Topic: Would you turn back time if you could

+Anonymous A — 1.3 year ago #64,958

And reset the internet to say Windows xp time? Was computers and the internet really more fun back then?

+FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI — 1.3 year ago, 13 minutes later[T] [B] #651,763

+ducky !MwWb.dJjRc — 1.3 year ago, 33 minutes later, 47 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #651,765

yes

+Anonymous D — 1.3 year ago, 2 hours later, 3 hours after the original post[T] [B] #651,770

I feel very different now when looking at old memes, watching old videos, or listening to old pop songs. But not even modern memes are funny to me anymore, they've become obnoxious, it's always about slandering, some indie game reference, loud noises, etc., and let's not even talk about modern pop music, that shit has become bland as hell (EDM, trap, K-pop, Latin, country, hyperpop, lazy vaporwave edits, Nintendo VGM) and even more annoying than dubstep. It's all earworms supposed to get stuck in your head so you'd repeat it to your friends and I hate that. Don't remember old software/games much though.

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·Anonymous D — 1.3 year ago, 54 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[T] [B] #651,771

I miss old websites though, very different search results were yielded.

+Anonymous E — 1.3 year ago, 6 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[T] [B] #651,772

I like the Windows XP era because I was still rocking Windows 95 8). BBS / dialup was a magical era for sure.
And I'll second the thoughts about modern pop culture. I really do think it's different this time, and not just old people saying it sucks. It actually does suck right now.

·Anonymous A (OP) — 1.3 year ago, 20 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[T] [B] #651,775

Yes it was during the xp era that i switched from dial up to cable. Before cable I remembering setting a dozen song up to download on Napster before going to bed and hoping they would be completed loading by morning. Chat programs like pow wow and even yahoo. Not a whole lot of political garbage on forums. Friends wanted to hit you up they would send you a message on one of the chat programs or just email you. Long before facebook or twitter. Chatrooms were a blast. Imesh or Kazaa peer to peer sharing. I wanted to watch some porn I would go to IRC and trade with others.

I deleted my twitter and facebook a couple years back. Just don't care for seeing and hearing every fart my friends have cut. I still grab a torrent of a movie now and then and the speed is nice. But for the most part there was way less pop ups, commercials and shit like that back then. I guess I miss the old days of the internet.

+Anonymous F — 1.3 year ago, 9 hours later, 14 hours after the original post[T] [B] #651,792

I miss the old times when myspace's classics & friendster is around. Although myspace & facebook still exist, it seem like an almost dead sites. And I predicted Twitter will be the next with their current close-closet model way of running.

+Anonymous G — 1.3 year ago, 16 hours later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #651,813

Yes. Windows XP era was great. the internet was peak. Social media wasn't so huge and porn was good. Video games were fun and quirky. Devs actually focused on gameplay mechanics rather visual aesthetics. Limewire and frostwire despite them having viruses and shit was still a wonderful to download all sorts of media. Porn back in those times were really good stuff to beat off. No goofy ass pov or "ahegao faces", No onlyfans or fansly. lazy half ass stick a 5 foot dragon dick in her ass for 1 min. Just some solid quality porn.

even hentai and western R18 was good. I remember having AOL and the dial up sounds trying to boot up. I miss those days.
Idk but the internet sucks and I hate these new kids and now I understand how the older generation feel because this new shit is not it.

sorry I'm having an old man rant but fuck it. fuck these kids and this generation. they legit ruined the internet. even newgrounds isn't what it used to be.

+Anonymous H — 1.3 year ago, 1 hour later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #651,814

I miss the days where there wasn't internet and my box PC was just a gaming console. That's when computers actually acted like computers.

·Anonymous A (OP) — 1.3 year ago, 2 hours later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #651,815

@651,813 (G)
Limewire...I had forgot about it. A lot of water pass under bridge.

+Anonymous I — 1.3 year ago, 47 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #651,818

@651,814 (H)
> when computers actually acted like computers
That sums it up I guess, I liked when there were less ads (as in the start menu, notifications, search results, but there certainly were useless search bar add-ons), more software to choose from, programs were lightweight rather than bloated (fuck Electron apps, write in C/C++ for fuck's sake, not in fucking JavaScript to make native portable executables, lazy pieces of shits), there weren't as many security restrictions (e.g. hardware, anti-piracy, through the use of networking/cloud), but viruses such as trojans were a lot more common back then (spyware is even more common nowadays though). Computers of today feel more like mobile phones and are probably about to be as limited just because we're being dumbed down into computer illiterates and start treating computers like "magical" black boxes so they can add more subscription services for things that previously didn't have any.

