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

[anustart76]

It was that Codename: Kids Next Door game for me.

Do you remember the Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends MMO? That game was a lot of fun.

 

[No Batty Boys in Jamaica]

Newgrounds, Ebaums, and NothingToxic were peak internet.

 

[1996 Toyota Camry]

Trolling Groups, specifically Youtube.

Not the same as what you meant in this post but similar idea, the early youtube Minecraft trolling groups were great, especially Team Avolition, who have actually recently come out of their hiatus and have begun shitposting once more. Of course new groups doing this still exist now but it isnt the same, these old ones were taking advantage of the very immature game which had very few protections in place, so instead of exploiting pay-to-win servers they could actually break shit and truly ruin someones day and to me that is so much more entertaining to watch

 

[ditto]

Part of the nolstalgia though is that you weren't consuming it alone -- your online friends or RL friends would be there with you, laughing about it. It wasn't the same kind of completely passive doomscrolling style consumption that seems to be the standard now.

That's what makes KF such a comfy place. Just a chill place to gather around and laugh at retarded things on the internet.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

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.

True, but the A/S/L thing have been around for quite a while and it was a big part of the chat environments and early proto-socialmedia in the late 90's. What was more uncommon was the people that didn't care about that at all and it made for fun and diverse groups even if the diversity wasn't known until you met up with someone and realized that oh no I have used such offensive language on the internet.

There was tragic tales as well but they weren't front and center of who someone was, unlike know where it's in the twitter bio along with the gofundme link.

All in all KF is a bit like the old internet.

 

[RSLUG30]

Remember when YouTube let you fully customize how your channel looks when people came to visit?
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I heard these were a bitch to set up, but this truly was a great way to show the kind of personality a channel had when any potential viewers came to visit. Now this, along with many other social sites, all got streamlined to just having a dinky little banner at the top of your channel when viewers came to visit. I get that this was probably easier for the channel owner/less likely to break whenever the site updated but still, way to kill the fun Jewgle.

for most people it wasn't difficult to setup as you needed to be a youtube partner to get custom banners and buttons for those banners.
if you were a regular joe schmoe then you got a choice of profile colours, an avatar, and a profile background; easy enough for even 10 year old me to understand at the time.

 

[ReVeRaNd DoCtOr]

Happy Tree Friends for sure. I used to watch that religiously back when I wad a tween. Also all the other fucked up stuff like fat-pie and celebrity morgue and rotten.com were all favourites.
MSN brings back memories, as does MySpace and live journal and all of that other stuff.
I remember playing this flash game where you had to hide drug paraphernalia from your parents, I think it was called incriminati, but that was a favourite in my erowid days and generally when I started getting high a lot.

 

[Weed Eater]

Does anyone remember the old MySpace games? By the time I was "old enough" for a MySpace account, it's popularity was dwindling and Facebook was becoming the new popular kid.

The one game I remember the most was this one, I used to beg my mom to let me play this on her own account. Like most things, it soon became defunct once Facebook took over and the rise of Farmville happened.

 

[Johnathan E.]

Timecube. The only real truth, never disproven

Time Cube

He was way ahead of the curve on the tranny stuff

 

[No Batty Boys in Jamaica]

I’m old enough to remember when you could make prank calls with near impunity because most people didn’t have caller ID (or if they did, it was the old kind where *67 worked). Then even *67 stopped working and you’d have to walk to one of the remaining payphones and waste $1 to $5 in quarters, which wasn’t worth it.

Then Skype came out and you could prank call people with absolute impunity. The Caller ID would show something like 123-456-7890 or 000-000-0000. Nobody could do shit because the authorities with the capability and jurisdiction to look into it had waaaay bigger fish to fry, so long as you weren’t calling in bomb threats or committing fraud.

The last great Skype prank was in 2013 during the George Zimmerman trial. The court called a witness via Skype, and failed to hide the court’s Skype name. Within seconds, they were bombarded with prank callers. The best was Jaffa, who had an avatar of an African American man in a Santa hat simulating fellatio on a large candy cane.

