Don't you miss old Internet?

[mrgica]

When the Internet was ruled by people and not enterprises.
Guest books and true anonymous surfer opinions, html coding, .gif pics and simple effects especially under Christmas times, like snowflakes and shit like that ;)
And off course, best off all, traffic was everywhere.

Today it' s all about big enterprises, simply business, every day a dozen little guys squeezed out of business.

[Vapid - BANNED FOR LIFE]

yahoo blew it.

[NaughtyRob]

Its getting better.

[signupdamnit]

All the time. USENET was once almost legendary. Facebook and all the forums just don't compare to how it used to be.

[2012]

stop fucking crying .............. we're fucked , get used to it ....

[mrgica]

Originally Posted by 2012

stop fucking crying .............. we're fucked , get used to it ....

Yea I know, but I'ts not only business, just some nostalgia, for me what seams to be best days of Internet and the freedom it represents.
Sure internet is much more efficient today. But in some way I miss the error pages of mp3 files ;) and the mystics behind every click, will it work or not ;)

[2012]

Originally Posted by mrgica

Yea I know, but I'ts not only business, just some nostalgia, for me what seams to be best days of Internet.
Sure internet is much more efficient today. But in some way I miss the error pages of mp3 files ;) and the mystics behind every click, will it work or not ;)

I think the best days of the "Internet" are behind us. The sad thing is, everything is getting better .... people are getting dumber...... we all made Google suck. thank you everyone facebook .... whatever . i like cats

[d-null]

the internet was better when most of the people on it were of higher average intelligence, as the years went by the average IQ has gone down every year

the average intelligence on the internet has been steadily downhill since the 90's I think

[CYF]

Originally Posted by d-null

the internet was better when most of the people on it were of higher average intelligence, as the years went by the average IQ has gone down every year

the average intelligence on the internet has been steadily downhill since the 90's I think

agreed. The net was awesome when I got on in 1989, and it went downhill a little during Eternal September in 93. Then around 95 or 96 it seemed like the net ground down to a halt, everything ran way fucking slower than it did before due to everyone getting online. I got off of usenet around then because it seemed like the morons were taking over.

[thegreatestporn]

I remember huddling around the comp with buddies waiting for a porn pic to load on a 28kbps modem...

[mrgica]

Originally Posted by d-null

the internet was better when most of the people on it were of higher average intelligence, as the years went by the average IQ has gone down every year

the average intelligence on the internet has been steadily downhill since the 90's I think

Sadly...Its probably so..

[Rochard]

Fuck no. I used to have to update shit by hand. Daily. Every day.

Fuck that.

[CYF]

Originally Posted by thegreatestporn

I remember huddling around the comp with buddies waiting for a porn pic to load on a 28kbps modem...

it was painful on 1200 baud too

[mrgica]

Originally Posted by thegreatestporn

I remember huddling around the comp with buddies waiting for a porn pic to load on a 28kbps modem...

You saw Middle Men? Didn't you?

[BlackCrayon]

things were so simple then. getting joy from downloading 15 second audio clips, searching 20 different search engines to see what kind of different sites you could find. yeah in some ways i miss it. in other ways todays internet is far superior.

[smutnut]

not even a little. My Andriod started my car today. Don't know why I would ever do that again, but if it can unzip my pants before a blowjob who knows.

I wish we could stop aging personally but not stop advancing technology

[grumpy]

a new network will rise! You heard it here first.

[kane]

Originally Posted by CYF

it was painful on 1200 baud too

lol that is classic.

I remember when I went from dial up to cable internet. It was like a whole new internet. I was the first of my friends to get it and they were all jealous.

[u-Bob]

Originally Posted by Rochard

Fuck no. I used to have to update shit by hand. Daily. Every day.

wait. you mean there's a faster way now?

[u-Bob]

Originally Posted by grumpy

a new network will rise! You heard it here first.

[smutnut]

[The booty pimp]

internet is full of too much advertising now..

[Chosen]

At least internet speed is much faster now

[epitome]

Yeah I miss the days of text only and paying for each email if I went over my allotment for the month. I also miss busy signals and waiting forever. That LiveJournal was amazing. And when webcams first came out and you couldn't tell if it was a male or female.

[Spunky]

I walked 10 miles to school with snow up to my waste with no shoes.there was no internet back then. whipper snappers

[Paul Markham]

This is too funny for words.

[Emil]

Originally Posted by Paul Markham

This is too funny for words.

Ok? I cant imagine how you would react if you actually heard something funny.

This will probably kill you.

[BettingHandle]

dial up connection and getting disconnected when someone picked up the phone

[scottybuzz]

Originally Posted by BettingHandle

dial up connection and getting disconnected when someone picked up the phone

in the middle of a multiplayer game on age of kings 4vs4 and someone picks up the phone


Nightmare!!!

[Paul Markham]

Originally Posted by Emil

Ok? I cant imagine how you would react if you actually heard something funny.

I see the funny side of this thread.

Porn always was controlled by big businesses. The Internet provided a way, for a very short while, a lot of little Ma & Pa operations could earn a living in it.

Prior to 2000 and maybe later the big money was in owning a porn shop, a chain of them was a money machine. They were supplied with products from major companies because the little Ma & Pa simply couldn't compete on sales to warrant shelf space. Anyone who sold porn prior to 2000 offline would know this.

Then for a very short time little operations could put up a site or drive traffic to a site and earn a living. Still they found it hard to compete with the bigger dogs who would just outsell them. They could spend more on sites, programming, product, traffic and squeeze the little men out.

There are still a few, look at their product to see why they are surviving. Yes and a few small affiliates, they both have to be doing something 100s of others can't do to survive.

The Internet is returning to that.

