Is it true that the mid to late 90s were the wild west days of the internet?

Is it true that the mid to late 90s were the wild west days of the internet?

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>wild west
Poor infrastructure?
boom and bust regions that would last a week?
Everyone in it smelled bad?
Everyone ranting about how great California is and how much opportunity there was there?
Wow it's really like cowboy times

Yes. You could call anyone a nigger or a retard and you wouldn't even think twice.

I preferred 2001 to 2008 myself.

Yes but only because law enforcement didn't give a shit as there was very little going on online in terms of commercial activity or meaningful interaction that would affect the general populace. The chances of some random soccer mom being defrauded or a child falling victim to predators was close to zero.

1488 was a very common salutation on usenet as I remember it. There were very few SJWs on the internet in those days, everyone was pretty based and redpilled.

law enforcement didn't give a shit because they literally didn't know what to do. kek

>99% whites
>only females online were the ones in porn
truly based and redpilled times

t. n64 kid
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smartphones ruined the internet

wild west days, yes.
golden age? no.

the internet was very small then.google search indexing wasn't that great. you mostly got around by word of mouth and suggestions from people you met IRL/online. you couldn't stream videos. downloading 100mb took forever. In fact finding any music/videos was virtually impossible until P2P became a thing.pop-ups literally everywhere.

most people didn't spend hours upon hours on the computer because there wasn't much out there to consume your time.

It was riddled with pedobros, nigger haters and various other based individuals. Was better than now.

Also everyone believed in keeping anonymous online. Also unlike now.

Damn youre making me sad

no youre thinking of modern Jow Forums

>modern Jow Forums

Not even close. Modern Jow Forums is filled with boomer soccer mom tier fags.

and pedophiles and nigger haters and paranoid anons
I know the full names and sometimes even addresses of all my internet friends from the 90s

I remember looking up interesting URLs in a book, like a yellow pages for the internet. It was less than an inch thick.

More like 1997-2004

Mid 90s internet was still slow for most people so it wasn't as fun.

But shitposting on oldstyle ib boards and playing starcraft in 1999 with 2mb DSL was the shit. You could say whatever the fuck you wanted wherever you wanted and normies mostly didn't exist on the internet yet.

>thinks modern Jow Forums has pedos

oh nonononononon

Only one left are arguably cunny posters but they hate the term pedophile and they are nothing like the ones that used to be on this site. /b/ has more nigger porn and normies than pedos now

As to nigger haters I see plenty of unironic anti racists not only on this board but this entire site. Modern Jow Forums is shit. You get called "Jow Forums" for saying anything racist for fucks sake, as if this site was not like this pre Jow Forums. Makes me sick

Yeah, maybe don't try to bait people into discussing politics and other bullshit that has no place on a TECHNOLOGY board. Ever thought of that one?

This is what I'm talking about. You newfags have no fucking clue.

>wahhh he made fun of niggers that's POLITICAL

Kill yourself you diaper shitting reddit baby!

uhh, search engines were arguably better pre-google since there was a far larger variety of webpages and search engine companies, offering different rankings. Sure, it took more effort but at least you would eventually find gems under a pile of shit. Now all you get is google and what theyve decided to shove down your throat from their set menu of advertisers and affiliates.

I never had a problem with altavista, lycos or yahoo.

Also pop-ups only became common at the very end of the 90s and early 2000s was when it got bad. Mid 90s most websites were clean, or had a banner at the top.

>as I remember it
Except you're born in 2000.

Spotted the butthurt 18 year old. Sorry sport your kind wasnt welcome before and its a god damn shame that your kind is infesting every corner of these once good areas.

>Late 90s internet: Virus era
>Early 2000s internet: CP era
>Early 2010s internet: Meme era
>Todays internet: Surveillance era

Remember when Reddit had child-porn boards?
And when the Jailbait board was voted "Subreddit of the year" in 2008?

It was a different time

Jow Forumsniggers and jailbait, and even still /b/ still hated them.

Imagine transplanting new reddit back then and maintaining 07 /b/ . the hatred wouldve been even more intense. Reddit was still shit compared to Jow Forums at the time though, but it is sad now looking back and realizing that old reddit was probably way better than nu4chan, I didnt use it back then though nor now.

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back then, internet was just a tool. now it became an extension of real life and an open microphone for idiots

>when you logged into the microsoft network with a fake credit card
and you could use mail bombers like kaboom 3.0 and those chat room progz

a tool for exchanging pornography on alt. newsgroups, sure

It was less political as far as I remember. People would be rude and non-PC, but not because they had strong views. They just wanted to flame each other.

but i can do that right now, you fucking retard nigger faggot

>07 /b/
>reddit was probably way better than nu4chan
Shut your fucking mouth grandpa before I shut it for you.

