Zoomerfag here. Was gaming and the internet really that great in the 2000s or is it just the power of nostalgia?
>>742326141The internet wasn't better per se but the average IQ level of people on the internet was higher, and there wasn't as much absolute slop like short-form content and low quality AI-generated trash. It was a bit harder to get on the internet, and people weren't using the internet from their phones, and those factors filtered a lot of people who would otherwise be contributing low-effort trash
millenialbros how did we make it out of that hellscape
>>742326141Culture was betterInternet speed was worse
>>742326141Zoomerfag+ here, yes. Now kill yourself alphie
>>742326141everything was worse. I wouldn't trade my Discord girlfriends and online discord social circles for any of that old shit.
>>742326329Truclear bomb
>>742326141it was based and fuck these gay faggot retards saying otherwise
>>742326141the hottest shit was stuff like rs/tibia/gaia/wow at schooltruly a wildwest time but god forbid you only had dialup, adsl2 even wireless 3g was like magic back then
>>742326141 It a single negro or gay was actually offended and they used the slurs, too. To believe that guetta ended racism with his shoutout is the equivalent of deep psychological issues. Heck, people fall in love with hallucinating chatbots.
>>742326141it was used as a slur but there was less homophobia, especially on 4chan the whole trap thing was very normalized versus now everyone screaming trannyalso, it was better in general because you predominantly had above average intelligence people on the internet and in video games. there were no normie phone fags with a 90 IQ shitting everything up like they do nowI'd rather go back to these times and have normies laugh at you for being a """nerd""" and playing video games and being on the internet, than sharing the spaces with these fucking normies again
>>742326512>>742326259y'know i'd come to realise that when i was downloading a bunch of 30+ gig games in a row and the queue finished in a flash and i thought of when the last time i left a download up all night was
>>742326141You're not a real zoomer you fucking poser. Fuck outta here
it was less corporate if nothing elseI was still just posting on 4chan anyway so all that's really changed for me is YouTube has simultaneously become more soulless but also a more consistent source of entertainment with more structured 'shows' rather than randoms with a camcorder miming the lyrics to the Pokemon theme song or Newgrounds people making edgy video game cartoons where most of the novelty came from the idea that someone would put in the effort to make a whole 5 minute cartoon just to put it on the internet for free rather than the content actually being good
Society peaked in 1950 and has been on a steady decline since. Everything is always getting worse.
>>742326663oh and back then people used the internet for things other than culture wars, astroturfing, disinfo campaigns and psyops. that was pretty good. there was much less of an appetite for politics invading every single corner of the internet beyond people making fun of bush
>>742326141there were way less gaurdrails and you could easily stumble upon illegal stuff and uncensored shit way more easily than nowadays.Google was actually worth its shit as a search engine and didn't gave two fucks about what you were searching.the searches and subcultures weren't dominated by two or three giant corporations, everything had its own personal site, and people knew how to access it, writing "www.somefuckingsite.com" on the address bar wasn't an obscure magic that only a selected individuals knew how to do it.ads on sites actually advertised their own site, again, with the "www." site, no social network bullshit.the internet was something secluded to your living room.It did not follow you outside your house.It did not dominate your friends conversations on useless drivels about what's happening with that influencer.The thing closer to "social network" was MSN which just let you add people you actually knew through their email. It did not suggest "people you may know". it was up to you.It also had a personal blog space you could manually customize, either if you were a retard it had hand holdings, and if you were more knowledgeable, it let you customize HTML.
>>742326767intellectual society peaked pre 1920. 1920 is when materialism started spiking and societal degradation started increasing exponentially.
>>742326141Early WoW (vanilla-tbc-wrath) was truly magical to play, the people weren't min-maxing drones who resented you and bailed the second someone died, the spontaneous pvp was incredible back then, i never had more fun in wpvp than in TBC on the isle of quel danas. I was on a medium pop, balanced pvp server, something 95+% of modern WoW players have NEVER experienced. It was truly something special, never to be experienced again.The custom game scene in WC3, Killing Floor 1 and CS:Source was some of the very best fun you could have gaming.Thats -all- gone now. Yes, the internet was bad, but the soul was great. But echoes of it remain, Meccha Chameleon is a variant of hide+seek, a custom CS:Source game that was popular, its exploded in popularity for a reason.
It was a product of our time and we have now become fossils.It was great and you won't get to experience it sadly, I get why your generation is nostalgic for it but nostalgia is a trap.If you want to live in the world you'd do best to make peace with fitting in with current culture.
>>742326663some of the old newgrounds stuff was actually inspiring to me mostly Adam Phillips's Brackenwood series. that shit still holds up
>>742326259It's no coincidence
>>742326141Retarded gay faggot picture
>>742326141What can I realistically do to stop people from considering Retard to be a slur.It genuinely isn't and the fact that they made it a law is honestly disgusting.
