Life in the 2000s was paradise. Every piece of media was interesting and well made and normatively centered around White boys/men as the protagonist and heroes. People were more localized in their own communities and more immersed in their own ethnic-national cultures. First and Second world countries were racially homogenous. The economy was stable and finances were secure. A culture of abundance existed. People were more laid back and no so high-strung about everything.
>>537592015nostalgia is a for porn addicted faggotslife is now, the kingdom of God is near, and advancing, and the violent take it by force.
>>537592015>Life in the 2000s was paradiseBecause media? Wtf
>>537592015how can you remember a world without internet if you were born in '92?
>>537592398Because of many reasons listed media just being 1 of them.
>>537592235It’s not nostalgia it’s just a fact. Things became shitty in 08 (depression, housing bubble pop) shitty in 11 (media begins WOKE psyop in response to occupy wall street) shitty in 2014 (gamer gate, “nerds are dead”) shitty in 2015-16 (great wokening becomes extreme, paid for protest over dead nigs killed in freemasonic conspiracies) Trump is prevented from doing anything then Covid locks everything down and people get the jab. Nowadays White people are returning to a based state but I feel bad for zoomers who never knew how good things really were
>>537592015the internet was perfection in 1997. zero niggers or jeets. being born that late would be gay.
>>537592015I think those who entered high school around 99 - 2005 got the best of both worlds.
>>537593406Dayum, nigger. Normie life really is sad.
>>537592015What a dumb fuck thing to say. We're still alive, you retards. That implies the few years you spend alive after me will be better than the few years I spent before you were born and that just doesn't seem like it will be the case.
>>537593308>Dial up>PerfectionYou really don't give enough weight to broadband internet. Internet back then was suffering.
>>537592623Because most time was spent outside or in front of a television. Kids probably leisurely started browsing the internet when early flash came out like new grounds. Before that, the average adolescent didn’t spend much time on the internet.
> well madeDebatable. A lot of shit from the 2000s is cringe with a capital C.
>>537592015>I am a 90s kid! I love the 90s!>was 5 in 1999Sorry, 82 was the perfect year to be born, experience the 80s a tiny bit but get the full brunt of the 90s at 8 years old. I was dominating online leaderboards in 1997 while most were still swimming around in their dad's ball sack.
I do agree that people born between 1990 and 1999 probably got the best childhood where certain things were still inconvenient and you had to put bit of effort into getting it, but also not technologically automated to the point that a dysgenic 1.4 gpa retard could just "grok is this true" their way through life
>>537593933Too old gramps, you were in your mid teens when the N64 came out and in your 20s when GBA and GameCube came out.
>>537592015Honestly with AI companions/LLMs and all sorts of nostalgia machines like emulated tvs/tv broadcasting eras, emmulated game consoles, etc you can pretty much exist in a quasinostalgic reality where its always the 2000s.
>>537594121You can never go back demographically though.
>>537592015I doubt itBut maybe I'm just a fuck up
>>537594106Nah I got out right when gaming was becoming fake and gay. Imagine having childhood nostalgia for the Wii U or the PS4, lmao
>>537594242Wouldn’t be 90s kids.
>>537592015> born between 1992-1999no they didn't - their entire lives were social media. Fucking retarded. Genx are the generation that were last raised without internet.
>>537592015Nonwhites ruined the internet
>>537592015>there was no internet in 1992If you were born after 1990, do not call yourself a Millennial. You are just as stupid as a zoomer.
>>537592015That's nostalgia talking. The good times were already over in the 2000s.
>>537592015I was born in 1994, I grew up rich. This shit fucking sucks. The 90s weren’t even that great. The rot was already settling in and normies were too retarded to notice. Im watching Jews, niggers, and Jeets rape the corpse of my civilization and there isn’t a thing I can do about it. I wanna go live in the 1920s…
I was born in 1992 and I feel like any later than that is tipping too far to the side of growing up with internet. If I had cared at the time I could have used the internet more (still had dialup until the early 00s at some point) but I was too busy playing video games. Still though we used and learned how to use the internet in school. The bigger thing though is how different the internet back then was compared to now though. Like I said I wasn't that into it at the time but it felt like an endless expanse instead of now that feels like a heavily managed theme park.
>>537592015i liked it exactly because there was none of that shit on the old internetno paying lip service to disproven theoriesno pretending myth is anything but fake and gaystormfags had their own little space away from the rest of usthe proto tumblr intersectional cult much the samethen touchscreen internet phones lowered the bar for entry and destroyed the internet and it's culture beneath a tide of subhuman ooga booga bullshitand because they outnumbered web natives infrastructure shifted to service them the iphone ruined everything
>>537594506Myspace isn't even comparable to the social media hellscape we live in today. That's why people say it was the best of both worlds. Hope that brings you up to speed on what this thread is about.
>>537593775the suffering was worth it to be free from non whites online
>>537594750The fact that cartoons are still funny from the 00s and video games hold up aesthetically story and gameplay wise begs to differ.
>>537592015>born in 1999>experienced life "before" the internetGet the fuck out of here, zoom zoom morons
>>537594981dumb kike, you're still a nigger - facebook started trending in 2000 - these kids were toddlers when social media was active
>>537595935My yahoo email is older than them. And just like my yahoo email, it can be safely ignored.
>>537597610Facebook was 2006, dumbass. I remember because it was right after I graduated high school and it required you to register with a university email address. Stop talking about shit you don't understand.
>>537592015>>537592015The 90s were the peak of white culture
>>537592015>Life in the 2000s was paradise.Only the first half, and even that was worse than the 90s.Everything got worse with the iphone.
It was alright but it wasn't the greatest. Maybe because I was already 24 at the turn of the millennium. Thread themehttps://youtu.be/qYoWZgY2HAk
>>537597772iPhone saturation took a few years. The launch model was wack with features and (in the US at least) was exclusively tied to an even more wack carrier (AT&T) for 3 years.
This is profoundly retarded. The those born in 1992 had only until they were 12 before facebook and myspace came online. That’s maybe 6 years of memories. Since 2004, life has been shit, and these sad sacks got to experience mostly that shit with no real memory of any beforetime. Those born in 1999 never knew a pre-social-media world at all, even fleetingly. I was born in the early 80s and there wasn’t enough time to do anything but have a taste of what life could have been in a non digital world. The totality of necessary kike death cannot be understated.
>>537593653>>53759201591' here... 2001 to 2005 was colored wayyyy too much by Patriot Act, take your shoes off at the plane. Cant say "bomb" on the phone bullshit. We were walking on eggshells in a way we werent in 1998
>>537598707The world series post-9/11 was kino af.https://youtu.be/PvPgYLhOq24
>>537597682your cope is terrible, fucking pathetic - you are truly a dumb nigger
>>537593574At least here, columbine shooting happened in 1998 and the schools used it as an excuse to treat us like prisoners.
>>537593308I had internet in 1998. Dial up was expensive, slow and unreliable. I don't miss those days
>>537599144I watched Sister, Sister and Boy Meets World from the top and That's So Raven and Lizzie McGuire from the bottom.
>>537592015Fuck off with your stolen valor fake nostalgia bullshit, zoomer
It's weird. I was born in 1981, so for me the 2000s were kind of hellish. My 20s were fucking rough man. Too broke, too useless, too unestablished to do anything. Bad breakups, low self esteem, no motivation.Only by 2008-9 did I manage to really get the ball rolling, and by then I was almost 30.So when I look back at that time, the culture wasn't what I grew up with. Everything already seemed watered down and corporatized to me.I definitely see the 80s and 90s as the golden years. 2000s was when the life started to drain out of civilization.But knowing that, I gotta say, it must just be people pining for their youth again.
>>537592015The internet existed in 1993. You were literally born into it.
