what was web browsing like in 2000?

bags of sand

>>61008164
Pretty much like browsing 4chinks today, except with less annoying captcha mechanism and more spam on the purely programmed phpbb boards that existed back then.

Noisy if you're not rich at the time.
Google wasn't full Jew yet

don't you remember?

>>61008164
I think I first browsed the web in 2001. Went to a cyber cafe and wrote down the websites I wanted to visit prior to each visit. There was a lot less content. Don't remember so much about those visits.

>>61008219
I was 2 back then

>>61008184
FUCK THIS, fucking 56k dial-up modems.

>>61008232
there was plenty of content, it was just spread out more
like if you wanted to read an article about something from someone, you would often only find it on that persons' own personal website, not some single place where lots of people have written articles

>>61008164
>ugly websites
>slow
>easy to get any cp
>feeling like a motherfucking Coulomb everytime you found some good website
>viruses, scams and spams everywhere
>ads not annoying like today
>people being a little less retarded and discussions being on a little higher level than nowadays
>almost no memes
>piracy was not even considered a piracy in most cases
>IE browser
That is all I remember.

>>61008164
phone line, very shitty. I remember waiting for what felt like hours to play shitty flash games on lego.com

It was fucking amazing.

Honestly, the internet was less 'curated' back in the day. Which had pros and cons on its own.

Without the meticulous curation of modern internet, things were less organized, but you could really explore and find cool shit all the time. It was essentially a 24/7 ARG.

However, if you went into the wrong direction, you were sure to download some retarded variant of whatever virus was popular at the time.

Of course, the early 2000s was when the curation began, it was really dope during the mid-90s.

>>61008164
free as in freedom

Aside from being slow and noisy, it usually came in two flavors.

Nearly plain-text, akin to a WordPad document with some limited formatting and an image or two inserted, if any.

~or~

Eye-searingly bright colors with wacky fonts and overcompressed images, and usually several animated gifs. Sometimes a MIDI would be inserted in the page.

>>61008180
4chan didn't exist in 2000.
Nice try newfag.

>>61008164
Boring.

>>61008328
>like browsing
>like
you retard
Well, by the looks and occasional lack of log in anyway.

>>61008356
Newfag

>>61008279
If I had to compare getting on the internet for the first time in that time, it would be discovering sex. It felt so strange like discovering completely different world/space traveling on uknown territories that no one else has explored before. Hard to explain. It was one of a hell of experience. Then 4chan came and cancer started to spread... I haven't started to browse this site until 2012 even though I was on the internet since 1999. Memes ruined internet. I still remember pedobear and desu shitposting and other websites reposting this shit... ugh.. Then World of Warcraft/Youtube happened and internet became completely mainstream.

>>61008429
>it would be discovering sex
You lost me.

>>61008375
you're just a reading cripple

You had Google. It was the same thing, just HTML 5.0 did not exist. Massive plugins.

>dial-up sound
>computer sounding like it's grinding walnuts while loading the website
>disgusting faux-3D buttons everywhere
It wasn't good

>>61008279
Coulomb was a physicist, not an explorer

Most people were still on dialup. You had Windows 98 and Internet Explorer 5. Netscape still existed but was losing market share fast. Most of the time I was on websites about Catz (the game) and Pokémon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fvTxv46ano

>>61008164
I was 20 in 2000

That year in college I got my first cable modem. Back then Napster worked and you could get any song you wanted for free without worry, everyone used email for everything. There was no facebook or myspace. There was just less shit and info in general. There was no real way to cyber stalk girls or anyone.

It was basically free music and email, that's the way I would describe it

even with broadband it would take an hour to download an episode of south park. I had every episode of the simpsons and I was happy with that back then but the quality was so bad I cant even watch them now, don't know how we lived like that

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>>61008164
Slow and websites were easily exploited. There was a website called gametalk that me and a group of other children would proxy post, spam, and avoid swear filters using dumb shit like fu<>vk and custom javascript spamming apps. Was fun, you cant do that stuff so easily now. Felt like the wild west of the internet compared to now

>>61008773
>I cant even watch them now
it's a lot easier to accept something when there is no better option available
even buying the releases on VHS wasn't really a big jump in quality, dvd was still pretty expensive in 2000, laserdisc wasn't really much of a thing where i live, so i can't speak for that

>>61008164
Type in a product, and different outlets popped up where it was available. Not just Newegg, Amazon, or eBay. If you were looking for information appropriate websites with that information was included in the results instead of retail links.

>>61008816
That looks dangerous..

>>61008557
Welp. This is embarassing. Yeah, I meant Columbus.

I spent half of my dad's salary by downloading counter strike in 1999.

>>61008551
>dial-up sound
You couldn't figure how to disable it?

>>61008892
I liked the dial-up sound.

>>61008164
>took a while to try and get a stable connection
>would still drop out all the time
>good luck anyone trying to use the phone while you were online unless you had two phone lines
>people would still pick up the phone and disconnect you
>went to do something else every time you clicked on anything because it took so long to load pages. you never clicked on any link unless you were sure you wanted to go there.
>midis were popular for music because a your average MP3 would take 3 hours to download, and only if you didn't disconnect in the process
>download management or pause/resume didn't exist, so any failed transmission meant staring anew.
>java applets were the main method of playing games online, macromedia flash was just getting started and most browsers had poor support or ran very slow
>streaming video basically didn't exist
>you could find literally anything on the internet, it was the wild west. stuff considered illegal or dubious by today's standards we just out there for people to click on and download or watch
>naturally there were a lot of popular shock sites like goatse and rotten dot com, popular for the photo of an autopsy baby
>big title PC games were many hundreds of megabytes, so no chance of pirating one simply on account of internet being so slow, had to rely on friends with an expensive CD/DVD writer.
>no tabs or data caching or just about anything else we take for granted today, what you saw what what you got

>>61008920
Me too. I also liked the chuk-chuk-chuk-whirrrr the computer made when it was loading something.
Sometimes I feel like I'm more nostalgic for old computers than I am the old internet.

