I will never know the internet in the early 2000s

I'm going to need exact details on what has changed for the worst. I always here these vague "it was better" phrases but never specifics.

I've used the internet since 1996. My earliest memories are downloading mods for Escape Velocity on the Mac OS6 or 7, and read discussion boards like GameFAQs.

Well for example when anime ( japanese visual culture general ) was still a niche , old memes , touhou , when internet seemed to be a much more simple place than today ... Maybe i fantasize about that time i never knew but i would have liked to know that time

Yes. Can confirm. Used to frequent a message board in 2001 ish for smashing pumpkins fans. Had real people we shared pics, occasionally met up in person maybe once a year. But you were free to be a twat some days and it was still basically anonymous. There was very little posturing because who thI fuck was looking at your shirt? Nobody. Better still you had you user alias username. Social media has none of that. It wants your raw data and wants you to enact what you used to do in person just for click value. Scummy shit. Hope I live long enough to see the documentaries painting it as one of the evils of the 21st century

Just visited some deadchans ( desuchan etc ) and it makes me sadder

Not the early 2000s but play Hypnospace Outlaw
youtu.be/Pb4Jul496QE

In the first place, real life identity is now the norm on the internet thanks to facebook and twitter and other social media sites. You can opt out of it, but it's increasingly common for people to link their real and online identities, which was absolutely not the case in the early 00s and certainly not the 90s. You used to have a handle, or multiple handles, and that's how you persisted your identity between sites, if you wanted to. Many people maintained several independent handles and personas across various networks.

The way people share things, and the way content is curated, is also vastly different. People now sit in walled gardens and have content shoveled into their faces by algorithms, they get put into feedback loops where they continually see the same stuff at an increasing intensity without ever having to leave the safe spot linked to their real life identity. Nobody explores the net the way they used to, nobody discovers things, there's so few mass migrations between sites anymore. It's more like a site starts up the young people think it's hip and crash into it, then it gets borged into the mass of social media slop.

It wasn't that great. It was mostly flash games.

t. late millennial who never used bbs's, image boards, or IRC

t. retard who can't read the OP

I did read it, and you're the retard probably still in his early 20s at most who doesn't realize all those things I mentioned were still very popular in the early 00s.

I'm not a zoomer, but I have no idea what the internet looked like back then.
I had pay-per-use internet until 2012, so my parents never allowed me to go online. Every time they would leave the house I would run downstairs to plug in the cable and download some porn. I had to make it quick not to inflate the phone bill.
>tfw taking minutes to download some 3 MB video
Still my best faps. At times I would download them at a friend's house without them knowing.

I missed the msn and later facebook booms too, which was a pity because they could have helped my social life, I remember my oneitis pushing me to make a fb account.

They were literally dying out. Forums took them over. Go fuck yourself, you 10 year-old

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>In the first place, real life identity is now the norm on the internet thanks to facebook and twitter and other social media sites. You can opt out of it, but it's increasingly common for people to link their real and online identities, which was absolutely not the case in the early 00s and certainly not the 90s. You used to have a handle, or multiple handles, and that's how you persisted your identity between sites, if you wanted to. Many people maintained several independent handles and personas across various networks.

I maintain anonymous personas across various websites right now, so this hasn't changed. Facebook, Twitter, and any other site that requires real identity don't count, since they didn't exist in the old internet. Arguing that the internet has "changed" in this matter is like arguing that chips have changed, because there's different flavors of sodas, despite the fact you can still buy the classic Coke, Pepsi, and Sprite.

>The way people share things, and the way content is curated, is also vastly different. People now sit in walled gardens and have content shoveled into their faces by algorithms, they get put into feedback loops where they continually see the same stuff at an increasing intensity without ever having to leave the safe spot linked to their real life identity. Nobody explores the net the way they used to, nobody discovers things, there's so few mass migrations between sites anymore. It's more like a site starts up the young people think it's hip and crash into it, then it gets borged into the mass of social media slop.

Incorrect. The difference is, there's people who have joined the internet who don't go outside their comfort zone. Again, the old internet people and content still exists, but alongside the new people and content. It's like if all of a sudden South America became part of the United States, and you were complaining that the US isn't what it once was, despite the old mainland still existing.

Aggressive Alpine Skiing FTW

Nigga that was pointless you an elementary level troll

there need to be more popular image boards like Jow Forums on the dark web, it's too decentralized and not nearly popular enough for information to travel as fast as it does on the clearnet.

unfortunately I don't see a mass migration to torchan happening for at least a few more years and likely not less than half a decade on account of how infamous it is for drugz and cheese pizza

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