>>537593933Based Xennial. Zoomies cant fathom a world without cordless phones and computers
>>537592015Every day I pray for a solar flare to wipe out all digital infrastructure. Covid lockdown was kino and this would be even beter. The internet was a mistake
when I was a kid I used to cry because I was so bored and there was nothing to do>t. 1999
>>537599710I was making my zoomer son depressed when I was talking about how I was like 10 years old playing with 5-6 neighborhood kids all day wiffleball or "guns" then going home at night
>>537592015>1992-1999>1999>before the internetokay retard
>>53759393382s are fucking niggers
>>537600036the matrix came out that yearyou could have been seeing that
>>537592015Nah I was born 1989, I got the perfect mix, Id say its 1985-1990
>>537600388‘84 fag here. Honestly everything was pretty great up until social media. What Elon Musk did for Twitter may actually be the beginning of the healing. Kike controlled social media was absolute societal cancer.
>>537600264>t. born in 73'Lmao no one even thinks about you genx fags, stay mad you were born in a forgettable shit time, trying to play the first Mario bros at 20 years old, still a failure at 30 when 9/11 happened lol
>>537600582i'm below 82
>>537592015the noses are watching. less surveillance, less shit made in china, $10 was a lot
I was born in 1993 and my childhood was fucking great. It's just so sad to see it all fall apart. Everything is fucked up now, almost every single fucking thing is fucked up.
>>537592015>1991That explains everything. finally I don't need to blame the Jews anymore or myself, just my DOB.
>>537592015No one born in 1992 or later has any real memories of what life was like before the internet. Mosaic and Netscape Navigator were released around '93-94, and the WWW and internet exploded in popularity from then on. Very few people born in 1992-1999 will even remember dial up internet. High speed, always connected home internet connections rapidly replaced dial up starting around 1999-2000 due to all the dark fiber that had been installed in the late '90s.
>>537592623Because we had internet but not an abundance of retards on it yet and it was still fairly new and slow
>>537600731Thats what I said unc, you were born in 73 or some shit time like the genx you are, try and keep up gramps the 82' millennial GATE chads are here.
>>537592015I unironically wish I was a boomer born in 60s before internet fried my brain.
>>537592015>normatively centered around White boys/men as the protagonist and heroesWhy is this supposed to be good
>>537592015people born in the late 80s also got similar, not sure why 1992 is the "start". i'd argue actually the perfect mix was '80 through '90.if you were born after that you'd be 4 or less by the time PS1 came around and 6 or less by the time the internet was really ramping up for "normies" with AOL 3.0 launch. I'd say 10-12 is the earliest age you could have really navigated the internet on your own with a computer consistently, which would have been 2001.Everquest was released March 1999 and one of the first MMOs. PS2 was 2000, and Xbox was 2001. If your first console was a 3D system and your first MMO was World of Warcraft... that's way too late for the "before the internet" era.
>>537600954Yeah, better to have leaded gasoline fumes and TV fry your brain instead.
>>537592015>1977 to 1985 This is the birth window to see both sides. OP is an eeeee-ddiot
>>5375920151992 is too young to have experienced the pre-internet. I think you meant born 1982 to 1989
>>537592015Born in '95 smack in the middle of your range and your just being nostalgic. I grew up with DSL internet at 5 years old, remember 9/11 and the building of the surveillance state, I was in social media by 2005 at 9 years old, I remembered 2008 and the economic crash hit my family, I grew up right when me too hit and thr pandemic stole my mid to early 20s when I needed to be socializing and dating. Now I am lost. You are glamorizing a generation that deserves no glamorization, maybe the younger cohorts have it worse than me but I wish I had been born 5-10 years earlier.
>>537592623The internet wasn't always available at any moment of any day.To start with, you needed a PC. Your parents would use that more than you got to, you'd probably get an hour or two... but not every day.Internet in the 90s wasn't just slow, it was expensive and barren.The only thing you could reasonably do online that was similar to the internet today, was online multiplayer gaming.Social media didn't exist.Forums? What's those?IRQ was your go-to and so were BBS but if you were an 7 or 8 year old kid and you knew how to access those things, you still weren't accessing them all day every day.Internet life was parallel to real life. it couldn't replace real life whatsoever.So what do you do with the rest of your day?Go to the mall, buy candy for nickles and dimes, check out the cool kids with the skateboards doing crazy tricks, say dude and radical and hyper turbo mega *insert thing* a lot, collect plastic discs from bags of potato chips, bitch about boybands, you know, the outdoor life.Maybe watch a VHS / DVD when you come home, or play Game Boy wired to the wall, or build with Lego.The joy of that is that you can do the exact same things right now without the internet.I wouldn't recommend VHS, it's inconvenient, physical video formats are inconvenient anyway so go rip those off the web and play the movies / series from a hard drive.But music? Nothing stopping you from getting 33rpm records or original master CDs.That's something the 2000s did best.You had internet, you could download anything, but you couldn't stream shit.You weren't continuously dependent on a web connection. It was temporary and momentary, and then you play the music/movie/game locally on a PC or laptop.I can transfer locally stored media to my phone now, but everyone else uses Netflix, Spotify, Xbox Game Pass.They're sadder for it. When that internet goes down, they have nothing. I have my hoard.
>>537601137I'm right at the end of that and agree. There's so much more than just "internet vs not internet".>needing alkaline batteries for everything>cassette tapes were still the norm>VCR and rewinding movies>no DVR or on-demand watching, had to catch shows when they aired>watching TV guide channel to figure out what was coming up>watching the weather channel>using the yellow pages to find businesses>listening to talk radio>watching the nightly news>calling in to request songs on the radio>maybe having a gameboy at best to kill time when you had to waitshit was just vastly different
Maybe true but I was born in 83 and didnt get internet til 98 so it was awesome.
>>537592015>picThat's me with AI nowGrew up, went to uni, started my career before AI. Get to coast through the intermediate stages selling my existing experience and having AI do 80% of my work. If it plateaus here I'm just gonna keep at it, if it puts everyone out of a job then I already had a good run and won't starve for at least a few years (provided civilisation doesn't collapse lmao)
>>537594506Nigger you have no idea what social media even is.Having a profile on Partypeeps or MySpace wasn't something you checked in on every single hour. You didn't get notifications, you didn't even have a phone to be notified through.Best you got was a text from people who had your mobile number.Mobile social media wasn't a thing until 2009 when 3G mobile internet made it affordable for people, and it wasn't really until 2011 when teenagers started being able to afford the data bundles themselves.I was 17 then. I already grew up before social media became a mass product.
>>537601449I agree. It was boring as shit back then.
>>537601393>When that internet goes downLMFBPAO
>>537601064Because you're in a White continent you retarded pajeet, hope you go watch a bollywood film and see some doofy astroturfed White dude fuck a hot pajeeta
>>537601334>I was in social media by 2005 at 9 years oldi'm sorry for your loss>pandemic stole my mid to early 20sthat's rough and i can't imagine that, even tho i was always a homebodyif it makes you feel better, there's still lots of ways to enjoy the past you just have to seek it out. make friends with people who are older (and based) that can show you the ropes.my wife is 10+ years younger than me (born in 97) and I often show her stuff that I grew up with like games from that time period, toys, etc. she finds it interesting.my cars are also 90s JDM cars (at least the non family SUV car) and I get to live in my own little time capsule. there's TONS of great games from the Win95/98 and DOS era that you could play and relive a bit of the magic you missed out on.for card games, you can play MTG premodern or get into Sorcery (I have found it enjoyable as someone who spent a lot of time in and out of MTG since '93).the best part about the old shit is that you own it. get an old iPod, load it up with music fuck Spotify, buy CD albums and rip them directly. if you want to play old gameboy games you can get a modded one that has upgraded screen, built in rechargeable battery with USB-C charging, etc. alot of the 2D stuff like SNES/GBA really holds up well.
>>537592015The internet is not what caused the damage. It was smart phones. Pre smartphone internet was an amazing thing.
>>537601672it might seem that way but it never felt that way to me. sometimes I still think back to all the shit we did/played and it blurs together, almost feels like a fevered dream with time distorted.like remembering playing PS1 and Sega Genesis together, along with random PC games of the time (Unreal Tournament, Half-Life, Counter-Strike, etc) and then getting Xbox for Halo while still playing N64 sometimes for Mario Party or Gauntlet Legends... it's weird man.i really wish i had a camcorder to record my life back then and rewatch it to get a frame of reference.
>>537601762That only really began in the 2010s.
>>537601910>i really wish i had a camcorder to record my life back then and rewatch it to get a frame of reference.I never had a photo camera, hence why I take so many pics and videos on my phone. I only have stuff going back circa 2008. Sucks but its how things are.
