Have you ever felt nostalgic about the old internet days? Is the internet better now, or better then?>listening to youtube music>all of a sudden plays that DEVELOPERS song of sweaty Ballmer shouting >remember this fucking video is older than 4chan itself since I first heard about it on WoW in 2004
>>107813192just for one thing : people would actually discuss more and explain to newbies instead of just "google it" or "skill issue".also you could open as many tabs as you wanted it wouldn't eat up all your ram.websites with torrent or mega would be open too no ones gave a fuck and you didn't have to use a vpn.but mostly people yeah,everyone got super bitter.
>>107813192Yes, especially when I see how many internet forums have collapsed.
>>107813192yes, obviously.
I'm 21 and I browsed 4cuck and other chans like when I was 11. I'd say Youtube and chans were better back then but they were already dying due to normies/zoomies/indians getting internet access
>>107813192>being this much of an oldfag>having the posting style of a por 2012 troonime touristhow?
>>107813242>everyone got super bitteryes that happened
>>107813192Come to IRC!>>107813474Anime website.
>>107813494maybe in 2003, look at the calendarbut no, srsly, how did you get the newfag virus, alleged oldfag?
>>107813505>>107813494oh it's not u, nevermind
>>1078135052003: Anime website2026: Anime website
>>107813192im not that old, but i remember the net being a lot more simpler. i had a brick java phone and it was super easy to download games for it, less ads, less bloat, less centralisation and searching was easy and more straightforward, at least now we can do a lot more on the web too but generally it got worse.>>107813494>ircwhats there? xmpp is dead as fuck. can you reccomend a good client.
>>107813551>whats there? nerds discussing and sharing anime, nerds discussing linux, some channels about casual conversation, international channels, abandoned servers, a ton of users just idling>xmpp is dead as fuckxmpp is for 1 to 1 conversations for the most part>can you reccomend a good clienti use kvirc but weechat is popular if you like tuis
>>107813192sadly the internet became serious business.
>>107813458>indians getting internet accessIt will be even worse
>don't worry html5 will replace flash bros
>>107813690the "don't worry" part is even more rage inducing retrospectively
>>107813593inderesting, i will check it later. but if youre right, that'd explain why all mugs over here are dead or terrible.
Smartphones and social media have been antichrists of technology. Turns out giving every single mouth breathing dumbfuck free access to the square and a free voice inside of it with precisely zero prerequisite knowledge or intelligence is an absolute disaster and destroys that square every single time, from the internet to college to voting and everywhere in between.
>>107813817but think about it, those people can't even leave social media, how can they kill internet if they are contained?the answer is, they didn't, the ones who killed internet are corporations trying to adapt the internet for these normies. Money always destroy good stuff, I know we were brainwashed here in the west that capitalism is god, but everything in excess is bad, too capitalist = becomes a dystopian hellhole, too comunist = becomes a dystopian hellhole. Read ecclesiastes
>>107813912>but think about it, those people can't even leave social media, how can they kill internet if they are contained?But they're not contained, it spills out all the time (reddit, /pol/, tumblr, like 20% of all threads on this site being twitter screen caps...). Plus like you said further, corporations adapt the internet to the least common denominator, so if people are exposed to facebook or whatever they're likely just to gravitate there than somewhere like here, and then that in turn attracts more people as it grows and it becomes a runaway cycle where we have I don't know 80 or 90% of internet traffic consumed by people using by fagman.>the answer is, they didn't, the ones who killed internet are corporations trying to adapt the internet for these normies.100%, but to play doubles advocate I don't blame them for targeting the largest and easiest audience possible because that's where the money is, and running even a moderately successful small website can be extremely expensive in server and traffic costs to say nothing of salaries. I don't blame anyone for trying to monetize their idea and become rich, especially if it's a good idea, I do blame those people for abandoning the people and principles that got them there in the first place purely in pursuit of more money power and control ("don't be evil").>Money always destroy good stuffYes, but again see above>I know we were brainwashed here in the west that capitalism is god, but everything in excess is bad, too capitalist = becomes a dystopian hellhole, too comunist = becomes a dystopian hellhole.Agreed, capitalism is the way to go but there needs to be limits and guardrails to keep it from turning into crony capitalism / corporate socialism like we have now. Unlike the old "real socialism has never been tried" meme, real capitalism HAS been tried and it worked amazingly, but too much libertarian freedom allowed certain entities to take over and distort it into what we have now.
>>107813192The idea and the aesthetics were better but the horrible truth is that in most regards this is the best it's ever been and most of the flaws are downstream of things being better.e.g. it's now much easier to find game information on wikis, which is what people want to do, but a side-effect is that there are less forums for discussing games. There are more people than ever to chat to, but a side effect is that none of them want have to talk to a boring person like me through lack of choice, it's much easier to avoid being bored, but a side effect is that people spend a lot more time being angry about what some idiot said on twitter, and so on.
I miss the early and mid 2000's dearly because there hasn't been a sense of community on the internet since.There's just too many people now, with only a few websites getting all the traffic.
>>107813817I have long since held that 2010 is where things went wrong in 2010. iPhone 4 brought the iphone to everyone, android was getting traction, it was the beginning of the end. You can map all problems of society to 2010
>>107813192Internet was better before phoneposters.
