Oldfag / Old Internet Sperging Thread - ILJ calls herself "anonymous," she is a hacker on steroids.

TaimuRadiu said:
Also when search engines weren't shit and I could actually find something using them.
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I also miss this. Google really went to hell in 2016. Not just because of the wrongthink damage control shit (although that is a huge part of it), but because they changed their algorithms to show paid search results up front, and ALWAYS show sites with high levels of traffic first, even if they're less relevant.

Let's say I wanted to search for astronomy or mythology or something. It used to be Google would offer whatever best fit the keywords you put it. Now, no matter what combination of keywords you use, Google slaps the exact same "highly visited" "most popular" websites first. It's annoying because the most popular sites definitely does not automatically mean the best information or most detailed obscure information.

You have to dig back to page 5 or 10 to get an actually find some different fucking websites now. It's made research such a pain. And it's a self-perpetuating system because whatever is at the top always gets the most clicks.
 
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Bad Take Crucifier said:
I also miss this. Google really went to hell in 2016. Not just because of the wrongthink damage control shit (although that is a huge part of it), but because they changed their algorithms to show paid search results up front, and ALWAYS show sites with high levels of traffic first, even if they're less relevant.

Let's say I wanted to search for astronomy or mythology or something. It used to be Google would offer whatever best fit the keywords you put it. Now, no matter what combination of keywords you use, Google slaps the exact same "highly visited" "most popular" websites first. It's annoying because the most popular sites definitely does not automatically mean the best information or most detailed obscure information.

You have to dig back to page 5 or 10 to get an actually find some different fucking websites now. It's made research such a pain. And it's a self-perpetuating system because whatever is at the top always gets the most clicks.
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Google: you just searched for "how to tie a hangman's noose"! Here's some anti-suicide websites.

Bing: this is how you tie the knot and this is where you can go buy rope.
 
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Bad Take Crucifier said:
I also miss this. Google really went to hell in 2016. Not just because of the wrongthink damage control shit (although that is a huge part of it), but because they changed their algorithms to show paid search results up front, and ALWAYS show sites with high levels of traffic first, even if they're less relevant.

Let's say I wanted to search for astronomy or mythology or something. It used to be Google would offer whatever best fit the keywords you put it. Now, no matter what combination of keywords you use, Google slaps the exact same "highly visited" "most popular" websites first. It's annoying because the most popular sites definitely does not automatically mean the best information or most detailed obscure information.

You have to dig back to page 5 or 10 to get an actually find some different fucking websites now. It's made research such a pain. And it's a self-perpetuating system because whatever is at the top always gets the most clicks.
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Is the same crap on all social media, sponsored stuff, paid ads and people who are already popular (most of which are corporate cocksuckers) go to the top of any feed, everything else gets hidden, you might post something that might only show up for a couple people from your own follower list or you may be even be shadowbanned and not know it, even posts on groups or with hashtags might not show up at all or get taken down quickly.

There used to be a feeling that literally anything could become viral spontaneously but that is dead, virality has an air of pre-planned fakeness to it lately. Something viral today is something a couple faggots influencers retwetted or something an ad agency paid to trend, not something that brew in the autistic belly of the interwebz.
 
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Another underrated sign of oldfag cred is a 2 to 6 digit Slashdot UID#.
 
LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV] said:
Is the same crap on all social media, sponsored stuff, paid ads and people who are already popular (most of which are corporate cocksuckers) go to the top of any feed, everything else gets hidden, you might post something that might only show up for a couple people from your own follower list or you may be even be shadowbanned and not know it, even posts on groups or with hashtags might not show up at all or get taken down quickly.

There used to be a feeling that literally anything could become viral spontaneously but that is dead, virality has an air of pre-planned fakeness to it lately. Something viral today is something a couple faggots influencers retwetted or something an ad agency paid to trend, not something that brew in the autistic belly of the interwebz.
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It's not the same but Wojaks go viral still. Modern systems currate feeds to hard for anything organic to happen. All your followers aren't being given all your posts so any chance of hitting the jackpot is flushed down the toilet. Phone and tablets becoming primary devices limits what users can do with viral media too. You can sketch or edit a wojak or pepe but you're not doing any heavy video editing or making youtubepoops.
Spooky Bones said:
do newfags even know what slashdot is?
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Is there a reason to? Checking it now it's nothing but marketing, clickbaity liberalism and pro-covid measures. Slashdot used to be nerds who pushed freedom above all else and now it looks like every other website out there. Same politics, same marketing, same lack of people posting there. Is the Slashdot effect real any more?
 
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Antichamber said:
What era are we talking here because it's questionable if it represents any of them.

1.0 was educational and nerds with blogs. Which obviously isn't represented by a forum full of personal info on people. Private info should have been kept off the internet and KF sharing it so openly is against the spirit. Discussion was all behind a paywall on usenet where experts trolled you via e-mail.

2.0 is social media defined by anonymous users on 4chan. KF isn't anonymous and has post histories so that's not in the spirit of the peak of 2.0. I saw KF posters earlier calling people's opinions invalid because they didn't have a year old account. Anons left forums because of that mentality and their cultural impact defined the 2.0 era more than any other group.

What spirit does KF represent you think fits? You can say nigger and faggot but is that really the spirit of either era?
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1.0 internet was not just nerds and usenet blogs. Plenty of trolling happened, mostly to fuck with/identify newfags from outside communities.

Add to that, playing retard to get people upset and post practical essays on how you're wrong, only to double down Ken M. style has been around since at least the late 80s.
 
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Antichamber said:
Define those eras then genius. Usenet/Slashdot with dotcom bubbles and then 4chan /b/ and later /pol/ defined the internet culture of the period.
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Where are we talking? For instance .comp or a.s.h? There was a hell of a lot more than just the main bubbles, bud. Just because you stuck to the normie shit doesn't mean it wasn't there.

As for /pol, I'd argue /b had way more social impact at the time.
 
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RadioactiveMonkeyMan said:
Where are we talking? For instance .comp or a.s.h? There was a hell of a lot more than just the main bubbles, bud. Just because you stuck to the normie shit doesn't mean it wasn't there.

As for /pol, I'd argue /b had way more social impact at the time.
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/b/ wasn't any where near as big as /pol/ at it's peak. Chanology barely made a dent in the mainstream media while /pol/ was getting content featured daily. /b/ never got a CSI episode made about it and helped influence an American election to the degree /pol/ shilled for Trump across the whole internet. Exploding vans and pools closed were more fun, 4chans scale makes /pol/ the definitely 4chan board based on influence. Maybe /r9k/ has a longer reach because of wojak being so drawn out.
 
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Antichamber said:
/b/ wasn't any where near as big as /pol/ at it's peak. Chanology barely made a dent in the mainstream media while /pol/ was getting content featured daily. /b/ never got a CSI episode made about it and helped influence an American election to the degree /pol/ shilled for Trump across the whole internet. Exploding vans and pools closed were more fun, 4chans scale makes /pol/ the definitely 4chan board based on influence. Maybe /r9k/ has a longer reach because of wojak being so drawn out.
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/b existed before /pol, and 2.0 is before the advent of smartphones, aka pre 2010.

What about the Scientology raids? I'd count that as a mainstream impact, guess what? /pol didn't even exist then. You'd know that if you weren't a teenaged altright numpty.
 
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