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The Internet was better 15+ years ago.

submitted by Trope to AskUpgoat 1 monthMar 10, 2025 20:32:11 ago (+53/-1)     (AskUpgoat)

It’s not just me, right? The internet kicked ass in the 90s and 2000s. It was an experience to dial in. Cannot speak for the BBSs of the 80s as I came after Eternal September.


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[ - ] Crackinjokes 1 point 1 monthMar 29, 2025 15:34:31 ago (+1/-0)

Yahoo groups and news groups and Myspace and what was the big one geocities.

Actually read it was very good too when they didn't have any subreddits and they were no moderators. It was very active during George w Bush's presidency and countered many lies of the big health insurance companies. You could get a top comment over Reddit that would be seen by 20 million people if you were talking about how health insurance companies were screwing people over after they got sick and other things like that. Read it used to be a great way to get information to everybody which is exactly why the Jews quickly bought it and subdivided it into all these different factions so no one would ever see something that their faction didn't already believe.

[ - ] Niggly_Puff 19 points 1 monthMar 10, 2025 21:05:42 ago (+19/-0)

The early 00s internet was the best. Mid 90s was nice too. Everyone was so happy and positive. Zero government propaganda. They were too stupid to figure it out. I hate the modern day internet.

[ - ] Sal_180 2 points 1 monthMar 11, 2025 04:46:02 ago (+2/-0)

Before 9/11. Whoever is responsible, they really did a good job at fucking us up

[ - ] Her0n 1 point 1 monthMar 11, 2025 09:07:46 ago (+1/-0)

jews, jews are responsible.

I wouldn't expect you to out your own though

[ - ] Sal_180 1 point 1 monthMar 11, 2025 09:18:06 ago (+1/-0)

If Jews did everything voat gave them credit for, they're pretty amazing people

[ - ] TheNoticing 0 points 1 monthMar 11, 2025 10:04:26 ago (+0/-0)

Amazingly evil. They're masters at manipulating other people to do evil deeds for them.

[ - ] Her0n 0 points 1 monthMar 11, 2025 13:13:36 ago (+0/-0)

Only if you admire underhandedness, liars, cheats, rapists, cannibals, pedophiles, etc.

One can use malicious or beneficial means to an end, jews always choose to shove others below themselves and then claim superiority.

I don't expect you to understand why this is bad, you're a kike

[ - ] Sal_180 0 points 1 monthMar 11, 2025 14:25:25 ago (+0/-0)

I don't understand why they want to control everything and make lots of money and at the same time destroy society. Strange

[ - ] AntiPostmodernist 0 points 1 monthMar 12, 2025 13:26:53 ago (+0/-0)

guy beats you in a fight
instead of picking up tips from the enemy, you shame them for using the strategies that win
strategies like the ones you used to use back when you were getting the past victories you feel so proud of

You committed yourself to losing tactics and shaming the winning team for using better tactics than you, and wonder why you keep on getting you as beat by them.

You must learn to learn from your enemy, find what it is that has given then success and adopt those things for yourself.

Only when you know your enemy and yourself, can you become your enemy, an only when you become them (to take on their advantages), can you possibly hope to overcome then.

Your morality is you weakness, when aiming for success, emulate what has produced success for others.

Your enemy should always be your greatest of teachers, their ultimate defeat is a sign of you graduating from their lessons.

You regard your enemy with respect not ad a courtesy to them, but as a useful tool in destroying them.

[ - ] Her0n 0 points 1 monthMar 12, 2025 15:39:49 ago (+0/-0)

I learn the closest secrets, then deliver a debilitating strike.

My method works for me, and I don't need a word salad to prove myself in any way.

[ - ] TheNoticing 0 points 1 monthMar 11, 2025 10:03:30 ago (+0/-0)

It always was and always has been the jews.

[ - ] KyleIsThisTall 1 point 1 monthMar 11, 2025 09:10:30 ago (+1/-0)

Late 90s was amazing. Early 2000s was when social media started and then... wellll.... Sure, before YouTube was bought by Alphabet was nice since we could watch TV shows in 5 minute increments by opening multiple windows and buffering the video or just downloading them raw.

[ - ] PotatoWhisperer2 1 point 1 monthMar 11, 2025 10:53:53 ago (+1/-0)

It was full of intelligent White men at the time as well. It was automatically gatekept through technology. Now it's dumbed down so far that even monkeys, yes actual monkeys not just the niggers, can use it.

[ - ] Puller_of_Noses 8 points 1 monthMar 11, 2025 03:27:51 ago (+8/-0)

I signed on to AOL for the first time @ 9:00am, March 11, 1995 and joined a chatroom called the grassy knoll discussing WWII.
At 9:03, March 11, 1995, I was booted from the internet for typing "What did Hitler say to Mussolini?" ... "If I knew you were coming, I'd have baked a kike."