>>742326854I wonder if there will be a brief golden age when interplanetary internet is a thing, or if governments will vow to never again let something like the internet start without excessive control and surveillance
>>742326828i must have spent 100s of hours on css surf maps.
>>742326141I'm glad I experienced the golden years of the free internet. Faggots like picrelated brought their oversocialized high school mentality to the internet and it's been a disaster. Also browns getting smartphones in Punjapoodo.
>>742326828>WoW classic audience is chadsBlizztroons are utterly delusional.
>>742327243Beauty
>>742326141Yes they were. >>742326259It depends on where you live, I've had fast internet for over 20 years now, only had to deal with dial up for a few years before moving to unlimited ADSL in the early 00s and a 25Mb connction in the mid 00s,>>742326329Discord is one of the worst things to happen to internet culture, second only to social media. Forums were much better for community, quality, and discoverability of information since they were indexed by search engines.
>>742327268>Discord is one of the worst things to happen to internet culture, second only to social media.>Forums were much better for community, quality, and discoverability of information since they were indexed by search engines.Shit actually felt like a community, discords really don't. fuck knows how they fucked it up but shit like vent, teamspeak, etc. were honestly better imo.
>>742326141Good things about the 2000's: >Internet was FUN, discover something new every day, so many unique subcultures and interesting communities >Movies (lots of edgy/cringekino stuff before everyone became self-conscious about everything) >Games (if you had a DS with a flash cart you know how awesome it was, console and PC online was fully fledged, dev teams were still small and cheap enough that you'd see people trying all sorts of crazy stuff) >Each new tech rollout changed the game, remember going from a CD player to an iPod? >People still read and talked about books >People still went outside and did stuff >Tech wasn't good enough to be truly horrifying yet Bad things about the 2000's: >Politics >Middle east war/terrorism >Batshit insane patriotism >Degrading privacy, surveillance state can finally be realized >Being gay/nerdy wasn't accepted at all, if you watched something basic like Haruhi people treated you like a freak >Religious flexibility wasn't a thing, good luck if you were "alt" anywhere Christian >08 financial crisis wiping out jobs and futures, lots of people ended up on the streets
>>742326141It was better before engagement was monetized. Now you have third-worlders running bot farms on X and Facebook that just copy whatever post got a lot of hits to the point where you'll see the same exact post get millions of views like 10 times throughout the course of a year, all for the money of course.This same mentality infects everything. All the awful AI slop, all the incel-ish posts that make men as a whole look bad, all the antagonistic buzzwordy posts on here - you look under the hood and it's a third-worlder 9 times out of 10. Gaming discussion is ruined as a result, and discussion about anything is ruined too. The vast majority are phoneposters too because it's all they can afford, thus further contributing to the bot-like, low effort posts. Dead Internet Theory? No, it's just there's certain demographics of people that contribute posts that are so fucking low quality that you couldn't imagine in a million years they're not a bot, lol.
>>742326141I miss when gay was an insult or used to describe something bad.
>>742327091That's what I was hoping too but for Earth; Give up on the Internet and start some other mesh network.The problem is that the circumstances that popularized the Internet are no longer there, we do not lack communications and sharing capabilities, we're so done with that shit that we get anxiety when we get a phone call nowadays.The appeal would be more privacy and more of a wild west vibe again but governments could see it as only that and shut it down entirely.That's why I said nostalgia is a trap, not many people care about a new Internet today so expecting it to take off and becoming as good as mid-late 2000s when it peaked is a very unrealistic thing to hold onto.I hope I'm wrong though.
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>>742326141website designs were pretty great back thenI just really dont like the overly corporate look of of everything today
i like those things tho
>>742326329>GIRLfriends
>>742327358I've made lifelong friends with people I met IRL after hours of discussions in various forums about tech, cars and general topics.They were always a treasure trove of highly-specialised and difficult to find information and documents.
>>742326141>Was gaming and the internet really that great in the 2000s or is it just the power of nostalgia?The culture was more optimistic and unified which was cool. But in general you have significantly more options today than you did back then.
>>742327370>>Movies (lots of edgy/cringekino stuff before everyone became self-conscious about everything)Youtube before the Google buyout was incredible. People doing videos for the sake of it, not for clicks. No faggot started the video begging for patreon bucks or sponsoring Chink spyware. Everytime these faggots cry about their subs bleeding dry, fuck them. They want money, they don't do this out of passion.
>>742327417>be me >2013-14>at the time have self described "radical feminist">very progressive >one day were taking about something >she says something utterly absurd can't remember what exactly >without thinking say "that's fucking gay">she stops dead for about 3 solid seconds before bursting with laughter Good times. Gay was a great insult. She was really anti trans men because she said "They can't just claim to be women, they didn't have to grow up and one and truly experience being a woman". We broke up in 2016 just before all the trans stuff really started to take off and given how progressive she is, I wonder if she has changed her views to fit in with the progressive crowd
They had to ship playable games instead of patching it live, they had to innovate to interest people to buy their game, they had to get technically creative to overcome problems.