>>537601449>1980 here>vintage gamingI remember owning an original Nintendo and only having Mario Brothers Duckhunt combo because everything was so expensive. I remember having a turbo graphic 16. Sega CD with sewer shark. Getting that super Nintendo was big. That was an important leap. More importantly I remember playing counterstrike multiplayer in 1994 online for the first time. It was incredible. The early Internet had to be experienced as a teenager through gaming. Then later napster and music sharing. I think that we’re likely the most technical generation when it comes to certain technologies. We were exposed to technologies that weren’t straightforward like cell phones as children.
>>537601393>IRQInterrupt requests? Damn dog, you were switching jumpers?I know you meant IRC or ICQ. Whichever.Truth told, the internet wasn't that well adopted back in the 90s. It started to get traction then but it was mostly just a curiosity. The whole thing was like a fucking chain letter. Weird facts, odd little collections of information gathered on random websites. I remember browsing search engine outputs half of my day. I haven't spent much time on an search engine at all in 10 years.Clicking site after site hoping it has what you're looking for. Downloading random pieces of software on tucows and later softpedia.I definitely did my local BBSes to chat with locals.But I was on the internet for at most a couple hours unless I was gooning.
>>537601689With immigrant construction/maintenance workers, you never know when they accidentally the big fibre cable next to the water mains.
>>537602066I mixed IRC and ICQ in my head yes, my bad.
>>537601762Yep this. I was terminally online since I had a 9600 baud modem on a 386 piece of shit that my dad took home from work in '91. We had early AOL 1.0 and then 2.0 and 3.0 on our newer Win95 PC.I figured out we could use NetZero (for free) and I'd swap the ads with 1x1 transparent PNG images to essentially block the ads. Got decent ping too, I remember on CS I'd have 120ms or less at times on 56k.I played a lot of online games and we'd exchange AIM/ICQ and chat there, including some actual women. Back then you didn't have to worry about trannies, can you imagine such a time?The thing wasn't the internet, it was that people didn't have the technology in cameras and bandwidth to easily share shit. If you wanted a girl to send you her tits you basically had to hope she had a webcam (which was non-standard) and would be grainy 240p, or... a digital camera that she'd have to copy the photos to her PC and send you over a slow ass connection that took minutes at best.Nowadays people can send 4K video to each other and scroll through it posting bullshit and that's the problem. If the internet was largely text-based it would have remained better longer.
>>537602159Hopefully the liveleak-tier vid will be worth it. It'll only be out for a short while. The internet is simply too important.
>>537592015There was internet in 1992, retard. Except the internet was much better; it was still basically the Wild West, everyone on the internet was White, and jannies were essentially non-existent. Every website was 4chan, but without all the tranime.
>>537602007i feel that. my grandfather was the photog in our family and would take countless photos of us on film and get it developed. once he passed a lot of that fell off. my uncle is pretty good about it though, he has a lot of video recordings of our Christmas parties and opening presents. it's the kind of wholesome shit that makes you shed a tear for many reasons.my wife is not nostalgic and i asked her why. her childhood was not nearly as carefree and picturesque so i guess that's why. it made me feel sad for her in a way, because being a child is the time you have to be that way before the weight and bullshit of the world and kikery sets in and taints your view.>>537602066>IRQ>triggeredlmao, i remember setting up the DOS games like DOOM for sound and music and having to remember which IRQ and port both were. on my Win95 PC i was messing with settings for whatever reason and accidentally set my mouse and modem to the same IRQ. then if i didn't move the mouse my internet connection would die randomly, so me and my brother would take turns moving the mouse while we wait for a download to complete because i thought it was just a weird bug. years later i figured it out...
>>537602611>accidentally set my mouse and modem to the same IRQFuckin' kek, I think I did the same thing. But I was super methodical about my IRQs so I knew right away what I had done.I remember when SCSI (scuzzy) came out, people were like "No more jumpers!", and "It's plug and play!".Man, what a better time that was. Computing felt magical back then. Now it's all just boring and sad. I remember printing out funny pictures of my friends where I gave them big noses or distorted their faces to make them look stupid. People thought I was a wizard.
>>537602966Yeah I was a little kid bitch so I didn't realize what I had done. I was actually a bit scared and guilty because I felt like I had fucked something up but I didn't know what, and it was a relatively new and expensive PC for the time that my parents bought new from Home Shopping Network lmao. 24MB of RAM for Win95, with a CD-ROM drive! Too bad it had a shitty Cyrix CPU in there which wasn't compatible with some later games.Me and my brother got creative though. We had this one battery powered car toy that had buttons you could press and it would make some noises and vibrate for a good few seconds. We'd put the mouse on top of it and add some other small heavy toy that would kept the button held... so it was constantly shaking the mouse for us while we went AFK.
lol, I was out gigging playing Belgian Techno in 92. I was lucky to see that world.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY5PzNr0pA8
>>537603344Bro, I had a Cyrix too haha! I had no idea that they were basically just overclocked to pump up their megahertz.My cyrix came later though. I started out with a 100MB hard drive and a 25Mhz 386.When that finally died my parents got a Cyrix 6x86 for me, and the fan died, so the CPU burnt out, and I went from 1999-2002 without any computer at all.Not until my rich girlfriend gave me hers. She didn't use it much, and knew I was into computers. Bless her heart.I then eventually got an Athlon 2500+ that I built from parts I got on Newegg and Tiger Direct.
>80s was peak>90s was weird/freaky>00s was edgy>10s was woke, lame and gay>20s is depressing
>>537592015If World of Warcraft didn't come out your freshman year of college - and you and your four friends didn't move five desktop computers into the common room to do instances together - you missed outAll five of us in that common room, lit by nothing but the glow of CRT monitors and Christmas lights, battling our way through the deadmines, and none of us knew at all what the fuck we were doing so it took hoursThose were the days
>>537592015Bish I was born in 99 and the internet was full throttle my entire existence
>>537603738So did you marry her or what? I remember Tiger Direct... that and there was another one where I bought those ridiculous compact fluorescent fan grills to bling out my PC.I remember my friend from out of town was visiting and we took his dremel to cut a window out of my plain jane beige PC case and put in a plexiglas etched panel. was amazed that I could see my PC glowing inside lmaolater bought one of those 3.5" nexstar fan controller units with blue leds so I could activate true gamer mode for my case fans. those were the days.in the last few years i've been rebuilding my childhood relics and upgrading them. i found a great condition eMachines eMonster 550 which I put a Voodoo3 3000 in it and IDE -> SSD adapter along with a 3.5" Iomega 250 zip disk drive.my windows XP machine is an Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 (3.3 GHz) with a GeForce 980 Ti (last gen to have XP drivers from Nvidia). the Fractual Pop Air case which actually has a hidden bottom panel for CD drives (I have a LightScribe one).
>>537604288lmao we did this in my 12x10 bedroom. i have no fucking clue how we managed it, i remember half of us being shirtless and having the window open because it was like an oven in there.one of my friends brought his entire alienware rig setup with THX 2.1 setup. lugging CRTs to a LAN party was something else.i was literally dumping clothes out of my dresser just to take the shelves out and turn them upside down as a table...
>>537592015I guess. My youth doesnt make a difference in my current life. Just something I think about and feel sad ill never have again
>>537594911This. 92 as well but things already started to get shitty around high school because of normie book and then smart phones.
>>537601762Nah it already started getting gay with facebook.
>>537592015I was born in 1983 and think I got pretty much the ideal.
>>537592980>2008Moved out of my roommates place and I to my own. It was half of a double, one bedroom, but fairly spacious. Great for a single guy.>2011Meet Sarah. Very sweet, very sexual. I was her first. Stayed together for over a year. She was several years younger than me. Lots of adventures with her.>2014Was living with another girl in the cool part of town. Went on a long road trip to the Southwest(Grand Canyon, Zion, Roswell, lots of other places). >2015-2016Got married and bought my first house. Those years absolutely flew by; renovations, a new kitchen, new job positions for both of us. Very good times.>CovidNo one I know died (same story with literally everyone; weird, right?). Didn’t get the vaccine because why the fuck would I? Finally had an excuse to out together a super cozy home gym. Wife changed careers so she could work from home, which she still does and has worked out marvelously.Those years only sucked from your perspective.