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·Anonymous I — 1.3 year ago, 5 hours later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #651,824

Does anyone here know anything from their childhood that ever meant anything?

·Anonymous G — 1.3 year ago, 4 hours later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #651,833

@651,818 (I)
@651,818 (I)
> > when computers actually acted like computers
> computer illiterates.

That part is very important. Not to sound like those corny illiteracy propaganda ads but I think that's something that we need now more than ever. Just people being computer savvy and at the very least learn some basic computer programming. Something that public schools should consider having as a curriculum because back in my day the teachers would always remind us that "Computers are not for playing games, they're for work." and maybe there's some truth. People can benefit of truly messing with their machine and unlock the full potentials but sadly nowadays its exactly as you put it "we're being dumbed down." and its honestly sad.

+Anonymous J — 1.3 year ago, 1 hour later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #651,835

I miss when the internet wasn’t loaded with dickheads from Nigeria and Indiana who want to pose as pretty girls and boys and take your money to the sunset or claim they want to share their lottery. And back in the day hackers did it for the lulz and not money.

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+Anonymous K — 1.3 year ago, 3 hours later, 2 days after the original post[T] [B] #651,846

I missed the times when game characters like chun li is popular! http://wnr.ai/ais/chun-li-street-fighter

+Anonymous L — 1.3 year ago, 8 hours later, 2 days after the original post[T] [B] #651,863

@previous (K)
not clicking that cp link

·Anonymous I — 1.3 year ago, 1 day later, 3 days after the original post[T] [B] #651,907

_{something, something, curiosities behind audiovisual aesthetic directions of early 2000s computer graphics, design and experimental music…}

昨夜お前の母親犯した ©️

·Anonymous I — 1.3 year ago, 19 minutes later, 3 days after the original post[T] [B] #651,908

@previous (I)
Like seriously nigga, what the fuck is this?
https://youtu.be/sfufGhpcCBU

·Anonymous I — 1.3 year ago, 14 minutes later, 3 days after the original post[T] [B] #651,909

@previous (I)
https://youtu.be/BATvSdZ6kOU

+Anonymous M — 1.3 year ago, 4 hours later, 3 days after the original post[T] [B] #651,915

@651,863 (L)

Precisely ! When I clicked on the link, the following shit-code appear on my screen below & it was so much fun! 😀

class Solution 

{

public int numSteps(String s)

{

int steps = 0;

int carry = 0;

for (int i = s.length() -1; i > 0; i--)

{

if (s.charAt(i) - '0' + carry == 1)

{

carry = 1;

steps++;

}

steps++;

}

return steps + carry;

}


}

Anyway, I have seem a lot of shit-coding on the board nowadays!

+Anonymous N — 1.3 year ago, 5 minutes later, 3 days after the original post[T] [B] #651,916

@previous (M)
[insert 🇮🇳 joke here]

+Anonymous O — 1.3 year ago, 3 days later, 1 week after the original post[T] [B] #651,994

@previous (N)

Rap battle between terminator vs robocop is much better! http://youtu.be/Jmqa99Ar1Hs

+Anonymous P — 1.3 year ago, 5 days later, 1 week after the original post[T] [B] #652,166

Open STEINS GATE

+396474 — 1.3 year ago, 1 day later, 1 week after the original post[T] [B] #652,186

Cant say the turning back time is right but internet was interesting back in the day from aesthetics to diversity. Many websites about interesting topics,forums,original blogs,chat rooms,warez sites with free stuff,less censorship and searching had discover feeling...Now almost every search engine is connected to fucking Chromium or Mozila with products and censoship bullshit,sites looking like smartphone dumb design because phones are so popular,there is no interesting thing as WAP internet and all is about social media.

+Anonymous R — 1.2 year ago, 1 week later, 3 weeks after the original post[T] [B] #652,493

@651,907 (I)
Please bring back this scatterbrained look in video games.

+Anonymous S — 1.2 year ago, 1 hour later, 3 weeks after the original post[T] [B] #652,494

https://www.vidlii.com/watch?v=HlDcQlTDhGH

+Anonymous T — 1.2 year ago, 4 hours later, 3 weeks after the original post[T] [B] #652,496

@651,908 (I)
1 Minute 13 seconds of time I will never get back.

