Has the internet changed?
| what was your first account online? I think flash based sites have died out since ive gone on. chatrooms seem kind of dead(still there though) Im a "newer" internet user, and can say ive seen alot of dead online games that had servers dropped. And fax pranks are dead. |
MiraniaFeb 25, 2013 5:31 PM
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| no the internet has not changed for me |
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| Memes have become mainstream. Granted, they were already popular by the time I even knew what "4chan" was, but they weren't popular in the eyes of the general public. |
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| Yes. Back then people were using Netscape Navigators hosting their Geocities sites and browsing with Alta Vista (whatever it's called) and Yahoo. When you wanted bootleg games you send $40 to some guy with a list and tell him what games you wanted, and he shipped you a CD. |
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Kibitzer said: That could either be good or bad.I've changed more than the internet has. What are up with the grandpa/grandma sounding poll options? "Yes I can barley use it anymore" What? Why isn't there simply a "Yes" option. |
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| Internet...Internet has changed. |
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katsucats said: Oh, the good old days.Yes. Back then people were using Netscape Navigators hosting their Geocities sites and browsing with Alta Vista (whatever it's called) and Yahoo. When you wanted bootleg games you send $40 to some guy with a list and tell him what games you wanted, and he shipped you a CD. |
| I'm dead. Don't come looking for me. |
| The internet hasn't changed much for me. I was going on forums when I first started and obviously I'm still on them now. I have grown out of virtual pet/virtual self sites though (habbo, millsberry, marapets, dress up sites, etc). My first account online was on Barbie. My first forum account was on 4kids in '03.. particularly the witches' side of the winx club board but then later the general board. I was a member there for like 5 years until they revamped the site and then I quit it. |
| Stop making me feel old! I remember the days of no internet at all. |
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Negative-Travis said: I used that for excuses back in middle school. Telling the teacher I can't call my mom because someone was on the internet.Oh, the good old days. I think it was with AOL online with dial up or whatever when I first used the internet. That was like in 96 or 7, but I don't remember what I did at all. I know it was around 2001 when I realized there was porn on the internet, we had Compuserve and there was a link to it on the homepage. |
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| The internet has changed a lot. Earlier for me, internet was freewebs, geocities, and fan-sites. But now it's Facebook and Twitter. Now we update 'live' whereas earlier it was like, one update every week/month. Yes, I can barely live here. Though I have some nice friends at Facebook and Twitter. |
| I can't really say if it's changed, i mean yeah, i've been using the internet since i was like 5 years old. however, at that time, all i did was was look up pictures to print off and colour. I was like 10 years old when i actually started doing "normal" things on internet (though, with the internet, what's considered normal lol. I'll consider normal using it to gain information). So the question becomes, in the past 7 or 8 years has it changed for me? nope, not really. I mean, sure streaming HD video is now common, and what not. but so much of it's the same, the annoying cats and a bunch of people who are just plain dumb running their mouths. overall, it hasn't changed much. |
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Negative-Travis said: katsucats said: Oh, the good old days.Yes. Back then people were using Netscape Navigators hosting their Geocities sites and browsing with Alta Vista (whatever it's called) and Yahoo. When you wanted bootleg games you send $40 to some guy with a list and tell him what games you wanted, and he shipped you a CD. I remember getting kicked off every time someone wanted to use the phone. |
| What about the days when if you wanted to play a game you typed something like: cd games dir /P missilecmd |
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neontaster said: Before I knew about the internet, I spent tons of times playing that brick buster game.Stop making me feel old! I remember the days of no internet at all. |
uzu-dragons said: That and the pinball machine game. Aww man, the old Windows pinball. Many a days were waited on that. |
| Memes. Dear God. In my day dial-up had no time for that shit. And Anon. Dafuq. But really, I can't say it's changed changed. |
| First thing I ever did online was beast the absolute shit out of the original Unreal Tournament online. Used to destroy people with their cable and dsl connections on my little 56k. Those were good times! Sitting with Fiber Optic broadband now so yeah 40MB > 56k so I guess the internet has changed alot for me since I started using it back in 98,99. |
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uzu-dragons said: neontaster said: Before I knew about the internet, I spent tons of times playing that brick buster game.Stop making me feel old! I remember the days of no internet at all. I remember playing Duke Nukem 3D with friends by dialing their modem directly. And I could only do it at night because it took up the only phone line in the house. God those days sucked. |
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| In a practical sense, the internet has changed for me vastly, in that I can access it now any time, any place, faster than I could when it was restricted to my living room when nobody was on the phone, in the palm of my hand. |
