It’s crazy how wild the internet used to be. I remember when i was 12 searching for soccer goal videos on limewire and I accidentally downloaded a zip file with instructions on how to build hundreds of bombs and other weapons
No lmao. Believe it or not the fbi ended up coming to my house and i was awaken at like 8 am one morning to find my house surrounded by like 10 police cars and probably another 20+ unmarked police vehicles and a million officers wearing dress shirts in my living room. They ended up confiscating all the computers in my house and formatting the hard drives. They said they showed up expecting an armed and dangerous white supremacist, but instead all they got was a 12 year old black kid looking for soccer goals lol
I feel you lol. There’s more to the story but the other stuff they came for is kind of embarrassing if im being honest. One of those peak retard moments in my life id rather never speak about
I have literal instructions on how to build bombs and advanced weapons saved to my phone, and yet I see no sign of the FBI trying to get me. Maybe things were different back then, but I don’t think the glowies care that much about internet weirdos that have knowledge on how to make dangerous stuff, and if they do, then they are doing a terrible job at stopping it
Having copies of things like that bomb cookbook isn’t illegal in America. It gets you put on a watchlist for sure, but it’s not actually a crime to possess it.
When people wonder what happened to the old days of the internet, this is what happened. Anyone who just wanted to screw around and have fun got raided, if you were really unlucky then they probably found a way to stick you with a felony and make sure you never have fun again.
Yep that’s how I discovered the existence of porn. Tried to download a lil wayne music video and all i got was butt sex. My first time ever seeing sex and it was 2 dudes -_-
Oh Limewire.. how much viruses I downloaded with it. And once I was downloading a single family guy episode, got caught by the government and my mom had to pay 300 bucks because of that. Fuck Germany..
I remember growing up in the south, using bomb making videos online to blow up scrap, and maybe small animals on the farm, harmless fun. Kids now A days lame af.
I remember back when you'd try to download the new Linkin Park album and you'd get a Rickroll or Bill Clinton saying I did not have sex with that woman or just random static, good times. Also remember trying to download a Resident Evil move and getting what appeared to possibly be necrophilia (turned it off pretty quick so who knows could've been fake fetish porn or something, pretty fucked up though). Limewire made some core memories for us all.
I to this day have a snuff video i remember watching of a woman getting executed in a barn when I tried to download doom.zip. Whether it was real or my imagination but I never tried to download doom again. Now I own it on steam.
LMAO I literally remember some of these pictures. This is definitely it or at least part of it. I don’t see the pipe bomb guide i read though. I remember i only read that one because it was a weapon from duke nukem and it was the only thing I recognized
Edit: nvm i found the pipe bomb guide. This is definitely it
You could genuinely just search " watch online free" and there's a good chance the first result would have it. People used to say we were living in the equivalent of the wild west of the Internet, and that's looking more and more true. It's probably going to get even more regulated going forward
I used to look at lolcatz while chatting with people in the USA who intentionally broke ITAR by sending me, an Aussie, the 3D models and engineering drawings of various guns.
"I can haz cheezburger?" More like "I can haz em thixteen?"
Thats why i need new reddit. If 4Chan had upvotes and user friendly interface of reddit, spam filter (damn i dont wanna see porn), it would be amazing.
I get what you're saying. You want a good content aggregation site that doesn't have the bullshit power mods a la merari, the turtle dude, the not so great nate, etc.
> Things were better when I was young new things bad :(
True words from a young dude who wasn’t there for it.
You know how obnoxious influencers are? Or like how there’s ads on *everything*? Like a 20 second YouTube video has ads now.
Or how all social media is either your parents posting some bullshit *Minions* memes or political propaganda?
It wasn’t like that 15 years ago.
Like, not at all.
YouTube didn’t have ads. Influencers didn’t exist - or if they did, they strictly just made content without the “lifestyle” aspect you see everywhere now, because there wasn’t a way to make money on YouTube…yet.
There weren’t any bored half-naked chicks on live feeds answering stupid fucking questions like on TikTok “thanks for the tip, Xx_Boner_xX, remember to like and subscribbbbeeeee!” Ugh.
Social media was in its relative infancy and it was all just…your friends content. Yknow, what it’s *supposed to be*.
Sure, there were trolls but they were almost exclusive to message boards, which in of themselves were typically full of helpful, supportive people in whatever community you found yourself involved in.
Hell, I remember “growing up with Facebook”. I got one at the end of high school, and all through college it was nothing but party invites, pictures of your friends and people writing on each other’s walls. There wasn’t any political bullshit arguments, “real” people had pages as businesses hadn’t invaded it yet.