+Anonymous U — 1.2 year ago, 1 day later, 3 weeks after the original post[T] [B] #652,530

I miss when I was able to feel good doing pointless things, nowadays I can't enjoy anything as if I've got no patience. It's all just noise to me, and everything will be AI-generated soulless garbage with nothing insightful, just blah, blah, blah, profits > quality…

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·FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI — 1.2 year ago, 1 hour later, 3 weeks after the original post[T] [B] #652,533

@previous (U)
> nowadays I can't enjoy anything as if I've got no patience
that's because cell phones with constant internet access have created an environment where people demand instant gratification for everything because you'll just go somewhere else if you don't get what you need immediately on one platform. which I suppose is why 4chan is able to carry on while other chans come and go like the seasons.

·Anonymous U — 1.2 year ago, 35 minutes later, 3 weeks after the original post[T] [B] #652,534

@previous (FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI)
So this is one of the reasons why the old web died out? Because all websites are now required to compete with social media in terms of the interface and interaction, to cater to the instant-gratification crowd with short attention spans? And if the website fails to live up to their expectations, they are forced to turn to social media instead, which thus made the Internet more centralized as it is today in the process? Also, I fucking hate what those inactive boards do as well, switching from forums to invite-only Discord servers, abandoning years of posts.

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·FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI — 1.2 year ago, 3 hours later, 3 weeks after the original post[T] [B] #652,538

@previous (U)
Sort of. Some sites actively choose not to compete, which is nice, but then that puts them at a disadvantage with the majority of the dopamine-addicts, so they have small userbases.

Old web economy was driven by users or webmasters creating unique content which wasn't found anywhere else, and dedicated communities for specialized interests.

The internet became centralized because social media came along and invented the idea of "mandatory membership" where not having an account is equated with not existing. Then google took it a step further by making an api for logging in to other websites with your gmail account. Of course behind the scenes these sites were gathering all sorts of usage data and using it to build targeted-content algorithms to further cement their mandatory status, along with specialized advertisements which they sold on to 3rd parties.
Discord is basically a social media re-imagining of AIM and IRC (and possibly Skype? idk if it has audio chat) but with the anonymity of IRC and the limited scope of AIM removed. Because those things inhibit the ability of the platform to exploit its traffic for financial gains.

The modern web economy seems to consist of 3 pillars:
1: Clicks (to collect traffic data that can be alanyzed)
2: Re-shares (to spread awareness of the site and bring in more clicks as well as figuring out what sort of content gets more clicks so more of that content can be generated)
3: Revenue (turning click and share data into ad buys)[/ol]

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·Anonymous U — 1.2 year ago, 1 hour later, 3 weeks after the original post[T] [B] #652,539

We need more websites like this: https://wordsandbuttons.online/

·Anonymous U — 1.2 year ago, 6 days later, 1 month after the original post[T] [B] #652,750

·FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI — 1.2 year ago, 54 minutes later, 1 month after the original post[T] [B] #652,751

@previous (U)
The great thing about flash games was you could save them to your computer. I still have boxhead.swf around somewhere.

·Anonymous U — 1.2 year ago, 2 hours later, 1 month after the original post[T] [B] #652,753

I fucking hate modern webshit developers…
@previous (FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI)
I feel like there should be something better than Adobe Flash and PICO-8 that's open-source, easy-to-use and has more capabilities. I especially liked those 3D Shockwave games and certain Java applets back in the day, EOL (end-of-life) is pretty disappointing, I just hate seeing good things coming to an end replaced by something that doesn't perform as well (stupid Skia <canvas> rendering, also broken in Firefox). I miss being able to disable anti-aliasing, lol.

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·Anonymous P — 1.2 year ago, 1 day later, 1 month after the original post[T] [B] #652,818

@OP
> And reset the internet to say Windows xp time?

Windows? Use Unix...
https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/microsoft-pauses-windows-11-update-as-its-sending-some-pcs-into-an-infinite-reboot-hell

·FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI — 1.2 year ago, 4 hours later, 1 month after the original post[T] [B] #652,822

@previous (P)
We're talking about going back to when Windows was a reasonably stable OS. I had an XP machine do 11 months uptime, and the only reason it ended was because of a power outage.

·Anonymous H — 1.2 year ago, 18 minutes later, 1 month after the original post[T] [B] #652,823

Would I if I could? No. That's like wanting to turn around before crossing the finish line in a race.

