Internet 1.0 Stories - Tales of the internet past

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Mainly pre-Youtube stuff.

Flash videos by Marc M (Sick Animation) or Neil Cicierega (Lemon Demon). Sites like Albino Blacksheep, Mucho Sucko, and EbaumsWorld.

Stuff like The End of the World flash video:
https://youtu.be/kCpjgl2baLs
or looped stuff like badgerbadgerbadger.com
 
Although I was old enough to enjoy the internet in the early to mid 2000s, my parents took courses provided by the police to better understand the internet and to protect me from it so I never really browsed the internet much until the later 2000s. Unfortunately, I now feel like a needle in the haystack when it comes to the absence of an internet presence or history.
 
My earliest trolling was going into foreign language chat rooms and demanding that everyone speak English. People would get really angry and indignant which I found hilarious as a child.
 
Remember Stick Death. I also remember someone at my school bringing a bunch of Loony Tunes and Jetsons porn that they had printed out. They kept saying "Why would someone make this?" Oh how innocent we used to be.

Wait, now that I think about it. How did they find it?
 
Diablo 1 was so good. was a harsh lesson in why client-side is ALWAYS a bad idea, but it was a riot at the time. I slugged away at the singleplayer for months before my folks agreed to let me take it online. As soon as I joined a game, the following things happened:

A player in endgame gear ran by, stopped, laughed at my weak shit, called me a noob, and then duplicated his entire set for me.
A wizard was setting fire to the houses in town. As spells were deactivated in town, this was interesting. When he saw me, he set me on fire and I died. This was interesting too, because I had pvp turned off.
Finally, someone opened Diablo's level and then killed him ~2 seconds later, which kicked everyone playing in that room.

It was utter mayhem, and everyone knows too much to ever let a game that breakable hit the internet again. It's a goddamn shame.
 
I used to be addicted to video game forums and flash portals. 4chong & imageboards in general were also a huge part of my life back then. I was also a gaiafag back in the day. I played a shit ton of counter strike and spent hours talking to weirdos on different chat clients. Those are just a few of my old net memories that I remember most fondly.
 
The earliest thing about the Internet I can remember is the dial-up noise when booting up AT&T and the first Pokemon movie website when it launched in 1999 with the shitty graphics, but it had some cool features on it, anyway, for the time.

I also remember the one time when I was like eight or nine my cousin tried to bring up a website she had found that she wanted to show me (think it had something to do with being a site for preteen girls), but accidentally typed the wrong URL and got to a splash page with an image of some chick's boobs hanging out and something in the background with a shirtless guy wearing a gold chain and cross sensually caressing a fading blue/purple image of a naked body. It was weird and I'm sure I'm remembering it wrong, but eh.
 
I remember the Phone Losers of America.
BillionBisonBucks said:
Diablo 1 was so good. was a harsh lesson in why client-side is ALWAYS a bad idea, but it was a riot at the time. I slugged away at the singleplayer for months before my folks agreed to let me take it online. As soon as I joined a game, the following things happened:

A player in endgame gear ran by, stopped, laughed at my weak shit, called me a noob, and then duplicated his entire set for me.
A wizard was setting fire to the houses in town. As spells were deactivated in town, this was interesting. When he saw me, he set me on fire and I died. This was interesting too, because I had pvp turned off.
Finally, someone opened Diablo's level and then killed him ~2 seconds later, which kicked everyone playing in that room.

It was utter mayhem, and everyone knows too much to ever let a game that breakable hit the internet again. It's a goddamn shame.
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Shadowbane launched with a copy of the server admin tools in a hidden directory on the install disk. People were locking the admins out of their own game servers, crashing them, giving themselves billions of XP and gold, etc.
 
I had to sit through a sexual harassment prevention briefing that went for 4 hours on a Friday because a fucking asshole LCpl got reported for showing every chick that came through his shop the nastiest shit he could find on Ogrish
 
Sorry for doubleposting, but I recently came across an old youtube video that me and my friends from elementary school shared with each other.


Its pretty shitty, but it has a certain nostalgic appeal for a time when internet memes could just be dumb without any sort of irony or self-awareness.
 
I was a member of a forum that SomethingAwful targeted. No, I'm not going to tell you which one and I'm not even sure it exists anymore. But the aftermath was that the mods and admins had their hands full banning trolls. Good times.

Kiwifarms has that "Internet Forum 1.0 feel" which is why I joined it.
 
I bought my own computer in the early nineties, but didn't have internet access until around 1995 or 1996. Back then I just remember the novelty of the internet, it was so strange. People would go to the local library and stuff just to see it, exactly like when people would go look at a futuristic concept car, or a new fangled "motion picture" just to go "huh, well that's cool". Yahoo had a web directory, there was the DMOZ, and I think AOL had a similar curated collection of links and sites. But search engines were in their infancy and not that effective. You just sorta... clicked around. You found one site by going to another one, and if you didn't bookmark it there was a high chance that you probably would not be able to find it again.

I don't really have any memories of mainstream websites aside from checking out things like Cartoon Network and things of that sort. I suppose VCL (the art site) also factors into "mainstream" just by size alone. Fansites were so much fun to browse, and I spent a lot of time lurking sites for all sorts of things that I liked near the turn of the millennium. Cartoons I liked, comics I read, Pokemon stuff, bands that I enjoyed (fuck RealPlayer). GeoCities was a crazy community and I'd just get lost in webrings for all sorts of dumb things, even stuff that didn't even interest me. I just liked seeing the kinds of sites that people would make about the things they were passionate about. :)

It's a different world today, and that's kinda sad. But so many of the things I WISH were easily accessible back then are easily found today, like downloads of TV shows in resolutions larger than avatar size. :lol:
 
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