2000 - 2006 How was it, /g/?

also AIM, albinoblacksheep, and newgrounds.

Most exploits were for shits and giggles. I don't know anyone who hasn't had all their internet explorer bookmarks filled with porn sites at least once. But these experiences taught me to be humbled by technology and smart with my usage.

Nowadays the internet is so accessible, but exploits aren't for so much fun anymore: identity theft and the like. Kids need to be taught internet safety if not by their parents then at school. The craziest thing to me is kids don't even know how to type on the keyboard anymore; they show off how fast they can type on the phone without even realizing how degenerate society's usage has become.

>>61993098
>Where can I get a gmail invite
That one hurt. I remember a time when I trusted Google. I was so excited when I got my gmail address.

>>61993445
yeah i was probably one of the first 25k users. I should have just used [email protected]. I use my own domain's now. google is only a search engine and youtube to me

Relaxed.

Especially since i was just a kid really, lots of Habbo Hotel and old games like Pawn.

Just seemed like the internet was a chill place with a bunch of casual stuff going on.

IT'S MY LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIFFFFFE

>>61993499
Mine is really short. Every now and again I'm asked how I got one so short and simple. A negative to that, is I often get mail for other people.

I also use my own domain for most things now. I just don't trust Google to not record literally everything about me forever and share that with five+ eyes.

>>61993445
Yeahhh I still use the one i registered from the original invite. I remember getting a bunch of invites to hand out after.

>>61993098
Same as ever, mailing lists.

>>61993098
Golden age of furry art.

>>61993098
Fun. I go back a ways before 2000. I can still remember being in awe of text files (philez) from groups like phrack and cdc. Lots of email bombs, zip bombs, and fucking with people on aol. Got the perma ban from them at a young age. My parents were not pleased.

>>61993098
A lot less rapid fire content, even 4chan was much slower.

>>61993098
slow
very slow
but very exciting at the same time

I can still remember searching "south park" on some shit search engine and coming up with nothing. Wow that must have been 7th grade. I'm 33 now.

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>>61993098
Gay. Newgrounds and ytmnd were the only sites worth visiting
>inb4 old youtube/your gay ass forum/any other site
no they were shit

>oink
>the orange box

I mean technically HL2 qualifies, but...
Also Steam was hilariously bad

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>>61993098
I'm unironically still using winamp

2000-2003 I had to use computers at HS, I didn't have my own. 2004-2006, I was in uni
the memories..
what I remember the most about those years is... I could have had many girlfriends easily, but i was a reclusive, a-social dumbass, and still am
fml, I should just kill myself

>>61993800
cool story bro

>>61993829
glad you like it, pls upvote

>>61993098
I really miss Maplestory now. shit

>>61993779
I haven't used it since around 2003, anything important happen to it over the years?

>>61993881
Bazinga!

>>61994135
xD

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don't forget graffiti

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gunbound

>>61993098
it was pretty fun desu

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coke music

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runescape

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RPG Maker

It's so interesting to see all this "remember the 90s guys? Everything was better and everything after it was waaay worse!" stuff slowly fading in favor of "remember the 00s guys? Everything was better and everything after it was waay worse!"

I don't know, it's just fascinating how childhood nostalgia can move so many people, regardless of what happened in that period

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rocket matches in blood gulch

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that faggot ebaum

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the real takeoff of memes as we know it

>>61994294
The internet has genuinely gotten worse over the years, you can't deny that

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myspace emos, probably evolved into the SJWs we know today

>>61994357
Screencap your post and look at it in 10 years when the 10s were the best, Windows 7 the best OS and the PS3/X360/Wii the best console generation

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it was a truly magical time
governments and businesses were too inept to utilize the web properly, so it hadn't been monopolized by aggregation services like youtube, reddit, et al; there was no "one-stop shop"

you could spend hours rolling down google's search results looking for hidden gems
that was a thrill
it's much too convenient to find what you want now

you'd never use your true name for any service; that was the norm

you could build a swastika on habbo hotel ironically
fuck, all of that racist shit was meant in irony, till retarded people got access to the internet and poe's law took place

there was less abuse and mindgames; deep down, everybody was simply happy to have access to the internet in the first place

now look at this fucking dump

i miss the dynamism and spontaneity
nowadays the web appears to have stagnated and rotted to corporate interests and human ambition; there's no competition or adventure anymore

do you remember who was getting laid?

>>61994425
is that fucking DR. L337

>>61994269
Fuck this site wasn't even trying to hide the fact that they were just a Habbo port

>>61993098
The greatest. I loved the internet so much more when it wasn't centered around a handful of websites. It truly felt free.

>>61994280
You can still play osrs dude, I do

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be honest, how many osama bin laden death simulators did you play on newgrounds

>>61994469
At least 4

>>61994425
oh yeah—to expand on this—the joy of discovery

there would be these dramatic leaps in innovation or creativity; you'd get limewire, mp3 players, flash, podcasts, image boards, gifs, youtube, myspace, macromedia

somebody was always making something unimaginable
you'd think the possibilities were endless; you could make anything or be anybody
now, wealth has become so concentrated, and we have such firm and available knowledge of the web that it's the man with the most money who often makes the next best thing

see how jimmy fallonkimmel dominates youtube nowadays—the old media has finally gotten wise, and brought their money
no wonderful creative shit anymore
and even if there is
nobody's grateful for it; there's eons worth of free creative content out there for you to consume
people have grown so entitled

with every new discovery it was so fucking exciting
it was something beyond what you could've ever imagined
i remember being so stunned by the fact that, fuck, my phone can access the internet? really? really?? really???

maybe i'm just old and jaded

>4chan will be considered nostalgic in 5 years

>>61994448
u got it

>>61993098
Not half as slow as one would think. I miss the days when the web wasn't all fucked up bloat.

>>61994515
Nah. 4chan is already older than 90% of its userbase.