·Anonymous U — 1.2 year ago, 5 hours later, 1 month after the original post[T] [B] #652,833

@652,818 (P)
Jesus fucking Christ, Windows 11 has always been a complete shitshow (their minimum hardware requirements (high RAM usage, sluggish), broken Start Menu, bloated right-click context menus, ads infiltrating, forced updates, privacy-invading “AI-powered” Copilot, telemetry services) but I never expected it to be this bad.
I'd personally recommend Linux Mint though as a replacement.

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·Anonymous T — 1.2 year ago, 3 hours later, 1 month after the original post[T] [B] #652,840

@652,818 (P)
> > And reset the internet to say Windows xp time?
>
> Windows? Use Unix...
> https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/microsoft-pauses-windows-11-update-as-its-sending-some-pcs-into-an-infinite-reboot-hell

Mussels rice/tomatoes the other is Clams and ???? and the Yellow mess?????? What are these?

·Anonymous P — 1.2 year ago, 17 hours later, 1 month after the original post[T] [B] #652,865

@previous (T)
> Mussels rice/tomatoes the other is Clams and ???? and the Yellow mess?????? What are these?

Top left~
Spaghetti Al Nero Di Seppia is delectably al dente, buoyant with a boatload of tiger prawns, squid, clams, mussels and scallops, plus plenty of peperoncino for a spicy punch. It sits on a mound of squid-ink spaghetti. A symphony of seafood that sings with fresh, fabulous flavours.

Bottom left ~
Also swimming with crustaceans, Risotto Frutti Di Mare promises a charming chew, with firm grains flooded with full-bodied tiger prawns, clams, mussels and scallops, well-balanced with the tang of tomatoes to mellow out the heat of the peperoncino.

Top right ~
The ultimate indulgence for seafood enthusiasts is Ravioli Alla Aragosta, meticulously handmade with Italian Caputo flour that features natural Neapolitan starches. These perfectly smooth pasta pouches harbour dense, decadent patties of lobster flesh with butter, briny in a brilliant lobster bisque sauce, brightened with herbaceous notes of dill and parsley, beautifully worthy of a seaside Italian trattoria.

·Anonymous T — 1.2 year ago, 6 hours later, 1 month after the original post[T] [B] #652,878

@previous (P)
Wow just Wow.

·Anonymous U — 1.2 year ago, 2 days later, 1 month after the original post[T] [B] #652,988

I love the old user interfaces of editors, just look at these toolbars.

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·Anonymous U — 1.2 year ago, 36 seconds later, 1 month after the original post[T] [B] #652,989

ｋｉｎｏ

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·FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI — 1.2 year ago, 3 hours later, 1 month after the original post[T] [B] #652,994

@previous (U)
XP itself was fine, but I never cared for the new UI design.

+Anonymous V — 1.2 year ago, 2 hours later, 1 month after the original post[T] [B] #653,019

somebody wrote a song about that topic CHER

·Anonymous V — 1.2 year ago, 15 seconds later, 1 month after the original post[T] [B] #653,020

and linky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n3A_-HRFfc

·Anonymous U — 1.2 year ago, 3 hours later, 1 month after the original post[T] [B] #653,034

@652,994 (FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI)
> Warning: This computer program is protected by copyright law and international treaties. Unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this program, or any portion of it, may result in severe civil and criminal penalties, and will be prosecuted to the maximum extent possible under the law.
That doesn't sound very nice.

·FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI — 1.2 year ago, 6 hours later, 1 month after the original post[T] [B] #653,050

@previous (U)
Heh, they still haven't come after me for using that same software on 5 or 6 computers. Oh, wait, that says distribution which I haven't done. I've just used the same install disc on multiple machines over the years.

+Anonymous W — 1.2 year ago, 1 day later, 1 month after the original post[T] [B] #653,110

Mobile-friendly web design killed the Internet.

