ANON YOUR VIDEO GAMES ARE SLOWING DOWN THE COMPUTER
ANON YOUR VIDEO GAMES ARE SLOWING DOWN THE COMPUTER
what was internet back then like?
bonzi buddy...
My dad blamed our pc running terribly on me when he spent hours downloading porn from suspicious websites. All I did was look up cheats for Gamecube games.
Internet back then was magical. Literally the wild wild west. You'd see crazy shit without going to the deep web.
gamecube
sicko, no wonder your dad a degenerate
More fun. Nothing like this sanitized crap dominated by no-fun-allowed zones. Anon Babble is the closest you'll ever get to experiencing pre-2007 internet, and even Anon Babble isn't a good example because it's been sanitized over the years too. And no, altchans aren't closer because they're over-moderated shitholes.
wouldnt know, i played runescape on a library computer every monday from 16:00 to 18:00
Fun but slow
Even sites that are still around like youtube were way better back then. You could say anything in the comments, literally anything and nothing would happen to you. Now they just shadow-ban you and hide your comment without telling you if you say any non-offensive word that triggers their automated filter for whatever reason.
Imagine that every shit thing had its own website. No reddit to go to, looking for subreddits. No facebook with people who share your interests. You like Mario game? There are million fan websites, every created by different person, often with their own take and a few forever under construction pages. There was christian game hating satanic Lara Croft, there was acheologist loving Lara Croft, there was teen boy posting printscreens of nude Lara mods. You wanted to try something new, like scuba diving? You were equally as likely to find local scuba diving school, a store selling scuba diving equippment, some grandpa's photoblog from Caribbean and gay fetish website for rubbermen in wetsuits. Winamp skins were downloaded from deviantart. You could find real conspirational theory website written by schizo when you just wanted to learn something about Metal Gear. The resolution of pics was shit, because people rarely had a good camera and nobody had a camera in their phone. You could find sex adventures in your local area on craigslist, but there was always risk you would be abducted. Yahoo answers was full of pervs fishing for jerk materials when posing innocent questions in the "what would my parents think if wore jean thongs? do you wear jeans thongs? what does your parent think?".
Ironically it was a lot bigger.
The internet hadn't really consolidated into the same ten or so major sites, so finding things was a lot more of an undertaking, and there was a lot more sentiment of just doing it yourself.
One of the coolest things the internet has lost is fansites for obscure, usually weeb stuff. The site as a whole would exist because one person learned just enough to get a simple website off the ground, and would make a place to talk about, gather information on, and generally just enjoy something. There'd be like. MAYBE 20 users who used the site with any degree of regularity, and if the site was developed enough to have a forum, it was like walking into a room with friends you hadn't met yet. Not everything was drenched in irony or piss & vinegar yet, so you could just genuinely shoot the shit for a few hours about something, and it was cool as shit to realize you had talked to someone before on a different site.
Also the youtube UI wasn't unusable dog poop back then. Nowadays they only show you 3 gigantic video thumbnails at a time. Back then, you could actually see what was available to watch lol.
These are somewhat correct, except google search actually worked back then, so it was still a net positive.
significantly better "watch now"/"related videos" algorithm back then too, youtube's current algorithm is unmitigated fucking dog-shit and tries to show you the same videos over and over, it's gotten bad enough they even have "i've already seen this" as a feedback reason and they clearly do not want to do anything about it since it's been years of that being a feedback category
I met an australian girl on myspace who liked me and sent me funny australian videos
NOOOOOOOOO I CAN'T SAY THE NWORD ANYMORE LIFE IS PAIN
Bonzai buddy
Remember that the maker of this virusware is responsible for most of the adware we see today.
More like you can't say anything without some automated system mistakenly flagging your posts and shadow-banning you.
Yes. Saying Nigger on the internet was the norm a decade ago, and everybody was better off for it since it proved that the internet belonged to the users.
STOP WASTING SO MUCH TIME PLAYING VIDEO GAMES YOU'RE ROTTING YOUR BRAIN
Meanwhile they watch TV for 3-4 hours every day
PEOPLE AREN'T REPLYING TO MY TIRED OLD JADED NEGATIVITY T-THEY'RE SHADOWBANNING MY POSTS.
And now he makes NFTS
The internet was better back then because that's when I was young and happy, case closed.
dad is tech illiterate, constantly clicks on 'UR COMPUTER HAD VIRUS' to the point where we have to get the computer wiped on an almost monthly basis
eventually he starts blaming steam games
my mom goes along with it because she also doesn't know shit about technology
they force me to close my account and never play games on their pc again
i had a decent amount of games and a primeval warrior badge in tf2, it was also one of the few ways I socialized since school was a nightmare
My dad also molested for years and generally treated me like a leper. I'm happy he's an overweight drug addict with no money and he'll probably be dead within the next 5 years
For me?
It was that encarta trivia game, that maze screensaver and listening to LIKE HUMANS DO
What an utterly defeated and demoralized husk a person you are. I feel so bad for younger generations who are being lobotomized like you.
Grim reminder
chills
Yes. Society was better for it, too. Much better. Only an absolute retard would look at the current state of things and say that society is in better shape.
you can pinpoint the exact year the iphone managed to gain popularity
Only an absolute retard
Anon, you are talking to someone who types in all caps. Back then, we knew that people who type in all caps were retarded.
It would happen if you were stupid.
Nowadays internet looks like this without adblock.
Mobile normies and social media were a mistake.
For me it was
ANON THERE IS NO SPACE ON THE COMPUTER YOU HAVE TO REMOVE YOUR GAMES
but my sister spent all night downloading random ass music with Napster, look at this, it's just music
NO ANON YOU ARE WRONG ITS YOUR GAMES
Fun times
Spoken by someone that's too much of a pussy to say the things he says here irl without the cover of anonymity.
Nowadays you can't even open 6 tabs without firefox bricking, what a load of shit
Yep.
Angry_Megaman.jpg
Very interesting, kind of like the wild west as things weren't nearly as homogenized.
But it was also slow as fuck, it was way easier to get a virus, and ads were fucking everywhere with no adblock yet to alleviate shit.
Is this a sneaky mad megaman reference
Far more decentralized. There wasn't no massive manga/hentai sites. Rather there were like two dozen you were hopping between at any given time.
In 2018, my entire google account was deleted because of some stupid youtube comment I made in 2006. No recourse, and no warning. Just gone, everything from gmail to youtube.
That kind of shit is everything wrong with modern internet. I was literally a different person back then creating posts in a different cultural context where that was the norm and was the norm on youtube. Just remove the damn comment and send a gay warning email if you must.
Unironically just play this.
No. Nothing of the sort. Fortunately I skipped most of the parental faggotry in that image because my sister was done with school and got knocked up a few years later so at least I had the PC to myself at that point.
2007
seven years ago
Y'know that feeling you get when there's a secret behind the waterfall? It was that, every day, all day, and the friends you made felt all the more real and special as a result. Every hit to your website felt so much more important, because there wasn't yet an algorithm sending people to your site. It was raw and pure and you saved everything you found cuz it might be the very last time you see it.
It could be worse, some "people" would try to get you jailed for this kind of thing these days
is Yahoo really that popular?
Onemanga? lurk?
