What was the internet like from 1998-2006?
Was it as leftist and degenerate as it is today or was it a more just a bastion for nerds unconcerned with politics?
I remember joining up to a few runescape forums when I was younger (circa 2005) and there were some weird memes about (All your base, O rly?) but being only 11 years old at the time, that era sort of passed me by.
Fucking awesome. IRC, gamespy and a whole bunch of cool shit. No one gave two shits.
Degeneracy really began post 2007. About the same time Jow Forums, myspace and goybook started up. As the internet matures it has been getting smaller and smaller, jewgle have a hand in everything, even skewing your search results to leftist propaganda and moronic sites like twatter got their hateful leftist posts embedded in news sites.
Further, news sites all seem to spew the same information in a very leftwing manner and everything not in line with (((them))) is a 'rant' by some crazy 'extreme' right winger.
Before 2007 the internet was really the wild west, you could call a nigger a nigger without repercussions and you weren't being pushed to reveal your real identity via your fucking phone number or e-mail just to play computer games.
It seems the internet is a lot more sanitised now. From my limited experience of pre-2006 internet (before Facebook made it big) everything's a lot more corporate, stuffy and serious in 2018 than it was then.
>Degeneracy really began post 2007.
You obviously weren't on any of the file sharing services or Jow Forums in 2004. Things that can't be unseen were easily findable
It was easier to print out porn pics than viewing them because they loaded so slow.
I remember being on /b/ in 2007 and thinking that people like that actually exist.
The only thing I remember from the early internet was probably from like 2008 or so.
But it was a bunch of retards spamming nazi symbols on an obscure forum
>Pre 2006
>'Don't give out your name to strangers on the internet son'
>'Remember, put nothing on there that can identify you'
>post 2006
>Facebook accounts, twitter, pictures, random websites holding tons of information about you
Fuck knows how that happened.
Limewire etc? I was well aware of those things as that was really the only way to find free porn back then.
So Jow Forums
Freedom and much higher average IQ.
Limewire, Kazaa, Jow Forums, hell, even Google Images if you knew the right search terms
old /news/, not the tame new one
No, the only thing I know for certain is that it wasn't Jow Forums. As the style of the website wasn't the same.
But it certainly resembled Jow Forums shitposting
So you did, in fact, get the joke?
I just remember chating with people in yahoo games... like pool.... Then get excited when the person's name was cute_girl22... No picture or anything. My imagination just went wild.
You had to download 100 or so files and then stitch them together so you could watch a 30 second porn clip. Good times.
I was on the Internet back in 1990 when it was mostly BBS's. Before most of you Jow Forums idiots were even born. Back then we traded phone numbers for specific BBS's instead of lame memes.
Most computers didn't come with modems, and we had to install them to connect to the Internet. I used it mostly to get all the MK fatalities to pwn noobs at the arcade.
Another thing you kids will never really experience. Not like they were back then at least, and I'm not talking Mall arcades. I'm talking stand-alone brick and mortar arcades.
I had a lot of fun with IRC back in the day. Once I realized that pretty much all web-chats were just a front-end for an IRC server, I just brought all my scriptkiddy bots and all bets were off.
ah yes getting cheat codes for games was one of my first uses of the internet.
BBS, aol chatrooms, IRC, instant messenger, limewire/kazaa, cheatcodecentral, good times
LOL at some of you reminiscing about the good ole days of the Internet way back in 2004 or 2006.
Not one of you mentioned Napster.
Strawman, the problem is what he's looking at. I remember internet before it died, and I can tell you nothing I used to browse is alive anymore, they're still there but they're empty shells. At this point it's either Jow Forums or shit like reddit or neofag, which also has been crushed to near nothingness after the resetera shitshow. Hell, even a lot of tech sites where you ask help with the computer are fucking dead too.
bearshare napster emule etc.
wow wee, wish i had these memories so i could know exactly what it must feel like to be a megafaggot like your cunt self.
get gassed globohomo goy
Jow Forums users don't know what it was like to rack up your parents long distance phone bill with a BBS in another state or even not being able to connect to one because traffic was so high the person's home server couldn't handle it.
Yea but 4th wave feminism hadn't yet kicked into high gear yet. That shit didn't start till around 2008 when Obama was elected then the liberal machine took over everyones minds.
it was a bit more gated and guarded back then because things were a little harder to work out and it kept the large portion of normies at bay
The only limit, was, youself.
quakenet
good times
That's not a straw man you fool. Nice try though.