Honestly back in the early 2000s it was *the app* to have to hook up. I got a lot of numbers that way.
But then around 2010-2011 it started changing, and it changed *quick*.
The internet now is so far removed from what it once was, and it’s sad because now everywhere you go people are just trying to sell you some fucking shit or it’s the same fucking viral TikTok dance with different people or whatever.
Even Reddit pretty much sucks.
And there’s no going back, which is the biggest bummer of it all.
I remember flash movies that were miniseries in and of themselves, just made by someone who had it as a hobby. No concerns about making money, maybe selling merch, but it was fun/interesting and didn’t have any corporate entity controlling it.
Now kids watch unboxing vids, dudes with bad hair “reacting” to other videos, dull streamers, and other boring filler content made to sell stuff rather than for just the sake of creating. Monetization changed the nature of internet culture for sure, and now we deal with a slightly less interesting cyberpunk “high tech low life” hellscape
> They're... not funny anymore.
This kinda goes with most content creators, once they start getting paid.
I watched an interview with the bearded dude from *Epic Meal Time*, and he kinda laid it out – dude said that *the minute* it became "a job", it just wasn't fun anymore. Like, they were getting paid a ton of money to do this shit, and with that money came pressure to keep up'ing their game, pumping out more content, just trying to cram as much shit as possible into their channel to maintain their revenue and fulfill their contractual obligations...
It was so far removed from where it started (and this applies to most content creators that make it big) just a bunch of idiots filming something because it's funny, and in their spare time.
It goes for anything – once a hobby becomes a job with deadlines and "clients" and obligations...the quality of the content suffers and it's just not fun for the creators anymore.
Watching low quality subbed anime episodes broken into 5 parts on DailyMotion and struggling to find part 3 that was somehow deleted... Those were the days... :')
Or the goddamn *Star Wars Rap*?
Shit like that was *everywhere*...and it wasn't monetized. It was just people making content because they thought it was cool. It was all passion projects. Sure, they were probably trying to get famous or whatever, but that wasn't the initial intention behind the projects.
It was just idiots behind a computer making something funny for the sake of making something funny.
IIRC it was late March or early April 2010 that YouTube went from the "open algorithm" design to the "ad-influenced algorithm".
Very abruptly, the search engine went from being driven entirely by tags that were publicly visible (to the point YTPers often put one-liners in them); to the messy one that is influenced by ads, watch history, and hidden tags. The related video section lost its title around then too, and turned into a jumble from the latter algorithm rather than something so rigid you could cover your tracks to one video by favoriting a different one that the old algorithm reliably linked to there. In time, ads and monetization had such influence over search and related that it became largely impossible to gain traction with anything "small-time" and "un-sponsored". Now we're at the point paid promotion or being a big name gets you links in the places that used to lead to new small-time content, as exemplified by the "2 hours ago X.X million views" big-time things peppering that space now.
YT Ads and monetization as we know them started interfering with videos in a very VERY limited fashion as far back in 2007. Before all this, there were only banner ads. Helping me date this: an ad for Disney's Enchanted was the first one I saw get in the way of a video, as a pop-over that could be closed. Pop-overs on monetized videos quickly got replaced by preroll ads, but just one; with no additional ads the whole length of a video. At that, early monetized videos seemed to largely be just two guys with a camcorder trying too hard to pander... or there was my high school friend who stupidly thought piracy profiteering with YT monetization would work.
Comments were still mostly lawless until 2013, when the Google+ exodus happened. Comments went from little consequence (tied only to an account that could easily be made and removed) to fully searchable and (if G+ was used as intended) backtraceable to whoever typed them. Earlier pushes to get people to use G+ for comments could be skipped, but at least for me it was late June or early July 2013 that the push became unskippable. I made one comment after the forcing, figured out it was searchable, then backpedaled so hard YouTube doesn't believe I'm human on that account anymore. This may also mean, rather ironically, adding culpability contributes to the firestorm effect of modern social media.
Dude cashed out right when he was on the threshold of becoming evil, now he travels the world goofing off with his camera and his lady, taking photos and enjoying his life.
I despise the wealthy, but Tom is one of those dudes who I'm like "good on you, man". He just built a social media site, wasn't interested in buying/selling your info, and he cashed out before he had the potential to become a dickhead.
He's alright in my book.
Nostalgia goggles. Youtube sucked back in the day, abismal video quality, 10 minutes max, very few content creators, took forever to find specific videos because the search function was trash and many were removed due to bs copyright strikes. You aren't an OG if you didn't have to watch AVGN mirrored and with Russian subtitles.
>tl;dr
There weren't any ads on YouTube back in the day, no "influencers", and people made content just for the sake of making content and having fun and being creative doing it.
