Thread 720608371

why do post-2002 zoomies think the internet of 2005-2010 was the internet of the entire 2010s

I love off-topic threads

Same reason why zoomers have nostalgia for the late 2000's even though everything started going to shit after 2007.

>>720608371 (OP)
>why do post-2002 zoomies
Why do eceleb obsessed genwarring retards keep moving the goalpost?

>>720608490
You mean after 2012.

>>720608490
Niggers like you are the reason why the internet went to shit after Y2K

>>720608371 (OP)
Everything wasn't as serious as it is now. The world as a whole has just gotten worse the last decade.

>>720608490
>>720608371 (OP)
>>720608538
>>720608551
>>720608580
World was always shit, internet was never good, there's no "better times", there's no "golden age", there's no internet for old men.
Kindly kill each other

>>720608825
No, if it's one thing boomers are right about, it's that the world was better before.

>>720608371 (OP)
It's always like that. When people reference a decade, they most often refer to the latter half of the decade. This is why people often mention the N64 as a "90s" console even though it came to America in 1996 and the SNES came out in 1991.

Exhibit A: picrel, some dumb reddit post that came up when I image searched "90s nostalgia".

>>720608371 (OP)
not video games

>>720608371 (OP)
Zoomer derangement syndrome

The 2010s were insufferable from the very beginning, you know shit was over when you had normalfags showing you rageface memes irl.

>>720608371 (OP)
Zoomies will never understand pre-05 internet with waiting for flash cartoons to load, playing solitaire in the meantime, and hoping that nobody will call and break your Internet connection.

>>720609180
I'm zoomie but I was on the internet on Win95 at very young age like IPad generation now

I remember the flash intros landing pages for sites fondly

>>720608993
>90s kids
>80-81
They're definitely more 80s kids.

>>720609180
>waiting for flash cartoons to load
you now remember some longer flash cartoons had a minigame or mini-cartoon you could watch or play that loaded before the rest of the cartoon.
FF7 All About Random Battles had the sephiroth materia catcher minigame. Shit rocked, because that flash took about five minutes to load on shit internet.

I never understood why people were so weird with definitions of what a 90s kid or a 00s kid is. If you were born in the early 80s you're not really much of a 90s kid at all. You would've been a teen or even a tween for most of the 90s whereas you spent the first 8-10 years of your life in the 80s. That's not a 90s kid.

1987-1989 would be like the purest definition of a 90s kid because the vast majority of their actual childhood was spent in the 90s. Someone born in 2001 is a 2000's kid, particularly the late 2000s. Years that end in 2 and 3 are more hybrid.

Do you think people born at the start wait a decade in frozen sleep to start their childhoods?

>>720608993
Yeah, I remember
>t.Born 86

>>720608371 (OP)
Because zoomers only follows what is trending/being parrot without caring to know more about it themselves.
Example: those youtube poop zoomers that just spam and parrot things from the same three ytp from the same author.
They are literally all robots.

>>720608825
The West peaked in the late nineties and early 2000s. I am not saying this out of nostalgia, it is simply the truth that the peak of human happiness, contented was, and optimism was from like 97 up until the subprime mortgage crisis.

The absolute nadir for suicides, absolute maximum for self-reported happiness, and the most cohesive society had ever been. The intervening years saw the restoking of racial tensions, the long term consequences of neoliberal economics come home to roost, and the broad political radicalization of the population in response to a world where religion no longer broadly tied people together in worldview.

>>720608371 (OP)
The original 2005 video for this song barely got any views, the reupload that went viral was released in 2010. This was 2010s internet culture, autism revisionist

>>720608825
youth suicide rates tell a very different story, keep on seething about it, kid.

>>720611101
Not quite

https://youtu.be/FR7wOGyAzpw

>>720608371 (OP)
they want to pretend the internet didn't go to shit after they inherited it so they just lump everything together.

>>720608371 (OP)
The internet is far more sterile now, so you can be marketed to.

I used to be able to post pictures of my asshole on the McDonalds website guestbook and hundreds of thousands of people would see it before some admin would remove it like 4 days later.

>>720612289
>McDonalds website guestbook
what's the run down on this? never knew about it, thanks

>>720608993
>nothing but consumerist bullshit
You can tell a right wing incel American made this.

>>720608993
What defines the 2020s?

>>720608993
About a third of those got my noggin joggin

>02 Zoomer
>grew up with older technology (reruns, VHS, fifth and sixth gen consoles) due to growing up poor
>didn’t get a tablet until 2011
>didn’t get my own computer until 2013
>got to experience most of the typical 90s kid life while still being a zoomer
Life was good.

>>720613557
>born after 9/11
you didn't experience the 90s feeling at all you fucking zoom zoom
you used the tech at the time but the actual feeling pre and post 9/11 can't be replicated at all no matter how many times you tuned in to channel 3

hey little boys, how many of you zoomies wanna get fucked by a millennial?

