Internet

2008 or 2009 or so

>>138252202
Whenever mobile phones became widespread and the internet became infested with normalfags.

That's too broad of a question, if you ask somebody in their 30's they would probably tell you 2002, if you ask somebody in their 20's they will probably tell you 2011.

>>138252202
2008/09
Something just died,im not sure what. Maybe it was anonymity

>>138252202
2010-2011 when Facebook started to gain more ground, then Google tried to copy it but failed but they saw the golden data potential.

whatever year social media came on to the scene. as far as i know myspace was the first

>>138252388
2006 was the year everything started to change, 2007 it greatly accelerated and by 2009 the internet pretty much became what it is today. The biggest culprits to blame are Facebook, YouTube, smartphones, and r*ddit.

1889, the year Hitler was born

>>138252400
fpb

>>138252600
Nope, I'm 29. Using internet since 1997. Until 2009/2010 Internet had this same "anonymous spirit". We had Instant Messengers, a lot of discussion boards that are dead now.. So, the internet begin to change when ((they)) centralized it. Wanna talk to somebody? Better go to facebook, fill up your entire name, habits, location and so on.

>>138252987

You're too dumb to use a fake profile?

>>138252753
i was thinking smart phones. i got out of college in 2006, and for my job right after i had a smart phone. and i really don't remember many people having them, or i'm not remembering what a motorola q or whatever old blackberry was capable of so i figure it became a couple years later, and mostly because women started using it for shopping and bullshit and they just poisoned every corner

>>138252202
2008/9 when mobiles and tablets took over.
Whole thing was app(le)ified and web went to shit.

When people migrated from myspace to facebook and stopped going outside.

>>138253098
What a fake profile would do?
I use it on discord / twitter. Sometimes Facebook asks for pictures of your ID if you create a fake profile and it gets detected.

I mean, it has changed a lot during this decade especially. I would say 2009/2010.

ignore and hide cuckshed threads

the fact that your cuckshed operates like a clown car doesnt make it cool

>>138253324
>>Sometimes Facebook asks for pictures of your ID if you create a fake profile and it gets detected.

Source me

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1998.

Until then the focus was on interaction between users. The Internet consisted almost entirely of forums, chat rooms, email lists, collaborative websites, and personal websites. The big push to commercialize the Web marked the beginning of the Internet's usability as a non-participatory medium and its ability to attract people who had nothing to contribute.

Much later, the people who commercialized the Web figured out that just about anyone can be lured into contributing anyway, and thus was born the blog. Then when blogs were overrun by people who could actually write, take pictures, and otherwise consistently create content, the people who couldn't do any of that moved on YouTube. Turns out people won't read low quality content, but they will watch just about anything, so people who really had nothing to say found a home on YouTube. And then there's the rest of social media, where a selfie, a pithy rant, or a repost of someone else's cartoon can bring both fame and a lasting feeling of self-worth.

All of this is pretty terrible, if you ask me, though it certainly doesn't sound terrible just looking at what I just wrote. It sounds pretty cool. Christ though it's awful.

>>138253650
Google "facebook asks for id"

well it seems the thread reached its limit. i have nothing revolutionary to say guys, i just picked up that there's one specific year that holds great psychological importance to people. while not stated here ITT, the most mentioned year is 2007 actually. i suspect that understanding what exactly changed in that year is cruical to restoring that *something* that has been lost. all very vague yet and i dont understand it all either. if i was to sum up my thoughts so far i would say that life got simpler, more streamlined from that point on. a consequence of the appereance of the smartphone, the start of the social media internet, the effects of making life more efficient after the great recession. in the end most people confirm my theory: a happy life does not result from a simple life. in other words: 2007 was the fulcrum of our current era, the start of the "efficient era". a paradigm shift if you will. perhaps im just chasing ghosts, but i believe some great solution hides behind my suspicions.

2007, easy

First impulse was to say 2010. Then I thought a bit more and will settle for 2012-13.

2013 probably

>>138252202
2007. Transformation was complete by 2010

>>138252202
2012

2015

>>138252202
2007 thats when the influx of newfags came here bc some faggots were breaking rules 1 & 2 on youtube comment sections. smart phones directly lead to the the internet becoming easy to access for "normies" and that was the first nail in the coffin for this site.

2013

2002 was the first noticeable shift and then 2007 was the big one

>>138252202
I'd say 2012. But logically speaking it would be the year in which social media started filtering results and recommendation to cater to your particular tastes based on your recorded history, effectively dividing the internet based on ideologies and turning almost every website into an echochamber.

>>138252202
Between 2007 and 2009.

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>>138252202
~2009.

Here's why: 4chan use exploded. It went from 5 million users to ~10 million users. I mean, this stupid tagboard shit Moot put together with his mom's credit card and translated 2cha code went from 0 to 1 million in its first months or something, but 5 million additional unique user gain in a single year?
4chan is a unique format. It's not like facebook or reddit. It's almost impossible to get any external reward for posting. Anonymous posting on something that won't survive 24 hours for what? the USER becomes impermanent, but MEMES take on a life of their own.
Memes are obviously older than 2003. But the cocktail of memes + quadratically growing anonymous user base created something there's absolutely no model for.

