Back in my day the Internet was better, no video, we had to connect with 56k moderns, the hardware cost a fortune, most people were in AOL, we had to upload both ways in the snow, had to wait for titty pics to load one line at a time, and we liked it that way…
You kids today with your tikky Tok and your faces-book don’t understand
Didn’t be a dipshit. You can’t understand their point?
They’re not talking about technology. They’re talking about creative quality of content.
He’s making a hyperbolic joke.
I know, and I wasn’t taking the statements literally. But the point of the hyperbole was quite clear. Didn’t be a dipshit yourself.
Are you okay? You seem a little confused, and it’s coming our in your comments
Lol, the modern quality comment.
had to wait for titty pics to load one line at a time, and we liked it that way…
We really did not like that.
Hey, speak for yourself. Some of us did get increasing fun with every pixel loaded, as the same image kept its novelty for like 5 minutes.
Titty pics just hit different when they’re rendered in 16 colors on Windows 3.1.
Not 16-bit color, just 16 colors.
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face fetish
I remember trying to pirate Doom at some point in the 90s over a 56k modem. It was a 10mb download. I got shouted at by my parents for tying up the phone line the whole evening but I persisted. Turns out it was just the demo for Doom so I didn’t even pirate it really.
Good times.
I downloaded dude where’s my car over 56k. I’d connect it at the start of the day before leaving for school and then pause the download when I got home so I could play StarCraft online. Took a week to get it, and then it wouldn’t play.
Figuring the file just got corrupted during the download, I wrote a program that would break the file up into segments of n bytes and generate a checksum for each segment into another file, then you could take that file and run it against another copy of the original file and find any segments that were different and generate a patch file.
Surprisingly, the guy hosting the file on IRC was willing to run the executable a random user on IRC asked him to (probably noticed me taking that week to download the movie lol), but then his copy and mine were exact matches. Then, he taught me about codecs and I was watching that shitty quality 500MB movie just a little while later.
First movie I ever pirated was Spider Man 1 (the Tobey McGuire one). Over dial up. Similar situation, it took days to finish with intermittent downloading. The quality was so shitty it was basically unwatchable, even back then when I hadn’t yet seen 1080p let alone 4k.
800x600 was a respectable screen resolution in those days and people with decent computers ran at 1024x768, which is more vertical pixels than 720p, though 4:3 ratio. That’s not something I’m nostalgic about lol. Winamp could only fit like 30 songs on the screen even if you expanded your playlist to the bottom of the screen (and I have a feeling I might be overestimating it here).
I think the second movie I downloaded was captured by a camcorder in the theatre, including people blocking the view as they walked to and from their seats. Scary Movie iirc.
Crazy that checksums were the first stop before codecs.
Made this one for all the Anons out there
People just moved short-form shitposty videos to Vine, then TikTok. YouTube incentivizes long form videos.
Explain the long form 20 second videos i get in my recommendations then
Those are mostly three month old tiktok videos 😅
This isnt tiktok
Hm, idk. You have any thoughts? I always heard that YouTube videos are incentivized to be 10+ min for ads.
I’m surprised I’ve only seen one mention of the good ol’ Stumbleupon.com, I used to spend hours alone and with friends just hopping from one random thing to another. Found some pretty cool stuff too.
Seems like a pretty good use of /c/lost+found
LOVED stumbleupon. I even met some cool people IRL through it.
These days kagi.com/smallweb is the closest thing I’ve seen. It’s a lot of fun to stumble around, but of course the larger internet has changed. You didn’t have all of these content streaming behemoths vying for your engagement back then.
I’ve always said the same thing myself: I miss the Internet just there for fun. Now they try to make a living out of it; either in good faith or scamming you.
I remember being excited when people on the television or “irl” would mention anything to do with computers or even the internet.
Like wow mainstream culture is talking about the niche nerd thing that I love!
Now the internet is the mainstream culture.
BackInMyDay.jpg we used the net for looking stuff up. Mozilla 1.0 was faster than gopher and something something altavista web crawler grey hair getOffMyLawn.gif
But it was a special time, back at the uni in 92 and using the 56k link (!!) to play muds/moos on a server in f’n Bosnia. Or read the MTG mailing list. Uh, I mean, do class work. No commercial things even on there really. Before Amazon, Google, Myspace, etc.