Yeah, it is a hell of a lot worse now than it was in 2018.
Look, I'm not even a chud, I get shadowbanned for the weirdest shit on youtube, to the point that I generally assume any post I make longer than a paragraph is gonna trip something by raw chance.
You can't actually discuss anything on youtube, you just get shadowbanned
It's got an enormous market share in Asia, where it dominates Google. This is especially true in Japan.
My Dad said that to me once. I had installed Age of Mythology and played it for a couple hours once and the next day he was mad at me saying I ruined his PC.
So I snuck in at night and bent his mouse cable sharply back and forth until it shorted out.
This desu. It seems random too, because I can say mildly offensive or passive aggressive things with no consequences but then say something totally inoffensive on another video and when I check the video a day later, the comment is gone. (If I were to refresh the page after leaving the comment, I would see that it essentially never posted.)
I think i remember having atleast 1 to 2 toolbars when i was young. but then again my main focus was on playing Spore & RCT3 Freeplay, laughing when i heard "OOHHH NOOO!" for the 50th time.
Also, there are anons here who need to go and feed their neopets.
click on a link
4 windows open
3 of them are making noise
2 of those noises are rather lewd
It was okay. A lot more decentralized too.
The web was created by people, not soulless corporations.
I got banned from some developer's forums for asking them "Are you dumb?" in response to an absolutely dogshit patch. It was the only post I ever made. At some point this shit just gets silly.
Then again I got banned for "attacking other users" on this site too but that's just jannies being trannies as usual
The Internet itself is way better now, the problem is that people got worse.
No I will not elaborate
One year of Anon Babble did more damage to my brain than roughly 14 years of vidya, and now I have been here for 10 years.
when you got caught watching porn you could say "it was popups" and all would be forguven
except google search actually worked back then
I'm starting to wonder more and more if that wasn't just in my imagination.
Back then it felt like you could go to google and type "I'm looking for the thing for the thing that makes the beeping noise" and it would know that you're talking about a modem. These days you can search for the full title of something and still get a page filled with random shit instead of what you're looking for.
The technology is better, that's about it. Modern conveniences not withstanding, the decisions being made regarding that technology are pants on head retarded.
Like the youngsters say: truth nuke
everyone talked to each other through meebo since it was the only way to aggregate you AIM and yahoo friends in one spot.
We mostly played runescape
I'M POSTING IT
Son, your the games
Yeah search was different back then, you didn't typically type the whole sentence, but instead typed keywords, similar to how AI image generation currently works best if you type keywords separated by commas "girl, pink hair, cute, sitting on floor" (but I don't think people used commas on google search back then, or if they did you certainly didn't have to, it's just an example)
More recent estimates, such as those from early 2025, suggest that Yahoo Japan's search engine market share has declined further, with figures around 9.2% as of December 2024, compared to Google's 81.5%.
It's time to let go, anon. Yahoo didn't survive its woman CEO that they were so proud of.
hmm, that notification. I should investigate..
Some ancient yahoo toolbar somehow managed to jerry rig tabs into the absolute mess that was the Internet Explorer.
Yeah, you can make your own website(via those microblog things) much easier, but people won't come, corpos got everyone into their big sites and that's it.
t.
That's the most clear self defense situation I've ever witnessed. Someone go back in time and hand that anon a gun.
Resolutions were crappy, designs were flawed, speeds were horrendous, but search engines worked and you could discuss shit with actual experts on mailing lists and phpbb forums instead of seeing trillion clickbait AI written articles about supposed opinions of such experts. I'd bet that some shitty slavic phpbb forum is still best resource on C family languages to this day.
I really hope it was fake
But on other hand, I know someone who ALWAYS tries to be the one knowing better.
Better, back when people knew to keep personal info off the internet, and knew not to get personally offended by stuff they saw on the internet.
...
I fear the day most of such forums disappear one way or another.
You just fucking know modern internet doesn't have that information and God knows how much of important shit depends on that to work.
Candid. Like we were all exploring this new land together, and really weird.
Some shitty chatbot AI will record all of it in its database and repeated it to you in a mangled way.
No John, you ARE the games!
AOL was particularly kino in the late 90's and early 2000's.
Very much like here now.
it was less secure (you could get viruses that would call high-rate telephone lines and jack up your internet bill)
it was quite slow as well and riddled with ads
but it was made by humans for humans, so despite it being technically "worse", it was better in every other way
repeated it to you in a mangled way
Or just read a Reddit post and tell me to add glue to pizza or something
To this day, random old forums give me better answers than anything else. Just recently, I was trying to find the lyrics to some obscure nip songs, and the only place with translated lyrics and details on one song for which the listed lyrics were wrong was some obscure long dead forum.
Everything was more excited before they fried our brains with algorithmic content. Almost everything you found or used on the internet was either you finding it or someone else sharing it with you, not thrown in your face via a content bubble
it was fuuuucking sloooow, but flash games were fun
was some obscure long dead forum
How they manage to keep being hosted, tho?
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA FUCK YOU
AlltheWeb
I remember my dad swearing to that because "It searches ALL the web".
xD
2016
How much has it changed since then?
tiktok fucked twitter and instagram and facebook
2005
build a new computer
install windows
connect pc to internet
instantly got hit with some kind of ransomware
i never figured out how that could have happened
We just don't know. Also, the Alexa rankings this is based on were probably never accurate in the first place; they were based on total DNS resolutions.
Websites didn't have this shit and loaded faster
You know how Paris has catacombs under the city? Imagine putting on a mask and sneaking out of your house at night to go there and find people to hang out with. That's what the Internet felt like to me as a kid. Like every teenager in the world had a cave in their backyard which linked up together to form these sprawling, confusing tunnels.
The Internet nowadays is heavily centralized, like there's one website everyone uses for each thing, when back in the day people just used whatever sites they could find or heard about from others, and sometimes it was shit like Angelfire or Geocities, just some small site made by one dude. Because of this, everyone had different experiences and met different people. I remember FFXI had half a dozen different fanmade sites/communities (FFXIclopedia, KillingIfrit, Allakhazam, GameFAQs, Somepage, I'm sure I'm forgetting some), so whenever there was news you'd check as many as you could remember. It was incredibly slow and inconvenient, but it was also less sanitized/censored. You're on Anon Babble right now, which is considered "the dark side of the Internet" to normalfags, but there's a massive slew of shit you're not allowed to post, so it's actually cleaner than the average site was back then.
So going back to that catacombs analogy, it feels like a bunch of normal adults found them and brightened the place up, filling it with electric lights and signs pointing where to go, and they don't wear masks, they just walk around like normal and pretty much everybody hangs out in the same five or six rooms which are all being heavily monitored for bad behavior.
I wonder if there will be historical reenactment of early internet in the future? You know, people finding accurate software, researching period slang and memes, autistically arguing about smallest details?
"you can't use "Dr. House in HEV suit" avatar, it's pre-2004 reenactment"
"actually, despite only being active in late 00s, ManlyTears was brought up in filename threads well into 40s"
"anyone knows if the term "lamer" was used after XX century?"