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Its true, I can't post little girls pics anywhere on this shithole anymore

There were no girls on the internet, which made it fun
Then women came and ruined it like they've ruined every single male hobby they infested

>it was a joke bro
>it was just ironic

Ah my favorite revisionism.

Just sharing my personal experience. Sorry if it rattled you.

I still refuse to believe anyone claiming to be a female on the internet

he's right, modern Jow Forums is an undless summer of cringey underage autists

I still would never want to go back to before. I have fiber internet speeds. I can easily download tv series/movies, and there's much more of it. Technology has gotten significantly better in literally every way.

Social media sucks, but it's a small price to pay for how much things have improved since then.

In 1997, as a kid I used to check newspapers for interesting website urls. And I discovered many websites that way.

And does anyone remember webferret?

It's a little of both and neither too: More poor whites shitposting from *distressed* neighborhoods, more visceral hatred. It's all so abstract and default when you literally never even saw a black person irl until you're 7.

Youre right about one thing at least. Being around them makes you dislike them.

based. But we no longer live in based times.

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one can only hope that the new frontier will be the same in the beginning

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>pedobros
>based individuals
hmm.

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No.
There's significantly more strange questionable shit on the net now. As long as you know where to look for it.

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There are a lot of females with dicks nowadays.

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From 96 to around 99 I used a credit card generator to get free internets. Not once did anything happen to me because of it. Good times.

Try doing that outside of imageboards and see how well that goes for you.

This.

in 2010 I did in game chats and noone cared. I had friends on facebook posting nude pictures of them, while they were technically not legal - we were like 15-16 years old. Basically, even 9 years ago I remember a "based and redpilled" internet. After 2016 it all became shit.

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IRC was even more extreme. I would characterize it as openly accelerationist back in the day, and none more radical than Jarkko "Race Wizard" Oikarinen. Anyone remember that crazy fucker?

idk what dates this image more.
the !!!! or someone signing a forum post with there name.

>Jarkko "Race Wizard" Oikarinen.
Kek

Underrated.

Considering that Jow Forums was more or less founded by people who'd been banned from Stormfront for saying nigger more than even they could stomach, yes I expect there are still a few oldfags who remember Jarkko. But those were the good old days. This place has changed a lot and sometimes you'll even see non-racist posts.

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Very old meme. Used to be true but no longer is.

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Go on /gif/. It is literally disgusting. This site is dead.

>2013
>very old

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you could hack nearly all sites with javascript/sql injection

stop trying to rewrite history you nazi faggot

there were like 50 nationalists on the planet with enough braincells to use the early internet. They were outnumbered, it was simply the censorship free nature of early Usenet that allowed you faggots to operate. Only privately hosted servers on the early internet hosted your drivel, and most of their visitors were people laughing at your crackpot theories

Hell when I was in middle school my family was literally the only one with internet. Half of the teachers didn't even know what it was. My dad was into robotics and computers so we had dial-up since the 2400 days..

no, you're talking to losers who just jacked off on IRC. the decade when you do this is irrelevant. You can jack off in any decade you want then pretend it was cool later

>download speed measured in kilo bytes
>software modems that break every few days
>upgrading software by waiting for it in the mail
>web hosting was expensive
>entry level desktop PC was $3K
>your $3K PC was obsolete in 6 months
>HTML wasn't even standardized, every site looks and acts like shit
>hard drives of the time and floppy was unreliable as shit
>IE 95% marketshare


these are things you conveniently forget and make up your own history when you jack off to youtube losers doing their dumpster diving because they are poor and have nothing better to do and tell you about the "good ol days" they didn't even experience

yeah. mid 90s to '07 were the best days. Imagine now but Jow Forumstards weren't as prominent. You could say nigger without any political connotations and shitpost everywhere without care. Lolcows were a plenty and shock images were still useful.
The best way to put it would be "we did it for teh lulz". No politics, no motives. Just lulz.

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yes and it was glorious

back to le ddit normie

>NOOO THEY ACTUALLY LOVED US BASED NIGGERS IT WAS IRONIC

kill yourself retard. Funny you say only 50 nationalists were smart enough to use the net, guess how many of your dumb nigger pets were smart enough?

>download speed measured in megabytes, so devs make sure to use all of it for no reason
>software upgrades itself all the time, you have no idea what gets added or removed until it bites you in the ass
>nobody uses web hosting
>you can get a full desktop set or even a decent laptop for $100, yet half of internet users mostly use a nightmare rectangle instead
>HTML is standardized, yet every site looks and acts like shit
>google chrome 70% market share
wow nice improvement

>normie

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Hes right though. Fuck off with trying to whitewash people saying nigger and the way things were and saying hurr it was ironic.

nigger

>software upgrades itself all the time, you have no idea what gets added or removed until it bites you in the ass

This is what you get for not using Linux.