>>742327443Even the most mindraped NPCs are starting to look around and realize they were duped and that this whole experiment we've been under is a complete failure. I'm telling you right now, people are waking up exponentially and they're pissed. Everyone can sense how awful things are, how it's a race to the bottom in terms of quality, and how there's nothing to look forward to. There's nothing more radicalizing than just looking at video from the past, 30 years ago feels like an alien world at this point.
>>742327468the corporate madness in the 80s is the reason why the 90s and 00s largely had such a huge rebellious phase away from the boring and mundane sleek colors people were trying to trap you to in a ritualistic masochism for profit and uselessness, Millennials and Gen-Xers were just fucking sick and tired of the same old shit and that's how the counter-cultures came to be as they did, current alt-right movements and so forth are just the same trend: counter culture to the mainstream propaganda and corporate accepted models to reclaim one's agency against boring ass life people are trying to force you down to, its a cycle that will never end.
>>742327626>"radical feminist" gfIt should say, that I'm dumb
you know what, i always thought "lol old people complain about younger generations all the time, the fuck do they know?"but now i'm almost 45 and i think zoomers are fucking done man. i'm a nerd lanklet but when i look at zoomers i think they're pussified to the extreme, it's insane really.>no don't say that word!>no don't eat that thing!>no you need to be positive!>no don't criticize this!(usually a corporation)they are dumb, they don't know how to use adblockers, they get their brain turned into mush by social media, no attention span, no culture, nothing.
>>742326245>Things wer't diffrent back then. You could call a fella a fella and not one nigger in the club (those are a place we used to have back then) would go 0_o (ancient slang sport you wouldn't understand) A d00d could walk down the street and get murdered and everyone locked their doors. Very different from now(?)
>>742327661>I'm telling you right now, people are waking up exponentially and they're pissedEurofag here. Right now Europeans want AIR CONDITIONING BANNED. It's not a pol meme. They really think this will save the planet or something. No one is waking up. People are getting more and more retarded.
>>742327661>Even the most mindraped NPCs are starting to look around and realize they were duped and that this whole experiment we've been under is a complete failure. I'm telling you right now, people are waking up exponentially and they're pissed. Everyone can sense how awful things are, how it's a race to the bottom in terms of quality, and how there's nothing to look forward to. There's nothing more radicalizing than just looking at video from the pasti felt this way around 2008 and thought people were waking up then.
>>742326141Video games sucked in the 2000s. The internet was okay.
>>742326584>it was better in general because you predominantly had above average intelligence people on the internet and in video games.That's because only well-off white people had internet access, nobody else had it until the government started giving out free phones to da poh
Its was heckin gross like the 90s
>>742327785yeah if anyone thinks "X is finally waking up" he's a fucking retardmajority of people are fucking cattle, literally
>>742326141Imagine the internet if only north america and europe had access. Thats how it use to be. Asians had their own separate internet as well. You only ever interacted with mostly white english speakers
>>742327726You can look at it from another perspective. Zoomers grew up with the internet in their lap. They didn't have the classic childhood phase. They always had a phone or an internet connection available. It's a foreign mindset to many of us.
>>742327836Imagine drawing that and saying yea that's fine.. fuck these calart rejects
>>742327726It's not their fault, because again, you have corporations that have figured out everything in regards to capturing eyeballs and keeping them on whatever website they're on. Billions of dollars of research and data have gone into this process of perfecting the formula that makes an algorithm most addicting to each individual user, feeding them a hugbox for their opinions with just enough, maybe 10%, of a different POV to enrage or demoralize them to keep things interesting. Social media algorithms have mindfucked people to the point where they don't even know how to actively browse the Internet, they just passively plug in to the algorithms and forget what they just watched 10 seconds later.It's worse than TV ever was.
>>742327785I've heard people I know IRL (mostly at work) claim that AI data centers (something that only began a few years ago) are the reason why the European heatwave is happening and that the Earth is going to be uninhabitable in a century
>>742326141I was born at the very end of emo and the beginning of lil peep and xxxtentacion. Feels bad man.
>>742327726I prefer to try and resist it by believing that every generation decides to be retarded about something different and remember how much shit my generation fell for.But it gets really difficult not to consider how close we were to analysing the more fucked up aspects of banking and global commerce but instead decided that was too boring die on the hill of...gender politics. But also do it so poorly 99% of what little was "achieved" has been recalled in most places and everywhere else didn't even bother. Please pick something better to get upset about next there's way better options out there. Fuck pick old people even if that'll fuck me over just as I slip into the definition.
>>742326141> diet culture It was only cringe for men. Guys wpuld gloat for being twinks that fit in size zero for women. Now more guys want to be ripped while 5'4 women try to explain how them weighing 160 and over is actually healthy.
