I thought 2007-2008 was the peak of the internet? It was full corporate globohomo by 2012.

>>105943877 (OP)
Ok boomer.

>>105943891
Pull up your saggy pants

>>105943877 (OP)
the internet peaked in >2012

2012 was when enshittification started. Internet became too mainstream, corporations became too prevalent, and monetization became too common

>>105943906
That's a 2011 meme

>>105943877 (OP)
It was, zoomies are just moving back the goalposts so they can feel like they were also there for the good times so they can lord it over gen alpha. Same thing happens when decades are discussed as which one was the last good one.

>>105943877 (OP)
i miss rage comics and lennyface. now everything is just a pepe or a wojak variant.

>>105943922
>i miss rage comics and lennyface
I remember a period where they were all over tumblr and 9gag, so people started making more obscene variants on here so they couldn't be stolen.

>>105943934
i also miss when 4chan used to get triggered by rage comics because they became "too mainstream". the site is so jaded now that if you posted a troll face no one would give a shit.

>>105943947
I've got something of a timecapsule I might dig out sometime. I used to save images to a USB drive until it filled up, then I'd just change to another, and I still have one from the late 2000s-early 10s with a lot of old crap on it.

>>105943877 (OP)
god fucking damn it when will people stop being nostalgic over retarded shit like TV shows and memes

>>105943968
i'm nostalgic over fucking commercials. some people had nothing else going on in life that media and memes is all they had.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8EvnM2XUTI
you have any idea how much i used to see this shit on TV? i used to sit up all night starving as a kid in bed wasting away looking at this shit because i was too weak to do anything else.

>>105943999
How long did these air? Because I saw them as a 5 year old in 2006-2007.

>>105944006
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYS5NtRXlZQ

>>105943877 (OP)
humanity peaked in 10,000 years ago chud, get with it

>>105943877 (OP)
2006 was the peak, 2007 mark was the begging of decline (facebook introduced social media to normalfags, the iphone was released, the big bang theory started airing, etc...), at 2012 mark things cratered (mass deployement of idpol 'activists" and controlled dismantling of internet communities after OWS).

>>105943877 (OP)
>coolface
>nyancat
>mlgpro
>2010s

>>105943877 (OP)
It was over when 85 IQ people could connect and influence online discussions. Peak comfort was probably newsgroups, even though that was just before my time.

>>105943920
>It was, zoomies are just moving back the goalposts so they can feel like they were also there for the good times so they can lord it over gen alpha.
Not really. Zoomies were the ones banging the pots and pans about 2007 being the peak for a good while. The discourse around 2012 comes from late gen zoomies who were too young for 2007 internet compared to 1995-2000 zoomies.

It was the 2000s in general but by the time you are suggesting, 2007ish, it was no longer the peak. Already on the downhill slide. We had myspace and were going into the facebook era. This old /b/tard never had as much fun on 4chan again.

>>105944370
Facebook took off more in 2009.

>>105944372
Some people I knew were already switching from myspace to it. I hated it from the start for several reasons. Facebook highly discouraged adding people you do not know as friends and talking to them. I met girls IRL because of myspace. Also myspace had a huge focus on music which I heavily used it for. Not to say myspace wasn't a huge piece of asp coded shit running on windows servers.

>>105943920
i hate zoomers so much its insane

>>105944347
>>105944347
What would you say is the peak year of the internet? We can agree it's not 2012 and definitely not 2014 or 2016. If not 2007-2008, then would your answer be 2004 or something? 2000? Maybe earlier? I think 2007-2008 is a good sweet spot because it still had the wild west feel that was normal for 2000s internet but it wasn't super primitive either

>>105943922
i miss the o'rly owl

>>105943963
please do humanity a favor by archiving that stuff to the Internet archive

>>105944020
sad she ended up having to beg for money. she has a son and the father is a deadbeat. shes a nice woman and really loves her son.

>>105944020
Attention!
If you or a loved one was diagnosed with mesothelioma, you may be entitled to financial compensation.

>>105944405
I would say 2005-2010 personally, it catches the full range more than just 2007-2008. 2005 is when the internet to me at least started to fully solidify in terms of media sharing and forums while 2010 was the end of the wild west era proper. In that 5 year bracket that is when flash started to realky reach its peak too despite being a much earlier scene and by 2010 flash makers were jumping over to video streaming sites that were taking off.

