Oldstrags, is this true?

Yeah being American 1994-2006 was pretty much the best possible existence anyone has ever had. I miss those days so much.

Yes. Internet went to shit around 2012-2014.

1995-2000s was kino time where you pretended you were a hacker on IRC.

Everyone was using pseudonyms, nicknames instead of their real identity. Egirls existed but they weren't constantly in your face or had hordes of simps.

Everyone had an invisionPowerBoard, basically webforum anyone can just fire up from a template. It was r-slurred but childishly fun.

You could call anyone a cute twink or a BIPOC and if someone didnt like it they'll just block you like a normal adult instead of running to some internet authority and force rule changes on everyone where forced positivity had to be enforced.

Games were great, none of them were preachy or tainted by millennial writing yet until Borderlands 1

Online games were mostly player run and maintained servers where they were the admins that can control what maps, game settings, etc. They can ban whoever if they're being a peepee/cheater.

You only find this kind of freedom only in survival games now but it was the best for FPS games like Battlefield. It also meant you can play it well after its lifespan instead of the provider just killing servers on you.

and yeah everything went shit once normies were getting iphones that had a webbrowser. Facebook came into the picture and instead of online personas the internet culture was slowly flooded by real life culture and we hated it. Normies were Tulsi, they want real names attached to everything and wanted no "toxicity" because they couldn't handle pseudonyms from making fun of them when they try to get the internet spotlight on themselves.

And with people flooding onto the net like never before companies start focusing and consolidating websites to platforms and then things were slowly becoming unfun even more as we crawl to the next few years of g*mergate, the 2016 elections. Everyone being a wingcuck, excessive whining/censorship, algorithms.

Internet went from being the wild west to a sterile and unfun and expensive place.

Inb4 longpost bot

The internet was fricking awesome back then but I'm unsure how widespread it was. Felt like Facebook is when it really got normified. Whats weird is that the internet userbase was so much small but it really did feel bigger as a whole.

We go off a lot about the internet being normified and teens being filled with absolutely horrid mind bugs (see: you're either a trans free palestine activist or a weird chud), but what's more alarming to me is how the people that used to live on that old internet are now happily eating up the new ideologies that spawned from that internet. I know a guy who was just a nerdy graphic artist, who did some modeling and video game videos too. Made lots of edgy jokes and that was about it. Dude is now a raging shitlib, in that he regularly wishes death upon anyone right of Bernie Sanders, or anyone who questions any narrative ever. It's one thing that kids who don't know any better are falling for this shit, but people who lived on that good old internet are now voluntarily taking part in its destruction.

I don't know what this online world is doing to people but I want to go back

Edit: omg coins

I was a teen from 2000-2006 and it really was a golden age. You could be on the internet/social media if you wanted to, and it was mostly still weird and interesting people, or you could go and touch grass, and the worlds were still totally separate. Nobody's brain was destroyed by social media yet either, like it was all MySpace and early Facebook that you couldn't monetize yet so there were no bots or thots. But I think the key thing is you didn't HAVE to be online, like when you had an annoying day at school you could just go home and forget about it and drive around doing weird fun shit with your buddies. Tons of people didn't even have cell phones yet so if you wanted to ask a girl on a date you had to call her house and risk her dad or brother picking up and fricking with you.

Okay that's creepy, I knew or was vaguely acquainted with 3 different moids that all sewerslided during that 2016-2018 peak. Did not realize this was a trend rather than a local anomaly.

And obligatory, any graph that ends at 2020 is completely useless

Based on the complaining I hear every day, I can confirm that 95-05 were the best years to be a teenager in all of history

There were jannies in the early 90s to 2007, what changed were the presence of topicless, algorithm-driven social media sites like facebook and a smartphone in all pockets

There's nothing left to explore. When I first got internet I was excited to get home from work and surf the net and see what cool shit is out there.

Now there's like 5 websites people go to and all the major search engines are cucked and all the "privacy ones" sucks.

Just old enough to witness the good internet enshitification.

Ugh 2013ish is when everything started turning to shit. I want to take a guess that it's the first generation fully growing up on social media finally hitting college. Never was exposed to such a density of insufferable losers until then.

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