Early 2000's Internet

>>62452774
Less retards overall.
It was truly the golden age of the internet.

>>62452774

web 2.0 was the beginning of the end

shit in different ways

>>62452823
This.

Oh cool you made the thread again. Didn't get the alternate reality you were hoping to jack off to?

you conveniently only remember the good parts either by forgetting the bad or in that the screenshots you'll find aren't of the bad as nobody will keep records of that stuff. You generally tend to pine for your teen years when you're a total fucking failure and you aren't making any money at some shit job and have less freedom than when you were 6.

Web consolidation was the chemo to cure forums and IRC cancer and overall the best thing to happen to the web because you can't get silently banned anymore for disagreeing with whatever stupid bullshit the admin was peddling. No matter how hard you jack off on IRC pretending you're some "internet oldfag historian aristocrat" because you showed up first, doesn't change the smelly history.

Everyone else is going to insist their own 5 year teenager period was the best, you'll hilariously see 10 year groups form but as the thread gets too big you'll see them turn on one another and split into 5 year groups. Again this is because your memories are 15 years old at this point and are unreliable because you only remember the good.

But it's ok, you can keep making the thread again so you can jack off instead of actually trying to make it. Just keep making the fucking thread again. Because that's totally going to bring it back.

When I wanted to learn something, I could type it into Yahoo and get trusted text tutorials. Now I get 20 minute ad-infested YouTube videos by 35 year olds who are trying to become millionaires with overproduced how to videos.

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nothing

things now are objectively better

the only things i would change are less normies and women, but that is an obvious one

>>62453064
>you can't get silently banned anymore for disagreeing with whatever stupid bullshit the admin was peddling
You haven't been paying much attention to what's been happening lately, have you?

>>62453111
>Now I get 20 minute ad-infested YouTube videos by 35 year olds who are trying to become millionaires
I admit, I do miss the days when people posted things because they wanted to, as opposed to modern e-beggars trying to make a fucking career out of it.

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>>62452774
Stuff was slow and didn't work good all the time

but less kikery and retards

Opera 12

>>62453064
web dev getting toasty

>>62452774
>slow as shit, with frequent downtimes on both ends
>barely functional search engines
>not even anything to search for to be honest
>multimedia content is in absolute dogshit quality, but you don't care because your bandwidth can barely handle it as it is
>very little free porn, what is available is boring

The only thing I remember fondly is hanging out with weebs on IRC, and that's after I filter out the fact it was all just retards talking about retarded things.
That and no social media.

>>62452774
It was relatively retard prone and had a lot of ideologically diverse communities to surf. It was an interesting place. Also, less jewing by big corporations and it was too wild for even the gov't to think to censor it.

I miss that 800x600 resolution. At least I was a happy pepe during those times.

>>62452774
The forums. Specially the anime and technology related ones.

Reddit essentially killed forums with niche themes

>>62453064
kek. must be getting harder and harder to do mental gymnastics like this

Playing games via Gamespy or MPlayer.

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>>62453064
I think you are just salty that you missed out on the best years of the internet. You have no idea.

>>62453405
>not even anything to search for to be honest

Oh please. I can predict the exact results google will return to you on ANY subject:

>1: wiki article
>2: sponsored content
>3: some mainstream news articles

fuck off

>>62453111
>open video
>...hey guys!
>close tab

>>62452822
Where's the boundary between 1.0 and 2.0? To my knowledge the latter very much encompasses old Youtube, 4chan, and much of the early 2000's internet.

>>62452823
>early 2000's internet, everyone calls you a faggot for no reason
>current internet, only get called a faggot sometimes but they really get into it

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>>62453116
I think I can complete that puzzle

>>62453111
Yeah monetization was a mistake. People were duped into thinking that "if the creators earn money, they can make better content"

In reality though all it did was give an content creation into a gimmicky business where nothing is more than flashing graphics, attractive women and clickbait.

I miss ls magazine and such.

