Do you remember the old internet? What was it like?

>>507914914 (OP)
no pajeets

>>507914914 (OP)
Specifically that era, early 00s-mid 00s, was the peak. The games were better. You had more fun. Hell, the people seemed better, because it was mostly whites online back then.

>>507914914 (OP)
>What was it like?
Pretty cool, much better in terms of exploration but also there wasn't that much information
Massively better communities too

>>507914914 (OP)
In old CS you could upload your own image to use as a spray. And it accepted gifs. So you could headshot a guy and then throw down a gif of a giant nigger dick and everyone would laugh

>>507914914 (OP)
less corpo

>>507914914 (OP)
Yes. BBSes like TOTSE, FidoNet, Gopherholes, IRC, USENet and the OLD WWW before html supported images.

>>507914914 (OP)
I have yet to hear an adequate explanation as to what it was like. I'll simply say, it was magnificent. Lighting in a bottle. Nothing will ever again be like the two ish decades of early Internet. Sorry you missed out kid.

>>507915256
>TOTSE
ahhh good times.

>>507914914 (OP)
>do you remember the old internet from like 10-15 years ago?
Yes nigger we dont have alzheimers

im not sure

>>507915106
i did this with tubgirl and lemonparty. shit was so fun

>>507914914 (OP)
You had to look for porn rather than being bombarded by it

>>507915375
The Better Living Through Chemistry board got me in a lot of trouble. It was also cool watching these retards cobble together the Anarchist Cookbook for the lulz. TOTSE was 4chan & SA before either existed.

i was born in 1988 but i cant really explain it

>>507914914 (OP)
I had a blast but now I'm seriously wondering how much of that was milk opiates.

>>507914914 (OP)
>What was it like?

Watch this short series: https://youtu.be/xS5fKaWQTtw

You can basically relieve the 00's with it if you want.

As for older, idk.

>>507915506
Many of us were born 12 years ago

>>507915345
>I have yet to hear an adequate explanation
Literally the first post, kid.
>no pajeets

>>507914914 (OP)
Glorious given the mutant horrors we have to deal with these days.

>>507914914 (OP)
I remember seeing counter-strike.net and wondering what was on there. The internet was only really available at school early on

>>507915000
This and LAN parties... that was great. Absolutely fantastic. Not an indian accent anywhere, no disabled transvestite nigger video game character. Just friends and giggles.

>>507916121
All good things are pajeet free but not all pajeet free things are good.

>>507914914 (OP)
You could download files and keep them. Music, games , books were yours. Now everyone rents you everything, and retards pay it.

>>507916080
youre not female by any chance are you

Virus everywhere
Slow internet
Youtube was actually fun to browse
Gaming was alive
Internet was a place to escape to not an extension of real life
Internet was optional and mostly for outcasts/weirdos/nerds not a requirement to exist

Lots of shitty PHPBB forums with faggot moderators, warez and free mp3 websites with 50 trojans per download, people unironically using Perl CGI, boomer homepages in colors that made your eyes bleed, Lovesan, pseudointellectual faggots writing longform tripe in Livejournal, eDonkey/Kazaa/Limewire, silly flash games galore, SQL injection by typo, mediocre porn TGPs, cheese pizza in clearnet, ICQ and AIM, Nigerian royalty in distress, hot singles in your area.

>>507914914 (OP)
I didn't get in trouble or restricted from saying "nigger" in every comment section in existence.

>log into videogame
>chat with likeminded people who enjoy videogame
>google search something, find what you're looking for, and an invested community about it, make a forum/site account, enjoy content and community
>shitpost on 4chan
>no AI generated content, just lmao photoshops and mspaint drawings
there also used to be a shitload of porn that the modern porn sites deleted because uploaders needed to be verified.
like 80% of porn made before 2016 is missing off the internet, it's demoralizing that such a wipeout could occur for any media for any reason so long as kooky kikes and insane leftists would scream about something being wrong. literal book burning faggotry.

You needed an extra HOME PHONE line to get on the internet, and if someone picked up the phone you were kicked off the internet. I remember getting in huge fights with my sister who wanted to call her friends and I wanted to play Everquest. I don’t even know how we found out about new websites. There were lots of flash games that were fun. AIM and AOL chat rooms were wild. There was a major fear of never putting any personal information or credit card information over the internet. Games were awesome and you never felt bad sinking hours into them.

>>507914914 (OP)
I miss Geocities and all the schizo conspiracy theory and UFO pages there. I miss having a bunch of search engines. I miss the anarchy that was Usenet at its peak. I miss record label after record label going bankrupt because of mp3s. But what I miss most of all is women only using computers for secretarial work.

