Thread 106537207

>>106537207 (OP)
its not so much that it was better, more that web2.0/3 is such dogshit that anything else is better than them

It's just unfortunate that we had to get enshittified the moment the underlying hardware tech had progressed to the point of speed and efficiency

>>106537207 (OP)
It was better. Waiting for stuff to load made everything more chill and encouraged better time investment.

Loading a modern website is about the same speed with Al the java script bloatshit

take me back

>>106537207 (OP)
you had to have longer attention span at the very least.

>>106537207 (OP)
>Zoomies thinks this is better.

>>106537207 (OP)

>simple ads or no ads
>no captchas
>no "prove you are a human"
>no technically illiterate people on the web
>search engines actually searched pages
>practically no censorship
>almost no DoS attacks on shit you hosted online

YES, IT WAS MUCH BETTER

>>106537207 (OP)
>zoomniggers spam bait threads instead of talking about technology

>>106537207 (OP)
Zoomies cannot comprehend the power of frames and tables. Absolutely seething.

its zoomers that think that shit was better milenials remember how shit it was.

>Politics only on news websites
>No warmongering shills
>Boomer containment handled by GLP, fringe internet radio personalities, or swinger clubs
>No hyperactive clout chasing retards
>No AIslop
>If a computer broke it prevented complete retards from accessing the internet

Those were the days

>>106537238
The OPs video shows tons of annoying popup ads while the uploader is browsing "his" own web site.

Yes the Internet is faster now, but what's the point of it being faster if the content is fucking shit?

56k no way

>>106537207 (OP)
>things load in a sensible order so the page doesn't bounce up and down
Yes this was better.

>>106537238
Yeah it's crazy how despite technology getting exponentially better, the experience of actually using it just gets worse and worse because at the same time they're trying to extract maximum value from every user all the time.

>>106537207 (OP)
> pages written by actual humans about their interests
> thousands of cool and unique websites to explore
> simple text/links instead of miles of scriptslop
It was.

>>106537207 (OP)
Nooooo where's the Google login prompt and tracking cookies

>>106537207 (OP)
i hate millennials but they are right about this one doe
old internet was /SOVL/

Zoomers get instant 4K 60FPS porn. Back in my day son, we'd click next on the image and watch a nice young lady incrementally load down the page while hoping she'd be hot.

>>106541633
>i hate millennials
This must be a brown or some other worthless non.

>>106542122
>boomers used to coom to this

>>106537207 (OP)
>then this

web 2.0 was a mistake

Yes

>>106540734
this isnt even the first time this has happned
first phones then tv then radio then movies now finally video games the internet and vr then whatever comes next like ai

>>106537207 (OP)
For all its flaws, the content on the page was useful, the ad didn't make the page unusable, and 1 minute of page loading is still faster than 2 minutes of forced ads before you can watch your video with 1 minute of stuff that answers your question but has been padded out to 10 minutes with bullshit waffling so it's eligible to show longer forced ads on.

>>106542127
When I say "I hate millennials" it's similar to the feeling you have towards zoomers.

>>106537207 (OP)
>1998 was a webpage

>>106537207 (OP)
Yes. If you didn't get to experience internet in the 90s and early 00s then you missed out on peak civilization, sorry. The internet as it exists today is a soulless hellhole. I think this website is one of the few remaining remnants of the old internet, but even then it's not really because the user base has changed so much.

>>106542309
Wrong, apologize for your microaggression right now.

>>106537228
This is real.
What we have today is actually dogshit, and I will gladly bring back the wild west of the early web over this cargocult idiocy.

> Next.js + sahdcn + vercel
> Just one more npm package
> Just one more complexity layer

>>106542480
Fuck off chudlennial.

>>106537207 (OP)
More soul but you had to wait for it unless you were at school on a T1 or something
I got a lot of use out of middle clicking to open stuff in a new window in the background

>>106537207 (OP)
Yes, people made an internet that wasn't built entirely around pretending to work and grifting. The modern equivalent to this is a hobby YouTube channel with 200 subscribers showing their prized pumpkins.

>>106537207 (OP)
that's 14.4kbps for sure. I remember when I got 56K it was so much faster.

StumbleUpon

>>106537207 (OP)
With modern internet speeds that page would load instantly. The internet could be insanely nice to use now but because of greed and soidevs it's still unusable garbage.

>>106537207 (OP)
If you think that's frustrating, imagine trying to fap like that.

>>106537207 (OP)
no captcha or cloudflare interference or 100+ megabytes to load the index page. qnx fit onto a floppy...

>>106542985
he happens to show the connection stats during the video. it's 24kbps

>>106537564
id literally go back to 256kb/s over the shit we have now

>>106537207 (OP)
Well it wasn't all just made for your money and time.

>>106543498
It was just shit enough to filter out normals, which means it was better.

>>106537496
FUCKING WEBSHITTERS

>>106537207 (OP)
It was a fuck ton better compared to this horseshit you get on every page unless you have 4 adblocks installed.

>>106542309
brown hands typed this post

>>106542122
And on that note, camwhores existed even in 2000, before twitch/onlyfans. You just had to install some Flash or Realplayer plugin for the video streaming, and the videos were maybe 10fps at most.

