The last men who grew up before the internet got really internety (Wifi, Smartphones, Youtube selling to google) were born around 1993.
How different do you think growing up right now is? I can't help but feel sorry for kids these days. Even after the switch from dial-up to highspeed we biking around all summer, fishing, or playing cops and robbers.
Will the internet ever stop? can it be stopped? I would just like to go back to the time when internet was just good because it seems like as it expands it reveal unwanted side effects.
Literally can't imagine having Netflix throughout childhood.
Noah Williams
>I would just like to go back to the time when internet was just good The internet didn't really change as much as you think. You did.
Kayden Phillips
Basically there's going to be two types of people from here on out:
The first kind will be raised by uncaring parents, probably a single mother. They will be given tablets to play with before they can walk. They will grow up with behavioral issues, mental disorders, and a complete lack of social skills.
The second kind will be raised by caring parents with heavy input from the father. They will be played with extensively and be denied easy access to computers or the internet whenever they want. Gradually they will be given more and more autonomy. The people raised this way will be more physically impressive, more sociable, and less impulsive in nature.
Remembering when hanging around on newgrounds in 2005. Good time.
*sips*
Benjamin Cox
People like you think they have so much figured out, and you still only go for as few as possible multiple types of people. There is a lot that you don't know you don't know.
Thomas Harris
I was born in 1990 and I played the crap out of this game. In fact I still play on www.pokemonshowdown.com and I sweep with charizard all the time. Blastoise bitches can fuck right off.
Jason Butler
'92fag here, the primary downside has been the dramatic increase in normalfaggotry but the beating heart of Internet is still going strong
what an inciteful comment please tell me more about what I don't know but you totally do know
Cameron Ward
'93 faggot here. Didn't get internet in my house until about 2002, and even then it was only dial-up for about a year. Before then it was a diet subsisting of Playstation JRPGs, Cartoon Network, PBS, playgrounds, bike riding, the library, and karate class. Shit, the PCs in our library were so old the only inputs were through typing on a black screen with green font.
James Adams
The world is big place. Lots of person. Like one time, I knew someone with just a mom and they're like totally fine.
Christian Clark
>tfw oldschool Pokemon cards and gameboy games were the best period of my life I just want to go back to when I was truly happy
somewhat unrelated question: do guys in middle school/high school start bands any more?
Sebastian Rodriguez
Well there are always exceptions to the norm. The thing about speaking in generalities is that you're highlighting a trend. One anecdotal example doesn't make it untrue.
Cameron King
normies ruined it the same way they ruin everything. It will only get worse from here.
bring back packet radio BBSes.
Jacob Reyes
the last men born before the internet will be the wise old grandpas in a sea of lunatics who are completely driven by pavlovian impulse dictated through a fast and confusing narrative
James Perez
32 year old Boomer checking in. I use to play in a swamp as a kid, call my friends on an actual telephone and ride my bike everywhere. I use to ride my bike to the arcade constantly at like 7 or 8 years old.
Kids now aren't allowed to ride their bikes out of the fucking driveway.
I remember getting Nintendo 64 for Xmas my mom snagged one in being at the right place at the right time at toys r us. Also a trip to toys r us as a child on your birthday was the best thing ever.
Chase Foster
white conservative people have no culture except hatred
Ethan Cook
...what? We used to go to a place called blockbuster, and could rent games and movies from this place. There was nothing more thrilling then going there on a Friday night and having the "stress" of having to choose two games from a library of many.
I miss the old days... Luckily I can relive this in Japan
Lincoln Parker
No, they make vines now.
Jonathan Nelson
Borrn in 88 here, first year teaching school-- i can attest to the pavlovian dogs thing. On their phones during class all the fucking time, don't do shit. Like pulling teeth to get them to participate
Bentley Rogers
Blockbuster on Fridays was the best. I'd give anything to go to a Blockbuster again.
Benjamin Jackson
i still dont know what that is
Jose Bell
Summerfag after school's started I see.
Brandon Sanders
This it was so simple but there was more shit to do.
Jason Hill
'87 checking in... i don't know why, i just can't log off the internet
Levi Allen
>Be that one kid where parents didn't do movie rentals as they were too poor 'cause of how many babies they popped
Brayden Thompson
Learning scales is too much work. I could always look it up if I need to. Who has time to practice? I can click my frooty loops and be good now.
Chase Nelson
>Right in the feels You can come over and we can go to Blockbuster and rent Street fighter the movie.
Jaxon Young
I was born in 92 and I’ve always found I have almost nothing in common with those born 94 and later
Jose Perry
Can't we were that one homeschooling family as well
Logan Cruz
>how different do you think growing up is right now? A girl from my nieces junior high school had to move away and switch schools because nude pictures of her spread like a wild fire at the school. The girl is just at fault as those who spread it for taking the picture, but she didn’t deserve to be traumatized by it. We could not fathom something like this when I was in junior high in the 90s.
Brayden Russell
it was way slower back then thus downloading a porn image could take half an hour thus people werent as mentally poisoned
Jordan Reyes
My mom use to drop me off at the mall with her beeper and a pocket full of quarters so we could stay in contact.