Japanese reenactors painstakingly recreating political discussions from Russian segment of Livejournal in 2000s
"Have you guys seen that "Gamergate" movie? I laughed so hard, people in neurotheater thought I fried my brain"
"nah, when they said "Troon" right in the trailer, it told me everything about it"
"guys, I need some proper globohomo art for the upcoming 2020s event. I can offer some good clip art in exchange"
In general the internet was curated by humans for humans, which is different from the kind of curation you get from random youtube videos because it's a kind of experience. Think of it like a music album, all the songs on the album were curated for a very specific vibe from the humans who put it together, on the internet there is no 'vibe' because the goal is simply content for content's sake.
Occult.
Far less consolidated and interconnected
Between IRL and the internet was a much sharper line
Infrastructure varied significantly between countries; data caps were a bigger deal if you weren't on dial up
Wi-Fi maybe took off around 2005, Bluetooth 2.0 got integrated into more phones around the same time
00's internet saw the use of third-party toolbars for Microsoft Explorer until that lost relevance, some form of popup blocker helped though
dumb teenagers using Limewire for MP3s to fill their iPods, and obliviously downloading shit infested with computer AIDS
forums with big fuck-off signatures and people trying to raise their post count like a game
things like video streaming was generally a lot rougher like in the case of Realplayer (buffering...) and YouTube videos only supported up to ten minutes until sometime later
the use of Flash opened the doors for amateur animators and game devs, but was also used on websites for other purposes that slowed them down
kids eager for proxy servers to use on school computers and bypass their filtering
Google Chrome only became a thing by 2008, as with HTML5
4chanX wasn't a thing for a while yet and there was no inline extension, enjoy hitting F5
Anon Babble was actually relevant as the asshole of the internet and nowhere near as many specialty boards were a thing; never good, but you'd still check it for that one thing that made doing so worth it for the week
Steam took time until it caught on, and was generally disliked before then, somehow gained some traction with group chats until Discord
multipurpose gaymen programs like Xfire did exist before being obsoleted out of existence
the concept of a Let's Play was made popular by a SA goon, who got quickly embittered by those making shitty camcorder ones when the idea spread outside
transgender (and thus alphabet) movement virtually irrelevant (if not non-existent) until mushrooming up around 2012
Some off the top of my sleep-deprived head
like this
It's really the iphone that's 99% responsible for the hellscape today
wiby.me
The internet used to be a place where you had to actively put yourself in front of it in order for it to "exist." You could just log off at any time, and it would completely cease to be a factor in your life. Nowadays, with smartphones, the internet is just an omnipresent force lurking around you at all times, and it's become increasingly impossible to escape.
Furthermore, there's a certain earnestness to the old internet that's gone. Things have become a lot more corporate, cynical, and irony poisoned. This is mostly because back then, the top two countries by internet traffic were the US and Japan. Nowadays, China and India are the top two, the US is third (by a huge margin, with only half as many users as India), and Japan isn't even in the top five.
these threads always make me mad that i didn't record or document anything from back then for posterity. the only thing i have that survived was this screenshot from my messy college laptop back in 2008 that i only took because i didnt want to write down my verizon info. just looking at all of the vidya selection in the margins is great though.
Even if you're being ironic for (you)s I want you to shut your fat faggot mouth
parents uninstall gmod and all its files
all my adv duplicator saves gone
I lost a bitchin tron lightcycle I made back then. I still think about it to this day.
oh, and for anyone wondering what the desktop background was - it was this picture of mena suvari. american pie was a big franchise back then.
random ass media player?
check, it's gaming time with Katy Perry in the background
what was your WMP skin?
You didn't had Steam so any freeware could be a gift from God.
Windows 7
Katy Perry
Too dystopian. We have to go farther back.
zoomers will never understand what it was like to download trash like tuneup utilities and replacing bootlogos, windows loading screens, the entire theme and and all your icons
until mushrooming up around 2012
Occupy Wall Street
People say everything changed in 2012 or 2007, but I remember online games being full of normalfags as early as 2004. This is also around the time that normalfag games like GTA started becoming big.
I don't think it's necessary. There's a lot of stuff from back then which is still pretty popular. Like everyone knows Newgrounds, Homestar Runner, stuff from early Anon Babble and AlbinoBlackSheep (like the cyber sex files).
What year (or short time period) do you think had the best balance of internet culture relative to the technology/infrastructure of their time?
this is something zoomers will never experience
zoomers will never know the joy of flashgame sites
average zoomer cant even operate a computer
nice
anon once again confuses zoomers with gen alpha
First random result btw.
fdnytrucks.com
typing ".p nookie" in AOL chat so my media player starts playing Limp Bizkit and everyone in chat gets to see it because I'm positive they wanted to know what I was listening to
I never had this issue since my mom sucks with technology she doesn't even know how to check emails, and my dad wasn't retarded so he didn't have a million programs all installed and opened at once or anything.
Seems to be the most common point to draw from, but I got some peers insisting that they've trying to peddle this shit for decades.
Metacafe was pretty big before Youtube took over.
im biased but probably the early 2000s up until about 2008. it was the beginning of the widespread broadband internet that would usher normalfags and corpos in, but it was still new so they hadn't yet mass adopted. so you basically had a high speed version of the last days of the wild west for a few years.
Early to mid 2000s
Dialup was largely phased out and giant site likes YouTube were still in its infancy
Get cancer dumb faggot.
same shit
they don't know what it's like getting viruses from downloading random ass emoji packs to have cooler emojis in messenger
Pretty much everything had a website instead of being limited to just 5 and they would all be pretty active, and they’d also have a message board or forum. Forums were also more popular back in the 2000s as well, it was for general discussion or discussion of media(like the Adult Swim and IMDB message boards had a board for every movie and show) and some had text roleplaying which was fun to me when I was 12
There were a lot more obscure social sites. I made a lot of friends on a site called Chatango I still talk to.
Maybe glowies then figured out to use race to Divide&Conquer, so they could go with the plan of spreading that nonsense everywhere unopposed.
Not everything was drenched in irony or piss & vinegar yet
I can’t stand this era of nonstop irony we are currently in. It ruins everything it touches(DMC show being a perfect current example).
early 00's. I remember life got busy for me around 2007, so I was basically offline for a couple of years, and it was never the same.
I do miss the 90's internet too, even if it download speeds were so bad that I had more fun looking up random shit in Encarta over browsing the web.
This is true. There was a naivety and sincerity that was there. People expressed themselves genuinely but I believe that this attitude of irony and basically being wary of things on the internet was inevitable. There were dozens of popular hoaxes like Bonzai kitten, people trolling, and scams. You can’t really blame others for not taking things on the internet at face value unless they personally know them
A singular year would be a tough pick. 2002-2006 would be my range. It had a great balance of new and emerging tech and users who weren't completely jaded cunts. Things were still good until about 2012, and then really jumped off a cliff about 2014. pre2000's internet was awful and limited, however it had the most authentic user-user experience.
People used to host their own webpage on their own computer, educated people. Youtube was wide open, upload anything, watch everything. Copyright wasn't even a word back then.
But boy was it slow.
make sure to sign my guestbook
Yes we do. It's hilarious you act like older zoomers (1997-2001) didn't grow up on 2000s internet or grow up with the gamecube.