Life Internet was so simple back then. None with all these fancy gadgets and instantaneous loading of
pornimages and videos! Just living in the moment, being patient to wait for your favourite Internet material to load for 2 hours!
the darkweb is literally just the old internet, plus or minus some racism.
It’s great fun.
I think that’s the whole point. But before, it was all just a simple Google search away, no SEO in sight. Being capable of surfing the web properly already was at the time THE test to get in, much like private forums often have some kind of interviewing process. It felt a little more nerdy, and well organized, as you actually had to be both things to contribute. As it always was.
it’s so much more visceral, in the sense that it’s just fucking html 90% of the time. And it’s incredible.
Light the way friend.
i am sorry i cannot do that for you.
It would fuck up the name.
Idk about the minus part
it depends on where you go.
And where you go on the clear net.
There’s tons of racism on the clear net, and theres tons of racism on the darknet.
But there’s also shit like cookbooks on the darknet.
Indeed there are cookbooks. Lots of cookbooks for absolutely anything anyone could ever cook, for any meaning of the word “cook”.
Let 'em cook
hey man, people gotta eat, what can i say.
Might as well eat good, and in your own little privacy bubble as well.
Nice try, FBI agent
hey! I’m a CIA agent!
Nice try, KGB spy
listen, i’m just working for the chinese! No need to be so aggressive.
Yt turned from video sharing service to a shitty streaming one. Theoretically for free except you are the product.
It’s actually pretty insane that we prefer to watch some celebrity streamer talking than a movie or tv series. I think there was some brainwashing along the way or maybe it’s just a cope for loneliness
The advantage of youtube is that it’s user generation and low barrier to entry allows anyone to produce creations that are targeted to niches so specific, people would be unwilling to make something that targets them due to the lack of profit, if they are even aware of the existence of said niche. It also means that said creations can be made relatable to specific groups.
Things like parasocial relationships also apply, where we watch someones videos in order to get to know them to the point you may unintentionally believe you are friends with them, Something let’s players, bloggers, streamers and podcast/radio hosts all are able to effectively exploit. It probably helps that most start off being relatable to there viewers due to there similar (and often worse) economic status.
The north remembers operation soda steal
If you want to get really old school: I miss web rings.
In my experience a lot of programming blogs still have them, but then again those are the people who are most capable of adding them and who are mostly likely to find them
Can you explain what that is for us youngsters? Something like RSS feeds?
As a website owner, you would just register your site with a ring and then add a bit of HTML at the bottom of your page which would display the randomly-selected banner of another site in the ring (and your banner would sometimes be displayed on another site). So visitors could just click on the banners and be taken through a circuit of interesting (sometimes) websites.
Does that still exist? I have a subpage on my website with interesting links, this could be something for it.
I haven’t seen a web ring in more than 20 years.
Ah, so basically a list/group of partner sites
But, like, for non-commercial fan sites, not for influencers.
Not really, because you would click an arrow to get to the next website. It didn’t list everything out.
web
real old school is BBS.
BBS
real old school is reconfiguring vacuum tubes in your warehouse sized computer
Ha, you kids and your fancy new fangled vacuum tubes. REAL old school is using a bunch of relays we nicked from the local telephone exchange!
Sailor Moon Web Ring 4 Lyfe!
I feel like the last version of this kind of thing was the Important Videos playlist which was 2017-ish, I think
Important videos is amazing
How it feels to chew five gum
How it chews to feel five gum
Lasted about as long as the Wild West.
Old guy here. Word.
YTMND
Strange this site still exists, thought it would have been well gone by now.
I’ve listened to leekspin for hour at work. It was great to numb my brain against the daily stress. I think my record was 6hours straight.
It’s nothing without ponies.
The 4chan community from back in the day sure was obsessed with them.
Tfw I used 4chan for years before bronies were a thing. Those were truly the golden years.
Couldn’t agree more.
Man I thought that was a joke when I first started seeing it. Nope.
Though many of us remember the early internet pre-ponies; pre 4chan, even
Those were fun times.
So much for dealing with my depression today
Hey we’re making a pretty cool little part of the internet for ourselves right here on the fediverse at least :)
I 100% expected him to have Rickrolled himself by the end, ngl