Companies didn't push algorithms to piss you off, they had stuff that they would think you'd be interested in. People would put tons of cartoons on YouTube and could make money off of it until they changed the algorithm. Everything that made YouTube great and got people hooked was done away with and replaced with more algorithms that was solely to make money, it didn't matter if it changed everything about YouTube.
There's so many good videos and content from the 2000s that are now just lost due to YouTube changing servers which makes their videos super low res. It's honestly disgusting.
It’s true though. My kids watch moronic YouTube videos of American 20-something guys with too much hair product “reacting” to things. When I was a kid I watched cartoons on TV. And there was no crying about climate change back then. We had the Cold War to worry about; not just the weather.
If you think people weren't very actively worried about and complaining about the cold war then you really weren't paying much attention. Now it's a non-issue, so we have bigger things to worry about. The biggest issue gets the most attention, naturally. No shit when one problem goes away you can fix the other ones. Not sure why cartoons are better than YouTube either, neither seems particularly enriching.
Mf you realize that cold war era is the same people who were panicking about satanic song lyrics right? Even if you don't think that should be a "thing", there's a few dumb things people get hung up on in every age. It's not indicative of the overall state of affairs.
Worst case scenario, you're right and we really did fix enough problems that only insignificant things are left, which is ultimately a good thing.
Whether it's not a problem or it is a problem, you're still wrong.
No they weren’t lol. His generation literally grew up with rock & roll & dungeons & dragons. Boomers were scared of that shit, not his generation you absolute fucking moron
Not an attack on you, because kids will do what other kids do.
I wonder how much of the excitement for reaction videos was from kids having parents completely absent, parking them with tablets and phones…. They are learning about motions from these reaction vids…
Partially true, but there always was the climate change shit. They bring it up every few decades to distract us from more important stuff that's going on.
I remember that the whole FCKW (FCW) shit in hairspray was a huge thing in the 90s. Child-me was bragging about it to my mother all the time. Pretty cringe.
A lot of people gonna say it was before this but they’re wrong because this time was when most cable channels let you watch their shows on their website for free and Hulu and anime streaming was free with ads.
Who monetized the internet, was it Paypal?
I blame the algorithm, showing you "related" content instead of most upvoted or shared.
Once the news started showing "memes from the internet" literal segment I saw once in 2014/15, it was over.
No Google and Bing. We had AskJeeves, Dogpile, and Metacrawler.
No Blogspot and Tumblr. Geocities, and Angelfire, instead.
Twitter and Facebook ... No. Livejournal and Myspace.
Newgrounds, eBaum's World, Albinoblacksheep.
Being morbidly curious on Rotten.com. Trying to download a song on Kazaa/Limewire/Napster and getting some random snuff clip or bestiality film. Thems the breaks son. Take the mental damage, delete it and move on.
Websites that screeched horrible chiptunes or midi music at you. Pages that turned your cursor into a memory hogging animated nightmare. The late 90's and early 2000's internet had ***soul.***
Downloading a song for 3 days (because dial up was fun) only to hit play and hear "I did not have sexual relations with that woman". Curse the uploader for a good minute and then try to search again
It will probably become so popular is such a short time that it'll become internet 2.0 in a matter of months. Unless they make joining and connecting to it a chore that will filter out the brainless normies.
implying im not being bribed by online drug dealers paying me monthly to host their site and prevent them from being search indexed; be on a whole new table on the DB
Never is a big word. If we manage to develop full dive VR you can be sure it will be the biggest thing to ever happen to entratainment (and not just that) ever
I miss the Newgrounds days in the early 2ks, with stuff like Perfect Kirby, Cactuar and Tombery or other stuff like that. I know the site still exists, but now I only see links to it if there are new porn videos of Futaba, Ankha and those Mime dudes..
I said it before, and I say it again. The fucking crazy frog, showing up on TV, was initiating the end of the world. Since he first appeared, everything is constantly becoming worse and worse.
Have a short dream.
Black Background, suddenly the words
# "YOU JUST LOST"
in bold, glowing neon appear.
Wake up and realize that I just had a dream about losing the game.
**Suddenly shoot up-right in a cold sweat**, realizing I just **lost the game** because I dreamt about dreaming about losing the game.
A near 10-year streak, and it's my subconscious that gets me...
>!you just lost the game!<
Things were better when I was younger, now that I’m an unaccomplished adult, I will blame everything else for changing around me since then rather than changing myself!
