RE: What Do You Miss About the Internet of the Past? 09-04-2021, 09:59 PM
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(09-03-2021, 06:40 PM)Party Pete Wrote: I miss MSN Messenger.Between the years 2000 to 2008 the internet was totally new and it was like the wild west.
What I miss about MSN Messenger, is that you actually talked. You logged on and that meant - “Hey, I am here, let us talk” ... Now we are connected 24/7, someone sends you a message, maybe you reply a few hours later, they reply tomorrow. It is so sporadic.
I also miss when YouTube was a much smaller community and the popular channels were normal people, rather than the influencer types we have today.
What do you miss about the Internet of the past?
Sometimes when you do something its always the first 'time' or the first day thats the best.
and in the early days, things hadnt gotten so ordered up yet,
you could say almost anything you wanted and the youtubers back then were much more radical.
Hitler mustaches, real actual combat knives, humor directed at other races than white cis males,
you name it.
I also miss the old unsencored youtube, newgrounds, messenger, IRC,
but today the internet is much more strict, tidied up and surveilled and wire tapped.
but well, atleast we had some fun.

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