What was the political scene like in 1993, the year of Bill Clinton's inauguration, the first year of open 'WWW.' web registrations, the year of Canada's only girl POTUS Kim Campbell, Yeltsin's total control over Russia, Zemin's start as POTUS of China, etc.? What were people doing online back then (Usenet/web/BBS/GOPHER/etc.) compared to today?
very very few people used the internet recreationally/socially until the iphone. biggest political shit in '93 was Bush senior rising taxes and LA racewar. everyone was bluepilled and none of the boomers/genx remember anything specifically going on then
>>542464335After Ruby Ridge and Waco, the Militia "threat" was growing, but it was just fat fucks and retarded gun nut weekend warriors.
>>542464519ruby ridgewacowhitewaterLA riotsOJ OKCRainbow farmIraq warWTC bombing.lots to remember
>>542464335You could say nigger in usenet. Gopher is still alive btw, that's where most cp is, hidden in plain sight.
>>542464585people remember the new viper or miata better than any of that shit. they were making loads of money and having lots of sex. sportsball/lawnmowing/church and if it wasn't those things they didn't care or hardly know
>>542464335Only started using the net in 1997, when internet that didn't get interrupted by a fucking phone line was finally affordable. Found rotten.com at the age of 10 or so, and 3 years later roughly some guy on it told me about this place, time flies...
ol fag 78youd get aol discs in magazines and that was how ud use the limited internet.there was aol chatrooms which were fun. and if you had too much fun youd get kicked off aol ...you get anothet disc and go right back in.the 80s and 90s were pretty leftist due to tv sitcoms shaming any bit of right leaning thinking. why bill clinton had such a strut to him. tv, news, music, movies were all part of the democrat movement and there was no escaping it before the internet.bush sr initiated naftaclinton signed it into law94 is often seen as the beginning of the circus level leftist stuff. and even back then as a 14 year old i could sense we werent in kansas anymore and aint going back.yeah but with the internet maybe you spent half hour on it a day. it got old with how little there was to do on it. plus how the pc would have issues, the dial up was iffy. things would take along time to go from pixels to a nsfw picture
Democrats were ready to feed their own children to Bill, because he could play the saxophone. People were making more money and houses were already getting expensive. LGB shit was already starting.Women still liked to be taken on dates and wanted to be asked out. That would die within 10 years.
>>542464335Is this that game where the guy farts on you?I never got past that bit....
>>542464519My dad worked for a utility company so I had it in 1993. Was pretty awesome, but the peak of freedom on the internet was about 1999. There's more out there in terms of 'content' now, but organic curated communities occured. Astroturfing was usually a targeted flame war, now called a raid. Trolling used to be called flaming, which is why faggot flowed so easily despite the sources being unrelated. A flamer made incendiary posts, so they were a flamer times duex.
>>542466348I don't recall that. It's an fmv puzzle game. The resolution was terrible. The puzzles are interesting, but other companies did it much better. Sierra with the lighthouse for one, zork and other text only ones before.
>>542464997Hell, they mailed them for free for years after public utility internet came out, especially after you were no longer charged a per minute phone call to whatever server you dialed. They had to merge with yahoo and Sierra lost at&t a ton making an online leisure suit Larry casino before anyone had the hardware, the lost lsl4. They were under contract to not mention it until the 2010s.
>>542464738No, I remember myst pretty well. Red book and blue book for the good and evil brother. Riven was what flopped
>>542466312Everyone seemed to make more money. The only vacation my family went on was in the 90s, because gas was cheap and so were smokes. It's not just relative inflation, things genuinely were more valuable. Other things are so cheap now though like electronics. First family pc cost my dad a loan.
>>542466766I don't want to go back simply because we can see the rot now, looking back. If you said Jews were behind the collapse of America in 1994, it would be so out of left field people would treat it like you were speaking an alien language, they wouldn't even be angry at you, it just wouldn't compute.
>>542464335Campbell was PM for 6 months and had to quit because she was incompetent
>>542466877There were always some USS liberty speakers around. My grandpa owned a business so I encountered all kinds of aging silent gens
>>542464519The online 'Eternal September' (when normies flooded online spaces) apparently happened in 1993, when simple web browsers and other software tools for platforms like Windows 3.1 apparently made it way easier for 'normies' to access online services compared to the previous September of 1992. By 1993, companies like AOL and CompuServe had made online accessibility a lot easier for North Americans.
>>542464776Are we twins? Did you play Counter Strike 1.6 and Team Fortress Classic till the sun came up? Kek. Those bills man.
>>542467033Yeah and I was in a liberal bubble in California. Money is a great insulator, and America was very rich between 1880 and 1970. Even now, the effects of those years have not worn off completely.
