Tell me about the early days of the internet /g/

You're still in them

Everybody was nice to each other

i remember pirating the matrix
its been some time since then
i remember using the gba emulator
i had a lot of fun with knopix
have a level 10 steam account

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Normies ruined it

>>57732192
this

It was a much simpler time

>tfw the vx scene is dead

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Not much worse.

But at least there were less normalfags.

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Porn was a lot better, MD5 blacklisting from search engines has effectively hidden a large amount of amateur porn that was otherwise openly available.

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>2009
>age 14
>playing pokemon online with people on forums
>using youtube in 2007 when I was 12 and being little shit/playing gba games on my computer

Somehow I didn't end up here until 2012 when I became obsessed with anime.

>>57732289
This gave me PTSD

>>57732295
>early days of the internet
>2009

>>57732187
>i remember pirating the matrix

we watched that shit in a computer lab on my last day in 7th grade (1999)

some faggot in my class spent like 2 days downloading a 320x240 avi over dialup

>>57732304
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWq4DWfrpu8

tons of original content, extremely obscure and weird but hilarious jokes, people behaving a million times more autistic than now
silly flash games like school shooting simulators
you'd download a song and find out its actually a picture of some little ukrainian girl getting assraped by her dad on limewire
people were much more tech and information oriented, ubuntu forums was super vibrant, everyone obsessed with programming/linux
edginess was on the edge, trolling people into suicides was the norm
i think im gonna cry for a moment

exploding barrels, exploding barrels everywhere.

>>57732325
>ubuntu

this thread is about the early days of the internet senpai, not the mid 2000's onwards

ubuntu didn't exist at any time you could consider "early"

RealMedia and frustrating buffer times , shockwave games, and ICQ

>>57732324
Man, I don't know if it was just because I was young and impressionable but when I first dl mirc and started going into non-retarded rooms it seemed like everyone there was a genius. So much good conversation that you don't really see anymore.

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It was a simpler time. Back when the web browser wasn't 90% of what a computer was used for because dial-time could get pretty expensive real fast, so I remember saving a shit load of stuff as soon as I could, then hanging up, then reading/watching/looking at it offline.

>mfw I was part of a final fantasy vii fanfiction webring on geocities
>mfw archive team didn't get it in their mass download

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Those were the days.

Having cyber sex with the hot grills on MSN Messenger.

>>57732054
Spending my days roleplaying in WWF E-Feds

>>57732054
Not everything was owned by facebook and google so pretty good

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>>57732295
>2009
>14
Anon early days of the internet is before google

Youtube marks the rise of normalfag internet

Inbetween is realnigga internet

>>57732325
you sound like a 13 y/o /b/tard.

>>57732470
And search engines were so crappy you'd likely never get the same results twice, even if you searched only a day later for the exact same thing.

>>57732295
>2007
cute

I've been here since 2005, and regret every single day.

>>57732054

> me

> be 17 years old

> 1997

> newsgroups

> fighting with a cock in newsgroups

> being called a troll

> having no idea what a troll is

> later finding out a troll is a term invented in newgroups

> proud

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>>57732479

This

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>>57732484

pic related was pretty reliable

>the days before altavista had its own domain name
>http://altavista.digital.com

>good thread, keep the smiles coming. Hayao Miyazaki would be prowd

>>57732496
>I've been here since 2005, and regret every single day.

Same. I've wasted over a decade of my life on this shit, but I can't leave. It's all been a complete waste of fucking time. It makes me so fucking mad.

I'm not going to leave though; I actually don't think I can.

>Send this chain email to 5 of your closest friends, if you get this email sent back to you twice by two of the friends you sent this email to something great will happen to you in one weeks time.

>there's people on this board who never experienced 4chan frames
For a blast from the past: http://www.4chan.org/frames
Those were simpler times

>>57732520
Pretty much spot on. God have mercy.

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>>57732496
>tfw you found 4chan at the start of 2006, just before it went to total shit

Comparing it to now is like day and night. I'd kill to go back to how it was then. Fuck, I'd kill to have the whole internet as it was then.

>>57732537

Oh gosh, the tech support memories are coming back

>tfw I still had dial-up during the Web 2.0 bloat craze
It was painful.

People actually coding their own websites in html. It was the only way. Under construction gifs.

>>57732054
Internet was expensive
We shared memes on on CDs labeled "Funny things 1994"
swf format was a big deal

>web pages with flash intros
Man am I glad those days are over

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>>57732731
>websites that were ENTIRELY made of flash

EAT
SHIT

>speed text combat rp
>MSN chatrooms
>gay.com actually had a section for lesbians
>diablo II
>Ultima Online
>the original ccc.com
>Napster


My youngnet experience in a nutshell basically.

oh yeah, and some free sheet music website that I can't remember the name of.

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>>57732187
>early days of the internet
>pirating movies

OFF MY LAWN

14.4 kbps AOL Chat rooms, webcrawler being the internet. after AOL turned to flat 20 dollars a month you couldn't even connect most times

parents switched to MSN by this time I discovered the actual internet outside of AOL and we flamed AOLers and people who didn't use Netscape Navigator

Yahoo! powered by google

few years down the line people start talking about the Game Boy Advance. I post about it on my geocities portable video game system page that nobody but me ever went to

>>57732775
>>gay.com actually had a section for lesbians

Remember those websites that changed your mouse cursor and had music playing in the background with all those whacky 90s gifs?

>>57732794
Still very much alive on tumblr.

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>>57732794
http://www.dustindiamond.com

>>57732787
fuck off
i'm sad that aim went down too
was better then facebook
i remember the good old days when you could change your ip by pushing the button on the back of our modem

>>57732787
>not downloading 150MB avis of bad movies at 2kB/s

>>57732805
tumblr's website is garbage though, nothing but lag and gays.

>>57732520
>It's all been a complete waste of fucking time.

Welcome to my life in general. There's nothing that I love that hasn't degenerated beyond all recognition at this point.

>>57732822
i downloaded Smashing Pumpkins Today video and remember resizing the window and it would distort the image to fit the window, making them all fat or skinny etc

>Neopets
>Command & Conquer Renegade forums
>MSN messenger
>Limewire, Kazaa, Napster
>Mininova
>The Pirate Bay trial
>Newgrounds
>various flash game sites that got missed by the school filter
>watching Final Fantasy VII Advent Children on youtube in 240p 10 minute parts
>waiting for the next release of ZSNES with netplay

UUCP

>here longer than moot

What a failure I am...

i remember pre-www
it fucking sucked. internet became good in 2010s and 2000s you nostalgic fucks!