>>61994496
>maybe i'm just old and jaded
no, you're right

i think there's a specific group of people who grew up in this era, with these people, who still exist and are out there. the internet savvy, playful, offensive, adventurous pioneers. 4chan is one of the last places i feel like you can still see this group, which is one of the main reasons i still come here.

i feel like there will be more to come yet from it

>>61994294
A lot of it is because our memories are tempered by our circumstances and life at the time.

Hell yeah the 00's internet is going to seem like a blast in retrospect if you were a child during then.
As long as you weren't abused, things generally seemed awesome and wondrous, even if you totally didn't get it. Life was also easier, when literally your only worries were hanging out with buddies, getting your parents to let you play video games, and trying to not get into too much trouble in school.

Memories you have of then will be viewed through that nostalgic lens.

Now, as an adult, you are generally aware of the shit nature of people, the fuckery of the world, the added stressors of money and work performance, and the (real or perceived) expectation to make some meaning of your life.

>>61994561
>old and jaded.

>>61994539
>i feel like there will be more to come yet from it
i really hope you're right
but the content here just seems so repetitious now
i've grown paranoid of government and corporate actors running propaganda campaigns here—it's not obvious anymore like it used to be with stormfront—now it's much more scientific

people are so balkanized and ungrateful for each other
it could be that i just can't relate anymore; that the userbase is just younger
nowadays i just visit out of muscle memory and boredom

>>61993098
It was the best time to be in the internet desu

>>61994366
Emos were edgelords, I'm positive a huge chunk of Pol were Emos.

>>61994617
i think it's a lull, we have a lot of the older part of this generation starting families,, and the younger part going to college. we do still get some really fun stuff, like all the /pol/lacks finding and identifying antifa and that sort of thing. it's just harder to see, the internet has become so huge and filled with noise from all the normies on it now

>>61994635
they were snowflakes, who wanted to challenge norms while also not being criticized for it

>>61993098
2000 is around when i stopped having my own personal website and participating in webring culture and the like
i feel partially responsible for letting all the big sites take over and kill everything off

i don't miss the 2000- era of livejournals and other various blog culture before social media further refined that garbage

>>61994652
Maybe you are thinking of scene kids.
They were the neon hair faggots

>>61994673
Blacks getting internet access was a mistake.

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did anyone else play this?

There seemed to be less edgy racists back then.

>>61994538
Oh no.

In 2 months, this site will be older than some 14 year olds, who certainly browse and shitpost on here.

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>>61994693
Fuck off Nigger

>>61994693
it was just ironic racism till the next generation showed up and thought we were serious

that's one thing i regret now
making swastikas for fun
shit's not funny anymore—the minecraft generation and the older fossils took that joke

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>>61994280
i played this thing instead.

>>61994729
graal was good before the pay2play started

>>61994467
"""old"""school isn't remotely similar to how it was back then though.
If anything you should be playing on a private server. 4chan just so happens to run the most era-accurate 2006/2007 server out there.
/v/scape over on /vg/

>>61994608
I'm 22, I don't think I have the right to be jaded yet, although years in the military probably have increased my salt levels.

>>61994333
That piece of shit deserves death.

>>61994758
i agree; i never had a pay account and pretty much quit around that time. most of my time was spent on n-pulse once it they added the playerworld list or whatever you call it.

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>>61993779
Me too. It just werks

>>61994785
he didn't die but he did get jewed out of millions, thankfully

>>61994727
reminds me of this ridiculous shit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZM9-ZbBoAc

>>61994806
He got off easy. Worthless fuck probably set the Internet back 10 years with his theft and general jewery.

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>>61994294
>remember 9/11? dat nostalgia bro. allahu akbar

>>61994280
Hell yeah.

I remember being in middle school, and going home to my hand-me-down P3 machine *stacked* with 512 MB of RAM.
We were one of the first neighborhoods to get FTTH, so I had like 20Mbps up/down while my friends had closer to 3 or 4 over DSL.

Looking back, we were being major cucked by verizon since they were able to turn us all the way up to 100 Mbps with no hardware upgrades, and just a GPON terminal upgrade to make it to 1Gbps since it only had fast ethernet on the ONT.

Strangely enough I pirate shit
in more or less the same ways since then.
torrents, direct dl and occasionally irc.

>>61994469
I knocked him out so many times but I never did get that iPod...

>>61994280
I sometimes play runescape main theme, well i forgot my passes for my 80 combat lvl full saradomin account long time ago. But when i was kid i was like WOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA i can do anything i want and there are other players to show myself.

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ahhh limewire, where everything on there was CP

>>61993098
It's so sad that we had to grow up anons. Things were so magical back then... :'(

>>61995058
j@ysilver

>>61993098
>everyone used IRC
>ICQ
>ultima online freeshards with population
>audiogalaxy
>usenet
>redhat 9
i want to go back

>>61995287
I still know my ICQ number. It has burned itself into my mind.

>>61995291
same here. got my UIN back in 2001 and recently logged in after years, there was still one guy online.

>>61994801
Me too. It really whips the llama's ass
ftfy

>>61993499
Cuck.
>Google is just a tool for me and my wife.

>>61995510
>>forgot greentext

>>61993779
Whats that CSS theme?

>>61995603
https://userstyles.org/styles/141626/dark-4chan

>>61995624
damn, thought it was for oneechan

Say whatever you want, your perception of the past is skewed by nostalgia. I think the internet on the whole is more fun now.

>>61993098
I was wasting most of my time one a french website with shit video like the guie singing oozone song and stuff like that.
Also get date with girls online and telling u was a big guie. I was 12.
I don't remember it as better web, just more chaotic

>>61993748
TF2 original release!

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>>61994469
Falling Bush Anyone?

If you weren't part of SA, you picked the wrong community

>>61996057
Interactive Buddy was better.