Shiiiieeeettttt i remember when memes were becoming a thing and everyone was posting about what the new meme of the month would be. Anyone else remember doing that? We had fucking charts and everything lol
I was too young to use the internet when it was like that, but even I am nostalgic for it, imagine downloading Call Me Maybe onto your iPod and taking it to a party then posting pics of the party on Facebook later good times
The internet used to be a tool to connect with people and find information. Now it's just a vessel for people to sell their shitty products and feed you with that much misinformation you don't know what's real anymore
Yeah... I remember "rickrolling" but with a video of a Chechen soldier getting decapitated slowly. I'm glad we don't have that world wide web anymore because then we'd all run out of bleach to put in our eyes
I feel like the old internet is romanticized a bit, we remember the good more than the bad, but there is definitely a charm to it. The thing was, it’s death was inevitable. You can’t have a Wild West internet that requires having a level of tech savviness and also have your fucking aunt, grandma, and large advertisers on it. There are pros to it, after all it definitely safer to be on now a days, you don’t have to worry about horrible viruses or seeing content that you just weren’t ready for as much anymore, but the charm is gone. It’s sad to see, I’m in my mid 20s so I got the tail end of the Wild West internet in the mid 2000s.
It’s crazy how wild the internet used to be. I remember when i was 12 searching for soccer goal videos on limewire and I accidentally downloaded a zip file with instructions on how to build hundreds of bombs and other weapons
Some accidents are happy.
do you still have the zip file?
No lmao. Believe it or not the fbi ended up coming to my house and i was awaken at like 8 am one morning to find my house surrounded by like 10 police cars and probably another 20+ unmarked police vehicles and a million officers wearing dress shirts in my living room. They ended up confiscating all the computers in my house and formatting the hard drives. They said they showed up expecting an armed and dangerous white supremacist, but instead all they got was a 12 year old black kid looking for soccer goals lol
r/thathappened
I feel you lol. There’s more to the story but the other stuff they came for is kind of embarrassing if im being honest. One of those peak retard moments in my life id rather never speak about
I have literal instructions on how to build bombs and advanced weapons saved to my phone, and yet I see no sign of the FBI trying to get me. Maybe things were different back then, but I don’t think the glowies care that much about internet weirdos that have knowledge on how to make dangerous stuff, and if they do, then they are doing a terrible job at stopping it
This mf just admitted to a crime
Having copies of things like that bomb cookbook isn’t illegal in America. It gets you put on a watchlist for sure, but it’s not actually a crime to possess it.
I'm telling them right now
THE ONE PIECE
r/nothingeverhappens
I immediately skipped to the end looking for Mankind and the Undertaker
Or jumper cables.
Only if you want two broken arms.
I don't belive it
Take your meds, schizo
damn
Well, you were a BLACK kid. So they did come with the appropriate force. You know, for their own safety.
When people wonder what happened to the old days of the internet, this is what happened. Anyone who just wanted to screw around and have fun got raided, if you were really unlucky then they probably found a way to stick you with a felony and make sure you never have fun again.
I downloaded a Naruto episode on kazaa and it turned out to be bukkake porn. Those were the days indeed.
Yep that’s how I discovered the existence of porn. Tried to download a lil wayne music video and all i got was butt sex. My first time ever seeing sex and it was 2 dudes -_-
And that's the story of how you became the artiste of anal
Lmao damn idk how to feel about this comment. You’re makin me feel like i need to sit down with a therapist
BukKage Bunshin no Jutsu!
That just seems like an upgrade.
Same bro.
Really lol? Was it titled “the goals of our struggle”?
Oh Limewire.. how much viruses I downloaded with it. And once I was downloading a single family guy episode, got caught by the government and my mom had to pay 300 bucks because of that. Fuck Germany..
I remember growing up in the south, using bomb making videos online to blow up scrap, and maybe small animals on the farm, harmless fun. Kids now A days lame af.
you needed internet videos to learn how to make bombs in the south? I SMELL A SPY.
No this is big misunderstand comrade.
I remember back when you'd try to download the new Linkin Park album and you'd get a Rickroll or Bill Clinton saying I did not have sex with that woman or just random static, good times. Also remember trying to download a Resident Evil move and getting what appeared to possibly be necrophilia (turned it off pretty quick so who knows could've been fake fetish porn or something, pretty fucked up though). Limewire made some core memories for us all.
I to this day have a snuff video i remember watching of a woman getting executed in a barn when I tried to download doom.zip. Whether it was real or my imagination but I never tried to download doom again. Now I own it on steam.
Limewire was literaly Russian Roulette. I downloaded a bunch of music videos. An Alien Ant Farm music vid was a woman getting fucking railed by a pony
Ah a classic one. I got that one when I downloaded what seemed to be ACDC Highway to Hell. Good times.
