Back before the Internet was...the Internet.

[mr moose]

The 80's are where it's at, where it all began, the 2000's were yesterday not retro, Headphones were not a fashion accessory.  The commadore64 was the pinnacle of 3d game development and music until the amiga came a long and slaughtered everything including music and video production, LCD were monchromal forget about TN.

 

Whitesnake, poisen, motley crue, twisted sister all proved you didn't have to be gay to wear lots of bright color's and acid wash jeans with a white or black t-shirt meant you were not to be messed with.

 

 

oh, and modems looked like upside down headphones that you put the telephones hand piece into and to get a baud rate of about 300b/s was super fast....

[lani100]

Counterstrike beta and 1.6

[MuffinTopMike]

Oh they were the good days where I spent hours playing flash games, and when I used to buy all my games from stores and install them on my huge 30GB hard drive.

[T.Vengeance]

The 80's are where it's at, where it all began, the 2000's were yesterday not retro, Headphones were not a fashion accessory.  The commadore64 was the pinnacle of 3d game development and music until the amiga came a long and slaughtered everything including music and video production, LCD were monchromal forget about TN.

 

Whitesnake, poisen, motley crue, twisted sister all proved you didn't have to be gay to wear lots of bright color's and acid wash jeans with a white or black t-shirt meant you were not to be messed with.

 

 

oh, and modems looked like upside down headphones that you put the telephones hand piece into and to get a baud rate of about 300b/s was super fast....

Hehe, but the 80s had no means of Internet connection . 

[mr moose]

Hehe, but the 80s had no means of Internet connection . While I do get your point, what I meant though was I kinda want the Internet back the way it was; simple with no mainstream sort of "generalization". Not like now when mainstream media (espeically news networks) just view the Internet just as "social media" (or at least that's how I think they perceive it to be as). Or hackers like Anonymous. 

oh the net was around, and it certainly didn't have that generalisation you don't like if fact I think you could count the number of ISP's on your hands.  But life was even much more betterer before the net. :lol: B)

[Paralectic]

I don't want to go back honestly, okay I've had a good youth but it's over and prepare for the future.

[T.Vengeance]

oh the net was around, and it certainly didn't have that generalisation you don't like if fact I think you could count the number of ISP's on your hands.  But life was even much more betterer before the net. :lol: B)

Haha, I have no clue what point I was trying to make, so I just scrapped it completely. I think we all reminisce on missing the past and coupled that with nostalgia, I think I've fallen into the same trap. 

[T.Vengeance]

Oh they were the good days where I spent hours playing flash games, and when I used to buy all my games from stores and install them on my huge 30GB hard drive.

MOTHERLOAD I had literally booked off my full time slot on some library computer just to play that game.

[MuffinTopMike]

MOTHERLOAD I had literally booked off my full time slot on some library computer just to play that game.

Hahaha I loved that game  . Also if you want to bring back the memories of the early 2000s then go to this website - http://archive.org/web/ and type in any website and the year and you can browse the site like you were in 2004!

[JustTooDank]

Who remembers Stick Figure Death Theater?

 

I didn't download many MP3's, because we had dial-up and cell phones weren't really that popular yet. So I only got to use the internet a couple hours per day. One song would've taken up all my time. 

 

Remember those AOL discs with free minutes?

 

I remember my first geocities page. It was basically a bookmarks page with links to my favorite sites, and a random radio button to change the color of the page. I was an HTML noob. I even tried to convince people I was a web designer, lol.

 

I enjoy the nostalgia, but I never want to go back to that.

[Scia]

Yah the good old times where it was a proof of nerddom to possess and play Quake III and Soldier Of Fortune II as they were blacklisted by the gov ^^

And UT 99 >< OMG I love UT

Back when gamecopyworld.com actually did something ^^ Where you had to download a movie 8x in Kazaa Lite because 7/8x you got some weird porn

And Emule, that surely had good quality if you knew where to look but you'd be downloading 2 weeks straight

 

Haha I liked that time ^^ [And if you had a CD burner ppl would basically blow you so you'd like copy them a CD or something] ^^

 

 

 

Anyone remembers Minidisc?

[The Last MeMe]

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

It's still fun as hell

[Coconut Money Affiliates]

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...)