>>61994294
this, really shows the average age of people here

>>61995887
only in terms of consumerism and if you're into endless selfies on normiebook.

>>61996342
Well, most of the people here, despite what they say, are like 13-14. It is sad. It almost makes me feel bad when I say that they are retarded. Almost.

>>61996057
Oh fuck, I remember this.

>>61996391
>>61996342
26 here, nostalgia for both 90's and 00's at this point. the internet really has gone down the shitter

>>61994561
I agree, but I don't believe age has a lot to do with it. I first got internet access in '99 when I was 49. The discovery, freedom and excitement that people here are talking about were just what I felt.
Now the internet is almost sterile in comparison. Big business, money , governments and the self righteous fuckwits who want us all to think and act the same have ripped the heart out of it.

>>61994333

god bless Neil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BijChf8ROJU

>>61995287
>everyone used IRC
Even normalfags could use simple commands and weren't afraid of it.

>>61994836
FUCK OFF

>>61996648
:^)

>>61993722
fuck you youtube was a million times better back then, before people started rapidly shitting out sub standard videos just to make money. back then people made videos because they liked making videos. no monetization, no begging for free handouts on patreon, no cancer giving bullshit. just content. it was bliss.

I still remember my first time chatting online, damn was I slow, still had to learn where all the keys were. Meanwhile my little sister has been using a tablet since she was 1.

>>61996057
oh my god I almost forgot about that one. the memories.

>>61993561
It's now or never

>>61993905
Radionomy bought Winamp and Shoutcast and now they are "working" on a new version of Winamp. Honestly, the project has been dead for like 2-3 years. But you can still get the latest version off their website and it just werks.

>>61993779
Used it until 2 years ago
Now using AIMP

>>61994682
They're going to be so entertaining when the eclipse comes to town.

>the orange box
>winamp classic
im so triggered
i want the old web back ;_;

i was erping in AOL chat rooms when i was 8, I didn't really understand it totally and I'm pretty sure that it was really just a bunch of old men erping with each other while pretending to be teenage girls

>>61993098
dat me

>>61993098
Microsofts OSes weren't as bad aside from 2000, and the bundled software was easy to use

2006-2011 was also neat
>ywn flirt with cute girls on skype again

>>61997183
t. tried to install win2k on his pentium 100 shitbox

>>61993800
Just go out and drink some alcohol

>>61997190
i still flirt with hot 12 year old sluts on skype.

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>>61997123
>unironically installing russian spyware on your computer

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Who else was a /poorfag/ here?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0

>>61997192
>win2k
forgot about that thing, but xp and msn was good, not that the Media Player bad either just that it didn't play stuff as well as did winamp.

My school at the time "upgraded" from P3 to P4s

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>>61997192
I did install Win2K on a Pentium 133 with 256 MB of RAM. Was my only computer for several years. Ran just fine for what I was doing at the time. Very stable & secure (beat the fuck out of linux at the time) and was the same speed as Win98 SE. I know. I installed & reinstalled both on that box several times and went back to Win2K in the end because Win98 SE couldn't compete for stability or security.

>>61994405
Anon, people already argue that windows 7 is still the best iteration on Windows and there's a lot of people, even if I wouldn't agree with then, that argue the PS360 era was best for games.

>>61995887
it was slow, full of ads (even more than now), it had flash, computers were SLOW, software (for example, browsers and browser extensions...) was REALLY vulnerable...

and people were odd.
the internet was shit at the time.

>>61994496
>no wonderful creative shit anymore
>and even if there is, nobody's grateful for it

I agree and disagree with that.
I'm an artfag who's dabbling in animation and I often hear other artists saying
>Just focus on the quantity man, quality doesn't mean shit to the idiot people nowadays.
Which is somewhat in line with saying that "nobody's grateful for it"
Sure, there's real truth to that and it can feel like there's no appreciation.
People have little to no standards and are willing to consume all kinds of sub-standard crap.
They're also willing to pay for it, which is the real root of the evil.

If I crank out shitty sketches, people will pay for them. Hell, I could get paid for quick crap just as much as I'd get paid for a good piece of work.
But there's another side to it. Just because people are willing to pay for shitty things, doesn't mean that their appreciation for quality has disappeared and it doesn't mean that they don't know deep down inside that they're getting shit.
It only seems that way, due to the ever shortening attention spans and the addiction like desire to get more and more content.
Everyone knows that they're paying for crap. Even if they go with it, but they WILL grumble behind the scenes about it.
The thing is that I don't do sub-standard work.
I put serious effort into everything I do and it gets real appreciation and admiration from people.
In both attention and the amount of money I can ask for it.

In my opinion creators are partly at fault for not upholding standards for the rest of the people.
Of course this is because it's not easy putting in 12x more time to something, when you could get the same amount of money for a lot less effort.
But I choose not to go down that road and I have discovered that the appreciation for quality is still there.
It hasn't gone anywhere.

>>61994280
tfw when your friend was 3rd (or was it 4th) in world max level in 2002

Crazy times. People knocked each others teeth out for that game and gypsies robbed people with knives for RS items in public libraries

There is also list of 2000 first RS accounts. I still remember at least 1/4 by name anno domini 2017. Jesus.

http://runescape.salmoneus.net/forums/topic/232831-the-list-of-first-2000-rs-players/

>>61993098
>gmail invite
Holy shit that brought back some memories. I had completely forgotten it started out like that.

>>61998155
Never played Runescape. I was a Quake 2 "pro gamer" back before esports were a big thing and had a rule to not play other games because it screwed up my Railgun accuracy.

Did I miss out? I looks kinda shit.

>>61998155
>189 Asrock

Top kek.

>>61993640
Are you [email protected]?

>>61994292
I used to use Game Maker 6, fuck that was good times.

i wish i still had the shitty games i made.....