·Anonymous W — 1.2 year ago, 1 minute later, 1 month after the original post[T] [B] #653,111

also the “please make 2+ posts before posting a file” is fucking retarded

document.body.querySelector("input[type='file']").accept="";

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·FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI — 1.2 year ago, 1 hour later, 1 month after the original post[T] [B] #653,116

@653,110 (W)
trufax

@previous (W)
an unfortunate but necessary countermeasure against cp spammers

+Anonymous X — 1.2 year ago, 1 hour later, 1 month after the original post[T] [B] #653,120

you cannot imagine how easy it was to get an internet girlfriend back in 2003
i had a haram online man
whew

·Anonymous U — 1.2 year ago, 5 hours later, 1 month after the original post[T] [B] #653,129

Skibidi Toilet spotted transcending time and space (never-before-seen lost footage of transdimensional sighting): https://youtu.be/fE-2N86_Cbk

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·FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI — 1.2 year ago, 1 week later, 1 month after the original post[T] [B] #653,686

@652,818 (P)
They extended this feature to Windows 10 today

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·Anonymous U — 1.2 year ago, 17 hours later, 1 month after the original post[T] [B] #653,738

> Billions of URLs using Google's link shortener will stop working in 2025 next year
> The long-running clock on Google's URL shortener goo․gl finally has a death date: August 25, 2025. That's when links that were shortened using the defunct service will no longer be accessible, according to a blog post from the company this week.
Anyone remember those annoying ad-ridden adf․ly and bit․ly link shorteners scammers used? Anyway, fuck Google. https://killedbygoogle.com/

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·Anonymous U — 1.2 year ago, 27 minutes later, 1 month after the original post[T] [B] #653,739

Remember when YouTube decided to remove the public display of dislike counts on Nov 10 2021? It's as if these companies are making these bad decisions every few years apart, ensuring that no one remembers all of the unnecessary changes doing it one by one at a time, slowly boiling the frogs.
Google should've never acquired YouTube.

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·Anonymous U — 1.2 year ago, 3 hours later, 1 month after the original post[T] [B] #653,743

I also thought this was kinda weird…
> In general, you can subscribe to a maximum of 2,000 channels. But, your subscription limit grows as your YouTube channel does. It's tied to the number of subscribers your channel has or how long your account has existed. Your exact limits may change over time.
I don't even remember which channels I first subscribed to, it's as if they want us to forget about old YouTube channels.

+Anonymous Z-1 — 1.1 year ago, 5 days later, 2 months after the original post[T] [B] #653,938

> Reddit blocks search engines other than Google from retrieving its content thus Google has increased its centralization of the search engine market by securing a monopoly on accessing and indexing recent Reddit content, however Reddit Data API access remains free for non-commercial researchers and academics under their published usage threshold.
They always find more ways to shit it up as if it wasn't already bad… I miss Removeddit (to view deleted comments) by the way.

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+Anonymous Z-2 — 1.1 year ago, 4 days later, 2 months after the original post[T] [B] #654,196

This sums up everything that's wrong with modern-day Windows in a nutshell. I can't wait for ReactOS to become stable enough to fully replace it entirely.

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·Anonymous Z-2 — 1.1 year ago, 20 hours later, 2 months after the original post[T] [B] #654,231

Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber who worked in Unilever last year and is also a member of the Advisory Board of Leading Executives Advancing Diversity (LEAD) wants to sell a monthly-subscription-based “forever mouse” (it's called like that because of regular software updates that cause more nuisance than convenience. Might also be a red flag for planned obsolescence?) that features an AI button (requires Logi Options+ App) that acts like a shortcut to ChatGPT (bootlicking OpenAI much? It's also likely that you'd misclick it thus it's better to just disable it entirely), the mouse probably doesn't even work without their bloatware installed, what a fucking greedy company, I'm so fucking tired of this AI hype scam, this is also the same company that monopolized the Smart™ TV remote market before shutting down the entire Harmony line. Bitch needs a reality check.

Related video on how mediocre overpriced mice are marketed to gamers through being sponsored by popular influencers: https://youtu.be/3R26Pq7b9l4

Software as a service (SaaS) needs to die, immediately. I remember there was a company that used to sell subscription-based footwear under the guise of combating climate change (but we all know they're just in for the money as their ulterior motive), I don't want the future to be heading towards where everything has to be a subscription-based service and needs an app for it.

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+Anonymous Z-3 — 1.1 year ago, 2 hours later, 2 months after the original post[T] [B] #654,236

imo the internet was more fun before youtube

·FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI — 1.1 year ago, 43 minutes later, 2 months after the original post[T] [B] #654,237

@654,231 (Z-2)
> I'm so fucking tired of this AI hype scam
What really pisses me off, is it's headed towards eliminating all brain/talent-oriented jobs. AI can draw, AI can write, AI can make music, AI can program. What's that leave us with for jobs in 10 years? Manual labor. Fuck that shit.