>>742327954>lil peep and xxxtentacionthose guys were emo, though
>>742327930same shit environmentalists have been spouting for over 60 years now
>>742326141what a fat gay retard, also they were probably born in like 2004.
hey anons, you remember die hard 3? when john mclane had to stand in the middle of a black district with a "i hate niggers" poster?i watched it when i was a teen and i thought, wow that's fucked up - not because hating niggers is fucked up, but because i thought it was a real thing in a movie>hey racism is real>let's put this character in a racist situation>he's not racist, but he has to deal with it>and let's have varied reactions from people that are being targeted by this racist signand that's it. you had this short episode and that was it, it didn't mean to say "racism bad" because everybody knew that. it meant to say "hey that evil man made the good man do evil thing". but now? imagine how much of a fucking outrage there would be if something like that happened on a screen. zoomers would be having fits on social media. you can't have ddifficult themes like these anymore, because zoomers are literally too scared to take those in and analyze those. it has to be clear cut "punch the bad guy!" shit, otherwise they're too terrified.
Argentina used to be 85% whiteReal Argentinians will never be brown, no matter how much this hurts the subhumans on this shitty brown website.'
>>742327986Lmao
>>742327836That PS4 must belong to the author's boyfriend or something. Look how she presses a button in panel 2. Who the fuck does that except people who have never played a videogame in their life?
>>742328068Don't act like shitlib behavior is a thing exclusive to one generation man
>>742327243classic is def not for troons, maybe blizzard as a whole is now (and thats why retail is pure faggotry) but the absolute mass of actual, unironic racists ive seen populating classic is insaneliteral irl name as discord nick and spamming hardcore racism, its much worse than on here
>>742328068what if they have the passlike the actor is robert downey jr, and its directed by tarintino.
>>742326141The world has always been shit.
>>742327970Honestly I don't even fucking buy it and argue what is implied as "diet culture" was more "what girls have been doing and continue to do but got better at" and this is entirely based on a few coke nose pictures and musicians who came out as skellies in the 00s. Plus it's not like we have a weird statistical gap of obesity, more like a slight plateau I could attribute to other things.
>>742328153This, it's constantly a battle between consumerist, NPC, current thing-supporting troglodytes and the rest of us. Each generation has their own flavor of this.
>>742328180>its much worse than on here.racism is based, guess classic WoW players are where my people are at, people who get upset at hard R are nigger babies and retarded faggots.
>>742328153anon, you can't even say shit anymore, that's how cucked this genreation is>n-word>r-word>whatever wordgo and try saying "retard" on reddit, see what happens
>>742328068This fear and outrage over racism started in the late 00s with Obama (who soilennials went out in droves to vote for)
>>742327370>Being gay/nerdy wasn't accepted at all, if you watched something basic like Haruhi people treated you like a freak i would rather unironically go back to a time where video games, anime and dnd were for weird outcast nerd retards instead of sub-saharan IQ normgroids invading my hobbies and dumbing everything downyou has niche and tight-knit communities where you could make friends and discuss things instead of everything being some new cultural battlefield for trannies and grifters to wage war on
>>742326141Here's the thing. We are more connected and consolidated now than ever. Where before you had 5 different niche websites you would frequent, you now just have... reddit. As an exampleThis is good, right? It has its benefits certainly but we've lost something along the way. There's no more wanderlust. There's no more awe. Everything now is just the same color of millennial grey.
>>742326584you can tell the OP image is from like 2022 at the latest because nowadays "EPSTEIN FUCK NIGGERS" is a popular zoomer meme and gen alpha kids are watching tiktok edits of hitler, logan paul, and yakub doing fortnite dances in front of the black sun.people like this think "homophobia" in 2006 was bad because people would call shit they didn't like gay? imagine what zoomers that inject instagram reels n word compilations into their blood stream are saying to each other
>>742328206By diet culture whats really meant is how women are presented in media/television. Big fat acceptance movement for women, but men in movies are getting more unrealistically muscular.
>it was....HOMOPHOBIC!!!!!!I already told you i like it i don't need you to convince me further>>742327836The fuck is that creature?
>>742328238Ron Paul was the true Internet age Millennial candidate, Obama was the curated deception that was foisted upon us and won because Dubya fucked up so bad.
>>742326141Are they implying most teenagers don't still bash fags and trooners?With the amount of bullying being reported the past few years, I have to laugh my ass off at that delusion. The culture hasn't changed, the only thing that changed is the Internet allowing for bubbles to be formed around niche identities who then make themselves more visible than they actually are because they are terminally online and afraid of going outside of their homes, while playacting like things are different due to cope and commodification money corporations give them like cheap prostitutes. LGBT are the biggest capitalist hoes and mentally ill retards.
