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

It was slow as fuck
I waited 2 minutes for every 720p image of a chubby white girl to download but at least there were no niggers in it

>>508310619 (OP)

>>508310619 (OP)
Download something off of limewire annnnnnd yep it's porn

>>508310619 (OP)
it was similar to when you would go wander into unknown places in the woods with your friends
you would never know what you would stumble on

>>508310619 (OP)
It was glorious, I would do everything to go back to 1992-1998, best time of my life.

some guy at highschool told me about a game called counterstrike 1.3, it took me two days to download everything, install and get it working.

back then most personal computers terminated a public IP, it was wild.

>>508310619 (OP)

it was better before it became normie-proof. like, way better

>>508310619 (OP)
Fuck Jews and fuck this daily gay ass slide thread.

>>508310619 (OP)
it was like a world without kikes
websites were created for the sake of content and informations not advertisement
and everyone was bragging about fucking each others mom

>>508310619 (OP).

Hitler. No faggots. Being Far Right is cool.

>>508310619 (OP)
most everything was free or we were able to get a full or good enough experience not paying. and well lots of piracy and cd keys too

but it wasn't also commercialized like today's internet because they didn't really figure it out yet. today everything is ads and even organic posts and comments are ways to funnel you down some path. yes there was spam before but the commercialization was crude and easy to ignore

i don't go on discord but i guess that's what the old internet is like just millions of little communities and sites to hang out

>>508311387
>tfw you genuinely blasted your buddy's mom but never had the heart to tell him.
The '90s were outstanding.

>>508310619 (OP)
I miss the comfy stormfront threads on /b/. moot making /pol/ was mistake.

>>508310619 (OP)
Forums. Beautiful forums.

100% white
All normies, brads and stacys knew basic html and terminal use as it was necessary for social media back then.

People only used desktop pcs.

Once you were off the desktop you were completely disconnected again.

>>508310619 (OP)
I remember spending hours downloading a single mp3. Websites wouldn't be covered with pictures and videos and stuff because it would take too long to load. It was mostly text with links to download the specific media you were looking for. You'd watch a new line of pixels get added every 30 seconds of a 800x600 potato cam picture of boobs.

There was basically no money to be made in content creation, so people only did it for the love of it. It was like a giant passion project.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqO5lNS094M

>>508310619 (OP)
I remember people posting gif sprays in Counter-Strike of porn and gore. Good times

Old internet? You youngsters know nothing of CompuServe or Prodigy. You don't know the pain of downloading a 400kb .gl porn file at 2400bps and having it take 3 hours! Or running a BBS.

https://emotioneric.com/

https://maddox.xmission.com/

>>508310619 (OP)
All the websites looked different. Most stuff was free or had paypal links for "donations" that nobody ever clicked on because people were still skeptical of trading real money on there. Everyone had some dumb nickname, if you told anyone your real name people thought you were weird, stupid or a turbo attention whore. Some sites were slow as fuck but we were used to it. Honestly it was very comfy and I miss it, sometimes I look up old posts I made on my favourite gaming forum back in 2004 and just mourn the things we have lost.

Also people actually went there to talk about their common interests and share content with each other. Now it's all just grifters trying to scam everyone with the newest AI

>>508311688
Moot is and always will be a faggot for shutting down the text boards in 2014. They were the comfiest place in the website

>>508310619 (OP)
> i used to play cs competitively
> me too i was giga elite eagle master #1 > in season 11
> mfw kids will never understand

>>508310738
no niggers, no streetshitters, no chinks, no other subhumans.
based existence. few will understand what they missed out on.
also BBS back in the day was kino too. like 4chan but sloooow. i remember pirating a compiler and talking about jews eating children in the late 90's right before internet really took off

>>508310619 (OP)
I remember this stupid thread from the last 100 times you've posted it.

I still start to get up and walk away from the PC if I download something that's 20 meg or more, but these days it can finish before I've even had time to see the download bar start filling up.
Other day I went to update a steam game that was 20 gig, it had finished by the time I took a piss and make a cup of coffee.
I didn't realize it, but I kind of miss those small breaks. Like "ok, gotta get away from the computer for an hour or 2 I'll go for a walk", doesn't happen so much now.

Also, Youtube videos used to get to the point straight away because they had to, only so much bandwidth. These days it's the opposite, so many people pointlessly yakking on to pad out watch time.

