Remember when the internet was a cool place to hang out?

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>>60549972
>mfw neither of that crap is popular where I live
Feels good not living among idiots (:

>>60550022
Was that image supposed to induce cringe?

>>60550022
Don't you have vk?

>>60549972
The internet was never cool. Sorry to break it to you.

>>60550064
Yes, but VK is awesome (:

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>>60550144
But what's the difference?

>>60550185
VK has music, movies, for free. No bullshit leftist political correctness.

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>no more AOL chat rooms

>>60550144
Yeah Vk is awesome

you can find font, mp3, movie, porn and crack program in there.

You mean before 1993?

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>>60550227
>>60550243
Wtf! How do I get in on this?

>>60550352
just use search function...

>>60550352
if you love hoarding just use this:
http://getvideo.org/en

>>60549972
I miss it. Even the vBulletin era was better than the garbage we have now. Centralization of the net was the worst thing that could possibly happen to it.

>>60550022
Stop bringing down your gender by attention whoring.

>>60550144
t. kgb agent

>>60550352
learn russian

>>60550352
It's got a search field, ofcourse. You can also use your favourite search engine and forke it to search on vk. But normally the internal search works fine.

>>60550533
No need, the website is multilangual, including English. You can learn Russian if you like it though (: I personally think it's a nice language.

>>60550520
get the fuck out of here zuckerberg!!!

>>60549972
yeah, in 1980s.

>no one used internet capabilities on the iphone until like 2010
>some american only thing
>geek culture was dead by early 2000s
>initially tumblr was mainly livejournal refugees (therefore all that has been going on since late 90s)
>one social botnet replaces another one
>twitter gains popularity at some festival no one cares about

>>60550236
Tim Armstrong will bring it back

>>60550022
Caжи въeби, внимaниeблядь пoзopнaя.

>>60550555
It looks like a copycat of facebook.

but add me, i just made an account there id430151643

>>60550555
Russian looks too much of a hassle to learn, even if it sounds nice. Might do it for fun, still.

>>60550637
Looks like I will have to make one as well. I'll add u when I get back from work

>>60550742
Unless English is your main language, Russian should not be that difficult. I say English because its grammar is very simplified compared to most languages.

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>>60550769
haha please do

they dont have original english music though

>>60550799
It isn't my first language, but I'm quite busy nowadays. Still, learning another language is tempting, so I might go for it.

>>60550401
blue board.

>>60550824
vk dot com slash thechainsmokers

Yeah, before Eternal September.

>>60549972
Reminder that Apple went to shit ever since Tim Cook took over.

>ITT: .t unix grandpas and other console hack0rz who, in envy to the comforts of the new youth, brag about their golden times when they had to jerk off to ascii babes

Actually, the year 2007 started the Web 2.0 era, which greatly enhanced the Internet. This now highest state of it lasted only for few years, because the supposed 2012 shift may haven't been bs after all. At least for the Internet, things went downhill as of 2013

I think the hyper political environment of the modern internet has to be the worst of it all. It's pretty much inescapable at this point. Everyone has access to the internet, but they still live in the same communities they always have. People who live in the city share memes about dumb rural oafs, and people who live in the country share memes about liberal babies with safe spaces. It's just a bunch of echo chambers that occasionally collide.

The dumbing down of politics into tweets and memes just creates an environment where arguments only have to make intuitive sense, and that makes it really easy to manipulate people.

>>60551981
The only good thing that has come out of Web 2.0 is that everything has a wiki now.

Based Wikia

>>60551981
What changed in 2012/3? And more importantly, were you aged 21-22 then? I was 21-22 in 2009, and that's when I think everything went to shit. It could just be an age thing.

>>60550144
4chan>reddit>facebook>mongolid crap

Internet will be a good place if they ONLY do what was the internet invented that was share information and not be a dumb idiot in the internet

>>60552125
mongoloid*

>>60552125
>>60552146
Unfledged illiterate fuck

>>60552125
>facebook
>better than anything

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>>60549972
It checks out

It was the culture and community that made the earlier days of the Internet so great. But at least we got rid of dial-up.

>>60552124

I think this is also important to keep in mind, even with the legitimate criticisms we can bring up about the internet today. The optimism of childhood can't be understated. Growing up sucks.

When I was a kid, I was only vaguely aware of all the bad shit that happens in the word and my empathy wasn't fully developed. It was very easy to just focus on the here and now and just get lost in the internet or a video game. As an adult, I have all kinds of responsibilities and obligations that make it harder for me to just get immersed in something.