> Software as a service (SaaS) needs to die, immediately.
100% agree.

> pic
I'd make an exception for Netflix because I'm not interested in watching the same thing over and over so renting is fine with me, but games and music, hell no. Buy once, own forever.

+Anonymous Z-4 — 1.1 year ago, 2 minutes later, 2 months after the original post[T] [B] #654,238

@previous (FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI)
I will always pirate movies for free, Netflix films usually have an agenda behind them.

·FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI — 1.1 year ago, 7 minutes later, 2 months after the original post[T] [B] #654,239

@previous (Z-4)
I don't watch movies much because of the large block of time you have to set aside. When I do I prefer to go to a theater.

·Anonymous U — 1.1 year ago, 3 days later, 2 months after the original post[T] [B] #654,515

I remember being mesmerized by this: https://youtu.be/pc9JWYuUa2o

·Anonymous U — 1.1 year ago, 1 day later, 2 months after the original post[T] [B] #654,608

https://youtu.be/-U0_IUpkDiw
If only this wasn't age-restricted.

·FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI — 1.1 year ago, 13 hours later, 2 months after the original post[T] [B] #654,637

@previous (U)
see, now this is good video content!
there's an extension to remove age-restriction without logging in, btw

·Anonymous P — 1.1 year ago, 1 day later, 2 months after the original post[T] [B] #654,819

Does time-stamping work?
https://youtu.be/hR0T0k0GJUI?t=2400

·Anonymous U — 1.1 year ago, 2 days later, 2 months after the original post[T] [B] #655,000

Does anyone else remember the online Flash-based music sequencer Beaterator made by Rockstar Games released in 2005?

+Anonymous Z-5 — 1.1 year ago, 3 hours later, 2 months after the original post[T] [B] #655,005

ye olde vidya gaymes

·FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI — 1.1 year ago, 11 hours later, 2 months after the original post[T] [B] #655,029

@previous (Z-5)
I've only played 2 of those.. Space Cadet Pinball and The Sims, although I have played a different version of Sim City.

·Anonymous U — 1.1 year ago, 4 days later, 2 months after the original post[T] [B] #655,243

David William Plummer (former Microsoft dev) ran a scam company, SoftwareOnline․com, Inc., that tricked people into downloading fake anti-virus rogue software and adware. ~~Can't stand these fucking Boomers…~~

+Anonymous Z-6 — 11 months ago, 1 month later, 4 months after the original post[T] [B] #656,719

http://pkl.net/~matt/

·FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI — 11 months ago, 5 hours later, 4 months after the original post[T] [B] #656,730

@654,196 (Z-2)
Huh, somehow I missed this pic. The trick to avoiding updoots in Windows 10 is to fill up the hard drive until it's not able to download the needed files. I've got a win10 laptop seeding torrents with 158 days uptime.

·Anonymous L — 11 months ago, 5 hours later, 4 months after the original post[T] [B] #656,742

@654,196 (Z-2)
W8 and 10 is also updooter goyslop

·Anonymous P — 11 months ago, 3 days later, 4 months after the original post[T] [B] #656,835

@654,819 (P)
Yes, it does

+Anonymous Z-7 — 10 months ago, 4 weeks later, 5 months after the original post[T] [B] #658,165

@OP
idk if it was more fun or if I was just less mature, but since each user had a part in building the internet in that we, GenX, had to teach boomers how to use the internet, that Usenet wasn't their email, regularly helping them repair their windoze Fisher-Price interface botnet machines, how to burn CDs, there were less monopolies... but now all that hardware is landfill and most of you have computer phones and that's kinda depressing, along with people's brains being rewired to be dependent to algorithmic addiction. The only positives since then are faster speeds at lower prices on both the hardware and networking side.
And I get to reminisce of music that was alive. Cheers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdXjm8pZMws

+Anonymous Z-8 — 10 months ago, 1 hour later, 5 months after the original post[T] [B] #658,166

I stopped out at grandma's place and she was reminiscing the 2000's and the PCs my pops set up for her. He was smart and loaded Mandriva or Ubuntu from the early years I think. Still didn't keep her from borking emails or going wild with the Shop at Home Network.

Pops still builds PCs, has Ubuntu over a last gen i9 build.

I'm a bottom feeder, build Linux boxes from scraps or old tech. One of my machines boots from HDD still :). I'm itching for a new build though (probably buy a new case and throw some parts together).

