Favourite "Old Internet" stuff - Let's reminisce about the Wild West days

[Osama Bin Laden]

these aren't the specific ones i wanted to show but it was some of the things i liked when i was young. mad i can't filter 10+ year old videos

 

[Coelacanth]

please elaborate

Linux is, in layman terms, an operating system. It's extremely complicated and hard to describe because the community tends to gatekeep to keep as many normies out as possible (though if I recall there is a Linux thread in the Tech subforum here). Linux Mint is the most beginner friendly - what you basically get is a Windows OS without the AIDS Microsoft keeps adding to try and get people to bend over and take Windows 11 in the ass.

Most frontends for social media sites are either on android or are generally unusable thanks to crappy coding, but the one I use for Youtube, FreeTube, has made video browsing enjoyable again. It only shows you the videos from the people you subscribe to and the ones you search for, meaning you will no longer get JewTube spamming journo channels reporting on how stunning and brave a Drag Queen is for showing the kids how to queef at their local library!

 

[cohesive snake]

I'll have a Jack and Coke and a bottle of Dom

 

[Big Nasty]

Does anyone remember "G Major"? Not the key and scale in music making but like, this weird trend back in the day where people would take an audio file, pitch it up and down a bit and layer them all together with footage that has negative colors to it.

I have no idea why this was ever a thing or why a lot of people did this, but it's cemented itself into old 'net culture and it's just one of those things I look back on and think "oh yeah, that was a thing."

Reminds me of "Nigga Flash Squad" which were animated gifs of photos of black NBA and NFL athletes flashing back and forth with a negative of the same image.

 

[innocent jogger]

Did he said why?

Why she committed suicide? Just said depression.

Why he won't update the site? Crippling inability to get over her suicide.

What White Devil said. If you go to the homepage you will find links to several long essays he has written about it since then. I wish the man the best and hope he can someday move on.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

 

[cybertoaster]

What White Devil said. If you go to the homepage you will find links to several long essays he has written about it since then. I wish the man the best and hope he can someday move on.

Everybody has something that can break them beyond repair, the difference is that for most it never happens, but for those that do its the point of no return.

 

[Hepativore]

Who remembers this little gem?

username: 666

 

[fake farts]

It's been said, but Internet forums. There were so many. Record labels, big ones and small ones, had them. Hobby boards, like wrestling, weightlifting, gaming faggotry, comics, they all had them. Bands had them, even bands with about five listeners. And people would be on all of them, even if it was about five people posting. Each one had its own unique culture too, and if two had a similar interest, sometimes you'd catch familiar usernames of people who'd post on both. People used to invade each others forums for shits and giggles, and they'd make up their own unofficial rules to gatekeep and avoid faggotry (a favorite of an old forum I was on was 'You have to have 500 posts before you can spam your shitty band").

Old 4chan. 2009 and before 4chan, and even 2009 is pushing it. It seemed like once the new decade hit, shit started going downhill. Reddit got popular, pushing 4chan from a place with its own identity ("The Internet Hate Machine", as cringy as that may sound now) to being simply "Not Reddit". Everything became "This is reddit, that is reddit, liking this is reddit". Far cringier than old /b/ ever was. And every few years, something happened that only made it worse.

I miss an old Internet without constant culture war faggotry. I swear, even the height of Iraq war hysteria and Bush Derangement Syndrome wasn't this annoying.

The anonymity and actual diversity. Diversity of thought, the only kind that matters. You could post shit without your life being destroyed. You weren't harangued into using a real name. Shit, on most places, people didn't even care to see your face.

 

[seri0us]

There was always life ruination stuff going on

Like what?

 

[Big Nasty]

Like what?

"tlod u i was hardcore"

Guy OD'd to death just for shits and giggles. But that was on IRC, not 4chan.

 

[Tequila Jong]

Who remembers this little gem?

username: 666

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I loved this when I first saw it, now it's amazing to see what YouTube used to look like.