>>537592015Except the 2000s sucked hard, faggoid. Does 9/11, shit economy, chronic inflation, 2008 financial crash, the rise of social media, and the preamble to smartphones ring a bell at all?
>>537604582>just something I think about and feel sad ill never have againthis is what the jews want you to believe so that you keep consoooming their new bullshit on a subscription and never own anything anymore.whatever it might be, there are ways to experience it again or something very much like it. it's just a matter of finding out how and where. you should find happiness in what you like, and there are plenty of people just like you looking for the same thing (and creating it).for example, I spent a lot of time on EverQuest (despite not getting max level lmao) but made a lot of friends and memories on there. early days of Classic WoW were also good but current MMOs including now Classic WoW are just... not the same. I thought it might be the time period but I discovered Monsters and Memories which is currently in beta. It's very much like EverQuest, has a good community, people are not toxic, and it feels like 1999 all over again.the good part about the current world being shitty is you really don't need to have FOMO about anything. if you haven't watched a single TV show or movie since 2010, you likely haven't missed much. similar with gaming, etc. so if you have a modest PC that can play games from 10+ years ago flawlessly, you're fine.there's also lots of indie stuff that's way better than AAA slop. like for those Sim City 2000 fans, Metropolis 1998 (pic rel).
>>537604874>Those years only sucked from your perspective.So many people seem to be attached to hating stuff instead of just abandoning that which they hate to pursue things they enjoy.I spent most of the covid years getting my pilot's license. I've done cooler shit in the last decade than I ever did in the early 2000s (because back then we were semi-poor and never went on holidays or travel because we couldn't afford it. Part of why I became a nerd). Now that I have money and a good career, I do cool shit all the time.
>>537604874Nah he's right everything past 2008 as been shit in general.
>>537605141The 2000s were the start of the downward spiral but it wasn't immediately apparent until 2010. There was still good games, movies, music, etc coming out in the 2000s.The financial crisis of 2008-2009 was the next marker.
>>537592623They can’t. Gen Z likes to LARP as Gen X. The internet was ubiquitous by 2005. Pic is proof. That image wasn’t spread by legacy media.
>>537605167>current MMOs including now Classic WoW are just... not the sameYou used to have the full attention of everyone in the group. So during a 5 minute corpse run you would chat and you felt like you were connecting to people. Now every extra second someone has, they are on Discord on their extra monitor. There will never be another WoW ever again
>>537605141The down fall started in 2008, some say 07, some say '12 so depending who you ask the downfall started between 2007-2012, 9/11 was just that start of the slow descent, because it wasnt all bad from 2001 to 2008, but since 08? Objectively bad.
I want to thank all participants, without you this datamining thread would not have been possible
>>537604602If you were born in 92 smart phones didnt come out until senior year of high school. And even then it was the just the iPhone and not everyone had it. The blackberry was still popular and the idea of "smart phones " wasn't even catching on yet.
>>537605569Early MMOs like EQ and Dark Age of Camelot were very campy and grindy. You'd be at a certain spot and kill the monsters as they spawned at the camps, bullshitting in the downtime. It was more cozy and social. People would leave and you'd find replacements, etc. It just flowed especially when you had a good group going.Then the next day you'd see them again at the next camp (since you leveled up) and chat up again. You made connections because they were people you'd likely see again as you both progressed. It also promoted you being a decent person because if you were a complete jerk and asshole there was a good chance people wouldn't want to group with you.Early WoW wasn't campy but you still had people who would group and share quests, help you do them and catch up even if they were already done with that stage/part.What ruined WoW was the incremental changes that introduced speed and connivence at the expense of gameplay and exploration. Anything that took longer became "a hassle" and they essentially normie-ized the game.I would argue that mounts were the first design flaw but hardly the biggest one. Mounts have always had negative experiences on games, DAoC added them later and it was awful. Flight paths are okay, though you could make the argument against them too. I think the boats/airships are fine though since you still have to wait for them on schedule.The real big problems came when they added dungeon finder. Instead of having to be social and waiting outside the instance to find people, you could just queue up making the experience more disposable. Then when players complained about long queue times they added cross-server dungeon finder, which meant that those people are ones you'd never see again because they weren't even on your own server. The social aspect was completely destroyed and it turned into a single player experience with others that might as well have been NPCs.Gear score was another problem, made people toxic.
>>537592015>Born in the 90s>Life before the Internet What?
>>5375920151999 is wayy too late, it’s more like those born between 1989-1994. By 1999 would would have been to young to even remember 9/11
>>537606329if you don't remember it being a status symbol to own this phone, you're too young to remember the early internet
>>537592623it wasn't a big deal until around 2010 or latermust be the so called social media and retard phones with all the apps that enabled retards to do shit online otherwise it was calm mostly getting a movie here and there
>>537606567>it wasn't a big deal until around 2010 or laterMaybe in ex soviet shitholes. The web was pretty ubiquitous for non poorfags in Western countries by the late 90s
>>537606696and what did you do on it chief?
>>537606225we played ultima onlineNeocronShadowbaneDarkfall onlineQ3Rocket Arena, Unreal Tournamentyou will never experience any of this. its been taken away from us.full loot pvp mmorpg with real roleplayers, spies, intrigues. women loved those games they were hypersocialevery omlinegame we have today is worthless slop compared to what we had
>>537605578The downfall started in 2016. Sorry, every year that Obama was president has been better than every year with him out of office. That's not what the jews who control you tell you to think, but it's the truth. And everybody knows it.
>>537592015back then things were just as grim but you didnt notice since the funny jews in hollywood shaped the way you think, act, talk dress and behave via their movies full of degenerate jewish actors portraying all manners of subversion as being funny.
>>537600822This nigger lives in a major metropolitan area.93, I didnt get speeds high enough to do fucking anything beyond glacial web page browsing until 07- rural fag.I was just fucking pumped I could finally play Diablo 2 online.
>>537606089Blackberries were considered bougie, you had to be someone to have one and if you were a kid with one then you were considered spoiled and probably had well-to-do parents.I graduated highschool in '04 and even then cell phones were hardly the norm. It was pretty uncommon for students to have a phone and if they did it was some minimal nokia one.>>537606471this came out July 2004, I remember all my friends had one in college and I had some prepaid piece of shit Nokia that didn't even have T9 predictive texting. my girlfriend at the time had the LG Chocolate slide phone when it came out in 2006.i remember buying the original iPhone in 2007 right after the $200 price drop 2 months after its initial release. was incredible for the time, and we didn't even have apps yet, it was just webkit on 2G/Edge.
>>537592015Ah yes. "The perfect life">Enjoy childhood of boomers living the high life>2010-2014 normies go completely autistic because of phones>Already mentally a boomer because I no longer understand anyone around me because of the NPC programming chip update>Struggle to get life together>Finally get life on track>Completely derailed by covid>Now in post-covid dystopia where every conspiracy is true and social fabric barely exists
>>537592015Being born in the 80s I lived enough of my life before the internet to where I could live without it. Yes it would suck at first, but once I got re acclimated to life from before the internet I think i would be fine.
>>537606803loved me some RTS too, I played a lot of Outpost 2 on Sierra's WON where I somehow won a contest for a copy of StarCraft. Then that was history...C&C Red Alert was pretty awesome too, that and AoE2 lan games. Spent a lot of time with Half-Life mods like early Counter-Strike (pre1.6) and making maps for it and TFC in Worldcraft/Hammer Editor.Then you had the strategy games like Heroes of Might and Magic 1-3. Also loved Tribes II, really fun FPS game. Oh and Mechwarrior, I was never good at it but still had fun.In the DOS days I was a huge Sierra adventure game fan.
>>537600822Yeah this shit is hilarious. When I was ~12 years old it was Newgrounds, Mofunzone flash games, we had the social media cancer like facebook, tumblr, vine.