>>57732891
What a failure moot was you mean.

moot did nothing wrong

>>57732920
He managed to escape.

I'm still here.

>>57732930
He liked Asuka more than Rei.

>born too late to experience early internet
;_;

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>>57732930
Meximoot was the admin we needed though

>>57732192
BBSs were always shit. But it's one of those cases were the quality is totally irrelevant to how good it was.

>>57732942
I miss 4chan dying every few months. Gave me some good break from this place.

Now we'll be lucky if gook will ever let this place die, seeing as it's his cashcow.

>>57732515
I used altavista to look up so much porn. Even after google in 99'

4chan is like dorian gray. it just won't fucking die but its users are dead inside.

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>>57732054
There was no social media, corporations weren't trying to monetize everything and normies weren't on it 24 hours a day. It was wonderful.

>>57732951
I don't think you understand the sheer magic of filling floppy disks with softcore pornography coming down your phone line in 1992.

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>>57732755
>websites that were ENTIRELY made of flesh

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>>57732295
You don't even know what nutella was, fuck you newfag weeb REEEEEEEE

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>>57732054
>kazaa
>R@YGOLD

>>57732576
Everyone thinks when they found it was when it was good. And then there's the meme that it was never good cuz some fags love to be different or just dislike good fun. I'm sure it was better before I joined but I've seen it decline pretty far to the shit it is now over the years

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>>57733487
>kazaa
>linkenpark-dbzamv.avi
>dbz_sailormoonhentai.avi.exe

>>57733562
I've still got a bunch of old AMVs that I got off Kazaa.

Final Fantasy VIII - Kryptonite was one of my favourites.

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>>57732324
>should I buy a voodoo?

>>57733524
The only difference I've noticed is that we don't do fun stuff like the habbo raids anymore. Overall community cohesion and participation amongst site members has all but disappeared but intelligence wise this place is just as stupid as ever.

Then again now that this PC culture shit is a dying fad maybe we can start doing dumb edgy shit again without having all of the world's cry babies out for our blood.

>>57732054
You had to wait a lot

>>57732054
Not a lot of normies used the internet, so the userbase had much more in common with each other.
That's also 90% of the reason why 4chin became the complete shit it is today.

>>57732054
No fuck off racist

>>57732393
plenty of good conversations on IRC even today

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>>57732054
what's your geocities page /g/? DO you still remember?

>>57732054
1999 - I was downloading mods for roller coaster tycoon on dialup. Father grounded me for consuming too much data.

Golden days: 2003-2006 ADSL and wifi providers everywhere, unlimited data. Downloading all the shit.
Internet was mostly anglo so no cumniggers.
Sweating Pentium 4 on those porn flashes.

Cancer times: 2008 - now

>>57733684
>>57732406 here

I do remember and I'm glad its lost forever. I never want to read a single line of my awful fanfiction again.

>>57733630
Good joke. The second some big fun thing happens you can bet that reddit will be all over it and fuck it up, and since 4chan is so normie and watched like a hawk now a bunch of "news" articles and hashtags on twitter will pop up within a day and the fun will be over before it even began.

The joy of the internet back in the day was it was oblivious, and 4chan was a scary place full of jailbait, muddy dicks and injokes so deep if you tried to join in without lurking you'd get called the fuck out in seconds.

That shit doesn't happen anymore. People are too dumb to realise that being friendly and helpful to ever person that walks into a thread doesn't help integrate, it just allows retards to come in without opposition and wreck the fun for everyone. Lurking fucking worked, but 4chan is too big and too far gone for that to work anymore. /a/ has the right idea, even though I barely visit it at least I'm glad they hung onto that aspect of old 4chan.

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>>57732320
I can only dream of using computers in the early days. Must have been good times.

My earliest memories of the internet were finding porn on it around the age of 6.

One site I found that fascinated me was biggaycock.com or something. And I could never figure out how to find it again because I kept spelling it biggayclock.com

>>57732324
http://web.archive.org/web/19980424225630/http://anipike.com/
http://web.archive.org/web/20091027081915/http://geocities.com/Tokyo/Towers/1237/
http://web.archive.org/web/19980213034636/http://bluesnews.com/
http://web.archive.org/web/19980127121432/http://www.unreal.com/

>breaks out the MIDIs
that takes me back, had a good collection of them, downloading mp3's just took too damn long

Anyone else remember going on IRC and telling people your 8 years old and want to learn programming, and almost immediately getting 5+ PMs asking for your email address? Good times

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>>57733824
damn nigga u gay

>>57732406
i had IE in "offline mode" more often than otherwise
the internet cache was more than just a little speed boost like i use it now, no, when i went online, i loaded up a bunch of pages, then went offline to read the content from the cache

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It was pretty comfy.

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>>57733861

>>57732370
>shockwave games
thank god that shit died

>>57733824
First sexual curiosity was big gay cock?

M8...

>>57733878
admittedly, seeing 3d games in my browser amazed the fuck out of me in the day

>>57733878
It didn't die, it's called steam greenlight now.

>>57732496
>>57732520
kill yourselves.

There was less pasta and more cheese pizza. Good times.

>>57733860
>>57733879
It was more of the fact that I didn't know men could do that with each other and grossed out by it.

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>>57733950
you first fuccboi

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There's a tiny ssh textboard out there, pic related.
Password is ein

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>>57733974
Sure...
That's what that guy said about eating dinosaur ass...

I was born in 96, so I don't really have a lot of early internet knowledge, but I remember using it at my sister's house. We would go online and look at cool stuff to buy on 2000-A.D. eBay and look at stupid shit online. I remember we saw *SO* many Chinese knockoff pokemon games. It's kind of nice to remember.

>>57732187
I pirated the pilot of southpark the year it came out on my amiga, it was 5mb in size and took a couple of days on a 14.4 connection to a BBS it Liverpool. Probably cost me about £30 in long distance charges.

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>>57734011
>tfw no good niche imageboards for modules/chiptunes anymore

Sovietrussia at up most of my time back in 2008 just for that reason. I fucking miss it.

>>57734061
>chiptunes
Kys

>>57732886
pretty sure neopets and newgrounds is still up although no one uses them anymore.

mininova is also still up except they only have free software/music/videos now. also, mininova was just a copy of suprnova.

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>>57732289

I wonder what CS courses were like back then.

In 4th year now and we cover so much fluff like web design, backends, muh cloud computing, ruby, web frameworks.

Then there's hadoop, NoSQL shit and stuff I could barely give a fuck about.

I assume from 1970-2000 most CS courses were just C/C++ and rigorous programming standards?