>>61008870
hero

>>61008164
shit in general
as much as it pains me to say it everything's better now on the whole

>>61008920
>I liked the dial-up sound
Wasn't that more of a mid 90's thing? Cable was out way before the 2000's.

>>61008947
Oh yeah, I almost forgot to mention that all of this was freaking expensive, on top of the phone line you had to pay a ton of cash for internet. whether hourly or by data, it was big bucks, and even more if you wanted to play any online game, there was no such thing as FtP, at best you got a week or two free when you bought the game CD, but otherwise every game had a big monthly fee attached.

>>61009002
I still had dial up through the early 2000s.

>>61008164
>dialup
>loading flash animation of stick figures being violently slaughtered
>go finish homework
>finish homework
>yell "done loading" to get my brothers attention
>3 minutes of intense giggling
>repeat
Until 2girls1cup ruined the internet for everybody forever

>>61009002
Cable, adsl and other alternative connections still had limited availability or, believe it or not, weren't as reliable as dial-up, which was a mature technology by that time.

>>61009043
>tfw flash is going to die soon

>>61009002
Consider how many people today are still using connections slower than 10Mbps.

>>61008947
>big title PC games were many hundreds of megabytes, so no chance of pirating one simply on account of internet being so slow, had to rely on friends with an expensive CD/DVD writer.
Reminds me of those twilight discs.

>>61009057
Aren't there some Javascript replacements for the Flash virtual machine, though?

>>61009002
>Wasn't that more of a mid 90's thing? Cable was out way before the 2000's.

not really, you had to live in certain places to get cable in the year 2000, most people did not have it then. I moved to a new town that year and out of 4 apartments I looked at only one could get broadband cable so that's the one i picked

>>61009002
i only moved away from dialup in 2006

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>>61008947
>>big title PC games were many hundreds of megabytes, so no chance of pirating one simply on account of internet being so slow, had to rely on friends with an expensive CD/DVD writer.

>tfw you didn't download anything big but instead waited for the next lan party

There was a strong sense that IRL and the internet were to be kept seperate. It was a lot less common to reveal identifying information like your real name or where you live. Sometimes forum members would be on a first name basis but I only saw that in small and tight knit communities. Outside of dating sites it was unusual for people to post pictures of themselves publicly. It was much more about living through your alias and persona unless you got to know someone on a more personal level and spoke privately.
Kids especially were taught to protect their identities and take it very seriously. There were public service announcements about it everywhere, and many schools taught it as a component of "computer class" which I'm not sure even exists anymore. It got really serious around the mid 2000's when To Catch a Predator was popular. Nowadays I don't think shit like that is in the zeitgeist at all. 12 year olds have facebook accounts and tell the internet everything about themselves. Normalfags don't seem to find it weird but I do.

>>61008947
>download management or pause/resume didn't exist
not true, though some servers didn't allow/support resume
>java applets were the main method of playing games online, macromedia flash was just getting started
flash and shockwave were quite popular already, java applets were used for bigger/more complex things
>data caching
i used cache way more back then than i do now, probably a good 70% of my browser usage was done in "offline mode", browsing just my own cache
i don't think it was uncommon to do, we had a 50 /hour/ limit (not bandwidth), so to make the most of it, i would connect, load up what i wanted, then disconnect, viewing the cache

>>61009152
>Outside of dating sites it was unusual for people to post pictures of themselves publicly.

reminder that in 2000 to get a photo of yourself online you had to take the photo with a film camera, have i developed, take the physical paper photo someplace, scan it in with a flat bed scanner and post that

there were some digital cameras about that time but they were all $1500 and shitty and nobody had one

>>61009232
someone i knew had a (family) digital camera in 1999, first time i'd ever used one
it was a sony mavica (of course), that used 3.5" floppies
iirc it took XGA resolution jpeg's at around 120KB each
not film-tier quality, but the convenience was huge

>>61009265
yeah they were out there but not every teenager on earth carried a digital camera in his/her pocket 24/7 like now

I used film cameras till 2005ish

>>61008773

>It was basically free music and email, that's the way I would describe it

java/flash games. I think newgrounds was around back then. Also Yahoo/ICQ/AOL messenger were really big.

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>>61009293
yea, they were still uncommon. expensive and lower quality, but it was clear by that point that they were the future

webcams were a thing at that point as well, though, and were another way to get a profile picture

pic related was my first digital camera
i don't recall exactly when or how i got it, i think a friend stole it and traded with it. 2005 model, it was pretty new at the time i got it, so around then

>>61009390
I used AOL messenger a lot and ICQ sometimes

The only game i found worthwhile that could be played online was Command & Conquer which I played all the time

Also reminder that if you were under age about 22 in the year 2000 you probably did not have a laptop. In college (I graduated in 2001) I only knew 2 people that had laptops and both of them were hand me downs from parents.

All of us had computers and CRT monitors we put together. I had a 900mhz processor and 16mb of ram running win 98 and that was considered good at the time. I had a 10gb hard drive.

Literally never saw a laptop in any classroom the 4 years I was in college

pen and paper notes only outside the computer labs

>>61009439
This is not how progressive loading has ever worked

>>61009439
oh fuck that brings back memories

someone should make a program that cripples your computer down to dialup speed just so kids today can see how it was

>>61009486
>This is not how progressive loading has ever worked

?

that's exactly how it looked

>>61008177
kek

>>61009466
>Literally never saw a laptop in any classroom the 4 years I was in college
>pen and paper notes only outside the computer labs
another world

>>61009486
Yeah I know. Maybe the makers a troll. Top to bottom. Was fun though spending a minute waiting for something to cap too. Don't think I'd even go back if that was the only option
>>61009488
Probably best, it'll deter them away from the degeneracy/decadence we've created/turned the internet into

Pretty much gaining root and exploiting any website online running php or mysql when ever you fucking pleased. Defacing websites was done as a laugh not destructive while trying to black mail.

Used to be amazing digging through so many documents and what ever else you could get your hands onto.

>Remembers Zone-h is a thing
>Oh its still a website
>Try searching old group from 10+ years ago.
>Gateway timeout.

Thanks anyway I guess.