Also, I played the shit out of CS like everybody else did but I almost always played with bots. I had heaps of skins for the guns, there was some website that had so many and it was pretty well made. My favorite skin was for the CT starting pistol that made it look like one of the handguns from a resident evil game. Had models for not just you holding it, but other players holding it and for when it was on the ground, which a lot of guns didn't bother doing.

PS: I miss C&C generals, fuck me did that game have soul or what.

>>508312305
>Moot is and always will be a faggot for shutting down the text boards in 2014.
The internet was over by 2014. Made no difference.

>>508312343
>Kids who don't wear headphones screaming "HACKER!" at you because you keep shooting them through walls or prefiring them as they run 'round the corner
Good times

>>508310619 (OP)
the first things i remember was getting move lists for mortal kombat trilogy and using netscape on a school computer to load a pornographic image of a woman bending over. it took 15 minutes to load.

>>508312305
>>508312454
moot killing /new/ and pushing /pol/ later was a mistake. massive fucking mistake.
/new/ won, moot lost

>>508312465
Back when wall spamming was normal, and "gay spot" was still called gay spot.

Is it me or did COD 1 & 2 have better sound engines than any of the current gen games. I remember being able to close my eyes and just get kills off the enemies foot steps and my positioning alone.

>>508310619 (OP)
my youth was basically spent in internet cafes.
my PC wasn´t powerful enough to run WOW or GTA SA when it came out.

>>508310619 (OP)
predominantly white, middle to upper class, heaven basically.

>>508312758
Because older games had a simplistic sound system. Now these queers are trying to do gay ray casting bullshit where footsteps sound like they're coming from nowhere and everywhere at the same time, all in the name of "realism"

>>508312758
Pretty much everything 20 years ago is better than anything today

>>508312084
>maddox
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE6jy78tV78

also a friendly reminder; he is literally a cuckold according to court documentation

>>508312976
>also a friendly reminder; he is literally a cuckold according to court documentation
DON'T TALK TO ME OR MY WIFE'S SON LIKE THAT EVER AGAIN!

>>508312758
it's done on purpose. in modern cod games the speed at which you move around changes your sound radius to pander to new player who don't move.
Try camping for a few minutes and watch how you can map everyone moving on the entire block.

>>508312434
>I didn't realize it, but I kind of miss those small breaks. Like "ok, gotta get away from the computer for an hour or 2 I'll go for a walk", doesn't happen so much now.
Yeah that was so comfy.

>>508311387
Websites were also much better optimized. Hate those hamburger menus and mobile-friendly interfaces.

>>508311373
holy fucking shit.
haven’t seen that broad since i was nuting all over her vids back when i was like 17.
greatest cock sucker to have ever walked the Earth.

>>508312879
>>508312897
It's just crazy to me that no other games really caught onto the feel of footsteps. I think the latest Modern Warfare tried to recreate it but when you have all the bullshit diving moves and everyone is a 360 football sprinter wtf is the point

>>508310619 (OP)
the same as the last 10 times you posted this

>>508313114
CS:GO did a good job of doing directional audio.

>>508310619 (OP)
Almost nobody took things seriously. Everyone was here to escape reality, and have fun, not to turn the internet into some turbo satanic parody surrogate of reality.
Serious Business won in the end.
Everything everywhere is always serious fucking business.

>>508310619 (OP)
Pretty amazing due to the fact graphics and internet speeds improved in tandem opening up new types of gameplay and online experiences.

Before when all we had was dial up you couldn't really stream anything. So the internet itself as a culture and activity was slower and it made the experience feel more down to earth. You would log in a game or log on to a website or chatroom and it would feel more engaging. As the internet speeds increased this changed the dynamic to more instantaneous content which made the internet more advanced yet fleeting. Once social media took over alongside smartphones(pocket computers) with apps and instant everything all the time the internet really lost its elite appeal.

PC master race has been snuffed out by the masses of phoneposting and app gaming plebs.

>>508313059
That game coming Arc Raiders is one of the only things I'm looking forward to because of sound design and immersion. Probably a few indie FPS games but those never have a population after the first month

DO YOU GUYS REMEMBER RICOCHET?

I miss the pure autism of GameFAQs and the compilations people wrote. Like they really poured their soul into their guides and I'd appreciate the sharing of knowledge. Something went wrong later on, maybe individual forums and data mining fucked it all up

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5q-sw8U9H_I

>>508310619 (OP)
there were no pajeets

>>508310619 (OP)
Golden age

>>508313430
either a CS or Unreal mod. I miss Jailbreak type game play from Unreal. Old school cops and robbers. I think for anyone young its roblox that gives them these game scenarios now.