Fucking beepers man
Juan Bennett
>born in 93 >I qualify as a man
alright
Josiah Lopez
Born in 1992
It’s weird man
Parker Bennett
April of 1982, named after jimi hendrix. Kids these days run the house. Parents need to learn how to say NO. Good is evil and evil is good. God help us
Henry Flores
if youre 25 and aren't a man what went wrong for you?
Born in 89. My parents were literal retards and I've been on the web since '95.Who 'members Netscape Navigator
Christian Fisher
Let me set the stage. It's some time in the 90's. You're sitting on your Gateway PC your parents bought from the Gateway retail store. You scrounge AOL disk from Walmarts. You use the extras as frisbees in the school hallway. When you get home, you fire up AOL, get online using whatever bullshit free trial they are offering, then off you go. After you figure out the basics, you want more. You start tuning modem settings, baud rates, etc, trying to figure out how to get Half Life death match to have a ping less than 400ms. geocities, rotten.com, chat with a few buddies on MSN, AIM. You have codes you use with your friends to indicate parents are in the room when chatting because there is only one family computer and it's in the living room. You and your friends sit on weekends fucking with windows recorder and voice to text because its so new and funny.
Next PC has the first DVD player ever. The next time you're in Blockbuster, you convince your mom to rent a DVD and watch your first DVD on some 1st gen DVD player running Windows Media Player. You discover WinAmp and Napster. MP3 players start hitting the scene. You're burning all your friends CDs, you're playing CS over the weekends with buddies. You discover port scanners. You discover +++ATH0, sub7, nmap. You discover basic, Bloodshed Dev C++, learn about linux, progress to arch, etc. You're compiling your own, hanging out in perl monks mailers, hoping when you get home from high school class somebody answers how the fuck to use Bless properly.
Fast forward a decade, now stacie in bio is bitching about why her facebook is slow and her moms computer keeps getting viruses. Fast forward another decade, and you're managing routing tables that 90% of internet traffic is forwarded through and watch in sadness as those beautiful algorithms that dictate the markov chain-like nature of BGP convergence handle a transcontinental fiber cut just so tcp traffic can efficiently rewindow for the next candy crush level.
Born 72 I fucking voted for Walter Mondale what am I doing on this i don't even have pants with buttons on them anymore. I did fuck Rose McGowan once in Vegas, total coke whore
89er here. Got just a taste of the good old days. The internet was way better before "web 2.0".
Bentley Lee
1991 - I spent most of my time outside in the foothills building shit with my brother and shooting cows with BB Guns until I discovered world of warcraft (and the internet) in 2005
Did she cry during or after sex? I feel like she would
Jordan Ward
My kid can watch whatever she she wants whenever she wants. If a movie isn't isn't on a streaming service, I'll find it on a shady overseas russian hosted streaming site or something. I used to have to wait through a fucking HOUR of Mcgyver to watch Ninja Turtles.
I deal with young people(born in 1984) and for the last 10 years I can't tell if 15 to 26 year old males are gay or straight anymore. You all act like little fucking girls.
Well, due to social media and focus on self representation and Internet, people are probably way more focused on what others think in whatever they do and also more fixated on status symbols and consuming
yeah and you could rent maybe one or two movies/games at a time
Netflix is literally having hundreds of movies at your fingertips
Kayden Barnes
Things started to get weird in the late '00s. Ultimately culminating into what today is mass insanity. The only thing preventing a total collapse is the fallback instincts that a certain subgroup had, unfortunately these fallback instincts are only triggered when true personality drift is allowed to occur (anonymity).
You see, children learn to be part of groups by molding a personality to fit the group they are in. A child in one group will behave totally different when put into a different group/social context. The personality drift they have is mediated by threats of social ostracization, but ultimately a personality solidifies because as the peers of the child ages in a natural context, their personality and position in the wider group context will also solidify as their ability to approach dunbar's number increases. When in a pseudonymous context, the personality drift never gets solidified. The children grow up to be ever adrift and constantly changing their personality to match a whatever group they find themselves in. With the aggregation of people with similar interests due to algorithmic suggestions started happening we got a very dangerous effect. Teenagers now, their brains should have started to form stable personalities, but instead they are constantly trying to overfit into the group since they never hit that critical stage where "word of mouth" becomes very important to credibility. But they are also being fit by computer algorithms into ever narrower interest groups. So you get a combination of extremification of personalities from both the environment, and internally. This leads to the disasters we see today with men cutting their dicks off, and essentially racial suicide as whites were the first to be exposed to the internet and therefore now have no group identity as all they know is ephemeral pseudonymous identity.
Austin Diaz
if i were a teacher i would do "an activity" where for one class you have to stand up the entire time.. if you answer some number of questions you can sit down. add that they can also "petition" individually so the school-board doesn't throw a fit (basically if they say more than "because i dont want to" then let them sit). i assume it would be laughed off mostly but i guarantee you would get their attention just so they can sit down. i feel like the difficulty is in sparking the fire of participation. i remember being a student and watching different things that were said, or topics that came up that all of a sudden brought out a strange burst of interest in the people who never said a word. even the meatheads had their inspired moments if the ideas hit home for them personally. it was strange to watch and i never knew if there was a particular formula for it, i think its more like an art. its there, everyone wants to be here for a reason, you just have to learn how to kindle the flame as a teacher. its a pretty difficult task considering God is not allowed in public school.