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>>57734071
dunno why you're getting mad at the chiptunes, shit was the best back in the day

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>>57734086
> spend 200 dollars on headphones
> listens to chiptunes

>>57734011
It's called a BBS. There's hundreds of them.

>>57733761
blame phone niggers. half of 4chan's traffic now comes from phone niggers.

retarded threads, overly compressed images, pointless off topic posts? the vast majority of them come from phone niggers.

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>>57734104
>implying I would spend 200bux on headphones

a-am I being trolled???

It was complete and unusable shit, broken links, shitty loser internet culture, secret clubs, IRC and BBS were jerk happy over ban wars now that nerds/dropouts/losers were finally given power via admin channel levels.

Then 20 years passed and during this nothing time, losers and spergs retroactively removed all the bad memories, leading to this really weird and gay but very very specific and cancerous phenomenon about people pining for the "the good ol' days" yet paradoxically can't even talk about them since to do so would force them to admit they were shit which is why you see so much shit flinging whenever you bring up this turd burger topic: they don't want to admit it was shit, so they can never talk about it.

Continuing the paradox they insist that the modern internet must be run by whomever happened to show up first. Then we actually ask them what it should be like, but they won't let themselves remember it, right? So the answer is "document processing". This is a perfect quantum bullshit psuedo answer which does and doesn't check all the above boxes and roughly translates to "I'm a fucking loser and think I'm better than you for being a fucking loser."

If BBS turds and usenet shits were allowed to run the internet, you'd see a catatonic level of censorship, far above and beyond any infamous tumblr tier censoring. The fundamental building block of shits like this is that they don't really care about technology at all besides its ability to let them pretend they matter and ban everyone from their obscure circlejerk IRC channel.

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>>57734141
To be fair I'm posting from my phone in my bed but I've been here for like 10 years before the smartphone meme was really a thing.

I'm probably not the type you were referring to though.

>>57732324

Goes without saying but all the meme bullshit and crap didn't exist in 1998. People weren't infected with that cancer yet.

The internet actually forced people to learn how to communicate.. then 2ch/4chan introduced image based communication. Then circa 2009ish I guess? normies got in on everything.

Remember when we thought memes would never reach Facebook?

Man.. watching this makes me really sad in a lot of ways. We really ruined things.

>>57733761
idk everyone who was on 4chan in the old days is not a fucking child the edgiest flamer people are trying to hard to act like they've been here, with this back 2 reddit shit

4chan's been compromised for a very long time, the whole anti reddit thing coming from young kids is funny considering the reddit of 2009 was better than the 4chan of today, and most of you guys came here from facebook/twitter/television

>tfw born in '96
>tfw didn't get internet until 2006, years after all my friends got it
>tfw missed out on a whole lot of stuff

At least I was around for the golden age of YouTube, Runescape and flash games

>>57734224
You missed fucking everything.
Nigga you didn't even get to play starcraft or halo 2 online or nothing. I would kill myself if I were you.

>>57734224
Same. Feels bad man.

>>57734198
>and most of you guys came here from facebook/twitter/television

I guess I'm the exception since I legit came here back in 2006, thanks to my gaiafaggot friend not keeping his mouth shut.

I just never grew out of being a jaded cunt from back in the day.

>>57733873
i miss the good old mozilla :(

>>57734198
Came here from word of mouth in '11.

>inb4 newfag
I know.

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>>57734276
you can still get it

>>57734245
He also didn't get to play those UT2004 challenge maps, where one team would have to perform certain tasks and the other would have to stop them.

>>57734276
Miss the web, not the browser.

The browser was just how you got to it.

>>57734198
> just kind of wandered in here about 12 years ago while I was in middle school
This site has done good and bad for me I must say, i may be a weird faggot who likes computers way too much but at least I'm not alone now.

>>57734291
Assault maps are awesome

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>>57734276
>tfw rolling lolifox back in 2007

Good times.

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We had prodigy at my house with our 28.8 modem

>>57734245
>halo 2 online
>implying i want to play shitty ass games online

>>57734375
> says the guy who never played it
These grapes are good as fuck you foxy faggot lmao

>>57733761
>injokes
byword for "circlejerk"
>flaming helps keep the site good
you mean flaming helps keep the site a shitty cirlcejerk

>>57734198
>most of you came from x
you want to say "circlejerk"

>>57734179
>When we
When you?

>>57732479
>>57732496
>>57732520
>>57732295
>>57732320
>everyone has a different year because it was the last year before you finally grew up and could judge things as they always were
you changed not it

as the thread grows you'll see more "muh 200x" and also another smelly group who will spout "muh 199x" and an even smellier group who will spout "muh 198x" and each will have the same psuedo-cancer-shit-disdain for each other as we enter tl;dr as nobody is willing to admit the above. You guys have turned into boomers talking about different years they went into military service, the conversation goes exactly the same.

>Well I went overseas in 68! muh 68 muh 68! blah blah blah vietnam sucked
>Hurr 68 I was there in 67. muh 67, 'nam muh 'nam muh 67

these threads are shit.

>>57734394
Muh 2015!
Bring our girls home!

>>57732054
>Tons of obscure chatrooms everywhere
>No multimedia to speak of since everyone was on 56k still
>You had to have two phone lines to place phone calls while online
>Email was around and is very similar to what we have today, but not as widespread
>You typically couldn't run any sort of server without $$$
>social networks didn't exist yet
>a small alt-right blog almost got Clinton impeached
>yeah the alt-right existed but without the help of meme magic or the audience it butt rapes today
>Only real alternative to Windows was Mac OS System 8/9, which didn't really get good until Steve Jobs came back to Apple in the late 90s
>Browser wars were a thing, caught between Internet Explorer (Edge), Netscape (Firefox), and AOL's "curated internet" (precursor to FB Newsfeed)
>linux almost nonexistant

>tfw all of this ended on September 11th, 2001

>>57732658
>html
>coding

>>57732886

>Msn messenger
>Minnova

muh dick, especially the nudge feature was abused to hell in msn. everyone had that one nudge-happy faggot

>>57732479
>Youtube marks the rise of normalfag internet
Pretty sure that was Instagram

>>57734179
Before 4chan there was Something Awful, which had its own culture and memes but were mostly confined to that site. I think reddit is mostly responsible for spreading things out into Facebook and such, since a significant percentage of people under 35 use it.

>>57734224
I was born in 1991 but didn't have regular internet access until 2006. My parents didn't want to be bothered by work while they were at home and pretty much held out until they were issued Blackberries and were more or less expected to be connected all the time.

