The internet was the best before the normies swarmed
The internet was the best before the normies swarmed
We used to make fun of politicians and famous people for not understanding the internet. We should have kept it that way
Itâs tough to navigate. Itâs a series of tubes, not a big truck.
We still do, we just meme on Boomers in general these days.
"we"
or "we" meme on Milennials that cry about how "back in the days the Internet was better"... Funny how Millenials already start sounding like boomers... especially in these comments
i'd go even further and say it was best before corporations tried to monetize it
That's much less far. The normies lured in the corporations which normiefied everything.
oh yeah that makes sense. nevertheless, i miss the days of AOL chatrooms and CuteFTP
Blame Jobs and Wozniak. Those fuckers managed to put the internet into everyone's pockets.
Wozniak left Apple in 1985
True, but I like to shit on him, so I'm giving him partial blame anyways
CuteFTP
Now thatâs a name I havenât heard in a long time. A long time.
Remember when girls use to just show their boobs for free?
They still kinda do.... Go to any Gonewild.
They're all just advertising their Onlyfans and shit.
True. But on OF it's everything of one person, here, it's something to everything of a lot more people for free.
By showing their boobs for free
Everything goes to shit when it gets too popular
i used to think gatekeeping is bad full stop but having seen what happens when any fuckwit can enter a hobby or group unchecked there definitely does need to be at least some form of gatekeeping. typically just giving them shit for dumb shit and then seeing whether they crumble or take it on the chin and laugh
one reason why as much as i'd love cheap track days, the high prices also serve to keep most fuckwittery out and you get some real cool people there as a result and can learn some interesting stuff from them
Smart phones were a mistake, unironically.
So was slavery
pretty sure normies w/ smartphones is worse than slavery ever was
This but unironically
It was so good. It was only a matter of time before it garnered mainstream popularity
Eternal September
That phrase literally turns 30 next year and in 30 years we'll be pining for the early 2020s era internet. Time is a flat circle and all that.
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes" - Mark Sinclair
A reference far older than the people nostalgic for 2012 internet.
The colonization of the internet by normies
Goes for everything. Normies take everything away that makes smt special and it gets turned into a bland consumer thing.
Everything that gets popular gets ruined.
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It became easier to navigate, and required no knowledge or skills. The old people showed up and that was it. It's also amusing how many olds think Facebook is the internet in its entirety
Normies started that shit
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it was always perverts.
Yeah, but back then it was more 'hiding in a bush and wanking' style perverts and now it's more 'Harvey Weinstein, power dynamic exploiting' perverts
Our perversion is cheeky and fun, their perversion is cruel and tragic.
The internet is really really greeeeaaattttt.
FOR PORN!
I got a fast connection, so I don't have to wait...
FOR PORN
Yissir
Imagine if Boxxy had been active in 2022
Shoulda seen the net back in the late 90's to early 2000's.
Those were the times.
People complaining about ads, social media, etc. have no idea how wild shit was when we didn't have content aggregators or even effective search engines.
the space jam site is one time capsule. even looking at the page source of the pages you can see it was a time where the devs were allowed to have fun
It was cool, you had to talk to people to find out about cool stuff. Now there's nothing to show people they haven't already seen
www.whitehouse.com
It was nice. No one gave a fuck. Now this stuff is built around peopleâs entire lives and income. So yeah itâs not gonna be fun and chill anymore.
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I kind of already knew the places I was visiting were the wild, untamed frontier parts of the internet. Now it's all tamed, controlled, and packaged in a pretty little foil. I hate it. I fucking hate it so much. I want a time machine goddammit.
Use small hobby forums as opposed to Facebook groups and subreddits.
Anything good either implodes or gets taken over eventually. They're also not easy to find tbh
It's gotta be the 10+ year old ones, not the ones created in a reactionary rage.
okay, I know of zero forums created in a reactionary rage and also zero ones that are both 10 years old and non-shit
Get better hobbies then, I'm sure there's astronomy and model airplane ones that fall into this category.
The wild untamed frontier of model airplanes
Pretty sure a few big nerds do some significant amature research on that front. There is probably a many years long, continually active thread somewhere as they document the process they use to make various stealth drones, inspired by lockheed martin concept art that run on a minicomputer, control surfaces, and hard liquor.
Im sure its very interesting if you are into that sort of thing it just made me laugh that those were your examples
...There are model airplane and astronomy forums created in a reactionary rage?
