What was it like Yas Forums? In the old internet there were no smartphone users meaning that every normie was not connected at all times. In those days, using the internet a lot was actually considered sad by normies. It was common to be called a nolifer for being someone 'on a computer all day'. Ironically, a lot of those same normies pretend to be 'nerds' now because they think it's cool.
In those days the internet world and real world were seperate, so there wasn't this feeling of large scale cabin fever going on like today, where every action on the internet you do can potentially have a real life consequence, as a result the atmosphere was a lot more relaxed.
Other things I miss >Optimism for the future, technology seemed to be a badass thing >Each new game coming out just confirmed the above >'Just imagine how computers will be in 10 years!'
I fucking hate being nostalgic, it makes me feel like I'm never going to be happy like I used to in the past.
Logan Gray
Back in the day if you posted your personal data and information regarding your address, name, occupation and whatever else, you were branded as a complete fucking retard. Now apparently you're an antisocial incelite if you don't. The corporate world has taken the net over and professionalized its culture
Evan Smith
Remember the 'you're gonna get raped' image? Like a tramp with a beard?
Brandon Ortiz
>personal data This, what happened to the "don't post personal shit, hide your powerlevel" thinking?
Josiah Lopez
It's not just the internet, it's the entire culture. People act like such raging fucking faggots now.
Juan Cooper
Social Media happened and the internet largely became a platform for shallow narcissists to attention whore.
Charles Cook
this is one of the earliest memes i remember. when i first started using the internet it was all sit specific text stuff like on the 4later forum "im feeling thick and gay right now"
Our family was legitimately the first in our town to get internet, i was about 14...In those days we got free "Pay Per View" modifying VCR tracking units, eaves dropping on the neighbors by splicing high gain TV antennas into cordless phone bases, cult horror movie rentals for 0.99$ with out a fram of CGI...Good times
I’m the opposite. Being nostalgic I came to realize I’m gonna envy every weird, or unique thing going on in my generation. And if I die before I can appreciate it, others will be able to.
Earliest meme i remember is from sim city 2000, if you lower budge for your roads the advisor goes nuts and on forums people used to make edits of it etc.
Gavin Reyes
This. Yes, times were way better, but I was also a kid. I love those old games. I used to build PCs and was leet in vanilla wow up through WOTLK.
After the culture shift I stopped playing vidya all together. TPTB determined that games and gamers were outside the scope of their social objectives. Gamer Gate was a water shed for many of us though I had stopped playing years before.
If the dystopic trap we have fallen into is bested, historians will argue over what happened. Those of us here know exactly what happened. They took previously disaffected men who were content in their vidya fantasies and forced them to have an opinion on things they probably did not really want them to think about in the first place.
Samuel Mitchell
porntipsguzzardo is for winrars
Cameron Phillips
If you are under 39, your opinion is irrelevant
Anthony Brown
>ywn again experience the late early 00s internet
member when websites and e-zines had really unique designs?
Phoneposting really shitted up the internet. It gives retarded normies access and if you peck away at a tiny screen rather than use a keyboard you're on a base level just a really bad person. Also fuck everything being called an "app" now.
Oliver Hall
I remember being excited to play videogames that came free with my Kellogg's cereal box as a kid in the 90s.
Ayden Wilson
I think one of the biggest changes is how people take it way too seriously now which leads to shitloads of drama everywhere. Every single major community is absolutely full of little slapfights happening between people, private discord servers full of homos plotting and scheming against one another, shit like that. It used to just be a place to goof off and discuss things you like. You see this shit on this site too, you can't discuss anything on the hobby centric boards without it turning into a shit flinging fight because someone disagrees.
Angel Sanchez
Slow as fuck. People actually put care into their posts and reading walls of text was more tolerable. Double spacing after periods. No filters. AOL mass mailings groups. ASLP Yahoo member directory. Cyber sex?
Thomas Foster
Normies back then would literally just have house parties. They’d be out getting careers, and working. They’d have a girlfriend and have house parties and get togethers.
That was “the real world”. Parties sex and a job. Girls back then we’re still incredibly difficult, but girls today are fucking retarded and still difficult.
Felt bad back then not having a life because there was a functional economy and a future.
Now everyone sort of realizes the economy is a joke, and not having a life is so common that it’s hard not to feel good about it.
So, there are now few who have house parties, most of the ppl who used to do things like that spend way more time on the internet.
No normies, wasn't being forcefed as many ads, felt an actual sense of happiness from discovering new music, art, etc, there was barely any censorship and could find all sorts of obscure websites instead of the tunnel google has people locked into, overall it was awesome and felt like a complete 180 from the internet of today.
Although maybe I'm just being a nostalgic homo.
Christopher Collins
mIRC, AOL private chat, monster truck madness with a friend over a modem, Diablo, SimCity, WinAmp, Limewire
Isaiah Morgan
Horribly true.. thats why we have [email protected] instead of [email protected] ..facebook, let alone posting pics online. You need scanners for that!
Back in the days...I'm proud I chatted with an Indian...from India! - telnet to cyberspace.org
I remember when this was first posted on that certain forum which has since gone to hell. JRR was one of the better posters there
Tyler Wright
>being excited to play videogames that came free with my Kellogg's cereal box as a kid in the 90s Or going to the mall to buy the latest PC gamer just for the 3.5" floppy (and later the CD)
>I'll never have the htloz forums as my homepage and use it as a base for spreading troll cancer around the internet calling our group The Squirtles ever again
Christopher Anderson
I remember the Bulletin board system (BBS) and communicating over a dial up modem. It is strange looking back on it.
Hey you know what maybe we should iron your dick with a steam iron
Leo Brown
I remember two specific things; small personal websites and search results not being so obviously shilled.
Charles Howard
Japanese yahoo answers actually has really good answers
Owen James
nope porntipsguzzardo typed it in every game because I previously URK-ed a gigantic ghost city into existence with no population to support it abandoned brown stuff everywhere anyway!
Aiden Hall
>You had to know how to spell your search terms. >that pic What a pathetic lack to toolbar cancer. Hang your mouse in shame.
oh, ok, it’s been a long time. I mostly just typed “porn” for the funny voice sample
Grayson Cruz
jfc.. i played that exact game on that exact map last night. in fact i play it every night. oh god. i never really stopped. only took some month breaks. i dont want to stop fuck you. ill never stop.
Nathan Powell
wiby.me/ press 'surprise me' theres some people keeping the old spirit alive