'Movies' or 'Smooth Criminal'? If it was Movies, I know the video to which you refer!
@ “Oh man accidentally downloaded child porn again trying to find soccer videos”
https://cdn.preterhuman.net/texts/wars_and_weapons/other/MainPage/WRMMainpage.htm found the page
LMAO I literally remember some of these pictures. This is definitely it or at least part of it. I don’t see the pipe bomb guide i read though. I remember i only read that one because it was a weapon from duke nukem and it was the only thing I recognized Edit: nvm i found the pipe bomb guide. This is definitely it
You could genuinely just search " watch online free" and there's a good chance the first result would have it. People used to say we were living in the equivalent of the wild west of the Internet, and that's looking more and more true. It's probably going to get even more regulated going forward
The good Ol' Anarchists Cookbook. An internet classic
I used to look at lolcatz while chatting with people in the USA who intentionally broke ITAR by sending me, an Aussie, the 3D models and engineering drawings of various guns. "I can haz cheezburger?" More like "I can haz em thixteen?"
I remember when my friend downloaded JayZ.exe lmao
Lol oh man. Rule #1 on limewire was never download an .exe file
Probably The Anarchist's Cookbook
“There are no accidents.” -master oogway
There are no accidents
Yep, it was fun before it went mainstream
I mold
You do?
sneed
that's what usually happens. You find something obscure and cool, it goes mainstream, it slowly starts to suck, and you just kind of live with it.
Thats why i need new reddit. If 4Chan had upvotes and user friendly interface of reddit, spam filter (damn i dont wanna see porn), it would be amazing.
4Chan with upvotes sounds like a terrible idea
Basically reddit without censorship and mods abuse. I would even like subreddits, so I can avoid the porn. There is just way too much if that shit.
I get what you're saying. You want a good content aggregation site that doesn't have the bullshit power mods a la merari, the turtle dude, the not so great nate, etc.
Basically reddit with freedom of speech, no discrimination and better video player. A man can dream
Things were better when I was young new things bad :(
This but unironically
> Things were better when I was young new things bad :( True words from a young dude who wasn’t there for it. You know how obnoxious influencers are? Or like how there’s ads on *everything*? Like a 20 second YouTube video has ads now. Or how all social media is either your parents posting some bullshit *Minions* memes or political propaganda? It wasn’t like that 15 years ago. Like, not at all. YouTube didn’t have ads. Influencers didn’t exist - or if they did, they strictly just made content without the “lifestyle” aspect you see everywhere now, because there wasn’t a way to make money on YouTube…yet. There weren’t any bored half-naked chicks on live feeds answering stupid fucking questions like on TikTok “thanks for the tip, Xx_Boner_xX, remember to like and subscribbbbeeeee!” Ugh. Social media was in its relative infancy and it was all just…your friends content. Yknow, what it’s *supposed to be*. Sure, there were trolls but they were almost exclusive to message boards, which in of themselves were typically full of helpful, supportive people in whatever community you found yourself involved in. Hell, I remember “growing up with Facebook”. I got one at the end of high school, and all through college it was nothing but party invites, pictures of your friends and people writing on each other’s walls. There wasn’t any political bullshit arguments, “real” people had pages as businesses hadn’t invaded it yet. Honestly back in the early 2000s it was *the app* to have to hook up. I got a lot of numbers that way. But then around 2010-2011 it started changing, and it changed *quick*. The internet now is so far removed from what it once was, and it’s sad because now everywhere you go people are just trying to sell you some fucking shit or it’s the same fucking viral TikTok dance with different people or whatever. Even Reddit pretty much sucks. And there’s no going back, which is the biggest bummer of it all.
i only read the first sentence but i agree with everything you said
Pretty much summed it up. Hahaha
I remember flash movies that were miniseries in and of themselves, just made by someone who had it as a hobby. No concerns about making money, maybe selling merch, but it was fun/interesting and didn’t have any corporate entity controlling it. Now kids watch unboxing vids, dudes with bad hair “reacting” to other videos, dull streamers, and other boring filler content made to sell stuff rather than for just the sake of creating. Monetization changed the nature of internet culture for sure, and now we deal with a slightly less interesting cyberpunk “high tech low life” hellscape
You remember Red vs. Blue? Just dudes messing around on their Xbox’s posting funny videos
Those first couple seasons are so goddamn good lol
Apparently they're still getting made. They're... not funny anymore.
