What was the internet like before it became user frenly ?

>>513520340 (OP)
Before iPhone?

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>>513520379
Before touch screens yea

>>513520340 (OP)
like vidlii is now

>>513520340 (OP)
im telling you the truth when i say 20 years ago the internet was 100% high iq rightwing white males. there was even a saying on 4chan "there are no females on the internet"

>>513520888
>888
I caught that era of the internet very late, nothing on there was made for anybody especially youtube shit at the time. it was all made because the person behind it enjoyed making it. the entertainment one got was so dense and sufficient youd be on and off the web over an afternoon but now everything is designed to be a half experience that appeals to all and often becomes addictive

>>513520406
this

>>513520888
nah bro there were tons of girls and they were all on icq or aol online or other chatrooms and shit

there was way more mixing of the sexes and people actually talked and met up more often

>>513520340 (OP)
it was pretty dope, lots of interesting and fun things, but the commercialisation of the internet completely ruined it. now the internet isn't even good for finding information anymore

>>513520340 (OP)
Actually cool and worthwhile.

i miss irc and bboards. before suckerberg ruined everything.

>>513520340 (OP)
I unironically genuinely no cap fr get existential crisis the longer I think about the past of the internet and where it is going. It applies to everything else. Unlike real world things from the past that you can see and experience, sort of and even use yourself, the old net is gone. Digital content and systems are very finite, and there is a real possibility that one day it goes away and is never ever restored. I want to go back and it is by every means impossible, you cannot recreate the environment, the people and their behaviour.
I have to exist in this hell world and fear of looking forward what's to come. Like reaching the ninth circle of the inferno and finding out there are layers below it. Shit is falling apart, and it takes one solar activity to wipe everything electronics related, and unlike in previous generations where knowledge was passed on, zoomers and below can't even create a fire. So much knowledge is lost every day, boomers would rather go into the grave than help future generations. I feel like Goebbels, there is nothing to wake up for, nothing to look forward to. Everything I know and like is crumbling before my eyes and I'm powerless.

>>513520340 (OP)
in the year of our lord nineteen and ninety five my family purchased our first PC with a 33.6 modem. 15 year old me found sites like chathouse.com, chaostic.com, and angelfire.com. i learned how to use scripts and tools and be a 1337 haxxor. i would winnuke my enemies on port 139 and the shadow of the bluescreen of death would fall across the land. i had MILFS sending me their crusty panties via united states postal service along with dirty polaroids of their 40 year old beef flaps after they would PM me the filthy things their husbands wouldn't do to them and wished i would. i learned a little about phreaking as that was still relevant. learned HTML with tables and frames and made gay, angsty websites about the X-Files and K's Choice.

The internet has been user friendly since 1993 with NCSA mosaic, you can thank Mark Andresen and now he is shitting up the economy with his venture funding company.

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>>513529181
It's a bot anon..

>>513520340 (OP)
slow as fuck and god help you if you mistype a search term

>>513520340 (OP)
usenet was fun. imagine having to wait until tomorrow to continue your pointless arguments.
the internet was always exciting for what is was going to be not for what it currently was. up until facebook got going. as soon as fuckers were happily using their real names on the internet the cake was baked. smartphones only sank the hook.

>>513520340 (OP)
Ugly and dangerous comfy.
It's not that it became user friendly, it's that it went corporate.
And now every fucking website is the same. It's made painfully obvious when you browse multiple car makers sites.

Archangel Michael = based as fuck

>>513520340 (OP)
it was like this

https://userweb.www.fsinet.or.jp/active-g/

>>513520340 (OP)
damn it was comfy af

https://geocities.ws/sherlocklook/guia/mario/

and websites like this work on slow hardware, today you need multiple ghz octa core to just load website

The internet is not friendly to me.