>>537607144>Being born in the 80s I lived enough of my life before the internet to where I could live without it. Yes it would suck at first, but once I got re acclimated to life from before the internet I think i would be fineThisI went from seeing the internet appear when I was a little kid (those AOL discs) to seeing where it is now. I have seen both worlds. Mid 80s was a very interesting time to be born
>>537606901ISPs were still very regional back then, not as consolidated as they are now. in the southeast we had Time Warner for TV and later broadband (cable).in the 90s its also why we were able to get Sega Channel in our area despite being somewhat in the suburbs. that was wild, 50 games a month for $14.99/mo was like having GameFly a decade ahead of time. tons of games I would have never been able to play otherwise as a kid.
those birth years are not the transition years. People born 80-90 saw the turn from analog to digital. Grew up riding bikes to the pool no cell phone (not smart phone, just a cell) till around high school. No broadband internet till mid teens. Saw how prior generations grew up while seeing early adulthood in full digital age. People born in the 90s were fully internet by teens.
>>537606225>Early MMOs like EQ and Dark Age of Camelot were very campy and grindyI miss grindmaxing mmos that also had bots. Will a video game experience like that ever come around again. I doubt it
2000s sucked once MTV skater culture came out. Maybe 2000-2002 we’re okay-ish but it went to absolute shit later.Where I grew up (not a rural area) if you weren’t emo, scene, skater, or trying to look like a pop idol, your social life was abysmal. All people cared about was partying and getting drunk and trying to emulate frat houses in movies.
>>537606774Dude, we did even more than we do now. Lurking 4chan, downloading games and movies, playing online, chatting with other people on dedicated chatrooms or message boards....By 2004 we had already World of Warcraft Counter Strike Source and Facebook, if you liked social media. Most popular webpages nowadays are still up.Do zoomers really believe the internet hasn't been going on for more than 40 years?
>>537607351The Consumer electronic shows from the early 90s seemed much more kino than now. There was a lot more excitement to the new technology and games coming out. Yes a lot of them turned out to be garbage, but it felt like an amazing time to be a gamer, PC or console. Though I think there was more hype around being a PC gamer though.
>>537592015this graphic is hilarious zoomer cope. if you were 8 in 2000 you did not get peak mix of internet life before and after. internet went mass in 1994.hilarious because you know a zoomer wrote this because of the inaccuracy
I noticed most anons in this thread only seem to mention things like video games and the internet, meaning introvert shit. Few of you mentioned things going on outside in the real world.
>>537607165yea i also won a AoE2 tournament, got a 50 deutsche mark voucher for the pc store hahastarcraft was played too alot on lans but we rely had a plast with the first esl leagues where you could challenge clans in higher ranks and fight ur way up.action halflife and hl deathmatch was great. and we did so many maps in hammer editor. we had our schoolbusstop become a popular cs map and we built our school with classrooms full with npc scientists lolbut also many other creative maps. some with dungeoncrawler rpg elemts modded in and some maps looking like rust monuments. just last month i played homeworld...still better than most games today, better sound, better atmosphere, better gameplay.my first pc was 8mhz with 15mhz on the big floppy disks. had to get bios and msdos from a buddy at school to install and read the dos manual for commands to copy indiana jones and monkey island and everything. leisure larry lolnorton commander. before windows hehand yea we still were hanging out outside most of the time in parking lots skating or with up to 50 people in the park......no social media or slop to distract us but playing the best creative games we could mod ourselves.real good times. im sorry for the new generations. they are all so empty inside with depressions and complexes and anxiety. horrible
>>537592623the dial up experience isn't anywhere near the same as now
>>537607899Okay then. The internet raised a generation of tough guys that talk shit through a screen whereas before they'd have gotten their ass beat.
>>537606471Remember ringtones?
>>537607670> in the 90s everyone on the internet was doing that shitAlmost no one was doing that shit in the 90s. And the people that did would do that for an hour and then get off to do something else.
>>537607899smashing mailboxessmashing pumpkinstoilet papering housesgarage hopingdo faggot zoomers do any of this? even younger millennials
>>537608107>not getting kicked out of your house in grade school over diablo
>>537608111>Vandalism is based.
>>537592015>America was homogenous
>>537608234Humans will some group to ridicule and hate.
>>537608230country filled with complete fucking faggots. can't wait to see how you guys do in a war
>>537606774Listened to midi files, downloaded 1.2mb porn avis from ultrapasswords, talked to people on forums and irc, emails, read about stuff, made geocities pages
>>537608326>If you didn't commit small crimes you are a faggot and will not last in a warSo the entirety of the Greatest generation committed vandalism all the time? Also I am too old to be drafted.
>>537608459>smashing pumpkins is a small crime and not something the houses all partook in and enjoyeddie you faggot
>>537608066we smoked bongs, fought with police, drank beers, had girls on our lanparties, groupsex included, schranz djs, went to the best clubs in frankfurt. we didnt go to school and we couldnt hang out at home. so we all gathered outside or at a friendshouse without supervision.now people think only in categories and anything todo with pcgaming is a nerd now.back in the day nerds were apple users and sitting in class in front row.we were called freaksbut this is all disappearing in the fog of history. same as snorkeling live coral reefs. nobody will remember how the ocean looked like before climate change because so few people saw it and remember and even fewer believe the stories these ppl telli became a freediver and turned my back to the modern world. i do got my laptop and play with starlink whenever possible. whenever a hardcore comp pvp game release which isnt very often....last weekend it was mistfall hunters.
>>537592015>people that formed no memories for the first half of the decade are the arbiters of that decadewhat?
>>537608107By 1999 many people were doing this, and by 2005 it was ubiquitous. And that was in Spain, I guess it was even more of a thing in the US.
>>537600172Don't make him depressed ;(
>>537599144goy slop
>>537592015fixed.
>>537608501>Can't refute what I said>Tells me to die instead.Someone is defensive. Did I touch a nerve? Smashing pumpkins may have been harmless fun, but you also mentioned smashing mailboxes, which is a crime, a federal crime I might add. Garage hopping could also be prosecuted as trespassing and petty theft of the liquor. I knew kids like you growing up. They tended to be from broken homes with abusive parents
>>537609011faggot
>>537609178Hans is mad too.
>>537607750The oldest Gen Z remember a little bit of the 2010s and that's about it.
>>537592980what is this, an image for ants?
>>537604409>So did you marry her or what?Should have. I fucked up. My 20s were a mess.Anyway, I'm married and a dad now, so I guess everything works out how it's supposed to.
>>537609308Also I want to point out when I think of retro gaming or at least the earliest game console my family owned it's the NES. When a zoomer thinks of retro gaming they think fucking PS3. You know, the console that plays the current GTA.
>>5375920151996 here, 2003-2007 was the best time to be a kid, I spent a lot of my time going on YouTube and Newgrounds and there was so many websites to meet new people. MMOs were at an all time high. Many TV shows and cartoons. I remember going on AIM, Hotmail, Yahoo Answers, Gaia Online, etc. It was a great to be alive, now everything has gone downhill and soulless.
>>537607899well what about going outside and touching grass is still the same? maybe riding bikes that's about it.we had skaters, BMX, paintball, and laser tag kits too.
>>537606863> Gives spooks legal freedom to socially engineer the internet.> He was totally rad, bro!Go away and never post here again.
>>537609317haha when we organised bank runs via 4chan that was the end of occupy wallstreet, the end of the internet and the end of 4chan.....before we ddosed mastercard and visa and helped the iranian resistance fight the regime....all this is miraculously replaced by facsist braindead populist propaganda....and its working liek a charm.-all i see is bootlickers and conformists nowadays and everybody is scared do deaht of the precariatthe meaning of many words got completely changed. its impossible to communicaste with anyone because everybody is fucking braindead noone knows how to autodidact
>>537609308notice how each decade removed something.>y2k = reduction in patterns>aero = reduction in color>flat = reduction in shading
>>537609792Go back you fucking faggot. You do not belong here
>>537609628I still stand by that web forums are a better community medium than Discord.
>>537609792>something about making the site less interesting to its users
I was born in 1995. My degree is useless and I'm unemployed. I don't use apps.
>>537592015>before and after the internetThings were fine on the internet until normalfags (2007 + gradually more usage with a spike in 2020) and thirdworlders (~2020) flooded
>>537610152who told you to go into gender studies?
