>LE NEW... BAD! >LE OLD...GOOD!
I hate boomers so much its unreal. Literally no useful input about current issues except "WE HAVE TO BACK. WE HAVE TO RETVRN.", like mega corps are gonna care about returning to the 90-styles oversaturated acid-trip "og" site that you all wont shut up about. When are guys gonna kick the bucket so I stop hearing your yapping?
It's not boomers. It's zoomers who long for the era they never even witnessed to begin. And if it's not zoomers, it's millenials who actually forgot hundreds of hours they spent trying to fix shit that used to break on daily basis during late 90s-mid2000s when they were teens or whatever. Internet normiefication aside, I'd never frickijng want to go back to the perpetually dysfunctional mess that desktop and web once used to be.
>he doesn't remember reinstalling windows every few months >how much shit broke when XP became a thing >how much shit broke when x64 became a thing >how long it took for system to boot up, programs to run and websites to load >how slow and fricking useless SVN was >how unstable and unusable everything invoking Linux was
2 months ago
Anonymous
>he doesn't remember reinstalling windows every few months
This was a fricking meme. You're doing something wrong if you seriously did this. >how much shit broke when XP became a thing
Yeah a lot of things will break in any year when you change file systems. >how much shit broke when x64 became a thing
And a lot of shit broke when we moved from 16-bit to 32-bit. >how long it took for system to boot up, programs to run and websites to load
I'll give you that. Things were slower back then.
2 months ago
Anonymous
XP with SP2 was when things started to stabilize and generally everything "just werked", I remember it being much worse when Vista rolled out
Reinstalling windows to the point where you memorized the cd-key, having to manually install every single driver (get fricked if you somehow lost your motherboard cd) and dealing with slow speeds wasn't as bad as you make it out to be.
Nowadays everything is automated and much more user friendly, but it does feel like we lost something in the process
2 months ago
Anonymous
I remember seemingly irrelevant programs BSODing my system, often beyond repair (unless you had a LiveCD USB at hand that would let you at least back up the important stuff before reinstalling if you didn't figure out the way to fix BSOD). Sometimes I crossed my fingers when the post-installation window asked for a reboot because that could have been the last time I've seen this installation of Windows work.
2 months ago
Anonymous
>he doesn't remember reinstalling windows every few months
only because i kept getting viruses lol >how much shit broke when XP became a thing
never happened >how much shit broke when x64 became a thing
never happened >how long it took for system to boot up
yeah, OS boot times were slower due to lack of SSDs >programs to run
not really since nowadays all programs are bloated up the ass >websites to load
hell fricking no, websites are so bloated with ads and jeetscript nowadays that its even worse today >how slow and fricking useless SVN was
no one cares >how unstable and unusable everything invoking Linux was
and how is that in any way different from today...?
2 months ago
Anonymous
>never happened >not really >no one cares >how is that in any way different
Zoomy zoom zoom
I'm 31, started with 98 but used mainly XP. Things just worked. I would browse newgrounds, miniclip, stickdeath and gamewinners at school. Then at home I'd play Habo, Gaia, miniclip and later kongregate while talking on MSN and play flags when I wasn't looking for gifs to substitute for words. Romhustler was used to get roms for gba advanced and later for PSP was espalpsp and one I can't remember the name that had a FF7 image at the top. eMule was used for downloads.
pre ~2003 era I remember getting a new game and being happy if it launched at all on our computer
games and hardware compatibility at the time was such a mess
zoomers don't know that experience, and that's a good thing
2 months ago
Anonymous
I had Sims 2 and then got the Seasons expansion. The water was blinking pink and purple because I think I had integrated graphics instead of a dedicated card.
2 months ago
Anonymous
I had driving game where cars didn't have wheels because of low video memory, yet the game just worked instead of failing
2 months ago
Anonymous
I couldn't complete a mission in gta vice city because the circle markers didn't render
tried it like 20 times
a few months later after upgrading to the nvidia mx440 I completed it first try
2 months ago
Anonymous
I remember that COD 2 and Far Cry looked blue and were unplayable, the Godfather game in the first version you could not get into cars and then it was impossible to create a profile to start playing.
