Post sappy nostialgia-anything about the 2000s. Could be obscure music genres that birthed and died in the same period, experiences with interesting forums, video games that actually had life breathed into them, etc.
The 2000s may have been a time involving a sharp peak in acceleration of general modernity-spawned-degeneracy. Yet, I miss this frame of time dearly. Maybe even up 2012. 2012 is the last time the internet felt like.... the internet. I used to think my intuitive extension to 2012 was just my own bias. But, looking at history, it really seems like the most immense drops in internet freedom ocurred in 2013.
I'll start with my experience with forums. I was young at the time we're talking single digits and was stil heavily invested in Pokemon. One of my fondest memories is of how I hacked one of my Pokemon versions so deeply to the point of being able to change the moveset of any of my Pokemon to anything I wanted on a whim. I used a really obscure website to do this, a website I would pay someone good money to find even an archive of.
Oh, how does this relate to forums? I lurked on Pokemon forums to DEEP for my normie pre-teen friends to find so I could be the elite haxxor. Hehe
>Post sappy nostialgia-anything about the 2000s.
No.
>2012 is the last time the internet felt like.... the internet.
Nope. 2007. Facebook opened to the general public in 2006, the iPhone came out in 2007, and Twitter got popular in 2007. That was the end of the internet and the beginning of the normienet, when the vast majority of internet traffic became vapid Starbucks-slurping sluts posting selfies with their iDevices.
By 2010, the internet of the early Web (mid 1990s) or pre-Web was long dead. Let alone 2012.
Following Uncle Ted or suicide are the only valid options now.
Yes the internet before the mid-2000s was internet as it should have been, decentralized and no JavaScript and those other things.
But for many that time never existed, and thus is a nostalgia for a place that existed, but was never experienced.
>>14542 >Jesus Christ, blackpill much?
All day. Err day.
>Yes the internet before the mid-2000s was internet as it should have been, decentralized and no JavaScript and those other things.
But for many that time never existed, and thus is a nostalgia for a place that existed, but was never experienced.
Yeah, but I was born in 1975. So it DID exist for me. And I DID experience it. And I can't forget it.
Pity me, I guess. I was born too late to die in blissful ignorance and too early to not see the horrifying changes the iRevolution and social media have wrought upon the remnants of our poor society.
remember t3h 1337 w4r3z websites? they had unique designs yet werent as slow and bloated (that i remember). and still better looking than pussy ass modern web design
The 2000's were the period where a lot of internet cultures, memes and communities were created, it was a good decade and i have good memories about it, that's the only thing that remained, memories, cause the 2010's destroyed most of it.
>animation dies (digital animation garbage takes over)
>the actually good web of the 90s (collection of small programs that do one thing well) dies and is replaced by webshit, but HURR AT LEAST IT DIDN'T HAVE JAVASCRIPT
>music was already in shambles after rock killed every other genre and then died (last good song somewhere in the mid 90s, probably some form of grunge, like Black Hole Sun) but we see bad music be replaced by things that don't even qualify as music such as electronic buzzing (used to be called electronic "music" but now it's somethingwave)
>golden age of gaming fades out and by the time the wii/ps3/360 release everything is cinematic trash
>market share of non-Windows OSes drops to sub-1%, leading to an incredible level of destruction and regress in computing that not even UNIX could bring
>western movies were already long dead, but the Jews lose the shame they already didn't have
>good women go from an extreme minority to extinct, now there's no reason to chase one unless you're a sex addict
>India poos all over technology, so do the Jews with their lackeys (NSA/RedHat/trannies/etc) , lots of areas in software and hardware become completely unsalvageable and unusable aswell as spying on you on top of that
>the generation of kids who were born too late to witness anything good, and so don't even know what good is, is born
Face it. The 2000s were a horrible time. I didn't even get into shit that even the 2000ers admit is bad.
>>16949 The early to mid 2000s did not seem that bad, it was 2008 and beyond that really started sucking. It's almost as if the old established institutions became so subverted with shit that there's currently no point in saving them.
