LifeFuel Do you remember the internet of the late 1990s - early 2000s?

[Johny.speiz]

This 56K modem and the legendary sound it made, the laptop/desktop PC, the iMac (first generation), the slow browsing with always the fear you'll get disconnected while on Napster, Kazaa or Limewire. ICQ, AOL Instant Messenger and MSN Messenger with schoolmates. Netscape Explorer and Communicator. E-mail v.1 . The early dating websites. The flashy web pages that would take one minute if not more to load? I really have a lot of nostalgia for this time .

 

[Deleted member 19236]

No boyo, not my time. Sounds stressing

that would take one minute if not more to load

 

[Johny.speiz]

No boyo, not my time. Sounds stressing

Everything was slow at that time. Now, everything's too fast.

 

[RandomGuy]

Back then it was much easier to connect with others and have meaningful friendships. Now it’s about who ghosts who first.

 

[Johny.speiz]

Back then it was much easier to connect with others and have meaningful friendships. Now it’s about who ghosts who first.

True. Were you a teenager at that time?

 

[Insomniac]

Too young to remember late 90s but I do remember 00s. The internet was a better place back then tbh..

 

[ryhan]

This 56K modem and the legendary sound it made, the laptop/desktop PC, the iMac (first generation), the slow browsing with always the fear you'll get disconnected while on Napster, Kazaa or Limewire. ICQ, AOL Instant Messenger and MSN Messenger with schoolmates. Netscape Explorer and Communicator. E-mail v.1 . The early dating websites. The flashy web pages that would take one minute if not more to load? I really have a lot of nostalgia for this time .

Wasn't even born to be honest i only get access to internet when i was 10 ngl

 

[Johny.speiz]

If there was a time-machine I want to get back to 1997-1999.

 

[Evildоer]

What about gopher protocol? I'm too young, never witnessed it.

 

[tulasdanslos]

Too young for the 90's, I indeed enjoyed the Internet of the 00's, Newgrounds ftw.

 

[TheGoodGuy]

I miss those days back when life made sense and the internet was so simple and innocent before the world turned to shit.
sigh I want to be a kid again..

 

[Johny.speiz]

What about gopher protocol? I'm too young, never witnessed it.

Never used it. It was a very marginal project, as almost anyone used WWW.

I miss those days back when life made sense and the internet was so simple and innocent before the world turned to shit.
sigh I want to be a kid again..

I was there when it was released, remember well. As well, as little less known Mac OS 9.

 

[TheGoodGuy]

I was there when it was released

Good times. Everything used to be so simple including MSN god I miss MSN and old social media with the myspace layout although I never used Myspace we used Arto in Denmark but it was the same old school layout where you could customize your profile and stuff.

 

[turbocuckcel_7000]

If there was a time-machine I want to get back to 1997-1999.

i want to go back to that time and have sex and be a normal person

 

[Deleted member 12355]

I was born around that time. First time I accessed the internet was around 2006 and I was mostly only playing games meant for kids back then. It's fucking over

 

[Insomniac]

I was born around that time. First time I accessed the internet was around 2006 and I was mostly only playing games meant for kids back then. It's fucking over

coolmathgames.com tbh

 

[Deleted member 6470]

It was completely different. Unreal when you think about it.
They'll shit new liberticide laws to fuck people over.

 

[78980n]

coolmathgames.com tbh

Lmao I remember this

 

[E.C.C.O]

Back when usenet was actually usable and films didn't get DMCA'd after an hour, good times tbh

 

[ERadicator]

Newgrounds were the shit back in the day

 

[wizardcel]

The internet back then was crap. I don't miss it, to be honest. We can cope more with fast internet connection.

Too young to remember late 90s but I do remember 00s

I was already an incel in the 90s

 

[Reimu Hakurei]

I got my first computer in 2012, so i didn't.

 

[SupremeG]

Were women as hypergamous as today on dating websites in that time?

 

[Cleftcel]

you kicked my dog, peanut butter jelly time, dancing rabbits, those were the days

 

[FlamingCel]

No boyo, not my time. Sounds stressing

 

[zangano1]

No, I was a kid

 

[Murdoch89]

Internet needs destroyed tbh

 

[wasted12years]

Of course! I discovered internet in 2002. My parents had 56k. Before i got my own pc i played Homm2, elasto mania and liero on my parents win98 PC. I would cut off my left hand to be able to return to those days.

 

[jerrycan dan]

over for zoomercels who missed a unique and wonderful point in time only to be dealt the present and then the actual nightmare that will without a doubt be the future

 

[Theresastickinmyanus]

Just reading that gave me strong nostalgia

 

[DaveBuster]

Even though technologically and size-wise it was a fraction of what it is today, the internet felt much more exciting and new and interactive. You could really make a connection. The internet got instagrammed and now it's the idiot box.

 

[IncelGolem]

Back when not everyone had unlimited 56k, a richcel in my middle school had both internet and a cd-rom burner and would sell CD's with downloaded porn for $5 a pop . This was really high-tech compared to stealing your dad's nudie magazines and passing them around between your friends.

But mfw when my parent's macintosh was incompatible and couldn't open the files:

 

[Cuyen]

yes man it was good because there were less females

 

[Dionysus]

no man but i wish

 

[Schizoidcel]

I miss it dearly, MSN Messenger and chat rooms were the goat. Even video games were much higher quality and not just made for casual normies for $$$.
It was truly over after ~2008 for me.

High-end phones, social medias like facebook & tinder certainly contributed to the incel problem becoming as big as it is today. Hypergamy exploded..
People used to communicate with each other, now why should they bother when Chad is one click away on their phone?

 

[Deleted member 1783]

IRC chats and esoteric forums in the early 2000s were the best. I was looking back at one of those ancient usenet sites back when the internet was first born, and holy shit, every reply to the forum thread was so articulate and well-written, like an entire academic essay. You'd be hard pressed to find that kind of quality on the internet nowadays, the days before normie cancer forever tainted the Internet.

 

[ihaveno1]

internet was much better place before 2007

 

[masterwizard]

Downloading a 5mb porn clip in about 40 minutes from cumfiesta.com

Normies ruin everything.

 

[incel-american]

This 56K modem and the legendary sound it made, the laptop/desktop PC, the iMac (first generation), the slow browsing with always the fear you'll get disconnected while on Napster, Kazaa or Limewire. ICQ, AOL Instant Messenger and MSN Messenger with schoolmates. Netscape Explorer and Communicator. E-mail v.1 . The early dating websites. The flashy web pages that would take one minute if not more to load? I really have a lot of nostalgia for this time .

Oh god same. The joy of discovering the web in those days. Downloading Metallica and System of a Down off of Napster...