Yeah I remember when you did the exact same thread, glownigger kike

>>507916862
>4chan
>google
4chan and google are't old internet

>>507914914 (OP)
I'm 41. It was all white men mostly. Some women were on IRC. Everyone did it for the hobbyist side of things. Now absolutely none of that really exists and people only do things for money.
I met my first gf on IRC when I was 14 met her and used to finger bang her in the Botanical gardens

>>507914914 (OP)
it was almost exclusively white and it was heaven

You would find all sorts on Google search, now it's all fucking fucked

>>507914914 (OP)
who spams this shit threads like
>how was life pre 9 11
>how was life in the 90s
>how was internet pre reddit

this is data harvesting

>>507916535

>>507917148
it's 2025 my dude.

>>507917148
Google came out in 1998, and 4chan in 2003. How old are you wanting?

>>507914914 (OP)

>>507914914 (OP)
If you remember this game you fucked

>>507917348
Hotbot, Lycos and altavista ma nigga

>>507917283
bot threads and bot posts to keep the board alive

>>507914914 (OP)
Organic. Memes, websites, games, and services spread by merit rather than by algorithms and bots. Online resources had to be genuinely informative and useful for people to use them. Schizos, groomers, faggots, and trolls were easier to spot because the internet hadn't been flooded with retards yet.

We shall not see its like again.

>>507917348
aol, yahoo, altavista old

Do zoomoids even know that you couldn't use the internet and the phone at the same time? They would have lost their fucking MINDS.
https://youtu.be/gsNaR6FRuO0?si=j-yIQlfy8vhTNaWB

>>507914914 (OP)
>Do you remember the old internet?
i member when there was no internet, it was even better than old internet.

gaming wise; it was awesome because the player base wasn't so fractured. ie - ALL your friends would be playing the same 2-3 games you were.
internet wise; its better now, more options, the same lawlessness if you want to go that way

>>507917451
Also this

I could use a unique string of words, search it in quotation marks and find the resulting link on the first page. It could take me to a thread on /b/ for fucks sakes. Or rec.gambling.poker, any forum I posted on. Kids have no idea.

>>507917283
What useful data could be harvested, other than some of us used to use BBSes or phpBB forums?

>>507914914 (OP)
I was born in 1980.
When I think of 1992-1997. These were my best years. So many good games and enthusiasm for the world. Now everything is bleak, grey, dead. When my dad will pass away I sell our home, buy some fuck studio and just play and watch old movies for 5 years until money runs out and then kill myself.

>>507914914 (OP)
It's not unlike a lot of sites on Tor nowadays. It wasn't better in term of usability but the people were more genuine due to the lack of social media jewery. You could say some wild shit on really any forum and there was no Xitter for it to be posted on. You'd probably get banned but there weren't social media jannies launching coordinated bans like today. There weren't a fuck ton of NORPs fagging things up, it was nice. Myspace was the beginning of the end.

>>507916327
Yeah, so the Internet was better before because less shitskins. Fin.

it was magic. its gone now, obviously, but what a time it was. you'll never know

>>507914914 (OP)
we had sprays in cs back then
you could spray any image you wanted on any surface
and there were no jannies
no jeets
it was just indescribably better

>>507914914 (OP)
wiby.me

>>507917731
They ended this in 2016. I remember having the exact same experience. Google was fucking cracked until that point.

i really want to see the original coast to coast website

>>507916121
And no girls on the internet

>>507914914 (OP)
>underground warez BBS/FTP
>dial up
>lugging 24" Trinitron CRTs to your bros house because playing a FPS on dialup was barely viable
>Pentium Pro, k6-2, 3
>3dfx vs nvidia
>Anime is a fringe thing nobody has heard of and thinks anime == hentai always
>Literally never thought about/heard of race in spite of having black friends
>Underground IRC powered BitTorrent ratio trackers
>Crapflooding and rooting the semitic enemies of GNAA
>Small town ISPs with BBS servers
>Running up $400 phone bills to l0pht BBS before I learned how to hack a PBX
>Hacking Santa call-in voicemailboxes at Christmastime and trolling children
>Hacking PBXs, phone phreaking, free calls, free wardialing
>Spinning drum and bass at 2600 meetups and getting VD from QT nerd dykes

Good Times.

>>507917469
>>507917621
How about TOTSE, Gopher and USENet old?

things were posted a single time in a single place and that was that. you had unique online experiences across a zillion websites and now the internet feels like 10 websites. its shrinking and jannies are homogenizing content

>>507914914 (OP)
no poor thirdies, could add any name on MSN and have a friend, no non whites.

>>507915224

the simplest way i can describe it is that the internet was just more fun.
everyone and everything is just so serious these days.

>>507917786
The trolling used to be better too. 2/10, made me reply.

it was like this
https://youtu.be/DhKg0F49MHY

>>507914914 (OP)
cozy.

once you have capitalists enter and commercialize everything it's over.