>>720611180
>says not quite
>description in the original video explains exactly the same thing that I said
What did anon-kun mean by this?

>>720614096
*raises paw* =w=

>>720610953
This mostly applies to normalfag zoomers but whatever

>off-topic generation war thread i still up.
lovely

>>720613557
>didn't get an ipad until 9 years old
>>got to experience most of the typical 90s kid life while still being a zoomer
lol

>>720618654
Good screencap, I haven't seen a lot of people acknowledge the damage that cringe culture did. It completely reshaped the way people express theirselves online.

why do zoomers bitch about gen alpha watching mind numbing slop when they were the ones who grew up with shit like this?

>>720608371 (OP)
I think it's interesting how much of early internet culture is relatively unknown to younger generations today. Many kids aren't even aware that geocities existed. And I don’t mean the Y2K cute aesthetic-core shit websites people make now. I'm talking about web rings, shareware websites, framesets and splash pages. I think so much of the culture and etiquette/practices are completely unexplored.

Prior to Vine it was peak.

>>720608825
nah, im just gonna keep enjoying things

>>720608490
I'll rather be at the late 2000s then this current stagnation hell

T. 32

>>720623195
What's more interesting is that the wojak/gigachad shit isn't going anywhere, It's been ten years now.

Everyone thought they'd be like ragecomics and disappear, but they haven't.

>>720608371 (OP)
>0 hours since /v/ hasn't made a thread seething about zoomers

>>720623195
the concept of a "website" has largely died down and I mean the wild west where john in his basement makes a site like fuckthisthing dot com or whatever
it's died down to like 5 major sites (facebook reddit etc) and a lot of zoomers don't even own a traditional PC, just a tablet/their phone and anything that isn't an app is foreign
so yes it's very interesting the late millennial has lived this weird timeline where they are both more technologically advanced than both their seniors and juniors

>>720624525
'member when you could just have a website whose entire purpose was to host one (1) funny thing in a static fashion?
Limecat.net was literally just a pic of a cat with a lime on its head and the words "limecat is not pleased"
that's it that ws the whole joke. Like a shock site but for a laugh not a shock.

Anothet thread where millenial troons bitch to each other about "muh zoomers" while not knowing how old zoomers actually are and acting like they weren't everyone's punching bag before zoomers became the big meme with tide pods.

>>720623238
yea bruh it was peak frfr no cap shiet is lit

>>720626259
unfortunately my experience with those single purpose sites were mostly jumpscares
got me weary of links I can't recognize for the rest of my life

>>720608371 (OP)
This happened to me. I played all the consoles in order despite starting gaming in 1994 or 5. I went from Mario to N64 and Pokemon in 2 years. I still have to double take when I see a games release date. It felt like I was there.

>>720608371 (OP)
Early internet humor has never really been topped. All what we got since then is cringe forced humor and memes that never felt organic like they used to back in the day.

>>720608990
>it's that the world was better before.
Just because it was better before doesn't mean it was good. Humanity's history is a gradient between bad and worse.

>>720624139
The stagnation of the 2020s internet is the worst part. "All your base are belong to us" was a meme for like three or four months and then we moved on. The internet had an ebb and flow. New things came in and replaced the old.

Wojak is just "the meme" now. Everyone on Earth has seen it and made their own version. This is such a massive difference compared to just a decade or two earlier. There's no contemporary style, no music that defines this era. Just more and more of the same. Hell, the anime is so fucking bland and derivative today I don't even watch stuff made after 2010 anymore.

>>720608538
No, he's right, it was 07. I remember clearly that whole year felt off in a way that's hard to describe, even before knowing what a smart phone or Tumblr was. Everything just felt shittier than it did in 2006, like we all collectively got drunk or high on coping to forget 9/11 and that year was when the hangover finally set in.

>>720608495
>>720608825
Fucking based.

>>720628227
on copium*

>>720608371 (OP)
A girl I orbited in high school thought this was the funniest fucking thing ever.

[Spoiler]I wish I could go back and meet her for the first time again bros[/spoiler]

>>720623195
Most kids, everywhere, are not aware of anything that isn't in their immedite orbit. Most adults today probably aren't aware that Geocities existed either, let alone the underlying technologies. The Y2K/Geocities/whatever aesthetic diffusing into everything might just be convenient fashion, but it's also difficult to communicate why something like Flash was a cool/accessible creative tool or why CGI scripts provided a unique interaction. The people who really drill down on the forms and methods for creative presentation are still going to be the ones that do the best job of communicating them (think Hypnospace Outlaw).

"Netiquette" was already a flimsy concept when the scale was Usenet, even more ridiculous when the scale became millions of people online, and it's why Eternal September remains eternal now at billions of users.