A lot of personal websites. Everyone of my friends and I had our own websites that linked to one another's. Mostly posting about random shit and daily crap.
Windows XP is old and so are you
It was awesome. Project PET (a megaman forumn) was my first imageboard, definitely before I had set foot on Jow Forums.
>tfw we will never go back
youtube.com
Porn and poker. It was the golden age.
>Windows XP
>old
heh.
yes user, thats older
>he wasn’t on aol
>arts and entertainment user created chat rooms
>faggots from Brooklyn even then
>dragon ball z SiM typing speed based RP
>no time for anthro trap erotic role players IM 4 smut
>no time for complicated dice based ya gi oh to group
>no time for giant rhy’din superguild
>become redpilled
>at 12
>develop carpel tunnel and 160wpm
>have to phone post to avoid pain
>feelslike
The internet was amazing BEFORE the cell phone had internet capabilities. Back then, "getting on the internet" was a bit of a chore, it kept the 3rd world trash away from it.
The internet back then was an ALTERNATIVE from the mainstream media, it was NOT a continuation of the mainstream media.
You could log onto Yahoo Games and play games of Chess and Battleship against women in Singapore, and they would befriend you and then send you a greeting card to your snail mail mailbox at your house a week later, they were so glad and honored to talk to an American.
There was legitimate science news you could read back then, this was before Sports was fully cucked, back then you could say pretty much anything you wanted to on the Internet and you never had to worry about any repercussions from it.
Early internet was pretty cozy. I saw my first titties and asses at age 9 with the help of AOL 1 month trial dial up. In the early to middle 2000s the internet was mostly news as well as boomer special interest websites. It was pretty much normie-free especially since dial-up was still the cheapest way to browse and it blocked the phone line whenever you were connected.
>posts a picture of a VCR thinking it's a computer
wow fucking retard
>I was on the Internet back in 1990 when it was mostly BBS
oh yes I remember that, dial into the BBS and start lynx to get on the "internet". I don't think the internet was too useful back then, more of a toy, especially since downloading anything at 2400 baud would take forever.
You could call people niggers and faggots in online games back then, trashtalking and bantz were encouraged
Yes, indeed you do. All you know is a life of posting shitty memes and thinking you're witty on Jow Forums with your shitty memes.
You don't need those memories to be a "megafag", you just have to be you. If you were lucky, you wouldn't be you, but sadly you're not.
>tfw when you're not supposed to be on the internet and mum picks up the phone
You wot m8?
Niggers didn't exist on the internet to shit it up, and people actually used it as a place to find knowledge.
ytmnd was the pinnacle of the internet, change my mind
it was the wild west. you could go to the barbie.com forums and post images of goatse it was a golden age.
back to your own time, john
>Degeneracy really began post 2007. About the same time Jow Forums, myspace and goybook started up.
Newfag
3 words
nico
nico...
It was whatever you were looking for. Referral and friends on the net is what got you stuff. You could spend hours just browsing the Web and find the weirdest and funniest shit. Game communities were pretty fuckin' amazing as well. Who doesn't remember fucking around in homebrewed UT maps?
The Internet got smaller. Censored. And most importantly owned because there's money and dataprofiles to be made.
... while I sometimes had access to more bandwith, personally I had only a dial-up 56k internet connection from 1998 until 2006. It was horrible expensive, minus that one month I had flat-rate plan but the following one I got informed the contract will be terminated because, me running it 24/7 wasn't in their "common use" calculation. never realy new the old internet, I had a very narrow view due to small bandwith. But I remember getting upset about javascript, flash, ads since it used too much of my bandwidth and that did cost me money and time
YTMND was right with "fads". Fads describe what are current day "memes" much better than the word meme does.
I played at arcades before. Most are gone now some people says it's because of niggers.
>no bots on forums
>local communities
>fohguild.org was the original shitposting home
people used forums instead of discord
>What was the internet like from 1998-2006?
We had thankfully developed fast enough technology that ASCII porn could be abandoned forever.
It was awesome. South Park was actually funny then.youtube.com
I remember that dial up sound. Biiiiiinnng Eeeah eeeah brrrttt. You've got mail!
I member...
These Jow Forums kids don't even know. Remember learning about Nibbles and Gorillas in DOS and being like WTF I didn't know I had those games. too!
douga
when new, that pile was worth hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars
even now it's probably worth $60-$80k, SGI collectors eat this shit up quick
That's not a VCR that's a Betamax!