>>61008164
>No bloated multi-mb JS websites
>Pirate material (mostly mp3) available in the open
>Only tech-literate users from the most developed countries
>No censorship
>No surveillance other than NSA's
>No hate laws
It was noice.
You can still visit some websites:
http://web.archive.org/

>>61009527
No, it's not. There are two ways to load a jpeg. Normal, and progressive.
Normal loads the full resolution from top to bottom, slowly loading line after line. When it gets to the bottom line, the image is loaded.
Progressive loads the image in complete passes. It loads the entire span of the image in low quality, then does another complete pass to make the entire image higher quality, and continues doing that until the image is complete.

That image posted above is taking a full sized low quality base, then increasing the quality of just a chunk of it over and over until it's full quality, then moving on to the next chunk. This has never been how images have loaded, and you betray your actual age by trying to pretend that it was.

>>61009624
>Progressive loads the image in complete passes.
hmmm I guess you may be right about that, it sure reminded me of seeing images load that way though

any way I am almost 40 and have had computers since I was 15

srs

>>61009566
Fuck, I completely forgot Amazon used to be about books, how times have changed huh?

>>61008164
it was the future.
Geocities and angelfire was still around.
Gifs were being slowly replaced by this new thing called flash and you could game with the shockwave machine.
A flash website was heavy as fuck so many sites had the no flash full html front.
56kbps was superseded by lan cards intead of the 112 or 128kbps dialups that year was the last good year for making dialups.
Porn was pretty much only jpg's with some gif banners.
Coolmail was bought by hotmail and by that date i think hotmail was already being bought by microsoft.
Windows 2k and windows millenium edition were out of the box ready to BROWSE and they were a pile of shit.
ICQ was DEAD, messenger was the new king of the block.
Bearshare, limewire, were the place to get aids for your pc and this was the only place to steal porn movies.
Napster was dead already.
ftp and download managers were common ONLY for the initiated.
FUCKING CHAT clients, those were still around and in a big way, the only place were young wizards could had some female (WE HOPED) interaction.

And it was the fucking future.

>>61009686
Ya, first they were a book store, then the everything store and now they just are everything.

>>61009730
>it was the future.
How did we lose sight?

>>61008164
the search was crap, but not SEOd to death yet
google wasn't the only search
baidu wasn't censored to death and was actually useful for an english speaking person, can you imagine that
most of the time you've had to know where to go because finding something was really hard
no social networks, blogging was new and big
98% of memes weren't born yet
most sites were eyebleach
something awful as a cesspool, not 4chinks
MP3 and file sharing was on the rise
no streaming video, no divx even
cp was everywhere in the open
opera wasn't free (or was it freeware already?)

aside from the web, irc was alive and well, icq was hot, some people were using usenet and bbs unironically (i've been using fidonet till 2000, it was great), also ultima online

Back when shockwave was for games and flash was for movies.

>>61008356
>No coherent thoughts
Who the fuck are you quoting?

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>>61008283
>shitty games on lego.com

lego.com had the some of the best games on the internet in the early 2000s, junkbot and the nightfall incident were both pretty good games.

In the year 2000 every guy I knew age 18+ had or had access to an N64 and Goldeneye

we played that shit for hundreds of hours

>>61009730
SHIT how i forgot about winamp?!
web browsing while listening to you 20 stolen songs cycling in the background.
Altavista, askjeeves and yahoo were respected search engines.
SHIT. babel fish was THE ABSOLUTE SHIT, it was insane getting text translated.
Quake 2 specially the lithium mod still had a good player base on a daily basis.
Q3A and UT were the big mp back then.
FUCKING SHIT, aliens vs predator was the greatest even thou it was released in 1999.
3dfx wasnt dead, by months.
My mouse still had a steel rubber ball.
gamepower.com was THE place to read reviews. HOLLY FUCK, gamespy was huge back then.

>>61009946
>Junkbot
I remember that one being bretty gud
>nightfall incident
That was my fucking shit, that's the one I'd wait an hour+ to play (at least it felt that long to young me)
I wish I could find a site hosting it. The alpha team game was also really good

>>61009989
>My mouse still had a steel rubber ball.
forgot about that

fuck those mice

>>61008164
More of a novelty than the way of life it is now.

I moved from dialup to cable in 2K.

>>61009488
> What is NetLimiter

>>61008164
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSRG0TqxLWc

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>>61009946
This shit right here. Had some great games on it including some Japanese weeb shit.

>>61009989

>My mouse still had a steel rubber ball.
>steel rubber

u wot m8

>>61010239
It's a steel ball coated in rubber.

>>61010239
i guess you are too young to have ever seen one

they were shit

>>61008164
slow
>install XP
>connect to internet
>[tooot...tootootootototoot...reee...reee.reee....reee]
>Windows XP is shutting down in 30 seconds
good times

This thread is triggering my nostalgia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfMrVKnGzwg

>>61010239
>>61009989

>that wizard just made a underage filter

>>61009946
That was a cool game.
The two most popular flash game sites here (at my elementary school at least) were spele.nl and funnygames.nl. I think the latter haven't even changed their layout much except more ads.

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>>61010239
rubber-coated steel ball, used in pre-optical mice to roll around, moving wheels whose motion is tracked
be glad you didn't have to use them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up863eQKGUI

>>61008233
Surreee...

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>>61010239
Moving mouse made a ball spin via friction, the ball in turn spun a pair of rollers inside the mouse that registered X/Y movement.
It had to be steel so it was heavy enough to stay planted to the surface you were moving it over, but also rubber coated so that it actually tracked stuff.
Ball mice cost like $5 so of course everyone had them, optical mice were 5x the price and were buggy, laser mice were science fiction and a talking point if you had one, but also shit compared to today.

mustard gas was everywhere you had to be careful not to make more

>>61010349
>>61010375
If you've never seen this you are literally underage b&

IRC, weird variations of file sharing programs like Direct Connect, warez websites, some that even sold CDs with software, usenet, AOL chatrooms that would distribute files, SomethingAwful, StileProject, etc

Pretty cool time, when people weren't fucking social whores who had to apply their name to everything they did online

>>61010288
>2000
>XP
Choose one

Remember when you needed Real Player to watch 150px big videos.

the internet was a lot more independent

these days if you make a website just for fun nobody is going to look at it

>>61010458
Suffering. Real player was the hottest piece of shit software of the time and was bloated as hell.