/diy/ is pretty nice
There are plenty of untamed places on the internet. You won't find them easily via Google. I've found a few on Yandex.com. I've found even more from the hidden wiki. But I've also found things I didn't want to find. Things I can't forget. Things that make my hair stand and keep my up at night.
I've trained myself to watch 1man1jar from start to finish without blinking, so I'm sure it can't be all that bad. I'll try to give things a google at yandex, thanks. Though I will be using a VPN and a cookie blocker, since there's no way the Russians have the same attitude towards privacy the west does
VPN isn't the preferred way anymore. At least, for a few people I know living in countries that monitor these kinds of things, a VPN is a huge flag to everybody saying "I'M HIDING SOMETHING." The preferred method these days is a VPS to obstinate the traffic a little better.
But I'm telling you, if you find the hidden wiki and go into that hole, if you look you'll find things much worse that 1man1jar. Much, much worse.
Why does it matter if it's a flag if they don't know who I am? The service I use keeps the minimum amount of data from its users for the minimum length of time, which means as long as I avoid stuff at the level of cheese pizza (and boy was that a skill I had to learn) I'm not really worth going after for the mundane kind of mischief I get up to
I like your approach. Go for it!
Super nostalgic for the old internet. Back when it was relaxed and cool and "politics" was the realm of nerds and fucking losers. Unironically, Livejournal users saved my life when I was in a bad place. Miss those days of chilling and "surfing."
Memes were about funny stuff and awkward everyday occurrences , now all memes need to gate keep something or have a political opinion
Gamers back then we're a pain in the ass tho
if you want to surf then check out https://neocities.org/browse
oh I'm all over that; I even have my own site. Good times.
I had a similar trip when I recently saw the leek dance again. Shit used to be so great before the normies got on the internet
Ah shit. I totally forgot about that dance. Reminds me that I haven't seen the Numa Numa dance guy video in ages. Used to watch both of those almost obsessively. le sigh
Things used to be so fun
I want that playlist
disgusting follow uppity yam quicksand zonked crawl head mysterious quickest
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When people actually disconnected. You'd log into the forums maybe once a day. If you were having an argument with someone, it could take weeks to finish. Threads that were years old and hundreds of pages deep. The dreaded Photobucket placeholders cause the images got deleted on a thread that would have helped you solve your niche technical problem.
I wish an elder in here pointed us to an old archive to see what the golden internet looked like
Back when nobody was milking every ounce of traction for money or clout or whatever dumb shit they do now, shit was golden. People would make flash games as passion projects making only a few bucks back in ads from it getting hosted on sites.
Now you canât get a single YouTube video without purchase pushing coming your way.
Not that any of the people who put their time and effort into a project donât deserve to be paid, but the end product is different when you slot in an ad or donation begging.
I guess itâs that nothing feels genuine anymore.
Why create to create when you can create to get paid?
Yt for real trained all the youtubers with demonetisation, so many people censor themselves and the shilling is through the roof
The internet from the late 90s to the early 2000s was perfect. Little to no corporate oversight, vbulletin message boards where you could call people đr and theyâd call you đr and nobody would report anything to the gay mods (who also didnât care), and things like Napster, Kazaa, limewire, and the rest. 4chan is the one of the last places still like that.
4chan died a long time ago.
It's summer all the time.
/pol/ has infested not just 4chan but the rest of the internet as well, this is what happens when you not only let a cancer board exist but not even moderating it.
/pol/ would just be /pol/ some place else, people are going to be unhinged schizo racists somewhere
Yes, but when it's just a dude on a street corner with no support from others people rightly roll their eyes and ignore those fools. When it's a collection of like minded persons the real chance for real problems exist.
Moderating ruined the internet
Jannies should do some moderation magic and ban IPs that use /pol/ from the other boards. /his/ is completely ruined by weird racists.
4chan has dropped so hard. I remember having hundreds of quality greentexts saved from the ~2010 era. Each of them were bangers
Today all you see is "wholesome" normie shit
some i remember of the top of my head are
that fucking ogre and those thumbs...
Mind sharing them?
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NO WAY REALLY
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no way, thank you so much i have very fond memories of reading braincels on the way to school in the morning
Same my dudes, same.
Um can anyone tell me what braincels is? I am new to 4chan
r/4chan
The old /b/ was truly a place to experience
Ah yes, gore or CP roulette
I remember going on AOL in the late 90s and early 00s when I was in 6th grade and entering Chatrooms not knowing they were pedo Chatrooms.
12/m/cali I was just looking for frens my age. Never would have thought 13/f/cali was actually an old man.