>>105944271
funny thing the only thing that "worked" wasn't anything they did. it was elon buying twitter and monetizing posts. so much of /pol/ moved over there because of it. all they do is rant about jews and praising hitler AND getting paid for it.
all they had to do was create a new containment site where they lured /pol/ users by paying them to shitpost. but they didn't, and elon did instead. causing /pol/ ideology to now be spread to even boomers and getting onto jow rogan and tucker carlson with people like daryl cooper.

>>105944399

Both smartphones and facebook took off around 2007-2008 so it's definitely there that everything went to total shit, but I'd say the actual peak might have been a few years before that.
The growth of the internet after 2004 (see pic related) was fairly steady. Maybe the peak was around there.

>>105944472
and training elons own ai, turning it into mechahitler lmao

>>105944485
zoomi, your generation quite literally eats tide pods and doesn't have sex.

>>105943877 (OP)
This retard doesn't know that [insert arbitrary nostalgiafag year] was 20 years ago.
>>105943947
Problem?
>>105943963
>timecapsule
>USB
Who's going to tell him?

>>105944506
And you millennials loved slop so much that you made liquid replacement meals all the rage from the 80s to the 90s. You still do with the likes of Huel, if anything we learned from the best!

>>105944540
>This retard doesn't know that [insert arbitrary nostalgiafag year] was 20 years ago.
Are you saying that everything is always getting better?

>t.

Average internet content creator in 1996: 40 year old, 130 iq autist writing about trains.
Average internet content creator in 2025:
19 year old, 80 iq indian posting AI generated hentai.
Probably a fairly smooth transition between these too points.

>>105944588
No, I mean to say that everyone has their own interpretation of le good ol' days--that being some point in one's youth. I'd argue that won't be the case moving forward however; things will objectively get more and more shit. Alphags will be justified in saying they were born in the wrong generation when they're cognizant enough to realize how shit they have it.

>>105943877 (OP)
you're right, and the uploader is probably some zoomer fag.

>>105944710
I don't know why recordings like this are 'nostalgically' blurry - while internet speeds were shit we had 1600x1200 32bit CRTs.

>>105944787
1600x1200 was fucking tiny on 15" or 17" most people had and most software wasn't made for high dpi displays.
And only the really expensive CRTs could display 1600x1200 with a decent refresh rate, it was flickery as fuck on the average CRT.

But the obvious answer is: no one recorded video in 1600x1200 in fucking 1998, retard.

>>105944787
Maybe because the average person did not have 1600x1200 monitors in the 90s?

>>105944787
most people didn't run their CRTs at that max resolution because it made everything tiny (scaling wasn't really a widely supported thing) and blurry at max resolution. Also unlike LCDs the 60Hz refresh rate was noticeably fatiguing.
1280x1024@75Hz was about normal for most people with good eyesight.

>>105943908
Fox iem is NOT endgame

>>105943877 (OP)
>the internet peaked 1995
>the internet peaked 2005
>the internet peaked 2015
>the internet peaked 2025
the internet was always bad, filled to the brim with retards

>The internet peaked when you were 13.
For me that was 1999

When doge was an innocent meme, not even a cryptocurrency, let alone a government entity.

2003-2008

>>105945269
Yes but the signal-noise ratio got proportionally worse the more people accessed the internet. Just imagine what will happen when the remaining parts of india get finally online.

>>105944863
>1280x1024
you weren't there zoomer

1280x1024 is not square on 4:3 CRTs
you'd use 800x600 or 1024x768 most commonly

>>105945384
There's still a lot of Africa and central asia (The "-stans" to come online.

Internet went to shit after web 1.0.

>>105944787
that clip is a VHS recording from 1998, VHS is only ~350x480 (NTSC), your typical not-high-end or not-brand-new computer was still running 640x480 or 800x600 in windows back then, and even if it could do 1024x768, it may have been at reduced colour depth due to vram size (yea, back when vram was so small that it limited how many colours you could display) and/or limited refresh rate. also monitors were smaller, your average desktop monitor in 1998 was 15"

>>105945396
huh? not him but i used 1280x1024 for literally 10 years. it was not a 4:3 monitor, that was what TV's used, this was a 5:4 computer monitor

* peaked when i was 12

>>105945453
you were one in a million. no one worked like that.

