Remember when cartoons used to portray the internet as a whole different dimension?
>>151034174Yeah, they did that because it was such a new and alien thing to them. Freakazoid getting his powers from the internet hasn't aged a day though, heh. Back then, they did that stuff with basically everything they barely understood, like making low-effort jokes about Chinese people, superheroes getting superpowers from radiation, and protagonists having super tech like a phone built into their car.Nowadays the only equivalent thing I can think of is AI and maybe VR being the "unknowable alien thing"
To be fair, it was a whole different dimension before the normalfags invaded it and made it boring.
>>151034174Yeah man
>>151034399Hard disagree. I'm glad social media has simplified and condensed everything. No more gay ass fansites dedicated to obscure anime characters clogging up the tubes.
>>151034965I forgot to mention it but I'm trans btw if that matters
I remember the old web. It's still out there. I can feel it. Like a sleeping elder god waiting for the servers to align and the clouds to part so that it may rise up and pwn us all like the noobs we are.
>>151034965>No more gay ass fansites dedicated to obscure anime characters clogging up the tubes.back then you could just ignore the swaths of garbage sites like this, now the garbage is forced into your face in some way or another.
>>151035020>transSorry, I meant femboy.
>>151034174if a cartoon tried to portray the internet in this fashion, it would probably be the next best thing to hell itself.
>>151035020trannies pretend to like old internet. you failed.
>>151034174Remember when Mrs. Frizzle took the kids to SPACE?
>>151036316is that a good thing or a bad thing?
>>151036317You said it yourself. They pretend they do, the rest of us don't have to.
>>151034965>I'm glad the internet is owned by corporations and people stopped having fun because I'm scared of sincerity, and people actually giving a shit about anythingYou're pathetic.
>>151034965>I'm glad social media has simplified and condensed everything. No more gay ass fansites dedicated to obscure anime characters clogging up the tubes.name 1 reason this makes you glad. how's checking something from a fansite worse than also checking something on a fansite but now it's on facebook?
>>151036381bad.
>>151035087Shit like angelfire and geocities are still up though
>>151034174The internet used to be very inaccessible. I remember a video analyzing how The Simpsons viewed the internet and computers. From mocking the fact that only nerds used it to how it was something "sophisticated" young people used.
>>151034965Successful troll is successful
>>151034174Code Lyoko was fun
>>151034174Hey. Cut it out.
>>151034174I remember
>>151034174>be me as a kid>think it would be kino if tom and jerry had modern sci-fi shit>tom and jerry tales comes out and fucking deliverstruly the last cartoon worth getting up on saturday mornings for. i remember being hyped as fuck for this episode from advertisements
>>151036435anon, other anon's image is from ReBoot, where one "layer" of the internet is a twisted realm full tentacle horrors that corrupts you just by being there
>>151034965So many (You)s for such weak bait. I'm disappointed.
>>151034174They still do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCYtyrx6Qmk
>>151034174Yeah man, It was wild.
>>151034174A lot of science fiction had some interesting concepts of what the web was going to be before it devolved into just Amazon and Twitter. It's honestly pretty depressing how the web went from being a vast frontier of communication and information to what it is.
If you cut out company sites, browsing the internet really IS like entering another dimension man. Even the fact that I can type this and someone physically on the other end of the world can read it immediately is magical.
>151034965But that still happens though, all you did was expose normies to it.
>>151035101Yeah instead of one guys shrine to Sailor Mars clogging up the internet now you have to deal with a completely sanitized and combined internet where everyone has to be polite and agree with corporate messaging or be blacklisted as a toxic fan. I would much rather have stuck with however retarded the older internet was than have to rub elbows with even bigger retards who will dick suck Bendis.
>>151036388Honestly it's pretty nasty how they hijack the aesthetic but pump it full of brown queers when their absence was the appeal
>>151039971did someone force people into deleting their sites? did someone force people to use twitter and amazon? no? then i guess that's what everyone wants, no?i always see people complain about missing old internet but them they seem perfectly complacent using new internet, and they do absolutely nothing to change things back.