>>61008856
Shit, I thought you meant Columbo.

>>61010438
direct connect is still a thing

>>61010512
Didn't Real player try to pioneer a subscription model for an application, near the end of its Akira-tier bloated life?

>>61010416
>If you've never seen this you are literally underage b&
I dunno someone age 20 today was born in 1997 and by the time he or she was 10 it was 2007 and those fucking ball mice had long since been eradicated

>>61010443
I was assuming OP meant the 2000's. Then in my case replace 2000 with 98 SE and without that fucking virus

>>61008164
Less autism

>>61010443
XP was actually in beta around 1999-2000, as "Codename Whistler"

>>61008164
what was being born like in 2000?

>>61008177
>61008177

coins 'n salty milk

>CTRL+F "newgrounds"
>No results

FUCKING YOUNGFAGS

>>61008279
>Ads not annoying like today

What are you talking about

Ads were cancer back then.

>>61010650
>>61009390
your browser is broken

>>61009466
Fucking this
Had a Gateway with the K7 AMD Athlon 1GHz, 1/2GB RAM, 80GB HDD, and a DVD/CDR-W drive and no one had a laptop

>>61008164
Better.

>>61009466
>900MHz cpu with 16M ram
that's a weird combination

in 2000 i had a 667MHz P3 with 128M ram

>>61010703
>2GB ram
>in 2000
what the heck were you using?

>>61010749
Just saw this >>61010736 and figured I'd overstated my RAM, probably closer to either 256MB or 512
98 SE for MIS path

>>61010349
I was still using these fuckers in 2007, in fact I think I still have a couple thrown inside my closet.

>>61010736
I think you are right, my first computer in college was a 233mhz with 16mb of ram, then my sr year I got the 900mhz, I think it may have had 128mb

I was getting them confused

>>61008177
UnderRated Post

Pirate Bay was great, or LimeWire

>>61010802
i first got an optical mouse in 2006, stole it from college
still have it, actually

Web directories were as popular as google still.
http://www.refdesk.com/ was my homepage.
Looks alot the same. Surprised it's still up.

>>61010833
Optical LASER mouse.

>>61010976
Won't those kill?

How old are you OP? 15? 16?

Popups, popups everywhere.
Download scam..anagers
Way more personal. Found a site on your favorite subject? Email the webmaster and he replied in 99% of cases.
Searching required using more than 1 search engine. I used tucows, altavista, yahoo, google and another one, which name I already forgot
World of gifs

Damn, those were the days... I made my own site about a video game called Commandos, made it in FrontPage. It seemed way easier back then.

But real fun started in 2004.

>>61010833
2006 was a good year lad. When did the internet become such garbage?

>>61009466
>Literally never saw a laptop in any classroom the 4 years I was in college
>pen and paper notes only outside the computer labs
fuck that!

>>61011004
The moment social media such as myspace started taking over.

>>61010976
no, in fact, i still have never owned any laser mice

>>61011004
2007 was the year things really started to go downhill fast

>>61008164
I don't know I wasn't born yet!!! XD

>>61010822
Must check this post

I miss the old online PC Gaming community in the early 2000's. Patches, mods, etc. was a lot harder to configure and it weeded out a lot of the retards/trolls you see now.

>>61011022
Honestly I think we can pinpoint the internet's decline to 2008.

>>61011012
how old are you?

i'm younger than the person you're replying to, but that held true for me as well
i had a laptop while in college, albiet an old, second hand one, but i wasn't technically allowed to have it at school, though i was able to use it a couple times, with teacher permission

>>61010612
I am not sure but I am sure my mother felt a lot of pain.

>>61011070
I am in college now

it's nothing but a sea of laptops

when were you in college?

>>61011046
>tfw you're too young to remember online communities in 2000

I think I first got the internet in 2002, and didn't know you could do anything besides looking up cheat codes and playing shitting flash games.

>>61011055
>Honestly I think we can pinpoint the internet's decline to 2008.
that's about the time every normie on earth could get a brand new working laptop for $500 that required no skill to use

>>61009488
I use a service that slows down speeds comparable to third world 2G.

It's called Comcast.

>anon stop playing runescape I'm expecting a call
>but moooooooooooooom
tfw troubled childhood

>>61011089
2003-2006, then went to a private academy

>>61011108
ISDN master race. Instead of 128k data you could have 64k data that didn't tie up the phone lines.

>>61011126
that was 12 years ago anon, a long time ago

>>61011132
>crippling your Internet for phone
Haha

>>61008269
>slow as fuck
>spending entire days downloading music files
>porn gifs for ants
>porn magazine rips
>everything was free
>low resolution images and minimalist design everywhere to make pages load faster
>internet connection would occupy your phone line
>P2P filesharing programs full of easily accessible CP
>CP sharing groups on orkut
>newgrounds flash games

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>>61011144
>a long time ago
doesn't feel like it

2006 was when i first started visiting 4chan, too

>>61008164
kind of awful
web searching sucked, so you basically needed to find sites by actual recommendation from friends and shit (and it was kind of years before Google got actually good at finding things)
I had dialup until 2006, so I'd end up doing shit like going to shockwave.com and loading up like 5 or 6 different things, then going to eat, and when I came back, at least one of them would be loaded
everything kind of needed IE to work back then, too -- there were only a handful of sites that wanted netscape instead, mostly personal pages by netscape fans
AOL kept crashing, but that was probably a combination of it being shit and Windows ME being shit (my family got a new machine in '99 with a webcam and shit packed in from eMachines I think)

best time for internet was like 2007 or so, but that might also be me being biased -- I started going to /b/ in like 2006 (was awful because AOL IPs were mostly banned and you couldn't casually browse when banned, the whole site was blocked off), I got DSL in 2007 and immediately downloaded Firefox and a bunch of PS1 games and shit, and Youtube was a thing, etc, etc

>lauch AOL
>go to living room and watch TV
>come back, navigate to Nickelodeon's website, return to television
>come back, select game, return to television
>come back, play game for five minutes
>"anon, it's time to get off the computer, you've been on it all night"

>>61011167
most people here are 18-20, not 31

when you are 19, 31 seems old as fuck

>>61011187
>"anon, it's time to get off the computer, you've been on it all night"
Choked on my food.