>>62452774

I liked the forums, catching up with friends on AIM, endlessly speculating on crushes AIM profile to see if she liked me, and playing dominoes on pogo.

All while keeping a XANGA of sound recordings my dumbass friend and I made. Good times.

>>62452774

Firefox 0.7
Trillian
KaZaA
Midis
Geocities
No social media

>>62455407
myspace is not social media?

>>62456293
livejournal and the other blog sites were more notable than myspace

>>62455407
>Geocities
I'm so glad someone archived that junk so we can rub it in the face of nostalgiafags who think there was anything good about it: http://www.oocities.org/
Find a single redeemable page. PROTIP: you can't.

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Nostalgiacucks will unironically defend this

>>62452774
Facebook ruined the internet and so did smartphones which were somewhat a result of facebook

You could actually do other things and have fun back in the day and alot less normies

>>62456403
What the f*ck?????
*begins to visibly sweat*
Is that a KKK flag??
*starts shaking*
Just... wow.

>>62453111
>to see how this is done please watch the next video
>we'll see more of that in the next video
>that'll be in the next part
>we'll get more in depth next time

^^^Some pajeets online lessons that were next to useless.

>>62452774
>open notepad
>"Hello guys Blazing90 here, today i will show you how to make windows shows BSOD"
>unregistered hypercam 2

>>62453405
> no social media
That is the best part of early internet

>>62452774
>there were a lot more fun little hole in the wall sites but now everything is youtube or facebook
>no smartphones available to make the internet accessible to retards and attention whoring women
>websites were more efficient and not bloated with all sorts of bullshit to monitor you or have a flashy real time ui
>very limited censorship

internet was a lot more interesting back then.

>>62456293
there were social networks back then but they were more niche activity. now its a mainstay for all sorts of dumb asses.

C'mon guys, let's put nostalgia aside and get real.

It was pretty shitty. Sites we're slow (due to slow connections mostly), FUCKING GIFS WERE EVERYWHERE, Flash Player was freaking killing your CPU, Sites simply looked ugly, people might say todays web design looks worse, but I appreciate minimalism, even if the sites themselves are bloated af.

Yeah, the web in its current state is still shit, but it is better than 10-20y ago.

Almost no normies
Almost anything goes
Less people trying to make a quick buck from something shitty
Calling someone a nigger or a retard had zero risk of getting you thrown in jail for hatespeech

Those, to name a few, are why I miss the early 00s internet

>>62458372
>>62452774
the only mistake was facebook/social media

>>62455054
underrated

>>62458372
>Sites we're slow (due to slow connections mostly)
i have cable since 2001, lmaoing at your smoke signal internet connection

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I miss the mid 00s

I like how it was a virus ridden nightmare.

Social media consisted of MSN messenger and MySpace, both had basically no niggers

>>62459277
I like how I had a Mac for important shit and a Wintendo for everything else :^)

>>62459281
back then: tried to get normalfags I knew to use messenger but they refused
now: normalfags try to get me to use FB messenger/whatsapp/similar but I refuse

>>62453919
>Reddit essentially killed forums with niche themes
This is true. I've seen so many die. Kinda sad, but I never invested much time in them so eh

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>>62458160
>there were a lot more fun little hole in the wall sites but now everything is youtube or facebook
I know people who basically only use reddit, YT, and FB on their computers. They only venture outside of those sites when they click a link on FB/reddit

>>62459264
>Fancy Pants
Ejaculated

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>>62459264
>Forgetting YTMND

>>62459682
well that is a depressing picture

>>62459682
How do we stop the Eternal Normie?

>>62459779
+ internet literally killed print magazines, which is a shame. I loved those

>>62459803
You can't

>>62459264
I did too a moment ago, then that image fixed it.

>>62459803
corrupt them slightly overtime. Which is basically another name for advertising

>>62459803
More greentext and edgy memes
GenZ eats that stuff up

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>>62459999
quints of truth

https://wiby.me

some good ones on there

>>62460420
lel got http://scaruffi.com/ by clicking surprise me

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>>62459264
>tfw Shitdobe is killing an art form

>>62460453
whats the meme on this guy? I dont get it

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>>62459264
Too much comfiness.