Zimmerman Trial Skype Bombing

m.youtube.com

 

[Johnny Eastwood cash]

Tagging @LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV] for the hell of it, lol
This video is 16 years old:

And THIS is a work of fucking art.
This is an AMV that was originally made in 1999, remade in 2004, and then HD upscale remasted using machine learning 2 years ago:

Interesting fact anyway here is one I remember watching

 

[Die Dunkle Maus]

There was the ancient predecessor to ED, I think it was called losers.org or something similar. Pages and pages of weirdos, I felt right at home.

Also, my first Tinder, "Fat Chicks in Party Hats". Who needed porn when you had that bookmarked? Not I.

Just a taste of the old scene for you...

The home page of the real, living Peter Pan

Intro Page. Why I became Peter Pan, and what it means for you

pixyland.org

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

 

[Dufe]

Pre-youtube. Individual fan/hate sites that seemingly stopped updating after I found it. I had a lot of folders and subfolders of just these sites to help echo chamber my life.

 

[_Samson_]

I’m old enough to remember when you could make prank calls with near impunity because most people didn’t have caller ID (or if they did, it was the old kind where *67 worked). Then even *67 stopped working and you’d have to walk to one of the remaining payphones and waste $1 to $5 in quarters, which wasn’t worth it.

Then Skype came out and you could prank call people with absolute impunity. The Caller ID would show something like 123-456-7890 or 000-000-0000. Nobody could do shit because the authorities with the capability and jurisdiction to look into it had waaaay bigger fish to fry, so long as you weren’t calling in bomb threats or committing fraud.

The last great Skype prank was in 2013 during the George Zimmerman trial. The court called a witness via Skype, and failed to hide the court’s Skype name. Within seconds, they were bombarded with prank callers. The best was Jaffa, who had an avatar of an African American man in a Santa hat simulating fellatio on a large candy cane.

Zimmerman Trial Skype Bombing

m.youtube.com

Remember IP relay when anyone could use it readily?

 

[behavioral swamp thang]

- silk road on tor back in the day all my friends and i got our fakes there. glows now.
- myst (pc game from 1993) and all the crazy theory sites that spun off that. it was the yuppie approved vidya because it was S M A R T (heres one )
- Lime Wire, hours downloaded to be trolled halfway thru the song "i did not have sexual relations with that woman" lol based
- imDb's old forums, seems like the internet hasn't figured out an effective way to discuss movies/tv since then. they should have left them up, but talking about real art can get offensive like that
- Leisure Suit Larry 1 (PC game passed around) this was before parents knew how sketch the internet could be, so they just accepted anything that was a game as fun. Somehow my old cousin got ahold of this softcore game where the goal was to get scumbag Larry laid. This information is really funny ( right here )
some stills

 

[ditto]

Leisure Suit Larry

Those games were really fun. Elsewhere in pixelated boobs, Vinyl Goddess from Mars which also had very solid gameplay.

 

[Kaktus Kompot]

Not that old, but Sonic coloring book dubs aka Double Nigger always make me laugh. It's surprising they're still up on youtube.

 

[Foxymophandlemama]

Exposing myself as a Brazilian fag, but I miss the Orkut days. I was a kid but those were the times that random content didn't appear before you because of a shitty algorithms. I liked the communities and I downloaded soooo many songs from them.

Also the old Cartoon Network website. There was a Courage game that I would play aaaaall the time and it was really long and fun.

And the forums. I used to chat all the time in the Neopets forums and other random ones. And the fact that you didn't feel like giving out any information about yourself.

In the end I miss the anonymity. Not that I am forced to share everything on the internet, of course, but nowadays I go MATI more than I used to do 15 years ago.

 

[Caesare]

imDb's old forums, seems like the internet hasn't figured out an effective way to discuss movies/tv since then. they should have left them up, but talking about real art can get offensive like that

The IMDB forum for the Karate Kid movies was some of the funniest shit I ever read online. They were full of superfans who loved and were obsessed with the movies but would also interpret them in a different way for laughs, to the annoyance of people who visited the forums but didn't get the joke right away.

They revered the villains of the three movies and described Danielsan and Miyagi as the real villains. It was good times.

- myst (pc game from 1993) and all the crazy theory sites that spun off that. it was the yuppie approved vidya because it was S M A R T (heres one )

That was probably one of the first games the media took seriously as "art". I hated it then and I hate it now. I liked adventure games too, but Myst was retarded.