People think the left suddenly jumped the shark at a certain year because they don't understand the nature of THE progressive movement, really any progressive movement in general, but especially this one. You have a goal for what you consider progress, you reach that goal, and you're satisfied; everyone else keeps pushing, and as others get left behind more get absorbed into the movement because they enjoy the rush of defeating opposition. OWS was the dropping point for a lot of people because most fairly "normal" individuals had no strong opinions on gay marriage so they said "fuck it, why not" and thought that insanely rich people DID have a bit too much power, because that's a pretty normal thing to think, and OWS was pretty much the zenith of that ideological zeitgeist before it was subverted and subsumed.
I did this but I had nobody to send them to
late 00's is the limit
after that point technology has progressed to far and millenials' takeaway from the early internet was to become extremely irony poisoned
I'm agreeing with the other replies as someone who's been browsing the WWW since 1997. Pinpointing it to 2001 - 2007 where there advancement of technology made it better and easier to share information and the internet as a whole was still the cyber wild west. The aftermath of was catastrophic, but there was still some of that golden age hanging on until 2012.
I used dial up until the late 2000s because my boomer parents forgot they got broadband internet once for their job and didn’t say anything until I noticed the router buried under a pile of books.
Speaking of tech literacy. I did not expect it to be a bell curve instead of an exponential rise over the years. From my experience younger zoomers and alphas are just as bad at navigating computers and non-social media internet as the boomers ever were.
faggot, everyone understand that when we say zoomers we mean kids who grew up on tablets nobody actually cares about the actual year gen
zoomer has lost it's meaning and just refers to young people now
we used boomer on 30year olds and above, didn't see your faggot ass correcting everyone that aktshually baby boomers are from the 60s and under
launched 2003
sandbox environment with primitives as the core building element
virtual real estate on a continuous landscape as a major feature
in-game currency operates on a live exchange rate against USD
'world's first virtual millionaire'; also bombarded by dongcopters in a live interview
even got mentioned in popular media a handful of times, like CSI
Even if it began to lose traction four years later, this game was probably a lot ambitious than I gave it credit for despite how jank it is. It's funny to roam some places today and see some odd shoddy places with the same shamelessness of that era of the internet.
i have about 20 tabs open in firefox minimum you absolute buffoon
i don't think this happened
Here's a hint
install windows
Me and my classmates would install as many of these and other adware as we could onto school computers. Good times.
Exciting about the potential of it, turns out it became shit
it held a mystique to it. it was a lot like exploring a frontier than setting yourself in front of a bottomless chum bucket of 'content'. it felt more useful, untamed, but it was also confined to the computer. zoomers don't realize how saturated everyday life is with using web-enabled devices compared to how it was 20 years ago.
I wasn't really there for it (old enough to remember but still stuck with dial-up) but I'd say like, 2004/5 to about 07/08. Broadband became more accessible, computers were fast enough, but the frontier had yet to be conquered completely, so to speak. I had dial-up until 2012 so I missed the boat on a lot of things but I think it was for better in the end
friend accused me of breaking down his family's PC just because I showed him Habbo back in the day
In the 90s and early 2000s, everyone was thinking what the internet would be like in the future
All these crazy interfaces and shit were made up for videogames, movies, and the like
Present day
Its all just boring minimalism...
One of my favorite internets from media is the one from front mission 3. Loved how they did it.
I slap every kid i see even today. See some kind of child SLAYP what the fuck SLAYP too. Fuck kids bitch.
do you give your computer an old fashioned theme anon? basically asking to see your desktop but not in a way to derail the internet talk
the absolute fucking state of kids today is pathetic
opening file explorerer or powershell is like actual witchcraft to them and they practically shudder in fear if you ask them to navigate an actual computer and not the nigger-tier chromebooks theyre given in schools
apple and their faggot smartphones really did make everyone gay and retarded
Every year that ends in a 7 ends up being amazing for video games, and 2007 might have been the best year ever. Halo 3, Mario Galaxy, Bioshock, Orange Box, the NA release of Persona 3, etc.
Combine that with , as well as '07 being right before the recession, and you have the peak of the internet.
If we "know what you mean" why do so many people counter you and refute you? This isn't a ragebait thread, we're having an actual discussion on 2000s internet so when you say "zoomers didn't grow up on this" of course people are going to attempt to prove you wrong. zoomers isn't a replacement for "young people" or "under 30" forever and hardly anyone now refers to millennials as boomers outside of the original "that 30 year old boomer" meme from 7 years ago. Stop making excuses for intellectual laziness.
why do so many people counter you and refute you?
many
only person sperging about technicalities is (you)
not even going to read the rest
When I was a kid I mostly stuck to playing Neopets. I was pretty young so I didn't understand how to make millions of NeoPoints other than playing flash games but still had fun checking out the different worlds
okay intellectually lazy slob. you people even get mad at the term zillennials to refer to early zoomers
I'm 24, and back in High School CompSci we once went to the Elementary School to teach kids how to use computers.
I thought "What's so hard about it?" only to have to repeatedly get a kid to stop poking at his screen.
Never give your kids anything with a touch screen. It'll fuck up their motor skills for life.
when i was 5/6 i used computers (desktop) with no problems so it must be a parenting issue
I just talk to my computer and tell it what to do. Don't see why you're proud of touching buttons like monkeys.
Bartz was literally set up to fail so the other executives could get payouts. She was fantastic at Autodesk (which went went to shit after she left) and explicitly told the board that what they were doing would destroy the company, got overruled, then got fired as a patsy after it destroyed the company.
Or were you talking about Whitman, she was just retarded
What was the name of that browser video game where you represented your nation online?
All the websites would be something like allsp.ch
They do what they purport to do and little else
worse than fucking up motor skills it seems like kids today have extremely fucked up ADHD or ADD or whatever faggot mental illness gives them the attention span of a goldfish. trying to get anyone age 20 and below to focus on something for longer than 5 minutes is damn near impossible these days because of shit like tiktok, instagram and youtube shorts giving those quick 5 second dopamine hits
the outlook for the future is grim
It's not really a touch screed issue, its input system/ux issue.
ONE BUTTON IS ONE BUTTON TOO MANY, EXPERIENCE SHOULD BE STREAMLINED AND AUTOMATED AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.
Le meme UX designers will have separate circle in hell.
Apple hadn't invented it yet.
vista
Not gonna lie, I miss it. Even though it sucked.
WHO'S BEEN DRAWING DICKS
there are people who never got to see early youtube which had star ratings, video responses (or however were they called), user annotations and customizing CSS on your channel
daemon tools
ah, good old pirate's best friend
Everyone replying to this was 5 years old at the time.
jnaudin.free.fr
Fly Orville, fly!
me in 1999 spamming votes on top sites trying to find the one that had real downloads of dragonball gt episodes
I say more slurs irl than I do on Anon Babble, I only speak to based people irl and I don't like 72 hour bans
annotations were annoying unless it was a video memed on by Anon Babble, video replies were also annoying and flooded by e-whores. YT also had a friend feature but quickly removed all the social stuff cause nobody used it.
