you dont miss old roblox, you miss having fun , a Roblox YouTuber
Influncer didn’t exist yet? I think young mind OP just didn’t understand that he was market to lol
We live in an internet.
Umm annon that was not the wild web. The wild web was in the 90’s and early 00’s. That was truly the wild web.
Nah I think they’re more or less right. I’d maybe pull it back 3 or 4 years, but not as far as 2004.
What killed off the old wild web was the popularity of centralised platforms. Facebook (open since 2006, really started taking off more around 2008/9), YouTube (first video 2005, really takes off from 2007/8), and Reddit (self posts first allowed in 2008), and other things like that which were admittedly great for allowing more people to share their creations with the world, but we’re disastrous for the open web, because they killed off independent blogs, forums, and other smaller websites.
MySpace was huge before Facebook, and it killed off a lot of blogs. Late 90s and early 2000s were truly the wild web IMO. I had a geocities page with its own forum before MySpace made me abandon it due to inactivity.
I remember watching saddam hussein hanging video when i was 12, good times
Ah the good old “korn_music_vide.wmv” that immediately cuts to someone in an orange jump suit on their knees.
Korn really getting intense with the new music videos
Ya, I remember the first time I went on rotten and my young mind was not prepared for it. Honestly I miss the good old days when the most shocking thing was lemonparty and tubgirl.
Googling CD Keys, Torrents and Cracks was easy back then. DC++ was the way to go and Limewire was not yet Infested with CP and Viruses. There was a sweet spot but only for 2 years. After that, the golden age of Piracy with the File-Hosters came and Reddit wasn’t shit.
If I have to pinpoint the timeframe: When 4Chan got really unironic racist (and the Stromfront forum leaked to the rest)… oh and Facebook…
Oh man, we had DC++ semi-officially endorsed by the inter-college IT department at my university in 2013/14. It was fantastic, especially since in my first year we only got 5 GB of data per month (with a large number of unmetered sites, including anything from Google), so without the unmetered file intranet it’d have been really hard to manage. Unfortunately as they increased the data caps it killed the popularity of DC++, which ended up getting killed off not long after I left.
Too many beheadings in the wild web. But yeah, those years were really the wild web.
“I’m old” vs “I MOLD”
I like the latter more, said like Dr. Weird.
I didn’t realize it was supposed to be “I’m old” until your comment
Same here - and i like “i mold” a lot.
i thought it was L mold, as in the way memes what have gone through a lot of “right click save” cycles have the jpeg artifacts described as mold, and that it was somehow lame
Yeah, if used to be people made a comfortable living and if they had the time, shit posted on YouTube. Now to have time to make YT content you have to try to make a profit from it.
Anyone remembers Z0R or P0WN ??? That was ART, killed by the discontinuation of Flash. I archived all of this and in 40 years I’m doing a Gallery in the Metaverse.
Used to love z0r. Oh man, nostalgia hits hard.
We can make it anew! I feel like Activitypub and federation has given us the tools to revive the old internet, made by our own hands.
The internet is now just a bunch of segregated echo chambers.
I’m working on a decentralised sharing protocol, so that anyone can have their own website, I just have to find some people interested in testing it out 😊
There’s plenty of new good stuff on youtube still. Just a lot more junk as well
Anyone has one of those lists? Can we move these memes to peertube or something?
The ancient legendary YT meme that Anon has as his profile pic is Leek Spin by Xyliex, created 18 years ago! I think it also popularized the Levan Polka as a meme song staple long before it’s revival with Bilal the street drummer/cat vibing video.
And luckily it’s already on archive.org so we’ve got one down!
Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch! I was there when it was written.
I can hear that!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8fvTxv46ano
AYBABTU is Lord!
Profile pic, good one.
Kinda sad that it’s almost never mentioned that this is just a scene with Inoue Orihime from Bleach.
It’s the Ievan Polkka, “Ieva’s polka” where Ieva is a Finnish/Baltic variation of the name Eva.
Mu isamaa, mu õnn ja RÕÕM!!
my knees hurt
Luckily for it’s just my right big toe knuckle.
Great now I have leekspin/levan polka stuck in my head. Thanks OP
Let’s see if it works the other way around too:
What do you see when I say:
‘You spin me right round, baby Right round like a record, baby’
That was
I miss the 2000s…
I miss the 90s. Browsing the web (we’ll, few sites) at 33kbps with Voyager browser on Amiga… 😀
HOURS just typing [randomword].com and seeing what came up.
Please, stop… I can only take so much
How did deep fried memes become a thing? We really will jump on any bandwagon, won’t we?