>>542467107I believe there was a court decision that led to browsers being 'free' products against AOL. Then Microsoft later for internet explorer being defaulted on paid windows because of that one. You know, a court actually cared about cookie data once and not just to spy on people.
>>542467175He wasn't rich. He was a barber. Didn't make shit until flipping some houses in the 80s property snap, realized being a landlord sucks as those companies didn't exist to manage yet and retired.
>>542464519>very very few people used the internet recreationally/socially until the iphonewrong, AOL instant messenger got a ton of normies and foids online
>>542467253I remember a girl specifically forced me to create an AIM account
>>542467253On ICQ I once got matched with a girl in my high-school who hated me. She immediately disconnected when she realized it was me because we both went to the sportsball game that night. Small school so called her out the next day
>>542467249We're going to a good place, much better than 1776, because that too was obviously a lie. I always loved science fiction since I was little, and now we get to live in one of those stories, where all kinds of unimaginable things become true.
>>542466698um ackshually both brothers are pieces of shit who will trap you in their prison books if you make the mistake of bringing them all their respective pages. youre supposed to rescue their dad
>>542467430Quicktime was so annoying. We were supposed to be amazed "that the picture moved at all" kek
>>542464335You can't comprehend how utterly boring it was. We didn't realize how good we had it.
>>542467502Yet I still have it for some old games. 7th guest also came out before myst. Had it not been for a ripped green screen, that would have been much better.
>>542464335I think we were pretty blissfully ignorant then when it came to politics. Social media didn't exist so we didn't have people broadcasting their social and political views to the rest of the world. Technology was still young and anybody using computers or using the internet for the first time was still a space dominated by White males.
>>542467662I liked "Alone in the Dark" better
>>542464335i didn't get to use the internet in the 90's because my sister almost got raped by a pedophile she met in a chat room who said he had lots of anime and video games at his house. the sheriff showed up at our house and told us about it. i wasn't online until like 2002.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7K72ujXbuQ
>>542467412It definitely feels like we're in the 21st century for real now, with the rate super-tech is appearing
>>542467672Culture was still filtered through news and government control. Things that can't be denied now like the u2 spy pilot captured in 1960 had a big cover story to hide his capture until it could no longer hold. The internet diffused culture into bubbles of where people go, social media was reigning it back but algorithmic curation pays better and engages the rat brain more.
>>542467720Yeah, that was awesome too. Cthullu done right. Resident evil stole it
>>542466530I remember playing Tomb Radier for the first time. I never did when it first came out bc it was gay, but when I finally got around to trying it out of boredom OpenGL 3Dfx were already a thing. God, the resolution was absolute shite; I had to turn it off after 5 minutes. Never did actually play it.
>>542467798It's not about the tech, except insofar as the structure of this Earth is a technology.
>>542467801People relied on tv and newspapers a lot more. Everyone was very passive
>>542464335Did you get pages for the dude in the red book?Or the dude in the blue book?This is political
>>542464335Bill Clinton started the expansion of NATO that resulted in the Ukraine war. His cabinet was almost all Jewish.
>>542467801Ultimately most people like to be entertained and told what's what. America nourished those who wanted to create their own entertainment and tell their own stories for a long time. That part of us will survive the death of Washington DC, almost without noticing it.
>>542464519Shut up zoomer
>>542467861Pc gamer mag had a playboyesque spread of Lara Croft. Good times. A debate piece about racism with a white guy saying it's bad to have stereotypical depictions and an Asian guy saying lo Wang is hilarious too
>>542467897Blue The red guy seemed too crazy, even though the blue guy seemed differently untrustworthy
>>542468097They were both Jews anon
>>542468097Same my brotherIf I remember right, they both are bad choices, and are just using you to escape however they can
>>542468164I think there's a hidden third option to fuck them both over but I'm not quite sure
>>542468188It's not hidden, that's how you win the game.
>>542467897>>542468097>>542468164I recall that one is more bad than the other, and distorting your perception. The crazy seeming guy isn't as crazy as he seems but is still a bad choice. Dad knows they both messed up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rkgx1C_S6lsA GIANT SUCKING SOUND
>>542467720I didn't realize Fade to Black was released in 95 until today.Still love the aesthetics of that game.
>>542467412>now we get to live in one of those storiesyeah it's called 1984
>>542468258Right, it's been so long I've forgotten
>>542467972I listen to old music. Even a jew like Bob dylan had some genuinely funny lines. He's being anti racist, but makes a story of getting a half price bath because he was covered in black paint. It isn't explicitly said that way, but inferred from him having to sit in back, then getting it half price. Now, music is fuck, bitch, hate, love, so simple
>>542464335In 1993 the Internet was so small that companies like AOL could fit an archived copy on a floppy disk and distribute it just like that.A few years later it had grown so much that you needed a CD, and not long after that they gave up because the amount of data became unmanageable.
