Does anyone here remember the old internet? What was it like?
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Does anyone here remember the old internet? What was it like?
Does anyone here remember the old internet? What was it like?
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praying that nobody will phone in so that your pstn wont drop
This.
>Poorgays who didnt get a second phone line for dedicated modem use
Lmao
It was free.
true freedom. not the faux freedom they give us today.
>he doesn't have a stock pile of AOL trial CD's they've been using for the past 20+ years to receive free internet
Seriously, I could never get rid of those things fast enough. One day I just smashed them all with a hammer.
>What was it like?
There was a general consensus that everyone you met online was a stranger, and stranger = danger, and the only way to keep yourself safe was to remain anonymous. Use pseudonyms and never reveal where you live.
These people put their entire lives online and if they get a cyber stalker they're suppose to be happy someone's giving them attention.
Also, to use the internet you needed a certain level of tech knowledge, so there was a higher barrier to entry to using the internet. Which means the average intelligence level was much higher. You could have reasonable conversations with people and when people couldn't be reasonable, you could just walk away. Now it seems like the unreasonable/irrational trolls and haters seek out and target all the hold out pockets of intelligent conversation that's left on the internet. Civility and rational is hard to find online these days, and when it's found it's likely destroyed simply for existing somewhere.
Stop reposting the same rehashed thread every week homosexual
Slipknot fan sites, Resident Evil and Silent Hill fan forums. Local student and subculture forums. ICQ chats with girls and friends. All gone.
I forgot downloading 128kbps music album all night by dial-up.
>ICQ chats with girls
>girls
Girls using anything other than sòycial media like snapchat to communicate is so strange to me. We must go back.
It was like this on our side of the planet:
ICQ>Skype>Telegram
In USA it was MSN and Myspace?
Don't forget AIM
My mom used ICQ back in the day. We're American.
... and to addon, she was so computer savvy (how I got into technology) but now shes just an npc with a tablet using faceberg for everything
;_;
Like tears in the rain..
>trips
gtfo out here satan
>UH OH!
>BUH DOO BUH DOO BUH DOO BOOOOOO *static*
>skype-incoming-call.mp3
>every site had static pages with terrible legibility or that UI design where theres that weird gradient or reflective glare
it was pretty fun
Heaton,
Potti,
hl1 like Bunny Jumps in 1.3,
All Seeing Eye,
Clan war
#PCW om mirc @ quakenet
Lan cafes.
Some people played some kind of cs clone mod for unreal unreal tournament called TI TO(tactical ops).
Heaton sold a gaming glove.
Nip > SK > Nip
CPL
Chocke and Loss "was the reason" you didn't kill them.
Software graphics because shitty computer.
most people could only play 60 fps.
Smoke ban because of the lag.
de_aztec was super popular.
protect the vip mode
Knew the ip for the local cs server in the head, 27015 was default port.
"-console" on cs shortcut to activate console.
configs was shared on lan. Some configs was even able to display blood though walls undetectable without cheets.
3rd party anticheat installed on computer.
realbot and podbot
Superhero mods on public.
kreedz made 90% of all kz maps
One map had a tank
de_rats
pubmasters
func mouse mats
mx 500 and ms 3.0 were the only mouses that was good.
cl_updaterate 101
cl_cmdrate 101
fps_max 101
FragBite if you were swede, and it felt like 30% playing was swedes.
I swear I played surf maps before some youtube historians claim was the start of surf maps.
Pay to play on Public servers where "famous" cs player played casual.'
walle, miniwalle, microwalle
weapon default on left side.
Half life generation
>func mouse mats
I still have mine from 2006.
we didn't even HAVE internet
we had LAN parties
right in the feels
you opened more sites every day than just IQfy, reddit, twitter.
you scoured new sites you discovered for links. this was how you found new sites that you liked.
you read much more of random-but-informed people's sites than uninformed and dumb as shit rando comment threads
Most of those sites were semi safe too because it wasn't overrun with chinese and indians trying to steal everything.
Ironic how these threads gets posted regularly with the same picture and same text.
