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No.156377
How do you cope with the fact that you were born too late to experience the true old internet and only have scraps and an internet archive to show you how things were back then?
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No.156379
I was around then, so i wasnt borned too late.

but i do miss it a lot.

Heres how I cope with it;
I like to remind myself of the benefits of the modern internet, faster speeds, its easier than ever to watch movies for free, theres plenty of ways beyond forums and irc to talk to people, its arguably easier to stay informed now than ever. Open source software is bigger than its ever been. AI, and advanced search tools make it easier than ever to do your own research on any subject you want.
Streamers provide a lot of fun entertainment, alternative news is more interesting than almost anything on the news in the late 90s early 00s
Game emulation is the best its ever been as well.

When i was a kid, if you told me i could fit every ps1, dreamcast, n64, NES, SNES, GB, GBA, DS ,PSP game on a solid state drive the size of a credit card i wouldnt believe you
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No.156390
what do you consider the "true old internet" because i've been on the internet since 1995 and i wouldn't want to go back
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No.156391
>>156390
people who hate new internet usually blame "social media"
and if you ask them to elaborate they give you generalizations like "the quality is bad" or "AI has ruined everything"
They wouldnt even be able to tell you what AI has ruined, and id guarantee that low quality posts they think are bots are just ESL people. :glare1:
Theyll never admit to you that 95% of the internet in 95-99 were from europe and asia, and that was a much higher 'quality' poster.

And the last excuse is that "everything looks bad"
Pure aesthetic nostalgia, nothing is stopping someone from doing some basic CSS, many websites are designed with phones in mind because for the "developing world" a phone is the only computer they process.. again, is it a technical issue, a modernization issue, or could it actually be a... people problem

a valid criticism of modern internet would be censorship, censorship is higher than its ever been, yet "old web" fanatics dont seem to truly like the parts of the old web they were a bit wild. Wild West to them is kooky gifs and bonzi buddy, modern "old web" fanatics claim they love the old web but what they really desire is the digital equivalent of a hole in the ground they can shove their head into, because actually interacting with alternative view points is too distressing, actually wild west internet isn't included in this "good old days" fantasy
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No.156392
for the most part i focus on the present ヽ(´ー｀)ノ
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No.156393
>>156392
No point in focusing on what could have been, just be here for the now. This is teh way. :cool:
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No.156394
Now is better because Heyuri is here ヽ(´ー｀)ノ
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No.156395
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I have no opinion. I do not recall anything news worthy happening before 2010 because I only cared about my cartoons airing and being given sweets :nyaoo2:
There are legal girls (over 15) that were born AFTER Minecraft was released, time keeps going
I do not remember anything culturally but I remember echos of past tech solutions

Whatever I recall from my earliest memories related to computers and internet - I miss how basic some things were and encryption and obfuscation and firewalling in general was nothing compared to today. I could break stuff by queries after the ? sign or SQL injection because some places did not verify properly permissions before letting the action go or stuff was client side and the server did not verify. Stealing cookies was enough to get admin access because nobody cared to implement sessions.

Online games were fun, I remember abusing mechanics or scripting to go around with an OP bazooka and have unlimited ammo instead of 10 per respawn and instant reloads. A lobby of 20 people would all quit within 3 minutes :xd:
Or crawling, jumping and doing whatever to squeeze through textures in a map to go underneath it and one-way shoot everyone else because I could see what was going on up above the ground, but they could not see me through the ground texture. And the same way damage went only one way, so when I started losing I would do just that to show them who is the king of K/D :dark:
There was another buggy but fun game where you could make an account to save progress and it would prompt you to enter password to log in. Even if you gave a wrong password it would tell you it is wrong in-game and for some reason it sent a packet containing the real unencrypted password and that is how you could use anyone's account. Kids were shitting themselves and quitting when you told them their password in chat. Now nothing works this way.

I had fun in CS doing the query thingy and scanning the whole CS network for active lobbies and even on-going privately hosted games by people and I loved breaking into random people's lobbies and even games that explicitly were set to invite-only and I enjoyed playing with them. They fixed it in 2017 I think. Even if they kicked me out of their lobby I had the exact query I needed to bypass the ban and come back as many times as I wanted until they made a new one and I had to do hit or miss to find them again. I am not sure what valve was thinking. And I was able to scan for lobbies because the number increased and it was tied to a timestamp of lobby creation and not even encrypted. I was inspired by the "duk" guy would break into global tournament lobbies and I actually made a good friend this way. Lost contact with him almost a decade ago.

I once had fun in elementary and made a few computers open the CD station once every few minutes because I was a mean kid. Now school computers are so locked down that you can't do much. When I was finishing high school there was some education ministry proxy to block porn and games and cheating resources, and also windows user account's permissions were so limited that I could not run anything that is not approved by the teacher's computer. Eventually gave up breaking it and evaded the firewall by connecting my phone to the wifi, put my VPN over it, and broadcasted the signal back to the computer. But I also somehow got a VPN client to run there as if it were approved but I don't remember what I did. I made two school computers my personal residential IP proxies to evade bans and make throwaway accounts but now they don't respond so they probably got formatted. I remember that ancient prank where you screenshot your victim's desktop, then delete all contents of the desktop, and make that screenshot a wallpaper and the guy cries that he can't open his folders. It was my favorite.

