How was browsing the internet like in 2003?

>>61082156
>almost no normalfags
>websites were about content, not design
>no phoneposters
>4chan was born
>peer to peer software allowed you to download music videos and finding out it was actually a terrorist execution

it was heaven

>>61082156
I had shitty internet connection but Opera Browser with Presto rendering engine saved my butt and nerves. After ISP make the connection civilized, switched to Mozilla.

>>61082156
>How was browsing the internet like
kys

Being sued for 4million dollars because you downloaded 5 songs

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>>61082194
>and finding out it was actually a terrorist execution

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>looking for the new System of a Down song
>file is 133 MB, okay
>russian lesbian porn in 144p
>.mp3.avi

it was great

bampu
tellus moar oldfags

ISDN/Cable? if you could afford it at home.

Dailup otherwise. NetZero/Juno/AoL(paid) etc. 500 FREE HOURS.

Downloading hentai pictures on floppy on library and bringing it to your home for fapping.

Also streaming asf/rmvb video(dragonball) files over dialup, napster/kazaa/limewire for porn/music downloads, Making copies of VHS movies from blockbuster and re-watching it. Recording cartoons/anime on TV with VHS .

It was more interactive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOwLu323AGU

Also I miss 4chan without /pol/ (a.k.a. stormfags from the stormfront forum)

>>61082910
Stop using shitty normalfag boards.

/pol/s near absent from the good boards.

>>61082156
don't know
i was just using it to play Warcraft 3

>>61082923
Not absent enough, I can smell their stink almost everywhere

>>61082957

Because dumbasses like you keep going on about it. Remember "Don't feed the trolls"?

>fucking ads of CP (saw a little baby getting dicked)
>viruses everywhere, you had to be wary of what you download
>quality communities without strict rule enforcement because users were civil and helpful
>people much more tech and science oriented, mailing lists and forums full of people
>quality software and websites, few ads and popups unless bad sites

smartphones and user friendliness were a mistake desu

>>61082957
t. Ahmed Abusari Al Baghdadi

"surfing" was an actual thing as you never knew what you would get when clicking links. Using copernic search as google wasn't the google we have now. Fucking kazzar/limewire man. Shit was cache.

>>61083062
t. paid troll from an actual white supremacist organization

Of course you are going to accuse of anything to anyone warning about your people, but there is still some of use who know remember YOU are

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>>61082156
It was pretty comfy, also nice taste friend

really shitty because I had dialup
couldn't look at decent sized images (1024x768) quickly
couldn't find good information on technical problems
constantly got infected by viruses, because contrary to popular belief, XP was a huge piece of shit
I remember letting battefield 1942/2 patches download overnight (bf2 was not 2003, but close enough that my connection speed was the same)

also this
>>61083064
it was a huge crapshoot finding what you're looking for, but limewire was extremely cool

>>61083119
I'm a 21 y/o white male eating ranch dip and watching family guy.

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>>61083064
>>61083191
I used to gather around a computer with my friends so we could look for all sorts of interesting shit on Limewire. That's how I ended up watching a girl get fucked by a German Shepard when I was 10 years old.

>>61083215
Image source? (Usual suspects don't find any even remotely close matches.)

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>>61083248
Unfortunately I don't know myself. It's just a picture I saved off 4chan.

>>61082156
Pretty nice. It all went to shit the following year though.

>>61082194
>it was heaven

It was awesome but also my demise

>>61083015
>>quality communities without strict rule enforcement because users were civil and helpful
o i am laffin

>>61082156
i spent 4 days downloading the just-released pc version of halo using limewire at 56k

I do remember fapping to porn galleries of pictures (video was too expensive).

actually saving the galleries on floppy disc.

>>61083857
> floppy disc
mahh nigga

Remember backing up word files and useless pictures ...

>>61082156
popups

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I had so many online gfs at that time and I spent hours talking to them on the phone while they lived in numerous states

What happened to me /g/, what happened?

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>>61083296
>>61083248
>>61083215
found it (saucenao.com)

>>61084001
Wow, thanks. This marks literally the first time that saucenao was of any whatsoever for me.

>>61083894
>numerous telephone gfs

That's probably one step up from RuneScape marriages

Not. Ruined. By. Normalfags.

This is all you need to know.

Had to download and install what are now flash games

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The internet wasn't ruined by weebs yet.

>>61084044
>now
>flash

>>61084073
>complaining about weebs
>in a 2003 thread
>on a site made by and for weebs, founded in 2003
sasuga, anon-kun

>>61082156
>How was browsing the internet like in 2003?
it was better than bulletin boards in the 90s

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>>61083816
me too, anon

>>61084073
>The internet wasn't ruined by weebs yet.
*normies

>>61083015
>quality communities without strict rule enforcement because users were civil and helpful
forum and BBS mods were tyrannical back then

they are tyrannical now

the more things change...

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>>61082797
>streaming video on dialup
one thing i don't miss

>>61084073
4chan was literally created to cater to weebs. What didn't exist in 2003 yet was people calling every thing related to anime or japan weeb.

>>61084136
*normalfags and/or redditfags
like (You)

>>61084189
whatever you say nigger

>>61084151
people are even worse now. if you're not part of the faggot hivemind you get attacked or your posts get erased, etc. thats why sites like reddit are fucking shit.
>>61084183
im mostly talking about the influx of gay underage nerds spreading their cringe bullshit. there is more weebs on 4chan now than ever.

>>61084215
Well, you will have to be more specific because weebs is one of the biggest buzzwords on the internet right now, it doesn't mean anything anymore because people overused it.

>there is more weebs on 4chan now than ever.
Now, unless you are using a REALLY specific and personal definition of weeb, this simply isn't true in any way. 4chan was weeb heaven when it started and there was barely any opposition to it, as opposed to now. People telling anime posters to fuck off is a new thing from the new cancer which came to 4chan. It's basically like unknown people which don't care about your costumes and culture entering in your country/home and trying to dictate how the place should be run when they are the outsiders.

>if you're not part of the faggot hivemind you get attacked
And they should. Any board needs a specific culture and elitism in order to have quality discussion and be healthy, as it was proven over and over again. This doesn't mean you CAN'T go against the culture, you can, just don't expect to have support.