Back before the Internet was...the Internet.

[T.Vengeance]

So now listening to music back in the early 2000s, it got me wondering how much I missed life before FB, Youtube, Twitter. Back when Limewire was a thing and downloading MP3s was a novelty (to play on your mp3 player ). Back when MSN was still a thing, where all my friends would create customized emoticons from GIFs and I'd just leach off them and copy/paste them to my emoticons. Back when Shockwave & Miniclip were the places to go instead of FB games. 

 

I miss the early 2000s . 

 

If you had the chance to travel back to the time when the Internet was at its infancy, would you?

 

Oh, forgot to mention....also them shitty Geocities websites  (to which I'm guilty of making one too...)

[PillowSmoke]

So now listening to music back in the early 2000s, it got me wondering how much I missed life before FB, Youtube, Twitter. Back when Limewire was a thing and downloading MP3s was a novelty (to play on your mp3 player ). Back when MSN was still a thing, where all my friends would create customized emoticons from GIFs and I'd just leach off them and copy/paste them to my emoticons. Back when Shockwave & Miniclip were the places to go instead of FB games. 

 

I miss the early 2000s . 

 

If you had the chance to travel back to the time when the Internet was at its infancy, would you?

 

Just maybe.....

[AnotherTechGuy]

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[TechTheWorld]

No.

[T.Vengeance]

Back in the Runescape days! When communicating with a Mic was so foreign and futuristic!  

Webcams...now those were black magic

[FileCorrupted]

Of course I would, than I would drive over to harvard, slap Mark Zuckerberg in the face and make him make facebook, at which point I would dispose of him and claim it as my own. And then I would make sure that the creators of the current social media giants make terrible design decisions and noone likes there product. And then buy out every youtuber into some shady contract and become the ruler of the internet.

[T.Vengeance]

Of course I would, than I would drive over to harvard, slap Mark Zuckerberg in the face and make him make facebook, at which point I would dispose of him and claim it as my own. And then I would make sure that the creators of the current social media giants make terrible design decisions and noone likes there product. And then buy out every youtuber into some shady contract and become the ruler of the internet.

I would take the place of Elon Musk

[LOST TALE]

well minimclip has become a POS since all the old games are stuck at shitty sub-half-HD resolutions.

 

I dont play ro facebook or do any of the above. When did mass culture ever dictate what I like? never.

What can you not do now? I guess, things that involves other people, like being over MSN as you described. (which I've never used)

 

kool story bro.

[zxcvbnmmssdh]

Miniclip and Runescape were the shit. Sadly, I am a little young for the MSN I didn't even know what a mic would look like and a web cam was the coolest thing I had ever seen

[IdeaStormer]

Back when you used newsgroups to download segments of programs you needed and when you finally got all the segments together the overall file was corrupt Miss it like I miss the day's mass transit and automobiles didn't exist :rolleyes:

[The Last MeMe]

You guys do realize they have a retro version of runescape out right?

[MatheusSanzo]

Yeah... as with everything... once a bunch of people get in they just fuck it up.

[CatCloud]

Neeewwwgrroooouuuunnndds!! And runescape i guess.

[T.Vengeance]

Neeewwwgrroooouuuunnndds!! And runescape i guess.

I REMEMBER NEWGROUNDS!

[CatCloud]

I REMEMBER NEWGROUNDS!

Best.shit.ever! And still is!

[Lil Chillbil]

So now listening to music back in the early 2000s, it got me wondering how much I missed life before FB, Youtube, Twitter. Back when Limewire was a thing and downloading MP3s was a novelty (to play on your mp3 player ). Back when MSN was still a thing, where all my friends would create customized emoticons from GIFs and I'd just leach off them and copy/paste them to my emoticons. Back when Shockwave & Miniclip were the places to go instead of FB games. 

 

I miss the early 2000s . 

 

If you had the chance to travel back to the time when the Internet was at its infancy, would you?

 

Oh, forgot to mention....also them shitty Geocities websites  (to which I'm guilty of making one too...)

 

I have had the same feelings, you get to listening to some good ole 2000's music and just zone out wishing you were living in your parents basement playing battlefield 1942, downloading mp3's off napster and occasionally turning off the speakers and listen for cops that would never come.

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGdGFtwCNBE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

all really good listens for the really young guys on here who are being poisoned by 1d and katy perry crap^

[T.Vengeance]

I have had the same feelings, you get to listening to some good ole 2000's music and just zone out wishing you were living in your parents basement playing battlefield 1942, downloading mp3's off napster and occasionally turning off the speakers and listen for cops that would never come.

 

all really good listens for the really young guys on here who are being poisoned by 1d and katy perry crap^

I love how you put Complicated first :DDD

[Lil Chillbil]

I love how you put Complicated first :DDD

 

I love me some good ole Avril, her new videos are the most awkward bull you will ever see though lol. 

[Almercenary]

I'd rather go back to the 70/80's even though i wasnt alive then to see all the metal bands coming up.  But internet wise....no

[Tuckfam]

I could just turn myself younger right now and go nostalgic again in the future over how great 2014 was.

Because let's be honest, nostalgia is a lying son of a bitch.

[T.Vengeance]

I could just turn myself younger right now and go nostalgic again in the future over how great 2014 was.

Because let's be honest, nostalgia is a lying son of a bitch.

You definitely do have a point. I mean a kid growing up through the 2014 era will probably miss the how anarchist the internet is right now. It's up for debate of course, but in my opinion, I think it's a bit naive to think that in the 2020s, the "internet freedom" as we know it today will still exist. And I think that's what they'll miss the most.

[jaqiefox]

Yes I would, but for other reasons.

[Murdoch]

Napster was a revolution, I remember downloading crappy 128kbps MP3s (on my 56k modem) thinking it was the coolest thing ever, and it would drastically change the way we do things.

 

Playing Quake 3 too was my first online gaming experience around the same time.

 

And talking to all my friends on Irc.

 

And the Matrix came out around then too, it seemed like technology was about to revolutionise things.

 

Think this must've been around 1999/2000

[lukeptba]

You guys do realize they have a retro version of runescape out right?

2007 is not retro. 2007 is just before the game died.

[T.Vengeance]

Napster was a revolution, I remember downloading crappy 128kbps MP3s (on my 56k modem) thinking it was the coolest thing ever, and it would drastically change the way we do things.

 

Playing Quake 3 too was my first online gaming experience around the same time.

 

And talking to all my friends on Irc.

 

And the Matrix came out around then too, it seemed like technology was about to revolutionise things.

 

Think this must've been around 1999/2000

 

I still get chills.

 

Lmao 1999 was when I was 4. All I remember from those years pre-2000 was watching The Outer Limits on VHS and remembering my favourite movie at the time Dante's Peak.