At any time I can be doing anything throughout my day and suddenly this song just starts blasting in my head. I sang it out loud by accident at work yesterday, to cries of laughter and "what the fuck are you singing?" from my coworkers.

 

[fake farts]

Picard Song

picard.ytmnd.com

Didn't know that it still exists. Also Moonman originated from this site.

I'm amazed YTMND is still up. One thing the old forum I was on used to do was "riff rip offs". https://ytmnd.com/search?q=riff+rip+offs&o=7|all|SC|D|1 My nigga zh666 was from the forum and was the first one to do it. We'd sit around and autistically argue if something was a slowed down, downtuned, sped up, whatever rip off. Fun times.

I miss downloading music videos off file servers on irc channels. I would queue up 2-4 and leave my computer on overnight. Having to wait made getting them precious somehow.

Same here. RIP to my niggas UrbanChaosVideos and all the other video ripping channels on EFNet back in the day. I still have a few of those on an external hard drive and burned to DVD-Rs in storage. They're the size of postage stamps when played on a modern computer.

That's the thing that confuses me - there were tons of us ladies on the web way back in the day and most of us didn't give a damn if others thought we were guys. Nobody cared as long as the content and shitposting we produced was good. I often ask myself when did gender becomes such a huge goddamn issue on the net? because it honestly feels like someone flipped a switch and the landscape changed overnight.

it was basically an unspoken rule back then that you didn't advertise your sex, because if you did, you'd very likely get disgusting orbiters or hostility. So most women just posted alongside the dudes, and only revealed their sex after being well integrated into the community. I will say this though, compared to now, I feel like the Internet was less hostile to women, but that could also because because, like I said, you posted and integrated. I did get one guy who would DM me after I was on a board for a long time, who started to get on my nerves. I cussed him out, it pissed him off, and he never contacted me again. Good decision on my part. He was chatting up some middle aged woman who was on the board too, and she volunteered all sorts of info. After she pissed him off, because he was such a delicate little thing, he dumped all her info in public on the forum.

Doers anyone remember when even Amazon had discussion boards? Usually on a writers page or something. I used to love reading those, especially if someone fell off horribly and started producing dogshit. The fans would tear into how bad their books or music had gotten.

 

[temeluchus]

Given the age of the average tranny odds are those "girls" were actually dudes.

pre tumblr, so actually women. Or at least a really good surgeon.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

It's been said, but Internet forums. There were so many. Record labels, big ones and small ones, had them. Hobby boards, like wrestling, weightlifting, gaming faggotry, comics, they all had them

For some reason the most batshit insane forums around where always the bodybuilding ones.

 

[cybertoaster]

pre tumblr, so actually women.

Not really, this kind of joke was popular because it happened a lot

My point is those teen dudes from the 2000's who were doing it "as a joke" eventually became the 30yo trannies we see now.

 

[fake farts]

For some reason the most batshit insane forums around where always the bodybuilding ones.

I remember a forum I was on coming across a thread on a bodybuilder forum where they discovered dark net/deep web exists. It was pretty funny, seeing these dudes discuss how they thought there was an Internet underneath the Internet.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

I remember a forum I was on coming across a thread on a bodybuilder forum where they discovered dark net/deep web exists. It was pretty funny, seeing these dudes discuss how they thought there was an Internet underneath the Internet.

I had a friend who always showed me weird shit he found on one of those bodybuilding forums, if he had some insane video or was talking about a half baked conspiracy theory i knew he got it from there.

There was also a spanish one called forocoches, it was just a forum created to talk about cars but people used it for any random topic and eventually devolved into more fringe and right wing stuff, it still exists but its probably cucked nowadays

 

[Spergerella]

I have an external hd full of user created content for Sims1 and Creatures3. I feel fairly certain I have everything worth saving, except would anyone else even want them?

I don’t miss finding my dads ASCII Art porn on his basement PC.

 

[Near]

Wish we could turn back time.
To the good old days.