LULZ!
it was a lot more disconnected and politics weren't a huge thing. I would say people were generally unconcerned with politics. most of the time you went on the internet it was to either game or post on forums, occasionally watching stupid videos or sending emails.
the way it is now with everything instant all the time isn't the way it used to be or at least people cared less.
Who here remembers when YouTube had funny homemade videos on it without any ads? Those were the days.
Siiiiip
Ahhh limewire, bored.com, ebaumsworld, IM your friends you were going to see later, MySpace haha
This song popped into my head when I read that
youtube.com
I miss the days of AOL and Yahoo Chat!
I remember that back then there were already high quality pictures of men with big cocks
I really miss it, the "golden age" was from like 1998 until roughly 2007 or so. As others have said, it was like the wild west. Pre-YouTube, pre-facebook, etc. The "big internet companies" were all just search engines and service providers like AOL.
Shit, I remember reading about Jow Forums splitting off from Something Awful, and thinking you were all a bunch of weirdo fags here. Now 15 years later I'm sucked back here because it "feels" more like the old net. Anonymous, nothing taken too seriously, and no bullshit so it feels exciting.
My dad told me once, a little while after he got Dail up, that Internet is going to get huge and change the world. I found his pictures folder as well. No more waiting 10 minutes for titsandass.jpg
For me it was DOS.
I member...
cd/ and dir/p RIP
I thought of it like a new frontier. A new virtual world to explore. Also,
Waiting an hour to download a a 5 min pixelated porn vid.
Music sharing sites like napster.
AOL dial up chat, trolling the christians, or xians as they were called. IRC. Quake II multiplayer. Gamespy to find servers. Geocities websites. Napster tracks. Gore much better than faces of death. &totse. SWIM. Cats were not a meme yet.
Diablo II over dial-up internet was a magical time to be alive.
also C:// doom.exe
I had DOS and im early 20s
i remember that my clan mates never were distracted other than by tv, since there was no youtube, videos were mostly shared via torrents, no one-click-hosts. steam had only a handful of games. teamspeak conversations were very chill since people were still normal and not youtube-influenced cringe-people.
overall everything was just more calm, less annoying, more chill. i spent the most time playing vidya, talking in teamspeak and trying to make websites with instead of because i didn't know what the hell i'm doing. and yeah animated gif's on your website were cool back then, and website intros also were cool.
and when you played video games online you'd soon know everybody in the community, because there weren't so much players. there was no international matchmaking, which meant that players would always join together locally (germans playing with germans, swedes with sweders etc.)
and forums with actual usernames and search functions were a big thing.
Anybody remember the program PageFuck? Simple pager flooder/spammer circa 1998, but definitely a good time.
a/s/l
That or finding an AOL chatroom for your location, Yahoo chat rooms when you got bored. Porn was harder to find though, took a fucking week to download a video, just had to hope it was decent. I felt like pioneer for getting laid off AOL and weed hookups.
It was awesome, not as good as Hotwire (I think that was the name), which was before Napster. Loved that shit.
>Going into AOL chat rooms you made
>Getting sluts all over the world to strip for you
>Going on yahoo chat
>Getting sluts all over the world to strip for you
NO NIGGERS. NO 3RD WORLD SCUM SHITTING UP THE PLACE!
This guy is right. Still had white knights though.
2000s was the start of the rot when dot.coms started to take over.
but there was way less normie thots and moral fags until the iphone took off in 2008.
90s internet was the age of IRC which was a bit like Jow Forums but without the images.
Dial up connection too, paid the local telephone call rate per minute and couldn't use the phone at the same time. A porn jpeg took 10 seconds to load
Netscape browser
Before 2002 we didn't have ADSL so it was only 2minutes of 56k to print cheat codes, you had to ask your mom cause it would block the phone line
After 2002 my dad took the ADSL (512ko/s) to play MOHAA online, it also meant 15sc pron clips, first chatrooms (IRC) with virtually no mods, talking about Ogame during school breaks...
It really had almost nothing in common with nowadays internet
There were a lot of “this site under construction” signs, and a lot of blinking text and banner ads. Also, the porn really sucked
Kek user, you and I are one in the same. At least we earned invaluable writing skills from endless hours of shitty RPs...
yes degeneracy was already there
>Porn sites
>chats for sex
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