The funny thing about this was we had computers way earlier than most of my friends. My parents dropped a good amount of cash on an IBM PC350 in the fall of 1996, shit was cutting edge at the time (166 MHz Pentium, 16 megs of RAM and a 1.6 GB hard drive). That machine replaced a Macintosh LC which went to me, and for a few years I was the cool kid in school for actually having a computer in my room. But I never really got to experience the early internet- what little I was able to get, I got from friends' houses, school or the public library. I want to feel like I missed a lot, but all I seem to remember are lots of broken links and pages which were always "under construction".

I do have to say, it was quite jarring going from no internet at all to 15 Mbps always-on service. Started an addiction which continues to this day.

>>57734289
not the same
>bloated shit
>real mozilla was pre-firefox disaster
>real mozilla was pre-netscape disaster
>real mozilla was 1.0 and prior

>>57734568
i know what you mean, but what choice do you have? modern websites don't function without all the junk that has been added since then

>>57734481

Ok ok, it *felt like coding*

>>57734591
this is what sadness looks like

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>>57734600
we need to make more spy fox reaction images

>>57734643
I remember back when there was a big push that your web site should function in a text-based browser so that blind people could use it with a voice-to-speech buffer.

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>yfw Sabrina Online ended this year

>>57734694
OwO What's this?

>>57734711
furry webcomic (the original probably)

>>57734694
So many things in that page age it.
See how many more you can spot:
>CRT screens
>ISP booths at conventions
>Quake
>Doom
>Amiga
>Serial ports

>waiting 3 mintues to watch a 900kb shockwave animation

feels good man

>>57732054
It wuz like GIRL I WANNA TAKE YOU TO A GAY BAR!!!

>>57734711
The NEWEST post I have seen this month. Who the fuck told you about 4chan.

>>57734732
rs-232 is still useful for many things

>>57732755
>tfw with the JS abominations of today, you realize flash sites weren't that bad.

Well, at least they weren't 3 MB of code manipulating a horrible DOM.

>>57734739
>yfw how long The Demented Cartoon Movie took to load

I mean, yeah, it was 30 minutes long, but still...

>Be me
>get online at some certain year
>I WAS A PIECE OF SHIT... IT WUZ GOOD... CAUSE I DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHING YET
>20 years pass
>Still a loser
>feelsbanmins.jpg
>extends le dick to offer for circlejerking
"no one was there, no one was there"
>decide to make a few films about how I can't ever get back this shit that I have spent almost 30 years now wow pretending that it was good
>friends all have jobs, and houses
>be invited to fagbook
>make post like this: huff huff, IM RELLY OLD... BETTER THAN U... BOOMERS USE PERIODS TO END SENTENCES... ETC.... THINGS ARE DIFFERENT NOW... FUK U KIDS... *REPRESENT*
>get banned immediately, just like I banned everyone in le days of le oldeyeyeyeye
Gentleman...

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>YFW the modern web is worse than flash ever was

>>57734732
Sign is advertising the price per hour.

>>57734667
it was the same time when google pushed for open web standards and good practices in web development.

like, "try your website in lynx and if it doesn't looks good change it"

>>57734763
was it worth it?

[spoiler]probably[/spoiler]

>>57734788
I do like how hypocritical modern web devs are.

>we're all about exclusivity
>but blind people can get fucked

>>57734747
If you look OwO up on the archive you can clearly see that it's a dank meme

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>>57734788

using

lynx -useragent="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:50.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/50.0" google.com

(because of useragent sniffing, goodbye good old times when "one size fits all")

>>57732951
So where imageboards. Still are.

>>57734842
It's not dank. It's damp. It's practically rage-comics tier.

>>57734104
>If you buy decent headphones you are forbidden from listening to certain kinds of music

You are very special, friend.

>>57733940
>It didn't die, it's called steam greenlight now.
My sides

>>57732054
obligatory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0

>>57734104
>actually spending >$100 on headphones
My $20 HD201s would like to have a word with you.

>>57734922
https://youtu.be/0cVlTeIATBs?t=6s


feels good man

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>>57734394
I gave distinct time periods
Anything after google is by definition not "early internet"
I didn't romanticize anything you opinionated faggot.

>>57734763
i was so entranced watching that that at the end when it said it wasted 30 minutes of my life, i didn't even realize it was that long and forgot to disconnect
internet minutes well wasted.

>>57732787
>geocities
man I feel ashamed of myself
luckily that shit got deleted and no one ever got to see my pages again
>implying anyone ever saw them
still embarassing that they even existed

>>57734224
>be me
>born in 1992
>no home internet until 2006
>only reason for getting a connection finally was boomer dad getting an iPod
>tfw if my dad didn't get an iPod I probably wouldn't have had home internet access until around 2008-2010

>>57735001
Archive Team downloaded about 1.5TB of GeoCities before it went down.
>my anime fansite is in it

>>57735057
pls no

>>57734823
More like
>wait, some people can't see?

They don't plan very well beyond whatever pays their huge rents.

>>57734861
>goodbye good old times when "one size fits all"

Remember when the entire point of HTML was that it was inherently non-uniform? I mean, there was never any information in <h1> besides that the browser should make it bigger.

Now we have webfont cancer because it's so important that it looks just as the artist intended. Pretentious faggots.

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LEAVE ME ALONE YOU FUCKING PAPER CLIP

>>57735180
RIP clippy :_;7

>>57732187
>i remember pirating the matrix
I remember when the first guys started getting caught for torrenting. Fucking brutal. First story I remember is some dad got jail time for torrenting superman so his son could watch it lol

not the early days, but i fucking miss myspace. well not the animated gif ridden custom cursor shit with all red&black part but there were sites which had actually good looking css codes for myspace profile pages. I used to copy the code and delete the parts which would link back to the original myspace css site.

i think my romance for myspace comes from the fact that my relatives weren't there back in the day like facebook.

>>57732054
men were men, women were men and children were police officers.

>>57732289
forgot how much i've taken modern day internet speed for granted

>>57732325
>silly flash games like school shooting simulators
lol i remember how many of the first flash games were shooting george bush with an ak47

good times

>>57735240
Then you remember shit like JavaScript rendering and webfonts and realise maybe it's just as bad.

>>57735270
How many 'kill pokemon' sites and games were there? I remember a lot.

>>57732479
I remember first time I went on the internet in 1997. I soon learned that humanity was completely depraved. The amount of perversity and evil people had in them was shocking and surprising for someone who lived pretty much their whole childhood without the internet. The internet was completely wild west, the stuff on Tor was on the regular internet. You could be exposed to all sorts of stuff when you searched on Altavista (which was my favorite search engine before google). I had a geocities page and a page on another free webpage service that started with an 'x'. Can't remember.