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>when matchmaking didnt exist
>when you had to be an adult (or at least a teenager with a job) to afford a computer so there were no pablo.sanchez.2006 F2Ps farting around
>when you had to use the server browser
>when 4chan operated a loose network of board-specific tf2 servers
>when they played horrible ironic anime remix songs and mic spam to keep the normies out
>when this eventually became a tightly regulated radio-DJ system
>when /v/ stopped caring about TF2 so everybody when to fightingamphibians instead
>when even they stopped caring about TF2 and it became a toxic clique of kids growing up into jaded adults
>when the community deteriorated into pointless drama between idiot tripfags who all thought they were the one that wasn't a total faggot
>when there would be a sudden coup and one clique would take over the site overnight
>when gurk and ayam got married IRL and then fucking divorced in under a year xDDDDDDD

RIP FA, a terrible autistic empire that rose and fell overnight

>>61997155
>>the orange box
You can buy better games now.
>>winamp classic
You can still use it.

Whats the point here?

>>61993098
>Orange box

>>61993098
mabinogi> maplestory

>>61994729
Same here, plus Rangarok Online and Maple Story.

Tried out some newer MMOs and they all suck, why's that?

>>61995291
I wonder why people switched to whatsapp or viber now.
They have all the features that ICQ had.

>>61999070
The community's dead, Jim

i learned how to program BASIC thanks to my desire for habbo hotel furni. I made a phishing program disguised as a fancy looking hacking tool, and just go around posting them on forums. People would put their login info into the "hack tool", it would email me the info, and then spit out some dummy error message.

was a furni god. was a simpler time back then.

>>61999087
Me and my siblings visited my parents a few hours ago because my dad got out of the hospital.
My sister brought her son (17) and I talked to him about ICQ because I remembered this thread. He didn't know what it was.

Made me feel old.

>>61999280
>BASIC

I remember making a little shmup that was just called "SHIP" in QBASIC where you would earn money and could buy upgrades between stages (like raptor or tyrian but with really shitty graphics) and when I showed it to my classmates (I think it was 8th or 9th grade) in the informatics course they crowned me as some kind of hacker god.
I converted the whole class to AMD CPUs because "what anon says about computers is the ultimate truth". Felt good man.

>>61999340
Also remember that I was working on a sequel called "SHIP 2" in Turbo Pascal, but I never finished that.

Guess that was the time when the depression kicked in.. :'(

>>61993692
This

>>61999340
>>61999383
SHIP was kinda groundbreaking for me because that was the first time I did stuff like collision checking and having my own system of a self written sprite editor that would save them into a format that could be read by my games instead of just drawing stuff on the screen in realtime.
I used that a few times more in a grid based strategy game and some kind of basic AI program that had some little guys care of needs like hunger, thirst, being tired and so on by themselves. I remember that they were called "little FUKs".

Man I wish I would've continued making games instead of becoming a self hating NEET.

/blog

When registering for sites, nobody demanded to know your real name, and you didn't have to activate any account with your phone number. Unlike these days where services like outlook.com will lock you out of your email account until you give them your phone number. You didn't have to try that hard to stay somewhat anonymous. School computer rooms had posters urging you to never give someone online your personal information like your name.

>>61999475
Holy fuck Steam reminds me like at least once a week to download their mobile authenticator app and to link my actual real phone number that's connected to my name to my smartphone but I don't even have a smartphone.
It's so fucking annoying and there's no way to disable it.

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was there ever a more comfy ide?

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maple story was the shit
in my opinion, if a game like Yume Nikki or Touhou EoSD quietly released in today's era, it would be shat on so much

you just can't do anything for fun with second motives under it anymore

I wish the Internet wasn't as big and centralized as it is today, not that i want it to be the sekritkidzclub, but holy shit, sometimes being upon a wild west and finding that tiny little community that chats with you for days is a big plus

>>61999666
Stuff like this is why I'm trying to move other to other platforms. Good old games might not be perfect, but I can still download each individual game and keep local backups that don't need to be activated online. Steam has backups too, but I doubt those can be restores and played without using their client, and without going online.

>>61999999
Good job

>>61999999
FUK U I POSTED 1 SECOND TOO LATE
also
>>62000000

>>61999999
Good get, I like GoG too

the only gf i've ever had was on habbo

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>>61993098

Pretty fun, tbqh. The Internets last hoorah, before social media and normies shit all over it.

>>61993440
I remember albinoblacksheep and looking up anime titty on excite

>>61998055
>people were odd
You don't deserve to be fucking alive.

>>61999780
did you know ms offer 2017 for free now?

>>61994350
you mean the first graveyard for memes

>>61999475
>School computer rooms had posters urging you to never give someone online your personal information like your name.
Why they stopped doing this? Nowadays you see kids on kikebook and youtube showing videos of themselves, like wtf nigga, go out and play, get off that computer, enjoy life before puberty hits you and you become constantly depressed.

You could say you were against gay marriage anywhere on the internet and not get banned.

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I remembered using 56k dialup to play this

>>61998755
do you really? youd look at it and die of embarassment

>nobody even cared to respond to me when i posted about the best time of my life when i made a shareware game that was successful in western german high schools
>i even made 3 posts about that while replying to myself

Better just kill myself I guess.

I'd love to see you all nostalgiafags install Gentoo, let alone ANY distro without today's Internet.

>>61999475
>says the internet today is shit
>uses outlook

>>62002076
it aint nothing to install any old windows, or a normal linux distro.

>>61993098
better than now
but at least we got faster connections and improved tech and shit these days despite content being crap

>>62002132
Installations of "normal" Linux distributions today are easy exactly because of better internet. Hell, even GNU/Linux systems have improved a lot since then. But maybe you are probably actually 12 and have not actually lived that time, yet claim it's t3h b35t because some old fag said it.
Quite pathetic.

are neopets still around? i hope mine are ok.

