Why was the Internet better before than how it is today?
>>539270385No, i had to wait an hour to download a 5 minute audio file
>>539270385Because we didn't give our names or send pics.
>>539270385OH MY HECKIN' FRUTIGER AERO OLD INTERNET!!! SHITTY EVERYTHING IS GLASSY AND GLOWING DESIGN EV&OE WHEN APPLE DID IT EVERYONE HATED IT!!! 0 DECENTRALIZED ALTERNATIVES TO PROPRIETARY CORPORATE AD FILLED GOYWARE AND INTERFACES BOTH WITH BUTTONS LARGER THAN NIKOCADO'S ASSHOLE AND FORCED INTO A SPACE 1/8 THE SIZE OF YOUR 360p MONITOR!!! DOGSHIT DOWNLOAD SPEEDS AND IF SOMEONE PICKS UP THE PHONE UH OH IT'S GONE!! CANT OPEN A MESSENGER WITHOUT BEING SENT INTO A ROOM FULL OF PEDOPHILES AND CP!!! WHY DOES NOBODY ELSE MISS THE OLD INTERNET????!?!?!?!?
>>53927038515 min for a medium quality topless Pamela Anderson pic from barbed wire. >pixel line by pixel line. >schsreeee-beepdoo beeeep.
>>539270894Porno magazines were the peak of humanity.Prove me wrong.
>>539270385The participants were far superior and it was relatively lawless. Now it's the opposite, the tech is much better but we're surrounded by cunts and it's sanitised to fuck.
>>539270385REJECT MODERNITY
>>539270385Jews .. it's always because the Jews moved in and monopolised the industry
>>539270983I never even saw hard pornography until the internet
>>539270385>Why was the Internet better beforeI went around forums calling people niggers without getting banned
>>539270385Everybody was white and nobody talked like a nigger
>>539270839I had a 1600x1200 monitor in 2004. Viewsonic made excellent CRTs with blacks and resolutions that weren't caught up to until OLEDs.
>>539271020Go spend 5 hours setting up your irc channels and 2009 firefox skins then, but it's "still not the same" right oldfag? It's like the world hasn't been the same since my dick went forever limp...
>>539270385because even just a few years ago you could type in tubgirl or blue waffles and get thousands of results of what you were looking for.Google's deliberately gotten stupider and stupider year after year
>>539270385addiction and simulacra of social interactions wasn't the entirety of it. Sure Myspace was social media, but it wasn't the entirety of your life
>>539271048The internet is for porn, remember how funny that was?I lived in a cozy neighborhood and of course one of the boys was excited as piss to show anyone he could the porn he found on kazaa.It's so over for the new gens.
India wasnt online yet once 1 billion Indians got online then everything went to shit
>>539270385Normie goy cattle weren't on it
>>539271134>Giant displays that are longer than they are wide, cause noticeable eye pain, weigh 70lbs, explode randomly and screech at you whenever you turn them on are better because... they just are ok?
>>539270385it was all white people on the internet untill obama phones happened in like 2010
alt.binaries.pictures erotica.*
>>539270385I think it had something to do with separation from other minds. In that OP pic, you can't possible know the mind of the users who created all that. Think of morse code. The internet started as "I publish art and convey media for strangers" and it's not become "my diary": the infinite vacuum of fags trying to sell you a god, no matter where you are.
Hard to overstate how exciting the internet was. A digital wild west, a new frontier explored only by those savvy enough to navigate it.For me the sweet spot was just after we got our first broadband connection. 512kpbs was mind blowing coming from 56k dial up and opened up whole new avenues for gaming and downloading movies (naughty movies). There was a purity to it.On the flip side, it allowed a 13 year old me to entirely disengage with the real world and disappear into a black hole of online gaming and hardcore pornography. I think my life would probably have been better if I'd have been born 5 years earlier and reached adulthood without the temptations of p2p porn sharing to rot my tiny little gooner brain. Still, haven't ended up too bad all things considered.I can't really wrap my head around how kids are developing with handheld access to 5g connection and all the shit they engage with on a daily basis. There are good arguments to be made for restricting casual access to the net. I wouldn't mind living without it.Iphones and widespread adoption of social media were the beginning of the end. When every fucking boring, braindead normie started 'surfing the web' everything rapidly started going to shit and now here we are.
