>TFW you'll never go back to 2003-2004 internet

>>57589745
we should have saved it

>>57589745
Make websites that aren't shitty then.

>>57589767
we did

>>57589745
>try to watch porn
>a single .jpg takes 5 minutes to load

>try to read a wiki article
>only a small selection of badly written articles
>you actually have to order encyclopedia CDs to do anything useful

>try to watch a video online
>lol no, you can't even do this
>spend 3 hours downloading a shitty 360p music video

>google "how to do [something]"
>zero useful results

>try to pirate 500$ textbook
>not a fucking chance of finding it

Yeah, it's all nice and nostalgic, that is until you realize how restrictive it used to be.

>>57589878
Yeah but you appreciate it SO much more back then.

Now everything is fucking available.

I can download any fucking obscure piece of music or film with 100 seeders in insane quality.

The hardware was so bad back then, now we have machines to run Facebook and play simple games that can run 100 instances of openCAD

>>57589878
Just because it wasn't perfect it doesn't mean it didn't had a lot of great things about it.

>most websites weren't optimized like shit.
>lots of free games with as if not higher quality than you can find even on Steam nowadays.
>You didn't got banned from forums for saying bad words
>No botnet, or at least not as persistent as it is now.
>goverment didn't gave a shit about piracy
>nor did anyone else for that matter.

>>57590044
Kek, good times man.

Security was so non-existent back then. No one fucking knew anything. Now you have 3000 criminal big botnets stealing credit cards, committing financial fraud, data-mining people, skids trying to spread their retarded malware, all those malicious ads, needing an adblocker etc

>>57589946
And this is bad how?

>>57590152
It was the wild west tbqh, it was far from perfect, but it had it's charm, and it was the very definition of freedom.

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>>57589745
>tfw you'll never go back to pre-september 2003 internet

>>57590193
We lost appreciation for things.

It's obviously not bad, progress in technology is great.

$300 buys you an insane processor compared to 10 years ago. Thank god for capitalism. But it was a different time, a simpler time

>>57589745
I'm glad. The internet has gotten much better since then.
Speeds are better by orders of magnitude, bandwidth is no longer anything of any consideration for anyone living in the first world (which doesn't include the U.S, of course.), websites look a damn sight better, the advent of ads becoming an endemic brought along things like adblock and its successors, almost or all shopping is possible online now; depending on what you want...
What? You're upset because the "normies" know how to use the internet too now? Too fucking bad.

Times change and the internet has improved so damn much.
>B-b-but my shitpad T-20 can't handle it any more!!!
Move along and get a job, faggot. Maybe then you'll be able to afford something actually worth owning.

>>57589745
Oh, you mean back when I had 1mbit download speeds? No thanks, fag.

>>57591490
>tfw still in 1mbit

>>57590279
Why is appreciation of things good?

>>57589878
>2004
>5 minutes to load a jpg
You should have tried harder.

>>57591562
People don't make use of all the infinite resources available to them because they take them for granted.

>>57590768
Internet connections in Germany are shit tho. At least for 1/3 of our population.

>>57589745
This has been bugging me more lately.

Is the internet "over"? Was it a thing that could only have existed in a particular place and time and once it is gone it's gone?

Oh sure it's going to be around forever in the same way video games and professional wrestling will be around, but the magic is gone.

>>57589878
>2004
>move into an apartment in the city
>get cable internet
>open forum pages that used to take 2 or 3 minutes to load on dial-up
>done loading in 2 seconds

And from a practical perspective these pages looked just as good as anything today. The internet was faster in 2004 than it is now

>>57591690
That doesn't even make any sense. Elaborate.

>>57591812
We have so much we don't make use of it.

That Slav kid from Shitholeistan might have passion but not the money so he slaps shit together to make it work and makes due, whereas the person living with cheap and plentiful technology doesn't appreciate how much he can do with what he has.

>you will never go back to pre-1991 Internet
Tim Berners-Lee killed it with the Web. The Web is what allowed normies to get on.

>back to my old 200MB data cap

oh geez

>>57591951

>spending your night shitposting usenet when you should have been doing your CS assignments

truly those were the days.

>>57589745
I miss 2007-2008 internet rather than 2004

God, fucking AGAIN. We need a separate board for this already. /g/ is so, so, so fucking jerk happy for this stupid shit. Fucking faggots so hard.

Okay that's it, I'm fucking done with dealing with this, there has GOT to be a way to make money off of these stupid nostalgia dipshits and I am going to find a way. Just to validate the energy wasted on this fucking stupid butt circlejerking meme.

>>57592037
Make money off me senpai

Just give me my nostalgia back

>>57589878
That first one is false but you bring up a good point, shit is a lot more convenient now.

It's a shame that normalfags, the botnet, and a bunch of other undesirable garbage came with it. It was the older internet's attitude that shaped how I am today, for the better.

>being nostalgic for a time after the heyday of Usenet

Millenials smfh tbqh familia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY2LeX5fuJw
skip to 20:22
>tfw computers will never be this comfy again

>>57589745
>implying I want to

We need old web design with modern internet speed and relevance, simple like that.

>>57591761
sorta like the death of the wild west.
the internet has been "Successfully Monetized" by all those big fancy corporations and it's also been ensnared by the government.

it's a different place now.

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>be 16
> 3:45pm on Tuesday, February, 2005
>come home from school, still raining, everything looks blue outside.
>house to myself until 6 or 7pm.
>thesis on shit ill never use in life due in 3 weeks. no homework otherwise.
>browse newgrounds
>something catches my eye
>time well spent
>pic related

>>57592037
your generation's internet sucks

deal with it

>>57593721
So where is the pioneer spirit occurring now? I want to be there. I want to be part of "it".

>>57589745
>tfw I will never be able to curb stomp a frogposter