Kind of? Right now I'm running the default Windows Vista look. It's not 100% accurate because I don't want to do system level modifications to my main PC. I do have a Windows 10 LTSC VM where I'm experimenting with Revert8Plus, but I haven't really done anything with it yet.
in this house, bonzi buddy is a goddamn HERO, end of story
1. You actually surfed the web back then instead of sticking to a select number of sites
2. World felt considerably less retarded since you actually needed to know how to use a computer to get online
3. You got viruses left and right from download so much random shit
4. Trolling people was much funnier
when i was 5 years old i was following the brawl dojo website with my brother and watching classic youtube and going on wikipedia/old webring sites that contained lore for cartoons i liked
peak SOVL
My dad also molested for year
You should probably lead with that next time anon.
No you were pissing your bed, eating dino nuggies, and just barely forming consciousness. I was making videos on Youtube in 2007. You never truly experienced it.
hypnospace outlaw was released in 2019
make it stop...
the anonymity of the internet is supposed to allow people to express their unfiltered opinions in ways that are functionally impossible in real life
it's not about being a pussy, you just can't say everything you believe with no filters IRL because you'll be unemployed and friendless
this isn't a matter of having the wrong opinions either, it's just the case for like 99% of people; everybody has secrets and everybody holds stuff back
I literally did do all of those things. Not sure why it makes you feel so threatened. There's a video of me from 2006 on Youtube that's me reciting a certain old internet meme because I loved it at the time.
Does it embarrass you that you share memories of youth with a 5 year old or something? I would never get this way with alphas saying something I liked from when I was a kid was part of their childhood. Seems unique to millennials.
just kill all the ewhores and boom problem solved and the rest of us can enjoy them
I member pirating games in early 00s holy shit the dl speeds
click the 53rd temple/shrine of vegeta on anipike
suddenly gifs of goku fucking vegeta in the ass
wtf
THREAD THEME
youtube.com
the good:
wild west
no laws
no corporations
no social media
no women
no normalfags
rampant piracy
no crypto miners, ransomware, chinese or russians
the bad:
actually wasnt that big so for a long time you could be "done" with the internet for the day/week in about 20min.
forums were insufferable
it was slow (would take an hour to download an mp3)
bandwidth/download caps
early MMOs and online games were very shit and mostly survived off of being early versions of VRchat
A million times better than it is today.
Japanese absolutely refuse to switch away from it, because Japanese website design is still stuck in the 1990s (in a bad way).
this is soul and you should kill yourself for such shit opinions
PI PIPI
PI PIIPIZZAAH
PI PIPPI
PI PI PIIZAAAH
corporate monetized internet where the govt tracks every single thing you do is way better now
Biggest difference is that you used to "log in" to the internet. You weren't just plugged into it 24/7. You would actually sit down at a computer and, for just a small period of time, you would do internet stuff. Then you would get up and stop doing internet stuff. I miss those days.
People didn't get worse.
3rd worlders just got onto the internet
It's takes 2 minute to load a single low res low but color porn pica dn you can only put like 10-15 in a floppy disk
Japanese website design is still stuck in the 1990s
japs decided that there was no need to try to fix perfection
this angers the westerner
these threads always make me mad that i didn't record or document anything from back then for posterity.
I managed to recover most of the data from a bunch of burnt DVDs from when I was in college in 2003.
Got folders full of shit memes and music I downloaded from Limewire.
everyone was white. if you read a comment or post you could actually read it and know that it was typed by white fingers. and I mean actually white, not what passes for "white" in America in the present day. i miss it so much
Smart phones ruined the internet
3rd world phone posters ruined the internet
White internet ONLY when?
Soul
this
bad
I bet you like modern space-wasting javascript webdev layouts tailored to phonetards you double nigger
2012-2013 was pretty comfy
Gigabit internet but the internet wasnt completely sold out to corporate yet.
People had smart phones but data plans were expensive, websites didnt cater to phonefags yet and Wi-Fi wasnt everywhere yet.
It all got really bad from 2015 on though.
neat gadget
I suppose it simply isn't practical enough to actually use.
I don't give a damn what you think, you fucking google fanboy faggot. I hope you trip and fall but don't get hurt and that it's a minor inconvenience to you. Get fucked.
starting to think china having a firewall to keep everyone else out, and them contained, is a good idea
imagine an internet where we're not forced to read posts by yuropoors and jeets
No its actually shit when you live there and you're trying to do shit on your phone and you've having to pixelhunt tiny bits of text for no reason other than Nakadashi-san is too stuck in his ways to change.
I agree though it is soulful but none of you know the pain of full-width and half-width characters on Japanese websites.
Parents really did shit like this then say "My kids never call or visit"
In the late 90s and early 00s I mostly used it for cheats and strategy guides.
Cheatcc was the shit.
when i was 5 i watched soviet union crumple and had to keep relearning nation names and borders every few years
trying to do shit on your phone
First mistake, the internet is for PC
phoneposter suffering because based nips dont cater to faggot mobile users
sounds based to me
>trying to do shit on your phone
I don't understand how people spend 14 hours on their phone. Doing anything on a phone for more than 10 minutes sucks ass.
The early internet was never as edgy, nihilistic or filled with trash as Anon Babble is. This is completely untrue. Anon Babble is one of the greatest examples of the degeneration of the internet (and society).
Hi im hans moleman and i collect stamps and draw pictures of trains
you opened a thousand page gamefags guide and after minutes of loading it always stopped loading prematurely and you had to try again. download managers were a thing for that
lmfao first result for me: motherfuckingwebsite.com
This was really hard to read. At that point I would file a restraining order against the whole family.
He talking before Google. Back then finding the shit you want was much harder.
sharing your windows folder in dc++ to download neon genesis evangelion and end up getting really shitty porn instead
i miss when images would slowly uncompress as you downloaded it at 5kb/sec instead of just loading vertically
slow
if you mean content wise, it was like the world before explorers discovered it all. the internet felt a lot bigger and was way less concentrated. i am nostalgic for it, but at the same time being able to find good information so fast these days is probably preferable to back then.
I never said edgy, nihilistic or filled with trash. All of those things are only a reflection of a worsening internet and society, which only further proves my point.
Why do faggots like you always try to pull some gay "gotcha" as if you're some clever internet detective when you can't even read my fucking post.
These days
google search is now 99% dedicated to marketing
The first youtube video I watched was of this fat kid getting shot with a paintball gun by his friends. It took a solid minute to load the video but that was funny as fuck.
Another great early one I remember was of a kid getting domed with a basketball shot from the opposite end of the court. They're both still vivid in my mind too like Leeroy Jenkins even though that came a couple years later.
Not really. Even in the early day it was not that common.
It was painful reading that. Are zoomers really not taught about Boolean search?
Normgroids are cattle who literally do not know better. What sucks about this is the majority of tech is catering to them, so websites and services just get worse and worse.
for me it was mostly just angry german kid and some weird finnish shit with moomins. also happy tree friends
It's no wonder kids nowadays come on Anon Babble to troll the fuck out of you.
You can just say that there's more niggers and browns on now man, we all know what the Obamaphone program did to online discourse
In the early days nobody had to interact with niggers.
Hahaha I had no idea you could do that. I'm 33
Get a better computer, retard.
If you tried downloading music there was a high chance you would get child porn isntead.
this is every anon in this thread, btw. did you think it would happen this quickly?
Next time don't be a retard.
jewtube was better back then
Public schools existed back then so this is incorrect.