>>539270894worth it to keep you pajeets off the internet forever
>>539271194Of course they were. Really poor people didn't have the internet and most the boys and girls weren't at all interested in staring at a screen longer than necessary. That was for geeks and they didn't want to play games.Starting in the mid 90s anyone remotely middle class started getting a home PC and dial-up so they could print things off and keep up with the Joneses. They'd go online, download their music, and burn CDs to listen to. Your poor friends without such luxuries could pick up a pack of blank CDs and you'd burn them off whatever they want to listen to.If you were into gaming your first online communication with a person may have been a gamer saying "gl hf" and then "gg" at the end of the match.Cellphones were a completely different beast, and every girl wanted one right away. Naturally boys followed suit or they couldn't text those girls. Naturally many middle class parents were slow to adopt a second phone bill for their kids, and it took a lot of time for parents to get suckered into the idea that "at least they can call us if they need help" logic.For really desperate girls the internet was a quick way to meet boys who lived further away, and for real tech geeks, a portal into coding and other mindbending activities. Unfortunately for them there was already a thriving ecosystem of old weirdos ready to interfere.
>>539270385because joogle didn't exist, it's crazy how guilty they are of ruining the internet. facebook certainly helped by flooding it with normalfags but I mean christ, google barely works because the results are monetized
>>539270385There were less women and niggers, so yes.
>>539271562holy shit you're a retardjesus fucking chrisnobody knew how to burn CDs or download music because the teevee told them it was badkill yourself
It just used to be a lot funnier, that's all.http://www.seanbaby.com/news/fatsuit.htm>>539271348Based Usenet appreciator.
>>539271433This +>the internet used to be a place where people would leave a real part of themselves for others to discover, not knowing if anyone would really see itBoth seem to agree with each other but looking deeper are part of an enormous network of entirely incomprehensible and contradictory demoralization techniques primarily by Russia and China designed to prevent our society's further technological advancement. Same users also clitty leak TREMENDOUSLY when trannies online who literally slit their wrists for fun dont react in horror to their pigs drowning in their own blood snuff film. I still burn CDs in 2026, but for a FUNCTIONAL purpose: to use them in my older car which phones don't plug into while saving for a newer one. Can you imagine doing something for a FUNCTIONAL and not purely wistfully nostalgic reason? No you can't, because you're an oldfag who shits his pants and scrolls 4chan as opposed to humanity's breadths of useful information available to you for free.
>>539271048Same here. First time I ever been exposed to porn. I still watch porn too, but I can't say what kind of porn it is though.
>>539271699lol wrongalso redditspacing
>>539271699Maybe in Walshart land. (I don't believe this for a second btw.)Every kid was burning CDs if they could. I bet you think people weren't recording movies on their VHS or copying audio cassettes either? Nobody my age was buying music for their mp3 players when they came out, either. Getting mp3s online and burning them was infinitely better than recording hit songs off the radio.
>>539271867You watch tranny porn.
I remember telling the pedos in the chatrooms to fuck off then playing Doom.Kids these days would never.
>>539270385the jews hadnt taken it over yet, it was like the wild west
>>539272028They still have onion sites for your "wild west" feel, I feel like you and >>539271867 would get along quite well there. Or have da joos rigged your PC to be unable to boot TailsOS?
>>539271257>cause noticeable eye painDo you still not know how to properly adjust the refresh rate on your monitor?
Internet dating was a thing for adults, too. Desperate old birds emailing horndog brokies and anyone else who would sniff at their muff. Chain emails from grandma.A lot of normies adapted right away, often because they were already emailing for work or they liked emailing their family.
>>539272119Doesn't matter, they still do. Maybe I'm just too used to looking at things that don't glow.
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>>539270983They were, but I only looked at them for the articles. >30 seconds now with search for a 30 year old movie.
>ever wanting to go back to dialupOP is underaged, retarded, and as always, a faggot
>>539271257talking in 4chan brainrot lingo doesn't make your gay retard opinions correct btw.
