| Maybe not the internet, perhaps technology as a whole, but do you ever wish we could go back in time? I mean, sure, I wasn't really around during the 2000s, I only remember the earlier times of Facebook, when YouTube still was all blocky with a 5-star rating system and when Flash games were peak. my memories of the old internet and overall technology from the 2000s is a bit diffuse, and perhaps it's just nostalgia talking, but it all felt cooler back then. Personally, I often times just wish we could go back to the early and mid 2000s. Websites back then were much shittier, sure, but at least there was a novelty to exploring random sites, and they weren't all copious-looking and made out of the same templates you'll find anywhere. Boards and forums were a nice form of communication, as they didn't feel as fast-paced as modern social media. Finding any videos, music or flash media was fun because there wasn't that much stuff to do, so everything felt fresh. The memes and internet culture back then were a bit more localized, perhaps not as fun or varied, but to this day I still find simplistic ASCII art from back then to be an appealing memory of pre-historic internet humor. Comparing back then to now, the internet was far easier to digest. Nowadays, I just feel like there's a constant overload of information and media everywhere. You go on Twitter and scroll through 300 tweets about completely different stuff, and it's hard to keep up with that stuff. Now you kinda have to be double-checking videos or photos to make sure they're not made with AI, and you see how the internet kinda makes people increasingly more stupid as time goes by. What's worse is that if you don't really keep up with this kinda stuff, you end up kinda stuck and surrounded by people who seemingly know a hundred thousand things more than you just because they're stuck to their screens consuming information for hours and hours. Thoughts? |
| Pretend there's something flashy and cool here. |
| I had dial-up in 2004 (My family was very late to adopt broadband internet), so hell no. Just thinking about the disconnects whenever the home phone rang sends chills up my spine. |
Opinions are opinions, and differing opinions can co-exist. 🙂 But I don't do debate, life's too short to spend time debating people.    |
| Honestly, I just want to go back to the times when Vsauce, Filthy Frank, iDubbbz, Ethan from h3h3, Maxmoefoe, etc. were in their prime. Vsauce is still the GOAT, but still... |
| Kinda. It was way less retarded back then. |
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| nah, all that dialup, farmville, mafia wars, facebook, skype was a relic of the past but they were not good experiences. Dialup was shitty, farmvlle/mafiawars was that era's fortnite, youtube and skype were slower and low quality and few channels. It's just nostalgia playing with you. |
│Resign? 🕊➤Yes / No│  │Resign? Yes / ⚔➤No│ |
| Internet was still kinda shite 20 years ago, but 15 years ago would be alright. |
This dance is the pinnacle of human achievement. |
| No way. Everything is way better today. Sometimes I get nostalgic for the screeching dial up modems... But it was annoying as hell. It would tie up the phone lines. Whenever my Mom tried to make a call I'd get disconnected. I'd wish my consciousness to go back into younger me Steins;Gate style. Otherwise I'm happy with my instant HD VR porn. Rather than waiting 5 minutes to see a 640x480 pixel naked girl drawn on my screen line by line... |
| Not that far back, no. I do, however, miss when Rage Comics were big, and YouTube before the Adpocalypse, though Pewdiepie vs T-Series was the actual point of no return. |
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No way. Everything is way better today.
Sometimes I get nostalgic for the screeching dial up modems... But it was annoying as hell. It would tie up the phone lines. Whenever my Mom tried to make a call I'd get disconnected.
I'd wish my consciousness to go back into younger me Steins;Gate style.
Otherwise I'm happy with my instant HD VR porn. Rather than waiting 5 minutes to see a 640x480 pixel naked girl drawn on my screen line by line...
Sometimes I get nostalgic for the screeching dial up modems... But it was annoying as hell. It would tie up the phone lines. Whenever my Mom tried to make a call I'd get disconnected.
I'd wish my consciousness to go back into younger me Steins;Gate style.