>>537607941>won a AoE2 tournamentWoooow so you were the faster rusher! Amazing...
>>537592015I miss it. I didn't even have the best childhood and those years were still so much better.
>>537592623Pretty sure I had dial up in 1994.Yeah they are talking about brown people, who didn't have the money or cognitive ability to work a personal computer.For them the internet didn't exist until smart phones.
If you were born in 92, all the computers had internet capabilities and you had email. If you were born before 86-88, you were likely using a non internet connected computer, like an Apple II. You could get online earlier, but you would likely be a real wizard, professional, library/college (gen X). Most peoples first experience online, if they lived in a developed area would be 1994/1995. They’d have netscape and email.
>>537593933Nobody said anything about being a 90s kid, the topic is about a specific age demographic that experienced a specific period in tech and culture. Funny how just the mention of people born in the 90s is enough to set off your pacemaker. I was born in 93 and it was objectively awesome having the Internet in the 2000s where it was fun and functional, but not yet so integrated into our lives with smartphones and surveillance. Literally the best of both worlds.>Noooo! You weren't born in the 80s so that doesn't count for some reason! duuhhherrrr Tranformers *shits diaper*
>>537592623Most homes were just getting a PC and internet. And even then it was a single PC with dial up. So you weren't on much if at all until later with DSL or the few times on the weekend. If you were poor you didn't have either.
Darkfall RoA has a steam release soon, the beta is running smooth and playercount was enough to get some mass battlesshadowbane had emulators running with2k+ playersand most are not oldschhol but young palyers longing for a real gaming experiencemiirc is still up. we got teamspeak 3 and ventrilo servers still running and some fileshareing clients which naems i wont share are still up and running healthy.....we knew the npc masses are going to go online. before facebook there was myspace and a german website exactly like facebook made by students. already there parents and pupils were mobbing and fighting each other and showing off how great their lifes are with pictures haha4cahn is done since stormfront got shut down and it became a honeypot gov controled website. you cant post anything here. i get banned regularly. this website is now artificial, moderated and not authentic anymore
>>537611100That is a lot of seethe but understandable from someone born in such a shit time as 93'>8 years old when 9/11 happened>best of both worldsLmao you delusional cunt, keep renting, forever.
>>537592015I was born in that era. My dad was high strung and life was living in egg shells.
>>537592015This is retarded. I was born in 88 and was printing pixelated titties off the internet to jack off to when I was 12. We spent loads of time outside but the internet was already beaming titties into your home and allowing online gaming.
>>537611953Yeah on a fucking PC in the living room, thats basically like a kid from the 80's finding his dads playboy. Kids have access to porn 24/7 from there phone, they can run and hide to watch it, we had to wait for the parents to be asleep or leave the house.
>>537592015what a retarded postif you were born in 1992, you never knew a pre-internet world
>>537606567The internet was huge in early 2000s. MySpace was big in 2005.
>>537611953>>537612237Baste slow ass AOL titty downloader. 8/8 as well.
>>537608847That seems closer to the truth. You have called someone on a landline and were part of the entire process of the internet
>>537594106>nintenyearold
>>537607941hell yeah brother, those were some good times. i've gone through different stages of feelings about the younger generation, from "old man" spite, to understanding, to actual pity (it's not their fault).my cousin's daughter is turning 11 and we have subjected her to both old and new things. she has a nintendo switch but also the sega genesis mini console that I put more games on for her. she loves the old 16-bit Disney games like Mickey Mouse, Aladdin, Lion King, etc. I also gave her a modded GBA with a flashcart so she can play all those on the go, she likes the Sonic series a lot on both Sega and GBA with the newer characters.my cousin is also the one who got me into MTG, so she plays Lorcana with him which is actually a pretty good TCG. watching her open packs and organize her cards brings me back.I do the same with my wife, who was kinda unsure at first. She won't play games versus me usually but if I play and she watches she'll make recommendations and get into it being a backseat driver. "You should make more unicorns, they are pretty (HOMM2)". its endearing in a way, and she likes the pixel art. if it's a cozy game she'll play it, I've been getting her into Metropolis 1998 on the demo (she loves the sims / house flipper games).>>537608082i remember being in movie theaters and hearing people's random ones and at the time i hated it, but now i miss it. hearing lil jon's "YEAHHHH!" as a ringtone was peak. i remember buying a few on iTunes, and I even set mine to the Metal Gear Solid radio noise lol
>>537611100The internet started filling up with a lot of trash by 2005 with myspace and post 9/11 terrorist junk. The metal gear solid 2 dialog knew about it. So you’d catch the tail end of the golden internet if you were a “90s kid”. There was a lot of good and bad stuff in early 00s.I prefer 2000 the year and using AIM/AOL. I also loved using CD-ROMS from 93-2000, whether in a magazine or whatever, which brought me digital worlds and information to explore.I did not like using Myspace/friendster or even YT, by then I felt like it had gotten chaotic. Online communities were exploding with bad people. Shows like iCarly came in 2007, and I’m like, yo kids shouldn’t be online broadcasting their life this show is bad. (But now its one of my favorites which reminds me of earlier Nick tv shows).If you were online with PS2, PSP, or your Xbox you were getting the tail end of things. Its really when things started going social it got trashy. When Zuckerberg allowed people without a college email to sign up to FB, online wasn’t a club for young people anymore. And the iphone derailed everyone to apps. You suddenly needed NO computer skills to access online in 2008.Really 2000 or earlier is the best. No terrorists to think about. No social hierarchies except how good you were at games, or making websites, or computer skills. All sorts of communities with elite hackers and artists were talking.And we complain about the current era, the world politics, and the average 4chan/Reddit user every single day.I think G4TV and before had some of the last feeling of when we were going to see a better world. At a cerain point people kind of abandoned everything. Theres tons of people surveiling eachother digitally IRL now. Its kinda bad.
>>537609827Y2K and Aero were both showing off design themes that had just become technologically possible (curved reflective surfaces, transparent water effects). Flat design happened when there was no new tech to show off. Really when you think about it we've made zero progress (besides AI) since 2015. Think about what that must have done to the zoomer psyche, they are basically like middle age peasants that have seen zero progress their entire adult lives. Phones look the same, social media is the same, many games literally are the same, even the fucking president is the same. So now we have an entire generation that has never actually seen progress and no one is talking about the >implications
>>537611953waiting for JPGs to de-interlace line by line, minute by minute just so you could maybe see some nip or panties... damn talk about edging the big game changer was downloading porn on KaZaa and being able to preview what you had downloaded already to see if it was gonna be what you wanted, otherwise you could cancel and cut your losses. shit would be labeled the most incorrect stuff sometimes.remember the video of the bald guy putting his whole head in that chick's pussy? i can't even find it anymore on porn sites for the lulz, lost media i guess
>>537611953>>537612237Zoomers don't know the heart-pump excitement of browsing porn via slow dial up on the family computer in the middle of the living room. Maybe that's why millennials grew up addicted to various taboo porn while zoomers who always had access to porn grew up almost asexual.
>>537592015What are you talking about dumbass. Internet was huge in the 90's
>>537613591we plateau'd in terms of computing power but materials and other things continued to improve. have you tried using a computer with a spinning disk drive in recent years? it's a slog, you forget how slow it really was.similar with mobile data, if you ever get downgraded to LTE you might feel its slow, and god help you if its 3G but that was "fast" compared to what came before it. waiting seconds for a page to load wasn't uncommon, now it feels like you're back in the stone age.battery tech too, I remember it was a big deal when those netbook eeePCs could get 6 hours of battery life instead of the 2-3 hours. now we have macbooks that can basically get 12-24 hours on casual usage that are incredibly thin.it's just that the overall look and feel hasn't had large overhauls too much by comparison of like Win 3.1 -> 95/98 -> XP -> Vista. and the always connected-ness of stuff has been that way since 2010 essentially. remember when Sim City 5 (2013) released with the always online requirement that outraged everyone?
>>537613927My family's first computer ran windows 98 and as far as I can remember it was the first on our block. Maybe in Sweden it was different but here in the US few few jobs required having a computer at home. The average blue collar family man wasn't in a rush to drop inflation-adjusted several thousand dollars on what was essentially a toy.
