Thread 106380615

Name cool things (sites, tools etc) internet used to have, but not anymore or what remains is much worse. I start:
>Reverse image search

>>106380615 (OP)
Forums

Flash animations.
Open comment sections.
0-5 start reviews.

Forocoches

>>106380636
Fucking fuck Discord holy shit.

>>106380615 (OP)
z0r.de

zombo.com

>>106380677
I open the link and this banger comes on: https://z0r.de/3667

Reminds me of when I first discovered 4chan from an old website that would show random motivationals off /b/, probably around 2007 or so. I wonder what that site is called, I haven't browsed it in literal decades, but it had Ashley Tisdale's cover of Never Gonna Give You Up playing in the background.

>>106380640
>Open comment sections
In relation to this, freedom of thought and expression. There was little decorum or thought policing on the early internet. The perceived anonymity produced the closest thing you could get to knowing what humans are actually thinking, in absence of social or governmental pressures. A manner of raw consciousness that you can only get on places like 4Chan nowadays.

Unnerfed Google Dorks for piracy

talking with child predators on caramail

>>106380615 (OP)
optichat and other chat rooms were basically the only way I could communicate with people outside of ny shitty small town in the early 2000's, It became my primary means of socialization and is probably the main reason I keep coming back to 4chan

>>106380655
>Last post 4 years ago
>Someone posts something on a 35 page forum topic without reading anything posted prior
Forums aren't that much better than Discord, but Discord does suck.

>>106380747
>dorking google for cisco firmware update
>find an open ftp server with client data for some ex-yugo ISP, gigabytes of SIP logs etc
wasn't even that long ago, maybe just before firefox deprecated their ftp browser (rip)

>ITT nostalgia goggles and people list things that are still available
>>106380615 (OP)
>Reverse image search
Still around but clunky. Use diff search engines
>>106380636
The fact that they're still around and you still name it says how even you shit on them, they are that bad.
>>106380640
Still around. Use Ruffle. It even supports ActionScript 3 now

>>106380615 (OP)
>IRC
>forums
>Imageboards
>personal websites

StumbleUpon was great for finding cool small websites about all kinds of random things. But now there just aren't as many small self hosted sites out there, everything is centralized.

>>106380655
lol no. Discord is like the mutant offspring of forums and chatrooms, and isn't good at either function

>>106380817
thankfully there's still shodan

>>106380655
Reddit and social media groups made forums even less mainstream (they were always low on users)
>>106380837
>isn't good at either function
How so?

>>106380615 (OP)
coolest thing of all, it had no bots, now over half the internet is just bot traffic. It also had way less eglin airforce base propaganda farm type traffic pre 2010.

Most of the tech is still there, people are just different.

>>106380824
>bro forums are too hard to use, you need to like provide an email address and think of a name to even post
Thank Fucking Christ retards like you are filtered by absolute minimal amounts of effort. Even if you could overcome this mountain, you'd still post a question that'd been answered thousands of times already and had a sticky at the top with READ BEFORE POSTING that your shit covered hands scrolled right post.

>>106380735
Trolls like that were usually banned pretty quickly. Pretty much every forum would have banned you for flaming, trolling, racism.

>>106380636
the boomer forums have degraded into the most depressing hellholes. its just posts of old guys that have accepted their demise or worse the ones clinging on against the inevitable. the few fresh meat members that show up are just told how fucking dumb they are or given dinosaur dated advice
and 1/3rd of the threads are geriatric health issue stories
sorting the boards by oldest 1st back to the early 00s is blackpilling as fuck. guys used to be so willing to share information and post pictures of the cool shit they were doing. every post wasnt just parroting bullshit about needing to go coonsume the newest goyshit to do a simple task. guys were proud to show off their fabricobbled innovation. most of those guys are dead now

>>106380615 (OP)
Socio-economic segregation

I remember when the internet as a whole was way more insecure so you'd find public photo repositories (picasa?) with nudes by just trying in random URLs, also public IP cams but I assume some of them are still up to this day, accessible through a public IP and passwordless.

Still never got WHY they shut down MSN Messenger, everyone still used it.

>>106380677
>https://z0r.de/3667
Okay, the first video I get randomed to is https://z0r.de/1144 which is the first online video I received in an email ever, from my aunt at the time. How did it know?

How did it bring me back to sitting in my parents' office on the hand-me-down Compaq LTE 5300 with a docking station and a Xircom 56k modem running Windows NT 4.0? I think it came as a RealPlayer video...