I think the true form of current internet began in 2016. Kids were going around with their fortnite ninja blue hair and that annoying instagram filter with dogs, at that time everyone was explicitly banning raiding, youtube went to absolute shit, making throwaway or troll accounts was getting hard really fast and moderation got super strict around that time but that is my opinion. Bitcoin blew up among normalfigs and it was so cheap. KYC started getting implemented.

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No.156396
>>156391
>people who hate new internet usually blame "social media"
I generaly blame normie
also I generaly heard mainly normie complain about AI
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No.156398
/v/ (where most of the shit in OP's image is from) was my favorite board in the late 2000s when I was a teen and I don't miss it at all. I remember newgrounds and a few small vidya forums I used in the mid 2000s and everyone there was retarded, but they didn't seem retarded at the time because I was ~13. Everyone in online games was retarded too. It was fun to be able to call people fags and niggers without getting b&, but I had to ban evade all the time because of hax anyway. Now you don't even need hax to troll in online games, you can just say that george floyd or charlie kirk deserved it for being a nigger/a fag and generate more butthurt than ever, and there are way better tools for ban evasion now.

Anime is doing great. Some of the best anime ever like wataten and yryr are from the 10s. Looking forward to Spy x Family S3 and Shuumatsu Touring next week. Having 12MB/s bandwidth instead of 150KB/s, cheap 1TB SSDs and 5+GHz 16 core CPUs and gazillion teraflop GPUs for generating unlimited high quality nudes of your waifu is nice too.
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No.156408
OP violated at least two rules: #0 and #8.C

I'm using teh Internet since 2007, so I can't relate to the OP and the TikTok generation kids alike, sorry.

I have a bit of nostalgia, but I can admit one sad thing: it's not the Internet got worse, it is me who became a geezer - just like all people do. I don't enjoy the life like I used to in my teen years.

And that fact is a much more frustrating thing. Being old sucks.
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No.156409
fake nostalgia is better than real nostalgia tho
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No.156410
also i think western old internet sucks and i prefer japanes old web. i dont know why so many ppl here are otaku yet they like the western side more
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No.156411
>>156410
yeah i agree
>i dont know why so many ppl here are otaku yet they like the western side more
bc they dont speak japanese. its a huge obstacle, i realized it again when i lurked some chinese websites and how lost i was
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No.156413
yeah its true but now it became more accessible with ai translation so i hope more people will turn to the bright side
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No.156416
If Chad Warden is considered old internet, then I did experience it. The one thing I miss most is the raids and such. Hitler Did Nothing Wrong, Pool's Closed, DDoSing the Australian government.

Maybe we should raid 20chan since we outnumber them and their /b/ is shit anyway.
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No.156418
>>156413
is there a good browser addon that translates web pages with something better than google translate?
>>156416
raiding livestreams and zoom meetings with prolapsing nigra scat porn and stuff is fun
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No.156423
I don't rly care
It would be cool to be Japanese and experience 2channel or NND at their heights, but it's still fun to lurk through the archives
I'm happy I can consume old media and post on Heyuri about them, and that's all I need :nyaoo-closedeyes:
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No.156426
>>156398
I got perma banned from one of the last few english-speaker-dominant cs:s servers a few years back for using loli guro sprays lol.
Some canadian guy actually started hyperventilating, calling for my death and shit when he saw it. He was probably shitting bricks thinking truedough was gonna break down his door and raep him with a rusty pitchfork just for viewing that poor underage drawing
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No.156433
>>156416
>Maybe we should raid 20chan since we outnumber them and their /b/ is shit anyway.
not 20chan. that would be lame and boring since it's mostly bots posting there.
still... a Heyuri raid would be nice. (・∀・)
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No.156438
>is there a good browser addon that translates web pages with something better than google translate?
i dont know , usually i just paste whole pages into chatgpt or deepseek and it translates it pretty good , dunno about quality though
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No.156441
I don't care about the old internet
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No.156444
I don'T care about the "old net". I got more important things to think about, such as the plump VAGINAs of lolis.
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No.156445
>>156444
this guy gets it!
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No.156451
If some mod and a user is having beef, leave me out of it. sorry i asked, sheesh. （ ´_ゝ`）
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No.156452
why'd my post about raiding lolis get baleeted
jaypee and 5ch used to do that to junior idols
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No.156453
>>156452
i just assumed you were joking, if you were being serious, then that deletion was probably justified, i dont think calls for raids is allowed. （ ´_ゝ`）
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No.156454
>>156433
What's a good little chan to raid then? I crave internet violence. :nyaoo-closedeyes: Is sushigirl still around? There are probably some slow boards on there.
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No.156455
>>156454
raid the dang fridge and get me a beer! LOL
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No.156456
>>156453
If you assumed i was just joking, why was it deleted?
It'd be all in good fun. Not every raid has to be mean spirited. I was thinking of something akin to cola-chan, or ip cam shit :hokke:
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No.156463
Posting here is my cope
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No.156466
i don't care as much as you think
i'm already disillusioned with history worship like everybody else should be
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No.156468
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I miss being young more than I particularly miss any era of the internet （ ´,_ゝ`）
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No.156839
It's probably better than having lived during the good times and knowing that they'll never come again.

I want to go back to being 16 years old and reading front page articles from somethingawful.
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No.156900
I was born in the 80s.
I cope with it reminding myself that everything withers and dies, so some day I will die, too, and the torment will end.
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