I learned getting groomed isn't that bad.
it was slow
wait an hour to download 10mb slow
yes born in 1974 here, used mosaic when it came out. Before that it was FTP gopher and BB
First used mosic on a sparc in 1993 - about may then later netscape. I recall trying to fugre why they chaged to netscape.
Amazingly a Sparc was compareable to sufing the web as to day except it was all static pictures.
Things looked a bit goofy but electic.
Web crawler was the go to engine then alta vista then dogpile then google.
LAn parties were fun, things were generally better than now.
also the computers were at uni, so decent connection.
In one cad lab, the unix/linux??? machien that ran had massive CRT monitors and people rarely went in there for some reason top floor of mech eng.
So i would go in and fire up 3 or 4 computers at the same time and surf the web, good times would scoot around on my chair between them.
Helped to make down loading faster in a very 0.1 way
Hey Satan, it was a cool time, but just… let it go. Ok?
In a lot of ways, IQfy feels like the last bastion of the old internet. Basic HTML and CSS, no social media, just simple type up your shit and post it kind of vibe with minimal moderation.
>no social media
every other second someone is posting a twitter video or a twitter screencap
That's not what I mean. In the old internet, every website was an island. There was no SSO or media accounts linking everything together. And whatever you post on one forum didn't follow you around to the next.
That's an exaggeration
The main source of content people come here for is posts written by humans (I hope). Please stop being a huge homosexual
Less ads, less social bullshit.
Less boomers b***hing about stuff nobody cares about.
>Less boomers b***hing about stuff nobody cares about.
You don't know a thing about Usenet and FIDO, am I right?
Those were more Gen X/Y then Boomers.
Boomers fricked around with HAM radio.
It was more decentralized and fun, less monopolies, less social media, the mentally ill people were segregated to tumblr and other niche communities, forums were popular and very active, counter-strike and lan parties were fun
tumblr was not part of the old internet you insufferable zoomer filth.
I forgot the name of the equivalent at the time, myspace maybe?
usenet
it was pretty based, my favorite thing was forums. something awful, old gamespot forums, all good stuff. that and games that had lobbies (similar to your pic OP). imagine going into the same few servers every night and playing with the same people. little communities would form, it was great. now it's all upvoting and matchmaking and phoneposting. the glory days of the internet are behind us. shit will only get more fricked
It was cool. Little silos of niche communities. You could be a lurker if you wanted. Or you could try to join and engage with a community. Reputations matters but in a real interpersonal way, not just how many upvotes or retweets you got.
It was like Eden before the snakes showed up.
i remember 5gb games taking an entire night to download halfway if I was lucky
a bit more of a b***h to find shit but it added up to the charm of surfing the web, jumping from site to site because checking their affiliates could actually net you some goodies
i remember when i just started learning guitar, jumping through several sites, getting tons of tabs, bookmarking the shit out of everybody.
searching porn was an adventure
See for yourself https://wiby.me/surprise/
Lots of pedos trying to groom me and playing enemy territory.
You had to connect to WON, while joining a game.
Shit internet
Shit ping
unless you were rich ofc
But none of that mattered it was still kino. I miss flash and stick figure death videos
Soulful jank
a lot of shit was broken, buggy, or malicious (not like that ever changed) but you could feel the passion behind everything that existed on it. Sites made by people and companies that thought they had a cool idea and wanted people to use it, content made by people with nothing but innocent intentions for you to receive what they made.
Today it's hollow corporatization, NPC-infested filler where people fill cyberspace with everything good and bad that comes to their mind because the barrier is simply having a phone.
This is romanticized and glossing over a lot of nuance but in general to give a feel of the difference, that's the best I could come up with. And I'm talking 2003-2008 or so, right around the cusp of myspace taking off and Facebook picking up steam. Older than that I don't know beyond fragments of what I had from AOL mailer trials
Internet was a lot useful and fun for me.
> Browsed random sites about electronics, modding, coding, test a lot of pirate software.
> There was real freedom, people can share images, memes, interesting news, talk on IRC about anything.
> Winamp and flac radio music was enough for enjoy all night on my pc
> No politics, no Kids, no angry people