Otherwise I'm happy with my instant HD VR porn. Rather than waiting 5 minutes to see a 640x480 pixel naked girl drawn on my screen line by line...
| @creepylurker Those are some priorities right there... |
| Pretend there's something flashy and cool here. |
| It isnt so much technology changed it is that corporations and governments swarmed in and ruined the internet by bending it to their needs over the best interests of users and this was made even worse once individuals out for money and nefarious end goals of recruitment to extremism. Amusingly I had came across this not that long ago. |
| The internet was a healthier place without the normies. |
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| I miss some online games of the past maybe, but there is no fuckin way I agree on living in pre-tinder era. |
| Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. |
| Do you guys remember when everyone was anonymous, instead of most people trying to plaster their face everywhere to be a full time influencer? Or how Google actually used to find relevant search results instead of ads? So of course it was better. |
This dance is the pinnacle of human achievement. |
| Look, you are either an actual childporn hoarder or you weren't around or have no idea what the "old school" internet was like. The wild west was fun, but for fuck sakes dudes like Shad were a dime a dozen and were no different from dudes in middle school drawing Powerpuff girls or Jetsons porn because he was "being edgy." Shad's artwork is what Newgrounds and "early internet" pumped out I'm so sick of this "old internet" comment from retards who are just breaking 30, at most. We get it, "back then we did what we wanted." And that was fun. But back then there were also disgusting, baby fucking freaks who were all "but muh rights." Have the right all you want, face the wall while we plant a bullet in the back of your fuckin skull. |
Mao said: If you have to shit, shit! If you have to fart, fart!  |
| Just recently, a website that I have been using for over a decade has changed it's website design. Up until now, it had been the exact same as it was when I first used it, and was the last remaining example of a website that I used when I was younger that remained the same. So, in a sense, the internet as I see it today is unrecognizable from the one I remember. I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, there were some aspects of the older internet that I miss, while there are a lot of aspects of the current internet I would not do without. Is the internet really better or worse than it was all those years ago? Who can say, really? It's all opinion. At the end of the day, it's not the internet that we look back fondly on, it's the interactions with people and the memories associated with whatever website, or technology we were using at the time. There's nothing stopping us from seeking those out today, or creating new sites. Things just change. Sometimes for the better, sometimes not. That got way to philosophical what the hell. |
 This ground is soiled by those before me and their lies. I dare not look up for on me I feel their eyes |
| The Internet was better 20 years ago than the garbage online ATM. |
| Polish internet hasn't changed that much, just the websites and top influencers/recognised people has changed so there wouldn't be that much of the change. |
| im neutral on it but i still look forward to how ai will change the internet like maybe do the dead internet theory |
| Yeah, that was right when I got "fast", unlimited Internet that wasn't blocking the phone line. The Internet wasn't commercialized to death, yet, so everything was cool. Most of the people discussing things were at least somewhat tech literate. Search engines still brought you relevant results instead of sponsored content. Youtube didn't sell out to Google yet. Good times. |
| Live in a jungle, in a gray cube house with almost nothing inside, connect your consciousness to a data creating machine, and your life will be infinitely better. |
| I didnt use the Internet 20 years ago btw... |
| If you wanted to wish for an earlier time, at least pick one before 2001 September 11th. Shit got really bad and never got better. There's a lot more to what ever life gonna be than Youtube and flash games? |
| And online censorship is only increasing...remember censorship only benefits the ruling, class elites by hiding the unpleasent truth from the masses! |
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Look, you are either an actual childporn hoarder or you weren't around or have no idea what the "old school" internet was like. The wild west was fun, but for fuck sakes dudes like Shad were a dime a dozen and were no different from dudes in middle school drawing Powerpuff girls or Jetsons porn because he was "being edgy." Shad's artwork is what Newgrounds and "early internet" pumped out
I'm so sick of this "old internet" comment from retards who are just breaking 30, at most.
We get it, "back then we did what we wanted." And that was fun. But back then there were also disgusting, baby fucking freaks who were all "but muh rights." Have the right all you want, face the wall while we plant a bullet in the back of your fuckin skull.
I'm so sick of this "old internet" comment from retards who are just breaking 30, at most.
