The Good ol' days

[Chrisc]

We've just been having a chat in the office about the good old days of the internet.

Discussing rushing home from school to sit on MSM messenger or Habbo hotel etc. . .

Between the office we managed to prompt each other to remember the websites we used to spend endless hours on like Tucows or Ebaums world!. Which ones did you spend a silly amount of hours scrolling through?

 

[Lysander]

Which ones did you spend a silly amount of hours scrolling through?

This one. Which was way better in the 2000s, now the forums are just a shadow of their former self.

As for other sites, 4chan [which was also a lot better in the 2000s] and MySpace. MSN Messenger was fantastic but it got assimilated into Skype, and then everyone left it for Facebook. There were a load of other sites I went to regularly but no-one here would have heard of them.

Basically the internet was better before smartphones came along.

 

[dan958]

MSN, and using the 3rd party tool where you could said infinite nudges to people and then their computer would crash

 

[touch]

Newgrounds, Weebl's stuff, Homestar runner

 

[Irish_Tom]

Wireplay for Air Attack and Half-Life mods like the early CounterStrike betas.

Those were the days *dons pipe and slippers*.

 

[cheesyboy]

rotten.com

 

[Lysander]

rotten.com

Yes, one of the first websites I ever went to. It may have been the very first, actually, apart from Hotmail.

 

[Chrisc]

Wireplay for Air Attack and Half-Life mods like the early CounterStrike betas.

Those were the days *dons pipe and slippers*.

holy crap, id forgot about Wireplay! i absolutely loved Air attack!

 

[Chrisc]

rotten.com

Rotten.com and ratemypoo.com were often visited regularly.

 

[200sols]

ASL?

 

[potatolord]

Encyclopedia dramatica.

Hilarious and horrifying in equal measure.

 

[robfosters]

Robs Celebs

 

[B@Th*nG]

Lowbrow.com

Clicking through 20 stories for one absolute gem. Could spend hours on there

 

[stockhausen]

. . . Basically the internet was better before smartphones came along.

The Internet has certainly not been improved by Twitter, Facebook, etc.

 

[Irish_Tom]

holy crap, id forgot about Wireplay! i absolutely loved Air attack!

Such good times!

Did you fly in a squadron or just solo?

I was in [TKFM] (The Kung Fu Monks) and flew under the handle Blacknight back then. We were kind of a big deal.

 

[builder22]

Richards Realm

 

[Chrisc]

This one. Which was way better in the 2000s, now the forums are just a shadow of their former self.

As for other sites, 4chan [which was also a lot better in the 2000s] and MySpace. MSN Messenger was fantastic but it got assimilated into Skype, and then everyone left it for Facebook. There were a load of other sites I went to regularly but no-one here would have heard of them.

Basically the internet was better before smartphones came along.

I agree, I always loved hearing about new websites, Looking back it was great to be apart of the internet when it was raw and new.

 

[Chrisc]

Such good times!

Did you fly in a squadron or just solo?

I was in [TKFM] (The Kung Fu Monks) and flew under the handle Blacknight back then. We were kind of a big deal.

I think our clan tag was [Stella] I used to play with my dads much older mates.

 

[Dis86]

Uncyclopedia

 

[Lysander]

I agree, I always loved hearing about new websites, Looking back it was great to be apart of the internet when it was raw and new.

If you grew up in the '70s or '80s, it was a great time to be alive from the point of view of the ascendancy of digital technologies. You were able to experience home computing and the tech-crazy '80s, as well as the offline life before the 1990s came alone, as did the internet and mobile phones AND you were able to experience the internet in all its anarchy before tighter regulation came along in the 2010s. No-one born from the 1990s onwards will have been able to experience life offline or away from the clutches of the digital megacorporations.

For instance, just think of p2p clients like Kazaa, Limewire and eMule, and how the record industry was in panic for years because of Rapidshare and Mediafire downloads. They literally had no idea what to do for years about the downloading. It was a total free-for-all.

 

[wildman]

wireplay and barrysworld