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>>61994280
>>61998155
>>61995034
>>61994841
>>61994729
>>61994467
>talking about runescape from a nostalgic perspective
>not even talking about the first runescape
srsly? you guys are fags.

>>61994425
>could spend hours rolling down google's search results looking for hidden gems
yup. that's probably my most missed thing. I learned and found so much doing that.

>>62002368
dude! i had a program on win 3.1 or something called "Runescape" that was some wide open 3d environment that look a little bit like this but i remember it being more of a modern setting and it wasn't online. i wonder if it was an early prototype of runescape.

>>62002453
it definitely was, I remember the beta version too.

in any case, that's RSC - runescape classic. the best of the runescapes.

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>>61995183

I miss having more RL friends, getting laid, just... man, being an adult blows. IRC was vibrant and full of different people, now its; just lonely dudes like me.

Nobody wants to meet up because they are too busy, or they have to work on their weekend, or their wife/girlfriend wants them to do stuff.

>>61997286
you still here? i'd love to play some tetris.

>>61998073
Your sentence spacing is retarded.

>>61993098
best Internet era IMO
pre-social media
first the p2p music craze, the metallica triggering, audiogalaxy, emule..... downloading a movie in 2 FUCKING DAYS, and it looked like utter shit, but you were happy as fuck
the phantom menace screener
rss and blogs
google reader sharing and comment abilities
emulators getting big
hardware-based console piracy
gmail when it was good
the good old youtube, full of trolls, 5 star ranking, and the amazing Worldwide top, full of viral videos, fights and crashes
this is when music was NOT allowed on youtube
those were the days, lads

>>61993779
...
what are you
downloading..
anon?

a car?

http://pwned.nl/

>>61994254
this

>>62003269
the origin of REEEEEEEEEEE

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I was into water cooling, case windows and cold cathodes.

>>61993779
>Theme Of Laura
my man

> tfw was a Gaiaturd back in the day

im 30, the internet now is much better than before.

instead of tabbed browsing you had tabbed chatting and group chats. private battle.net servers booted through a hacked w3l.exe, private WoW servers where the GMs would run you through every instance and show you the bosses, a lot less internet usage, you would just wait for 2-3 hours for your files to download.

early days of the internet was primarily used to talk to friends and play games, web browsing was slow and not particularly useful for anything since most websites were bogged with popups, flashing advertisements and janky code that often broke. myspace was a good way to meet sluts and buy drugs.

there was no wikipedia, so you did your homework with this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxNsIBJOAA8


i remember being pretty excited to run no$gb and emulate pokemon red (a friend copied it to a floppy for me). by the early 2000s we are renting and burning games and movies, building your own pc is a thing, mid 00s i went to university to study CS and maths, mobile phones, google and youtube. the rest you know since you grew up with it.

somethingawful, fark, efuckt were the 4chan before 4chan, some other gore video sharing sites i forget the name of now. if you wanted porn you loaded up your favorite "russian teens tgp" site, waited 5mins for the thumbnails to load and hoped the free gallery you clicked on took you to the actual page and not a redirect site which would eat more of your bandwidth. i printed out a full color a4 hentai girl in like 2000? my first fap.

>>62003783
T H I S
H
I
S

>>62005073
I swear bots are doing this.

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anyone who used to haunt the planet* sites

>>61995058
>Had limewire
>Never saw CP
I guess I was lucky

Also
>older Brother wants limewire pro
>He uses limewire to download a cracked version of limwire pro
The perfect crime

>>62000901
What was the game about?

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>>62003783
i can relate

>>62003783
>some other gore video sharing sites i forget the name of now

Ogrish?

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>>61993779
>All that SimCity music
I played SimCity3000 for hours as a kid

>>62002368
Damn. I remember runescape like that. I had a "pure" strength character there. It was such a disappointment when I learned what "pure" actually meant, since it sounded so cool in my native language. I wonder if I would've become something if I hadn't spent all those hours fishing for god damn lobsters in runescape. I wonder if I would've become something if I hadn't wasted half of my life on 4chan... brb, gonna go hang myself

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>>61997265
Does anyone still use dialup? Is it faster than it used to be?

The only good thing about it was mIRC

>>62005488
dsl is the spiritual successor to dialup.
dialup is still used for redundancy and low bandwidth requirements in enterprise.

>>61999780
Hey my college made me use this version

in 2012

>>62005488
>Does anyone still use dialup? Is it faster than it used to be?
Dialup can't be faster than it used to be. It was already running at its theoretic limits.

>>62002076
I remember installing openSUSE around 2005 without much complications

I was 13 I think

The worst viruses around that i seen where once that were kind of funny. Like one would force your computer to keep replaying an audio file.

Theres nothing more funny than seeing your family stare at you awkwardly when your stereo is blasting ''GAY NIGGER MIDGET PORN'' over and over.

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>>61993098
1GB free what

>>61994305
damn, I want it back

>>61993098
the best

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>>61993098
Remove normalfags, and the good times will come back.

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>>61999035
>mabinogi
My nigga

nostalgic thread eh

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>>61994981
Its because the piracy scene is generally more free of normies and definitely free of the corporate rot infecting the rest of the internet.

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Rate my desktop from the era
Year 2005, my age at the time was 18 - college freshman

>>61993098
It was the last time I was able to talk to women

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>>61994727
>ironic racism

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>you will never experience your friend phishing you just to sign you up for porn e-mails
>you will never sign into your favorite game and have fun with those old friends
>you will never actually use aol chat and feel a connection with somebody, even if they were a pedophile, again
>you will never play shitty flash games and enjoy them the same way you did back then
>you will never browse the internet for cheat codes to games you didnt even own like grand theft auto
>you will never relive the truly free internet experience again

ITS NOT FAIR

TAKE ME BACK

>>62007576
9/10, better than most Arch rices.