Loved me some aol chat rooms. Kid me with my date of birth in my email would join the 50+ rooms and try to pretend I was an old lady, tried to blag that my date of birth in the email was actually a grandkids, they didnât buy it.
Kazaa!
I recently tried remembering the other program other than limewire was that I was using. Thanks!
MetallicaBlackFullAlbum.mp3.exe
GTA-San-Andreas.rar (42KB)
And bearshare between kazaa and limewire for me
Woooow, I had even forgotten that I knew bearshare...
Limewire was about as safe as fucking a prostitute raw. Good times
I still got kicked off AOL for using a punter on someone.
Punters were the shit lol.
The GUIâs were awesome and auto drawing cart man in chat rooms was hilarious.
Good times
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It's more the porn, 95% of posts are trainyporn. I think the elite floods it with this shit to get rid of the last free speech website on the internet.
I remember the last time I went to see if there was anything funny on /b/ in a long while, and it was literally nothing but porn. Never been back.
Fuck bro those torrents you listed brought me back. I used to also use âariesâto dl music. I remember i only got internet towards the end of high school when broadband came out and i was capped and 200mb per month. Used to get VCDâs from a couple of guys from school. Used to pay a couple bucks for the latest film still in cinemas.
Youtube poops were basically the same shit we have now. Make video, slap on a thousand FX, call it a day. Same shit. It's just that video editing software isn't as limited as it was back then so there are more effects to slap on now.
Man I miss old school YouTube poops. I used to watch them (and make them) all the time as a small kid. Usually the YTP is pretty rare and take a long time to make nowadays, but they're actually still really good.
true but even back then i thought they were cringe
Agree. YTP was always for retarded kids
:(
PINGAS hahaha maaan PINGAS
DINNER!
Back then Youtube Poops didn't have to dodge algorithms that prevent piracy.
I now see the similarities between the words and concepts of shitposting and youtube-poops.
Does anyone remember the 4chan movies that came out long before ytp? They were basically just a bunch of the most popular gifs from 4chan at the time set to rock ballads kik lost horizon or dragon force. And letâs not forget 4chan city.
The old days when people thought the song is called Levan Polkka
YTMND was the best, (generally the) most creative meme website on the earlier internet. You had like a 10mb limit where you could upload a gif and an mp3 and thats all you had to work with. I wish I could download and archive that entire site somehow. AND that was round about when youtube first got popular. They had entire TV series on there and nobody cared. I could go on and on.
I don't know how complete this is, but archive.org quite a lot of ytmnd archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20180723152512/http://ytmnd.com/sites/top_viewed/alltime/1
You could use a tool like HTTrack website copier or similar tool to then pull your own site copy and read it in your browser from that local folder.
Holy shit this is memory lane
Oh man, YTMND really brings me back. http://polandtoolkitagain.ytmnd.com/
I miss watching YouTube without having to fast-forward through sponsors.
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Does that work on PS4?
Old youtube is nostalgic, but a lot of it is humor I've grown out of.
I remember they had a 'New' feed where you could refresh to see what new videos were being uploaded in real time (or per refresh). It's so much more massive now with hundreds of videos being uploaded every second.
Back in my day, we would've called this guy something, but I can't remember what it was because I'm old.
GONADS AND STRIFE
This one hit me
don't worry, the rickroll lives on in reddit as the most repeated joke of all time next to I did nazi that coming
We used to be a network of people, now we're a network of bots
miniclip.com is no more...
free online games just feels different from what it used to be
crazy monkey games is still up though and it seems like it hasn't changed since like 2012 lmao, i love it
free online games used to only have ads, now it's all premium currency and shit. when it was just ads, the game needed to be fun and addictive to keep you playing => more ad rev. with premium currency they want the game to feel almost fun but slow, so you believe if you buy the premium currency it'll be exactly what you want. but that cant give you everything you want or you wont buy more currency. basically a tease. also they put adds too.
though, there are still good free games out there. itch.io comes to mind.
what year are you talking about with freeonlinegames? i was thinking around 2005, they seemed to be pretty good around then. i was an early user of adblock though so never really had the misfortune of seeing ads.
Some of the best, most polished and complete free games I played were from the late 90s. I cant remember many of their names. Jetmen REVIVAL was fun, there was a SHMUP I used to play but can't remember, lots of shooters and other stuff. I used to search far and wide for all local coop games at that age, and I played a lot of them.
I'm sure there are more great games today, but they're harder to find. So much shovelware..
