what was the internet like back in those days?
>>226245890literally heaven
>>226245890Much better than the cancer of today
a blast, fucking everything was new. From operating systems, to websites. And it was common to complement other hobbies, most people didn't have internet at home, had to be at cafes.
Racist trolling on jewtube meant something back then.
>>226245927without ads
>>226245890It was a much better place. More interesting and wild. In the really early days of internet, before search engines, you had to rely on directories from other sites to find the things you wanted. Our equivalent to 4chan/twitter/facebook back then was called usenet, and you can still find some archived posts from the 80s and 90s via Google IIRC. My first computer was an IBM Aptiva that I had to share with my siblings and dad back in 1995 when I was around 9 years old.In the early 2000s when I was around college age it started developing a lot faster. YouTube was noticeably more genuine in the era of your pic too. There wasn't really a lot of "high quality" content like you see now, and nobody really did it as a job. You just uploaded cool stuff, gave someone's video a star rating, and moved onto the next video. Forums were absolutely popping with activity, and there were message boards/forums for just about anything. That was your go-to for discussions about niche topics.People were more or less the same. The same tired arguments you see here, you also saw on message boards in 2006, which echoes the same internet trolling you would've seen on usenet in the 90s. About 99% fewer advertisements is another notable thing for the internet back then. Around this time MySpace was the biggest social media platform, at least among the people I knew. I remember friendships between girls at my high school ending because of their "top 8" (you would arrange your visible friends on your profile in order from 1 to 8).If there's anything in particular you'd like to know, I'd be willing to talk about it.
>>226245890it was nice. i don't think we can ever get back there. people were so much less sensitive back then. it was a carefree and fun time for the most part
>>226245993I found one.https://groups.google.com/g/alt.flame/c/RMlMz6ft4r8/m/SwPcwihXE4AJFrom Feb 8, 1990tl;dr This is the 90s equivalent to posting "metal is objectively bad music" to a metal subreddit, getting 200 angry comments, and then announcing that everyone fell for the bait.
>>226246077>> You are incredible (pinhead).If you think "incredible" is synonymous with "pinhead," it's no wonder you seek such abuse. God, it gives me the willies just imagining the paroxysms of pleasure you must experience every time I delete another inch from thebottom of your legs.holy fucking soul. the internet is so shit now
I don't know about general "internet". I used finnish gaming forum mostly, you could discuss random shit, read reviews, download demos or games like wolfenstein ET.
>>226246093We used to be a lot more creative with our banter. Now all they do is call you a slur and tell you to kill yourself. We've truly lost our passion.
>>226245890>2006I remember playing flash games on neopets and many other websites. I think the only youtube videos I watched that year were some avatar the last airbender amvs.
>>226246077By the way; this was one of the earliest recorded uses of the term "troll" regarding commenting inflammatory/provocative/deceptive messages online to deliberately bait people and elicit strong emotional reactions.
I think 2006 is when my family switched from dial up to cable. dial up was miserable you had to buy time cards and speeds were abysmal, also dad had it locked behind a password cause it was also expensive I figured password out eventually just to find out that it takes forever just to download a flash game. once we had cable I mostly used local resources, back then every isp had a designated (pirated, naturally) movie and games repository as well as cs, warcraft 3 and wow serversit was comfy I guess. I didn't go much into actual internet until 2009 or so
>>226245890When I bought a 512K ultra-high-speed modem in Akihabara, I was blown away by how the text scrolled across the screen.
>>226245936give me a five
>>226246077Damn I thought I was old.People were falling for ragebait as I was being born.
>>226245992not only that but with hundreds of super specific online communities really passionate about a topic without any normalfags polluting the environment, like this very place. everything was new, a new place to explore, less exploited, more fun, more interesting. I miss it so much