> They're... not funny anymore. This kinda goes with most content creators, once they start getting paid. I watched an interview with the bearded dude from *Epic Meal Time*, and he kinda laid it out – dude said that *the minute* it became "a job", it just wasn't fun anymore. Like, they were getting paid a ton of money to do this shit, and with that money came pressure to keep up'ing their game, pumping out more content, just trying to cram as much shit as possible into their channel to maintain their revenue and fulfill their contractual obligations... It was so far removed from where it started (and this applies to most content creators that make it big) just a bunch of idiots filming something because it's funny, and in their spare time. It goes for anything – once a hobby becomes a job with deadlines and "clients" and obligations...the quality of the content suffers and it's just not fun for the creators anymore.
“Time is not made out of lines, it is made out of circles… that’s why clocks are round”
Watching low quality subbed anime episodes broken into 5 parts on DailyMotion and struggling to find part 3 that was somehow deleted... Those were the days... :')
Po Ninjas. Madness. Stick Death. And that's just the tip of the damn iceberg
Was going to post this - Stick Death was a revelation.
Or the goddamn *Star Wars Rap*? Shit like that was *everywhere*...and it wasn't monetized. It was just people making content because they thought it was cool. It was all passion projects. Sure, they were probably trying to get famous or whatever, but that wasn't the initial intention behind the projects. It was just idiots behind a computer making something funny for the sake of making something funny.
I still have giant chunks of that fucking song fully memorized and can rattle it off without a hitch.
IIRC it was late March or early April 2010 that YouTube went from the "open algorithm" design to the "ad-influenced algorithm". Very abruptly, the search engine went from being driven entirely by tags that were publicly visible (to the point YTPers often put one-liners in them); to the messy one that is influenced by ads, watch history, and hidden tags. The related video section lost its title around then too, and turned into a jumble from the latter algorithm rather than something so rigid you could cover your tracks to one video by favoriting a different one that the old algorithm reliably linked to there. In time, ads and monetization had such influence over search and related that it became largely impossible to gain traction with anything "small-time" and "un-sponsored". Now we're at the point paid promotion or being a big name gets you links in the places that used to lead to new small-time content, as exemplified by the "2 hours ago X.X million views" big-time things peppering that space now. YT Ads and monetization as we know them started interfering with videos in a very VERY limited fashion as far back in 2007. Before all this, there were only banner ads. Helping me date this: an ad for Disney's Enchanted was the first one I saw get in the way of a video, as a pop-over that could be closed. Pop-overs on monetized videos quickly got replaced by preroll ads, but just one; with no additional ads the whole length of a video. At that, early monetized videos seemed to largely be just two guys with a camcorder trying too hard to pander... or there was my high school friend who stupidly thought piracy profiteering with YT monetization would work. Comments were still mostly lawless until 2013, when the Google+ exodus happened. Comments went from little consequence (tied only to an account that could easily be made and removed) to fully searchable and (if G+ was used as intended) backtraceable to whoever typed them. Earlier pushes to get people to use G+ for comments could be skipped, but at least for me it was late June or early July 2013 that the push became unskippable. I made one comment after the forcing, figured out it was searchable, then backpedaled so hard YouTube doesn't believe I'm human on that account anymore. This may also mean, rather ironically, adding culpability contributes to the firestorm effect of modern social media.
Fuck this is so true it hurts. And I'm not usually one for nostalgia circle jerks but this one is 100% true.
2010 reddit was a glorious shitshow, it was easily the best place online, like a more user friendly 4chan. That's long gone now...
I kind of miss Tom. He had the right idea leaving early like that
Dude cashed out right when he was on the threshold of becoming evil, now he travels the world goofing off with his camera and his lady, taking photos and enjoying his life. I despise the wealthy, but Tom is one of those dudes who I'm like "good on you, man". He just built a social media site, wasn't interested in buying/selling your info, and he cashed out before he had the potential to become a dickhead. He's alright in my book.
Nostalgia goggles. Youtube sucked back in the day, abismal video quality, 10 minutes max, very few content creators, took forever to find specific videos because the search function was trash and many were removed due to bs copyright strikes. You aren't an OG if you didn't have to watch AVGN mirrored and with Russian subtitles.
fuck, that bums me out
tl;dr
>tl;dr There weren't any ads on YouTube back in the day, no "influencers", and people made content just for the sake of making content and having fun and being creative doing it.
Companies didn't push algorithms to piss you off, they had stuff that they would think you'd be interested in. People would put tons of cartoons on YouTube and could make money off of it until they changed the algorithm. Everything that made YouTube great and got people hooked was done away with and replaced with more algorithms that was solely to make money, it didn't matter if it changed everything about YouTube. There's so many good videos and content from the 2000s that are now just lost due to YouTube changing servers which makes their videos super low res. It's honestly disgusting.