I randomly looked at my wife last week and said "you know what leak spin is?". She had a confused look on her face, and said "no" in a way that says that she doesn't even want to know (she thought it was going to be bad, like meat spin lol). I continued to put it on YT and leave it on repeat for about 30 minutes.
I miss the old internet.
People always seem to forget the five million advice dog clones.
Google used to be good.
it didn't keep moving the fucking search options below the query box as well. it used to just be web | images | videos | maps etc. now it keeps fucking flipping around in a shit attempt to guess what you want.
I like to think this side of the Internet still exists. It's just overshadowed by good old big business.
Nostalgia's a hell of a drug
Being nostalgic about before it became a money making scheme, realise the boomers that became hippies because that was the trend are the same people telling us we are lazy and disrespectful.
Every eras divergent always becomes the homogenized to the last eras motion.
Look at how many iceberg youtubers there are, when a idea can be monetized it will be and everything uncharted about it will die
As a kid I remember being really into gameboy ROMs, being active on Emuparadise, creating Geocities websites, playing CS 1.6, laughing hard at Decline of Video Gaming animations by the Super Flash Bros, and chatting with online friends on MSN Messenger... Good times... Simpler days.
claims to be old
thinks YouTube is old
MAN I'm old, even the people who think they're old were babies when YouTube came out
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Remember when files slowly stopped being .rm and started being .mpg? Good times
Yeaah that's what I also got from this. This is just nostalgia from their childhood, not the internet beeing better.
15 years old
memes
Thinks he knows what internet was
You could comment naggerfiggot on YouTube and not get banned. The good ol days.
When the original rickroll came out in 2007 the world wide web was 18 years old. In 3 years it will be just as distant from the invention of the WWW as it does >current year.
When i watched bleach for the first time and saw that scene i feel to my knees remembering the good ol days
Real and true
what a drama queen
I believe the early 'media' phase of the internet (distinct from the early internet) was still at it's time, a place that largely was inaccessible or undiscoverable if you werent reasonably intelligent and had weird interests that normal life did not satiate.
Nostalgia is also pretty useless, generally speaking. It's a failure to move on and longing for times when life was easier. But I think this phase of the internet demonstrates how good society can be with more free time and an active effort to shun stupid capitalistic garbage
This made me go look up the "important videos" playlist only to find out it's gone. RIP to a real one
I dunno, I laugh at lots of memes in this subreddit, more than I ever laughed at stupid memes back in the "good old days"
The whole reason we still played outside back then is because there just wasn't that much good shit on the internet at the time.
no it's because not every website we used was carefully designed to drip feed us just the right amount of dopamine at just the right interval to make sure that we never get bored and go do something else. there was still an endless list of shit to do/watch we just didn't have brain rot lol.
I remember the internet as somewhere you get alot of free stuff from music to software aswell as tons upon tons of content that was mainly jokes, shit posts and parodies. Now its just data harvesting, getting you to sign up to 2 million accounts and non stop bombardment of buy this or trial this. Internet used to be an express lane to things you wanted.
Peak internet was 2015/16 era. After that it's been all downhill.
The internet was the best before people/zommer got to sensitive and will literally trigger at anything
To make it worse, their defenders were the moderators/administrators
Yeah was nice and simple back then
Geocities and Angelfire were your little personal spaces on the web. Please sign my guestbook!
Could say the same thing about Millennials never enjoying MOOs and MUDs of the early 90s. Those were the real pioneer days of the internet. It was perfect.
5100st person to upvote this.
Idc if its not perfect. I got the 100 part at least
The only influencers at the time were Jenna marbles and Ray William Johnson
I remember the only other ones were the "Ranting community" (UTF1127, Archfiend, imustdestroyall, JJDiscussions) who were influencers for the basement philosopher
Gen z made internet worse with their shitty memes
Old internet had shitty and cringey memes all the same, if not more, but I agree that internet celebrities should've never even been a thing in the first place.
Normalise bullying internet celebrities
Thatâs what happens when you go through economic crisis after economic crisis.
anon is literally boomerposting, this is the exact shit people complain about when boomers say âman things used to be way better in the old days before the internetâ
the internet was full of garbage before and it still is full of garbage. nothing has changed, you just dont remember the old garbage because why would you
the internet is dead and its a damn shame
ugh itâs just not like 8 years but I still watch vine compilations
My favorite is the âRoad work ahead?â One, me and my sister reference it every time we seen one of those signs
The Internet is a contaminated sack of dog wank now. There is no integrity. No sincerity. Just watered down shit as fake as gender identity politics.
The internet was so great back then. An area where mostly intellectuals went to.