>>742326141Anyone have the "that's so wizard with more MP than HP?" I seem to have misplaced mine
>>742328234>on redditokay now try saying nigger on xitter, tiktok, instagram reels, youtubeoh shit you're allowed to again. the censorship has been rolled back for like almost 3 years now. times have changed, anon. reddit is just the new tumblr and every other site is so obscenely racist, homophobic, and misogynistic that terms like "goy" and "foid" are fucking mainstream zoomer slang now
>>742328617sure anon. now you're gonna post all those youtube vids where non-blacks are calling blacks niggers.
>>742327453god DAMN anon, I lost
>>742326141Less third worlders, little to no feminist screeching, no handwringing over men and boys wanking to sexy teen anime girls, more freedom, more anonymity. I'll let you draw your own conclusions.
>>742327726There's a whole world of people outside of the online spaces / social media spaces you're seeing. It feels intellectually dishonest to say I know but it doesn't match the people I know in real life. The peak of ear;y 2020s TikTok and Twitter leftism was fucking retarded but TikTok and Instagram are now edgy cesspools like 4chan. The switch has flipped a bit.t. 22>no cultureThere is a culture but people larp with past subcultures, just continue meme culture with new memes or do the whole wigger shit. The scene knowledge of old that taught people to innovate and constantly push forward and do something new wasn't properly passed down imo. That or people are just content with larping without caring. There were the oldest Zoomers who were there when the new mid 2010s stuff were being innovated and then everything started stagnating. >they don't know how to use adblockersdepends on who you're talking too. A mass of normies are now on social media more than the past. People say we're "digital natives" but that doesn't guarantee the knowledge that only nerds would have. Only passable smart phone competency. >>742326274>Zoomerfag+ doesn't even mean anything faggot>Now kill yourself alphie>HURR DURR KILL YOURSELF CHILD EVEN THOUGH YOU AREN'T ONE BECAUSE I SAID SOimagine beefing with imaginary children. grow the fuck up.>>742328345this along with Roblox footage and NIGGER being looped. FUCK NIGGERS FUCK NIGGERS being looped. Also the /pol/ antisemitism that is normalised on those spaces as well. But there would be tons of people on TikTok and Instagram that are doing business as usual.>>742327661this. the whole thing has been a mistake. We've been suckered by the attention economy for the influencers and fell into political bullshit. All went to shit sometime between 2016 - 2020 imo.
>>742327370>>Being gay/nerdy wasn't accepted at all, if you watched something basic like Haruhi people treated you like a freakI read about this often and it does get portrayed in (us)media, but I'm 99% sure this is just an american thing. Sure you had social groups and so on everywhere, but for some reason especially the amercians need them so comically divided.
>>742327836and these are the same people asking for fucking remakes of every damn thing. i kinda feel lucky that shit like porkys is stuck in the 80s
>>742326141Everything was much better except for internet infrastructure. Data caps were hell.
>post-9/11 and patriot act, rap music topping charts and salessociety had already been lost.
>>742328719not that anon but yes people say nigger and retard all the time on those platforms now. It's a free for all. He's not lying.>non-blacks are calling blacks niggersthat's still a bridge too far.
>>742328930>The peak of ear;y 2020s TikTok and Twitter leftism was fucking retarded but TikTok and Instagram are now edgy cesspools like 4chan. The switch has flipped a bit.i hear you anon, but i find it really hard to believe
>>742328930>The scene knowledge of old that taught people to innovate and constantly push forward and do something new wasn't properly passed down imo. That or people are just content with larping without caring.What's different now is that there's no room to just be bored and create things. Phones also suck for creating memes or new pictures, and phones are how most people browse the Internet now.
I liked discovering new anime shrines via the Anipike.
>>742326828>people weren't min-maxing dronesGearscore though
>>742326141The only time you'd ever have to encounter a third worlder was through some sort of HUEHUEHUE GIBE MONE OR I REPORT U shit or some random oriental spamming global chat to sell in-game currency for real money. It was grand.
>>742327453Fuck you anon. I lost.>>742328271I miss it so much.
>>742329061I found out about so much anime shit through this site in high school
>>742326242It was wonderful, normies only used it at work/school, so there were only nerds at other times, all from north america, europe and japan.
>>742329061I miss webrings and browsing random geocities sites, signing guestbooks, visitor counts in websites, etc.
>>742328238After what's came out over the past few years about you guys and rigged elections, I wouldn't believe any election results from the past 20+ years desu
Bare minimum the internet was an active choice. in the first half of the 2000s anyway. It was something you voluntarily got for your house and it was something you commited to when you used it. In contrast to today when it is just another must have utility to exist in modern life like water and electricity. "I am going to connect to the internet.""I have done what I needed to do, I will now disconnect from the internet."What's weird is like I've flipped a little bit to a certain degree. I could not deal with real life at all so I would spend all my time hiding on the internet. It's safe for me here. But now that every gay nigger retard treats this like home I try to stay away.Used to be really exciting when the internet influenced real life in any way. They were separate worlds. Like with Project Chanology or 9000 penises. Seeing something online and then it happening in real life with tangible effects was novel.Now its seems to be culture starts online and it stays online and real life is starting to feel fake you know. Idk whatever I'm going through it right now hope that made sense.
