"What's a 'For Chin'?"
>Now
>"OMG anon why don't you use [Social Media Site]? Don't you have any friends?"
>"Why don't you want to use your real info on the internet, anon? What are you hiding?"
>"Check out this new Pepe image! XD LOL well meme'd my friend! ;^)"
>>27167079
>kids are basically encouraged to post their personal information online now
why is this a thing?
>>27167122
The New World Order can't risk letting anyone slipping through the cracks.
>>27167122
Makes them easier to monitor and control.
>you will never again feel like a pimp for finding sluts in the AOL chat rooms and getting them to cyber with you
>>27167079
We've been here long enough to watch this happen firsthand.
>>27166930
I still remember the first time i searched for internet porn around '93. Nobody had told methat there was naked ladies there, i just knew, you know? I think i had always known.
>>27166930
>computers will never be beige and grey again
>>27167186
They were men, friend.
>hardly ever contributed anything at all
>just sat there watching old things die and new things be born
>tfw the closest thing you'll get to a social media free internet is when the government goes too far and the rich who believe in freedom begin launching personal satellites and creating a new internet
>>27167259
Never specified gender, homie.
I miss staying up all night on AIM and random internet chatrooms, scouring p2ps for dank porn, discovering gore for the first time, editing my MySpace and xanga.
The current state of the internet is shit and fosters nothing but privacy invasion and narcissism.
>>27166930
I don't mind. Ubuntu 14.04 is my waifu
>>27167122
I don't know, but it scares me that people have no desire to protect their privacy online.
>>27166930
i'm 32
i don't even fucking care anymore, not bothering with nostalgia vision anymore. let the turbo faggots run everything into the crater of faggotry.
>>27167452
But anon i got nothing to hide :^)
>>27167588
31 here. I actually look forward to the downfall of society.
It's only a matter of time before normies and liberals run everything into the ground.
At least 4chan is a viable escape from the rounded-edge, banal faggotry that's plastered across sites like iFunny and Twitter these days.
Oh wait..
>>27167079
Makes me wish for an alternate internet. Maybe we can just invent a new protocol and start over.
Someday there will be regions set aside for people who don't constantly plug into VR or have any technological influence.
>10 years ago
>spend my years gaming
>"OMG ANON IS ALWAYS ON THE COMPUTER WHY DON'T YOU HAVE A LIFE"
>now
>don't have a smartphone out in public and aren't on social media
>"OMG ANON YOU DON'T HAVE ANY SOCIAL MEDIA, ARE YOU A LONER AHA"
>>27168342
>JUST(orjehinale)
>will never get to hang out in aol chatrooms after school while playing sweet tooth or popit
>tfw want to go back to AOL/AIM and IRC instead of bloated web 2.0 garbage
how the fuck does anyone navigate the ad ridden, context separated trash that is twitter
>>27166930
It's hard for me remember I lived in that world for many years. Longer than most people on this board.
That was a different world, and not only in the way people think about with memes and all this robot stuff like Chad and normies.
One of the significant things that comes to mind is in the time before social networks you could have a higher sense of accomplishment about the things you were good at.
If you play video games with your friends today you can have a lot of fun getting better together and discovering new things. And you can have a sense of being good at something.
Now, you go on the internet and get your ass kicked by an anonymous person over and over and over. No matter how good you are among your friends you all still feel like you suck.
This goes for all kinds of things like playing sports or musical instruments.
I don't know how kids today have any motivation to start something when they're faced with such ideas.
>you will never live in a time of space exploration and colonization
>>27166930
>you will never experience the year before everything became shit again
>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 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
>>27166930
For a brief period, socially awkward white males actually had social cache because the nerdy white male tech boom.
Now, the cunts and nu-males are hellbent on reversing all that positive perception and characterizing white nerds' hard work as "exclusion", when a computer is the most fucking gender/color-blind device ever invented.
Really makes my blood boil that the actual heroes of computing go unrecognized when fraudulent cokewhores like Ada Lovelace are known by 99% of plebbitors.
>>27168456
>how the fuck does anyone navigate the ad ridden, context separated trash that is twitter
I seriously cannot figure twatter out for the life of me. I can understand individual "tweets" more or less but the rest is a complete fucking blur.
(Why does clicking some links trigger a full page refresh but others just make ajax calls? Fuck this bullshit normandump)