>>513520406
Pretty much this. Also straight up hentai in sidebar ads on videogame sites

>>513530136
Genderbent Goddess of Victory Nike

>>513520340 (OP)
this one still works since 1998 till this day.

https://www.meet-an-inmate.com/

Who wont you get your cute Jailfu, anons?

it even says when she will be released, so you still have some years of gaming before your newly found gf gets released

>>513520340 (OP)
I wanna be part of Italy

>>513523368
>nah bro there were tons of girls

As a semi-retired internet sexual predator, I can say from experience you are mistaken

>>513520406
NAKED GRANDMA

>>513520340 (OP)
It was more "mysterious " he used to gives you the feel of exploration a some kind of unknown space, with an huge risk to catch virus and others shit

>>513520340 (OP)
To friendly

>>513520340 (OP)
Honestly the same except you REALLY didn't want to visit sites you didn't know because you could easily get malware just by being there or by opening an image. I still browsed 4chan, Newgrounds, various funny websites, random porn/alternate websites, random gore websites, and then YouTube, DeviantArt, MySpace etc. came out and the Internet became literally just what it is now.

Normies weren’t attracted to using computers. There wasn’t ANY clout chasing online at all. So you could meet up and make actual friends easy. The same dangers were there….If you were 16 and wanted to meet someone from a chat room, it was not a big issue though.

You message people today and they don’t message you back…right? They just assume you are bad.

>>513534268
FB, MySpace and early emo sites. They made the internet competitive in a bad way. The youngest millenials, zoomers, and boomers ruined the net as they transitioned to Web 2.0 and cell phones.

>>513534579
The persons who now are nostalgic for scene and emo or whatever it is ruined the net when they came online as teens. They saw some of the old web but discarded it for stuff like Snapchat.

>>513520379
It took a couple of other advancements to get to the point of the iPhone, like the proliferation of digital cameras and video recorders. Normies need content like pictures and videos. In the early days of the internet, everything was text based, like a text based rpg game that required a lot of reading and imagination. Also, the proliferation of high speed internet. Normies need a way to upload their pictures and videos. And of course wireless technology for the phone itself. Without these inventions, we wouldn't have mobile phones or social media.

>>513530479
Imagine imagine sitting in front of your Pentium II desktop in 1998 and reading someone complain about 2.3 Mbps download speeds over your 44 Kbps (on a good day) modem.

It was user friendly even in the AOL days.

>>513520340 (OP)
Less retards
Less clout chasing
You collected your favorite two or three memes you discovered and put them on display at the bottom of every post, back then you had to ask for permission to download someone else's gif, we used to call them JIFFS, which was the style at the time

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a/s/l?
Let's meet up on battlenet and play lurker defense

>>513520409
archaic, as in, the polish of the internet we see now that is clean and crisp and accessible was simply not there. you needed to be smart(ish) and intuitive enough to navigate the rudimentary programs and have a clear purpose on the web. Thing of it like, NES games, and then SNES games, they all look pretty crappy and jank, but at the time, those were each significant improvements on each ideation before it. Same with the internet as it slowly became more accessable and thus, user friendly.

The breaking points as a few folks have said before, are the late 90's dot-com bubble, where thousands of folks would pitch ideas to potential clients/investors about different ways to have people access information or, how to sell/showcase ideas in the form of multimedia, and then as those ideas solidified, 2006 was around the time the iphone became the first real way for there to be the internet in your pocket. Before all of this, it was simply phonelines and and television and if you wanted to know something, you would just like, ask your friends/family if they had any knowledge about it.

It's really hard to see the pulleys and levels behind the scenes now because every single 'app' is designed for accessibility and definitely marketability in this hellscape of AI slop, tictoc, and conglomeration of globohomo taking over every corner of the net into like, 5~ total sites (google, facebook, apple, microsoft, etc) because all of the smaller run and niche creators and webmasters were replaced by far more efficient machines. It was a lot more care-free and had limited-quality media devoted to being cool, odd, quirky, expressive, all-around niche for those waiting to uncover it. A lot of that still exists today, with youtube and this site, but it's just blanketed by parroting rebbit faggotry and a LOT of dullards who have no business being on the net to begin with.

>>513520340 (OP)
Implying its user friendly now. I think its become more difficult to use. Everything modern is profoundly brain-damaged in design.