·Anonymous T — 10 months ago, 6 hours later, 5 months after the original post[T] [B] #658,175

@previous (Z-8)
> One of my machines boots from HDD still

+Anonymous Z-9 — 10 months ago, 2 hours later, 5 months after the original post[T] [B] #658,177

I would turn back time to undo all the mistakes that I have made in my life

+Anonymous Z-10 — 10 months ago, 2 hours later, 5 months after the original post[T] [B] #658,187

Use a Raspberry Po

·ducky !MwWb.dJjRc — 10 months ago, 12 minutes later, 5 months after the original post[T] [B] #658,193

the internet has been ruined so whats the point of living anymore

·Anonymous Z-7 — 10 months ago, 5 minutes later, 5 months after the original post[T] [B] #658,194

@previous (ducky !MwWb.dJjRc)
learn how to live in the natural world.
the matrix being destroyed isn't so bad.

·ducky !MwWb.dJjRc — 10 months ago, 4 minutes later, 5 months after the original post[T] [B] #658,195

@previous (Z-7)
we r all gona die without the matrix

·Anonymous Z-7 — 10 months ago, 12 minutes later, 5 months after the original post[T] [B] #658,196

@previous (ducky !MwWb.dJjRc)
Not if everyone remembers what it means to be human. I prefer the natural world. I've never had a cellphone, I've built all of my computers over the years from used parts and customize each Linux distro I use. These things are tools for me to avoid becoming the commodity. In the early days it consumed too much of me and affected my health so I've kept a healthy distance/ detachment since 2005. I use a debit card, checks and cash in person like I have since the '80s. Maybe I have an advantage since I remember what it's like to be free. I dunno.

·ducky !MwWb.dJjRc — 10 months ago, 54 seconds later, 5 months after the original post[T] [B] #658,197

@previous (Z-7)
you cannot survive on your own

·Anonymous Z-7 — 10 months ago, 2 minutes later, 5 months after the original post[T] [B] #658,198

@previous (ducky !MwWb.dJjRc)
No man is an island, but I retain as much agency for myself as I can.
I'm talking about taking control of my life, not avoiding the world but surviving it.

·ducky !MwWb.dJjRc — 10 months ago, 33 seconds later, 5 months after the original post[T] [B] #658,199

@previous (Z-7)
okay i mean im doing my best out here okay

·Anonymous Z-7 — 10 months ago, 9 minutes later, 5 months after the original post[T] [B] #658,200

@previous (ducky !MwWb.dJjRc)
I hope you do well. I wasn't saying anything negative about you but speaking in general terms from my experience.
You asked what was the point of living, I just gave my perspective. You'll be okay.

+Anonymous Z-11 — 9 months ago, 1 month later, 6 months after the original post[T] [B] #660,768

Websites were cooler back then.
_{Image description: lab404, substack, Rafaël Rozendaal, DAN-BALL, districts, André Michelle's Flash Laboratory, Jun Fujiki's workshop, wonderfl: build Flash online, EYEZMAZE, Vectorpark}

(Edited 5 minutes later.)

·ducky !MwWb.dJjRc — 9 months ago, 1 hour later, 6 months after the original post[T] [B] #660,770

i miss flash game sites

·Anonymous Z-11 — 9 months ago, 7 hours later, 6 months after the original post[T] [B] #660,791

@previous (ducky !MwWb.dJjRc)
True, and I loved the aesthetics and design choices during that era.
Why is there no open-source alternative engine to Adobe Flash Player and Shockwave that runs faster than HTML5? Is WebGL+WebAssembly/WASM enough?

(Edited 9 minutes later.)

·ducky !MwWb.dJjRc — 9 months ago, 4 hours later, 6 months after the original post[T] [B] #660,815

@previous (Z-11)
i designed web site and coded them

·Anonymous T — 9 months ago, 4 hours later, 6 months after the original post[T] [B] #660,820

@previous (ducky !MwWb.dJjRc)
> i designed web site and coded them

Who or what decoded them?

·FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI — 9 months ago, 8 hours later, 6 months after the original post[T] [B] #660,840

@660,770 (ducky !MwWb.dJjRc)
They still exist, amazingly.

https://armorgames.com/
https://www.crazymonkeygames.com/

·ducky !MwWb.dJjRc — 9 months ago, 47 minutes later, 6 months after the original post[T] [B] #660,842

@previous (FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI)
:-O im so happy rn

·Anonymous P — 9 months ago, 6 days later, 6 months after the original post[T] [B] #661,196

We gotta go back

+Anonymous Z-12 — 9 months ago, 9 hours later, 6 months after the original post[T] [B] #661,214

@previous (P)
I don't want to deal with CRT monitors again, but I could definitely deal with PDAs without internet access. I missed the Palm Pilot era and that depresses me (then again, PDAs probably depressed all the office drones that had to use them too lol).

