Old Internet

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

THE INTERNET on April 4th, 1998

Designing for 1024x768 was fun, so was using tables with borders and browser safe fonts.

If you aren't already, come join us:
https://neocities.org/browse

Pros: no leebin maymays
Cons: Not /vr/ related

>>3091717
everyone on /g/ is born after 1999

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pros: more speed
cons: everything else

>>3091713
Man, reminds me I haven't seen a geocities site in forever.

>>3091723
Good old days. No irony here, by the way.

>>3091736

I know, today that manifesto would be trivialized and made fun of as "fedora" or whatever, but back in the day that wasn't ironic.

it was more comfy back then, you could do an altavista search and come up with geocities and private sites. I remember finding this point and click flash game with a ninja theme, and the kid who made it included a sound file of him hitting a makeshift punching bag, apparently made of paper mache or some shit. it was such a gem, I wish I still had it.

it was more of an anonymous haven back then, now it's really mainstream with social networking etc. and sites like 4chan go against the grain.

on the other hand, youtube was unthinkable when you had to wait for images to load, and you had to deal with the corpulent corporation known as AOL.

>>3091723

And yet I distinctively remember the old internet being a lot more friendly than today's internet.

>>3091737

some sites still try to follow that old ethos, but times have changed. like I was just saying, the "anonymous" culture, or whatever else you want to call the free speech meritocracy, has to resist the floodwaters instead of being the norm.

>>3091767

Because it was a place to share knowledge (and porn), and normal people were afraid of it, to the point they thought even giving out their e-mail address online would make some hackers fry up their computers. Let alone post their pics and stuff like that.

Nowadays the internet is just an extension of the normie world, with the YOLO attitude. Posting selfies all day and making fun of the nerds.

We lost, we are in the bad future.

>>3091717
http://4chin.neocities.org/

Wild west/sikrit klub mentality.
In my opinion, the Burba incident was the tipping point and normies took over.

>>3091824
What was the burba incident?

>>3091687
fun, magical, nostalgic

felt like the wild west

anonymity was so much greater then

being on irc as a 13 year old with all those old scripts and things was magical

but yeah... now we got hd broadband porn so eh. that's tough to compete with.

>>3091723
I love how you can tell that this was written by a guy who just got his first taste of power in his otherwise bleak life

>>3091723
Eric Harris levels of edge.

>>3091687
kids were seen and not heard

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Spooky Geocities skeletons

http://web.archive.org/web/19971212021814/http://www.highersource.org/

>>3091883
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6U-FY9uNRg
Whenever I see old 3D skeleton gifs this is all I can think about.

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http://web.archive.org/web/20040203181323/internal.tbi.net/~max/zelda64.htm

gopher://

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>Be 1999
>Need to reinstall Windows on a customer's computer
>Need drivers for every damn thing and customer has thrown out all disks along with the docs and box
>Get the driver for the modem and download the other drivers from the web
>Feel amazed how much easier this is than in the 3.11 days having to beg for drivers from oems or over fidonet (request and wait days) or MAYBE call a support bbs long distance

>be 2016
>Building a 98se gaming rig with 2000-2004 era hardware
>Need drivers for every damn thing
>Get the driver for the modem and go on the web
>Internet Explorer can juuuust barely get onto oldversions.com to get the newest Opera for 98, v9
>What is this nightmare?
>640x480 256 colors
>5 meg java applets fucking everywhere
>This is not my Worldwide Web
>Spend literally hours navigating this hellhole to get all the drivers (SB1000 was a bitch for some reason)
>Never go on the web again (even 4chan would have needed more adjustments to settings than I wanted to set)
>Just install retail games I find in thrift stores actually still way-cheap often

It's a real bummer that it became commonplace to plaster all of your personal information online. I imagine that's where all of this recent hubris comes from. You're not calling xXSSJ10GokuxX a faggot you're calling John Smith from John Co. a faggot and he won't stand for such personal homophobic attacks on his livelihood! Social media is a cancer. That's easily the biggest con.

I'm still living those days.

Pros: Lightning fast
Cons: No Javascript, Flash, HTML5 or 4chan catalog

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>>3091951
Can't you go to 4chan.org/vr/catalog

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>>3091925
>WebCrawler is now just another Google search aggregator

>>3091687
Pros:
Pages loaded with a reasonable time without contacting 70 adware providers before you even see a single character of text, then hogged all your CPU making even scrolling a monumental task of computation.

>>3091713
>Designing for 1024x768 was fun
Most websites were designed for 800x600.

>>3091767
I remember some things a little different Maybe I've just found out how to compartmentalize and avoid the nasty or retarded people/reactions, but I remember lots of places being full of really mean and nasty people. Really, really nasty people and actions. Even 4chan I believe has gotten less mean over the years.

>>3091964
Sure you can but without flash there's nothing there.

>>3091770
>we are in the bad future.
Biff got the almanac.

>>3092000
Oh, really.

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>>3091947

this


I still live the old web life senpai.

I'm still seperated into my actual name and my handle

never gonna give that shit up

have a wallpaper for the most /vr/ anime

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>>3091958
>Try to post with Dillo
>Click verification

Obligatory.
http://www.cameronsworld.net/

>>3091883
I always wondered who made all those old GIFs. Bored college kids? Demoscene types? Ripped from random video games?

>>3091728
That's because it's dead.

>>3091687

>What were the pros and cons of pre-Web 2.0?

Pros:
White people
Little to no 3rd world
No social normalties

Cons:
Slow and people putting up literal eye bleed font color/backgrounds choices.


At least that's what I remember most.

>>3091994
That's because 4chan has become infested with normal people. In the early days it wasn't some mainstream website making the news.

That being said, most people weren't serious about anything which is why early on you didn't see as much tryhard bullshit like project chanology and other IRL nonsense. That is something that only edgy normal folks who were so eager to show off their edgy troll club to their friends and the world would do.

>>3091829
>broadband porn
not the good stuff

>>3091994
>>3092320
People throw the "muh secret club" shit around a lot and I don't get it.

The main userbase of 4chan for the first years were people from flash sites like newgrounds and weeabs.

I can definitely say terms like "toxic" and shit like are a new thing. At least in the way it's used as a normal everyday word now.

Early games with voip when it was actually somewhat good still had shit talking. But it was different to now. I never felt that most people took it seriously. It was a game and people were having fun. Now it's some horrible crime and you get labeled "toxic" and an "online bully".