>>542468299> Using a computer virus handed to him by Bergstein, Conrad sabotages the computer core and escapes with Bergstein, causing the base to explode along with the asteroid itself. kek
>>542464335today's kids would uninstall Myst after it didn't self-solve itself in 15 minutes it was a different time
>>542468333Checked, 1984 is only the first chapter. The 2nd chapter is more like Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe.
>>542468427Eh, it still took several minutes to get a floppy at dial up speeds because it is tcp and transmission errors were far more likely, and the backoff mechanism was a much longer hold timer than networks now. Network Collison was near constant because of hubs
>>542468516I remember going to alt.news where they had dirty pictures kek
>>542464335Ross Perot was America's last chance. RIP in Peace America.
>>542468613I remember dirty pictures loading line after line while I waited, dick in hand
>>542468910And a dirty video was an mpeg, without sound, 800 kilobytes. 5 seconds long. We can see where 4chan took its inspiration from.
>>542464776I found this place from newgrounds back in the day cuz my parents were too poor to buy me new vidya so I was playing flash games and msdos
>>542469125Flash was released in 1996, so yeah just a little later.
>>542469125I found out about 4chan from encyclopedia dramatica in around 2007
>>542464335this game was made by christians btw, together.I also liked Riven more, the sequel
>>542464738so you’re jewish?
>>542469576Riven is certainly a much larger and more substantial game
>>542469576> Made by ChristiansNo wonder it was retarded
>>542469669maybe you are the retard, ever thought about that
>>542469724Every time anons claim Japan is white I read some Nip posts and get reminded.
However what I would enjoy is a Real Shinto Game made by Real Shintos. None of these kike gooks wearing Freemason shirts.
>>542464776>rotten.comI remember being freaked out by this site as a kid. After being on 4chan for years though, I actually found an archived version of rotten.com, and it's tame by comparison. Like I'm so desensitized now that I laugh at how I used to be uncomfortable going on that site.
>>542464335I was a spoiled little fuck. We had a house and 2 cars and my mom didn't have to work. Dad made a middle class wage. It was considered cool to like Bill Clinton. OJ killed that bitch. Yahoo chat roooms, AIM, Sub7, server.exe, genuine lulz
>>542466638funny how instrumental they were to the start of it all only to become a jokelike watching the beginning of the industrial age trial and errorsmy sister still uses her aol emailunironically lol
>>542469854Yeah it was mostly pictures of rotten corpses wasn't it?
>>542469944No, it was things that were edgy by early 2000s standards (hand caught in a meat grinder, autopsy pictures, a somewhat recently deceased corpse that was in the ocean found during low tide, etc.) things that /pol/ nonchalantly blows out of the water in terms of violent and graphic gore images/videos on a frequent basis. (Think 'is he/she ok?' response posts, they're more graphic than anything on rotten.com).
>>542464519Fpbp. I was a completely different time and world. The American population was even different. We still were mostly ethnic Europeans
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>>542464519That is complete bullshit. Normies flooded the internet when they first released those free AOL discs that used to arrive in the mail. That was long before the iPhone. Pretty much everyone in the US had internet by 2002 unless you were extremely poor.
>>542469188Steve Jobs died just after saying "Flash is dead"and all the top apps on the iPad were still using Flash for another 10 years.
>>542470316I can almost muster affection for Jobs now, but not quite. I don't even care if he was Jewish or not, he looked like a rat kike
>>542470191> Normies flooded the internet when they first released those free AOL discs that used to arrive in the mail.Anon those CDs have like a half an hour and you had a banner. Some people did it but it was more just autists or bored old boomers at the time. Women and normies still weren’t. My mom wasn’t expected to use email at work until like 2005. The other anon is right it was the smartphones. The CDs required a bit of effort which normies and women did not do. Plus they couldn’t take it everywhere with them like the phones.
>>542470448if it helpsthe first thing his widow did after he whithered away was take her new black bf on vacation on his yacht
>>542464335>What was the political scene like in 1993Listen to William Luther Pierce's podcast.https://archive.org/details/william-pierce-the-power-of-truth-volume-one
>>542470997Now there's a guy who almost no one had heard of in 1994 and now, if not a household name, he's very significant.
>>542470677Those AOL disc's definitely brought boomers to the internet. I was in 6th/7th grade around that time and almost everyone at my school had a family computer with internet. The richer kids had their own computers with DSL/cable connections.
>>542471371Yeah The Second Protestant Reformation. Led by anons kek
>>542468846>Ross PerotYou mean the testicle-gargling asshole who literally “invented” outsourcing? Good riddance. He even talked like a fag, let alone walking like one.
>>542464335MY SWEEPSTAKES!