>>62459264
Any of you, still on newgrounds?

>>62459779
>>62459803
Honestly, who still visits dozens of different sites when he's browsing the web? I can't remember the last time I actually surfed the web by hopping from site to similar site by using the 'links' section.
Most of the content I consume comes from the same couple of sites.

>>62463587
this is a problem. the core of internet was always about diversity and decentralization, but the trend we see now is basically oligopolization witg ultra popular websites which de facto control the whole rest of the web

>>62455054
Kek'd

>>62452774

What the fuck is Grooves Circles?

>>62463986

> the core of internet was always about diversity and decentralization, but the trend we see now is basically oligopolization witg ultra popular websites which de facto control the whole rest of the web

Because you need money for hosting content 24/7, thanks to adblock small websites and content creators cant exist anymore except if you are a giant corporation

>>62454071

this. for any worthy results you have to skip at least the first three pages and then you'll still have sponsored links at top and bottom, it's basically fucked

>>62453919
>>62459622
Youtube killed gaming forums as much as Reddit did IMO. The more popular and mainstream the likes of AVGN and Irate Gamer got, the more the game forums I used to post on died.

And they didn't die in the Neogaf sense, where plenty of people still post but everyone is cringy and retarded. They died in the sense that 75% of the userbase stopped participating. Every year, a few more classic guys that were the face of the forum would quietly stop logging in anymore.

>>62463336
A very few people still are. Oney did a couple of LP vids recently where he played some games on Newgrounds. But no genuinely good new content comes from there anymore.

Flash games are dead, and cell phone gaming is responsible.

>>62459264
>nostalgic for run escape
Never even figured out what you're supposed to be escaping.

The web today is technically superior but it has regressed socially somewhat. I certainly do not miss the old Flash sites, Java applets, ActiveX shit, poorly standardised web technologies, highly fragmented and difficult to find information, exploit-ridden software in general, seizure-inducing flashing animated gifs, far more obtrusive advertising, virtually non-existent online shopping, and just how slow everything was.

Today's internet is very well standardised (the fact you only have to have 1 browser installed instead of 2-3 is a testament to this), you have convenient access to all sorts of information and services that would have been unthinkable 10-20 years ago, and despite the fact that modern websites are undeniably bloated, they load far faster on an average connection of today than an average website did on the average connection 20 years ago.

I do miss old internet communities, but it was often a horrible experience actually using the internet. Overall the internet has changed for the better, I certainly do not want to go back to the shitfest of the late 90s/early 2000s and I doubt very many people who aren't just experiencing childhood nsotalgia do either.

>>62467848
>I certainly do not want to go back to the shitfest of the late 90s/early 2000s and I doubt very many people who aren't just experiencing childhood nsotalgia do either.
I wouldn't want that. But I'd be fine with going back to the late 00s.

>>62452774
simple sites didn't need 10MB of fucking javascript bloat to run

It's interesting watching the average time period of nostalgia threads like this advance as the years go on. Go back to ~2010 and it was all early-mid 90s nostalgia, now everyone has nostalgia up to even the late 2000s. Makes you wonder what the average date of birth on this board is now compared to back then.

>>62467877
no, just 10MB of flashing animated banners

>>62465510
most small websites sold out before people started widely using adblockefs

>>62453244
Why don’t these fucking freeloaders get a god damn job like normal people.???

The world goes in cycles: at the start we are one. Then we part ways and grow in different places. Then we come back, fight or get bored, move again because of it, and so on.
There were a billion dialects in Europe, then came the noble Roman Latin. From the lower ends of society the vulgar evolved into modern romance languages. Now English is slowly imposing itself as the new lingua franca of the West.