Memes are better than ever, but definitely a lot less creative people are circulating them due to stealing them and remaking them.
Especially people on TikTok. They will legitimately see something funny someone made, and do their raggedy ass remake of it.
I dunno man when I was in hs it was that stupid dancing baby, moo moo farms, invisible pink unicorn, all your bases belong to us, its a trap, goatse, demotivationals, that fucking hamster dance trash, and last page of the internet.
We got better.
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Cackles
The mid 00s were the absolute best.
Raids and LJ trolling. I was a loser ED troll lol.
Reddit trolling is weak as fuck. Everyone is so fucking sensitive and all us oldfags have rhino skin.
Mew mew mew get help mew mew
now itâs Wojaks all the way down
Sigh
Fuck it, every day is holiday.
All your base are belong to us is a certified hood classic though
Yeah now its all ads.
Its not better. Its worse in every way.
None of our late 90s stuff aged well except Caturday shit, but at least we didnt have feeds based on logs.
Why back in MAH day
everyone keeps lamenting on the past, even back then you'd have people talking of the true "good times." Face it, you're just unhappy and would also be unhappy then. Don't blame change, blame yourself
Yeah it was different for sure. But now we have tons of socially acceptable kiddie porn available at our fingertips. There's literally 13 year olds with giant asses and tits (thanks to phytoestrogens in our food and water) in thongs and see-trough t-shirts on tiktok and insta jumping around making their ass wiggle but disguised as "a viral dance-video".
So it isn't necessarily all bad.
ancient image macro memes are terrible tho. all the socially awkward penguin and advice dog shit aged poorly
That's why there is 4chan.
Rètard shoved his rose tinted glasses 3 meters up his deep colon.
>t. zoomer
If i didn't see it i wouldn't know, cunt
seething just cause u missed out
Been there, done that.
whassa? is Imold som kinda new moldy Crapple thang? idot LOL đđđ
It really boils down to two things: monetization and cringe culture. I think I don't have to explain the monetization part, but cringe culture really was really not a positive thing. It basically screwed any creativity and fun that early internet had. And being cringe isn't even that bad. Seriously the internet was better pre 2016 in my opinion. (I know this may not be the right subreddit for it, but Gamergate was just absolutely idiotic and didn't accomplish a thing in the end. Post about how they made bioshock or fallout, political, that's all it was.)
This hit hard. Damn.
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man i feel this
It is so rare to see people make videos anymore purely because they like making videos. Everyone seems to be in it just to make money.
Gaming on the early internet was incredible. 56k dialup was damn awful but you enjoyed the games, pvp was excellent and people bitching after a game was the rarity not the norm.
I mold.jpg
Pre 2012 was basically the wild west of the internet
Does anyone have any ancient-ass memes?
I miss the edgy humour more than anything, 2011-2015 era youtube. Thank god efukt still exists
Okay let's do this LEEROOOOOOOOOOOOYYYYYYY MMMMJEEEEENKINNNNNNNSSSSS
Real human bean
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What's I mold.jpg?
The shit I did online as a kid in the 90s/early-2000s Iâd probably have multiple felonies and federal crimes if I did nowadays - it was mostly spamming/script hacking/or posting shock images to be edgy.
I can hear that picture.
Also, sad =/
But there is Amogus now.
This sounds like a pathetic old man longing for the days of radio teleplays.
The thing was we were mostly outcasts and nerds doing outcast and nerd things in a not so popular medium. At least not popular for the masses since social media wasn't in every person's cellphone back then yet.
It was obvious the same old TV and magazines behavior was going to overtake our old internet once the social media became the main mass media tool.
Most of that shit was corny as fuck and itâs evident by what most Redditors laugh at, as most curmudgeonly users of this app are obvious relics of that era
Leakspin was pretty awesome.
Yeah, anyone who hung out on /b/ circe 2004-2010 knows what's up.
It was filthy, depraved and sometimes horrible, but it was fucking funny.
So many worthy trolling operations originated from there.
few people trying to sell you something
it certainly has become harder, but not impossible. Ublock origin + sponsorblock + streamlink gui. Even noscript if you want a nuclear option but that often breaks the entire site
Remember rage comics
Thing I miss the most about old internet was old Gmod. The shit people could do back then made it the most unique thing I've ever seen. Communities of people just having fun doing stupid shit, servers didn't have their own shitty websites for rules, mods just went around and fucked with people instead of giving "omega special god tier" to the 14 year old with Moms credit card. Was awesome
Anon is a boomer.
Once people told boomers that AOL wasn't the internet, they all got online and ruined everything.