>>62007679
I swear you can raise a generation of top notch detectives from the internet, seeing how it was a game of tyring to figure out if the other person was a guy or a girl or not.

>>62007576
That was and still is disgusting

>>62007679
YOU CAN STILL DO EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THOSE TODAY YOU FUCK

>>62007872
trying doing one those things and see if the magic is still there

>never played runescape, didn't interest me
>played Ultima Online

Mostly used the internet to look up cheats and game guides...sometimes downloading music. My internet speed is technically the same as it was then, just a lot slower due to my ISP not upgrading the local infrastructure since the early 2000s and don't intend to for around 5-6 years according to the tech they sent out the last time I gave them shit.

This is around the time we got our first windows computer....used an Amiga 1200 till 2001....so yea good times.

>>61994469
osama and bush simulators were a gooden age of sfw.
part of me feels sad for sfw dying i still have old chromium just for flash on linux

>>62002417
You can still do that today, the website removes the top 100, 1000, up to million websites from the search results

https://millionshort.com/

>>62007709
>a guy or a girl or not
i could use those top notch detectives

>>62003525
>tfw i'm still using a clear DD water block.

>>62005627
we're still here mate

>>61995058
>download disney film on limewire
>don't check it, leave it for later
>mom wants to watch it alone, opens
>turns into porn 2 minutes in (possibly cp, never found out)
>walks out talking about the evil sick people online
>shrug and delete file
>continue life

>>62007896
Yeah because you now realise how fucking stupid it is

Looking up cheats for games you don't own? We played shitty flash games because it was too difficult to get real games. Now the world is at our fingertips. Why would I want to spend my time falling in love with people online? I know how much it hurts. Look where you are currently; anyone here could be a surprise pedo.

>>62008005
Wow cool, thanks for this

>>62008182
Where though? QuakeNet? Rizon?

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>>61993098
Pretty great. Everyone on /g/ in 2006 (the year I got here) was unironically using Windows XP and shitty Rainmeter skins. I was using a 15 inch PowerBook G4 dual booting OS X Tiger and some PowerPC version of Debian at the time. I also played around with OpenBSD and Slackware on it too. I've been using XFCE since 1999 when I first tried out Debian. I've always hated Windows since ever since I first tried Windows 95 back in 1996 and I haven't used anything past Windows 2000 as a daily OS. I used to be a huge Macfag (even though I thought OS 9 was shit) but after 10.8 things really started to go to shit again and I've completely switched over to Debian and Fedora. The internet was cool. Usenet and Something Awful were like 4chan before 4chan. GeoCities was run by Yahoo and you could make your own website and they all looked like trash. You can check out archives of it or go on NeoCities (a continuation of it) to get an idea of that. There were also BBSs and IRC channels you go on to talk to people. BBS had local news, games, and other stuff. I also remember using GameSpy on my desktop and PS2 to play Star Wars Battlefront 1 online. That's still my favorite game.

>>61993550
Habbo was fucking shit. I probably don't like it because I was already an adult by the time I first played it.

>>61993692
Haha, this.

>>61994333
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>61994350
This was plebbit before plebbit.

>>61994693
It was funny then and it's funny now. Part of the reason why it's fun to make fun of blacks and Jews is that they're used to acting as a protected class that claims a victim status. Popping that bubble is great because at that moment the emperor has no clothes. We'd do it to whites too if they whined and bitched like the minorities do. You're probably one of those people that were angry about GNAA or Goatse. You're soft as a mashmallow and you should go back to Tumblr.

>>62008294
not a fan of ytmnd but le reddit got nothing on it; ytmnd actually created content, even if it was shitty epic conan o'brien memes for years.

I believe /g/ was pretty gore on that time.

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>>62008343
Sort of like how leddit makes rage comics and rips off every good meme that 4chan puts out. The only subreddits I've ever used are the conspiracy theories one which is like a combination of /x/ and a Christian libertarian version of /pol/ on steroids and the jailbreak one when there was actually development still going on and it wasn't just icon themes and circle jerking about how great iShits are.

>>62003269
Fuckin myg0t, man

>>61998887
>when matchmaking didnt exist
>when you had to use the server browser
Quakeworld didn't even come with a server browser. Or a GUI (except for game options). Just a console.

>>61993098
>early 2000
>TF2 / MSN / Habbo / Limewire
more like Wolfenstein:ET / AIM / Ogame / eMule

http://www.zombo.com/
:^)

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Boy oh boy. first forays into imageboards, neglecting my grades in favor of newgrounds and YTMND. the last being a name i haven't thought about in years.
Does anyone remember Google Video? i also remember finding youtube exactly in 2005 shortly before they had an iPod giveaway that year and i actually won one of those, good times (it didn't last more than a year and died on me like the piece of iShit it was, though) although Google Video was where it was at for a very short time. i never got to recover what i had there after its shutdown.

>>61993692
It's just that the fandom was less centered on the special snowflake mindset of "self expression". Furry art has always been usually subpar, it's just that the fandom wasn't full of raging teenage faggots. it's a fucking massive furryMUCK nowadays

Miss the wild west that was Yahoo chat and AIM. I was a total cam perv in those days lmfao

>>62008613
Well, I miss the look of scanned in traditional media. It feels more personal to me. Computer drawing looks real flashy because it's so easy to go over the top with it.

>>62008294
>shitty Rainmeter skins
Fuck you mine looked AWESOME

>>62008821
No it didn't. It never does.

>>62008833
I know. But I felt so proud tweaking that fucking thing. God it used to break so often for no good reason

I didn't use messaging or any of that shit. I basically just sat around reading about Yu-Gi-Oh and playing flash games all day. Lots of time wasted on Doctor Warp.

>>61993098
Its missing Tibia.
>Inb4 Hue, Polish or Finnish replies

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>>61999999
>>61999999
Witnessed

>>62003525
I had early danger den waterbocks on a hd 4870 and then 5970.
I wanted this case so bad but I couldn't afford it.

