Tell me what this Era of the Internet was like

try to download child porn, get music
try to download music, get child porn
very wiiise people

no normies shitting up my tubes

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My fellow Americans, I would like to remind you once again that I did not have sexual relations with that woman.

Trying to download trailers for MILFhunter vids which would take about a day, so you'd constantly preview the download to jack off to.

This was amazing for downloading anime

Actually free.

All the stuff on the "dark web" was on the main web, and files were spread openly about all sorts of illegal and dodgy shit.

kazaa was a shittier limewire.

Downloading music and porn at a blazing 7kbps (on a good day)

Had to leave my 100MB download for Gunbound on overnight

Had to use special software to download files that took more than 2 hours to download because my dial up internet would automatically disconnect every two hours, and if you get disconnected while downloading a file it would cancel the download

You're the guy who downloaded stuff like
>Smash_Mouth-All_Star.mp3
>6kb
Only if you were an idiot would kazaa fuck up your computer

The real thing I miss is the shockingly numerous methods of downloading.

Wild West

Yeah, we have less choice now. Sucks.

Eltonjohn.mp3.bat

Shit. Kazaa became popular when Napster got BTFO.

i remember i used to wake up in the middle of the night to sneakily download stuff and throwing my blanket on the computer to stifle the dial up sounds. also one time me and my brother wanted to watch constantine with keanu reeves and when we sat down to watch it it was a crazy gang-bang video with like 3 girls and 9 dudes. my brother's gay now and i wonder if the shock of that contributed to it...

On Kazan I used to download regular movies. Open them up and find out it was actually a shit eating nigger porn scene or some guy being killed. Etc. It was the Russian roulette of downloads. Also took forever. I hated when I spent like 2 days downloading a movie only to find out it was some dude eating a shitty asshole

I remembered the name of the software too, hell yeah

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no sjws and political correctness
they have ruined the Internet forever

I also miss the 'tude that people online used to have. I think the biggest change for the worse is now passive people online are. It went from "I'm doing what I want, fuck you" to "please stop the government doing bad things :(".

who here /audiogalaxy/

I remember my brother telling me he once downloaded a porno and it ended up being a video of a guy getting hit in the head with a shovel or something like that. I never got anything like that though, guess I was lucky.

Never forget previewing your porn videos over and over and trying to jerk it to the first 12 seconds of a video

Aim and Livejournal was life. Normies didn't really flood the internet until facebook. There were local message boards about music or whatever with like 100 users, but they were super active. Peak internet was around '05/'06 after we got bittorrent, youtube, wikipedia etc. We had everything we have now without the normie influx from myspace and facebook

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Normalfags in general were bad for the web. I was talking about the kind of free information we used to have on the web and people even my age were shocked that bomb making and hacking instructions were freely shared.

like comment and subscribe if you hate normies too.
reeeeeeeeeeee

Don't forget to ring dat bell!

Yeah, the culture of the old web, but the infrastructure of the new web. And all the JS bloat and tracking hadn't turned up yet and you could still browse the web without 16GB of RAM and two i7s running at full capacity.

And somewhat related, Jow Forums's anti-bloat non-botnet search engine/index of sites.
wiby.me/

Yahoo chatrooms were great too, particularly when webcams became more prevalent. I used to stay up all night camfucking girls from America/Canada. Good times, man, good times.

Fuck, I'm still trying to remember the first file-sharing program I used. I know it was right after Napster got fucked, but it was before Kazaa / Morpheus & Limewire, I remember that much.

The problem was that all of these programs were eventually shut down but there was a brief boom period where there were a shitload of copycat file-sharing programs....that hardly had any traffic on them. And then, just like that...that form of open file-sharing just went away and now you have to be on a peer-to-peer network.

>Tell me what this Era of the Internet was like...

refreshing the money tree page in neopets over 56k internet and hoping for something free

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I like the recent change of philosophy in what gets moved to Jow Forums

there was one, not winmx, that had a bunch of japanese users and it was awesome when i first into japanese music in 2003/2004. i think it was soulseek.

eMule?

Soulseek?