At this point, the internet became the engine of change of the world's zeitgeist, and 4chan was the beating heart of the internet. By extension through proxy everything generated on 4chan was making its way to through the entire rest of the internet and into the real world. 4chan was neat back in 2005, and a lot of the /pol/ newcomers weren't around back then to compare, but as neat as it was simply not energized enough to influence the real world. In 2005 4chan's energies were simply internal sharing with SA and other imageboard sites. In 2008, 4chan hacked Sarah Palin's emails and 4chan as an emergent entity had begun sticking its toes into the real world. By 2010, the 'something' with the internet had changed. By 2016 meme magic had become real.

>>138252202

2007

This was the year social media really began taking over.

>>138252202
1997

Around 2008ish? Advent of social media and smartphones and the mass populizing of the internet.

In 2005 the internet felt like a huge place. For some reason it feels much 'smaller' now.

>>138252202
When smartphones got into the hands of niggers. they turned the schoolyard into a harlem bball court. im sure you can find a correlation between smartphone saturation and the decline of western society.

> nobody mentions Eternal September
> almost all estimates are after the year 2000

reminder that the average /pol/ user is 16-20 years old.

>>138256496
The wilderness was removed from runescape

>>138252202
in the end of my adolescence

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2001 The year iPhones bought retards to the net

>>138252202
2008

Smartphones.

Anons, I know this might sound dumb, but my ps4 browser keeps auto-replying to trumps twitter. (even though I have no twitter accout). Anyone know what's going on?

>>138252202

2005

>>138259112
>>138257471
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Authorization_Act_for_Fiscal_Year_2013
2007 is a foundational year, that's when the adrenochrome cowboys really made their inroads into SillyVally politics by helping to bury a series of manufactured sex scandals.

1. Eternal September
2. 2002
3. 2007
These have been the milestones of internet degeneration.

>>138260631
Thanks Frederick Jackson Turner

>>138252202
2000

I think there have been a few different eras of the internet. The 90s felt very different to the early 00s which are different to now.

Probably the most fun i had on the Internet was from 99-04 that was a real wild west time. It was becoming popular enough that there was a lot of activity on forums but people acted crazy there was no established internet behavior

The roll out of the big social media platforms changed the vibe.

>>138261897

This is pretty much how I feel about it other then I would say 99-07.

Internet was more wild back then.

>>138252202
2000 or whatever year the beheading video got popular, that shit was every where

I'm 34 and remember pre Internut life.

2006. It was 2006.

>>138261001
can a PS4 be dragged into a botnet?

>>138252202
1965

2010ish, when smartphones happened

>>138264648
I'm 12 and you're a fag

Two points: Web 2.0 (late 90s/early 00s), and smartphones (late 00s).

>>138264534

> Don't be evil

>>138261897

It's just Millenials becoming the majority.

You Gen-X'ers are simply more crazy than us Millennials.

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september 1993

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>>138264871

>>138252202
2007

>>138252202
>computers/internet become so cheap people on welfare can buy them
>internet is now shitty
It's no coincidence.

>>138252202
2011 is when it really set in

2008-2010

The end of 2005 and the start of 2006 was a major shift.

>>138252202
2007. Same year the the Big Bang Theory debuted. Somebody post that one screencap pls.

>>138252202
2007.

2008

>>138252202
The year myspace died

>>138252202
When the masses (and women) joined.

>>138252202
4 years ago. proxie support on browsers went to shit

8 years ago firefox went to shit . they had a monopoly on the usable browser market

when did google take youtube? I think then

>>138252202

2010

>>138252202
no

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>>138252202
I remember in 1996 i was a kid looking for info for my report on James and the giant peach and i stumbled on child porn on a regular search engine.

In my head 1996 is when the internet went to shit.

>>138254275
gud poast

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I felt it in 2008. It was profound and I venture to say the way I used the internet at the time I would have good insight.

Also: 4chan was disgusting at that time. CP was all over /b/ and it was very disrespectful.

>>138252202

im answer on impulse and didnt read the thread

my answer: 2007

>>138252202
when facebook started letting in businesses and middle schools- when we all became data.

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>>138264837
does it have an OS?
does it have an internet connection?

then your answer is yes, duh.

>>138252202
2012-2013 was when the internet shifted to going mobile, and there were far more internet users from the third world getting online (from India, Pakistan, Malaysia, Phillipines)

Pajeets everywhere

>>138252202
I know it was whenever facebook and twitter came around. Those sites destroyed the internet.

>On September 26, 2006, Facebook was opened to everyone at least 13 years old with a valid email address.

>first time the internet died: 1993
Eternal September, opening the floodgates, etc.
>second time the internet died: 2007
iPhone was released and marketed to normies, now literally everyone bar the shittiest shitholes in africa had easy access to the internet and a perceived reason to use it (social media)
>2.5th (?) time the internet died: ~2012
This is about the time that so-called "user created content" started becoming seriously big. Now not only are normies the vast majority of internet users, but they also control the vast majority of content.
>third time the internet died: soon (10 years at most)
Free speech completely impeded by corporations to further liberal agenda, and destruction of western society as we know it. Brave new world.

Around 2006 - 2007 probably. At around the same time Tempora started to be rolled out, coincidentally or not. Maybe also around the time when google analytics started slowing down page loading times hugely, before people worked out how to black hole their requests. In short, when large-scale web surveillance became a thing.

>>138272336
this

>>138252202
2002

2006