Internet 1.0 Stories - Tales of the internet past

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Sword Fighter Super said:
FUCK Simple Plan. I'm so glad the Emo fad is (mostly) over.
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i loved the emos who posted 'cuts' with fake blood or some little scratches and called it 'suicide attempts'
i even made a fake myspace just to taunt emos and goths, i was already a little kiwi at heart
 
I remember playing a lot of Neopets when I was a little kiddie. Being the autist I was (and still am), I'd play it all day.

That, and Toontown Online (being under the age of 10 at the time). God, my Internet taste was autism even back then.
 
Oh shit, Kazaa and Limewire too. Can't believe I forgot those. The best were the files labeled shit like "britney_spears_hot_naked_anal.mov" and were like, 16kb. I learned an important lesson that day.

And the original shock sites. Goatse, Tubgirl, Lemonparty. That shit was a rite of passage.

I want to go back, lads.
 
I'm actually kind of sad I missed out on the peak of the emo fad. Back in 2002-2006 when I was in eighth grade and then into high school, you either fell in line with the emos/scene kids or the wiggers. I sadly chose the latter. Missed out on all of those emo qts.
 
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Sword Fighter Super said:
A man after my own heart!
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So who do you think was cringier?
Goths or Emos?
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I'm going to go with the Emo kids. All attention whoring all the time, they were the proto-instagram crowd and the twattery was insufferable. At least the Goths were funny sometimes.
 
Sword Fighter Super said:
A man after my own heart!
:feels:

So who do you think was cringier?
Goths or Emos?
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Tbh, despite all the backslash that emos get (rightfully, but still), the majority of them were just edgy/angry/confused hormone-fueled teenagers. I was about 11 years old when I stumbled over these angsty emo teenagers and I laughed at them and moved on.
But the goths, dude, the goths were a whole new brand of fucked up for me. I mean, some were teenagers too, but the majority of them were fucking ADULTS, some even had kids, etc etc...
I remember I got so confused/amazed, because we had so many fucking adults quoting Nietzsche and Nightwish and Edgar Allan Poe and obscure poems, acting so fucking retarded and posing in cemeteries/next to graves, painting their faces white with dark circles around their eyes and dressing like vampires from the middle ages.


After the initial shock, I just laughed my ass off and cyberbullied them with my fake account
 
FierceBrosnan said:
I'm going to go with the Emo kids. All attention whoring all the time, they were the proto-instagram crowd and the twattery was insufferable. At least the Goths were funny sometimes.
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I agree with you partially, but at least the emo kids had decent hygiene. Most of the goth kids I dealt with just smelled...off. Not exactly like BO, but more like a mixture of that and stale cigarettes.
Other than that, they didn't really bother me.
 
ForgedBlades said:
New Oh shit, Kazaa and Limewire too. Can't believe I forgot those. The best were the files labeled shit like "britney_spears_hot_naked_anal.mov" and were like, 16kb. I learned an important lesson that day.
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Bearshare, all the websites that had game ROMs before Nintendo got them taken down, all the weird ROM hacks with dicks, Nazis and drugs. The first hacked ROM I got was Mega Fag. I loaded it up and the first words I see on the screen are Shut Up!
 
Sword Fighter Super said:
I agree with you partially, but at least the emo kids had decent hygiene. Most of the goth kids I dealt with just smelled...off. Not exactly like BO, but more like a mixture of that and stale cigarettes.
Other than that, they didn't really bother me.
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Most Goth chicks I knew were usually catty as shit on top of it. It's like girl you smell like the ashcan outside of a homeless shelter you do not get to be judgemental.
 
Yahoo chat was a big one for me. Me and my friend would spend hours trying to chat with people. At one point we met a kid around our age and after talking online to him for a while tried to call him, but his mom answered the phone and was really mad and all three of us got in big trouble.

I remember the hours I would waste playing pop it on pogo.com (which apparently still exists). There use to be a lot of those free game websites, everyone kind of had their own and you'd trade favorites with your friends.