Frick I'm 27 and I can resonate with so much of that. >chatted with middle school friends and "girlfriends" on MSN and Yahoo Messenger >MediaFire & Rapidshare were actually good >found out about IQfy on Habbo >you actually thought Tourettes guy had tourettes
Nostalgia-goggles aside there were a lot of good things about websites of the time that are fricked up today. Just on YouTube for example: >you could sort a channel's videos by dates, not oldest or newest but actual time frames >recommended videos actually gave you something useful >quality of audio and videos was arguable better before Google+ integration >you had star ratings where if something was absolute shit, you could tell
2 months ago
Anonymous
star ratings are always useless
the simple like/dislike is an objective improvement
people tend to either give 1 or 5 star most of the time, defeating the purpose of a granual scoring
2 months ago
Anonymous
>like/dislike is an objective improvement
Yeah if you keep the dislike count turned on. Which YouTube didn't.
No, I used to play Habbo on the Portuguese server with friends until all of them stopped playing, the console was massively changed and more Brazilian started shitting up the game. Then I discovered anime, which led to discovering Gaia, mainly because of their mmorpg ZOMG.
When I was given a laptop I played Metin2, Cabal, Perfect World and a bit of Aion. Tried a bunch of other ones, like Shin Megami Tensei, Digimon, etc
>no useful input
Why the old web is better has been discussed for over a decade in this imageboard but also most (surviving) forums and independent websites.
If you are too much of a newbie to know them, lurk more. If you're a disingenuous zoomer who wants to pretend this discussion doesn't exist, go frick yourself with a loaded shotgun.
Boomers never cared about the internet. It's the millennials that know how shit the modern corprotized web is because they've been using the web since the 90s and 00s.
It's not boomers. It's zoomers who long for the era they never even witnessed to begin. And if it's not zoomers, it's millenials who actually forgot hundreds of hours they spent trying to fix shit that used to break on daily basis during late 90s-mid2000s when they were teens or whatever. Internet normiefication aside, I'd never frickijng want to go back to the perpetually dysfunctional mess that desktop and web once used to be.
Or more like moronic newbies picking the shittiest old school website to portray the old web as baaaaad.
Lots of old sites have less empty spaces and load less dataminers/resource heavy elements.
You don't even need to go far back into grandpa's era and just use New and Old reddit as example.
YouTube in 2007: >My favorite YouTuber made a 10 minute video? OMFG! LOL! You actually expect me to watch that? You absolute madlad. Brb gotta go outside and have some fun with the bros
YouTube in 2024: >Oh great another 2 hour blue archive stream to binge watch as I rot away
>YouTube in 2007: >>My favorite YouTuber made a 10 minute video? OMFG! LOL! You actually expect me to watch that? You absolute madlad. Brb gotta go outside and have some fun with the bros
Wrong.
YouTube in 2007
Well we're not going to get it back because you vehemently insisted on pornography and celebrity worship being everywhere.
You wanted shallow thrills and circle jerks. This is your bed, now sleep in it.
Despite being bland, generic flatshit, it's still slow as frick and literally unusable. Most likely it was done maliciously to force people to use Chrome.
Fortunately, mpv exists.
asiaticslop gacha trash is not anime
popularization of anime is bad, yes
thirdworlders should not have access to the internet, the internet was objectively better when it was used primarily by US and Japan
have a nice day ironic weeb
>steals the webm >throws out the filename to remove the sound
fricking phone Black person troony AAAAAAAAAAAAA
2 months ago
Anonymous
I'm on desktop. I saved that WebM over half a year ago and I'm not even sure it had one of those audio filenames when it was posted then. Not that those are any relevant to me; I don't have the userscript/extension/whatever to hear the audio anyways, and as a general rule I don't allow any cross-domain traffic unless there's a very good reason for it. If you want me to retain audio in videos, badger Hiro to finally allow sound in WebMs.
Anime is an aesthetic for them. Anime means 2D girls drawn in that style. Anime is an in-group signifier for the autistic/nerd store-bought personality crowd crowd. They don't actually care about anime or otaku culture in general. They don't know any better than to defend gacha because it's 2D, to do otherwise requires need genuine love for what makes anime good in the first place.
youtube was never great tbh
one of the few sites that always made flash player crash
>LE NEW... BAD!
>LE OLD...GOOD!
I hate boomers so much its unreal. Literally no useful input about current issues except "WE HAVE TO BACK. WE HAVE TO RETVRN.", like mega corps are gonna care about returning to the 90-styles oversaturated acid-trip "og" site that you all wont shut up about. When are guys gonna kick the bucket so I stop hearing your yapping?
It's not boomers. It's zoomers who long for the era they never even witnessed to begin. And if it's not zoomers, it's millenials who actually forgot hundreds of hours they spent trying to fix shit that used to break on daily basis during late 90s-mid2000s when they were teens or whatever. Internet normiefication aside, I'd never frickijng want to go back to the perpetually dysfunctional mess that desktop and web once used to be.