>>742326329>t. troon about to kill itself
>>742329216The harsh truth is that normalfags have never been the problem with the internet. The real issue is that the percentage of extreme degenerate freaks has significantly increased online since then and they command influence over large swathes of people and corporations due to their numbers and the self-propagating nature of the environments they foster.
>>742327909Older zoomers did, but the younger zoomers and Gen Alphas didn't have that normal childhood phase.
>>742328719>>742329049Gypsie Crusader (a literal national socialist/fascist and a christian) beat a nigger on live stream on Kick, is that enough for him to be a publicly BASED figure?
>>742329357normies are a problem because the corpos and government are interested in their feeble brains and they can't handle it so the enshittification of the internet ensued. Then yes we of course we have the toaster fucker freaks as well, like you can't make a new imageboard besides 4chan if you're not really rich because it will be flooded with illegal materials instantly.
>>742329323I haven't heard the term "surf the web" in years, as it implies you're actively browsing the Internet on your own. There's nowhere to go anymore except the same 5 websites that are algorithm'd to death, but are where everything is happening, leading to FOMO.
>>742326242it was vastly better you fucking retard. is this what zoomers tell themselves?the web used to actually be a massive thing you could explore before 90% of activity was consolidated into a handful of giant highly-controlled corpo social media platforms. IRC, newsgroups, forums etc were incredibly diverse places. censorship was unheard of; you could say nigger on sites for children and there'd be philosophical discussions about why that freedom is important.search engines actually worked and were necessary because you'd discover new shit every day, by actively following your interests, instead of just vacantly scrolling feeds.we also had infinite sick-ass browser games and it's weird those basically just vanished when flash died. a lot of them weren't even flash-based. and to go along with that, discussion was a hell of a lot more earnest and productive because everyone wasn't brainfucked or a bot. /v/ was never good but in the early days most threads were like "hey look at this cool thing i found, wanna play" or "let's have a conversation about something we like"kill yourself and then eat a dick
>>742326141Internet back then was more fun when it was mostly white people and no social media with a gorillion sassy negro gifs spammed at every corner.
>>742326141>I would love being a teen in the 2000s>"OKAY BUT WHAT ABOUT *POLITICAL BULLSHIT NO TEEN WOULD GIVE A SHIT ABOUT*???????????"
>>742329462You don't have to self-censor here, normalfag is fine.
>>742329053Trying to find examples of posts outside of Instagram and TikTok so you don't have to log in to get what I meanhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r1A7aIGufYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PitnneHLwOghttps://www.aparat.com/v/ljy0f9f>>742329058Yeah that's true. Drawing on phones sucks hard and DAWs like Bandlab are a pain for music creation.>>742329420Younger Zoomers and Gen Alphas were probably still banned from having phones if their parents didn't let them have it. Stop being disingenuous. >>742329443yeah I mean I guess that passes.
>>742326141It actually was kino but that doesn't mean there isn't great stuff now. That being said, retards like pic in OP actually had proper containment sites (tumblr, wattpad) and ever since (mainly) tumblr died, they've spread like a disease
>>742329562I cant I live in the EUSSR where we don't have free speech and have to pay 3+10 euros extra when we order a usb cable from Aliexpress
>>742329567the blacks were fuming and got extra upset when the judges of the boxing match ruled in slight favor (winning) the match for Gypsie Crusader over Supahot Fire. They were all raging like monkeys. And they say whites are racist and problematic? Niggers can't even afford to lose a boxing match to an untrained in Boxing (he did muay thai not boxing) novice, lmao ego shattered blacks were funny to see.
>>742329558This, I was in my late teens in the 2000s when 9/11 happened and pretty much my only real concern was>what the fuck put Cheez TV back on, fucking yanksand then a few years later>eyyy let's see the highlights of shit blowing up in sand country, noice
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>>742329061What a nuke to my head holy shit... I haven't thought about this in forever.>bbbro are those a-anime titties??? Look at the shit on there.IRC, Gopher, FTP, Web Rings....God damn man take me back to my moms shitty Compaq and give me a 56k modem I'm done with this shit.
>>742327370>Being gay/nerdy wasn't accepted at all, if you watched something basic like Haruhi people treated you like a freakHaving loved through the era, the only people who were ever a little weird about it were women, by 2010 everyone from losers to jocks were playing video games on some varying, semi-regular basis (free time permitting, having actually hung out with jocks, they were often busy with extracurriculars like football or what-have-you)
>>742326141I don't know how to describe it to you other than it felt like the wild west, and everything was laid back. It was uglier that's for sure site layouts were pretty garbo, and aesthetically all over the place. But it felt like I was consuming a lot more content that was made by regular people instead of corpos, just because they wanted to make it, not even for profit? Pedos were pretty much everywhere and never really hid it reddit used to have like fucking r/jailbait, so yeah a lot of those oldfag reddit greybeards were pretty just out in the open tech pedos high overlap with early 4chan users. Idk can you ask a more specific question?