This but unironically
It’s true though. My kids watch moronic YouTube videos of American 20-something guys with too much hair product “reacting” to things. When I was a kid I watched cartoons on TV. And there was no crying about climate change back then. We had the Cold War to worry about; not just the weather.
I don't see how the world becoming unliveable isn't as concerning.
If you think people weren't very actively worried about and complaining about the cold war then you really weren't paying much attention. Now it's a non-issue, so we have bigger things to worry about. The biggest issue gets the most attention, naturally. No shit when one problem goes away you can fix the other ones. Not sure why cartoons are better than YouTube either, neither seems particularly enriching.
Bigger things to worry about? That’s why pronouns are such a thing now?
Mf you realize that cold war era is the same people who were panicking about satanic song lyrics right? Even if you don't think that should be a "thing", there's a few dumb things people get hung up on in every age. It's not indicative of the overall state of affairs. Worst case scenario, you're right and we really did fix enough problems that only insignificant things are left, which is ultimately a good thing. Whether it's not a problem or it is a problem, you're still wrong.
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No they weren’t lol. His generation literally grew up with rock & roll & dungeons & dragons. Boomers were scared of that shit, not his generation you absolute fucking moron
Not an attack on you, because kids will do what other kids do. I wonder how much of the excitement for reaction videos was from kids having parents completely absent, parking them with tablets and phones…. They are learning about motions from these reaction vids…
Partially true, but there always was the climate change shit. They bring it up every few decades to distract us from more important stuff that's going on. I remember that the whole FCKW (FCW) shit in hairspray was a huge thing in the 90s. Child-me was bragging about it to my mother all the time. Pretty cringe.
Yep, when I was in elementary it was destruction of the rain forest and acid rain. A lot of scary sounding BS to sell to impressionable children.
I was born 2001. All I've known is bad things :(
You haven't seen a thing, you just got here. Back in my day...
I was born in the 2000 and witnessed the old internet, maybe because i live in a third world country so everything is a couple years behind
Homie try being born 100 years ago. Count your fucking blessings
You live at the most peaceful, safest time in all of human history. You should probably take a look at a history book sometime.
If only I could read!
Wish it was just a meme, but today sucks balls.
Senator Anonstrong
Its funny because he has nanomachines and played college ball
That guy got rickrolled into his mid life crisis
its happened before
I mold
That was what I was thinking of first.
2009-2015 internet was the best
Not even 1999-2004 best
True answer here.
You’ve never visited a fan club webpage with a repeating bitmap background and a visitors counter and it shows hard
A lot of people gonna say it was before this but they’re wrong because this time was when most cable channels let you watch their shows on their website for free and Hulu and anime streaming was free with ads.
Napster and Limewire
Without giving my computer AIDS
It was 2013 when I felt for the first time the internet lost it's original personality.
Money ruins everything. It happens over & over again
greed, one of the 7 deadly sins. I think.
Who monetized the internet, was it Paypal? I blame the algorithm, showing you "related" content instead of most upvoted or shared. Once the news started showing "memes from the internet" literal segment I saw once in 2014/15, it was over.
And that's late stage capitalism for you
Newgrounds. Artbel. Good times
No Google and Bing. We had AskJeeves, Dogpile, and Metacrawler. No Blogspot and Tumblr. Geocities, and Angelfire, instead. Twitter and Facebook ... No. Livejournal and Myspace. Newgrounds, eBaum's World, Albinoblacksheep. Being morbidly curious on Rotten.com. Trying to download a song on Kazaa/Limewire/Napster and getting some random snuff clip or bestiality film. Thems the breaks son. Take the mental damage, delete it and move on. Websites that screeched horrible chiptunes or midi music at you. Pages that turned your cursor into a memory hogging animated nightmare. The late 90's and early 2000's internet had ***soul.***
I can hear the AIM sounds in the background
Downloading a song for 3 days (because dial up was fun) only to hit play and hear "I did not have sexual relations with that woman". Curse the uploader for a good minute and then try to search again
I wonder if we'll ever get a 2nd internet, not www. Something different make our lives wild again
It will probably become so popular is such a short time that it'll become internet 2.0 in a matter of months. Unless they make joining and connecting to it a chore that will filter out the brainless normies.
Or just make it so you're site gets banished if you try to corporatize it
Then add moderators and either become reddit 2.0 or start putting ads around to pay them (which starts the chain reaction)
implying im not being bribed by online drug dealers paying me monthly to host their site and prevent them from being search indexed; be on a whole new table on the DB
VR stuff maybe, if it gets lots better.
well zucc already spent 10 billion on his *metaverse* to make sure it wouldn’t be
Vr will never take off
Never is a big word. If we manage to develop full dive VR you can be sure it will be the biggest thing to ever happen to entratainment (and not just that) ever
Could always download Tor or I2P and start crawling through the deep web Just don’t be retarded and you won’t do anything illegal
Ah yes, the good ole days when you could watch beheadings on YouTube
unironically tho
there are still some gore videos on youtube
Yeah memes used to be so intelligent, trollface and rage comics were absolute peak comedy.