...it's still up in the attic, "ran when parked". I wonder if the hard disk still works.

>>106382359
They were hoping people would move to their billion dollar investment called Skype.

I mean, technically I did, for a while, as it was great for videophony. Had a long-distance relationship at the time, and we'd call most every evening. Now we're married and live together.

>>106382359
When things are killed off suddenly and seemingly inexplicably, first thing you should assume is money being an issue. That's a guaranteed way for things to die, no matter the popularity.

unique websites with unique layouts

>>106380655
Forums were already on their death bed long before discord became a thing. The final nail in the coffin was facebook hitting peak popularity in the early-mid '10s and all the dead forums migrating over to Facebook groups.

>>106380615 (OP)
VCL

>>106384596
And, on that note, Furnation. Not really for the furry bits so much as for it being proof that you could build a community if you provided webspace and some guidelines about who's welcome to use it.

>>106382482
>>106382359
Or, there's a sociopathic asshole in charge.

>>106380636
There are a couple cool ones around
>>106380655
Reddit and Facebook did more to kill forums than Discord did.

>>106380615 (OP)
>>Reverse image search
yandex's image search still works

>>106380615 (OP)
Search engines that didn't suck

>>106380615 (OP)
>Reverse image search
https://github.com/dessant/search-by-image

>>106380750
Now you can do it in Roblox lmao

irc

>>106380615 (OP)
Posting on 4chan without captcha for free

>>106384866
I cry every time.

StumbleUpon

>>106380615 (OP)
search

now we have ad delivery engines
you cannot find anything on the internet anymore

>>106380615 (OP)
>tranime

>>106384785
>Roblox
what's happening on that game?
I've heard stuff but I'm not 100% sure.

The requirement to be physically present at a computer desk to use the internet. Once that changed, it opened the flood gates.

>>106380655
actual recent discord experience
>join discord group to get help with OSS because it makes zero fucking sense and the documentation is clearly written by an autist
>read through 10 paragraphs of text with more rules and stipulations
>literally more reading than when I financed a fucking brand new car
>finally get to the end, I still have no idea of which channel out of 10 vague overlapping categories I'm supposed to use to ask a question
>open main general chat and ask question
>mod responds and tells me to create a thread for any questions
>I respond that I know it's going to be a one word answer and it seems pointless
>he says, doesn't matter, create a thread
>I copy+paste question into a thread
>same mod responds with the answer, he already had it ready to go
>it was a one-word answer like I exactly knew it was going to be

these autists are so desperate to be bureaucratic and to reign some delusion of control and order. I work full time at a bureaucratic job. the last thing I want to do is come home and relive the same shit. it's so obvious that these people are complete losers IRL

>>106384684
Not really.

>>106380615 (OP)
There are like a gorillion ways to do reverse image search, anon.

Anyways, regarding forums, Spacebattles and Questionable Questing are still alive and well. Even if they've turned gay as hell.

stickam was pretty cool back in the day. i miss going to random peoples chat and talking to them, just because it seemed a lot more personal and fun compared to what exists now (twitch) where everyone is a tryhard with pajeet created overlays they bought on fiverr.

old music streaming services like di.fm were fun too. it still exists now, but with way less live shows and dj's playing sets on there. friday and saturday nights were lit and a lot of fun on there. now its just songs on shuffle, barely any live shows anymore on most of the channels.

i miss protocols. thats the most painful part of modern internet. msn messenger, live streaming music, torrents/downloading, whatever, there was a protocol and therefor multiple applications you could try it with. i miss loading up qtracker and browsing servers for multiple different games.

another thing to miss is IM programs like msn, that one is especially painful. seeing old screenshots of msn messenger is pretty nostalgic. you can still run msn messenger, i tried it out, but it's just a sign of the times. msn isn't dead, 2004 is dead, that's the painful part. even if your friends and family installed msn messenger and used escargot to get it working and added you, now what? are they going on their computer at night, opening it up, and talking to you? no, everyone is on their phones, the idea of that kind of communication is dead. everything now is "set it and forget it". no one can "go offline" anymore, which might be the scariest part of this. at least with my dumbphone i can actually go offline, but for everyone else that's different.

old forums are gone too. just gone. deleted. all that information, all that community, just gone. forums had relatively normal people on there. i dont care if discord is somehow "better" than forums, everyone in discord is a no-life anti-social loser. for real, if i find out anyone is on there a lot, i just avoid them.

>>106380615 (OP)
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