Mainstream FB boasts 900 million "friends" is that people registered there or people who actually post/read or people who post/read and click on ads?

[DaLord]

Originally Posted by mrgica

When the Internet was ruled by people and not enterprises.
Guest books and true anonymous surfer opinions, html coding, .gif pics and simple effects especially under Christmas times, like snowflakes and shit like that ;)
And off course, best off all, traffic was everywhere.

Today it' s all about big enterprises, simply business, every day a dozen little guys squeezed out of business.

I made so much money from porn back then that Fedex was at my my place 3-4 times a week with some seriously big checks. Those were the days

[Vapid - BANNED FOR LIFE]

Originally Posted by Paul Markham

I see the funny side of this thread.

Porn always was controlled by big businesses. The Internet provided a way, for a very short while, a lot of little Ma & Pa operations could earn a living in it.

Prior to 2000 and maybe later the big money was in owning a porn shop, a chain of them was a money machine. They were supplied with products from major companies because the little Ma & Pa simply couldn't compete on sales to warrant shelf space. Anyone who sold porn prior to 2000 offline would know this.

Then for a very short time little operations could put up a site or drive traffic to a site and earn a living. Still they found it hard to compete with the bigger dogs who would just outsell them. They could spend more on sites, programming, product, traffic and squeeze the little men out.

There are still a few, look at their product to see why they are surviving. Yes and a few small affiliates, they both have to be doing something 100s of others can't do to survive.

The Internet is returning to that.

Mainstream FB boasts 900 million "friends" is that people registered there or people who actually post/read or people who post/read and click on ads?

Not everything is about fucking $.

[Paul Markham]

Originally Posted by dsadsa

Not everything is about fucking $.

I've got news for you.

When it comes to business you're wrong and the Internet is ultimately about business.

Think about your own family life. Do you shop at a Ma & Pa shop or at Malls, chain stores and supermarkets. Do you buy things made by little companies or companies that are $billion operations?

Even the clothes you put on or clothe your children in come from big businesses.

I'm old enough to remember when supermarkets were just self service shops. Where businesses were largely Ma & Pa. Yes there were some big corporations, still we shopped in the High Street at different shops. Full of goods made mostly by small operations. Compared with today's corporate world.

Anyone who thought the Internet would stay like it was in 1998 is a fool.

[brentbacardi]

Here is some '98 Internet gold!

http://webpagesthatsuck.smugmug.com/...pQ8Bd&lb=1&s=O

[candyflip]

Fuck off Paul. This thread is about the internet in general, not porn.

You have a one track mind and it seems you stole it from a mongoloid.

[Paul Markham]

Originally Posted by candyflip

Fuck off Paul. This thread is about the internet in general, not porn.

You have a one track mind and it seems you stole it from a mongoloid.

My second post had nothing to do with the porn or even the Internet.

It showed people how most of our life is now in the hands of big business. For a very short while the Internet was a tiny little thing that was home to lots of tiny little businesses. As it grew, so did the businesses within it and the little man got squeezed out. Like the rest of life.

The Internet, porn or mainstream, followed the same path. Because the people wanted it that way.

[barcodes]

I miss making the old aol profiles animate lmao
http://www.angelfire.com/magic/baby14/images/

[pornmasta]

yes and no.
Facebook and spam suck
There is ad for fake drugs everywhere, now...
It was also easier to make money.
But everything else is better now, excepted the fact that i'm getting older.

[sake]

Originally Posted by pornmasta

yes and no.
Facebook and spam suck
There is ad for fake drugs everywhere, now...
It was also easier to make money.
But everything else is better now, excepted the fact that i'm getting older.

Heh... Agree totally!

[SilentKnight]

My first dial-up ISP in the mid-90s was originally a local BBS that transitioned into an ISP - Golden Triangle in Kitchener, Ontario. I still remember picking up and installing the four 3.5" floppy disks they provided with Nutscrape Navigator. 14.4baud on a USR Robotics sportster.

Accessing Usenet newsgroups through Outlook Distress - having to manually decode the binary pics with a UUencode app after downloading.

But life was good...it was all new. BBSes were fading into obscurity (or going telnet) and the internet was gaining popularity. ABPEB (alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.bondage) was still getting sometimes a thousand posts a day - it was rockin'. We began postin' our original content to Usenet on a regular basis and attracting a modest-but-steadily growing following.

[Major (Tom)]

Originally Posted by d-null

the internet was better when most of the people on it were of higher average intelligence, as the years went by the average IQ has gone down every year

the average intelligence on the internet has been steadily downhill since the 90's I think

Well back then only certain socio-economic groups had it. Back then it felt that everyone was pretty much like you were. Then it seemed everyone got it & it just turned into a place that pretty much is negative. I never just surf the web & haven't for years. I pay bills, scan contracts, make a few stupid tweets via phone & done.
ds

[AmeliaG]

Originally Posted by epitome

Yeah I miss the days of text only and paying for each email if I went over my allotment for the month. I also miss busy signals and waiting forever. That LiveJournal was amazing. And when webcams first came out and you couldn't tell if it was a male or female.

I actually liked a lot of things about LJ (except for the anonymous corrupt moderation). As a social interface, it was initially better for getting to know people and see interesting things than MySpace or Facebook. Today, Twitter is probably my favorite SNS, but it is less in-depth. Partly a necessity of the time.

[GregE]

I remember being able to tell my earliest models (barroom strippers for the most part) not to worry because the only people who would see them would be the geeks who use the internet

[tekomp]

Good ol' Compuserve... Wish I knew I could make some dough online back then.

[PMProducoes]

Everything has a cicle...
Remember the 70s style? Its back... with all the hipsters...
w8 5 years and you will got all that gifs, and shits!

[travs]