It's easy to think that the world just got shittier, but I think we also have to accept the fact that the world is a much more mysterious, engaging, and enchanting place when you're a child and nothing will ever rekindle that because biology doesn't really work that way.

>>60552268
>tfw 9 years and counting as a newfig

>>60550881
You are on 4chan faggot. Browse reddit or something at work.

>>60552268
>tfw ride the line between newfag and cancer
I was using the porn boards before that though

>>60550227
I thought old Poroshenko banned VK and a bunch of Russian sites just last week?

>>60549972
Honestly I'm still amazed that there are so many retards who use those things unironically

>>60550243
Anytime I want to time an album without torrenting, I'll Google "[band] [album] (filetype:)zip", and 7/10 times some awesome anon has it on vk. Wish I knew about this site earlier.

>>60552268
>tfw wasted a fucking decade here
>still a newfag
eternal and forever

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>>60550236
m4m how you doin stud

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What happened to all the cool tripfags we had on here

>>60549972
It was Web 2.0, not whatever happened in 2007.

>>60549972
I like the idea of twitter, good for instant news, and the half assed connectedness, Dislike almost everything else

>>60552268
>tfw oldfag
Don't even remember how I originally found upon this place. I'm like a Forrest Gump of meme history. When I die all those moments will be lost like tears in rain.

>>60553080
A friend showed me /f/ in '05 and I stayed there for like a year before going to the other boards.

https://a.pomf.cat/yyayfp.webm

>>60552779
>cool tripfags
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

>tfw 07 fag
I was actually 12 when I started posting too.

>>60549972
When did we start pretending that deviantart, newgrounds, and ebaums weren't the exact same type of fucktard-mills that tumblr, reddit and twitter are today?

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>>60549972
>born in 93
>didn't get to experience 80's technology
>didn't get to experience the tech boom and internet of the 90's
>didn't get to experience 03-07 4chan
>tfw not born in 77

Man, I wish I could have been part of this shit before it got popular. I've been here since 2010, and seeing all the old shit on /a/ and stuff always makes me somewhat sad and sorta envious of anons who got to experience it. The only board I really feel like I truly "experienced" (as gay as that sounds) was /sp/. I really am jealous of the oldfags.

I wonder what the internet will turn into in another 5 years. I don't think it'll be great. Can't wait to have to deal with gay ass fucking packages and subscriptions and shit on the internet.

>>60550144
literally the same ruskie faggot

>>60549972
It's also the year 4chan went to shit.

>>60554915
>born in 93
>been here since 2011
>wish I found it earlier but I was a fucking retarded teenager and spent three years previously lurking ED looking at dank old as fuck /b/ memes instead
The 80s are overrated and gay, the 90s would've been cool though. But I'd rather not be forty years old in 2017 Jesus Christ.

>>60554986
>spent three years previously lurking ED looking at dank old as fuck /b/ memes instead

I did the same shit. Damn it used to make me laugh my ass off. I occasionally go back to ED and it still makes me smirk from time to time. It's like when I go back to newgrounds shitty flash games to have a nostalgiafap to those shitty flash games and dating sims I used to play back when I was like 12.

>>60552268
late-2006 here.
mostly browsed /b/ though, was years before I came to /g/

it's appalling that I've been on this site so long

>>60549972
chanology was a mistake
moot fucking thought the same, and organized a meet-up a few days later. He posted the video of at least a couple dozen of faggots in the middle of some park wandering about like retards, with the queen faggot laughing in the background.
tl;dr we made this bed

>>60556623
The faggots who couldn't follow the fight club rules made that bed.

>>60554915
>>60554986
Also born in 93 here.
I think I dabbled on 4chan, lurking, by just about 07 or 08, I might have caught the tail end of the early days. For me it was a "forbidden" (by myself) place that I thought basically held nothing but bad things and the police would come and get me or some shit if I went on there.

Was too busy on Kongregate (pre GameStop) and Newgrounds and about 50,000 other flash game sites.

>>60550533

registering on rutracker was the best day of my audiophile life - every record LP i want in 24bit... damn you slavs got it gud ))))))))

might pull the trigger on VK,

>>60556623
> chanology was a mistake

To be fair, this shit started before that. See: Myspays, Hal Turner Raid

>>60556657
ahh the rules
i haven't seen someone post any rule aside from
>tits or gtfo
and rule 34
for quite some time

i wonder if anyone still has the full list

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>>60556965
I only have this ancient thing. One of my favorite rule hasn't been added yet. The good ol' rule 63.