In a similar way, the internet is right now going through its "globalization" phase: we started with our shitty unique websites and forums, the social media and one-in-all plague caught on, and we're here. >>62459682
In a few years new and current underground communities will grow larger in my opinion, possibly born from distress over these gentrifying forces (think of Facebook) and their harsh and stupid ways of doing things.
2000-2007 internet was the growth period. I don't know if I could've called it better, but it was the rise before the peak of when everybody (in the relevant parts of the world) started getting the internet.
It was more intimate, more centered towards doing things for fun and for free, but while still paying for the goods (both figuratively and literally), whereas now services are ad-based for example.

The only advantage of the internet of now is that you can finally reach every part of the world, form collectives, do things together or make a shitload of money.
The information age is still NOT here, though. The quality of information is the real problem: Wikipedia and even its sources are not as good as a library visit. Hate to say so but Scaruffi was right.

>>62468541
>Wikipedia and even its sources are not as good as a library visit
nigger not everyone has the library of alexandria in their town

>>62459264
Dark Cut got me.

Depends on how you look at it. Most of it to me is nostalgia for how web content looked at the time, but of course things were still pretty shit in some regards. I do miss how some things were back then though.

Social media for example is a key factor in how the internet works now. Before, you had forums, text boards, and shit like that which helped introduce people to the internet by grouping individuals to form a collective over a certain subject. Now social media is just about being social with people, without the set factor of a common shared interest. Facebook is a festering pile of shit, with people from all over the political spectrum whining and sharing fake news to one-up each other.

It's autistic to say that normification is ruining the internet, but there's truth to that.

i like the design of simple static html pages, none of this dynamic javascrip loading shit in from 200 different servers

but i also love the fun of the internet today, messing with normies and watching stuff unfold live

i'd combine the two if i could

>>62459715
Thank you

>>62452774
Everything was better because there was almost no political penetration at this point. Now the whole internet is like one or a few companies with all the internal politics this entails.

>>62469991
Politics seriously ruins anything

>>62459264
Is anyone else saving their classic flash games (.swf files) in case Flash dies?

>>62470190
I got a ton. I don't get why everyone hated flash so much. I been using the internet since 1994 and frankly, never once had an issue using or running flash. Except for the annoying update reminders. I think the hatred for flash is out of proportion with its actual flaws. Its like people are just parroting what the "experts" are saying about it and never seem to be able to offer any actual concrete examples of when they got fucked over by a flash applet.

>>62470190
i think i still have a copy of Madness Interactive somewhere

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>>62453405
>>62457701
>no social media

You don't remember Friendster, Xanga, MySpace, Netlog and SixDegrees?

>>62452774
Shit videos.

>>62470360
I miss the old Habbo so much.

>>62453919

yep specialised forums were the pinnacle of human knoledge... especially that one demi-mod who new more about the thing or the science that the people who fucking built it

diy valves audio, rally cars, nuclear fusion, drum and bass, mountiain biking, car cruising and meetups...

shit actually got built... people met up things actually happened... i dont know what the fuck happened. well we all do being web 2.0, social media but actually analysing the social exodus

thats why i hate facebook and zuckerburg... i didnt want the social change they forced on everybody

back 10 years ago i was at a gold coast parking lot with a few hundred cars, everybody greasing their own machine... making it faster...learning.. having fun... hooking up with real women

now its all gone and people just have their financed bland stock cars and miserably stare at a smartphone void and get casual sex with the wrong people from tinder and cant into relationships anymore or focus on one person...

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>62470360
POOL'S CLOSED

>>62470459
I remember how it was really easy to ignore them all, since no site ever prompted you to log in with any of them.

The social media and tech giants today really are kinda like internet ghettos.

>>62470252
>teach me how to hate
Flash had security flaws out the ass, for one. Not that HTML5 is any better, but it seems smoother especially when used cross-platform.
The Mac version of flash was also terribly slow. But then, pretty much everything on a PPC Mac was, since apart from Photoshop and a few other programs nothing was optimized for it.
I remember not liking how I couldn't seek and scrub through stuff like Newground animations or Homestarrunner cartoons.
Though I did like how there were new Homestarrunner releases every week. SBemails a best.