>>61011183
>you couldn't casually browse when banned
i remember this

never understood the reasoning, learned how to force an IP change on my cable modem though

>>61011102
In 2007 4chan was featured in the news on murika, portrayed as the place where the bad guys of the internet gather. It never recovered from the huge influx of edgy teenagers.

>>61008164
>could download anything you wanted off napster
>no copyright police in existence, most people didn't even know napster existed, the lawsuit that shut napster down would probably have changed the face of the internet forever it they'd won
>everyone had a geocities page full of shitty wallpapers, animated gifs, and sometimes auto-playing music or screamers
>until google came along it was basically impossible to find any websites - you had to type random shit into your address bar and hope you got something interesting, or you heard about websites through word of mouth
>planetavp was fucking amazing
>everyone had icq or msn messenger unless you were one of those unfortunate souls stuck with AOL (everyone made fun of them)
>quake was fun as fuck but sometimes mom would make a phone call and ruin your game

>>61011197
it'll be your turn before you know it

>>61011222
Then when the wikipedia article for 4chan became featured it brought in a new wave.

AOL and Java applets

>>61011255
>phonecall disconnects
man, I'm so glad my family had a separate phone line for internet
couldn't get high speed of any kind for years though

>>61011276
>it'll be your turn before you know it
just saying

you can't talk about shit you remember as an adult from 15+ years ago on 4chan and expect everyone to remember it

>>61008830
Google's really gone to complete shit desu

It's basically just an ad platform at this point. Use google if you want lots of advertising rather than what you're actually searching for

>>61011315
if you want porn go to bing video

they don't filter anything out

>>61008164
Tables, and I liked it. Still less of a pain in the ass than CSS.

>>61011349
THIS
What I can't find on nudevista I find on Bing

>>61011312
of course not, though this is a thread about using the internet in 2000, so by the same token someone who is 18 now shouldn't expect to be similar in age to the people talking about it

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>>61008279
Only there were memes you faggot

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I'm in my mid-30s, I do webdev for a living nowadays. Back then, I was a lonely guy exploring something exciting and extraordinary, uncommon, decentralized, unexplored, a window on the world I had no idea about, something at its dawn, mostly unknown. As others said, there were no social networks, a few communities but mostly independent websites. Internet users had to be somewhat tech-savvy, the Internet's population was way smaller. Staying anonymous felt mandatory, aliases and nicknames were the standard, leaving personal information in the net was judged as a very poor and stupid move. I felt like a Bedouin in the desert walking his way towards the Sun, unaware of what I could encounter a few steps ahead. It felt... powerful. When I think of it, I remember the poor graphics, the slow connection, the amateurish content and a lot of other somehow negative aspects, but I can't help getting overwhelmed by the nostalgia.
There are way more websites today than back then, yet we navigate less.
I spent my life in front of a computer. I had my fears and dreams, I have an IT job now and a girlfriend. But that enthusiasm one can only feel is long gone.
Maybe I should just kill myself.

>>61011829
You need to find something new to feel that way about. Take flying lessons, learn to climb mountains

there's other shit out there in life to experience that will bring back that new sense of wonder

>>61011829
You're so fond of that time because it was when your body and mind were at the absolute peak, and you were still discovering the world. Now you're saturated. You know too much, so tech is boring. Take this advise: >>61011958

>>61008164
http://www.angelfire.com/super/badwebs/

You saw lots of sites like this. It was much more fun going through and seeing a classmates website VS their Facebook page.

There was no gmail back then

all my emails from 1997-2003 are gone

lost in time

like tears in the rain

>>61011387
>Google starts being ditched by people in favour of fucking Bing
>simply because Google is hiding porn from people
What a time to be alive.

>>61012646
It's the single reason why Bing hasn't folded yet

>>61012646
google is super awful at finding porn vids, it's crazy

bing is awesome for it

go to google and type young teen audition into the video search, you get shit, on big you get all the results and can sort by length and video quality

>>61008164
visit gnu.org to know

>>61012582
>lost in time
more like
>lost in some NSA dat tape

Most free email accounts were only like 5mb each, meaning all data that went through them is stored somewhere else.

>>61012781
>visit gnu.org to know
kek

herd coming out soon! heavy development!

>>61012786
only if the NSA was recording college domain email back then

>>61012805
>if

>>61012805
>>61012850
20 years ago i don't think the nsa gave a fuck about email, this was pre 911

>>61008164
We must go back in time and tell the internet to archive the entirety of Geocities, unlike the shitty "archive" we have now.

>>61011055
>>61011102
/eternal summer/
Eternal September began in 1993, ending the 1st age of the internet which lasted 13 years after the creation of Usenet.
In 2007, the original iPhone was released. Social media sites like Facebook and Twitter saw spikes in traffic, quickly becoming the institutions they are now. It had been 14 years since Eternal September. It was the end of the 2nd age.
We are now 10 years into the 3rd age of the internet, Eternal Summer.
Maybe in a couple years something else will happen and the internet will change again.

>>61012864
They're part of an intelligence gathering organization. Hell, even the idea of "Carnivore" was part of normie thinking, due to the movie Swordfish. So it was easily an idea in the works, well before that movie, even if we're only led to believe it 'began' in 1997.

>>61011349
>Your country or region requires a strict Bing SafeSearch setting, which filters out results that might return adult content.
How do you turn this shit off?

>>61008164
>what was we browsing like in 2000?

It was comfy as fuck and not like the bullshit we see today

>>61012970
>>Your country or region requires a strict Bing SafeSearch setting, which filters out results that might return adult content.

where do you live?

you just turn it off in the USA< you might need a vpn

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Internet was kinda boring before I got this bad boy. Mostly used to download SNES ROMs back then.