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Slyr3do0n said: I just downloaded it, had to because this thread reminded me of it.uzu-dragons said: That and the pinball machine game. Aww man, the old Windows pinball. Many a days were waited on that. |
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IntroverTurtle said: Slyr3do0n said: I just downloaded it, had to.uzu-dragons said: That and the pinball machine game. Aww man, the old Windows pinball. Many a days were waited on that. I did that a few months ago. It was nostalgic. |
| You guys talking about space pinball? Geez... |
Riptos said: First thing I ever did online was beast the absolute shit out of the original Unreal Tournament online. Hehe, I still play this game! Lots of people on, and much more fun than any modern shit. As for the Internet, no, for me it hasn't really changed. I changed, for sure, but I only really started using it 6-7 years ago. My first account was probably Yahoo! Answers. |
| More porn. |
| As a child, I was told that society is a melting pot of talents; knowledge and experience combined to form important alloys that will contribute to mankind. When I got to highschool, however, I thought that it's more like a river in which the water represents our peers while we ourselves are the stones in the river. Constant erosion by mindless majority sheeping has made us lose our unique edge. After I hit the age of 18, I realized that I've been wrong all along. Society is no melting pot. Society is no river. Society is a person, a very skilled rapist, and he has fucked us all. |
| Yes, Fred is no longer the top subscribed person on YouTube. Thank goodness. Also, flash games I'd enjoy as a kid seem to have lost their magic since Free to Play games are more frequent. Loved Kongregate. As far as dial up goes, I do remember my parents dealing with it, but since I was quite young, I never really messed with it. But do recall the epically slow loading times for a single web page. |
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| Internet haven't changed to me. What change is the way I use internet. |
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Tavor said: Now he has several movies and a television show. Oh God.Yes, Fred is no longer the top subscribed person on YouTube. Thank goodness. |
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| anyone remember that paper clip that gave you help in microsoft word. |
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Tavor said: Yes, Fred is no longer the top subscribed person on YouTube. Thank goodness. why was he the most subscribed person in the first palce |
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Coolspot said: anyone remember that paper clip that gave you help in microsoft word. |
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| First time I got online was when I was an 8 year old, innocent boy who only cared about gaming and sports and stuff (a.k.a. studying). Fast forward to 12 years later, I'm now a maniac with weird fetishes. You decide whether I've changed or not. As for my first online account, it was a hotmail account I created with the help of my uncles and cousins, little after my first usage of internet. My first internet activity was probably something along the lines of GTA : Vice City. |
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| The Internet has changed a Shitload. Wish I had broadband and Anime Streaming in my younger teen days |
Kibitzer said: Red_Keys said: Coolspot said: anyone remember that paper clip that gave you help in microsoft word. All he ever wanted to do was help, and everybody hated him. I loved him. |
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dankickyou said: Internet...Internet has changed.  |
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neontaster said: Stop making me feel old! I remember the days of no internet at all. BloodRequiem said: yeah.More porn. |
| "In the end the World really doesn't need a Superman. Just a Brave one" |
| People didn't use to make a meme out of everything as I recall it |
| NO, The internet changed ME. |
| *Cringey anime weeb stuff* |
| cripes none of those apply. i was mature enough to witness the real start of internet usage (not saying i'm special, just older) we would get free trials to use AOL for 13 freaking hours and would send away for another free trial with the same name - only with a different middle initial ^^ i can't even begin to ennumerate the ways in which the internet has changed edit: turtle already said this. to whomever said they remember NOT having the internet, did you have a Big Wheel? lol |
| There's a lot more annoying people, particularly those thinking they're really funny. Though maybe that's just because there's more people on the internet period. Oh and memes. Fucking memes. |
| I still remember the time I used Internet Explorer as my browser.. |
| Definitely. I still remember when 4chan was like a secret underground club and rules #1-2 were more than just jokes. And I still remember when MAL was Xinil.net, without any database or forum and you could list whatever you wanted. But I'd say it's gotten funnier. |
| the internet's gotten funnier, yt became popular, reddit became popular, freaken dial up died, aol's gone, yahoo sucks, google is king, Blogs became really popular (dont know why) memes hit, some forum sites died (like my old one) some seem to be very active (reddit 4chan) |
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Baman said: Definitely. I still remember when 4chan was like a secret underground club and rules #1-2 were more than just jokes. And I still remember when MAL was Xinil.net, without any database or forum and you could list whatever you wanted. But I'd say it's gotten funnier. you sure have stayed on a while I was part of a site for 1 year and its community has changed since then. |
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