>>62459264
>Xiao Xiao
aww yiss
>Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
You know what that reminds me of...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO2_yu1o85s

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>>62452774
it was comfy af

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>>62459264
>Trigun
>Jak and Daxter 2
>Pokemon Crystal/Gold/Silver
>Dan N' Me
Aww yissss

>>62459264
>no wow..

>>62459264
Just remembering that nothing even near as good as any of that shit will ever be made ever again, when back then we were all expecting more, better versions of these to be the norm just years from then. It just breaks my heart.

>>62470704
Some retros have a similar community
Some have the old-school UI
None have both

>>62467848
This.

>>62471419
There's some new stuff that's good too, though.

I mean, Shazam? I wouldn't have thought such a thing was even possible in 2003. Much less that a damn cell phone could handle it.

>>62471753
>>>/reddit/

>>62452774
Tabs on bottom look so terrible nowadays

Can't believe people actually got angry about that shit being changed

forums were great and no stupid ads everywhere

>>62471956
>and no stupid ads everywhere
>early-mid 2000s
anon you cant be this blinded by nostalgia

>>62452817
this. the internet was less popular/mainstream so it was a haven where all the lonely offensive funposters could post 9/11 jokes without consequence

but now we have a bunch of faggots immigrating here including myself

>>62452774
I liked that it stopped when I walked away from the computer. I liked that being in real life was different than being on the internet.

It's a little too much like living in the suburbs and liking gangsta rap, but one day you walk outside and find out you live in the fucking ghetto. You can't make it stop any more.

I found that people online in say 2001 were a lot more technically proficient than they are now.

A forum devoted to a webcomic or a vintage auto restoration site would have side discussions about upgrading their PCs with new CPUs or RAM, and installing new versions of Windows.

I guess computers were such a pain to use in general back then that there was an assumed level of minimal proficiency. You had to be able to manage and troubleshoot a real OS to stay above water, so to speak.

>>62472215
Billboard Top 100, Jan. 2022:
1. Anon - "I didn't choose the internet life, the internet life chose me" - VaporWayyv Records

late-90s to early 2000s were when normies slowly started to infiltrate the internet. Now they are the majority. I want to go back.

>>62454134
>open video
>...hey guys! Chrisfix here!
>keep tab open and learn something
I normally close the tab though, especially when it's "what'sgoingon___family" or some variation thereof

>>62452817
This.

No DMCA takedowns for no reason, and all this shitty pepes like Pauls and other "stars" also fun on the YT and IRC oh and all the 4chin raids

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>>62455054

>>62472144
>a haven where all the lonely offensive funposters could post 9/11 jokes without consequence
wrong. i joked about 9/11 on a chat room and people got triggered and called me out for it

>>62473152
Logan's videos are comfy as fuck though.

>all those kids thinking early 2000's is long ago
2003 4chan
2003 MySpace
2004 Facebook
2005 YouTube
2005 reddit

>>62473168
>chat room
found the problem

>>62473352
I'm 19 and I think the late 2000's is long ago

>>62453064
I'm 33. I was 18 15 years ago. The Internet sucked dick, half of the population was still on dial up and aside from UT99 and CS 1.5 there wasn't really that much to do. Even if you did have linux knowledge, Microsoft had an iron grip on everything.
The only good thing I remember about this period is sum41 and the fact that I didn't have to pay rent. Everything else was shit.

>>62472246
>I found that people online in say 2001 were a lot more technically proficient than they are now.
This is just more of the nostalgiafaggotry rearing its ugly head.