>shit that used to break on daily basis
This and more from things that never happened.
Macos users need not reply. Thing that is dysfunctional by design can hardly break.
Have you ever used OS9? Buggiest piece of shit in the world that crashed more than Win ME.
>he doesn't remember reinstalling windows every few months
>how much shit broke when XP became a thing
>how much shit broke when x64 became a thing
>how long it took for system to boot up, programs to run and websites to load
>how slow and fricking useless SVN was
>how unstable and unusable everything invoking Linux was
>he doesn't remember reinstalling windows every few months
This was a fricking meme. You're doing something wrong if you seriously did this.
>how much shit broke when XP became a thing
Yeah a lot of things will break in any year when you change file systems.
>how much shit broke when x64 became a thing
And a lot of shit broke when we moved from 16-bit to 32-bit.
>how long it took for system to boot up, programs to run and websites to load
I'll give you that. Things were slower back then.
XP with SP2 was when things started to stabilize and generally everything "just werked", I remember it being much worse when Vista rolled out
Reinstalling windows to the point where you memorized the cd-key, having to manually install every single driver (get fricked if you somehow lost your motherboard cd) and dealing with slow speeds wasn't as bad as you make it out to be.
Nowadays everything is automated and much more user friendly, but it does feel like we lost something in the process
I remember seemingly irrelevant programs BSODing my system, often beyond repair (unless you had a LiveCD USB at hand that would let you at least back up the important stuff before reinstalling if you didn't figure out the way to fix BSOD). Sometimes I crossed my fingers when the post-installation window asked for a reboot because that could have been the last time I've seen this installation of Windows work.
>he doesn't remember reinstalling windows every few months
only because i kept getting viruses lol
>how much shit broke when XP became a thing
never happened
>how much shit broke when x64 became a thing
never happened
>how long it took for system to boot up
yeah, OS boot times were slower due to lack of SSDs
>programs to run
not really since nowadays all programs are bloated up the ass
>websites to load
hell fricking no, websites are so bloated with ads and jeetscript nowadays that its even worse today
>how slow and fricking useless SVN was
no one cares
>how unstable and unusable everything invoking Linux was
and how is that in any way different from today...?
>never happened
>not really
>no one cares
>how is that in any way different
Zoomy zoom zoom
I used BeOS.
It just worked.
I'm 31, started with 98 but used mainly XP. Things just worked. I would browse newgrounds, miniclip, stickdeath and gamewinners at school. Then at home I'd play Habo, Gaia, miniclip and later kongregate while talking on MSN and play flags when I wasn't looking for gifs to substitute for words. Romhustler was used to get roms for gba advanced and later for PSP was espalpsp and one I can't remember the name that had a FF7 image at the top. eMule was used for downloads.
pre ~2003 era I remember getting a new game and being happy if it launched at all on our computer
games and hardware compatibility at the time was such a mess
zoomers don't know that experience, and that's a good thing
I had Sims 2 and then got the Seasons expansion. The water was blinking pink and purple because I think I had integrated graphics instead of a dedicated card.
I had driving game where cars didn't have wheels because of low video memory, yet the game just worked instead of failing
I couldn't complete a mission in gta vice city because the circle markers didn't render
tried it like 20 times
a few months later after upgrading to the nvidia mx440 I completed it first try
I remember that COD 2 and Far Cry looked blue and were unplayable, the Godfather game in the first version you could not get into cars and then it was impossible to create a profile to start playing.
Frick I'm 27 and I can resonate with so much of that.
>chatted with middle school friends and "girlfriends" on MSN and Yahoo Messenger
>MediaFire & Rapidshare were actually good
>found out about IQfy on Habbo
>you actually thought Tourettes guy had tourettes
Nostalgia-goggles aside there were a lot of good things about websites of the time that are fricked up today. Just on YouTube for example:
>you could sort a channel's videos by dates, not oldest or newest but actual time frames
>recommended videos actually gave you something useful
>quality of audio and videos was arguable better before Google+ integration
>you had star ratings where if something was absolute shit, you could tell
star ratings are always useless
the simple like/dislike is an objective improvement
people tend to either give 1 or 5 star most of the time, defeating the purpose of a granual scoring
>like/dislike is an objective improvement
Yeah if you keep the dislike count turned on. Which YouTube didn't.
>Habo Gaiagay
Did you come here from a raid?
No, I used to play Habbo on the Portuguese server with friends until all of them stopped playing, the console was massively changed and more Brazilian started shitting up the game. Then I discovered anime, which led to discovering Gaia, mainly because of their mmorpg ZOMG.
