Do you prefer pre-2006 or post-2006 Internet Jow Forums?

Do you prefer pre-2006 or post-2006 Internet Jow Forums?

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Yes

786kb DSL was shit

Not an answer

This, I think as time goes on people will nostalgia over things going on right now, just the way it is.

>facebook killing myspace

that's not the case at all, who made that shit?

>Pepsi Twist died
Hum? They still sell Pepsi Twist to this day here.

pre 2006
it was like www.wiby.me
basically if you wanted to have an online presence. you built a website, there was no alternative.

pre 2006. The internet right now is in a sad state.

>tfw you'll never browse random websites from random toplists again

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zetaboards
newgrounds
stickpage
albino black sheep
ijji games
early eve
tons of other random shit

No shit

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Can't really compare. Pre-2006 internet was a hobby, current internet is a lifestyle. As far as general "disconnectedness" and personal wellbeing, older is probably better but it'd be pretty hard to go back to not having the conveniences, communication, and information the internet provides now.

What's with this website and not getting over decades old pop culture references?

I had a cable modem, life was good.

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I like my 4k porn, user
Anybody who says that the past was better is retarded.

>Pre-2006 internet was a hobby,
Bullshit.
Everyone had internet and kids were blogging about stupid shit on social media sites well before 2000.

shit was cash
Jow Forums was pure anarchy, cp everywhere, mods barely gave a shit so off-topic threads went on for fucken days on some boards
but we were a small bunch, we sort of knew each other so it was like a /comfy/ treehouse full of cancer
I think that's why I hang out here on Jow Forums so much, it's a slow board so if you filter/ignore the correct threads (i.e shills) you can sort of, almost, have that feeling of the mid 00s back.

This, there were tons of normies on the internet, the hobby thing could be said about youtube, there was no money to be made doing it at the time and there's still no money in Jow Forums shitposting.

>browse /f/ to remember the good days of flash
Feelsgoodman.swf

The effort to get your garbage opinion on the internet was higher, and the notion of the internet being a scary place and fragmented from real life helped filter a lot of fucking normies though.

>pepsi twist died
What? I'm sure i drank some a couple months ago.

Surprised nobody's mentioned digg yet

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much like pepsi blue, it largely depends on where you are. it's been back/still sold off and on in various countries sometimes under different names.

Pepsi twist lasted up to 2010's here in third world land

>no tinder reference
Criminally missed opportunity.

It got buried.

Neither lived up to the near mystical promise of the early Internet or the hype of the late 90s. I liked a lot of things about the pre-2007 Internet (2007 is a better dividing line than 2006), but I don't want to go back. Most of all, because the pre-2007 Internet failed and was conquered by the likes of Facebook. We now know it was vulnerable and doomed to this fate from the start.

What I want is neither. I want an Internet that is what you expected the future Internet to be in 90s. I hope to contribute to it.

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the only great thing about pre-2006 was the anonymity of it all.
pre-2006: 100% normal to have a s/n, no real name, no real picture of yourself...no info about your real self. because on the internet nobody knows you're a dog.

>post-2006: 100% weird if your s/n or email doesnt have your name in it, if you don't have a picture...etc

and it was all anonymous because if you were on the internet you definitely had no social life.

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Give them a decade and there will be no stranger involved.

damn that hit me right in the feels
*sip*

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post. living in the past is gay and it means you're probably a fag who hasn't done anything with himself.

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faggot

>be me
>18
>looking at OP pic
>memories come flooding back
>realize my life peaked when I was 6
I'm going to kill myself now.

Remember when free speech was good?

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Didnt. Aruto begin in2002? Why is it there?

But how is that any different than a regular taxi that has existed for over a century?

>post-2006: 100% weird ... if you don't have a picture
Make that post-2010 or so, and a picture is still not mandatory outside of some social networks. There is plenty of GitHub users, for example, with no picture and a smaller but still significant number with no real name.

Post. It’s easy to experience pre 2006 internet again. I don’t enjoy it anymore.

The internet really didn’t change. I did, you did; we all did.

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Sort of.

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I mostly just miss Jow Forums before this gamergate and Jow Forums mess.

The rest of the internet can stick it.

>there was no money to be made doing it at the time
It's the opposite. Back then ads actually made money, which meant that a lot of websites could be funded by fairly unobtrusive advertising.

There are still boards that feel that way, but I'd never call Jow Forums one of them. It has some of the off-topic anarchy, but none of the comfort.

2004-2009 was a cancerous time with many things getting shittier

The golden age was somewhere between 1997-2002

Pre 2006 I was always finding new things instead of just returning to the ones I knew.

But then again, that could be because that was the time I was learning what was on the internet- it was new to me then.

>I mostly just miss Jow Forums before ____
Oldfag: Chanology
Newfag: reCAPTCHA
Newerfag: Hiroyuki
Nufag: GamerGate

Newgrounds to Youtube? Youtube was already way more popular than newgrounds by the end of 2005.

It could be you. There was this research that showed people stopped listening to new music in their 30s. Then again, maybe the new and happening things on the Internet are shit like Amino and TikTok, which is embarrassing if you're over a certain age.

Post. There's nothing fucking to do on pre 2006 except runescape

Dude, Hiroyuki was after GamerGate. The fallout from gamergate was exactly what caused Moot to want to get out of running Jow Forums.

But only cucked Nufags hate gamergate, Gamergate established Jow Forums as the root of rebellion, the spark of light in the darkness of the SJW controlled internet, the beginning of Jow Forums's heroic efforts against the evil matriarchy.

>saddam got necked

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Where the fuck do you live?
I used to be a product tester for Twist and Max and tought that Twist was the best thing Pepsi ever had, but it compeltly vanished from the shlves a couple years ago in every mall I went to [spoiler]in Krautland[/spoiler].

07/08 was the first time that I noticed how the internet was changing, how smaller sites and communities started to dissapear and either ad some facebook, or any abveration from it, presence or switched to youtube channels.
While now speed and avaibility is a lot faster of course , I still miss those small, individual areas.

Oh fuck off with your ironic shitposting

>to get into a car with alone
Uber Pool solved that.

The only good thing about post 2006 internet is the death of flash and other plugins

not that guy but there's still pepsi twist dude. im in eastern europe, if we have it you must too.

>nostalgic manchild makes a 'member?' thread about his childhood years

grow up or neck yourself, faggot

Don't harsh on him, dude. Member threads are traditional.

taxi drivers usually have some sort of a license