What was the old internet like?

>What was the old internet like?
Slow

Slow as fuck.
youtube.com/watch?v=dTos3CsvnLQ

It was fucking awesome, then stupid niggers, women, jews, faggots, and trannies figured it out. Since smartphones made it easier. It has been shit ever since.

No niggers. It was great.

>paradise
Started on the Internet in 1995 (dial up), got cable internet in 1999.
It was wonderful. No gatekeepers, no thots. You needed to be at least a little technical to do things.

BRING BACK WEB RINGS!!!

better
normalfags ruined it

I would rather browse the internet with a smartphone then a 20 year old computer

Fpbp

Facebook and jewphones destroyed the internet

Team Fortress>>>>>counter strike

total freedom

less stupid and less centralized

Amazing. Yahoo chat and mIRC made this place look normal. Icq was the messenger you used to chat up sluts.

There were lots of different chans that were pretty popular. 7chan and 711chan were both pretty good back in the day. Ytmnd and Newgrounds were like gateway drugs to the chans.

"Likes" were not a thing until they were invented by Facebook, so people just shared content they like and created for fun, rather than expecting the entire world to felate them for their genius. It was just way freer and way more fun.

There were LOTS of different websites. Not just a few portal websites directing you to images, ideas.

the internet died and stopped being fun the day that dumb fucking soccer mom got goatse.cx removed from it's registrar.

Super fun.

Ever forum was filled with deep meaningful conversations about the human condition.

Online gaming communities were devoid of toxicity, instead focused on the purity of sport.

They were nobler times indeed.

I remember "cybering" with girls kek

Go buy CS 1.6 or download it via torrent to see what great times we lived in. I'm staying this unironically.

>YWN get laid from MySpace, AIM, or Craigslist ever again

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pretty fucking based. you zoomers missed out

Nigger was ok to say literary everywhere

It's pretty annoying not to mention politics is almost never discussed in these nostalgia goggle threads. People just post about video games and circlejerk over not owning a cellphone

Fun fact. I was the guy that, accidentally, coined the phrase "pwned".

AMA

no niggers

AH! I remember the old internet. I fucking loved the 90's, member? The only bots we had was in CS and they were dumb as shit. Now we have to deal with bots like op.
Sage.

It was great because there were inherent barriers to entry that correlated with needing a high IQ, now every zoomer born with a smartphone in hand posts what passes for their inner monologue.

Slow. Full of intrusive ads. Video streaming was very rare. Lots of Flash and Shockwave. Most comedy was just "lul random" shit. The only good thing was there was a lot less shills, corporate bullshit, and propaganda.

Nostalgia glasses make people say "dude based was 1990s! internet" but in reality just avoid normie shit and this internet is better.

I got my first cellphone sometime around 2007? I was always afraid of the government listening and tracking me prior to that.

Yeah going online pre Firefox 3 was a fucking nightmare

>no ads
>no paywalls
>no corporate media tainting everything
>no social media trivializing human experience
>more niche, less npcs
What can I say...

Like panning for gold. Slow and often painful but when you found the good stuff it was absolutely worthwhile. You could spend days going down different rabbit holes of absolute insanity and everybody was a little weird or different. Any kind of personal information was verboten and everybody lived through an alias or handle. Social media and Web 2.0 nonsense absolutely killed it stone dead, even Yas Forums is a pale imitation of what it was in the early/mid 2000s

Unfiltered by alphabet corporation
Unpolluted by social media
Unspoilt by poorfags and phone posters

It literally was in every way, except for the ad blocking. Go play CS1.6 right now. It is the perfect game.

Yes. Whatever mundane and trivial observation their shitty little brains make, instead of passing that thought into oblivion like every sane person they're compelled to post that shit on twatter. I say we fuck them all to death.

Remember WinAmp, user?

fuck of faggot

"pwn" was a common typo of "own" before voice comms became standard

What is considered toxic today was par for the course then. You could call somebody a retarded nigger and nobody would care. Now if you say that you become tonights top upvoted post on that games subreddit.

Source is better

Also finding likeminded people back then on the internet was an actually uplifting, positive experience

The internet, like everything, was much better without niggers

>Forums
Just forums of people. If someone was being retarded, they were banned. If someone was being insufferable, they were banned. otherwise you could say whatever you want. Now being insufferable is the mainstream internet culture

>People
Basically if you ended up talking to someone over the internet, you knew they were at least 100 IQ because they needed to know how to get there to begin with.

>YouTube
not that old but, in 2007, videos with swear words and naughty ideas were allowed. imagine that

>Media
there were a lot of those hosting sites similar to Mega Upload where you could get whatever you want, people just had blog sites with movies, music, tvshows, etc linking to files. All those sites got shut down around the same time as MU and now you have to join some kind of forum where they have to manually approve your membership or use torrents.

>google
actually showed you what you were searching for, not what it wants you to see. imagine that

>>no ads
Zoomer confirmed

Early-mid 00s was fucking great.

>Vanilla and BC WoW with vent
>CS
>Halo 2 on original Xbox when Xbox live was first released
>everyone was racist
>runescape PKing
>everyone was racist
>Yas Forums had highly illegal content on it every single day

Really whipped the llama's ass.

>TFW no good local music file player

A/S/L?

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Children porno and terrible anime fanfics everwhere

Rotten . com
Ebaums World
Habbo Hotel

No women, niggers and trannies.
Most people weren't mindless normalfag consoomers and knew a thing or two about tech.
No social media faggotry and women whoring themselves for pathetic simps on shit like onlyfans and twitch.

I want to go back, boys.

It really whips the llama's ass!

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Very decentralized, candid and fun.

You forgot about people acting like having to dial in your modem required some sort of esoteric knowledge and a 200 IQ

Not if it offers a barrier to entry and it can get rid if fags like you.