Connor Powell
Of course the subgroup with fallback instincts I mentioned earlier is "us." Those of us who grew up, not in pseudonymous environs, but essentially anonymous ones. Board culture. This essentially short circuited the personality forming aspects of our brains and lead to a fallback to base instincts, which of course is traditionalism. In times of chaos the most effective route is to go back.
Henry Bell
Yet I can't find shit to watch
Sebastian Sanchez
Why would I want to go back when my AI waifu is waiting for me in the future?
Yeah try convincing those of us that waited ten minutes to load a single nude picture that the internet hasn't changed that much
Adam Ward
Decided to look into the AOL founders for fun things. I didn't see any Cohensidences, but Case donated to Clinton Global initiative. Jim Kimsey was a Jesuit. And William von Meister's father, F. W. von Meister was the godson of Kaiser Wilhelm II, his mother, a countess. Royal families.... lol
I don't really feel like digging for anything more though. I never dug into pizzagate stuff, just spooky that symbol was in your photo user. Maybe I'll be a believer in pizzagate too; I do already believe in pedo rings in powerful circles existing.
we were all given a weaponized newspaper in the palm of our hands when we were younger. these kids are born with them. will they know what needs to be done?
Dylan Hughes
Eh you just want to go back to having no responsibilities
Camden King
Theres basically 3 periods.
1: pre-eternal september when access to the internet was limited and theres was a strict etiquette
2: The eternal summer, the wildwest days, anything goes days, fuck you and die days. 94 to 05ish
3: Web 2.0, youtube, social media, reddit etc, the my-nan-just-tagged-me-in-a-meme days.
pic related, Time 2006, when it all officially ended.
I think people suck, we just didn’t know how fucked everything was, it was bliss. I play red version now and think about failing global policy, ww3, false flags, jews jewing and so much more really sucks the fun from that kinda thing.
Bentley Morales
Fuck you nigger
Christian Lee
Which is why I enjoy shooting basketball. Getting on the court and blocking it all out and doing work
Joshua Miller
>I did fuck Rose McGowan once in Vegas, total coke whore
The sign is a known pedophillie signaling call identified even by the FBI. Even more so back in the early 90s when things were still hard to uncover on the net.
Connor Nguyen
hell of a slut too
Ryan Martinez
2006 was still okay. I only used Youtube to watch comfy videos on weekends put together in windows movie maker before they started all being edited to shit. I would mark 2009 as the beginning of the decline.
lucky you're not a famefag. Be getting metoo'd like a motherfucker right now
Levi Gutierrez
>dial up connection > larping and catfishing replaced all human interaction even before fuckbook > pedo heyday pre-NSA > AOL stock best investment possible
Alexander Long
I was born in 94 since my family was poor we didn't have internet or DVDs until 2006, and none of us had a flat screen TV until me in 2013.
I thought to be a bit restrictive of the computer to any kids of mine for the sake of letting them grow up with having some adventures outside, that is what made my imagination thrive growing up. Back before I had unrestricted access to the internet I was a student who got very high grades even if I spent a majority of my time playing video games or going outside. But soon as I got that high speed internet things went down hill and I developed plenty of bad habits.
Eli Cruz
Aaaaaaaaaaaaand I'm spooped
Gabriel Collins
>pedo hayday pre-NSA
Please see the pic in my other post
Austin Garcia
Yeah nobody has an explanation for dominos on pasta to this day
Jordan Perry
I hear kids getting bullied for not having a smartphone and being "in" on all the chatrooms and groups for shit. Just hoping my kids enjoy being out of touch spergs without smartphones if I ever have em.
Leo Edwards
Exactly - before internet 2.0 it was literally anarcho capitalism
They could have chosen ANY image in the world and they chose the one image that the FBI labels as a pedophille calling card for their "Kids Only" section.....
Really spices ones almonds
Brody Hall
'89 here. I'm about to have a kid and I am kind of terrified of raising it with the internet and social media running so rampant.
I miss the early internet where you had to have real interest in it to be on. Parents told me not to post my face and real name. Now everyone is online whoring themselves on Instagram.
Aaron Richardson
I remember as a kid asking my parents to go online, and it was a big deal because it would take like half a fucking hour for the site to load, and even then it was really basic fucking shit - like some text, a few links to the side, and maybe a few pics here and there. There was one that was made for Veggietales and Larryboy, I thought that shit was awesome.
Luke Lopez
anyone remember using novell and getting on bbs back in the day? >those-were-the-days.webm
Dominic Richardson
I was thinking I would let my kid use a computer as long as it had some Linux distribution installed on it, and to remove any parental blocks they would have to learn Linux.
Henry Torres
I miss the fall season as a kid, I was so happy and carefree then.
Isaiah Hughes
Asking your parents if you could go online because it was dialup and you couldn't use the phone