>turn on computer
>copy some phone number to get online
>get to the forum, click "new reply" and then "submit"
so proficient

>>62452774
netscape navigator
newgrounds
fapping to images instead of videos
and that's it. only thing that went wrong is sjw propaganda and pandering to normalfaggotry

Usenet was awesome.
>free usenet (provided by ISP)
>height of MPAA/RIAA suing 40yr old moms for millions of dollars (and winning) over 2 songs downloaded from kazaa/bittorrent
>how to avoid getting sued: turn on SSL...or not, whatever because MPAA/RIAA never touched usenet. hell i don't think i ever used SSL up until 2010.
>have 2nd shift job (4pm-12am job)
>come home after work.
>turn on computer
>start Grabit
>download headers from top mp3/tv/movie binaries
>shift through 1,000s of albums a day
>download 10-20 albums a day
>download tv shows (shit, it's probably been 15 years since i've watched a whole season of a TV show live and with commercials)
>download movies
again, averaged 100+ GB/month without even using SSL. just plain port 23. never received a letter from ISP or never saw a DCMA takedown files.


i still remember talking to a guy in his 30s who asked for a couple of Iron Maiden albums.
>coincidentally see massive dump (forgot the usenet slang word) of ALL of Iron Maiden's albums.
>next day, hand him 5-8 CD data-discs worth of Iron Maiden
>albums from japan with artcovers, bootleg concert recordings, etc
>he had the biggest smile for the next 2 weeks
>then gave him DIO, slayer and a few other 80s metal bands


>fapping to images instead of videos
thats literally half of /b/ threads
ill never understand jerking it to porn.
i found cam girls back in 2003.
been fapping solely to cam girls (and camgirls with feminine penises)

>>62473497
>19fag in 2017
>born 1996-2001 (approximate date, shut up I'm drunk)
You ever see "that old movie", The Matrix?

>>62473514
>read the rest of my reply
>see that I'm subtly pointing out that /g/-tier banter was commonplace even outside computer discussion places
>realize you're an idiot
>have panic attack of meaninglessness
>???

>>62473618
are you actually saying people don't talk about upgrading their computers on non-tech forums? Have you gone outside of 4chan for 5 minutes? You've been here too long

neopets

>>62473632
No, I'm saying that due to mobilefags and the generally more reliable nature of modern computing, the average internet user today is a helpless babe in the woods compared to the rough-and-tumble frontiersmen of 20 or so years ago.

Used to be if your computer acted up (and it did that a lot more back then), you had to fix it yourself with limited information. You had to actually think critically and try things, not just throw up your hands and watch some how-to video or something.

Taking it to "the shop" was an option, but it cost time and money, so was only reserved for nuking sys32.

Just remember: blame mobilefags. That'll be my thesis statement.

>>62456374
There were a few guitar and music relate stuff, cool shit IMO.

>>62473669
people back then did the same thing they do now - ask a friend or relative who knows more for help. Your may convince millennials of how you were a Matrix style hacker but I was actually online at that time and I know exactly the type of 13yo normalfags that were infesting the web even back then

>>62452774
I miss the aesthetic of old Youtube, but it was strictly inferior on a technical level.

>>62473701
There was less of a depth of knowledge but more of a breadth.

People knew how to fix common system glitches and stuff.

Very few arguments over pipeline length between Pentium III/4.

Anyway, I'm done with this conversation, we're arguing over different memories.

I was a YTMND fag before 4chan.

http://steamsteamlol.ytmnd.com/

I think this is a good time capsule for what was considered "EPIC" back then.
http://ytmndgameboy.ytmnd.com/

Pretty faggy looking back, but I was like 13 at the time.

>>62473759
>People knew how to fix common system glitches and stuff.
Oh please. There was a never ending stream of retards asking how to install divx/matroska and even more getting infected for downloading a fucking exe off of limewire when they wanted music/video files.

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>>62453064
is this some fresh pasta?

Who's got the succulent hot dogs?

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>>62473835
NEDM

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Anyone remember ilovebacon.com?

I saw it my cs clan forum. Then I proceeded to jack off, holding my breath so my mom would hear me, to all the pics of girls in wet t-shirts they had on there.