While much has been lost, it's not all gloom and doom. There are many anti consumer-tech trends that provide alternatives to the proprietary normal-nigger detritus that you see being shilled on corporate propaganda outlets.
Although, you may see large swaths of population become doped-up, cellphone zombies that are perfectly manipulated by It, which they hold in their hands.
You're driving through a city, as it rains.
The steady pitter patter of the rain is broken occasionally, by the sound of the windshield wipers.
You stop at a red light and look up through the blue tinted windshield. Whilst it rains and the sky may be gloomy, the tops of sky scrapers can still be seen, surrounding your view.
Everything outside, from the sidewalks and benches, to the building's sides and your vehicle itself is dark and shiny with rain. You feel a sense of calm inside the dry, gray, comfortable, safe zone of the cab inside your vehicle.
Under the black hood, the engine sounds up from idle as you cross into the intersection and beyond.
Within a few minutes you arrive at the parking garage and park your vehicle. You walk through the cool rain into the lobby of the tower, you need not an umbrella, nor jacket, for the rain feels good on your skin.
A CRT TV sounds off, hung by a mount from a metal structural support bar, surrounded by windows of which the rain drips off outside.
It's the President speaking on whatever news channel it happens to be tuned to, you don't notice. You only catch a glimpse, something about "development", "future", and maybe "NASA" or "space-shuttle".
You have confidence in the man who occupies the oval office, for in your naive mind the president is always one of the good guys, the leader of the good guys, and deserves everyone's support, once a decision is made, right or wrong.
You ride the escalator up to the second floor to where the elevators are, for you need to be on the top floor. There's a meeting in one minute.
Arriving inside the meeting room, the lead investor, who is the boss man, stands in usual suit and tie on opposite side of the conference table. His black hair jelled back, and his respectable, non-sarcastic, non-"I'm better than you", smile eschews professionalism.
He discusses deal terms with the partners, looking out onto the city scape below, as the rest of the attendees file into the room.
The meeting goes well, everyone agrees to move forward. The rest of the day involves laying out the plan for what is now in the works to be a spectacular public area, near the heart of the city.
You arrive back home, and stand on the wood floor inside a vastly windowed room. It's the late afternoon now, and you prepare to take a nap as the light of the sun shines in it's yellow warmth, for the rain and clouds have passed.
The sky can be seen in picturesque blue with puffy clouds, just beyond the hemlock tree's leaves.
Thankful that things are as they are, you take this view in, this feeling in, one last time.
What I'm trying to evoke here, whether this takes place before 9/11, 2008, or if the President is Bush or Obama, I'm not really sure.
Did I overuse windows? Please critique.
>>16949 >>17226 Why do you polnegros keep leaving your containment board? Not everyone wants to hear your constant boring whinings about da joos and da browns.
i miss 12 year olds calling each other posers for various reasons on the internet:
not being scene/emo enough
not being goth enough
not being metal enough (usually the word pussy is used here instead of poser)
not being hax0r enough
not being skate0r enough
>>17922 Contrast that with today
not being soy enough
not being LGBTQ+ enough
not being SJW enough
not being minority enough
not being climate change warrior enough
not being social media active enough
not being NSJW enough
The 2000s may have been a time involving a sharp peak in acceleration of general modernity-spawned-degeneracy. Yet, I miss this frame of time dearly. Maybe even up 2012. 2012 is the last time the internet felt like.... the internet. I used to think my intuitive extension to 2012 was just my own bias. But, looking at history, it really seems like the most immense drops in internet freedom ocurred in 2013.
I'll start with my experience with forums. I was young at the time we're talking single digits and was stil heavily invested in Pokemon. One of my fondest memories is of how I hacked one of my Pokemon versions so deeply to the point of being able to change the moveset of any of my Pokemon to anything I wanted on a whim. I used a really obscure website to do this, a website I would pay someone good money to find even an archive of.
Oh, how does this relate to forums? I lurked on Pokemon forums to DEEP for my normie pre-teen friends to find so I could be the elite haxxor. Hehe