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God I hate white people

Yes it’s what allowed Mark Cuban to come up with a literally retarded website called broadcast.com and sell it to Yahoo for $5.7 billion in 1999. Companies that were smart in every other way did not understand the Internet at all and just threw money at any website developer back then.

kid, the internet died in 2007. It became shit way before 2016.

>Considering that Jow Forums was more or less founded by people who'd been banned from Stormfront for saying nigger more than even they could stomach
It's sad that there are people who believe that desu

he might have got onto the internet after 2007, so he wouldn't know better

I'm a 2006 poster and you are full of shit. Old Jow Forums was nothing like Jow Forums. Remember the Hal Turner raids?
It was all about the lulz and milking retards like you for amusement.

The problem is that you stupid newfag cancer confused our constant trolling, calling people nigger and race baiting with fake infographics for the real deal. And it slowly went from being a site of smart people acting like retards, to a site of retards trying to act smart.

But you had to come here with your retarded V for Vendetta masks and turn the whole site into a faggy sekrit internet club, making up shitty rules and then taking the memes into real life because you were cringe, fail and aids, completely oblivious and lacking self-awareness of how foolish you looked.

No, it wasn't some secret underground site full of le edgy racists. It wasn't some hacker crusader webzine bbs either. At its core it was simply a free speech anonymous site where people from different walks of life could shitpost, troll, make memes and take the piss at internet newfriends like you.

>The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact.
You either were in on the joke or you were to be mercilessly trolled

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>muh Jow Forums

Literally all you can say. That is why its obvious youre a post 2011 nigger and no amount of your revision and lies will change the truth to those who were there.

Youre the same kind of retard that will say all the pedophilia and cp was ironic. Fuck off whitewashing cuckold.

There's only one kind of person dumb enough to take everything seriously on Jow Forums and it's a legit retarded Jow Forumstard lol

there was none of this facebook or youtube shit for normies. it was literally just fat autists and deranged conspiracy nuts

Is that all you can say?
4shit was way less political a decade ago, no matter how hard you deny that fact, election tourist

>mid to late 90s internet
>web 1.0 and its full html aesthetics
>feeling of being pioneers
>no SJW bullshit
>no liberal censorship on forums, yt, fb, etc | almost absolute freedom of speech
>no annoying normies and their crappy memes, cat pictures, "funny" videos etc.
>no ifunny.co / reddit / 9gag
>no cancerous social medias
>no zoomers
>less cam thots / attention seeking whores and their neckbeard beta orbiters
>no overreacting millionaire pink-haired twitch streamers
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How many years ago? Also even if it was, it doesnt mean the racism was unironic. Like only one side of people can hate niggers.

>mid to late 90s internet
>web 1.0 and its full html aesthetics
>feeling of being pioneers
>no SJW bullshit
>no liberal censorship on forums | almost absolute freedom of speech
>no annoying normies and their crappy memes, cat pictures, "funny" videos etc.
>no ifunny.co / reddit / 9gag
>no cancerous social medias
>no zoomers
>less cam thots / attention seeking whores and their neckbeard beta orbiters
>no overreacting millionaire pink-haired twitch streamers
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Ironic* I need to sleep so long

WTF? People were allowed to say the n-word on the internet back then??

The newfag Jow Forumstard I was replying to first brought up Jow Forums ITT, trying to victimize himself with his >waaah waaah people tell me to go back post, I was just replying to him.

And yes I personally remember making several racist infographics and memes on /n/ and /b/ around 2007. Their purpose was to troll gaiafags into leaving. What we didn't count on is on you easily-influenced hare brained idiots actually believing them and taking them to heart.

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You really need to go back to anontalk

You fucking newfag retard youre the one sperging about muh Jow Forums you post 2011 cancerous pollop.

>I personally remember making several racist infographics and memes on /n/ and /b/ around 2007. Their purpose was to troll gaiafags into leaving. What we didn't count on is on you easily-influenced hare brained idiots actually believing them and taking them to heart.
The eternal boomer destroys communities yet again.

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This but also Facebook, Google, Amazon, women and SJW’s.

You can't even follow the post order.

I'm And I replied to Who was the first person to mention Jow Forums ITT. Maybe if you cancerous edgy idiots stopped shitting up every single board with your bullshit then people would stop telling you to go back.

Here's another nice thread ruined by (You)

The moment it all went wrong is painfully clear: Race Guy. Memes had gone mainstream in a big way at that time, and user basically panicked and embraced anything that seemed like it had the potential to stem the flood of newfags.

everyone who believes that got here only a few years ago. sad but true

I always thought the turning point was when Microsoft killed MSN Messenger.

>we didnt believe them it was just a troll

HAHAHA oh wow. Literally no one believes this you butthurt nigger ape.

No one liked blacks. No one likes you. Get over It. Fuck Jews too.

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