>>742329357Truthfully, I'd much rather be friends with a normie than a mentally ill terminally online degenerate, but normies are the reason that everything is allowed to become a race to the bottom, because they lack the context. They're the same people that will buy the newest remake of an old game and not see how generic and bad gaming has become. The Internet has gone through 3 "Eternal Septembers">Windows 95 release with the Start menu, making it easier than ever to go online with AOL pushing free 1000 hour CDs >iPhone release and ubiquidy from 2007-2012, bringing in millions of people for the first time>COVID lockdowns Each of these brings in millions of new people for the first time who fall prey to all the scams and go along with the decreased quality of websites because it's all they've ever known. It used to be drilled into people's head to NOT put any identifying information about yourself online, for your privacy and safety. We now live in a post-privacy era where no one cares and we're so far down the commode that it doesn't even matter anymore.
>>742329810I remember I knew this one football jock who had like some weird mlp fallout crossover sticker on his phone, it looked like some fusion between one of the pony's cutie mark symbols and the brotherhood of steel symbol. Yet he still acted like a jock to the point where he even abandoned me when I went to sit at his table lmao.
>>742329519that internet still exists, you just migrated to feedslop. don't blame others for your shitty decisions
>>742327370>>Being gay/nerdy wasn't accepted at all, if you watched something basic like Haruhi people treated you like a freakThat was a good thing, and being a homosexual should get you shamed like being a pedophile. You faggots were never supposed to be treated as equals. You are diseased faggots.
>>742329810Jocks in my country were into gaming but mostly CS, sports games, racing games, roleplaying games outside of Bethesda titles and Final Fantasy weren't hugely popular, Warhammer? accepted by jocks as that cool nerdy shit about genocides and shit. (the mini-painting gave points towards those jocks who were into arts.) Shit was funny, there was a tier of how accepted certain nerdy shit was, fighting and wrestling games were 100% acceptable.
>>742327726Like another anon said, zoomers grew up being bit by the internet bug frame 1 of their existence. I was born in 1997, there was a brief, (but memorable) amount of time before i was on the internet and videogames all the time, i had to leave the house and find shit to do, often i was hanging out with a kid like 3-4 years younger than me because there just werent any other kids my age in the neighborhood. Hell i wasnt even gaming on a computer until high school, i was playing gamecube and xbox 360 (was wholly unconscious of xbox live for a while, and when i started playing halo 3 online with friends from school, it was over from there)
I can hardly remember what 4chan was like before it was filled with brown people posting twitter screencaps
>>742326141It was a decade of perpetual, obvious decline shoved right in your face and celebrated the whole time. The decade in which the dudebro conquered the industry, and nearly every worthwhile studio was razed to the ground on the altar of AAA consolidation. The only good thing I can say about it is that it was falling from such a high point, that you almost didn't notice things were getting worse for the first half of it. And that even during the most dogshit eras of artistic production, you'll get a few rough gems that will stand out after the sieve of time does its thing.
>>742327243I know several people from several gaming spheres on 4chan and the WoW players are the most stable, irl successful and more wealthy than ANY other.They're also far more racist than any other group by far
>>742328234Leddit is a dead site that isn't relevant anymore. Get with the times, xitter and instagram randomly became more /pol/ then /pol/. It is surreal as someone who has known the truth since 2005.
>>742329986Yep, and they were great too, WWE: Day of Reckoning was a top tier fun game
>>742329907You should remember that normalfags are just an amplifier of culture, not the creators of it. Ascribing these declines to them is like blaming cars for car accidents.
>>742327370>>Being gay/nerdy wasn't accepted at all, if you watched something basic like Haruhi people treated you like a freak Nerd culture becoming popular is the worst thing that happened to nerd culture
>>742326141That's so gay. Retarded and gay. The dude in the picture is fat too.
>>742330076Reddit exists solely for bots and retards to talk to each other so the data of those conversations can be siphoned into LLMs.
>>742326242>The internet wasn't better per se but the average IQ level of people on the internet was highergee, i wonder why
>>742328617I'm perma shadowbanned on yt for years now and can't even insult someone back on twitter without a shadowban there as well. Censorship rollback my ass
Idk I was cranking my shit to zonesama newgrounds vids back then. and playshapes.
>>742328234You can actually get away with saying retard on certain parts of reddit again. Most mods will probably delete it but it's not an auto-delete like faggot or nigger.
>>742329809>staying up late on the family Pentium to look up sailor moon and ranma titties>desperately hoping the internet doesn't cut out because if you have to dial up again you'll wake the entire houseIt was a better time.
