Early Internet Days

What were the early days of the internet back when things such as Bulletin Board Systems and CompuServe existed? What was the culture on it and how were politics discussed on it compared to now?

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Not sure about politics, but video game discussed was basically the same (that is, everyone calling each other retards).

Basically the whole internet was like Jow Forums, we did things that are illegal today that didn't even have definitions then. We shared and hoarded all at once. We discovered and traded.

It really was a new Wild West, but less desert sand and more calling eachother a faggot. Now that the Internet is pretty much a vehicle for transferring "social currency", it's become a hell pit.

bring back floppy disks

My first programs were copied on cassette.

Was this back when politicians could be openly anti gay and not be run out of town for it, or had we already crossed that line?

All this but way too much kiddie porn. It was everywhere and not with hidden filenames or some dark corner. And yahoo had the "go to a random page of the internet" button but you'd click it like 10 times and it would just repeat itself. I played a lot of online chess with students at other universities. And tried to keep a list of every interesting page i found. I was using a stolen Mac and the thing felt so modern. But you could dial in and go make a sandwich. By the time you came back you were connected

I remember being a teen and biking down to the local community college to use the computer lit lab. It was the 90's, Before the whole 'woke' culture, Myspace was just barely a thing, the dot-com bubble didn't even happen yet. And you could call others faggot to their face without fear of being slapped with a hate crime or being otherwise run out of town.

Thinking back.... it felt like.... America. ;_;

Yeah, that too. :3

I used to do the same after school, but I came around the time when computer games like pog, newgrounds, max games, etc were popular so I didn't spend my early childhood in the cyber dystopia we have now thank god.

The CP stuff you talk about is a lie. I think you have some reason to normalize it. I was in a class where we were tasked to find certain things on the internet, and no one found any such shit at all. Go get shot by a father.

Thank God indeed. I imagine being genuinely perplexed at the advent and popularity of Facebook and how many people suddenly became fixated on it. I remember laughing out loud at the first "internet suicide" (a jilted lover rejected over Everquest). Dammit, things just made SENSE back then. We didn't excoriate each other for fucking PRONOUNS, and we didn't allow comparison to be the thief of joy that it is today. Trannies were just a weird sexual fetish, and blacks simply didn't exist online.

Same as early days Jow Forums. people where experimenting, pioneering, original and actual edgy.
shit is always way more fun before the masses discover it.
and yes, this includes Jow Forums haven't had a laugh or an actual discussion here for a few years now.

Blacks existed online they just couldn't afford it. Everything felt less tense too.

Eh he may be exaggerating but not really. It was kind of common to find it. But from what I've heard it would be the equivalent of going to page 2 or 3 on google today.

Maybe you'll have one in this thread toothepaste flag

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Gays were on the internet the moment it came to be. One of the first nationwide BBS was Glib which stood for something like Gay-Lesbian Internet BBS. Being gay was an underground kind of culture because it was treated with open contempt or worse, indifference.

a laugh or a discussion?

the feels...

>Your CPU is a Cyrix? What a moron! You can't play Quake on it! Buy a Pentium your abysmal brainlet
The good old days of BBS....

Pretty much like today but simpler, cruder. Moderation was ineffective and usually limited to forums. Teenagers used ICQ to trade dirty talk and pics.

Usenet pretty much was the Internet. Shitposting was frowned upon, except for the alt.* hierarchy, where there was much trolling and lulz to be had. It was small enough that you could become Internet famous fairly easily. And it all went to shit the day AOL unleashed the unwashed masses onto Usenet. Before that it was *hard* to actually get on the Net. Not many people could actually get Trumpet/Winsock up and running. Kept the riff raff out.

Why not both?

true story
>be the one of the biggest phone producers
>have made it easy for everyone to contact emergency services with cheap durable phones
>some hippie faggot comes to suggest that lets take the number buttons off and make the screen bigger mkaing it easily breakable
>reject the fag because as a european company you know that would make it easily breakable and complicated
>few years late find aout that the hippie went to USA to sell the idea to some hipster called blowjob or something
>be Nokia
>see the phones change from useful work tools to children's toys and california propaganda machine 2.0

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god isn't real you faggot

bring back reels of paper with holes punched in them

>Sold the idea to some hipster called blowjob or something

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Man you can still find CP just by repeatedly clicking on popups on shitty porn sites that send you to other sites. That's also one of the main reasons porn sites that aren't one of the 10 largest ones should be avoided like the fucking plague.

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It was awesome user! No stupid people spewing sage BS and you could have actual logical discussions. It all started going downhill in the mid 2000's when the normies and low IQ's gaind access. Sort or like societies the lower the average IQ becomes the less discord for actual discussion and common sense. Sad but true. Its now a false narrative, squeaky wheel echo chamber with the majority of contributors not understanding how a wheel even works.

This so bad. You can see it just by going on hitomi.la (a "main" website for hentai) and see that shit it's bad.

Do go on

Also checked

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Unless your Cormac McCarthy your just a larping faggot user.

>Go on the site to see if it's as bad as you say
>Immediately get blasted with half a dozen neon ads before a popup appears and the tab turns into an ad for free McAfee antivirus
Is it even possible to use the internet nowadays without an adblocker? That shit is cancerous.

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Some sites won't let you even on it without turning it off. Hitomi.la isn't bad if you're quick enough and a lot of good mangas on there

Nah it was pretty common

You'd get gore and cp (not to mention the viruses) by downloading the wrong porno off napster

I miss napster. Napster is quintessentially what the internet should be: The free flow of information.

Copyright goes against the very foundation of reality itself - once you share information with someone, you can't take it back and that person can freely copy and transfer that information to others. That is just how the information within our universe functions.

Copyright is one of the worst things to have ever happened to western civilization and has stymied technological and scientific progress enormously. It's like having a law against things like gravity or friction. It's fucking stupid.

Worse is that kids today are being indoctrinated with this idea that copyright = property. Information is meta-real; there is only one way to prevent someone "stealing" information, and that is to never give that information away in the first place. Even the supply/demand laws of capitalism argue that anything which can be infinitely produced at little/no cost has an effective value approaching $0.

There are two reasons software/etc make any money:
1. Most people are morally/ethically minded (while of course the corporations aren't), to support the artist, because this enriches the community and increases the overall survival prospects for everyone within the community.
2. Corporations have been granted the use of force - up to and including lethal force - against copyright violations through their proxy of the government. Should you attempt to resist being arrested for copyright """violations""", government thugs can and will murder you over it.

This entire society is so fucking backwards. We really live in clown world.

So, I am an old fart. My first experience with the internet (darpanet) was via a 300 baud acoustically coupled modem. Back then it was all about research and sharing great technical ideas. Everything was cmd/texted based but the informations was the latest and greatest. People that had access to it had to have some intelligence to 1.) gain access 2.) search (Archie). all was even fine with the first HTML Mosaic/Netscape. It still was not accessible to the masses due to cost. Once the access was opened up and the threshold of lower IQ admittance along social media (myspace, face book, twitter, etc.) came then it went downhill. At least for myself. I would love to see what would happen for a 24hr period with all social media going down, not the Internet per say but only the news sites and social media ones. Most people would have panic attacks . Full disclosure I don not use any social media.

How would you say changed the way humans interacted with each other? Compared to then versus now?