>>60556942
Chanology was the turning point. The volume of newfags was too much. Before, the ecosystem could handle integration of new comers but when it literally hit the streets, newfaggots steadily outnumbered oldfags. The 2010 Reddit diaspora sealed 4chan's fate.

>>60557059
ahh nostalgia
i had forgotten about them chuck norris jokes. oldfags were relentless with them.

>>60557122

Chanology wouldn't have happened without the /i/ infrastructure developed during the mass myspace phishing and hal turner operations, though. It wasn't *just* 4chan that did chanology - in fact, it was sort of tangential to the organization on partyvan IRC and partyvan[]info wiki, both of which developed prior during those other raids.

>>60552125

>mongoloid misspells mongoloid

>>60557059
>Rule list that isnt even complete
dang u old

>>60553326
their populations were hundreds of times smaller. the level of centralization and homogenization isn't even close.

>>60552268
>tfw newfag from a month ago
literally

>>60555701

Same, I stayed exclusively on /b/ when I first came in 2008, then I slowly started checking out /int/ whenever it started, and now almost exclusively browse /g/. Even though there's a lot of POO IN LOO and Goyim shilling and other spicy memes it's still nowhere near the mindless shithole that /b/ has become. Problem is raids have now been banned and that was some of the funniest shit about /b/. It's been sterilised to the point of being nothing but excessive shit-posting and bananas now.

>>60552323
No you, go back to voat

>>60552310
This has an easy solution: be an irresponsible fuck at any age. Irresponsible at 30, irresponsible at 40, irresponsible at 50, etc. Tip: you need money for this.

If you married, unmarry.
If you became a slave, unslave.
If you care about politics, care only about sex.

Fuck society, be rich.

>>60559347

This nigga gets it

Raiding was the best part of 4chins, not the shitty forced meme spam.

>>60552000
this is true

>>60549972
>never used an iphone
>don't watch fox news
>don't watch the big bang theory
>don't visit tumbler
>don't visit facebook
>don't visit twitter
It went to shit a bit before all this though.
Google made a widget like system they pushed on people and that killed the internet.
Suddenly normal people just used a news feed to get information and going to several places was considered a hassle.
Myspace was just a pedo ring nobody cared about and facebook was just a worse version of that.

The internet went to shit when communities started to merge.
Human beings are not meant to have a single identity, it is so limiting.
When I was a growing up, I went to different clubs and activities and I was never the same person for all of those things.
Why should that change just because it is online?

>>60560713
I hear you. I don't care about any online presence. Fuck linkedin/twitter/fakebook/tumblr/retardedness general; people need to be sheeps to not feel anxious. I don't even have a TV. I use tech to my advantage, not the other way around.

The internet from the 90s was indeed crappy, we were having so much fun that we didn't notice, but at least every website, with animated separator GIFs and all, was made by people. Many websites were crap and disappeared when the hosting went bankrupt, never to beseen again, but at least anyone putting up a website had to know HTML, FTP and have something to say. Then came myspacem fabebook and a free 'webpage' for every retard. The huge expansion in noise makes it look like there's only crap out there, but there are hidden gems. The community must be small and private. Get suddenly 1000x bigger, and everything becomes shit.

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>>60549972
I hate big bang theory to my guts.
Someone should just shot everyone of them.

>>60552268
>tfw you've been on here for five(5) years and still are considered death

>>60561329
you were never really alive.

look at the archives.

it really was better.

>>60549972
>>60552129

The influx of big data promoted this culture of sharing over listening.

lurked several years here before my first post

>>60561288
The idea is to have that can only be fun if everybody is doing it.
This removes people who hang out around people who enjoy the hobby either by making it too boring for them to be there or by engaging them so they join in with the fun.
In your example, people play cards, so lets go with that.
A game like mtg is still viewed as a "nerdy" game and a lot of people won't play it.
But the game is so boring to watch, there is not a lot of people watching it and the people who like to watch it is watching the most skilled people play, with commentary and flashy graphics in order to make the game easy to follow for a spectator.
None of that is available when you play in person, so there is not a lot of people who want to socialize with magic players while they play magic.
This means the majority of the people who attends magic related events play magic.