·Anonymous Z-12 — 9 months ago, 9 minutes later, 6 months after the original post[T] [B] #661,215

@previous (Z-12)
Sweet - there's an emulator community that sprung up while I wasn't looking. I have a project for the week 8).

·FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI — 9 months ago, 21 hours later, 6 months after the original post[T] [B] #661,244

@661,214 (Z-12)
I kind of experienced it after the fact as my dad got one out of the equipment recycling bins at work. Jawbreaker is such a simple game, and yet so very addictive.

·Anonymous Z-11 — 8 months ago, 3 days later, 6 months after the original post[T] [B] #661,450

Does anyone remember Sploder?

+Anonymous Z-13 — 8 months ago, 3 hours later, 6 months after the original post[T] [B] #661,468

Yes. I'd turn back time to. 1820.

·Anonymous Z-13 — 8 months ago, 17 seconds later, 6 months after the original post[T] [B] #661,470

Actually, forget that. I'd turn it back to caveman days.

+Anonymous Z-14 — 8 months ago, 3 hours later, 6 months after the original post[T] [B] #661,500

Wish we could turn back time https://youtu.be/R-Y0e8kFrbg

·Anonymous Z-11 — 8 months ago, 1 week later, 7 months after the original post[T] [B] #663,317

At what age did nostalgic things from your childhood cease to evoke emotions? I know that listening to drukQs and Analord still brings a particular feeling within me but it's kind of like watching your favorite film again, it just doesn't feel the same way the second time, as if it was meant to be enjoyed only that one time, once, and after that, it's just not as special. I somehow really hate how vintage filters are (mis)used to give that certain aesthetic on the other hand (especially in advertisements, very superficial, or slapped onto things from 2010s… imagine feeling nostalgic for Among Us, what the fuck), some do it right (like The Sweet East (2023) which gives it a certain mood), but it usually feels exploitative, or used to get social clout like a bait (e.g. Win98/XP skins in Twitter art, PS1/PSX floating-point shader in itch.io indie games, early 2000s Nintendo designs), it's nothing more than an epitome of consumerism and feels even more off-putting when you know these corporations' bad deeds. Harry Potter is probably the best example of a nostalgic movie turned into consumer bait (like these fugly Funko Pops, or recycled trash in general, cooking shows based on HP, etc.), even funnier (I guess you'd say that) when you're aware of the J. K. Rowling drama. What used to have an impact on us is now completely diminished.

(Edited 8 minutes later.)

·Anonymous Z-11 — 8 months ago, 29 minutes later, 7 months after the original post[T] [B] #663,320

It's probably even worse knowing that people you've met from your childhood have lost the spirit they once had, now they aren't any different from an everyday man being a cog in the wheel. Why did we suddenly stop talking to each other? It's like I've got nothing more left that I can give, I'm no longer of any value. ~~(I'm uneducated)~~

Times have definitely changed drastically which is why I felt like bringing this up, everyone else had already pointed it out, there are lots of videos and articles about this very phenomenon, but it's still weird how different everyone were back then, as if we shrug it off, to pretend that nothing's changed. ~~Weird generational-scale tactic.~~

(Edited 9 minutes later.)

·ducky !MwWb.dJjRc — 8 months ago, 2 hours later, 7 months after the original post[T] [B] #663,327

i wanna go back

·ducky !MwWb.dJjRc — 8 months ago, 46 seconds later, 7 months after the original post[T] [B] #663,328

i found these streaming services that lets me watch tv as if its back in the 00s and 10s and i am watching tv at home after school and i was watching dr phil so i jus found dr phil today. it was a 2012 episode and everyone had awesome hair.

+Anonymous Z-15 — 8 months ago, 1 hour later, 7 months after the original post[T] [B] #663,333

@previous (ducky !MwWb.dJjRc)
That does sound pretty sweet. Yeah, covid ruined cool hair, maybe it will make a comeback.

+Anonymous Z-16 — 8 months ago, 2 hours later, 7 months after the original post[T] [B] #663,351

Absolutely!!!!

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