Don't fucking talk to me.
maybe it had something to do with the youtube issue that was around on firefox for a couple months. every youtube tab loaded would use 1.5-2.5gb of ram, minimum and by the time firefox was using 15gb or so, it would chug bad
i didnt think the next generation would be gayer, dumber, and browner than ours. so no
Finland
Shut the fuck up. I'm smarter than you will ever be.
before venture capital found it, it was the best place ever. truly a wild and free frontier
O_o
Really it was a combination of the introduction of smart phones at the same time as the rise of social media and then not long after the influx of Indian, African, and Chinese users.
Fake and gay, Bestbuy/Geeksquad will not provide service on anything you didn't buy there.
You guys always signed the guess book, right?
I went to a public school, no blacks. They were only in the shitty inner city public schools, nobody who went there had computers anyways.
Kek same, except it was comments I made in the last 3 weeks because I got more based over time not more gay. Thankfully my jewtube account was made way back before you had to give them phone numbers and it wasn't linked to anything else so I just made a new one.
Now I just watch shit on GrayJay instead of interacting with jewtube directly.
i was pretty much a grumpy old man when i was like 23 anyway, it's not that surprising
Here, enjoy the ASMR.
youtube.com
It's because new tech is made that way so people don't figure out intuitively how to do/avoid shit. Your average zoomer doesn't know what a file folder is or how a computer works.
LMAO.
It's <2010.
Internet fucking died about the time rage comics, Gangnam style meme exploded to popularity.
2011 you could get HSDPA/3.5G speed up to 14Mbps, although my USB modem and plan could only stay around 3mbps, which was still serviceable for the time. I used my phone sim card on the modem. It was like US$1 for high-speed plan from 12am-7am. ASEAN country.
This is where people starts getting obnoxious online, there's more and more toxic stuff because the 3rd worlders now have internet at the tip of their fingers. Obnoxious IRL too, they started bringing out internet culture and memes into the real world.
2011-2012 were the last time folks in my local forums gathered, either virtually posting real socials and pictures, or physically meeting up. Everyone was still nice. Any toxicity and they're immediately ousted. Byt 2014, no way. Everyone's mostly a cunt. No one even dared post their real names, let alone their pictures online.
2011 3rd worlders get accessible internet.
By 2014, all the PewDiePie faggot kids are now flocking to Anon Babble and shit.
By 2017-2019, all the Ninja, Jack Paul faggot shit Roblox zoomers have tainted the net, and graduating to Fortnite etc. Everyone's a streamer now.
2021 it's over, Pajeet has taken over internet. Stupid poopskins actually went to Shroud's old PUBG videos, spamming his comments sections saying something "dey sarr come fight mee I am skill better than yu" shit.
Today, you can't even search anything on Google, in YouTube, without Indian taint tainting the results. They programmed and coded everything to show Indian results first.
A lot of old Nintendo websites are still up for some reason, for example:
nintendo.co.jp
cranking it to half loaded images
if we had shit internet nowadays then there probably wouldn't be so many footfags because we never loaded the feet!
Oh HAW HAW HAW, again with the "zoomers don't know what a file system is!"
You sound just like the boomers who say, "millennials don't know what {this random fucking contraption from the middle ages} is, they must stupid!" Meanwhile they can't figure out how to pay their bills anymore.
Rape correction is needed
This is mostly a meme. Gen x and millenials were a bit of an outlier but still it’s only a small subset of males who are actually tech literate, the modern world just lets us see the idiocy of more people. I worked in a tech adjacent industry for twenty years, the vast majority of millenials don’t know shit, just like everyone else.
Your analogy doesn't work because file systems are still used by literally all computers, including smart phones, to this day. Every smart phone has a file system with folder trees in it, but zoomers mostly have no clue how to access or use it.
Hero of a gay porn video.
He shoulda locked the bios with secure boot and all that other shit that prevents accessing/reading to /writing to the drive without keys
first time seeing hentai was when some random dude in a msn chat room linked me a Yahoo group all about FF 7 hentai
Good times.
Yes, everyone can tell you were born well after the 2000s.
That's because it was only a brief window where you had to have technical knowledge to use computers, and computers were easily available to the public. So from like the late 1980s to the late 00s. In other words, the era millennials grew up in. Millennials who grew up with a PC in the house invariably learned a lot about how operating systems and various programs on them work, because using the computer required learning about the computer's systems.
But with the advent of streamlined mobile operating systems and applications, the knowledge barrier was lowered to the floor.
Just keep the BIOS on a thumbdrive so the computer is completely unusable without it
If you don't know what it was like just say that you don't know retard.
i bet you recoil like a vampire seeing a cross when someone opens a terminal
If mom picked up the phone your internet connection would disconnect.
1997
introduced to the internet
only thing i care about is selecting random aol chatrooms and telling adults they are gay and that they smell like farts
i just want to go back
Does anyone else enjoy finding and reading family histories? People did that back then, but not sure if it was any different than facebook privacy invasion.
That firewall is more about keeping people in then keeping anyone out. You would understand that if you had a brain.
is worlds com still accessible?
BIOS on a thumbdrive
no it's the Spyware I downloaded
Called a boot disk, yes you can have them on USBs now
and here he is now. google being so shit, i figured it wouldn't be that easy now
what a steal!!
but then again they've been running that site for longer than I've been alive
I think anon was calling you cute
It probably is. Like pretty all durr durr women are bad posts
Okay bend over.
I did not enter anything in them iirc. I was just confused why the Harry Potter chatroom was not talking about Harry Potter
transgender (and thus alphabet) movement virtually irrelevant (if not non-existent) until mushrooming up around 2012
I dare to say almost non existent since I've been online from around 2003 and you would literally NEVER encounter such discourse (troons, queer stuff) and it was definitely not normalized or pushed eveywhere like it is now. But even then in some places where you would think such people would trive (game forums and stuff like that) it was just so rare to encounter any queer/troon or whatever, you looked at people's avatars in forums and they were mostly innocent stuff or a videogame character or whatever, today you see all these furry "art" shit, all this pink tranny shit, these people have absolutely no taste man
youtube.com
Without the BIOS, how is it accessing USB?
Retard.
Like this.
Yes, you were not born yet.
I think Anon's estimation of most people's abilities is too high. If the computer doesn't start without the boot disk, they're going to immediately assume it's just utterly bricked.
that's having the OS on usb. without bios you won't even be able to boot
let's just forget about Mifflin devlin
i'm so glad steve jobs is dead, hope his fucking corpse rots in hell.
you can't use a boot disk without bios/uefi to boot from the boot disk
but the internet wasnt completely sold out to corporate yet.
Wut? The internet was like 90% commercialized by the start of the '10s. Everything started being consolidated in rapid fashion in the late 00s. Google bought Youtube, and Youtube alternatives started to die off. Porn sites also started getting bought out and consolidated by a single holding company. People still believed they had a choice between sites like Redtube, Xtube, and Pornhub, because they didn't know the same company owned and operated all 3 of them by 2010 (and virtually every "amateur" website as well).
This is also where we saw the death of anime fansubbing and the warez scene on the public internet. As normalfaggot cattle invaded and took over all public discussion piracy became verboten to even discuss openly. Pirates started going down one after another, or going legit if they could. Many old pirate outfits from the 00s retired by the early '10s. Sure, some stuff survived, but as with porn and online video sharing, everything consolidated and got shittier.