>>62473669
twitbook and facetrack instagag etc has a monopoly on the internet, an internet ghetto, you could say jootube has the same thing but its based on repeatedly regurgitating only what you previously watched in the suggestions, only because of the mobilefags are stuck with using jailware OS are they staying helpless toddlers, but jootube isn't nearly as much of a internet ghetto but seems to be fairly populated with normalfags stuck in their own ecchochaimbers.

>>62473669
back then, nothing was user friendly (aka 4chan and noko in the email field)

dialup meant that the 2hrs spent on your computer, 1.5hrs was devoted to you just sitting and waiting for something to download or just load.

normies still thought computers were for nerds.
normies had lives that didn't involve talking to people over the internet.

then again, i grew up poor and poor parents didn't think buying a 1,000$ device that needed a $20-$50/month bill for Internet was a good idea.

in the early to mid 2000s poor people only touched computers in school
by the late 2000s poor people bypassed owning a computer and went directly to owning a smartphone
like my sister.
(1998)when she was 18, she bought a $900 computer
10 years later she still had that same computer. (100% original parts, including speakers/keyboard/mouse/crt)
between 2008-2013 she owned blackberry phones
2013-present she owned iphones
i think 3 years ago she bought a computer ($300 entry level...slow as fucking shit)

>>62473993
only thing missing from that post was M$soft

>>62474051
Micro$oft
completely fucked that one up

>>62470459
>You don't remember Friendster, Xanga, MySpace, Netlog and SixDegrees?

Only MySpace and back then I neither really knew or cared what it actually was, because it had basically zero presence on the web at large.

>>62471280
bottom left

>>62461617
He's a mathematician who grew up on classical music, and then, one day, he decided that he would listen all records in the history of rock music and write a book on it. So he did. And because he was an outsider, he wasn't as perceptive to the popularity of certain musicians, and certain fans got mad that he liked Mr. Fast and Bulbous more than Thumb Yorke and the Radio Lads.

He also wrote a really good book on the history of Silicon Valley. It lacks technical polish, but his perspective is actually very interesting. I might even go so far as to say it's one of my favorite nonfiction books.

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>>62470252
Applefags

>>62452774

Javascript only used when fucking neccesary.

>>62452817
Underrated

Start of the decline. The years before it the web was unfiltered, cp was everywhere, communities were tight, rules were lax

>>62473740
Make a skin that blocks ads

>>62456840
Confederate flag stupid

>>62471178
>I remember not liking how I couldn't seek and scrub through stuff like Newground animations or Homestarrunner cartoons.
You can do that with a flash decompiler.

>>62459264
>all these games from the 90s
>fucking sonic 3
How is this the mid 00s?

the internet objectively increased in functionality and usefulness over time, it just became polluted with normies on the same breath,every good thing has a bad side to it

>>62476376
Stupid confederate flag.

Try more ABA

>>62455027
When user participation was made easier through things like myspace and youtube, this was basically what web2.0 was about. And this was literally what made normies take over.

Normies came and fucked the poor concept. Internet pretty much died in 2000.
>>62453111
There still are text tutorials which are better anyway

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>>62452774
anime topped at 2007

>>62473168
Played as "Osama Bin Laden" on a TFC 2fort server right after 9/11. Holy shit the entire 30 players were freeking the shit out saying they need to call the police and FBI loool

>>62465510
>Put up a personal website
>Choose what content goes up on that site
>Expect other people to pay for it
>Spread malware through third party advertisements
>???
>Profit

>>62452774
Awww...
I miss this old version of Firefox.

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>>62452774
Very few normies. When there's no normalfags shitting things up, amazing things happen.

>>62456403
Do you have a link to it if available? If not, could you provide a Wayback Machine link?

>>62467848
I want the social part of the early days around 2000s with the technology of today.
>>62467914
People leave, die off or other things. Doesn't mean they are not wrong about it getting worse. Very few people can argue effectively that post ww2 US was a worse time to live than today. We might have nicer technology, but the masses are struggling to maintain the same standard of living. Even niggers had more money then.

>>62470020
Especially when children's cartoons nowadays has liberal agenda.