Thread 82046753

Anyone else miss how the internet was back in 2007-2010?
>minecraft came out
>played that all the time
>reddit hadn't completely absorbed and replaced all hobbyist forums
>most tech and vidya related discussions were relegated to hobbyist forums instead of reddit and their shitty updoot system
>hobbyist forums were better than reddit simply due to the fact that you saw actual discussions and debates instead of annoying one-liners and unpopular opinions being buried as you see on reddit
>powermods were annoying back then but reddit powermods are even worse
>tons of gems on youtube instead of the absolute slop we see nowadays since any retard has a smartphone and internet access
>nobody used xitter

>>82046753 (OP)
Oh I forgot
>pre-gamergate and political slop taking over absolutely everything

>>82046753 (OP)
Anyone else miss how the internet was back in 2003-2008?
>flash game and anmation was popular
>dank memes
>yahoo and many websites
>online games
>trance based musics

>>82046753 (OP)
>Anyone else miss how the internet was back in 2007-2010?
Not really, It's better then today for sure but I'd say Y2K had better ascetics and more freedom.
>>minecraft came out
I've never played minecraft IDK why.
>>played that all the time
I'm not a vidya zombie.
>>reddit hadn't completely absorbed and replaced all hobbyist forums
This is true.
>>most tech and vidya related discussions were relegated to hobbyist forums instead of reddit and their shitty updoot system
Yes, but discussion back in the day were still retarded, so it's like saying drinking road pond water is better then drinking diarrhea.
>>hobbyist forums were better than reddit simply due to the fact that you saw actual discussions and debates instead of annoying one-liners and unpopular opinions being buried as you see on reddit
This is true.
>>powermods were annoying back then but reddit powermods are even worse
This is true.
>>tons of gems on youtube instead of the absolute slop we see nowadays since any retard has a smartphone and internet access
More like things were amateur's and "real" rather then AI slop and post-Mr-Beast search engine gaming.
>>nobody used xitter
Women and boring fuckers used it, it was just a place people would post "welp I'm about to cut the grass"

>>82046753 (OP)
Ehh.
>>82046848
This.

>>82046753 (OP)
>>hobbyist forums were better than reddit
it can be boiled down to
>hobbyist forums were a thing

>>82046753 (OP)
Earlier really after 2009 everything started declining fast. Like most things in the late 90s and 2000s I didn't think I'd miss it but ya so many aspects of culture and society we didn't know how good we had it because we had no idea how shit everything would become we thought it would get better.>>82046802
this especially political obsession slop and outrage culture made it impossible to enjoy anything as a community/fan without some cancerous backlash that's a killjoy. I don't share any of my interests and fandom with anyone anymore I gray rock everybody because it's straight up awful. Social media and politics have been like a mind virus that have rotted humanity from the inside out.

>>82047111
I created an IG to keep tabs on my IRL friends and a lot of them just repost political slop on their stories and I groan whenever I read them

These people should have learned their lesson after Kony 2012. Apparently they didn't.

>>82047161
Political slop becoming the drug of choice and coping mechanism for Baby Boomers, Gen X and Millennials is probably something historians will be studying in the future wondering wtf was wrong with the lead poisoned boomers of this age.

>>82046753 (OP)
I was 7-10 then so no.

It'll keep getting worse anons.
Australia, the UK, EU, and even the US are implementing more and more censorship laws. The internet has been steadily going downwards and it'll get much worse.

>>82047402
>tfw fucking Windows has literal advertisements embedded within the operating system now

Windows 7 was perfect

>>82047645
they take pictures of your monitor as well in windows 11. The telemetry is insane