This modern normienet is horrible. 2010 was the best era.
>>108471903>tries to recreate roblox but worse>fails miserablyMany such cases....
>>108471903I have started picking up a book hobby because the internet is so filled with faggotry. The amount of too sensitive fags on it is insufferable. Shame from what it used to be too.
>>1084719031996 was better. I get you weren’t around for that but it was.
>>108472067I was but porn downloads were a fucking mess on 56k. irc was fun though.
>>108471903Ever since I began using RSS feeds to read people's blog posts and other updates from websites, it's drastically cut down on my exposure to abject nonsense. You can even filter out content that you don't want to see Like AI nonsense.
>>108471903Yes you're still here on arguably the worst website of the entire internet.Curious.
>>108472087For porn BBS was much better than the internet.And if you're lucky the sysop would chat to you about your excellent taste while you waited for the downloads to complete.
>>108471903>My internet addiction is starting to go away because the internet is getting so shitsame desu
>>108472644In 96, we still had a win 3.1 box. Didn't get win 98 till mid 99. That's when I really got into some nonsense. Lightspeed University with Tawney Stone. (Rachel was actually my favorite)
>>108471903Offline LAN time anon. Be free. Enjoy computers again, no ads, no logons, no authentcation, cpomplete privacy, run your favorite 'obsolete' operating systems in peace, no updates, no security risk all the media, games, software and music and ebooks and wikis you want.Get it done.
>>108472659same for everone, went looking for something, shit search engines, dead links, abandoned forums, AI generated scam slop sites, ghost town.
>>108472087>>108472067I used to get cdroms from my friend. It was the time when Metal Gear Solid was released for PC. He spent evenings downloading stuff at his school.
>>108471903I have been relegated to this board only on this website only.
>>108472859GRIM
>>108471903You will never know the glory that was the internet between 2002 and 2009.
>>108472859And posting in this shit hole sucks donkey dick ever since gook moot assumed control
>>108472620This is one of the best sites, it’s amongst the least changed since its inception. It’s basically 4chan and Craigslist at this point, everyone else has sold out to modernity.
What exactlllly was better?When I start asking people about this nostalgia stuff turns out its always because they were children or they had friends back then so the thing was not better you yourself was happier.
>>108473234Less non-whites, so very few indian slop in particular.No Reddit, so here was the place where all the nerds and geeks gathered, and we were more of a cultural force and weird shit happened more often that would now be its own subreddit. Plus once Reddit got big from sniping off a bunch of our user base they eventually cracked down on free speech/lulz content like I Hate Fat People and it became the awful awful hugbox circle jerk mod powerlust dumpster fire it is today.No mobile posters meant effort posting had a slightly higher ratio because a full keyboard was always there in front of you if you felt the need to sperg out and write a few thousand words on why Kirk is superior to Picard because he fucks more alien bitches. I could have typed this in a third of the time and with much less thumb pain if I was at my desk instead of in bed on my phone.Intentionality is another big part. I went to the internet because I wanted a break from my everyday life, now the internet is my everyday life and instead of spending a few hours a day laughing at the shenanigans on /b/ while also posting deep conversations on special interest forums I’m just mindlessly scrolling through content whenever I have more than thirty seconds without stimulation.Shit was much better pre wide adoption of smartphones.
do you think theyll brick everyones quests when metaverse shuts down or at least stop updating the horizon app?
>>108473179Best part of 4chan is that it hasn't changed. Gobless.
>>108473304It'll probably just stop functioning
>>108473275All of those are your personal problems.
>>108473476Retard take, only half of those pare personal problems, the other half are systemic or structural issues. Reddit taking a bunch of our user base isn’t a personal problem, nor is the comparative dearth of hilarity that reduced user base has wrought. The crackdown on free speech/lulz posting is also systemic, as is the necessity of having a smartphone and thus 24/7 access to easy internet as it’s a requirement of everyday life now. I literally can’t pay for parking in some areas of the city, or order from some restaurants, without downloading a fucking app. Special interest forums dying because of Facebook/reddit/discord gobbling up their user bases isn’t my personal problem either, nor is the death of forum culture and etiquette that brought about, that’s all structural. Anonymity no longer being the norm is too. Non-westerners making up a supermajority of the internet is also not my personal problem but it’s been a terrible thing for everyone who was here before the brown flood.
>>108473234More introverted autistic peers, basically less ESLs. The average person you would speak with had english as a primary language and likely a background similar to yours as well, at worst there would be the dudebro crowd of the 2000s that stuck to their own bubbles and I would take them any day over the modern swarm of impoverished engagement farmers posting from a dumpster-dived smartphone.Anyone sane has long since escaped into increasingly small private cliques to avoid the brown hordes, it's the internet equivalent of brain drain and white flight. If you don't have the time or energy to play mild social games to get into those spaces or make friends to retreat with, stop using it. >But that means the net has condensed down to your discord friend list or IRC!That's correct, public third internet spaces are also dying or dead just like the real life ones for the above reasons, and even those are infected by how bad the net in general has gotten. This isn't even getting into LLMs or state actor attention.
>>108471903internet is fine. you just need to find an enclave of people who see things your way on the open internet and not some bullshit register only forum. problem is tech literacy is not that great so places like irc and ibs are basically dead short of some very specific niches like cybersecurity in case of irc (which kind of is my point i guess lol). even on 4chan it's mostly just bots at this point unless you regular some general on some board.
>>108472067No. Peak was 2004-9. When downloading availability met network bandwidth increase.Internet was fast, free and alive.