Less boobs back in the day though
Growing up on the internet from 2000-2012 for middle school, highschool, and college was great. The zoomers will never experience a organic and mostly politics free internet.
The only political stuff was people making fun of how dumb George Bush was. Pretty epic and based times.
I haven't heard a "Bush did 9/11" joke in so long it genuinely makes me sad
you can get banned for it now
This is the shit that killed the internet as it was. All the banning for nothing
Thatâs because all the mods and admins lack testosterone.
Especially impressive considering how many take testerone
Fuckin wrecked em.
Dayum
The pussywhipping is too real, people really becoming tards to get some tier 0 pussy
I dunno. I think part of it was the younger generations not realizing the sarcastic humor and assholery were just jokes online and starting thinking that's what you should be like irl.
The opposite. The boomers found 4chan, or rather⌠grifters who wanted to grift boomers realized that exporting internet bs and without the context of âeverybody is lying on this websiteâ you suddenly get some brain-diseased yoga aunties and racist stepfathers thinking that Trump is working for a secret organization that is going to fight the shadow government.
Lol, yup.
Basically what happened.
Boomers ruin literally everything, and basically the fact that Chan of all places blew their fucking minds is wild to me.
An image board in 2015 fucking ruined the world lol.
What?
Playground bullying has turned to cyberbullying. I dont buy this story that the new generation somehow doesnât know how to behave on the internet. If anything the people who didnât grow up with the internet are having trouble differentiating a troll from sincere statements or real from fake news.
That's the most retarded thing I've ever heard. Getting "cyberbullied" (trolled) by randoms on the internet is not like being rejected and abused by your immediate peers whom you wish to be your friends in a completely natural real-life/world social environment that humans evolved to have and have had for 10,000 years.
You realize you can be cyberbullied by people you know irl, right?
Being excluded from group chats, or having people tagging you anytime they make a dumb joke is on par with schoolyard antics.
That's just regular bullying through digital media.
Cyberbullying is generally harassment from people you know.
I agree with you in that "cyberbullying" i.e being trolled by some guy halfway around the world is fucking stupid, but kids are just as dickish as always and now have a way to contact people to fuck with them 24/7.
I've seen this kind of thing get nasty. A group of people making accounts faster than you can block them to send deeply personal and hurtful messages, recording you bring assaulted and uploading it to laugh about it, and of course the police won't do anything cause it's just kids being kids.
I think cyberbullying is a bad term for it. It invokes images of what you said, some crybaby refreshing the page 20 times after responding to an insult from some random on the internet accusing them of cyberbullying. Maybe digital harassment would paint a clearer picture?
Edit: I had my feed sorted by top posts in the last month and didn't realize, sorry for the necro
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What the fuck? Reddit admins don't allow you to call prople cu**s?
Bush flew holograms into the towers so he can bomb Arabs
Mostly because more people don't think it's a joke anymore, just a fact.
I've noticed that with more censoring going on, the more "dumb" the general public becomes. The main line of thinking, "Oh nobody wants us to talk about this subject, and since it goes against what everyone else is saying, it might be true." is the main factor in it. Back in the day, you could call a person a fucking idiot and tell them why at the same time. Nowadays it's just an automatic ban, reinforcing that thought process in their head that there's some truth in whatever random (and false) idea they have without the explanation on why it's a stupid idea
Contrarians have always existed.
But back in 2002 your life was barely affected if you got banned from an internet platform. Nowadays its a core part of everybodyâs social and professional life.
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Reddit is the most censored platform
Wat?
We're living in the post beginning of technocratic society.
This was the entire thesis of the Colonel AI's speech at the end of Metal Gear Solid 2, people above the average joe "filtering junk info and dangerous topics" because they want to control us, and attempt to socially construct a system of complete control by policing what people do online
Remember epstein.
Midwit take
lol most people do not think that...
Bush did 9/11
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Kony/Harambe 2012
Colby 2012
Cheesy joke
Jet fuel can melt meme dreams
Not as sad as when Bush had to stop reading to kindergartners to be told that nobody would know he did 9/11
but didnât
Search up âGeorge bushâ on newgrounds for a blast
BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER
MUSHROOM MUSHROOM!!!
Some might have been albinoblacksheep tho... I don't remember and they traded so much in reupload.
In school where we just messed around with KidPix all day, coming home to play games on candystand.com. Checking out new videos on Flowgo, Homestar Runner, Newgrounds, and MondoMedia.