>>151040014>did someone force people into deleting their sites?Kind of. A lot of search engines are heavily biased so even just doing regular searches takes a lot more effort before you stop seeing adds and reddit posts. >i always see I don't think you really understand how the internet works or what the problem actually is.
>>151040014Force at gunpoint? No. Force through economic factors? Yeah.
>>151040058>Kind of. A lot of search engines are heavily biased so even just doing regular searches takes a lot more effort before you stop seeing adds and reddit posts.again, why? is someone forcing all search engines be biased?>I don't think you really understand how the internet works or what the problem actually is.go ahead and tell me what the problem is.
>>151040075Are you pretending to be retarded or is it just coming naturally? If the latter please kill yourself, if the former please be more entertaining.
>>151040087i am asking basic questions, you are the one who seems incapable of answering so you just hurl insults at me. i ask you again to prove me wrong instead of insulting me if you're so smart.
>>151040094>you are the oneI'm not the guy you've been talking to.
>>151040108that doesn't matter in the slightest. you could still prove me wrong, but i guess deflecting also works if you're retarded
>>151034174It's really not that different from how characters playing a game just makes 8bit sounds and they talk about reaching level 20 like it's a platformer even well after 3D games were a thing
>>151040121FPS also had levels dude
>>151034174It's a nortubel tier gag at the time
>>151040094You're intentionally a retard. Yes, it is possible to make your own site. However it ends up being moot when said site is buried under an ad heavy mainstream focused and biased algorithm and even once you have it up, there's the issue of actually getting any traffic. Additionally the bigger tragedy, and clearly you suffer from it yourself, is that it has become warped from the free spirited exchange of ideas and information access and little more than an online store front or media broadcast.
i just kinda miss how internet and RL were almost entirely separated from each other
>>151040158don't forget that no matter where you are or what the topic is, some faggotier is ALWAYS going to bring up trump. I saw a video recently of a guy feeding a bear and the bear eats the food, then immediately attacks the guy.>"LOL what if we told Trump that this bear was a 12 year old girl???">24 people liked this
>>151040158you think people on the old internet made websites to get traffic? most didn't even know if anyone went on them. they did it out of passion.>little more than an online store front or media broadcastagain, i see people say things like that but then do absolutely nothing to change things and remain complacent using 3 sites.>clearly you suffer from it yourselfwhat makes you say that? you sound like you're just making shit up at this point
>>151040179you're the one bringing him up right now
>>151040225and you're either pedantic or retarded for failing to understand my point. possibly both.
>>151040248your point is moot when you are literally doing it yourself
>>151039917Dunno if that counts since half the modern "we go into the internet" gags are just parodying the originals or going right for the "the web is a web" gag.
>>151040252>you can't make a point by explaining your point! I won't allow that! Heh heh, one more internet argument won.
Another thread detailed by aspies KEK
>>151040177I still try to maintain that barrier. Whenever I hear someone say "email me", I immediately find someway to contact them through any other means. I don't care if it's slipping a letter under a door.
>>151040280you can't complain about something while also doing the thing you are complaining about. pretty simple.
>>151034174>cartoonsAnon, we used to call it cyberspace.EVERYONE treated it like a whole different dimension.
I miss when internet and real life were seperate. When you were sick of one you could escape into the other.
>>151034174I miss when the internet was regarded as a separate 'place' that only existed on the computer and not something thats woven itself into real life.it's become fucking flooded with normalfags.