I vaguely remember an early 2000s humor website that I would check daily. I've been trying to think of the name for years, but it's eluded me. I do remember it hosted the widely popular flash about bombing Osama bin Laden set to the tune of the banana boat song.

Before Livejournal there was Blurty. Don't remember much of the community/mechanical side of Blurty, but I have lots of good personal memories from it.

A little latter on Newgrounds, Albino Blacksheep, YTMND, heck even 4chan and ED were fun times.

Sword Fighter Super said:
The most annoying thing about MySpace was that some people would have songs play once you went on their page at full fucking volume.
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Probably one of the worst things I've ever done in my life was when I managed to rip the mp3 of 403 Forbiddena's Southern Cross from the 4chan City flash, put it on my profile and blog pages, and also hid the play button so you couldn't stop it. You either sat and got your face blasted off by terrible engrish and very loud guitars or you didn't get to read my thoughts on episode 8 of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.
 
A Witty Name said:
My earliest memories was sitting through that AOL connection. The phone chimes and buzzing noises from the dial-up connection are still in my head today.

I did get a broadband connection just before Runescape got big. There were far too many geocities websites about RS with Linkin Park on autoplay.
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We had two phone lines in our house, one specifically for the internet, and one for phone calls. Once my mom caught me talking on the phone and IM'ing a kid who lived three houses down from us. She was so pissed off that she banned me from the computer for two weeks.
 
DrainRedRain said:
i loved the emos who posted 'cuts' with fake blood or some little scratches and called it 'suicide attempts'
i even made a fake myspace just to taunt emos and goths, i was already a little kiwi at heart
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I used to verbally abuse the little fuckers back in high school. To bad the little pricks grew up to be hipsters and sjws.

Oh happy memories.

Oh yeah I forgot. My key memories of pre-broadband day are spending half an hour downloading tiny 30 sex clips from brutal dildos, shitposting on a photoshop site called worth1000 memorising my parents IP settings so I could connect to the net on an old pc at my grandparents place. Oh to be 14 again.
 
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Man, i remember back in the early 2000's, when i was in middle school, and discovered sites such as Newgounds, TX Mafia, Action Flash, Miniclip etc., the pinnacle of internet entertainment back then was either short flash games, or the dozens or even hundreds of Mario vs Sonic flash animations, i also spent a lot of time on the official Starfox Adventures website, since i din't have the game back then, i played the shit out of the minigames of that page

http://f.starfox-online.net/archives/starfox.com/adventures/

this shit almost makes me feel young again
 
Man I miss all those flash sites mentioned above. Killfrog was another huge favorite of mine and others but I can’t remember the names. I also loved bangedup before they started up the banged bus and it moved over to a porn site. All of those shock sites honestly.

Oh and the hours I spent scouring the web to learn how to code my geocities page to have cool effects too. No google, ask geeves and yahoo.

Snark sites were great too, Train Wrecks was one of my favorites may it Rest In Peace.

I don’t miss the shitty dial up. I remember celebrating my first 28.8 modem by downloading a Cake song before I went to bed and it still hadn’t finished when I got up in the morning.

When I got Warcraft II and played against a friend online it was mind blowing and so awesome to be able to play a video game with a friend on the computer and chat text smack.
 
I was a weeaboo and able to get my grubby little hands on borderline hentai because my parents didn't monitor me at all. I remember making my pixel anime girl on gaia online half naked.
 
Addictinggames.com and gamefaqs were my sites of choice when i was younger. the sheer amount of stickman murder games back they was amazing.

and i really wish i had some of the conversations that went on in the GF boards. so much spergery and shitty RP, and jumping around to boards for dead games because "heh heh, mods don't ever come here"
 
Sword Fighter Super said:
A man after my own heart!
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So who do you think was cringier?
Goths or Emos?
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Depends on the era. 80s through the early 90s goth chicks were pretty hot before they all went on to be chubby wiccans. Once they started calling Halloween samhain or whatever it was all down hill. There was a while where hot goth chicks were the easiest chicks to hook up with

Eno chicks all had that stupid haircut their boyfriend's did
 
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