>>539271812Based and Terranova/Kittler pilled. The evolution of the internet mirrors the evolution of society before the internet. The NSA was established for America to discover America, the birth of modern social statistics would allow for the population to eventually count itself. Hell, the same story can be said about the birth of reading culture post-Nietzsche. Once upon a time the author hid behind his word. The thing I hate the most about the aesthetics is that those "aesthetics" are just mockeries of the designs which still make the most sense.
>>539270385The Internet was smaller and the content was diversified and experimental. You could genuinely explore and find some cool shit. Now the web is like 5 sites and every search engine directs you to whatever makes them the most money and not necessarily what you need or want.
They're enshittifying the internet because it was freeing peoples minds too much.
>>539270385No. It was just different. There were things I preferred about how it was back then but there are a ton of things I would throw those things I liked in the trash in a heartbeat to keep. The oversimplified nostalgiabait videos and mood boards you see are not a representation of how things actually were at the time. Give it a couple decades and you'll get to see first hand how this sort of thing works.
Where Did the Rest of the Internet Go?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zyJB45ewvU&t
>>539272531This and it cannot be overstated. We need a parallel internet, more specifically an alternative search engine to Google and all the FAANG bullshit. THAT will resurrect the internet.
>>539272531More like lobotomizing,,,,
Everyday millions of indians are getting access to internet
>>539272626>>539272531A modern day Gutenberg press....
>>539270839>IF SOMEONE PICKS UP THE PHONE UH OH IT'S GONENigger can't into ftp or getright
>>539272626Dish based mesh networks or something. The entire net goes through a central location in USA anyway that's a retarded point of failure with 0 redundancy built in.
>>539270385The other thing back then is that there was more to explore. People took things like out of body experiences, telepathy and all this other fringe shit seriously. Now there it is like there is nothing left to explore. Nobody cares about exploration. Just a constantly devolving world getting shittier, dumber and browner. Basically like animals, only caring that their base needs are met. No higher thought. Perhaps it's the vax or some other poison they introduced to kill the human spirit, we know they are trying.
>>539270385>>>> Anonymous (ID: uK5WjSEP) 07/20/26(Mon)00:21:01No.539270655▶>>>539270385 (OP)>Because we didn't give our names or send pics.The Intertnet didn't really exist back then. It was more of people trying to come up with the concept.Now we learned some concepts.And I mean we as people.But now there is ai, bots, and india and other countries.So, we had to learn that too.to make the Internet, we have to have curation.
>>539272736Just use the existing network, it's not like anyone can replace it. Just a new search engine. Anons need to make websites themselves too, it can spread word of mouth or 4chan as well. It's easier and cheaper now than ever (except a few years ago when it was actually cheaper).Control of the search engines is the same as the strategy to control any key resource. With oil you control energy and economy, with search engines you control all digital information, it's the bottleneck. Simply make a viable alternative.
>>539271257For me its opposite, lcds cause dizziness and headaches
>>539272825>Just a new search engine.I've wanted to do this for some time.
>>539270385million americans users to 3rd world scammerYou used to meet your local neighbors on the chat lines and play fuck party
>no niggers>no jeets>no smartphones>no normgroids>lots of communities >no monopolization (everything now is either Meta, Reddit, or Google)>no chatbots>no aislop>barely any censorship and yet people remained civilI could keep going but I think I already made my point>inb4 rose tinted glassesIt was literally better by any metric.
>>539272825The future belongs to those who control the physical infrastructure. Think about it, bitcoin means nothing if it depends on the US govs centralised internet or some billionaire elite techbros satellite internet.Decentralise.
>>539273298You won't successfully rally any decentralized effort unless the titans fall. Convenience will always win.
>>539270385It was paradise before the smart phone.
>>539270385Because you inferior AI bot losers weren't on it.Humans rule AI bots suck dick
>>539273018>no monetization >no shills>file sharing abundance >white and white subcultures aboundgrats in the win today ogspicanon
>>539270385The internet can barely even be considered to exist anymore. Existence is obviously better than non-existence.
>>539270385In some aspects, yes. It's userbase had more quality as anybody who wasn't tech savvy couldn't be bothered to use it unless they could afford an iMac. Digital technology was still in its developing phase so there was less normies (lemmings) on the WWW. Now it is full of people with double digit IQ's.