>>537613957I get what you're saying but I think your time calibration is off because all those things existed in 2015. By that time I had long since dropped HDDs, good laptops like the X1 Carbon had been around for years, and my Samsung S6 could do everything my current phone can do including VR. The current GTA had already been released for years by. Even fucking short form video format was already popular in 2015. Sure 5G is a little faster but the overall progress made from 2015 to now is actually zero when compared to the progress made between 2005 and 2015.
>>537592015https://youtu.be/OG4ZjROEL4c?si=hQWUxRDKp772MuocI fucking hated it. Fighting with the wiggers in middle school. Getting backstabbed by the scene kids in high school. Everyone was an I am to random Wales law cunt. Super fucking degenerative shit design to make people dumb and everybody fell for it. There's a meme about a chick that's just ripping into this guy named John because he's into history or whatnot. That exemplifies everything that happened during that time. Total brain I can't even fault the zoomers.
>>537592015>>537592235this. We are on the cusp of another 2017/2018 due to hubris, ignorance, holocaust level child bullying, and cyber systemic decay. I'll probably snap and become a violent counter-revolutionary depending on how it's handled or what the surrender conditions are. For most of you fags on here you've basically won. Pull the fuck up and stop whining. You've got to be sadistic torturers for 8 years and you're still going to get positive karma. Stop fucking whining. Woke is over. "Rap fatigue" was trending on social media, Kendrick Lamar called the biggest pedo globalist kike in mainstream music (Drake) a pedophile at the super bowl and 2000s scenecore is coming back. People are getting tired of commentary channels calling them "slop" and The Backrooms just outperformed a Disney Star Wars movie. Pull the fuck up. Nature is fucking healing in front of your eyes. We've collectively made it out of hell. It's always the darkest before dawn. Hip Hop is purging itself once Osamason, Nettspend, Ken Carson, 2hollis etc get replaced by a genre that I assume Gen Alpha will be dominant in. A new culture will flourish and changes will happen. You guys no longer have to care about us as an audience and the grifters of my generation will disappear when there's no possibility of being trendy anymore. Also everyone now openly hates Jews and Indians. Stop being pussies. I fucking hate you all but we collectively moving forward.
>>537592980You mean '82–'89.The kids of the '90s were too late - the internet was already the norm by then.Like you said, things went to hell starting in 2008.
>>537592623Most normal people didn't even have internet until like 2006/7.
>>537616649Those might be the people we didn’t want to join.
>>537608319Yeah but there have been niggers and spics in america for a really long time
https://youtu.be/DZe8zF0hRrI?si=DetvxjhUlCGvhWE5I do miss the humor from back then. There's some straight of racist shows on TV by today's standards. They never get made today.
>>537592015Everything changed after teh Dollar Menu went to shit. Quote me on that.
>>537593308*2000-2007Post-dial up, but pre-corporate clowns, social media, and the 3rd world. The iphone was a disaster for the internet.
>>537618307EDIT: I started using the internet in 1996 if it matters. I still think 2000-2007 was the golden age.
>>537592623Here kids were getting first computers on first communion around 2000s. Internet started to storm commieblocks like 2-3 years later and was kind of shitty at first. When I was a kid I was both playing outside with BB guns and sticks, explored nearby neighbourhoods and spend most of my summer breaks on the countryside visiting grandparents who to this day don't have computer and barely any phone signal. A little before getting first PC my father got Pegasus console and we were playing Mario, Tetris, Battle City, that Mario-like with riding dinosaurs and Castle Quest together. Later on he got Playstation and we were playing Tomb Raider together as well. Though it was so long ago I don't remember exact order and whether PC was before Playstation, or after. In any case at first consoles felt better than PC because without internet you could only draw in paint and you were dependent on whatever games someone in neighbourhood pirated and burned on CDs. Later on when internet appeared and people started to share pirated movies and games on local networks to not hog bandwidth, when I discovered anime and internet got good enough for games like Battlefield instead of just flash games and Tibia, PC took over and Playstation 2 we got in the meantime was used as side piece.Up until facebook internet operated more as wild west and was seen by older people as something to send e-mails and as silly place for kids to waste time on watching cat videos. When facebook took off, internet slowly became centralized over next decade around several big social mediums and corporatized. Instead of being flooded by viruses you started to get flooded by ads. Phone boom in recent years made it even worse by spreading internet in shitholes like India.
>>537601738>white continent……North america has been mixed race continent for like 300 yearsWtf do you meanSpaniards english and french colonized the continent from indigenous, brought niggers over, brought chinks to build the railways, italians to make us pizza…..…..This isn’t a white nation, nigger>pajeetI am literally not indian i was born in canada
>>537592015Late millennials and literal zoomers who don't even remember the 90's culturally appropriating late gen x and early millennial culture.
>>537600036Being a friendless kid without internet access in a place where you couldn't even rent movies or go to a library was absolute fucking dogshitThere were five or six TV channels and the slop that I could find on those were the only friend I had
>>537618827I hated the jeans and gargantuan shoulder pads in women, looked ugly af.doubt any zoomer girl has the balls to wear these shoulder pads.
>>537618827Not everyone is American.Back in the 2000s we had a blend of a bit of 00s culture but it was mostly what you experienced in the 90s. Movie rental places, no internet, the TV program was made up of mostly 80s and 90s shows and movies. No cell phones either, because they were expensive as fuck and we could only get the basic ones (think Nokia 3310 and the like) in the mid to late 00s. Sometimes dad would record some movie that played on TV over some old VHS tape and that was a real treat. Some of my friends only got the internet in the early 2010s, my family got it a year or two before that.t. zoomer
>>5375920151994 was the peak, it's all been downhill since
>>537593933I'm real jealous of the specimens blessed with being born in that year that's for sure.
>>537592015No they didn't. The internet was already a thing in 1994. They would have never lived before the internet accept as infants.
>>537601393Every single school and public library had the fucking internet in 1995, Stijn.
>>537610953If you were born in 92, you're a fucking xbox kiddie. You missed out on the entire evolution of video games. You're basically little different from the broccoli headed faggots that immediately followed you.
>>537592623>how can you remember a world without internet if you were born in '92?They don't. Most of them don't even remember dial up internet. This is just "hurr durr let's just jerk each other off over how our generation was the last to play outside" faggotry.No one born in 1992-1999 has any real memories of what life was actually like before the internet. Mosaic and Netscape were released in '93-'94 and home internet use surged after that. Always connected high speed home internet connections started getting rolled out in 1999 and rapidly replaced dial up in most homes.At best, the people in that age group might partially remember life before smartphones and social media became common, but even that stuff was released when they were still just kids in elementary school.
>>537592015Nope. I’m the bottom rung of Gen X. 1980, and I had it best. No internet growing up, no phone etc. Get accessories later in my teens when I’m responsible enough to pay for and appreciate them. AlsoFuck niggers
>>537593308This
>>537620191The EARLY early internet was very hobbyist and primitive and didn't have much of the magic that late 90s early 2000s internet had.
>>537592015Nigga I had email, FTP, and HTTP access in 1993. Hotmail and AOL were huge by like 96. How is that life before the internet?
>>537609317occupy wall st was right. the businesses and epstein class always gets bailed out, but never ordinary people buying the junk that is propped up entirely by the government handouts. it's based off trick down theory which nowadays just ships your money to a jeet overseas
>>537619226There was an era in the west from like 2005-2010 where every kids show was really fucking shit. All the OG cartoons were becoming enshittified and all the new shows were just awful. And this was pre-streaming, so you literally had no choice but to watch it. I doubt many people even remember.
>>537601393>Forums? What's those?I was debating people in forums looking at jailbait 90s porn and playing multiplayer half life in the late 90s and I was born in 1989. The internet was absolutely a thing back then it was huge. I just think you have the wrong idea cause you were not exposed to it.
>>537597682This. I love nostalgia because 89 to 2003 was the best time to be a kid in history. But i hate nostalgia threads because retards make comments that facebook was a thing in 2000. For everyone else, normies DID NOT USE THE INTERNET NOR COMPUTERS AT ALL IN 2002. THEY HAND WROTE ASSIGMENTS AND WENT TO LIBRARY TO DO BOOK RESEARCH. NORMIES ONLY STARTED USING THE INTERNET IN 2004 WITH THE POPULARITY OF MYSPACE BUT BEFORE THAT THEY STAYED IN THEIR OWN LANE.not coincidentally the internet went to garbage in 2004.