>>105945469
it was a pretty common resolution. it was the maximum offered ootb on the machine i'm talking about, and 5:4 1280x1024 was the standard for LCD monitors for some time until 16:10 ones started showing up, i still own a couple of 'em
1280x960 was also an option if you wanted 4:3

>>105943908
internet enschittifcation is proportional to % growth of 3rd world internet users

>>105943877 (OP)
It was, early 00s and 90s was peak everything

>>105944540
>>timecapsule
>>USB
>Who's going to tell him?
not sure what you mean by this. I have old usb thumb drives from like 2006-7 when I was in college nearly 20 years ago.

>>105943877 (OP)
It was over when google pushed for Google account logins into youtube

>>105944405
I think 2006-2011

>>105944485
>most LGBT kneeling for black dick generation in history
BASED ZOOMERS

I can't remember which exact year but when we had
>phpBB and Invision Power Board independent forums
>AOL Instant Messenger
>Very early YouTube
>Newgrounds
>YTMND
Was peak Internet

>>105943908
I recall one extreamly annoying thing that become popular at that time. Those full screen ads which greyed out the background of the page. I suppose it was facilitated by a new browser feature. God I did not know how good we had it, full screen ads that once done left you with a clean page. Now the entire page is embedded with so many ads you can barely see the content. I wonder what horrors in the future will make us look back fondly on 2025. I am sure some new unimaginable horror will come soon.

>>105946689
sounds like 2005-2007 to me sis

>>105943877 (OP)
Internet/culture/society peaked whatever the current 30 year old generation is - 10 year is.

In 10 years, internet will have peaked in 2025.

>>105943877 (OP)
2015-16 was the last year a free internet existed, so much shit was scrubbed from sites like YT because trump won.

>>105946736
>2015-16 was the last year a free internet existed

>>105944405
1995-2007 for me. nostalgia goggles for the first half and because I was still a kid with childlike wonder, then genuine peak internet from around 2k to 2007, then it all started going downhill once smart phones and apps became a thing and most of the fun, genuine interconnectivity of desktop PC-based social media of the time solidified into soulless mobiletrash corpo apps, and then swipeslut culture and other shallow photo apps irrevocably ruined all gender relations from 2012 onward as the rise of simps and chad harems inflated the collective female ego to a societally untenable degree.

>>105943877 (OP)
Internet has been shit ever since the people who came after me joined it, this holds true regardless of when you personally joined it.

>>105943908
2012 is when it was already over. Enshitification started mid 2006 when ADSL ownership exploded.
By 2008 there was some online communities that were absolute shadows of their former selves. Yeah it wasn't "that" bad but the old net never survived and more and more demand for a centralized internet appeared.
All google products taking over, forums dying out. Culture completely homogenized.

>>105943877 (OP)
It peaked in 2003 before social media was invented and most normgroids still didn’t know how to use it. There were also no brown people on it then, only high iq upper middle class white families who could afford a computer.

>>105946736
>2015-16 was the last year a free internet existed
Wtf are you talking about? You think back then was when places like youtube was purged because of muh wild wild west leafishere shit young zoomers parrot all the fucking time? Youtube was shit way before that time and already had mass content removal around the 2013s which only got WORSE through to 2016.

>>105943922
There was legitimarely more variety back then and it felt a lot more genuine than the mutant abomination feels guy and frogs

>>105946813
Tim Berners-Lee should have said that publicly, because only faggots are on the internet. Yes, that includes me and you.

two words: eternal september

>>105947034
the web killed the internet

my milestone is the release of windows 8, after that everything got fucked up so fast

>>105946913
No I'm talking about all the political stuff, zoomer shit like that obviously got hit as well though.

>>105944506
Zoomer website you oldfag. Get the fuck off and get a life. This is a website meant for people in their early twenties.

>>105946834
> only high iq upper middle class white families who could afford a computer.
lol you could get a dell dimension on interest free credit, don’t kid yourself

>>105947251
>get the fuck off and get a life
like you have, zoomer?
KEK
grooming preteens on roblox and sharing wojaks is not a life

>>105947312
I'm going to quit 4chan when I turn 22 and leave university unlike you

>>105947331
>he doesn't know

>>105947331
>xir doesn’t know
kek

>>105947331
>quit 4chan
one does not simply 'quit' 4chan