Playing a little Lego Junkbot Undercover and Elf Bowling/Myst/Pajama Sam on XP.
Fuck, take me back.
Lmao fuckin Kid Pix.
I remember in the computer lab, the r-slurred kid in our class would routinely print out like 40 fucking single-sided copies of his art and the teachers were too technologically impaired to know how to stop him, so he would just burn through entire packages of paper printing out a bunch of fucking scribbles and shit.
Eventually more kids caught on and lo and behold you had kids printing out the length of the fucking LOTR trilogy in paper and decimating ink cartridge after ink cartridge.
And obviously the only solution to this problem was to ban our entire class from the computer lab instead of learning how to cancel print requests. Boomer teachers were just built different đ¤
I think the fuck around and find out school of teaching was better.
In college, my mate and I wrote a tiny programme with an endless loop of the ASCII code for "system beep" and dropped in into the startup folder of every PC in our lab. It was fun until our ears started bleeding. Imagine 30-40 fire alarms going off, each slightly out of sync
Fucking homestar runner! Shit that made super nostalgic
Mondo media was the shit. Besides HTF, they had great shows as Dick Figures and Deep Space
As you can see fellow-kids, i'm one of you's...
What? I don't think you've understood my post. I'm saying that these are things that I miss from the earlier internet.
It always amuses me how The Ultimate Orgy, a gay porn parody Flash animation of The Ultimate Showdown, some how has better animation and music than the original.
HEY! I mean yes, what you say is true but...Do we need to reveal our secret topping fantasies to the younger gens? Let them assume we were all chads. It's easier this way.
Ultimate orgy exists and it's actually better. Let's leave it as that: an enigma for future gens (except for that missed rhyme...you know the one. The subtitles had to emoticon it instead... *blew batman....;)*)
Ehh, there's no harm in showing the sillier side of the old Internet.
You don't get that kind of crass but harmless fun these days.
Don't forget Pico's School, Alien Hominid, Dad's Home
Mister Rogers in a blood stained sweater.
Damn, i dont even remember the site but i remember the name. Feels like a lifetime ago.
I think the tourettes guy soundboard was the last thing i really dug into trying to find, and thats been a few months.
I remember playing a flash game in elementary school where you play as Bush defending the white house from terrorists.
You play as Condalezza Rice for part of it too
Osama Bin Laden - Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide is a fucking classic.
Or the good old "Yo mama, Osama"
You know what those people were fucking moronic and useless. I don't miss it.
remember the flash games of bush as interactive buddy lmao.
the bush / Michael jackson games from that time would never make it today.
Ron Paul 2008!!!
End the Fed!!!
jibjab.com in 5th grade was the shiz
It disgusts me to read shit like "If you block ads how will the internet exist" as if the internet was not one quadrillion times better before it was ad-supported.
If they didn't want me to block ads then they shouldn't have made them so fucking awful.
to be fair, there were popup and banner ads for other internetcrap like scams or casinos everywhere. it just wasnt normal ad stuff or social media campaigns based on user data and stuff.
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me too, me too....
Yep. The internet can and should be free, and anyone telling you otherwise is a s h i l l for something.
I used to have NetZero free internet.
I don't mind ads but integrations are just awful.
"SOCIETY WILL SOON COLLAPSE FOR MULTIPLE REASONS AND IT IS OUR WEIGHT TO BEAR but first a word from our sponsor...Established titles!!!"
I can't wait for the presidential speeches to be sponsored by some energy drink and to see those 65yo men pretending to be sk8terboiz
I mind ads. I do everything in my power to not see any.
Advertisers can fuck right off. They do not need to exist.
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no chance brother, the moment smart eyeglasses are made, those will be the PRIME target for advertising, not ad blocking
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The dream
Get sponserblock makes youtube a million times better
F reddit and F corporate greed
Okay then keep watching ads dumb dumb
Everything has to cater to you without you putting any effort. Dumb fuck.
F reddit and F corporate greed
Then how else would they pay their shitty content creators to make derivative uninspired videos?
They shouldn't be getting paid and should only be making content out of passion.
this already happens
President Trump brought to you by Goya beans.
There should only be one sponsor for Presidential speeches:
Brawndo
Ben Shapiro is the undisputed king of switching to an ad mid-paragraph. Buying gold is a great way to defend yourself against inflation and I always buy my gold from Birch Gold Group. Theyâve been in business for almost twenty years and have been trusted by over 13,000 customers. If you want to take action to shield your assets from inflation today contact Birch Gold. He might not be your cup of tea but itâs worth listening to at least one of his episodes to see how good he is at just sliding right in to an ad, sliding right back out, and youâre left thinking, âwait what happened and why didnât I think to skip forward.â
"oh but we wouldn't have content if people didnt have sponsorships and patrons and ads and shit"
Yes we fucking would; we did. People make content because it's fun, just look at YouTube circa 2007. Or YTMND. or even 4chin.