>>61012970
In the settings dipshit

>>61013069
My guess is middle east

>>61010349
>having to buy a fucking cleaning kit because these damn balls would get so gunked up

Don't miss it desu.

>>61013069
I tried setting it to another country but nothing changed. Do I really need a VPN?

>>61013454
The option to turn off safesearch is replaced by that message, dipshit.

>>61008164
Everything was much more segmented back then. I would visit at least 30+ website a day with probably 30% of those being a new website. Nowadays I just go to 4chan, my email, and youtube that's it.

>>61013695
>I tried setting it to another country but nothing changed. Do I really need a VPN?
setting what to another country?

tell me where you live and ill tell you if you need a VPN

can you get on nudevista and xhamster and spankbang ?

>>61013724
Brazil.
Yes I can, I just wanted to check searching porn on Bing because anon said it would return completely unfiltered results.

>>61013748
Well if you can get on all those sites with no issue I would not worry about bing that much, bing basically searches all those sites for you

yes you need a vpn though for bing, you could get one and try it for a month to see if it's worth it for you

>>61013549
i just scraped the rollers using my finger nails, then used my shirt to finish it off
the ball themselves i didn't really have to clean

Saw an ad with a man holding his dick in a babies hand while playing flash games as a 11 year old, i remember it fucked my shit up

>MOM I WAS USING THE INTERNET!
>GREAT! NOW THE GIRL I WAS TALKING TO IN THE CHAT ROOM PROBABLY LEFT
good times

spacejam.com

>>61008164
Don't listen to these faggots, anything after 1993 was normie garbage.

>>61012917
archive.org is pretty good though

>>61008164
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWq4DWfrpu8

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>>61013862
they removed the audio track because of copyright

>>61013844
I downloaded the 600gb or whatever archive torrent and I still couldn't find any of my stuff. It could be human error, but I'm convinced not everything was preserved.

>>61009002
A lot of poorfags and ESL faggots on /g/. I got DSL in 2001 and I could have gotten it sooner if I wanted to.

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>>61012759
>bing is awesome for it
was
>open bing
>search for videos
>show a shit ton of thumbnails of videos previews with links
>click preview to see the video
>dont show video and just show the message "you need to visit the webpage to see the video"
>RREEEEEEEEEEEE
even the tumbnails doesnt work a lot of time

>>61013963
>>click preview to see the video
>>dont show video and just show the message "you need to visit the webpage to see the video"
not bings fault

still finds the vids though

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>>61013844
Does that mean all my cringy middle school forum posts are preserved on the fucking web?

>>61008180
Somebody posts those yahoo videogame groups screenshots.

>>61013898
>>61013862
i guess now this should be the official link to it from now on
https://archive.org/details/THEINTERNETOnApril4th1998

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>>61014067

*** Now talking in #3dfx

>>61014004
maybe!

i wonder if they have a copy of that personal site i made when i was 11 or 12, made using ms word exported to html, and put on some free host with 1MB space

i can't remember what the host was called, so i can't check

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>>61009767
hory sheit

Netscape 4.7, no tabs. Here's a site i used to visit back then, still online in archive mode.

http://www.suck.com/

>>61012864

>echelon

>>61014004
Mine still are, so yeah probably.

>>61008164
No tabs in browser. Had to open separate browser windows

>>61013549
>>61013777

I've been using Windex and Q-tips on electronics since I was a kid in the late 90's restoring a dirty old NES, always works great, never had a single problem.

>>61014799
>not using Opera with MDI
pleb

opera was the best since you could disable images and control caching with 1 click, which was invaluable on dialup. Load times were much better with it.

also, web crawlers!

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>>61014799
>no tabs
speak for yourself

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>>61008164
In a word, SLOW.

Text-only sites loaded fine, but flash was still a thing back then and those sites took forever to load. You didn't download a larger file unless you damn well needed to.

The amount of content was much more thin than it is now. You couldn't find out about everything and anything with a simple Google search like you can now. You had to be careful of browser exploits, because people only ever used IE at that time, and updates from MS were exceptionally slow.

On the flip side, it was a bit less commercialised. You didn't have the tracking services like you did now. Social interaction was in a lot of ways less wholesome, more anonymous, and had an entirely different flavour than social media 'apps' on Web 2.0. There was much more emphasis on chat and IRC.

The Usenet community thrived, but that's not web browsing strictly speaking.

>>61008947
>he didn't have DSL in 2000
lel

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>>61008164
I remember a lot of fansites for popular anime, like for Ranma 1/2 and Tenchi Muyo. All hosted on geocities, angelfire, tripod, etc. Youtube wasn't big yet, so said sites hosted small video clips from the anime. And then were several top100 sites when I was looking for hentai, getting some sweet viper gifs and manga like Bondage Fairies or Sexhibition. And holy shit, my old aol chat logs were cringey as fuck.

>>61008279
>>ads not annoying like today
Literally every ad was a pop up or a flashing gif

I remember switching from dial up to DSL. feels good man. once you're used to hearing those dial up connection tones they get burned in your brain for life

>>61008164
There wasn't much to do online, really.

I guess neopets was a thing.

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>>61008164

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>>61010458
>>61010512
>>61010549
Good times

>>61008295
This. It was the beginning of new adventures.

>>61015792
didn't firefox became popular in 2000 or was it 2001?

>>61015983
nvm it was 2002

>>61008164
Better because you weren't there.

>>61008164
All I remember is watching edgy flash cartoons on Newgrounds.com, and also playing some shitty little Shockwave games where you kill 90's celebrities. I remember a game called Spear Britney more than any of the others. Also, I remember finding and saving the Anarchist Cookbook in .txt format and printing it all out when my mom was at work. Other than that, I read news about video games, mostly on ign.com and nintendo.com. Took a couple more years until I was really interested in the internet when I realized I was a failed middle school normalfag and this was where I belonged.

>>61011027
b&

>>61009293
Film is still better than digitals in some ways if you are into photography.