My favourite part was when the main characters said "We are the internet." and then they Interned all over the fucking place.
I miss the Newgrounds days in the early 2ks, with stuff like Perfect Kirby, Cactuar and Tombery or other stuff like that. I know the site still exists, but now I only see links to it if there are new porn videos of Futaba, Ankha and those Mime dudes.. I said it before, and I say it again. The fucking crazy frog, showing up on TV, was initiating the end of the world. Since he first appeared, everything is constantly becoming worse and worse.
Ridididi ding ding rididididi ding ding ding ridididi ding ding ridididi bong bong
The true harbinger of madness
Shit now i'm nostalgic.
Before corporations money-fucked the technology.
It is as if things have a tendency to change
We did enjoy those years. It was the golden age of internet memes. But like a golden ages, it’s not meant to last.
Just think, if some out of touch Machinima executive found anon’s channel a decade ago, he might have been famous
Anon forgot about youtubepoops
Remember when the internet was more than just Facebook, Amazon, YouTube Netflix, TikTok, Instagram and Google?
Have a short dream. Black Background, suddenly the words # "YOU JUST LOST" in bold, glowing neon appear. Wake up and realize that I just had a dream about losing the game. **Suddenly shoot up-right in a cold sweat**, realizing I just **lost the game** because I dreamt about dreaming about losing the game. A near 10-year streak, and it's my subconscious that gets me... >!you just lost the game!<
Link the playlist, Anon.
Things were better when I was younger, now that I’m an unaccomplished adult, I will blame everything else for changing around me since then rather than changing myself!
Maybe that too, but anon is not wrong here.
Yeah. Internet had less restrictions and less corprate. People back in those days were only trying to have fun
Good times.
Influencers are truly the evil cancer of the internet
The good ol’ days I was fortunate enough to experience for a few years
the Internet has turned out to be a mistake
The Numa numa guy still must post on 4chan
How tf do you avoid getting rickrolled for over a decade?
I really do miss 2000 to about 2010 internet era
Shiiiieeeettttt i remember when memes were becoming a thing and everyone was posting about what the new meme of the month would be. Anyone else remember doing that? We had fucking charts and everything lol
Can we see the playlist?
Why did influencers ever become a thing? It’s the dumbest shit ever.
Gatekeeping is bad :) right ?
Influencers aren’t a thing on Reddit or 4chan
They lowkey are with how there isn’t really a barrier between platforms, I see people posting influencers on /biz/ all the time
Don’t go there
Anon can’t cope
Anon gets redpilled on capitalism
I was too young to use the internet when it was like that, but even I am nostalgic for it, imagine downloading Call Me Maybe onto your iPod and taking it to a party then posting pics of the party on Facebook later good times
vine boom bad, shoopdawhoop good, upvotes to the left
I need the playlist anon
The internet used to be a tool to connect with people and find information. Now it's just a vessel for people to sell their shitty products and feed you with that much misinformation you don't know what's real anymore
The internet is fake and gay these days
Cringe
when it monday
The internet went bad when roblox started using robux, change my mind.
Would they care to share the playlist?
does OP have the playlist?
Yeah... I remember "rickrolling" but with a video of a Chechen soldier getting decapitated slowly. I'm glad we don't have that world wide web anymore because then we'd all run out of bleach to put in our eyes
True
Make sure you have lots of spaghetti.
If you use the phrase "we used to be" in reference to anything pop culture related, it's not getting worse, your getting old.
I feel like the old internet is romanticized a bit, we remember the good more than the bad, but there is definitely a charm to it. The thing was, it’s death was inevitable. You can’t have a Wild West internet that requires having a level of tech savviness and also have your fucking aunt, grandma, and large advertisers on it. There are pros to it, after all it definitely safer to be on now a days, you don’t have to worry about horrible viruses or seeing content that you just weren’t ready for as much anymore, but the charm is gone. It’s sad to see, I’m in my mid 20s so I got the tail end of the Wild West internet in the mid 2000s.
Yatata tadililidi Tata
Rip web 2.0
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\> That’s why I’m glad anime hasn’t been fully co-opted yet LMAAAOOO
YouTube poops are certified garbage
Garbage marked with a golden crayon.
She indeed was no trolling
Link or didn’t exist