>>151040014The NPC meme is real, ha.Anyway, a huge part of what killed the internet is Google's algorithms and how SEO is the only way to ensure you get any traffic at all if you're not already one of the big mega-websites. If you don't SEO the shit out of your website, you're NOT showing up in a Google search, and thus your website costs more than you make from it and it dies.That stuff's out of the hands of people, nobody "wants" all their sites to follow the same careful guidelines and all end up being samey.Other things that helped kill the internet:>texting and social media in general killing people's ability to write/read more than 200-ish characters at once, eventually leading to them switching to visual "social media" instead, like Twitch, Vine and TikTok>ads getting super intrusive to the point where about 50% of users use an adblocker, cutting funding to sites that can't survive without them>NEW: AI "journalism" websites also popping up weaponizing SEO trickery to clog up search engines and kill even more smaller websitesStuff that people CAN control that helped kill the internet:>people becoming so "us vs them" and drinking the tribalism juice so they end up mass-migrating to often-private "social media" walled gardens like Bluesky and Discord just to get away from "not-us" people instead of acting like human beings and accepting differences, or doing even a second of unbiased research about the "other team">people becoming such unabashed consoomers that they don't even so much as interact with anything they haven't learned about via literal/figurative advertising, turning their minds into fully believing that "if I haven't heard of it, that means it's literally bad" unless it gets talked about on TikTok (like Dubai chocolate). This includes everything from websites to food, to forums, to even stores IRL
>>151039989What are you even sperging about you retard. Seriously go back to /pol/... my wife Rei Hino has nothing to do with your inane schizo babble and yes, my shrine to her is still in perfect condition back in my home country. Here in Japan where I live now I rather spend time at my wife's Hikawa Shrine. Yes, Sailor Mars will always be my wife and I moved here just for her. And no, we don't have anything to do with whatever BS aspies are ranting about here.
>>151039971>being a vast frontier of communication and information to what it is.I'd argue it still is a vast frontier of communication and information
>>151040509>accuses others of sperging>proceeds to sperg his entire ass off
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>>151040501>your website costs more than you make from it and it dies.people used to make money from their sites on the old internet?
>>151034174But that's literally how the internet worked in the 90's.
>>151034174pretty sure that is still a thing
>>151040832Why'd you post an image of nothing, anon?
>>151034174Fairly Oddparents did my favourite one of these
>>151040179I miss the "no politics, no religion" rules of old internet forums.
>>151034174I feel like im one of probably a thousand people that remeber when TMNT has to go into Cyberspace to collect data cubes of Splinter after they came back from the future
>>15104374424/7 online culture was rotted people's brains
>>151043908Which series and episode?
>>151034965I'm not a fan of all the internet being about 7 or so mega sites that everybody uses for every occasion. I miss it being a series of small communities dedicated to anything under the sun.
>>151040177It was the smart phone that ended that. The second everyone had an internet ready device in their picket at all times, any separation was over.
Smaller websites still exist, you just need to know how to find themThis might help https://marginalia-search.com/explore
>>151034174Really just swiping from Tron.
>>151044939I almost cried, dude. Like I went in my parents attic and found a box of my old toys.
>>151044769Looking back my mom was right to put restrictions on my usage of it. Heck I mainly tried to use it for music and phone calls.
>>151034174It still does, see Pantheon
>>151040014Thank you for including a selfie with your post.
>>151038935People falling for shit tier bait on /co/?
>>151044730https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z7kVH9xePM
>>151040282People with aspergers syndrome do tend to enjoy details
>>151040177I hate how people still use the excuse that the internet isn't real and to just go outside. Even fucking zoomers use it when they know it's bullshit to just deflect their own shitty behavior.
>>151034399Normalfags don't use /co/ or 4chan anon. They all went to Xitter. This site has been bleeding users since Covid. The only people left are the Here Foreverfags like you and me. Why do you think board quality has been slowly improving?
>>151035087April Fools Day proved 4chan and the internet is still alive and well it's just been sleeping. It is waking back up.
>>151046504That show was incredible
>>151050629 Chanda did nothing wrong.
>>151039984it's not magical anymore when every site is black or grey and has the same UI like all restaurants now that modernize and all look the same