>>537621915>so you literally had no choice but to watch itlol
>>537622287I can settle for 2004 as when the decline started. If I recall Google Adsense also came out in 2004 ad corporate creep started around then.
>>537593574This.>t.1984
>>537592015people born in those years didn't get to enjoy them, are people retarded? yeah, the 90s were the best, but for Gen X and to a lesser extent millenials who were both at prime age to enjoy those years. anyone born in 1992 wasn't even in kindergarten before it all went to shit.
>>537592015No, people born in the 70s-80s had the perfect mix. Old enough before the internet to know how to function without it, but young enough to have grown up with computers and other tech.
>>537592015obviously fake screenshot.there's no such "science"
>>537598707>another midwit>>537593653yeah it's a retarded thread full of mostly retards. congratulations, you are immune to propaganda.
>>537594242lmao
>>537600822they'll never know the temple of the screaming electron.
>>537592623We had dial up until the early 2000s. Navigating the internet fucking sucked
>>537592015why nobody gives me you's i put a lot of effort into this drawing :/ 1999 here
>>537624025here is some low effort bitch
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>>537592015That's too late. The first iPhone was released in 2007 when those little niggres were only 8-15 years old. Facebook became normalized around the same time.A more realistic range would be something like 1985-1990 and no later.
>>537625243no, earlier than that. If you weren't in your late teens and dating before the internet, then you have no idea how much better it was. Basically Gen X, born between 65-80 at the latest generation to know what it felt like before jews ruined everything. granted it was already coming, MTV was already being used to push left wing propaganda but it didn't have that much influence. Thats the last generation to remember actual dating, going to dinner with a girl, she wasn't a total whore, bars and clubs were still segregated, not legally but culturally. It all ended in the late 90s.
>>537625622It depends on how you interpret "perfect mix of life before and after the internet". I don't think my mix was perfect since internet was slow and not that useful when I was a teenager. So for me the perfect mix would be be several years after my age group but before internet gave birth to societal cancer and became all-consuming. I don't think a kid who was 10 in 2000 was devoured by the internet like kids post ~2007. If I had been 15 in 2005, I would've had more of the positives of the internet as a teenager than I did a decade+ earlier but without everything getting out of hand yet. But as I say, it depends on how you interpret a perfect mix. I could see how I would've benefitted greatly from the internet if I had been let's say 10 in 2015, but the chance for a perfect mix of pre and post would've been long gone.
>>537592015Off by about a decade, but other than that, sure....1982-1989 is closer to the perfect blend.
>>537620093fuuuuck. I'm a december 82 chris.
>>537600567>‘84 fag here. Honestly everything was pretty great up until social media.This. >t.1984
>>537623126That's what I said. There's no way of knowing such a thing.
>>537624025>youyour wife has an amazing body. I'm sure the two of you will be very happy together.
>>537594191An all white sleepover with a gamecube
>>537592015Your picture is bullshit. Eternal September started in 1993. People born in that decade grew up with enshittified internet.>>537592623This.>>537601393>Social media didn't exist.Social media with user generated content existed before normies got access to internet. News groups, mailing lists and shieet. It was better than kikebook or twitter.
>>537592015>Life in the 2000s was paradise.lol
>>537627925So much sovl
>>537625622That shit is too old, growing up with the 00s Internet and access to Japanese subs was kino. The internet was great when it was mostly White and Asian geeks using it.
>>537592623I'm old enough to remember just stashing dozens of AOL CDs every time I went into the grocery store. I had so much of those CDs I could make a CD fort out of them.
>>537628446>I'm old enough to remember just stashing dozens of AOL CDs every time I went into the grocery store. I had so much of those CDs I could make a CD fort out of themMe and my brother collected AOL CDs from everywhere we could. Had our friends at school do the same. They would send them to the whole neighborhood in the mail and we would go door to door and ask the neighbors. Took about 3 years to cover an entire wall in the computer room. When the sun hit that wall you could see God
>>537626517well my nephew was about that age born in 1992, and I've spent enough time with him to see how his life differed from mine, I was born in 1970. I've seen how much he has missed out on, and its like trying to explain to a colorblind person what the color red is. Sure he thinks probably like you that he lived in the last peak time, but no he hasn't, it isn't to brag or anything I wish his generation experience what we did. Its not really worth explaining, there's no going back anyway. I can also see how boomers had it better than me obviously, its weird that millenials think somehow they lived in peak times, i guess they really are just narcisists just like boomers.
>>537592235>kingdom of God is near>just two more weeksI'm so goddamned tired of you retarded fucking faggots, you have no idea
>>537629116Idk dude you had the “stranger things” experience, seems okay but I don’t envy it compared to growing up in the 00s. I’m sure the world was very cool back then too, though.
>>537629116I was born in the early 70's. I have lived through every awesome old and new thing imaginable and it's just getting better.
>>537592623I was born in 92 and my household didn't get internet access until 2003.
>>537629116Personally I don't believe there is such a thing as a "peak time". It's always a mix of good and bad, and the best mix depends on the individual's interests and circumstances. For me the best balance would've been if I had been born in about 1985 because then I could've tapped into a more useful internet as a teenager. >I've spent enough time with him to see how his life differed from mine, I was born in 1970. I've seen how much he has missed out on,But isn't this just nostalgia? You didn't have the internet as a youth at all so you see it as entirely negative. If I never had access to BBS's and then the internet as a youth, I don't see how that would've been better than having access to them. There were many important things that resulted from that for my personal development. As I said, it would've been better if I could've used a little bit more advanced form of the internet as a youth. Now, if I could isolate the best parts of today's internet, I'd take them in any era whether it's the 500s, 1500s, 1950s or 1990s. But that can't be done so it's about moving the sliders to find the time window to be born for an optimal best of both worlds. I don't think there's an objective right answer, but dismissing the internet in its entirety is going way too far in search for a past utopia, in my opinion.
>>537592623We were one of the first people in Finland to have internet in 92 for private use.
>>537627954these niggers never knew gopher
>>537609317LOLThis image has to be at least... Three times bigger than that!
>>537592015>the economy was stable and finances were secureLol. Agree with most everything else though.
>>537632663objectively, the summit of human culture was 1988-1996. iykyk. glad i lived to see it. now i hope i live to see the micronova.
>>537608593climate change is fake you dumb drug addicted crackhead
>>537592015This pic is very true, then it was all systematically raped and stripped away from us over the decades starting with 9/11. That's why there are so many of us that are bitter manchildren addicted to nostalgia and dropped out of society, myself included
>>537617475but they were confied to their ghettos. both physically and culturally.rap was such a niche thing that Weeds (the show) even made fun of white middle aged people knowing rap lyrics.nowadays everything in culture is NIGGA MUH DICKback then you could turn on the TV and go for hours without seeing one black. and that black you saw was the token niggerniggers went from being a curiosity to the center stage of pop culture
>>537592015https://youtu.be/g-2Didi1bnk
>>537592623People used the internet more sparingly back then. It was actually an activity to sit on the computer and spend 30 mins writing an email or w.e.As a kid I used it to look up gamefaqs and play multiplayer tf2
>>537592623Born '98, can't remember a time before dial-up. What I do have a near perfect split on is the mix between genuine expression internet vs the slop corpo internet of today.
>>537593893It was shit but at least they were labour of love made simply for the love of the game, now everything needs to be market researched and feature some way of harvesting data.
>>537592623yea its dumb, only kids born in 80s can say that, AOL messaging was big as early as 98'
>>537634523It’s weird they thought they could raise us that way and think we’d never fight for what we lost.
>>537593775>>537599356Had cable modem around that time. 3Mbps U/LNapster was wild.
>>537592398They don't remember being aware of the jew's manipulation tactics back then so they think the same shit that's happening today wasn't happening back then.
>>537592980Things really started changing for the worst after 9/11.
>>537604874the retardation in this fanfic is palpable