Websites was much easier to code back then before CSS.

>>57734198
I actually came here in 2005 from Newgrounds of all places.

IIRC, there was a banner ad (remember when they did those) of moot's cat-girl persona - the one that wears nothing but a t-shirt and panties. Since I was a horny 13 year old back then, I clicked it, and went to /h/, the very first board I visited.

I was part of the underage cancer that plagued 4chan in the mid 2000's, but I would do everything in my power to relive those days.

>>57733709
Pretty much agree here

Got my first ADSL 1.1mbps connection in 2004 was an amazing jump from 56k

Watched so videos on worldsex.com

think I'm gonna tear up

Now it seems everywhere you go people are normies :(

>>57735343
this

Also people did stuff out of passion rather than for profit. Hence all the weirdos. But there was something to be said for it, the content was fresher and of a higher quality I think, just because it was what someone actually felt not just an opinion-piece made with the sole intent of maximizing viewership/profit. People didnt really make much on websites then (if they weren't actually selling something), if anything they lost, they just did it because they loved it. There also was no "youtube"-type website where you can watch pretty much everything relevant on the internet in one place, you had to look around

>>57733562
bob_marley_dont_worry_be_happy.wma

>>57735122
Anon, I'm sure what you've got in that archive isn't as bad as mine, which is a multi-part epic about marrying Priss from Bubblegum Crisis. Not even a self-insert, it was literally me.

And now the ages shall know of my terrible waifu-faggotry.

>>57732295
This fucking newfag.

This board's progression into utter pajeet tier horseshit is a good example of what the Internet has experiences.

>smart people in front of dump terminals vs dump people in front of smart terminals.

Websites actually loaded up faster than today up until around 2007. What the fuck.

>>57732794
http://govindtiwari.blogspot.com/

>>57735493
No they didn't
I could barely check my emails back in 2004 because I had a shitty 56k

>>57735508

Most people had broadband back then. I'm talking about how shit web design is these days, not the actual speeds which haven't increased dramatically if you're still on copper.

>>57734694
Ah, Eric. You could have gone on to greatness if you weren't cursed with both furfaggotry and Amiga devotion.

>'member the 00s?
>explosion, shit, etc
>rips off dick and tosses it 300-400 feet away
>'MEMBER THE 90s?
>explosion, shit, etc
>"no"
>goes on 3-4 decades of contrarian shit flinging and ends with hanging up giant "BANNED FROM EVERYTHING" award over mother fucking apartment fuck you!!!!!!!
>FUCKING 'MEMBER THE 80s?
>explosion, shit, etc
>"noooooooooooo"
>fuck everything
>le age circleojerklio... muh memories... muh fee fees... nobody cares but me... lee fuuuu....
>stares up at calendar
>It's 2056
>still poor
>somehow, back at the start, back to christmas of '84, I was fucking -there- mang
>see child self open shitbox
>"That PC was always shit"
>cuts to company that makes it's office as ceo is bending outside window taking a shit
>"k-kids t-today... pls"
>On CEO's desk...
>...is...
>the shit PC, I got in '84
>"We must keep making this shit thread, so we can pretend and jerk off, so I can forget that I am still a loser"

>>57735588

wat

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One thing that gives me a nostalgia-boner, is to find old internet-forums i used to browse as a kid in the early 2000s.

It is so wierd to see people on the internet age, especially when theres a timegap of 10+ years since the last time you saw them.

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one of the earliest proto-memes i can recollect seeing in my college days

>>57732295
>2007
>12
>meanwhile I was in my last year of uni

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>>57732520
You must be me.

>>57735667
1997 was my first year of Uni

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>>57735474

I wouldn't hire a pajeet to cut my lawn yet most companies hire them in some cases for highly payed stooges they can dump on when needed.

Modern corporate entities are where humanity goes to die essentially. Our entire economy is now based off complete materialism, hence everything is so fucking expensive.

My parents bought a house in 1989 for $40,000.. they had combined earnings of $30,000 and they were the uneducated, no college degree or qualification at all. They did terribly in school.

it is now worth $1mil. I have probably no chance of affording my own one period. Yet I'm finishing a bsc in cs next year and I have no idea what the job market I'm going to walk out into will be like.

Honestly the world went to shit for normal people a long time ago.

It's a world of pajeets, cucks xfactors, lady gagas, and fucking human trash.

The average girl you meet is a complete bimbo or a petulant child, one or the other in most cases.

Video games, RIP. HL3 never. Movies are trash for the most part. TV shows are quickly becoming cancer too.

Vast majority of normal lads I meet just have disconnected from the world, and have dived into an online community never to return in all likelihood.

My theory is that pretty much every generation the good men either fight and die or they basically get fucked over. Going back as far as the crusades. WW1, entire generations wasted, fags later said Britain should have never defended Belgium etc. WW2, honored but basically spurned in the 60s by whingey shits saying bombing Japan was a war crime etc. Vietnam guys fucked over by the government, called babykillers. This generation was WMDs but at least for a while the public weren't cunts to vets.

Finally feels like now good men have just given up. Surrounded by cucks, corporate shills, and women telling them they're the root of all evil. We're now entering a new age with Trump coming in. Trump is the good men saying "fine, this is what you get without us".

>>57733562
>britney_spears_nude_128kbps.mpg.exe

>>57733264
There's a special place in hell for people like you.

>>57735786
This m8

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>>57735808
in hell, all porn stops loading just before the nipples

>>57735808
why?

Less niggers

>>57732289
Ahh the good times with dial up! Srs used to be fascinated how everything would load

>>57735786
The problem is also a sense of national pride. I remember my dad refusing to buy another computer after his Amstrad (he was going to "upgrade" to an Acorn before they went bust) because he didn't want an American computer, same with my Grandmother's Rover I remember.

I don't know why people suddenly decided to just give up this national pride in regards to their buying, but I know that as soon as that precedence was set then the globalisation train went full tilt.

>>57735941
I've always loved that shit. Like old spreadsheet programs where the graphs would load in bit by bit. To be honest I never hated that, and still don't. What I hate now is how actual loading and rendering has been replaced by animations that take just as long.

>>57733608
I'm looking for a Naruto ridin dirty amv and a Evangelion stratus you must follow amv, do you by any chance have them?

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>tfw it's the holidays in 2005 or so and you just chill on the net with no normies playing maybe some wc3 custom maps online and eating good food while it snows outside

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>>57732054

This is all you need to know.