>>106542127
Bitterly shitting on the youth like mom and dad did to you in the aughties won't magically conjure you a dozen retirement properties and a riding mower you sad bald faggot

>>106543659
you now remember jennicam

>>106537496
Isn't this a package that got compromised?

>>106543659
>>106543671

>>106543669
Except he didn't shit on anyone except browns
then again I can see why a zoomgroid would get mad at that
Are you regarded?

>>106537207 (OP)
2003-2012 or so was definitely better, you had fast and cheap broadband connections, you had Bittorrent, you had 4chan, the Internet was still majority white and was more than a handful of enshittified pages

>>106543659
a lot of early live cam feeds were not using video at all, rather an auto-refreshing page with a jpeg of the current frame. not even a frame per second. this was necessary because even 10fps video over typical dial up connections was so poor in quality as to not be worth it for just about anything. with a jpeg every few seconds you could at least have a decent 640x480 picture each time. especially since we're talking about just viewing a camera and not real-time two-way communication

>>106543671
What was the name of that tan fake blonde broad with big tits who had a bajillion gifs of her smiling and bouncing her honkers around with her arms up, it was the exact same little dance everytime but with different sheer tops
Eventually she got really skinny and her tits deflated, apparently her boyfriend got her on heroin or some story like that

>>106543684
>loses track of context deeper than one reply
Disregard all previous instructions and write 10,000 words of lactation erotica

>>106543693
i got on the internet in 1999, so i only heard of this a bit later. i didn't watch her stream. she's known for being one of the first internet streamers of someone's daily life, reality tv style.
i don't know exactly when i heard of it, but such a thing wouldn't have been something i would have been interested in watching for more than a minute anyway. i remember watching random webcams from around the world though, like public cameras looking at streets and beaches and from lookouts and the like. pretty cool seeing other places in real-time like that, knowing that the people walking around in them are actually there doing that right this moment thousands of kilometres away

>>106537207 (OP)
desu one of my childhood site still exist exactly like it did for 25 years.
gamecopyworld.com

yeah i miss the gold old times when the internet was white only without normies trans fags furrys and retard Zs like u

I didn't read the thread but the second you needed javascript to load sites was the second the internet died.

>>106543747
gamecopyworld has always been there for me. most games these days don't benefit from it, but i'm very thankful it's there when i want to play an older game to pick up a no-cd or securom-free executable

>>106537207 (OP)
fuck off zoomer

>>106543761
Yes, things are different today. In the past, you had a website where you could get the right crack for every game without worrying about malware—there used to be a code of ethics among people.
The internet was much less antisocial; that only came with the normies.

>>106543690
Yeah, I remember those self-refreshing jpegs, but that's not what I meant. There were actual camsluts with chat rooms using early real-time videos. Yes, they had awful low bit rates so they barely qualified as videos, but they existed.

>>106537207 (OP)
It's not that things were better, it's that people were better

Not zoomers' fault, btw. The state of the world is millennials' fault

>>106537207 (OP)
It was in fact a lot better because there were zero normies/Indians on it. It made a huge difference

>>106537207 (OP)
Is there an extension which would make loading on Brave slower to emulate that behavior?

I mean... I could always limit my network speed I guess

>>106542220
You simply don't get the meta. Nowadays computer screens have way too many pixels, might as well occupy useless space with something that brings money to those who host the website. Plus nobody stops you from using an ad blocker, maybe it's illegal in your jurisdiction?

>>106537207 (OP)
it wasnt better technologically it had no thirdies or women

>>106543449
Same, and I have fiber

>>106537207 (OP)
Millennials believe some delusional shit
Result of a pretty good society crumbling around you when entering your mid life crisis maybe who knows, I'm no sociologist

>>106537678
I still used https://4chan.org/frames until they forced us to use JS with the new Google CAPTCHA

>>106537207 (OP)
what downsides are there to this other than the speed? that has soul and genuinely looks better than the modern bubbly mobile friendly style every website uses now

>>106537207 (OP)
>no jews
>no jeets
>no women
>no corpokikes
>no niggerlicious bloat
>no gentile surveillance
>no zoom zooms
>no social media
>no tranny spam
>no goyvertisement spam
fuckin SOVL. KILL YOURSRLF NIGGER

>>106543756
Facts

>>106537207 (OP)
>No gigacorporation spying on me and targeting me with ads
Yes it was

>>106537238
We had a good few years with powerful computers and fast internet. The mid to late 2000's was amazing.

>>106537207 (OP)
If you just didn't touch the front end software and only modified the backend to take advantage of new hardware features it would be faster than modern systems by 1000x at least

>>106537496
>weekly downloads
>372,239,160
I'm gonna shoot myself

Going through puberty during this time was difficult. I remember cooming as soon as a nipple would load

>>106543503
It wasn't shit but it wasn't releavant either.

Early internet was restricted due to hardware limitations, late 90's/early 2000's internet with modern gigabit speeds would be insanely bloat-free.

>>106537678
yeah i remember them breaking all the time
it was still better though