Can we get a nostalgia thread going

Unironically comfy. It was an adventure. A slow as balls adventure, but an adventure nonetheless.

Search engines weren't the best, so you either learned addresses from someone else, or you found them yourself by typing random shit in. The direct consequence of this, was that you couldn't spoil the broth yet. Everything that was good then, was good because it could never succumb to overexposure. And the combination of the read-only and DIY atmosphere resulted in tons of pages being made to inform users, not drain their brains; you'd learn and find all kinds of cool shit just by surfing the web.

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Things like this. Clearly a different time, but its spirit is still there.

Functionally? Not even close. In terms of quality? 7/10 times, yes. But the world is different now, there's almost an expectation of instant gratification- instead of the occasional frustrated string of curses from the lone nerd who's using a computer on a Friday night.

There are sites that now only exist in my memory. They were never archived by anyone who would've openly shared that data, provided they're even still alive. Think about that.

Dude sent me your hotmail account so we can gather some people for quake

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You realize now that you could disable the modem speaker?

Slow as fuck and lacking the wealth of content today, but it felt a lot more honest.
I always find it odd how kids today are like "you're just posting this stupid shit for likes and upvotes and seens" when like... Two decades of internet taught us that you don't need a score or a like to post stuff, people were posting the most bizarre shit just to share it, just to show the world, just to connect. I still think people do it, and yes I do think some narcissists post just for attention and all that shit, but I still think people will forever and eternally do weird or funny or creative things and just want to show it to the next person for no other reason than we're human.
That's my favorite lesson from being on the internet since AOL 3.1

>waiting up to 30-40 seconds to load a webpage
just like now

>swearing at useless pics on the webpages
just like now

>swearing at outdated information and lots of useless blabbering
just like now

It occurred to me that we don't even surf the web anymore. We sit on the beach and wait for the tide to come in.

And we never leave the beach.

very slow, less censorship, very similar to todays derp web. search engines almost nonexistent, porn was mostly pics, people dreamed of T1 connections, AOL chatrooms were the hotness. Sites weren't bloated with ads and tracking and javascript. It was a beautiful time

In some ways it was a lot better. Yes, speeds were slower and it took ages for pages to load, but it was a lot less corporate, with more websites run by amateurs and hobbyists just sharing knowledge, and not out to sell you stuff.
There was no facebook, no instagram, no tiktok. Most people on the internet were nerds. It wasn't so mainstream.
Messageboards were still thriving.

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If you want to experience it again, i2p is basically the same. i2p is slow as fuck since it's all decentralized and there's barely any search engine at all so you have to find your way around by yourself.

Had no idea...I was like 15 and it was new. So muffling it was my fix. Hahaha.

But if anyone picked up the phone...instant disconnect.

Oh hell no. The sites back then looked like site on the darkweb now.

56kbps modem. the sounds

The only dialup I ever had wasn't horrible. But, at the time, I wasn't spoiled with fiber how I am now. But, I have had pretty decent internet since the early 2000's ( I had cable as soon as I could get it ).

Download times were absolute shit ( even with fiber right now, my isp thought it would be cute to slow everyone down with this damn kung flu shit going on ). But, even with songs taking 15 minutes to download, at the time, it was awesome. I remember having an external cd burner. Making your own cd's was super cool back then. It got me laid more than once lol.

social media platforms were more basic but its safe to say that this platform has remained pretty much consistently the same. less making fun of niggers but the same more or less.

tumblr used to be a lot more retarded and less self aware ten years ago for sure.

facebook was a basic social media platform. there wasnt this endless stream of pointless sharing of videos, media, pages, constant ads. it really was just your fucking dumb shit high school normie facebook friends posting shit for you to see.

being a youtuber wasnt this glossy, trendy, polished thing it is now. dont get me wrong a lot of them were still irritating and attention seeking but it was more innocent, creative, grass roots level material even if it was often repetitive. as I recall the term youtuber wasnt even a well known term, it was kind of a dorky thing.

There were a lot of different platforms used for different things that nowadays fall into much larger categories. Instant messaging was done via AIM or MSN, a program you downloaded to the computer and you would have running in the background. nowadays its like all communication is done on the one platform, facebook.

There was no fuckin reddit. this was the stink hole that everyone would call to for their material. Yas Forums did not take the development of reddit very well. Thats the most of what I can remember.

slow, but it felt more good natured and there was a much better sense of community around niche interests.

yes, 100%.

Why? Because the internet wasn't commercialized.

Before the .com boom (and even during), the only websites that existed were ones created by people in their basement for fun, for the most part. Companies didn't know how to make money off the internet, so there was no money pumped into the internet soley to make consumers out of people.

People made shit. It was awesome. There was no reddit and digg hadn't even been formed, let alone youtube or anything similar. You either knew the website you wanted to visit off the top of your head and typed it in (no auto-google). Ask jeeves was the shit. Even when youtube first came out, it wasn't commercialized. Literally people just took videos and uploaded, no crazy shit telling you what to look at and people begging you to subscribe so they can make a small amount off a video.

Also, we all had colored floppy disks (I'm sure a lot of you did too) and we traded dragonball z gifs like it was pokemon cards.

Games were amazing. Doom I got through CD mail, used to play oregon trail on big black floppy disks in the old apple computers, Quake II was my JAM, and I remember being so hyped for Diablo II.

Everything was slower, but it didn't really matter. It wasn't CONSUME CONSUME CONSUME by major productions. It was all mom and pop shops of the internet.

By I'm an old fuck, and I was here in my teens maybe a year after Yas Forums started (been on this fucking website since 2005). I think social media is the worst thing to happen to the modern world (most research agrees) and wish cell phones never progressed past the Razr because being tethered to the internet all the time is stupid.

Oh forgot about myspace. I think my page still exists with shitty mp3 playing and everything. That was awesome. Facebook is shit.

>Games were amazing.

i think games are one thing that have improved quite a bit, at least the ones that aren't micro-transaction cash grabs and dlc store fronts

there were awesome websites on how to make ninja weapons in your own garage. talking to girls on AIM with confidence that they didnt know or talk to EACHOTHER. looking up old rave websites at half naked party girls and then finding the secret rave before raves were commercialized and had to call the hotline had to go to the temporary meet up spot to get directions. and dude you were getting laid didnt matter what you looked like or if you did drugs or not. and parents weren't on your fucking facebook embarrassing you in front of your friends. and people you were friends with online were actually your friends irl and didnt care about this bougie bullshit everyone cares about these days. you didnt even need a car dude. you go to the mall and play ddr with the girls in your phat pants and adidas

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>56k internet
>had to leave the computer for hours to download roms for snes/psx
>dc and you can't resume

I don't really miss it, it was painfully slow, computer were expensive even though they were garbage, porn was in garbage resolution and if you lived in a shithole like me you had limited time to be on internet.

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RIP