>>57736427
DAS IT MANE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k85mRPqvMbE

>>57736005

Yeh also very true. Loathing for your national identity as an American or a British person just became the norm.

I see very few people celebrating just being British or w/e nation they're from these days.

Never really understood it.

>>57734154
/thread

>>57737185
It happened in the western world when Japan started pumping out cheap shit.

I remember a program on this where the presenter had an American, a British, and a Japanese hi-fi, and said that the American and British hi-fis produced a much better sound than the Japanese one, and that if you played with the knobs and dials for a day you might just get it sounding nearly as good...But it was also 1/4 the price of the other two.

>>57734154
>>57737390
Quoting you're own post because nobody else did

lmaoooooo

>>57732192

Women ruined it.

>>57734394

You must be 18 or over to browse this site, anon.

>>57737185
You haven't seen anyone celebrating being British or American? Just take a look at the tweets of a Trump voter or a Brexit voter. That's what celebrating your nationality looks like these days.

>>57732289
>That bottom loading bar
I... I forgot....

What can I tell you OP, it was new and exciting. Slow, but rarely did I get mad over it.

I remember once needing printer drivers for my HP printer, so I disconnected the phone line, dialed-up with my 56k modem, and started downloading and went to bed because the time estimate was many hours (20 megabytes)

I woke up in the morning, download was corrupted, and dad got pissed off because he knew the phone bill would be high.

When I got ADSL, my world changed.. We used a filter (as we called them) to split the phone and internet lines, and got hundreds of kilobytes of speed per second, which was AMAZING. I downloaded tons of porn from Kazaa, and all kinds of MP3's labeled wrong and shit.

I remember playing online games like Counter Strike and Quake on a program called "The All Seeing Eye" that had the green Illuminati triangle icon. If I ever got banned from a server (I never cheated, but some mad admins thought I did) I would simply reset my IP address because there were no Steam accounts or anything like that back then.

Shit I remember how excited I got over buying my first 52X CD BURNER, we would copy games all day, I even sold some at school.

>>57732479
i'd still qualify google as early days. youtube and social media were the marker. so around 2003 or 2004.

late 90's was the golden age of search engines.

I remember going on ask jeeves for school. good times. then they "retired" jeeves, showing him lying back on some tropical island, and it became Ask Kids, and then just Ask.com

Jeeves was an underrated internet character, imo

>>57737554
>I even sold some at school.
this cracka know what's up.

>>57733684
>under construction

I remember when web pages made big elaborate under construction visuals

>>57733875
>when you could hit work offline and go to offline versions of webpages in your history

good times.

>>57737393

To be fair to the asians they found their market and cornered it.

The thing that worries me most is the quality of American or British products in modern times. Very few people strive for quality these days.

I'll pickup my Gibson guitar every now and then between work. It always blows me away the craftsmanship of it, I just so rarely see that attention to detail in any other products these days.

The quality also is reflected in the sound. I also have some strat beginner chinese copycat that in comparison has aged horribly and sounds terrible.

Yes one was $100 vs $600. However I'd say comfortably the Gibson has kept me playing vs the chink strat which required grim determination to make the sound palatable at all.

>>57734154
You seem irrationally upset and bitter. Are you still scarred from some flamewar or being banned from IRC? You are hugely exaggerating when you whine about the shitty culture and being broken and unusable.
I was there 20+ years ago. There is a tiny grain of truth in some of your straw man arguments, but it's really not at all representative of what the overall experience was like.
People often have a rose-tinted view of the past but it's not without good reason. I genuinely do think that the internet and BBSes were, in many ways, a much nicer place to be before the any 'asshole can come' era, and I'm far from alone in that belief. I got to know lots of great people on the other side of the world, we'd write long emails to each other, collaborate on things just for the hell of it and exchange cool stuff we'd downloaded.
The signal to noise ratio on the internet of today is the complete opposite. People's attention spans and attitudes are completely addled by this snarky, hostile, instant gratification culture we have now.

>>57737478

versus what? Praise allah for this country? Death to white people?

It's not like Trump or Brexit came out of a vaccum. Whatever way you slice it, they're a response to something.

Unless you want to believe 50% of the UK and 50% of the US are full blown KKK members

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>>57735180
I actually miss the annoying fucker
he was the best distraction while trying to do homework

>all the assistants had that button that made them do funny shit

honestly this is part of what the problem is when talking about tech now vs then. there was more of an element of fun then. of experimentation and humor. now its all serious by the numbers business with no experimentation unless it can fuck the consumer more.

id give all the cortanas and siris back if it mean 'assistants" with actual personality and character.

>>57737795
National pride has always been the preserve of the conservative and parochial. We are only now just seeing it in its most naked and concentrated form thanks to social media.

>>57734154

>being this butthurt about not getting into the secret clubs
calm down loser

>>57735616
that feel tho.

>tfw revisiting the first forum you ever joined and looking through old topics and conversations

>>57737878
Yeah, I looked up some of my old Usenet posts recently and it really hit me just how much I am not that person any more.

>>57737848

>conservatives or the church
I dunno, look at football. Lot of people just have national pride over sports n shit.

Most of those people would just be normies with no strong political belief

>>57732886
I remember downloading games on limewire, waiting 4-5 days for the 3 GB RAR to download and getting pissed because I got CP, scat and viruses instead.

My dad reinstalled XP more than 35 times and never complained, he just told me to be more careful next time, I bet the cheeky fucker fapped to the videos of little girls getting diddled, saved them somewhere and waited for new material to roll in.

>>57732054
This sums it up pretty much:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tAxhowlXo0

>>57732289
wtf I love the Internet now

>>57732054
Google was cool
People used tools to share meaningful information, not personal shit like today

>>57738481
facebook was the real mistake.

>>57736005
well in the US national pride took a hit during the W Bush administration because it was hard to be proud when the government was actively doing the wrong thing. You could be proud of WW2. Vietnam was a horrible conflict but it's conflict and put down fueled 80's machismo. (tons of 80s action flicks are basically, just about the US winning vietnam analogues with manly macho men to fight against how hurt Americas macho image was)

but in the iraq "war on terror" it was hard to be proud when the government was stripping freedoms, and the whole war was purposely on falsehoods, or how it came out that prisoners of war were being abused and humiliated, etc etc.

the bush years killed national pride, and Obama has done nothing to fix it, instead swooping in to take advantage of how low it is. Coupled with the fact that its almost impossible to buy American because everything is made in china. If you're lucky its made in Malaysia.