>>508313513
The equivalent at the time was Brazilians. We suddenly got a huge swarm of them and they didn't know anything about netiquette. I had some BR friends who would pretend to be ANYTHING other than Brazilian out of shame.

>>508313513
BR BR hate in Ragnarok Online. Classic times

Also, the fact that so many games now are removing, inhibiting or just not allowing at all the idea of private worlds/servers or completely offline worlds for games is disgusting to me.

Internet/gaming culture has a permanent nanny that stops people from saying the wrong thing, which further down the line is meant to control what they think as well under threat of permanently losing the game they own. Except, they don't own it do they and so we're entering a new age of piracy since it's been dead for 10 years.

It's from this verbal free-for-all that so much culture emerged. Midwits read this and just go "erm actually it's about racism and safety" but these are the same people who unironically watch sports or get moved by political candidate talking-point speeches so they don't really have sentience to begin with.

>>508313619
How I mine for fish?

>>508313114
You're not wrong. I legitimately could track players all over the map like some kind of freak echolocation (in 1.5). I've never had that in another game.

>>508313571
Yes they would shit up games from their internet cafes. Also the Chinese gold miners lawl.

>>508310619 (OP)
one of the first times i jerked off to a video game was filling an entire map with kerrigan and having a scriptkill one every .30 seconds
so hot
also calling people niggers in ultima online and on albinoblacksheepforums

>>508313621
>Also, the fact that so many games now are removing, inhibiting or just not allowing at all the idea of private worlds/servers or completely offline worlds for games is disgusting to me.
You will own nothing and you will be happy.

>>508313772
>Chinese gold minders trying desperately to earn enough to buy peanuts while we're all spamming Chuck Norris jokes at them

>>508313894
miners*
Fat fingered that one.

>>508312434
generals was so good
>AK-47'S...FOR EVERYBODY
>YEAAAAA

>>508310619 (OP)
I downloaded music with edonkey, let the internet on for the entire night so id have 6 new songs in the morning i could burn them on a 4x speed cd burner and bike to school with it in my discman.
I got the internet in '93.
It was a time of Ranma, DBZ, and evangelion hentai. A time of forums, irc, quake and commander keen.
A time where i had to read my mangas in french, because those were the only websites that translates moonrunes into a human tongue. A time where you could use Altavista to find CP, where only people of a certain IQ had access to the internet, where you would make .tk domains for your stupid hobbies.

Then the normies came. And what did they bring with them? Social media, censorship, and their stupidity.

>>508314073
>commander keen
Based.
>Jumping up ladders

>>508313621
At least we got to enjoy it while it lasted. The sandbox and modding elements alongside with increase in graphics technology and internet speeds was something else. It really motivated online communities.

Today people just pay for skins?

>>508312642
In retrospect, it was always heading this way. Once tech became retard-proof it was always going to end this way.

>>508312084
>gamefaqs
>somethingawful
>newgrounds
>neocities
>morpheus, limewire, kazaa
More or less the same internet but without niggers and jeets

>>508310619 (OP)
Fewer women. Fewer ESLs. Fewer teenagers. Load times were slow up until around 2010. YouTube videos buffered a lot. This stopped happening by 2012 so far as I can remember. Things got progressively worse after around 2015 due to the prevalence of adtech and bad developers leading to every webpage having more Javascript on it than actual content. Viruses were a lot more common, especially on Windows. Limewire was a free Spotify that you paid for by listening to the “My fellow Americans, I did not have sexual relations with that woman,” ad and the occasional virus. Hardware went obsolete really fast up until around 2015. Stumbleupon was a Firefox plugin that would take you to a random website every time you clicked it. The internet felt more novel back then, probably because the people commercializing it hadn’t become efficient at it yet; these days almost all the content you see is part of a sales funnel, few people create things just for the joy of it anymore. It was really novel to meet people from other countries back then via services like Chatroulette or Omegle because English was not nearly as prevalent and internet connectivity was not good. YouTube videos were all made in Windows Movie Maker and used the same 10 songs as background music.
>>508311645
Pirating games was easier back then (you basically have to be on a private tracker these days), but everything else is far more available now with LibGen, archive.org, and filetype:pdf. Finding movies was easy from around 2014 to 2020. Prior to that your options were torrenting it (slow) or finding it on YouTube in 10-minute segments (the climax of the film always being the one segment that got struck for copyright infringement). Music was harder to get, too. Every band puts their music on YouTube now; this wasn’t always the case. It didn’t become ubiquitous until around the time Instagram brokered their music licensing deal.