>>507914914 (OP)
>Gooning on a dial up connection

>>507920103
Do you remember edging so hard loading a single still image of a naked Chinese lady loading line by line?

It was like 4chan, but everywhere

>>507920512
>Zip drives

>>507915000
That was the internet only 5 years ago

I think I remember this place being vaguely left wing (having no issues with gays/etc, evolution), is that a real memory or am I just misremembering?

>>507915647
If you were an admin you could mess with people’s mouse sensitivity to throw them off their game or set it to 999999999999 to troll them

>>507920512
>Do you remember edging so hard loading a single still image of a naked Chinese lady loading line by line?
By the time that nipple finally loaded up it was over.
I remember trying to get strip poker to work on my commodore 64 lol The good old days.

I used to play games on MSN zone (zone.com) in late 90s. And i used to feel sorry when i beat someone on a car racing / sports game.

>>507914914 (OP)
There was so much modding in the communities and so many variations to play a game. Things like dota and tower defense came out of that. I don't see any of that anymore. You just get matchmaking slop now.
Gaming was unironically waaaaay better in the past.

>>507915106
you could do this in Left4Dead, thats the last game I member that let you upload custom sprays.

>>507919408
OK, Achmed, run along now.

>>507918327
I hate this so much.

>flash games
>shock websites
>really shitty personal websites
>discussion forums
>internet piracy
>anime music videos
>aol instant message
>the internet before streaming and smart phones
>real girls were rare

>>507921108
I used to have hundreds of PC parts, fuck I even worked at the thrift store as a kid fixing and rebuilding those old clunkers but zip drives were a luxury item. I only knew one person that had one of the 250 MB version. They were awesome back when hard drives were only 5 or 10 GB.

>>507914914 (OP)
dey wuz no esl faggits calling you esl

>play age of empires 2.
>came across a leaked hack that allowed me to delete and enemies units with the Del button on the keyboard
>unlimited resources hack

>>507914914 (OP)
It was a hell of a lot more fun. Entirely decentralized and anything flew. Being on the internet in the 1980s-2010s was like being in the Wild West in the 1850s-1880s.

I had Web TV in September of 96. It was amazing.

One time the librarian pissed me off so I logged onto the pc. Went to my own proxy server. Went to lemonparty.org then I left the PC while still logged in. They banned me from the PCs but I had one at home so I didn’t give a fuck

>>507922053
man, I think I still remember AoE1 cheats.
>photonman
>e=mc2
I forget what they do though, I think one gives you a laser guy. I know theirs a cheat that gives you a sportscar with a rocket launcher.
in Age of Mythology you could type
>ohcanada!
and get a flying bear with laser eyes...at least I think it was AoM, maybe AoE2?.. an I need to play those games again.

>>507922667
Dude I started playing Diablo 1 again online it's so worth it. Play Diablo 1 with me nigga, there's like 2 people online

>>507914914 (OP)
https://www.newgrounds.com/
The website is stil up
heh
I know they had to switch from flash to streamable video, and delete all copyrighted music
You still can find the creator page on newgrounds.com and then google up the original SWF file online
To play it on win10/11 is a pain in the ass though

>>507922667
Bro it’s a hack not a cheat, used in multiplayer! Games these days don’t have the same vulnerabilities that games in the old days had.

>>507914914 (OP)
Fark had a good year or two before Tatsuma/IDF showed up and started manipulating Farkers and turning it into Israel's personal affirmation chamber. Fark parties (and SA) were where the shady cabals started to form that made the coordination we saw during gamergate possible

>>507914914 (OP)
bro's... i miss the so much. Delta force 2, delta force black hawk down, and then finally delta force typhoon rising. Nothing ever after even came close to this shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxJG806pv7c

Also, Vietcong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI_k6GoQd10

I truly miss it. When the internet was for deep-feel "nerds" only... no normie npc cattle. Just us. Man...

>>507922862
Poe2 is better

>>507915375
>>507915834
Do you guys remember speakeasys tits.

>>507922862
I went through that one D1 mod recently Beelzebub and it was great. I work night shift so I gtg pretty quick.. I dont want to slave away for mr.noesberg, I want to relive old glorys :'c

>>507914914 (OP)
An absolute buttpain to navigate and use. Especially to download significant quantities of erotica from ACotto's FTP site.

>>507914914 (OP)
Smaller, cozy. Like an old rough pub where anything goes. Now it feeks like a mall full of pajeets

Oh and back then the Jews would use the software called GIYUS to mobilize Jews and useful goyim so they can rig online polls on news sites like CNN to move more Israel favorable. They also raided comments sections on that website with common talking points

autist OP never replies by the way

I've been on 4chan since 2005. The population here was mostly libertarian with some left leanings. They strongly disliked bush. Yes they called Obama a nigger but no major complaints of his policy other than the financial bailout. The majority of 2005 4channers are gone, but if they were around, they'd laugh the trump, Russia, and Israel trannies off this site

>>507915106
My move was to throw out a porn spray to distract my opponent

>>507914914 (OP)
Ironically way better than the modern internet, despite much faster speeds allowing for instant music/video content downloading.
People had to actually think and put effort into making interesting websites, of which there were many.
Also Google didn't suck back then like it does now.