These were already basically Anon Babble shitposts.
If you are getting your retarded ass kicked from Goggle then you are not smarter than anything.
lol what east this shit? yahoo questions?
Nah, it's just your computer being crap and you being stupid.
I'm glad to know they are doing well. Don't always get to see that after a site's been abandoned for so many years
no, it isn't, because they fixed it after a million complaints
who is "they", and why do you need to hide information. do you have roommates?
Everything was in extremes, anon.
Shit was so Cash.
So not much has changed from the early days of computers.
This but unironically
I found this one myself. Google Groups archives are still worth exploring
Unironically based as hell opinion.
Too bad it's practically impossible to gatekeep something like anime.
It's just hypothetical shit anon in pic related should have done to keep his retarded sister out of his computer. Of course, that wouldn't have helped because his retarded mom just takes it into the shop no matter what he does.
Early internet posts. We've had a thread full of goldmines.
Semi-decentralized, probably as close to perfect as we're going to ever see. The first "real" internet was very decentralized, there was some major sites but mostly everything was built to spec. The XP era broke centralization with MSN Messenger/public profiles, and sites like YouTube started but were different (no monetization). Still individual sites for everything else.
I don't think we can go back without a catastrophe. Corporations love centralization, the providers love corporate moneys, and users especially women love everything simple.
In the early days of computers the directory system was your primary means of interacting with the computer. In the very early days you did this via terminal, but even after it was replaced with UI you still had to know how to navigate directories in order to access files and programs.
You don't see computer use abstracting away from this until the late 1990s, where programs have so much convenience and time-saving features baked into them that a user will often not bother exploring most of the system's directories, at most they'll only need to know a single directory and how to access the files they save to it. And by the 00s even this starts to become obsolete with auto-saving programs that remember file locations for easy loading.
I never bothered figuring out how to use powershell because I felt it was too verbose. Meanwhile I don't know how so many people are okay with giant IDEs because I can't imagine working without a real terminal like the Apple or Linux ones.
They have to fix it because of retards with shitty computers like you.
Where do you think that comes from? Western games? No it came from anime. Anime normalized queer jokes. Queer or Okama trope is a staple in anime for comedic effect. People crossdress as anime characters more often than as murican capeshit characters. Sailormoon was big, but Capcom IP like Street Fighter was much bigger than something like Dragonball etc. Street Fighter turn people queer/bi/gay. It's actually in official Capcom tie-ins, with the yonkoma manga, with the repetitive okama jokes of Zangief simping over Vega. Or every other male characters checking out each other's muscles. It's Capcom Ace Attorney that was a BL Yaoi fandom even from it's inception. Capcom DMC is yet another BL Yaoi fantasy, which also favors the queer faggots. Crayon ShinChan is queer as fuck. One Piece is has entire Okama arc. Jojo is queer trash. Every single Japanese games, Final Fantasy, Kojima's shit, they all had DEI to include fan service for all the LGBTQLolicon demographics. Earthbound/Mother had fucking queer characters. Makes sense why Undertale and even something before it, like LISA was also queer as fuck. Japs has been woke and pushing queer trash for a longer time yet they never get the flak because JAPAN BEST .t weeb
14 years old
log in to random chat board
chat with different people till I get a matching a/s/l
find another girl my age that lives in my city
have first girlfriend just like that
It was a better time
I am talking about people not knowing anything about computers.
emoji
you're telling on yourself, zoomoid nigger
Anon, your android phone is a direct copy of an iphone. Unless you're still using a flip phone, you have no room to talk.
the screen isn't as clear as it used to be, what with all the cum that get's splattered on it
Just picturing a dude cumming all over his giant wood paneled 90's TV while watching his VHS tapes looking at Tifa's panties.
Well that's just not true, which you'd understand if you followed what I talked about. The primary means of interacting with the computer was the directory system until sometime in the mid-late 00s when it began to shift to mainly application interfaces. Simply knowing how to traverse a directory is fast becoming lost knowledge.
It's a pyramidal system, I don't understand what's so hard to understand.
my android is a flip phone, checkmate appledrone
early
28 years in
Not true, culture war was not a thing thus the need to be rebellious by saying nigger or faggot was not common, people were just, more normal, you know? Interactions with people were just different, but you wouldn't know since you're clearly a zoomer
kids these days don't know how to use anything without a touch screen arrrrrrrrrggghhh
Okay android drone it's still touch screen so you're young and stupid I win
Because you've been exposed to it for most of your life and have learned how to think in that structured system. You find it difficult to imagine how to organize a system otherwise. But try to imagine for a second that you never had to deal with such a structure before, that all of your stored data was simply a giant bucket, a mega folder that holds everything and you simply think of it as "storage". It might actually be several different directories that your UI app stitches together seamlessly for your convenience, but you'd never know.
Apple invented the touch screen
Appledronebro....
2006-2009.
Sites stopped being slow (once you moved on from IE) and most people had DSL by then. Sites felt snappy because they weren't bloated client-side SPAs.
Is that even possible nowadays?
1999-2004, albeit the consequences of javascript are a hellscape nightmare world.
I didn't say that, I said you're young and stupid. I win.....
I'd still easily grasp the concept. I'm shit at numbers and words but I'm good at space.
lmao, probably just tell you to subscribe to her only fans
I didn't say what I said, I said something else entirely because I know I'm full of shit!!!!!
i accept your concession
you either get an fbi agent, a streamer doing a social experiment or a tranny
Hi, linux shill. Have you sold enough licenses for linux Pro?
I have like 80 bucks in SL money someone gave me and I tried withrdrawing it but they never let me, the cunts.
hanging out with your girlfriend in the yahoo go fish chatroom
Give it up. It's over. You have have lost.
Girls aren't in chatrooms anymore, they're on dating apps swiping through dozens of men a day.
My dad also molested
Who? You?
"haha this javascript stuff is neat you can make webpages dynamic!"
fast forward a few years
"hang on I just have to reformat my computer for the second time this month because of a malicious code injection from javascript ads"
google intentionally makes youtube run shitty in firefox, and it probably still uses less resources than chrome
he wishes, jealous little slut
You can still get a clone of that interface on Linux.
Google intentionally makes all of its products shitty because it forces people to spend more time on them which means more engagement bux for ads. No, really, that's the actual strategy the adopted for Google Search and Youtube search. They intentionally lowered the quality of results to frustrate people and make them keep searching.
Not true. Girls moved to social media sites, so there's just no reason for them to hang out in seedy chat rooms unless, you know.
Remember anons, the only thing stopping you from running your own website, is you and CGNAT
why dont you remember every single specific word from nearly 2 fucking decades ago!?!?!
emoji, emoticon who gives a shit
Even back then the most simple computer things was too hard for a lot of people.
Slow but wonderful.
I still get pissed when my phone automatically converts things like :( to the emoji. So the word emoji makes me rage too
You can but it has to be from the anime itself. I.E. lolis and fanservice tend to be good gatekeeping tactics to keep the normies out. Railgun for example had a shower scene in each of it's first 3 episodes.