>>61993692
Why the fuck was and and still is dragon fucking cars a thing?
This doesn't make sense, shit is so old it could get a driving license.

Deviantart didn't even exist when this started.

>>61993098
Miss MSN & kazaa

>>62009174
I imagine it's for the same reasons that macros were drawn pleasuring themselves with skyscrapers, trains, buses, and the like.

>>62009152
>basically just sat around reading about Yu-Gi-Oh
We're gonna be friends

>>61993098
>dreamcast with 56k
>looking up porn in my room
>slow loading. have to just pick something and beat my meat until it cooks from the friction burn

It was awesome.

>>61993892
Plenty of preBB private servers

>>61994425
DR 1337

>>61994254

>tfw I was the guy that always had a bunge game lobby open.

I first got internet access at home in 1997 (14 yrs old). One of the first things I did was quickly find "Nude Raider" site. Still got those nude game patchs and a few pics from that time. Nice little experiment, oldest pic dates to 1998, opened it up while ago (not from any archive storage, shits on "live" storage) and it opened right on up, no degradation at all. Course maybe it helps that even back then I knew that jpeg was shit for long term archival and so all pics is in uncompressed tiff format.

>>62009702
>and it opened right on up, no degradation at all

lol

JPEGs do not degrade over time

7/10, made me reply

>>62009732
>what is rotational velocidensity

>>62009732
>JPEGs do not degrade over time
Unless you share them in shitty websites, example, twitter.

>Tfw i have seen sites that transform a 300KB png in a 3MB JPG and calls it optimization

>>62000709
i rememeber seeing ads for it, but i never, ever clicked on ads, so i don't even know if that was an actual game or not

>>61993098
AOL
Kazaa/Morpheus/etc
Anime Web Turnpike
Hentai Top 100 sites
Winamp 2.92/5
AOL/MSN /ICQ
True Love 95
Random anime clips in mov or rm format
Anime in shitty resolutions and less than 100MB in size
Holy crackers, emulators
Galaxy of Games
Lots of random flashes
/f/
https://a.pomf.cat/yyayfp.webm

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>>62007218
>mabinogi
>not pangya

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>>61995183

>>61993098
Orange Box was late 2000s

>>61993499
Stop larping

All addresses were [email protected]

>>62008294
>>61994350
>This was plebbit before plebbit.
I thought that was digg...?

>>62010692
>Anime in shitty resolutions and less than 100MB in size
35M-50M rmvb's were better than nothing, my local video store didn't have much of a selection of anime

>>62007576
>Cookeville TN
My grandma lives there

mid 90s to early 00s were the golden age of the www, with boards like totse, rorta, bombshock, roguesci and carder forums out in the open. Back then the net was mostly for freaks, anarchists, druggies and kiddies.
Now it's all mainstreamed normie bullshit.

I really miss the feel of mysticism the internet held in the past. Watching something like Lain makes me wish I could recapture the feeling of those times. Is there a chart proving that more people than ever use the internet now or something? I really feel like that's the case. The big boom of 2004 for Mozilla was the best fucking time of my life and I wish I had lived that up more.

>>62011056
Only college kids and meth fags live there

>>61999811
I struggle to even remember what things were like a decade ago. Didn't really start seriously meddling with the internet until the late 2000s.

Missed out on a lot, didn't grow up with the internet since internet access was expensive we got charged by the minute.
Digital Entertainment for me was mostly cable TV and SNES/gameboy/PS1/PS2 and PC offline around late 90s~early 00s.
Never really got into IRC or any of the online communities. Only bumped into maple story around 2006 and 4chan through a colleague around 2007.

Nowadays most kids I've seen on family gatherings have been pacified glued to their phones and tablets all huddled in some corner not causing anywhere near as much commotion as my generation used to.

>>61993098
>2006
>Orange Box

>>62011357
Dunno why people say the human race was always bumping elbows before cellphones. Ya know books were the biggest issue in my time? People always read books and avoided talking by books they said. I just don't know why people idealize the concept of random interactions.

>>62011373
I didn't mean to imply people were always bumping elbows or any negative connotations it was merely an observation.
If anything it is a lot less nerve wracking for adults when kids aren't running around screaming and wreaking havoc.

Gopherspace is/was better.

>>61993692
The golden age is now.
Art is waaaayyy better at the high end, with a thriving ecosystem for individualized content creation.

But, because it's popular, you also get an ungodly amount of shitty art.
The onus is on you to be clever in selecting it.

>>61993098
pre-GE Runescape is still my favorite thing about that era
even though I was just a free player I must've put thousands of hours in

>>61994333
What's the story here? Please educate this young nipper

>>62010727
fucker
I tried Winning Putt but it's just not the same, it takes itself too seriously and it's way too pay to win

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>>61993098
>How was it, /g/?
better

>>61993098
Slow, full of trojans, and gay

>>61994693
they were just too stupid to use computers
as technology gets more accesible the IQ floor goes way down, in the 90s the net was literally only used by neckbeards and businessmen

>>62003783
>i printed out a full color a4 hentai girl in like 2000? my first fap
Well now we have VR with online connectivity which is a neat concept. CM3D2 and VRKanojo weren't half bad.
I should try out VR chat sometime, only really messed around a little with altspace, bigscreen, and janusVR.
It is no wild west but has the potential to develop into an interesting platform once ergonomics are sorted and the platform is made more open.

From a pure technical standpoint the internet is much better these days.All the data mining and emphasis on personally identifying information really sucks though, not much that can be done about it.