Finding out that a cute girl at your school used msn messenger was about the most exciting thing that could happen. Suddenly you had the keys to the Kingdom. You'd get an instant heartbeat skipping bonzer the second "--xAIMEEx-- is online" popped up in the corner of your monitor.

>>507921776
And that's 2014.
I have to imagine a lot of those unmarked spaces are plebbit now as well.

>>507923807
Oh shit, that hits me right in the memory feels.

>>507922667
The laser guys were awesome
Also bigbertha with that cow tosser

>>507914914 (OP)
Mostly textual, no recommendation systems. Kept the women and non-whites out because they weren't interested in digging to find what they wanted

>>507923049
Poe2 is dogshit after story
The endgame is nonexistent unless you have hundreds of dollars to throw at mtx

Shame really

ANAL SEX DOT COM. All Anal, All the Time ...

>>507914914 (OP)
CS was only fun in 1998 because we were all noobs. With anything people specialize and become autistic obsessives and ruin it, not to mention cheaters. But when that shit came out, it was AMAZING.

>>507923456
>Yes they called Obama a nigger but no major complaints of his policy other than the financial bailout
Why are you lying? lol
It went from libertarian to rightwing over oogabunga, then the stormfags came and all the ironic hitlerposting turned unironic. Now the sites crawling with glowies and jidf but even that wasnt bad until after trump. Now its like night and day, its payed actors yelling at payed actors over shit they dont even believe. /v/ and /tv/ have literal advertiser's making threads. /biz/ is just jeets trying to scam people with shitcoins... idk, everynow and then you get threads like this with real people but they are few and far between, even though this is a 1pbtid spambot thread lol

>>507923923
>bigbertha
YES.

You guys have a good night.

>>507923993
Stopped playing after finishing the game once. Didn’t participate in those late game raids or whatever. Still better than d2

>>507914914 (OP)
cs forced me to get steam

>CHICKS WITH DICKS DOT COM.
>HALF CHICK, HALF DICK, All the Time . .

>>507914914 (OP)
>matchmaking killed games
>plebbit killed forums

>>507924141
Explains why you enjoyed it
Imho act 1-3 then start a new character

>>507923807
>One day would be the last time your MSN girl ever came online and you didn't even realise it

>>507923033
>No Land Warrior
Faggot

>>507923999
Unbelievably based post. Checked. Holy shit.

>>507915024
>Specifically that era, early 00s-mid 00s, was the peak. The games were better. You had more fun. Hell, the people seemed better, because it was mostly whites online back then.
Speaking as an europoor it was cool until about 2010 when Ukrainians and Russians joined the servers, but beyond that games were more unforgiving so the people with lower cognitive abilities were forced to remain in their domain.. In today's games everybody is supposed to feel like a winner so it is just one massive gay nerf arena.

>>507914914 (OP)
Governments and big media didn't really cared about it. It was considered something for nerds, losers and perverts.
Every once in a while the news talked about how someone got kidnapped and killed for chatting with a stranger on the internet, they always tried to make it seem like something dangerous and scary to keep people away from it. Most of the internet was small forums that you had to find on your own since most search engines sucked at the time. The best ones were Yahoo and Altavista. Everyone used gifs because videos took way too long to download.
4chan had like 5 or 6 boards when I first found it and people used to post CP and gore on /b/ all the time to scare newfags like me away, it didn't really work as you can see. The CP threads lasted for days because 4chan didn't have much traffic back then and no one gave a shit.

>>507924074
Nobody went right wing over obongo you retard those were election fags

>>507914914 (OP)
Much better information to noise ratio.

>>507914914 (OP)
Seedy and wild. You already had to know where to go, to know where to go. Webcrawler could only do so much. Similar to the modern deep web at least with regard to just incidentally stumbling upon crazy shit sometimes.

>>507917451
This is on Steam now I believe

It's so weird, that everything is connected all the time. Before if you were looking for information you were grabbing your encarta CD-ROM. If you couldn't find it though.... Sigh, fire up the modem.
Go make some coffee. If you couldn't find it on the internet it's down to the library and to have a talk with your librarian to maybe find what you need.
If my cell phone goes off wifi it automatically connects to cell network. If it can't find the network it will roam on someone else's cell network. We're always connected. Sometimes I just shut down all the computers because 1. My PC runs hot as shit 2. I don't like being connected all the time.

>>507923304
I wonder what kind of data is farmed in these threads?