>>61011165
man those were the days

STUPIDVIDEOOOOOSSSSS

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>>61008164
By 2000 it had gone way down hill since Post Free Market Economics had crushed all the original startups that didnt merge with (((Wallstreet))).

>>61008164
Expensive

>>61008279
>ads not annoying like today
>people being a little less retarded and discussions being on a little higher level than nowadays
>piracy was not even considered a piracy in most cases
These are blatantly untrue.

>feeling like a motherfucking Coulomb everytime you found some good website
But this one actually makes me feel nostalgic. Does anyone other than huge companies (or subsidiaries thereof, or their users) still make and maintain websites?

>>61009140
>>61008947
>tfw you were the friend with the CD/DVD writer

Slow like a fucking snail! I remember surfing a paying by the minute slow and expensive, thank god those times are gone.

>>61017802
>talk about CD burner with friend
>someone ask if it's some kind of oven

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>>61014408
Yeah, AWS really changed Amazon into just an e-commerce company to a major tech-shifting company

>>61008164
i'd explain it to you but i'll just tell you to search for pokemon on tripod.com instead

>>61008164
non-existent

>>61008299
I can't find it right now, does anyone have that image about how web traffic is increasingly to fewer and fewer sites as of late? In terms of sheer data the internet's constantly growing, but independent niche sites have basically been replaced with social media or blogs hosted on established platforms.

Link related is fairly representative of what the web design for these sites was like: http://www.seanbaby.com/nes/nes/w20-20.htm

>all these people listing easy access to child porn like it's a good thing
I would say "never change", but that would be a lie

>>61008164
slow

>>61020539
It was freedom.
People generally hate freedom though since it results in people sharing long numbers that recorded the abuse of others.

>>61020164
>non-existent
Windows user.

>>61008279
>>ads not annoying like today
<FLASH>

>browsing the web in 1997
>find a link to the Diablo demo
>the zip file was almost 50MB
>try and download it over a 33.6k modem
Dial-up was suffering

>>61008522
>You had Google.
Alta Vista
AskJeeves
So many search engines.

>>61008164
The WWW isn't the whole story.
I used to be on the newsgroups before the WWW came into being. That was where you got just about anything you were interested in.
ROT13 was king.
There were newsgroups specifically for CP, for instance.
Then came the WWW and eventually it went commercial.
Look up the first 50 domain names registered.
Guess who isn't there. If you read Gates' "The Road Ahead" from '93 you won't find any mention of the Internet.

>>61017925
now they're fucking purchasing whole foods

when will the government stop them from creating a monopoly?

I remember getting angry way, way less.

How did your first attempt at finding internet porn go, /g/?
Mine involved trying www.porn.com and giving up as soon as I saw the fees everywhere.

>>61020945
>from creating a monopoly?
Silly anon, there are smaller online retailers that amazon purposefully doesn't kill so it can say it's not a monopoly.

>>61010443
I had XP before 2001, betas existed newfag.

>>61020955
mine was new grounds zone tan flashes, man it felt like yesterday, my step dad worked in a business and they gave him a business grade dell pc with good internet connection.

>>61009730
>Windows 2k and windows millenium edition were out of the box ready to BROWSE and they were a pile of shit.

ME sucked but 2K was the shit.

>>61020955
My first pornographic material was Sakura of Card Captor Sakura fame.

I still love little girls to this day.

>>61008279
Man I'm sure it's been addressed in this tread but as much as we birches about banners and popups/popunders it was a lot better than the Javascript clusterfuck we need to deal with today. I mean won't case scenario your pop up blocker didn't work and you had 1 more window to close.

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>>61010288

>>61011046

And gaming was more serious and competitive. Now clans are just a group of people who play a couple of hrs before bed causally.

>>61010531

Lol this is what I thought too

>>61009060

Literally 98% of Australia

>>61023568
Back then raging out of a game meant you actually went over to the person you were playing against and raged at them, sometimes across town. With LAN being the primary serious gaming method, this was pretty much a given, internet was too slow for online gaming except for MMOs where everything is click-to-kill anyway. MMOs were also extremely volatile; walk out of town and get killed, have all your stuff taken, have your corpse pissed on and get called names for good measure. Friendships lived and died over stuff that happened in game, but not like today where people get triggered over being called a fag, but being afraid to go to school the next day because of getting fucked up along the way.

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>>61008739

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This thread is making me realize that we're really in a corporate and surveillance laden dystopia now. It's not a romantic dystopia either.

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>>61023886
nice viewsonic

>>61008947
AOL

it looked like windows 10, now

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I'm still using realplayer today. I have a DBZ clip from 1997 that's still buffering.

This joke was funnier in 2007. The rest of my post is buffering---
Buffering---
Buffering---

>>61015053
"no frames"

>>61023886
>viewsonic
memories

>>61008164
Less JavaScript, more Flash.
Same shit though.

>>61010416
I used to stole those balls from school's PCs

>>61024266
Yeah fuck you. Kids like you were why my school's IT department had to superglue all the mice shut and so they were all gunked up and nearly impossible to use

>>61008164
Does anyone remember the webrings? Never see them today.
Or the porn-link loops that would lead you through a series of ambush ads with enticing links to yet more ambush sites.
Or Bianca? Benjamin Dover? Wild Rose and the first webcam girls.
Good times.

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>>61023860

>>61011829
>Maybe I should just kill myself.
do it, make a video and post it
help making the internet a better place once again

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>>61024379
the dream is ogre

>>61008164
https://youtu.be/hWq4DWfrpu8

>Go on website
>Get seizure from advertisement
>CLICK HERE NOW !!!!! 999999th visitor! You've won a holiday to Hawaii! CLAIM YOUR REWARD NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>61024042

Anyone else use Realplayer to download porn videos or videos in general? I remember having a disc full of 30 second clips of porn.

also

>2003
>needed windows xp serial code
>google for it
>"free windows xp 95 98 DOS serial crack code"
>click link
>download
>optical drive turns on then turns off
>screen flickers
>PC shuts off
>try to turn PC on
>nothing

turned out it deleted all drivers then wrecked the boot record then shuts the PC off..... the times when viruses/trojans werent after financial gain...