Hiding personally identifying information from the general public is still achievable on certain sites and services, that said you cannot expect to go balls to the wall with dark humour depending where you live like that one anon that made a false school shooting threat as a prank and got arrested.
Just have to steer clear of Facebook and the like or at the very least not make any sensitive or controversial posts on personally identifying sites which can come back to bite you in the ass later on.
So many people seem to be damaging their future prospects or getting their lives ruined for fooling around or speaking their mind on topics that are not considered politically correct.

>>61994693
My early memories of 4chan include a lot of the word nigger. I think the issue is after all the "Internet Hacker group 4chan" news stories the sites pop blew up fast and what was once treated as just a joke became a symbol that newfags used to fit in. I have no hate for blacks but I would always say nigger online, and this recent air of dislike toward this sort of humor has always existed out of the wild west that was the internet before social media really blew up and regular folks started to flood the internet.

>>62011969
Sorry I mean the "Hacker known as anonymous" stories.

>>62011290
>Is there a chart proving that more people than ever use the internet now or something
You'd have to be an absolute dipshit to even think this isn't true without charts

>tfw few people remember Zone's hentai flashes

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>>61993098
My neopet died of starvation. I don't know if I was dumb but I ended up spending all my money on feeding it. I would then go to the giving tree or whatever and hope there was some food put in there. Sadly other people would grab in first. I ended up just abandoning him.

>>61993098
PLEBPIC

IRC AND FXP RACING FTP TOPSITES

>>62012480
Neopets don't and never have been able to die of starvation.

>>62012480
I know for a fact this isn't true.

>>62012538
>>62012612
I know he didn't actually die, but for some reason I thought he was. I kind of remember not being able to do anything else until feeding him. It's been like a decade since I've played so I can't remember.
>>62007679
>you will never browse the internet for cheat codes to games you didnt even own like grand theft auto
I used to do this but with guides and glitches.
>tfw you were so poor you bought the strategy guide instead of the game

>>61993692
lol no
>>62011473
this

>>62008213
>Those shit flash games became mobile games.

>>61993098
It was semi-good, I was bullied in school but made some friends. Also dad bought a new PC, shit-tier Celeron from 1999. Meanwhile he got a job in another city, basically flew away only visiting us on weekends and mother turned to a crazy bitch, told me all kinds of nasty things when I got bad grades and played games, etc.
Sorry, I don't want to remember all that, it makes me a sobby piece of shit.

>>61993098
It was the first time people had access to "rude" videos. Before that most people had better morals :^)

>>61993445
Google was ok right up to 2012.
Then the SJWs fucked it.

>>62005420
I spent many hours a day on SC4 up until last year. Then my computer imploded when I switched to cities skylines.

>>61994294
90's was way better than 00's.
I barely remember them but it was better.

>>61994635
I did once dye my hair black in 2010.
Yes I'm ashamed.

>>61994652
You're thinking scene kids.

Emos back in the 00's were basically goths 2.0.

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>>61994693
>less edgy racists back then
Actually there were more.

Recently the shilling to stop it has tried to roll it back :^)

This is when I was 12-18.

>a lot more tinkering with the settings
>games were no longer interesting for me but played Fallout, Starcraft, Driver (1), Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 etc.
>If you wanted to download some software you had to go on 'warez' sites or find some FTP servers
>rips were a thing back then. rips were games in .rar archives made to work without a cd with a lot of stuff removed like cut-scenes or music. I remember a rip version of Mortal Kombat IV was about 8 megabytes.
>Divx movies weren't really a thing for a long time but when they became popular you exchanged cdr's with your friends because not many people had broadband internet
>Flash games
>Antivirus software was a must
>For a long time if you wanted to buy a game you had to physically buy it in a box with cds etc. in a real shop, same with music

Mobiles:
>Nokia was the king of kings
>Siemens made good phones too, Ericsson was a separate brand before being fused with Sony's mobile division
>despite having monochrome 1" screens the battery life was pretty bad

>big-ass TVs

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>>62011715
>>61994727
>It was ironic guys!

Do you even remember the term "woke"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwBjhgC139I

White people have always been pissed off about this shit. Stop trying to meme an alternative history. I fucking see what you're doing.

>>62012906
game rips are still a thing, fyi
they just don't go to the same lengths to reduce the content size like they used to

>>62005123
I agree. There seems to be shit tier threads on all boards recently.

And obvious bait for "Rule 3" contraventions.
It's ruining this place.

>>62005220

I loved that even though I only designed the look of my 'programs'. Also early versions of Dreamweaver was great to play with.

>>62005275

I remember those, there were like a million of them

>>62003783
>Encarta
The bane of my existence.

>>62011721
>So many people seem to be damaging their future prospects or getting their lives ruined for fooling around or speaking their mind on topics that are not considered politically correct.
If you withhold your opinions your a slave. Don't be fearful. If shit happens, then it happens.
I'm tired of this timid attitude. You're letting the machine win.

>netzero

If it wasn't for that and the Aol free trials my jew dad would've disconnected the internet.

>>62012739
Yeah I'll give you that one!

>>62012873
>I barely remember them but it was better.
You're a fucking idiot, and I don't even give a fuck if you're being """ironic"""

>>62012906
>Divx movies weren't really a thing for a long time but when they became popular you exchanged cdr's with your friends because not many people had broadband internet
I remember my dad had a divx of black hawk down that fit on a floppy

>>62011593
he used to take people's content from other sites (somethingawful, newgrounds, ytmnd, 4chan) and brand it with his own watermark on his site, then put ads put and cash out.

neil did a number about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BijChf8ROJU

>>62013185
Late 90's was the dot com boom.
After 9/11 the world changed completely and people became paranoid. Degeneracy spiked afterwards because of the effect of it. People thought they were fucked from this, became degenerate, had follow on effects around communities affected by that.

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>>61993779
I've always had it, it does what it does, update it once every time I'm on a new computer by re-downloading it.

>>61993098

Me was:

>neopets
>newgrounds flash games(usually hentais)
>MSN
>Morpheus -> limeware -> Ares