>>508314188
Yeah. At least we got to experience a real White internet for a time. I guess that's good enough

>>508310619 (OP)
You could speak your honest mind more often.
You could be genuine without hiding behind 10 layers of irony.
You could post almost anything without worrying about copyright.
You could find niche sites and forums ran by regular people for regular people.
It was value over profit.
Downsides: It was slow, things would break and there were more viruses.

>>508311379
this desu

we have our great memories and its no one elses business

IRC was the centre of the universe. It's where you'd hang out with friends and strangers. There were channels with bots that would serve you music, games and porn.

The X-Files rules.

>>508314300
>White internet
Ask me how I know you're a zoomer.

>>508314073
>Then the normies came. And what did they bring with them? Social media, censorship, and their stupidity.

Normies ruin everything they touch. Everything has to be to a certain PC standard with no fun allowed. It's like parental controls on the internet now.

>>508314474
see >>508312398 I grew up with BBS i'm far from a zoomzoom. If you didn't experience a White internet, you might be the zoomzoom

>>508314263
thats a lot of words just to say you're a fag. Wrong on all accounts.

>>508313098

good times

>What search engine are you using?
>Altavista
>Pfffft. That one sucks. You should use Ask Jeeves!

>>508314229
>ogrish

>>508310619 (OP)
Why stop at Internet. Talk about user groups and dialup Bulletin Board Systems

>>508314734
Cannot unsee.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt6_M4fB430

>>508312305
I genuinely forgot they existed. I only browsed /new/ a few times when I first joined (2013?) and remember being shocked at the way people were talking to each other.
>>508312454
It was fine up until 2019. /pol/ was useless by then but there were still plenty of cool places online if you knew where to find them.
>>508312434
YouTube used to have a maximum 10 minute video length; this is now considered to be an unofficial minimum for monetization purposes.
>>508312565
>it took 15 minutes to load
Real.

>>508311373
Well yeah there were way less esl posters like you. It was mostly Americans so it was much better.

>>508314229
>Bearshare
>R@ygold

>>508310619 (OP)
The old internet was truly amazing. Before Steam took over and fucked everything up I would play Half Life on WON, Jedi Knight on MSN Gaming Zone, and was a wizard at my high school because I could burn CDs for people and make cash. Even back in middle school I was getting other kids to LAN in the computer lab. When I finally got cable internet in year 2000 it was godlike to be able to download at 80 KBps and play games at 30 ping after years on dial up

>>508314595
The fact that you spell white with a capital W means your mind is a soft and malleable for the jews. I bet you spell black with a capital.

Mutt.

>>508314927
I installed Shadow Warrior on all the PC's in the computer lab, lol

>>508310619 (OP)
4chan was left, creative and funny
the whole we are legion thing was a manifestation of communism
OC was being made left and right and posters indulged in it

Meatspin

>>508315039
4chan was libertarian. It was Ron Paul central.

>>508315079
ET porn*

>>508310619 (OP)
Two major differences.

First, it was truly free. Today business, advertising and state censorship has slowly started to shut down and control everything.

Second, there were much fewer people here, and no normies. This is a massive qualitative change.
The endless crowd of normies just blots out and normalizes everything.
For example /b/ today is pretty much just porn. There used to be fun quirky discussions, similar to todays s4s maybe. You could wake up the next day and read and answer the threads from yesterday.
With so little people and no monetization, there was no incentive to spam, shill or whatever. Today you have to treat everything with suspicion.

I assume a third major shift and downgrade of the internet is coming in out time with AI.
You can't be sure you're talking to a human anymore, I've lost interest in most sites because of this. More and more images are just AI slop too, there is less and less value in coming online. I mean I could generate the images or myself, and chat with chatgpt if I wanted to. You go online because you assume you're talking to humans.

eq.castersrealm

>>508310619 (OP)
>What was it like?

It's how I got red pilled from stormfront and vnn

>>508310619 (OP)
Kino, I caught the tail end of it in 2004-2005 when I was first/second grade.

>>508311107
>tonights plans changed boys.

>>508315184

>>508314962
>reee you spelt white with a capital W
cry about it faggot
White. White. White. White. White.
R1b genetics only, fuck off nigger.