When I was given a laptop I played Metin2, Cabal, Perfect World and a bit of Aion. Tried a bunch of other ones, like Shin Megami Tensei, Digimon, etc
>no useful input
Why the old web is better has been discussed for over a decade in this imageboard but also most (surviving) forums and independent websites.
If you are too much of a newbie to know them, lurk more. If you're a disingenuous zoomer who wants to pretend this discussion doesn't exist, go frick yourself with a loaded shotgun.
Boomers never cared about the internet. It's the millennials that know how shit the modern corprotized web is because they've been using the web since the 90s and 00s.
Or more like moronic newbies picking the shittiest old school website to portray the old web as baaaaad.
Lots of old sites have less empty spaces and load less dataminers/resource heavy elements.
You don't even need to go far back into grandpa's era and just use New and Old reddit as example.
Take me all the way back, loverboy
YouTube in 2007:
>My favorite YouTuber made a 10 minute video? OMFG! LOL! You actually expect me to watch that? You absolute madlad. Brb gotta go outside and have some fun with the bros
YouTube in 2024:
>Oh great another 2 hour blue archive stream to binge watch as I rot away
>YouTube in 2007:
>>My favorite YouTuber made a 10 minute video? OMFG! LOL! You actually expect me to watch that? You absolute madlad. Brb gotta go outside and have some fun with the bros
Wrong.
YouTube in 2007
>The background music
SOVL
Google Video was better
Well we're not going to get it back because you vehemently insisted on pornography and celebrity worship being everywhere.
You wanted shallow thrills and circle jerks. This is your bed, now sleep in it.
nah i love the hot anime girls
>Try out the NEW (beta) version of this page!
SHUT THE FRICK UP
I can go back, but they can't.
Top unironically better
/thread.
Sexo with all the hebes.
What's wrong with the top one?
Despite being bland, generic flatshit, it's still slow as frick and literally unusable. Most likely it was done maliciously to force people to use Chrome.
Fortunately, mpv exists.
>hating on anime
>when youtube itself popularized it with memes
how to spot a tryhard homosexual zoomer
its not the anime, its the type of anime. Where are my Dragonball AMVs?
asiaticslop gacha trash is not anime
popularization of anime is bad, yes
thirdworlders should not have access to the internet, the internet was objectively better when it was used primarily by US and Japan
have a nice day ironic weeb
Popularization of anime, and by that I mean westerners, is bad. Proven by your ironic weeb konata posting. "Memes" in general are cancer
If you hate anime, and you hate memes, what are you doing on IQfy?
>steals the webm
>throws out the filename to remove the sound
fricking phone Black person troony AAAAAAAAAAAAA
I'm on desktop. I saved that WebM over half a year ago and I'm not even sure it had one of those audio filenames when it was posted then. Not that those are any relevant to me; I don't have the userscript/extension/whatever to hear the audio anyways, and as a general rule I don't allow any cross-domain traffic unless there's a very good reason for it. If you want me to retain audio in videos, badger Hiro to finally allow sound in WebMs.
>and you hate memes
Imagine finding any of today's memes to be funny.
U MAD? It's not like old memes were any better.
>Gachashit
>"Meme" is just gooner shit
Bravo.
back then
>mindless entertainment
now
>mindless entertainment or highly specified content
We all have the option of making our own video site instances to upload whatever we want.
the problem is not technology
the problem is ZOOMERS
Old YouTube had a trailer park vibe.
everyone that uses a smartphone online is responsible for this.
>Ye of olde
>DBZ In the end - Linkin Park (AMV)
>Ye of now
>TOP 5 MOST POWERFUL (STRONGEST) DBZ (DRAGON BALL Z) CHARACTERS (UPDATED)!!
both dogshit for difgferent reasons
>anime = bad
I want normalgays out of my board right now.
korean gacha =/= anime
You kids don't even know what anime is.
Do you? Using anime to refer to Japanese shows is the real gaijin giveaway.
Anime is an aesthetic for them. Anime means 2D girls drawn in that style. Anime is an in-group signifier for the autistic/nerd store-bought personality crowd crowd. They don't actually care about anime or otaku culture in general. They don't know any better than to defend gacha because it's 2D, to do otherwise requires need genuine love for what makes anime good in the first place.
>gacha slop = anime
go back zoom zoom
waifu > anything else so top
BA thread? If you say so.
Also, stop watching israelitetube. Problem solved.
Use peertube
https://www.vidlii.com/
>not a frontend
useless
huh
since when are they using that UI?
No theatre mode, no deal.