The internet died with flash and everything becoming anti-fun, hyper sterile, and gay
>>108473476Anything the third world touches objectively turns to shit though, especially our technology (the internet)
>>108473234unless if u were there it's not going to make sense even if someone told you specifics. if you're as young as you seem, a lot of this will not make sense until you get older as well (experience & intelligence doesn't appear much as a factor here: you either feel it or u dont) id suggest to read books by authors that are long dead, dont do drugs/drink alcohol, maintain teeth hygiene, (these things help with your brain health as a baseline) and become an individual
>>108473234You'll see. In 10 years when hindi and Nigerian pidgin are the languages of the internet, and the average post on all platforms is 2 standard deviations below your intellectual comfort zone, you'll think you were there for the best of times.The graybeards said the same shit about us when we were "eternal September". It's an endless cycle of degeneration that ends in an Africanized global communication standard.
>2010 was the best eraGet a load of this zoomer.
https://youtu.be/6EfV5L48gKk
I liked the social aspect of 2002-2007 internet much more. It became nasty once everything got standardized and centralized towards the end of the 2000s
>>108473234Today the internet is dumbed down and much more censored to accomodate normies and libtards. Before smartphones we had much higher average iq on the internet.
>>108473553True
>>108473234>>>When I start asking people about this nostalgia stuff turns out its always because they were children or they had friends back thenWhat do they have now?
>>108471903Wow who would have thought spending billions of dollars developing a software product that is inferior to its already existed and broadly supported free alternative (VR Chat) wasn't going to be profitable. And of course the cheap subsidized hardware flooded the VR ecosystem with brainrotted zoomers. So he didn't just waste his own money. he ruined multiplayer VR for everyone along with it. I hope his shareholders lose a lot of money.
>>108471903The Golden Age of the Internet was from 1998 (when Windows 98 launched) to 2006 (right before the iPhone launched).
>>108471903Become too greedy and you'll lose everything.
>>108476422sometimes i try to visit plain text personal website directories i bookmarked back in that era. almost all are long gone and it feels so empty looking at the domain placeholder page and thinking about the volumes of information that are gonewere living through the burning of the library of alexandria
I stopped using Instagram about 12 years ago but logged in recently to get an old picture of me and this was in my recommended feed. I backed up my photos and deleted my account.
Nothing ever lasts anons, be happy you were part of it
>be 90s>teen>permanent erection at night talking to (real) girls in my area on AOL chat and MSN chatThose were the days
>>108476647Dont forget ICQ
>>108476586I agree.And I disagree, because it didn't have to end like this.
>>108476656I only used ICQ for ultima online (because that was the established messenger for that game) ;/still remember my number
>>108476465A wise move
>>108472045>>108471903web browsing is just a bad habit and a form of procrastination. in some cases it makes you feel busy or something like that. if you actually check out your history there's probably about 5 websites or areas you frequent.
>>108476656>uh oh
>>108473234The Internet was split into much smaller communities (forums) that had higher quality of discussion. Some were shit, sure, but never as shit as modern social media because there were so many communities available that people would just leave bad ones to find better ones and the bad ones would either reform to be better or just die out.
>>108477095There are way more smaller communities today and they are way better bc you have discord lots of games and you can do and create lots of shit together way easier than 10-20 years ago.I see the problem, you all just can't find the right small community today most likely bc you just don't have any hobby and blame it all on a fucking reddit or jeets.I'm actually super jelous of kids, you can already make cool stuff at fucking 14, insane amount of opportunities and friendships.
>>108471903Should've invested into stealing PlayStation Home's source code instead.
>>108471903Exactly how I feel anon. I am feeling the need to be less and less online, to follow discussions. I wake up and check 4chan every few hours and I am good, I feel like I keep up with what's going on. I used to refresh every minute and spend hours on threads. All other places are lost causes anyway, no need to check reddit, no need to check facebook lol, and nowhere else is left anyway. Youtube to kill time. And that's what internet has become unfortunately.
>>108476647and they were all skinny, white and pretty anon. try it now and all you find is brown fattie goblinas.
>>108477302grim
I have noticed this exact flip happening in real time.I the 90s and early 2000s the internet was for intelligent people with a punk personality. You really felt like you were in good companionship when you were on the internet no matter where you went. All the boring people, retards and losers stayed IRL and hated the internet or were filtered out.Nowadays it's the opposite. All the intelligent people with a punk personality are spending their time in real life. While normalfags, retards and losers spend their time online.I'm spending less and less time on the internet every single month and spend more time outside because I notice normalfags don't spend time outside anymore and the only people outside now are cool intelligent people, the exact type that would be making cool animations and games on newgrounds in 1999.I especially recommend hiking which has gotten me a 90%+ success rate in meeting the coolest people I've ever met.It's fucking bizarre but the exact people telling me in the early 2000s to go outside and not waste my time on the PC are spending 16 hours a day inside while doomscrolling now. While all the internet addicts from back then are spending their time in real life now.World has so clownified that it flipped upside down and real life is for nerds now.Interest in computers is replaced by interest in literature and books. Interest in hanging out with cool people on forums is now replaced by going outside on things like hikes or book clubs.
>>108471903>My internet addiction is starting to go away because the internet is getting so shitSame and I thought 4chan is the last human driven platform, but the amount of windows and apple shills is crazy. I'm still trying to figure out if this is trolling or real...
>>108476422It went to shit right after 9/11.Image boards were far better, but already contaminated with kike propaganda.
>>108471903what if he didn't started just before the AI boom?