This entire thread makes me realize how grateful i am to my dad for getting me into computers. He was never into games all that much but he would love showing me how to do anything computer related. ah turning on the three vikings on dos on his lap and watching him play. good times
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2016 was 9 years ago
nigga
Well you can definitely tie the rise of anime popularity with the LGBTQWASD stuff, so there might be something there...
I was never really into anime, not in my teens not now, aside from maybe watching a couple caps of Case Closed with my mom...
Dudes who become trannies still talk like this on discord lol
bonzi buddy was my only friend at school
don't care if he had aids
E-girls doing UwU's, I mean it's clearly ahegao face from animays.
There's actual 3rd worlders kids from Indonesia or Philippines that wear ahegao hoodies in their homes, around the neighborhood, in our lic mall and even in the fucking mosque.
That's how far we've gone now. It's normalized. Absolute degenerate YT channels like Trash Taste are one of many spearheading this normalizing animay movement culture. Being a lewd artist used to be something taboo or discreet, people don't wanna be known for making one, being one. Now channels like this are normalizing hentai artists, doing interviews and meet ups with them etc glorifying these creators, who makes fucked up loli guro scat hentai. It's normalizing society to accept weeb culture and hentai of all things as something normal.
the concept of a Let's Play
It came out almost 20 years later that Dark Id faked most of his LPs
be 11
be super shy
playing UNREAL TOURNAMENT
around the same people on the same server everyday
they think i'm 18
19 year old girl in the server's clan keeps wanting me to cam with her since i'd always stay up late to play specifically for her
she always posted pictures of her boobs in tight shirts on the clan discussion board
just tell her my cam doesn't work but she said that that didn't matter
i wish i just gave her my ICQ and watched bros...
imagine being catfished
it's a 40 year old pedo looking to see your hard 2" preteen dick
no, because she was dating the clan leader and they'd be arguing on the roger wilco server a lot
Unironically what fucking happened? all these years and i've seen the customization for windows is being more and more limited
Smartphones. Before them you had to at least understand a computer well enough to access the internet. Once the smartphone became standard, every shitskin and woman got online, and it has been in decline ever since.
they're working together
snap a screenshot of your willy with face visible
threaten to send to your parents' emails
unless you pay them like $10 mol points or whatever
rinse repeat to another 9 kids Ina single day
easy $100 a day
A woman tricked me into sending her pictures to use me to catfish another girl
Lawless, and fun.
GUYS I FOUND IT. I FOUND A DATABASE ON ALL FURRIES db.fursuit.me
my bröther
z0r.de
More fun and much lower stakes.
Having to sit in front of a desktop computer to even use the internet at all meant the people you would interact were more on your wavelength, and we actually left IRL at the door and occasionally logged off instead of just constantly being online like we do now with smartphones.
Install malware (windows)
Wonders why computer has viruses.
???
and occasionally logged off instead of just constantly being online like we do now
Very good point. A lot of using the internet just felt more fun because it was something you didn't do 24/7, so it was more special.
depends what you mean. before google it was way more soulful and original. even when you tried to conform to some social movement, there wasn't the resources of today on how to exactly to do it, so the norm was just awkward amateurish, cringy stuff. finding websites was sometimes like finding secret hideouts.
on the other hand, it was unbelievably slow, generally. like, waiting minutes for a fucking single .jpeg to load. watching it slowly crawl down one centimeter at a time. or, even early youtube, setting a video to buffer and fucking off for 10 minutes or something until a single video buffered enough to play it without stopping.
anon, can you read?
It was the last bastion of whiteness. If you were on the internet back then, there was a 90% chance you were white.
Sounds like paradies...
>transgender (and thus alphabet) movement virtually irrelevant (if not non-existent) until mushrooming up around 2012
Literally not a concept for me until 2015 where I met my first tranny (ftm, no surgery or hormones)
yeah i used yahooask like reddit for questions
tfw i was a smart little shit and figured out how to hunt for the porn on limewire based on filesizes and extension
found some interesting stuff to say the least
Said by a tard who was not around back then.
I will never forget downloading the 80's transformer movie off Kaaza and it just changed into hardcore double penetration porn in the middle of it.
Said by a tard who was not around back then.
he is correct and it was closer to 99% if you were german/french/dutch speaking to other german/french/dutch around 2000
I miss my childhood youtube.com
I will never forget downloading the 80's transformer movie off Kaaza and it just changed into hardcore double penetration porn in the middle of it.
yeah but what if you got your grandma to watch with you because you were so proud of yourself being able to get free movies...?
He’s right though
I remember when I was a kid, my uncle brought his computer for my brother to look at because it was slow. My brother then took the CPU out of his computer, which was better than ours, put ours in its place, and said that he had solved the problem. My uncle then complimented my brother by saying that the computer he had "fixed" was running beautifully, but all my brother did was make his computer even worse because he fucking stole the its CPU.
You literally have no idea what you're talking about. Most of the people on the internet in the early to late 90's were dorks and geeks. Real ones. If you didn't have a PC, you weren't "terminally online" like you're now.
Slow and gay but honestly felt more engaging then it does now
Lol what a shitty nephew.
t. someone wrong and underage.
Nope sorry, retard.
be 9
get kazaa
find this amv
youtube.com
watch 100x over a couple days
force my family to keep watching with me
holy shit how did i not realize how annoying i was at the time
I can't believe so many people used centralized things like limewire. I grew up through all of that and never stuck to a single site. If I wanted a song, I just searched "song_name.mp3 download free." It was pretty easy to tell which ones were real songs and which were bogus downloads. Although you sometimes ended up downloading tracks with low audio quality, or mislabeled song.
It's fucked how so many emotions can be tied to one song.
Yes, they were all nerds and geeks. They were all white, too.
Late 90s–Kony 2012.
So I should learn japanese not to creep on school girls but instead to enjoy old style internet. Why didn't you just open with that?
Someone should create a social network that is based on Geocities and where you can create your pages with severe limitations so that they look like old stuff.
Nope, tard.
I don't, i didn't understand anything around me and was cringe.
I miss this shit
Not only thechitting the f5 thing
You also needed to remember to put "noko" in the email field of it would spit you back out to the front page every time you posted
It used to be genuine.
Anyone else used to type random things and slap ".com" at the end to see what came up? Me and a bunch of shitty kids in grade school used to do this
i hate that it used to be "don't share your information online" to " give us your address, photo and name required*"
i remember someone explained the internet would be websites, and his example was "if you want pizza you go to pizza.com and pick your restaurant"
transgender (and thus alphabet) movement virtually irrelevant (if not non-existent) until mushrooming up around 2012
This part is wrong, there were already "LGBT" people making personal websites, websites for gay dating, etc. It's just that it was something more authentic, gays wanting to find butt buddies and not a bunch of crazy people funded by who knows who doing activism 100% of the time, trying to ban pages, putting pressure on everyone, etc. Basically, it was a more real-life dynamic, where gays usually try to keep a low profile.
It's fucking insane that people are so willing to give up every bit of information like this. Unironically domesticated cattle
first tiddies I ever saw were from some girl I played games with on that MSN live games site
She just invited me to a chat room one day, started webcamming, and there they were
it was nice
Imagine going to pornhub but you only have enough bandwidth to load 1 ~30 second long video and fap to it before mom gets home from work
you talking about nation states dot net?