We get it, "back then we did what we wanted." And that was fun. But back then there were also disgusting, baby fucking freaks who were all "but muh rights." Have the right all you want, face the wall while we plant a bullet in the back of your fuckin skull.
| @vasipi4946 Look buddy, if you wanted to showcase your degree of retardation, you could have done so at a psychologist's office. This is an internet forum. Thank you very much. |
| Pretend there's something flashy and cool here. |
| I'm more nostalgic for 2010s internet, was the peak imo. |
| Not 20 years, but 10 or so sounds nice at times. |
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| I agree that 2010s internet was best. Specifically 2010-2015 or so, before politics and before dumb teens and their "short videos". |
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| I've been surfing old styled sites found using Marginalia and Wiby oh and you can also browse Neocities |
traedMay 24, 5:48 PM
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I've been surfing old styled sites found using Marginalia and Wiby oh and you can also browse Neocities
| @traed Did you go on the space jam website lol? |
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@traed Did you go on the space jam website lol?
| @Order-Sol Ive been on it before but havent checked in a while. Thing with actually old sites is modern browsers arent able to render some right. I heard modern browsers got rid of custom cursors for example. |
| No, it was way harder to watch anime 20 years ago. |
 "Don't let your memes be dreams."- Ancient Japanese proverb, probably |
| The Internet is getting worse and worse, as governments ramp up censorship online. |
| It was better 20 years ago, because there was less censorship online than right now. |
| I don’t miss purely html websites at all, I like my php and APIs |
| Yes, the Internet censorship is steadily growing. Doesn't matter too much to me. We get Near Term Human Extinction, so who cares about government censorship on the Internet? |
| I might personally wish for Internet culture to revert back by 20 years, but technologically speaking I am quite pleased with things being how they are today and look forward to what the future holds in terms of additional conveniences, as I would say the Internet has been on the continuous improvement plan for awhile now and it has come a long way. The only aspect that has changed, perhaps for more volatility, are the people who have become absorbed by it and are now deeply ingrained in some part of its all-encompassing culture. |
| Censorship only benefits the elite, ruling-classes, because anyone, who exposes them for the fucking scumbags they really are, will be labeled as a whistleblower aka a criminal. |
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I don’t miss purely html websites at all, I like my php and APIs
| @ST63LTH who the fuck uses php in 2024 |
| Pretend there's something flashy and cool here. |
Reply to Longnines
I might personally wish for Internet culture to revert back by 20 years, but technologically speaking I am quite pleased with things being how they are today and look forward to what the future holds in terms of additional conveniences, as I would say the Internet has been on the continuous improvement plan for awhile now and it has come a long way. The only aspect that has changed, perhaps for more volatility, are the people who have become absorbed by it and are now deeply ingrained in some part of its all-encompassing culture.
| @Longnines The cultural changes is directly linked to the changes in design and technologies used though. |
| @traed I do not disagree; the innovations made over the years have afforded something close to universal societal accessibility to the Internet, and so my point was to say that though I enjoyed the somewhat previously exclusive, private era of the Internet, I would not trade these innovations for 20 years ago. |
Reply to Longnines
@traed I do not disagree; the innovations made over the years have afforded something close to universal societal accessibility to the Internet, and so my point was to say that though I enjoyed the somewhat previously exclusive, private era of the Internet, I would not trade these innovations for 20 years ago.
| @Longnines Well not just accessibility but using operant conditioning using algorithms and ranking systems in such a way it caused polarization of views. There has been some good tech improvements and some bad ones like ones that make it easier for companies, governments and cybercriminals to gather data on you. |
| There is now growing Internet censorship. Because NTHE is arriving. And the governments want to strengthen their control and enslavement over the masses. |
| i wouldn't want it to but i had like to experience how it used to be back in the day |
| You really want online political jokes to be like this? https://x.com/WBushEra |
Mao said: If you have to shit, shit! If you have to fart, fart! |
| Yes, old styled forums>>>social media like Facebook and twitter. |
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| i'll pass. I still get to enjoy what I have today so why bother contemplating about the past? |
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| There needs to be more stupid random sites like this http://tanasinn.info/wiki/Stalking_Haruhi_Suzumiya |
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