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

[Mothra1988]

A lot of old femslash stuff is gone forever. You know back before troons ruined everything, etc. lol

 

[Sparkley]

Coca Cola's version of Habbo Hotel, Coke Music where you could create music beats with an in-browser music production software from a library of prerecorded samples. You could redeem codes on the bottom of coke bottles for a chance of getting rare items and in game currency, but what me and my friends did was create a bunch of email accounts to register as new users, purchase whatever items we wanted because they gave you 5000 points for signing up and then mailing the items to your main account. That's how we had pimped out cribs. Giving thumbs down ratings to country music and bypassing the word filter was a good time.

Downloading and playing games like Ragnarok Online, Conquer Online, Gunbound, and other F2P Korean games that came loaded with malware when you downloaded them as well as SubSpace: Continuum. Also playing games on shockwave.com, miniclip.com and other sites during computer class while the alcoholic teacher browsed backpage websites during class.

I also remember copying artwork for a junior high art project that involved cartoon animals and being exposed to the furry fandom, one thing I am glad that I did a heel turn on.

 

[Sperghetti]

Isn't it.... weird that in this day and age we find less connection than ever despite being so plugged in as a collective? I mean, I KNOW why, endless bots and corporatism and political/cultural polarization, but nonetheless it weirds me out how hard it is to find people you click with as at least online buddies nowadays. I don't think it's me being a grumpy old man either - younger folks seem to have the same issue. And even when you do find an actual person the internet's become so fucked up it feels harder than ever to get to know 'em for real as you said.

Personally, I think it’s because you can’t really trust that other people won’t be flaky, oversensitive, and high-maintenance anymore. Not that people like that didn’t always exist, but those used to be considered really negative traits so when you ran into someone like that and things didn’t go well, it was easy to just think “geeze, they were a jerk” and move on.

These days, those traits have become not only accepted, but normalized to the point that when you run across someone like that and a conflict happens, it gets framed as being your fault for failing to placate them somehow. I don’t even think there are necessarily more of them, just that the ones that are there are such a hazard that it makes people hesitant to open up to anyone.

It’s hard to make even basic connections with others when you’re always walking on eggshells because you’re worried that one wrong comment might end the relationship (and possibly damage your whole reputation).

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

and possibly damage your whole reputation

At the same time everyone is posting their degenerate private fetishes and TMI personal dramas ever day under their real name to get dopamine hits.

Its a very inverted and twisted value system that has developed

 

[EinTheCorgi42]

Newgrounds and general Adobe Flash stuff.... good times...

 

[Ewan McGregor]

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

Bodybuilding and Gym culture does attract odd and eccentric, if not outright lolcow worthy, personalities.

That said, gyms generally are much more welcoming and bodybuilders are much nicer than most people assume, but a lot of them are cloudcuckoolanders.

 

[Kalsarikännit]

I miss YouTube YLYL videos prior to vine. Vine killed the genre, and every reincarnation of that style of media has continued violating YLYL’s corpse.

 

[nonnita]

https://youtu.be/488YxXFIpz8?si=TWU3dor_LCNugsrb

capirinha​

and
https://youtu.be/zRQoBJ73WaY?si=uHLHj6RbgZpss0Sh

paffendorf​

 

[Night-Owl]

who else has Windows 98 (SE) in virtual machine?

https://github.com/richardg867/WaybackProxy

 

[NoReturn]

They were ahead of time with that formula. Some of those were real brain worms, can't unhear

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[thejackal2]

Def Erowid, which still exists although it isn't nearly as trafficked as it used to be I'd imagine.

 

[Panoramic Overton Window]

This is a sperg but what i really miss is the obscurity. Most people in the 90s didn't have a computer, didn't know how to use them and had no idea what the internet was. Which means the average iq of the internet was 30-40 points higher than it is now.

Absolutely. It was glorious. Then AOL took off and retardation infiltrated cyberspace. Now people too poor and dumb or old to operate a computer have "user friendly" apps on their phones. User-friendliness is convenient but idiocy thrives in such environments.

 

[Overwritten Tapes]

New grounds and that one site where one could download free demos for PC, it's at the tip of my tongue but can't remember it

 

[Ewan McGregor]

The amount of Internet autism you could see in '06 was unparalelled.
Nowadays everything is white people this, oppression that, LGBT rights this, Republicans that...

The Internet got taken over by a swarm of @Android raptor clones

 

[Android raptor]

The Internet got taken over by a swarm of @Android raptor clones

I've been on the internet since like.... 2000, 2001-ish. Lol.

'06 was around when I first started browsing the chans. Fun times.

 

[Anasûrimbor Kellhus]

"yes it is, asshole" "no it isn't cunt.".

wrong in every delusional detail as always, stalker. Enjoy prison.

 

[Friend of Dorothy Parker]

Oh, hello, new fren/fan! Thank you for correcting my experience. I hope you are well - how’s the wife girlfriend waifu Kleenex? Have you recovered from your one chip embarrassment? Things gotten any better for the peasants? Seems like it’s gone downhill in the last few weeks. I understand it’s hard when your heroes are disasters, but don’t worry - surely another January 6 fiasco will save you from your peasant genes. Reality is hard, tho. Too bad, as a mere blip in time ago you almost seemed reasonable.

And to think I extended sympathy to you. (Which I still have, despite you showing up as a bitch.)

 

[Retard#7822]

Newgrounds and general Adobe Flash stuff.... good times...

I used to visit Newgrounds, Ebaums World, Albino Black sheep and Homestar Runner CONSTANTLY as a kid. My little sister was really into that Paul Frank clothes brand (popular early 2000's monkey face on it.) when she was younger and they actually had a pretty good little website styled after Homestar Runner with flash games and videos. We'd spend hours sitting there messing around with it.

I miss hopping on AIM (aol instant messenger for the zoomies out there), the sounds were iconic. I know at this point I sound like a boomer reminiscing on the glory days, but I have to say I miss hopping on Vanilla WoW after school with the boys, good times. I also miss when /b/ wasn't just a degenerate glowy coom pit.

But you know what they say, all good things must come to an end.

 

[Georgio Cocklord]

I was watching the 2006 4chan Otakon panel and someone actually quoted this dressed in a suit with a guy beside dressed as Raptorjesus.

"Our Raptor, Whose art is /h/entai, shopped be Thy face; Thy donations cum, The Game be won. On Earth as it is on 4-chan. Give us this day our daily lulz and forgive us our trolling as we forgive those who troll against us, and lead us not into faggotry, but deliver us from /fur/ries For thine is the Server, the Banhammer, and the WIN. Forever and ever... Amen."

I havent laughed that much in a while and it actually makes me sad that this was not so long ago and this cannot exist anymore.

 

[AWizard]

I havent laughed that much in a while and it actually makes me sad that this was not so long ago and this cannot exist anymore.

There are no more nerds being made. It's still wild to me that Lowtax is dead.