| Hello there, i've been using the internet since i brought it one in 2010 and i've been thinking on how the old internet used to be in 2000s and 1990s before i brought the internet. I owned computer back in 2005, but i didn't bring the internet until 2010. |
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| the exclusivity of it. every corner of the internet felt like a tightly knit community. now, it’s all watered down, too generic. i miss playing unreal tournament and cs:s around ‘05-‘06. |
| hmm. I've used the Internet since the mid-1990s...but I can't put my finger on what I miss about the "old" days. I guess I have fond memories of the cheesiness of it all and the '90s in general. My brother and I miss maxpages.com (which let anyone host a website there for free; this one had a certain charm to it) and the original Ask Jeeves search engine. Can't say that I miss the laughably slow dial-up connections I had to use back then. |
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| i believe internet was a very nicer and better place until like 5 or 6 years ago. Something happened within these years that changed everything on the internet at least for me. Though i dont know what. |
| Someone already mentioned the "cheesiness" of the times-- like the old shockwave games. I kinda miss the thrill of p2p sharing (winmx) and chat rooms, what fun it was to be on those things when everyone was just getting the hang of communicating in such a manner. But I miss forums, they were all seemingly active with users, but this site still carrys that kind of charm. More "toxic", but the spirit remains. |
| "In the end the World really doesn't need a Superman. Just a Brave one" |
| I started using the internet in the mid 90s. I was still a kid at the time and wasn't allowed on it unsupervised. So I never got into the more "interesting stuff". I do have nostalgia for AIM, Ask Jeeves, the corny flashing ads and Limewire. I do not miss dial up internet at all though. That can stay in the 90s for all I care. |
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| I miss the very old school Runescape. |
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| I started using the internet regularly in 2004, what I miss most is the feeling of it being special and people treating it as such. Trolling wasn't even a term back then, people seemed more friendly and open towards each other. I remember it being easy to make friends you'd actually talk with. MrAwesome2018 said: I miss the very old school Runescape. Also, this. |
| Well, I certainly don't miss dial-up, that's for sure. I didn't get my first computer until 2000, because my parents were too poor to afford one before that. Keep in mind that my first computer, an AMD K6-2 with a 500mhz processor, a 20GB HDD and 128MB RAM cost $1800 in 2000, and while it was new, it wasn't top of the line or anything. Computers were very expensive in those days, and even more so the further back you go. Prior to owning a computer, I first used a computer in school. My first grade classroom had a Commodore 64 in it, although that computer was fairly old at that point, but the computer lab had what I believe were 486's, with probably either 8 or 16MB RAM, all running Windows 3.11 for Workgroups, which was the newest version of Windows at that time. I experienced the internet in school in the 90s, and it was very slow. I could only view a few web pages before class was over, because of the slowness of the internet connection. Around 2000, I remember an Anime website called "Anime Web Turnpike," which was rather popular, but I don't believe it exists anymore. Despite the slow internet at the time, I am somewhat nostalgic about certain things about it. I remember when Myspace, Facebook and Youtube didn't even exist. When Youtube first launched, I was in my senior year of high school, and it was quite revolutionary. It was so easy to find videos of hot girls dancing, because that K-Pop fancam bullshit hadn't taken over Youtube yet. |
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Someone take me back, please. |
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| I'm pretty young but if there's one thing I miss from the olden days of the internet it's the inability to find my way around it. My first pc I got from grandparents in 2003 and the first internet connection two years later in 2005. All I knew how to do was load up cs and trash talk people in it lol. |
  “The most shameless thing in the world is political power that can be inherited regardless of ability or talent!” |
| OG Runescape, Newgrounds, and eBaum's World. Technically all three aren't defunct yet, but they're a shadow of their former selves now. Dial-up was a nightmare in where I live, though. Travelling to the moon is still faster than waiting for a MySpace or Friendster page to finish loading. Wouldn't miss it even with extreme nostalgia goggles. |
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| Yahoo Messenger was a thing, so were Flash games. Bad mics were taken for granted. |
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| I miss series specific forums, the lack of like buttons, blogs and that general sense of community that existed back then, it was easier to connect with others back then. However, I feel like people are more judgemental now and go out of their way to harass others who don't share the same opinion as they do, so it makes me warier of talking to people. I also miss chat apps like Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo messenger, I dislike how how new chat apps want your phone number. |
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| Basically the eBaum's World/pre-YouTube/MySpace era of the internet; more specifically Newgrounds back when EgoRaptor actually made animations, Red Vs Blue, and AMV Hell. |
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| - rapidshare, megaupload, and any other big file hosting sites during that time - anime forums (now only MAL is kinda surviving) - chatango too much random chatting (now its discord which is more strict) - fansubs (now its just mostly webrips from legal streaming sites but its much faster to be release now though) - mini size anime encodes from RMVB to mini MKV/MP4 downloads ranging from 40mb to 70mb file sizes per episode because now even re-encodes have like 100+mb file sizes because of higher resolution encoding too so bring back lower resolution like 480p re-encodes |
| Humor. I feel like we switched from dark and snarky humor to just giggling at memes that aren't actually funny. It's a massive downgrade. |
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Maneki-Mew said: Fauxgrandma said: this so bad i hate how almost everything asks phone number these days for no freaking valid reason pretending like it will ''increase security'' which is absolute bullshit I loved the old internet when you could just be ''cool_girlx_3489483'' and no one cared about your real identity Our data is the hot commodity these days, so I really doubt they want our numbers to 'increase security.' I miss that too, I had a few of those xxusernamesxx myself, the hardest part was coming up with the password! Absolutely. I kinda miss ICQ, it's anonymous number, it's cute flower and the annoying sound it made. Me too, I miss the type-writer noises I think it had and the 'uh oh' sound you mentioned.I met some interesting people on there. |
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| @Usagi That's still around but far less. Do miss that witty use of comedy and atmosphere though. Made reading past threads or posts funny |
| "In the end the World really doesn't need a Superman. Just a Brave one" |
| Old MMOs before World of Warcraft became popular, online gaming before Steam took it over back when Gamespy still existed, niche forums for things like specific games, dark/edgy humor, AIM and other old chatrooms before social networking became a thing, Youtube back when it was interesting before it became censored and commercialized, I also miss the look of websites back then (I hate the "minimalist" and "mobile device-oriented" web design of today) |
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| runescape, adventure quest, neopets, maplestory, when mmo guilds were guilds, fps dedicated servers, vbulletin aesthetic forums, less iot, limewire, msn messenger with the addon to spam nudges, when pages used paginators instead of infinite scroll-downs because nowadays it seems the full-stack intern has no idea how to implement them |
| There was less people being psychopathic assholes for no reason. |
 I miss this meme not being dead bottom text |
| I started using the internet for things other than flash games around 2011 but I'd like to give my own two cents since the internet has changed since then too if that's okay. People were a lot less judgmental. Generally, if you weren't hurting anyone you were left to your own devices, but now it seems anything can make people go for your throat. Also. A lot of old flash games I used to play! :c |
| A treasure the color of the rainbow, the color of happiness |
| I miss all the singles in my area and all the lottery tickets I've won. |
 Leading biologist Scott Pitnick said: The bigger your 'nads, the smaller your brains |
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