Dude I still use Miniclip. 

[DLM_012]

Minus the whiny babies and ISPs trying to destroy the internet, I love the internet in its current state. 

 

In its current form it's been effortless for me to research new hobbies, fix things myself, and chat with like-minded people online who enjoy what you do (LTT for an example). If it wasn't for google and youtube, I wouldn't have half of the technical skills I currently have. Prior to the internet, you had to know someone or know someone who knows someone to learn to do something. I do not miss that at all. Anything I want to know is a click away. 

 

One thing I can honestly say I miss is the simplicity. Everyone is turning into a drone now (myself included).

[Kerplex]

Double edged sword this interwebs thing.

It's turned a lot of youth today in to fat little shits. Back in my day there was the one "Fat" kid in school, now it's the " Skinny" kid.

[Jack.EXE]

I still play runescape!

 

I remember miniclips... those were the days.

[Lil Chillbil]

To make another contribution to the nostalgia train. Videomaking was hell back in the day, it was considered High Definition if your camera could shoot 480p as aposed to 240p. And the amount of mini dv tapes you'd go thru was insane

 

 

 

This was when if you did video, you had a mac. Notice the battlefield 1942 logo in the dock above ^

 

 

The thing was a space heater^

[The3amJunkie]

Back when Napster first came out and was free and also was using AudioGalaxy. Back when I was playing wolfenstein on out new family Packard Bell with 128mb RAM thing was insane back then. Playing the original Diablo over AOL was amazing and addictive then came Diablo II. Or when I was playing the very first Warcraft or DOOM and Duke Nukem on PC. Good Times.

[bluepoodleguy]

Nostalgia? My first internet machine was powered by an Intel 386 with 8 meg (meg not gig) of system ram. I surfed the net with the 16 bit Windows 3.1 over a 56k phone modem. Memories....

[Norwegiantweaker]

Back when mtv was MTV, and msn was an actual need, where we would get laid and get plans made. where webcams and mic were amazing and the shit. where we got our fix ?. where we got our first glance at first chrust titteis ? HELL FUCKING YES i miss those times. would i go back? hell no i spent to much on this rig to go anywhere hahaaa

[Norwegiantweaker]

i remembered i had a 755 with 2gb ram aroung 500gb storage, i had good nett and downloaded everything, that was the shit, u got a crowd like that haha

[Kamina]

The internet was a boring place back then. I would usually play RuneScape and go on ebaumsworld for comedy videos and flash games. My standards have changed and going back would just be boring to me. My classic games on the other hand have aged quite well and I'd still enjoy the shit out of them.

[Fred Castellum]

I would take the place of Elon Musk

You can't certainly try too hehehhe 

[T.Vengeance]

Who remembers Stick Figure Death Theater?

 

I didn't download many MP3's, because we had dial-up and cell phones weren't really that popular yet. So I only got to use the internet a couple hours per day. One song would've taken up all my time. 

 

Remember those AOL discs with free minutes?

 

I remember my first geocities page. It was basically a bookmarks page with links to my favorite sites, and a random radio button to change the color of the page. I was an HTML noob. I even tried to convince people I was a web designer, lol.

 

I enjoy the nostalgia, but I never want to go back to that.

Haha, my first Geocities was I think a blog site (who the fuck creates a blog at 11?....only me and my ideas lol) I had the opening page play the "Peaceful Days" music from Chrono Trigger and had a bunch of gif buttons I believe. I truely wish I saved a snapshot of the site before Yahoo took down Geocities .

 

The internet was a boring place back then. I would usually play RuneScape and go on ebaumsworld for comedy videos and flash games. My standards have changed and going back would just be boring to me. My classic games on the other hand have aged quite well and I'd still enjoy the shit out of them.

Perhaps it was just because I was a kid so I found so many things to do. I always jumped on Cartoon Network and played Samurai Jack / Kids Next Door. Went on Lego's old website and played Junkbot (plus so many of the old Bionicle games). I also learnt my first block programming on Lego's site. Played of course on Miniclip, but also I always remembered reading so many of the old HowStuffWorks articles (my wikipedia at the time). And while there were no funny Youtube videos to occupy my time, there were plenty of cartoons that filled it.

[Yummychickenblue]

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 classic rock