Well, it was like unfiltered, uncensored google images.

Anyone else scarred for life after looking for cool wallpapers
from their favourite japanese cartoons?

First thing i did on the internet was to download cool skins for
my windows media player, good times.

>>61024294
I remember emulation webrings with private sites that had like 10-20 roms each.

>>61024537
>the times when viruses/trojans werent after financial gain...
watching this guy's videos is a hell of a trip
https://www.youtube.com/user/danooct1/videos
beware however, comment section is cancer filled vinesauce memes.

>>61024463
I miss having the maximum number of channels open on Quakenet.

It was our social media before social media was a thing.

>>61024294
>Or the porn-link loops that would lead you through a series of ambush ads with enticing links to yet more ambush sites.


jesus.... hindsight 20/20 id never fall for it again but back then youd always click again. for me it always happened while trying to find videos of one particular porn star and id end up going through 20+ sites but never finding any videos, only ever finding pictures of parts of the video

>>61024476
I am ashamed to admit first time on the internet i had this happen to me
and i was genuinely excited told my parents then i clicked and got your
average put your credit card info to claim your reward.

>>61024537
I fell for a diablo 2 'cheat' that unequipped all my items and then exited the game. I turned my computer off before it finished to save some of my items.

It's funny since I remember panicking as it was de-equipping my cool shit and chucking it on the ground.

>>61023401
>run.exe
>"shutdown -a"
gg

>>61011197
>t. faggot

i started browsing my senior year of hs, 2005.
it'll happen to you

>>61010349
>loses ball
parents slotted in tin foil as a replacement


It didn't work in the slightest.

>>61009989
>web browsing while listening to you 20 stolen songs cycling in the background.
Man your PC must have been a beast. I recall that every time I started playing a song, the whole thing would become unusable.

>>61010650
FACT: NEWGROUNDS WAS FUNNY WHEN WE WERE ALL 12 LIVING IN THE SUBURBS LISTENING TO LINKIN PARK WATCHING DRAGONBALL Z DRINKING PEPSI WHILE PLAYING HALO CO-OP ON THE EASIEST SETTING DURING WHICH WE CONSUMED DORITOS AND LOOKED AT PAINTBALL GUNS ON EBAY IN INTERNET EXPLORER CONNECTED THROUGH AOL ON A 56K MODEM BEFORE HOPPING INTO OUR BALDING FATHERS' LATEST MIDLIFE-CRISIS-IMPULSE-SPONSORED JAPANESE-BUILT SUV TO HEAD TO THE MALL AND GET MORE SKATEBOARDING SHOES AND THIRD-RATE IRREGULAR LEVIS AND MOUNTAIN BIKE PARTS BEFORE HEADING HOME, VOTING DEMOCRAT AND MASTURBATING TO THE LATEST SEARS CATALOG WHILE HUFFING PAINT IN YOUR GARAGE BEFORE TALKING TO PEDOPHILES ON AIM PRETENDING TO BE WHATEVER CAMWHORE THEY'RE RANTING ABOUT ON MYSPACE WITH A MATRIX QUOTE/ANIME CHARACTER NAME/TRIPLE SIX-ASTERISK-PARENTHESES-SURROUNDED SCREENNAME BEFORE HEADING TO YOUR SUPPOSED "GOOD SCHOOL" IN THE MORNING TO BUY MORE POT TO SMOKE DURING YOUR COUNTER-STRIKE LAN PARTY WITH JIMMY AND THE REST OF HIS FRIENDS TAKING RITALIN AND ADDERALL AND PROZAC EIGHT TIMES A DAY BEFORE TAKING A CASUAL PASS AT LOCAL, STATE OR NATIONAL GOVERNMENTAL FIGURES, LEGISLATURE, OR STRUCTURE TO APPEAR EDGY AND INTELLIGENT IN FRONT OF YOUR BUDWEISER-SNEAKING, LIMP-WRISTED, NEAR-TO-COLUMBINE SOCIOPATHIC "DEEP" FRIENDS WHO PLAY THE VICTIM WHEN THEY START LOSING ARGUMENTS SIX DAYS BEFORE THEIR BOTCHED SUICIDE ATTEMPT SIMPLY BECAUSE SCHOOL TRAMP NUMBER TWELVE WOULDN'T GO UNDER THE BLEACHERS WITH THEM TO LET THEM GET TO SECOND BASE BEFORE THEIR THIRTEENTH BIRTHDAY.

>>61008164
Google was absolutely mindblowing. I would search for games and it would link me games. I tend to forget how important Google was to making the internet good.

>>61008164
sadistically comfy
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FVDkWU_Gzss
tho thi is a bit earlier than thr 2000s

>>61025795
>"also we're gonna need a shitload of drivers and software"
>*tosses a bunch of floppies on the table*
'aint that the truth

lastmeasure

I remember I wouldn't use google for the longest time because I thought the name sounded stupid.

>>61013549
>cleaning kit
Let me guess, you buy 'gaymer gear' to this day.

>>61025641
t. Larry Page

I remember lots of YTMND and/or Ebaum's World stuff

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C-H-A-N-N-E-L
B-A-R

>>61025947
And lots of sprite webcomics

>>61024602
>memes
>reading comments
Just open the link in mpv.

>>61025795
one time in ~2004 browsed the web on a 486DX2-66 using windows xp and ie6
it was slow as balls, but i had more success than that guy did

>awesome 1.5MB DSL connection
>almost useless because roommate is hogging bandwidth with porn downloads from warez site

>>61025952
kill it with fire

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>work at HP printer support call center
>customer's new computer is useless due to crap bundled with Pavillion bundle
>90% of calls are turning off shit in MSCONFIG
>12-hour shifts of telling people how to turn off shit in startup just so the printer will work

> internet provider owned an ftp that everyone connected could browse and use freely. There were thousands of movies, anime, music you could watch instantly. No streaming, no downloads. And most importantly, it cost nothing to use it. Since data was very limited back then, something like 1gb a month, you needed to be very careful not to exceed it. Sites loaded slow. It wasn't quite that amazing except for that ftp. Man, there was so much content on there.