Monetization ruined the web.
This seems like a weird take. I was on the internet in the (late) 90s and ads were fucking terrible. They werent integrated into shit, but going to a website and getting 5 different popup windows was pretty much the norm.
The govt was better too.
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How fucking appropriate for this thread.
2000s Internet was peak.
S H I L L
flagspit
They'll never experience politics free anything
A world were the living envy the dead.
Albino Black Sheep
You mean before companies realized they could make money off it
Early days of 4Chan were like the Wild West. Today it is a very tame facsimile.
It was the wild west, now it's Westworld. The tame attractions (social media, shit news websites) are now trying to kill us.
I'd say the reverse, it wasn't filled to the brim with paranoid conspiracy theorists back in like 2005 lol
Same, I even miss how it took work to find a picture of tits on internet. Now everyone is a porn addicted degenerate and youâre looked at funny if youâre not.
Worst part is you had to wait a full minute for a high res image to load top-down horizontal section by section.
"Cute face, but plz have nice tits!"
Not at the time where tits were results for everything. Searching for games? Tits. Looking for funny videos? Tits. Wanted to download a song? Nope, porn. Second page of google results for anything was always tits
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Shoutout to all the restaurant manager games on old Newgrounds đ
agreed, long live AIM and ICQ
I'm sad i wasn't good at English and was to poor for a pc, i missed a lot of good Internet stuff
I'll say tho early 2010-2015 wasn't the worst
Around 2018 is when the net really felt like it went through changes, all the advertisers
Lmao. No, last week wasn't that bad, it specifically this week, when everything went downhill. Hell, when I woke up, at 9 am the internet was pretty decent, but now, at 2:22 it's just a mess.
I fucking loved Habbo and RuneScape at their peak. I was 13 in 2005 and the internet still felt very raw and "make shit kind of work and sell it".
if u grew up from 2000-2012, u were a zoomer
Born before 95, millennial
An* organic. Fucking idiot.
Are you regarded? If you grew up on the internet in those years you literally are a zoomer.
I was born before 95 so I was a millennial.
I mean I didnât get a computer till 2004 when I was 12 and Iâm definitely not a zoomer, lol.
Zoomers were definitely using the internet in that time period.
People seem to forget that Gen Z/Zoomers are 1996-2010. I was born in 1997 and have used the internet since 2002 when my friend at school told me I could find stuff for Pokemon Sapphire online and have used it since. Yeah I didn't go on any forums or chatrooms and talked with anyone until I got into old Roblox in 5th grade, but I was still pursuing GameFAQs, Wikipedia, YouTube, and other websites long forgotten to time. I imagine there's a lot of people around my age who are Zoomers with a similar story to me. Just cause we were quiet (and way too young) doesn't mean we weren't there lol
Wtf I come back with a bunch of downvotes. Why? I literally didn't even say anything inflammatory or wrong. Do you guys just not like the idea that zoomers used the internet back then? Because we did lol
1997 feels really borderline zoomer - a lot of 97 kids who grew up with kids a few years older are basically millenials
I got downvoted too and I don't know why. I was born in 2000 and was using the internet well before 2012.
I miss vine
âMostly politics freeâ
Uhhhh dude Kanye was an active poster on /b/ if you catch my drift
Rose tinted contact lenses
No
Always one that says this crap when they have zero context of how it was free.
It was not politics free, you were merely not in that section of the internet and look at the past with rose tinted glasses. Most Gen Alpha kids are looking at Fortnite, Apex or whatever game they play's highlight reel, they aren't going to fucking look at politics neither. Also, 4chan was literally covered in CP with 0 moderation, especially in /b/. Posting CP was literally "HAHA GOT YOU" shit trolling moment like Rickroll and Pedobear was worshipped with him having the most memes. Stop reminiscing your echo chamber.
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Millenials got the watered down version of internet too. The 90s was the true wild west of the net.
I was at the tail end of AOL and dial-up, it was not fun.
I was in grade school when that Web died out
I still get flashbacks whenever I accidentally stumble across a long-dead forum or one of those âJackâs Placeâ websites that still exist
Motherfucker, I am a zoomer and I remember that internet.
Last man out desperate to show he was there.