Even the stuff made by other countries is made in china. Germans used to be known for their engineering, Japan for their electronics. Now? both are made in china garbage. which also reduces any sort of distinctiveness between different countries products.

what will the internet be like in the 2020's?

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Hello there!

>>57738784
More ads

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>>57738784
more homogenous than ever and riddled with clickbait, "sponsored content", and the opinions of morons.

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>>57738824
nah

>>57738784
Ads and even more surveillance.

>>57732515
Old coworker of mine used to be a senior engineer at digital, oh the stories he would tell me about his early internet days, when there were only "a few hundred people" and how his coworker accidentally sent out the first spam email. They would send ascii art/porn. Funny how he always said the "real" internet died when they started allowing "everyone" on it, which is likely the earliest of us and the nerdy early net.

>>57732089
Nah, only 29 more years until muh singularity.

>>57734061
Golden Boy, nice

>>57732323
If it was a computer lab computer, it was probably not completely up to date hardware-wise, which means that it might have struggled with something better quality than a 320x240 AVI.

>>57738837
this. the structure of the internet as we know it, was shaped by the .com boom in the 90's.

and since the .com bubble burst, the internet has been getting smaller as the winners get bigger, and consolidate, (remember when Yahoo and Verizon used to be separate companies? Remember when Google didn't own Youtube?) while smaller moderate successes and losers fizzle out in the face of the increasingly stiff competition.

toss in social media, and you get the webbing that starts to hold the giants together. or something like that. without some kind of second .com boom or comparable alternative, the internet will only get smaller.

this extends to computer software too. Remember when there were dozens of web browsers or search engines?

>>57732294
>tfw you daily job is finding porn on the internet, calculating its hashes and adding it to blacklist

I remember going to a Gateway store with my parents to look at computers and watching one of the PCs because it had Sonic 3D Blast

Does starting about 2004 count? It's not old but it's where I started.

I would do nothing but play Newgrounds games on our 3mbps DSL. I made some small websites that were supposed to be big huge things but I just knew basic HTML at the time. It was wonderful and bad. Still have some on a flash drive. I wish I still had all my emails. My Steam account got taken over in early 2010 somehow or another (think it was from a sketchy keygen) so all my emails disappeared before that point. Gmail wiped from May 2010, Hotmail from December 2010 (on my own accord).

I ran a Garry's Mod server in 2006 up until the 2007 update came out and my PC would BSOD when looking at certain stuff. Got back in at around 2009 when I got my first actual gaming PC. Ran Windows Vista before SP1 because I was cool. Still have that PC somewhere, GPU is broke. Quit that in 2010 after a solid server I went on for about a year went down. The Gmod community got real gross a year later, so good riddance I guess? Gmod and other source mods/maps were far better before 2010 or so.

YouTube going from 4:3 to 16:9 was real weird. Streaming 1080p for the first time on a 1024x768 monitor was cool too. Hated every single change they made (removing messages/notification box on front page, comments under the video, title under the video, removing the dropdown for other videos by user, removing yellow upload button, new logo, various layout changes, google+, 60fps[internet is still shit, can do 720p but not 720p60 lol]) but boy were they good decisions. Old YouTube is hard to look at.

>>57739308
I would argue that old youtube had more character though.

>>57739597
sure, but the reaction to all the layout changes was so bad you thought YouTube wouldn't exist a year later. turns out those old layouts were kinda fucked

the only change I still don't like is subscribers not being the main page, but I see why they did it

>>57732054
During the ate '80s I spent most of my online time on the newsgroups. There were newsgroups for everything, including CP.
No browsers, of course, so it was all telnet, gopher and FTP. JPGs were too big (at 36.6kbs) and so everything was a GIF. It could take you an hour to download a file that turned out to be a pic of a tree.

I miss animutation.

>>57739796
how on earth did CP newsgroups not get shut down?

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>>57734154

>>57739933
Because practically no one that could shut them down really understood the internet.
There was also a lot of it in yahoo's group.

>>57739796

JPG didn't have a size problem, it just displayed incredibly slowly on earlier machines.

Also 33.6kbps was mid/late-90s tech, nowhere near 80s. It could download a 200k JPG in about a minute. (And you sure as hell weren't downloading and viewing multi-MB JPGs with the tiny hard drives and display res of the era)

>>57732187
Back when account level was based on how often you played and not these fucking Jew ass trading cards. I still don't get how cs:go servers are such absolute shit with the amount of money they're raking in with all these gay ass inventory items.

>>57733630
I blame the mods because raiding is a bannable offense now

Literally no fun allowed

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>>57732325
>you'd download a song and find out its actually a picture of some little ukrainian girl getting assraped by her dad on limewire

Microsoft ftp servers were insecure and were abused for sharing movies and games.

Most of the anime was Real Time VHS rips and you had to get it on IRC.

Highschool girls whored themselves out in chat rooms.

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>>57732054
People on IRC weren't all rude and asian. /b/ and /lgbt/ used to be different boards. Macs were good. I played Ninja Turtles on my Gameboy while I waited for webpages to load. I fapped to images so low quality that you could mistake them for pixel art. I was once caught jerking it by my mom because of the fucking XP boot sound.

New internet has its ups and downs but I like the speed.

>>57732054
>in 4th grade, dad let me do whatever i want and use our <400mhz, prob ~256mb ram pc unsupervised
>starcraft all night long at ~9 y/o
>drink so much dr. pepper i'd wake up and scrape the gunk off the inside of my cheeks
>battle.net first chatroom, then moved to efnet irc
>met all kinds of friends, wanted to be a hax0r like kevin mitnick
>found some old computers and online friends, 10-20 years my senior, taught me how to install bsd (linux was for fags, bsd superior)
>internal debate on our efnet channel about netbsd vs openbsd

god i could go on, life was awesome. aol was still the main way to talk to normies but not for another couple grades cuz other parents didn't let their kids use it. icq was the main instant messenger..

umm, webpages took days to load, everyone still had dial-up. email was around, and i got kinda grossed out when my dad opened one up with some dude's cock jizzing.. he casually explained how porn was a way for fuckers to exploit you for money, nevermind the fact that i had no idea what the fuck jizz was in the first place

idk, ask me more. i'm prob as young as you can get while still being exposed to "old" internet.. before my day it was all about phonephreaking and bbs and shit. i got in right around the time gui os's became mainstream, win3.1 and win95.