>>742330228Rule #1 of internet is still in effect on Xiker: Do not talk bad about za joos or zey get banned!
>>742326141Zoomer here. I liked sneaking onto Cartoon Network’s website with my older sister and without our parents’ permission to play the Regular Show games that were “forbidden” for some reason in our household.
>>742326141Aoba…
The early 2000s were a playground for those of us who partook in hogging. If you did not care what your friends thought and pursued your desires for chubby women there would never a weekend pass that you wouldn't be in bed with a new girl. If you were emo you had even more freaky chubby girls that would do anything for a shred of attention. They were beautiful times for chubby girl appreciators. They'd play vidya with you, suck and fuck you and be quiet while hanging out with your friends. I miss many things about the early 2000s, but the endless stream of easy, chubby pussy.. That, I miss the most.
>>742327836>transphobiclike 0.00000001% of the human population btw
>>742330482I mostly miss Craigslist and hooking up with housewives.
>>742330558Never had the balls to do that. I did hook up with a 28 year old married mom that was covering a shift at my shitty job when I was 17. That shit was cash.
>>742329918>that internet still existsNta but not really lol, a lot of what made the old internet what it was has been erased from existence and only lies in our memories of it.
>>742326141>itt 20 year olds larp as 30+ year oldsHeh.
>>742329918clearly you have no frame of reference to be saying thisor, y'know, dignity.
>>742330610I got bamboozled like once when it was a 60 year old woman pretending to be 35, but that was like a statistical error.
>>742330757enjoy your feedslop then, slopslurper
>>742330702Most of it. It's fuckin unbelievable how much has been lost, and just how much better it was. Every time I think about it, I still get the wind knocked out of me a little bit. Even if gaming and entertainment in general started to suck, I'd be happy with just the Internet staying fun, but they even took that away from us...
>>742330789do you think this makes you sound less or more like a brain-fucked delusional zoomer
>>742326259Yeah, corporations hadn't fully taken over the entire world yet.
>>742327268>discoverability of information since they were indexed by search engines.I lament over this every now and then. I really don't like discord and use it as little as possible, but sometimes you actually just have to go there sometimes. For instance if you need to troubleshoot a large mod or an indie game or something, there's no forum except for maybe the steam forum which is just full of ESLs that can barely communicate with each other without foaming at the mouth. The amount of vidya guides and niche information hidden behind some discord server you literally cannot find on any web search engine is insane. MMOs are especially awful about this, but the genre is dead anyway so who cares.
>>742330840I'm not the talking about how everyone migrated to algo slop, as if you couldn't just choose to not do thatGo enjoy your slop retard
>>742330702sounds to me like you just haven't found where people went
>>742330851I do graphic design, just as I freed myself from Adobe and moved to Affinity the developers got bought out by Canva, who proceeded to close the forums in favour of a fucking Discord server.
>>742330993they should've set up a Matrix server instead. fucking discord niggers I swear.
>>742330993Who needs indexing by search engines when you can just join a server and use discord's inferior internal search or manually go through 175 pinned posts and 200 threads across 12 different channels (don't forget to react to a welcome message or you won't see half of them). So much better, so modern
>>742326259internet went to shit in three stages (cumulative)>ads and viruses // net becomes accessibles to most people>social media and platforms // net became mainstream in first world>bots and ai // net becomes mainstream everywherewhat did improve in the last 20-30 years>better ux and media capibilities>higher bandwith>better filtersthat's it
>>742330868>I'm not the talking
>>742331128>no but the internet didn't change, you're delusional
>>742331437>But the internet refused the change
>>742329809>>742330304Getting on the internet to browse purposefully and with a goal, while on limited time and bandwidth was peak.You felt like a hunter-gatherer going out to hunt with an almost guaranteed reward at the end.
>>742326259>Internet speed was worseIt was in accordance with the overall amount of data people were capable of feeding it. Unless you're talking early ADSL era which you'd have to be 40 to even really remember it. People didn't have 4k cameras with the net access on demand in their pockets and social media services filled with petabytes of useless reels and people competing for attention weren't really a thing either. In hindsight the proliferation of hi-tech mobile devices and bandwidth expansion kind of fucked a lot of things up but it was inevitable, especially when you consider that the net was designed by darpa and was always going to end up this way. The whole entertainment and business side of things were just sides effect really. I doubt the governments ever intended for the people to have such a powerful tool, hence their attempts to slow it down by fragmenting it and introducing IDs and such (no it's not to protect your children).
>>742329519you are 100% correct. Censorship lovers can eat a fucking dick
>>742331128Discord is equivalent to a humiliation ritual at a secret society ran by kikes who stalk you for everything.
>>742326141People use the r-slur nonstop nowadays because it's the only word leftists can use without feeling guilty (all mentally ill people are male and white and this don't deserve any support)