>>539272531Nar dawg. The internet was a place you could play around with. The focus was fun. Now, the focus is profit.>>539272412
>>539270839Kek. Windows XP was absolutely fucking garbage and Frutiger Aero was too. Nostalgia fags are delusional.>t. Millennial
>>539270385it's always been shit, yahoo chat 20 years ago and 4chan today, exact same garbage
>>539271610And women that you did find were at least somewhat based and a lot less likely to be guys... early on, at least
>>539270385>AOL>pyramidIt was better because they haven't found a way to censor it like the Talmudvision back then. They catched up now internet is almost as miserable as Talmudvision, most people only visit apps like twitter, instagram, facebook ect... The internet is dead, coopted by the corpo jew.
>>539270385Primarily white users.
>>539270385Before eternal september the influx of normies was mangeable. I've been using the internet since the early 90s and worked at an ISP from 1994 onwards. I find it hard to explain how incredible it was before the rest of the world showed up.First AOL started to fuck it with their CDs for Amerifats, then smartphones brought a huge numbers of cunts online, final straw was pakis, poos, and other 3rd worlders, but by then it was already fucked.The final wave now, and final death is AI slop. Absolute sludge.
I miss the community of the old internet, mostly adventerous or highly weird but intelligent people. It wasn't accessible enough for the true retards and NPCs to be on board anywhere near the quantity they are today. Most women you'd meet online were either openly a grandma who loved you or a nerdy cougar.
>>539270385Jews found out they can manupliate it like they can with TV and media
>>539270385>Why was the Internet better before than how it is today?because it was filled full of White people (minus jews of course).
>>539270385everything is way easier to view and download and there is just a shitload of information now but the downside is that half of the net is bots and the pther half is soul-less npcs and jeets that should never be on here. I honestly feel like we're reached a point where all of the original ideas that are cool and good have already been explored and everything content wise feels like its repeating itself.
>>539270385You could search for anything and get accurate results created by human beings. You could open a comments section and get hundreds of comments written by real people providing all sorts of insights. You could write a comment and it wouldn't be deleted or (((shadow banned))) unless you violated common decency. The popular hobby and craft channels had won out meritocratically and weren't hand-picked to shoehorn in as many cunts as possible. You could join a web forum that had the American spirit of free speech and wasn't Reddit whose founder was (((suicided))) and whose moderator was a key player in an international Jewish pedophilia blackmail and spy ring for many years. You could express an unpopular opinion without being (((doxxed))) and your employer being blackmailed into firing you. You wouldn't have your thumbs-up or thumbs-down deleted several times from YouTube before they removed the thumbs-down counter against the wishes of its founder. You wouldn't occasionally come across borderline CSAM intentionally sprinkled in to make the Internet still seem organic and uncontrolled.
>>539270385It was about communication and communities rather than being a corpo feed.
>>539270385Lots of reasons but the main one is that politics wasn’t being interjected into every single fucking thing. Old reddit for example was actually decent up until about 2016. Now the whole site is just non stop faggotry and people trying to interject their stupid faggot opinion into something that’s not even political. That goes for most social media sites nowadays though.Also if you were a kid or young adult 2000-2012 on the internet it was ok to not have an opinion on everything. Now we got millions of literally who’s on the internet (sometimes underage) posting non stop “takes” slop on “x” topic. All of a sudden everyone is an expert political guru because they read a 2 minute article or some shit on whatever topic. Basically the internet used to be a place of escapism, discovering new niche sites/hobbies/topics, dumb funny memes and a place to connect and have genuine discussions with people. Those things still exist online but it’s not even close to being what it was. 70% of the internet just feels like constant rage bait, political slop, and scams. A.i has made it even worse.
>>539270457you got bad internet over there to this very day>>539278701there was not so many npcs on the internet, 2007 is when it started going to shitbtw posting this from virtual machinecan not post for two days now due cloudflare turnstile making captcha fail, they want to track and to fingerprint 100% of the browser like a spastic.you will see major drop in posters and huge increase of these bots et al on 4changsneed google authorized browser to post on cloudshit site and this super free boardno way i will up the virtual to post here hence last post until this cloudflare crap gets addressedand i aint the only onesayonara faggits