>>57732324
>IRC
>tfw still use this daily

>ytmnd
>somethingawful.com
>newgrounds
>Counter Strike 1.4 patch
>suicidegirls.com
>4chan is literally cutting edge in 2003 and younger than all the above

tfw it will never be this good anymore

I remember that finding the stuff you wanted was better achieved by word of mouth than looking for it yourself.

>>57737444
This.

Anywhere the technological barrier to entry precludes women is a paradise.

The fact that they whine to men to be accomodated instead of just making their own version is proof they don't belong here.

>>57742363
>t. /pol/
No really now. Look at 4chan.
Its awful. And it has only gotten worse with the growth of that white trash board.
It's not about males or females it's about the class of people.
/pol/ inhabits the lowest tiers.

>>57742396
t. roastie
Get the fuck out. You ruin everything.

>>57742411
No I'm a Caucasian male.
But I'm not surprised your rebuttal doesn't actually say anything.

>>57732324
should i install irc on my computer?

>>57742429
Then you're a nu-male noodle faggot. Dump the indoctrination out of your skull and actually observe women. They fuck up everything.

>>57732054
Chat rooms were the coolest of shits. Some were sophisticated enough you could play textual rpg games with other people in them. You were super leet if you had punters for AIM

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>>57736456
NO
NO
I AM NOT GOING BACK TO THAT POINT IN MY LIFE
I WAS OBSESSED WITH THAT FROG FOR 5 YEARS
5 FUCKING YEARS NONONONONONONONONONONONONO NOT AGAIN REEEEEEEEEE

>>57742494
Have you visited forums like element14?
Bet you haven't. They're pretty ok.
Have you visited places like r9k?
Bet you have. It's really shit.

See how both of these have a predominantly male audience but one is absolutely shit?

I'd give you a third and forth example but I don't know what places women frequent. Especially not high class women.

>>57742544
I really don't care what women do. I just want MALE ONLY SPACES which is pretty much impermissible and impossible for some dumb reason.

>>57742569
There's plenty.
I'm not gonna a torture those people with you but there are a lot of places where women are very hard to come by. More so than the less female populated boards here like /o/.

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>>57737444
>>57742363
>>57742411
>>57742494
>>57742569
There are very few women who have accomplished anything beyond being fuck toys and using people. Instead of looking up to people like Marie Curie, they look up to the Kartrashians and the worthless hippie faggots that use Tumblr.

>>57742589
Man I'm too lazy to just change all this to a male focused equivalent where I put in chris-chan instead of kartashians.
This is a stupid argument for stupid people.

>>57732938
He had good taste.

>>57742610
Even though most people outside of 4chan and leddit don't even know who CWC is, and they mock his lifestyle instead of worshipping it like a god, even the most ass backwards male can accomplish something meaningful if he sets his mind to it, and never complains or demands to be accommodated somewhere because muh equal opportunity regardless of how qualified you are for the job.

Meanwhile those fat whores are pushed down their throats in tv and social media, claiming they are perfect role models for women; consumerism, selfishness, interracial breeding, polygamy, what a fucking nightmare.

Its obvious you are a salty woman who can't accept reality.

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>dat feel when 90% of /g/ doesn't know what pic related is all about
>90% of /g/ doesn't know what the Save Symbol actually is

Am I too old for imageboards?

>>57742730
>I'm jealous of the kartashians
Hmm OK.
Well I don't know how to respond to that. I guess you'd have to find the cause for why they're liked. I don't know why. It doesn't bother me because I only hear about them by third party and they have literally zero impact on my life in other aspects so. Yeah.

I don't blame myself and all other males for Chris-chan though. That makes no sense. We're separate entities.
>you're obviously female
Anon come on. Tech women are not that common. I wish they were more common. But they're not.

>>57735852
source?

>>57742777
I'm only 23 and I've been faced with that a lot. I don't think 90% is fair.

>>57734512
I browsed FunnyJunk from about 2005-2012. Had a lot of site reputation. I heard about 4chan, but was too scared to visit. Those were the days, before Facebook made rage comics normie shit.

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>>57742777
>when the only button on the front ejected the floppy

>>57735786
Holy shit dude, you should write pastas

>>57733875
What software is that?

>>57739308
I have an AOL account I still use that has emails from the mid 90s.

>>57742777
Maybe a lot of people don't know what soft power is, but floppy disks were still in use until the mid 2000s.

>>57735786
Well they changed this with Vietnam, Korean war and the Iraq war.
Primarily shitheads went into that.

>>57735786
>whingey shits saying bombing Japan was a war crime
You have to be an idiot to disagree with that.

>>57732054
What I remember of it from the late 90s was mainly AOL chats, anime webrings / character shrines, video game pages full of fake cheats, and really shitty hentai galleries that were just some dude's personal collection.
This gave way in the early 2000s to the dominance of AIM/MSN where you talked to your degenerate internet friends via the same medium as the cute girl from chem, forums, which each had their own subculture and set of power tripping faggot mods, better h sites powered by user submission and the latter two things culminating in 4chan and the rise of imageboards.
I won't cover beyond that.

>>57735786
>This generation was WMDs but at least for a while the public weren't cunts to vets.
Why shouldn't they be? They've done nothing for us except hand us a giant bill.

>>57743279
Yeah some people confuse law with their opinions though. Thinking it was right to bomb Japan doesn't mean it's not a war crime.

>>57743279
War crimes aren't real. They are just a meme made up by Americans so they could execute Japs and Nazis after the war.

>>57743439
International law regarding wartime existed prior to WWII.

European education, everyone.

>>57743526
Yeah we're not taught about the laws concerning those times or any era really. But I thought that was just a public schooling flaw.

>>57742479
Yes, IRC is still popular. There's still dozens of active 4chan spin off boards at the very least. It's also a great place to learn about software.

>>57732520
4chan is damn good
which isnt saying much these days
but compared to everything I've found, damn good.

>>57734394
>the site hasn't changed
This argument doesn't hold water.
The different boards popularity and what topics are active changes. The people who browse changes.

You can't attribute all the difference to the individual making the statement that 4chan changed.

>>57738824
>883

>>57732325
The 00s which you're probably talking about were not the "early days of internet". It was late 80s to late 90s.

>>57732054
search engine was 'hotbot'

Moto X Pure user here. This was my first smartphone since the iPhone 4. I like the phone a lot. It's good for multitasking. Good screen size, ultra thin, and very clean design. I am some what annoyed I upgraded just before the Moto Z & G were released, but this model is more affordable. One thing I don't like is the cameras colors are a little washed out. I would like a more crisp image, but its better than the iPhone 4. I'd recommend it if you need an affordable android or you don't want a flagship phone.

>>57734471
> social networks

geocities

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