[ - ] kammmmak 0 points 1 monthMar 11, 2025 04:16:11 ago (+0/-0)

🀣

[ - ] Empire_of_the_Mind 0 points 1 monthMar 11, 2025 21:19:22 ago (+0/-0)

in 1995 you weren't on the internet you were on AOL.

[ - ] KosherHiveKicker 9 points 1 monthMar 10, 2025 20:34:26 ago (+9/-0)*

Digg.com was amazing until the Jews went after it. It pre-dated Reddit and you could do, say, post just about anything other than porn.

[ - ] reptillian 8 points 1 monthMar 10, 2025 22:08:39 ago (+8/-0)

They went after it during Ron Paul's Presidential rise vs Obama; coordinated intercept because he was top story on Digg.com everyday until well, you know the rest.

[ - ] KosherHiveKicker 8 points 1 monthMar 10, 2025 23:11:04 ago (+9/-1)

I still get pissed when I think about what the ((( Deep State ))) did to Ron Paul, and even H. Ross Perot. Both of them laid the foundation for MAGA to ascend in 2015. Neither of them get the credit they deserve.

We could have saved America in 1992, 1996, 2004, and 2008.

[ - ] TheOriginal1Icemonkey 3 points 1 monthMar 11, 2025 01:23:46 ago (+3/-0)

I helped throw the election to with my Perot vote. Still got the pin o picked up at the Perot headquarters in Sacramento.

[ - ] bobdole9 1 point 1 monthMar 11, 2025 07:07:28 ago (+1/-0)

2004

Ron Paul ran in 2008 and 2012...who am I forgetting from 2004?

[ - ] KyleIsThisTall 1 point 1 monthMar 11, 2025 09:36:49 ago (+1/-0)

Probably Nader, after Greens became just another faction of Democrats.

[ - ] Spaceman84 0 points 1 monthMar 11, 2025 11:09:17 ago (+0/-0)

John McCain lol

[ - ] Trope [op] 1 point 1 monthMar 10, 2025 21:23:35 ago (+1/-0)

[ - ] uvulectomy 0 points 1 monthMar 10, 2025 22:19:52 ago (+1/-1)

[ - ] KosherHiveKicker 1 point 1 monthMar 10, 2025 23:14:33 ago (+1/-0)

[ - ] Her0n 0 points 1 monthMar 11, 2025 09:09:11 ago (+0/-0)

I haven't dealt with hexadecimal since I was flashing eproms...

[ - ] RobertJHarsh 1 point 1 monthMar 11, 2025 09:29:25 ago (+1/-0)

I remember digg. Kikes got access to the API backend and downvoted anything they didn't like and posts just disappeared.

[ - ] KyleIsThisTall 1 point 1 monthMar 11, 2025 09:34:34 ago (+1/-0)

I got permabanned for pointing out that they allowed lewds of tweens by posting a montage of high school cheerleaders doing splits.

[ - ] HeyJames 5 points 1 monthMar 10, 2025 23:52:20 ago (+5/-0)

Even reddit was great for a few years

[ - ] Empire_of_the_Mind 5 points 1 monthMar 10, 2025 20:41:08 ago (+5/-0)

yup. the peak of the internet was probably 2006-2010ish.

[ - ] GreatSatan 8 points 1 monthMar 10, 2025 21:15:42 ago (+9/-1)

It went to shit after Facebook came around

[ - ] LeoFranksGhost 6 points 1 monthMar 10, 2025 23:43:52 ago (+6/-0)

Along with the rise of the smartphone. Eventually any retard could broadcast their meaningless bullshit to the world from the palm of their hand, at any place and at any time of the day.

[ - ] Trope [op] 4 points 1 monthMar 11, 2025 00:03:51 ago (+4/-0)

At first, there was a bit of novelty to it.

Sent from my iPhone

[ - ] TheNoticing 0 points 1 monthMar 11, 2025 10:27:51 ago (+0/-0)

Outlook for Android

[ - ] Freespeechplease 2 points 1 monthMar 11, 2025 07:57:21 ago (+2/-0)

This is what did it. To have access to the Internet back then you had to be reasonably smart and financially stable. Now the Government gives free phones(with data,minutes,and text) as fucking welfare. They gave these under the guide of safety (call in a fire, health issue, etc) but it turned into just more free shit for niggers, and gave them a platform they don't deserve because they litterally can't afford it otherwise. Welfare was to keep someone alive, not provide a lifestyle. And that system needs to be reset.

[ - ] InYourFaceNancyGrace 1 point 1 monthMar 11, 2025 08:21:52 ago (+1/-0)

The internet is a utility as much as phone lines these days, so there is an argument to provide a smartphone to the... underprivileged. However...

They should be like government cheese - entirely utilitarian. Only access to .gov websites and government-sanctioned apps, and hardware sufficient to enable that access. Video-capable only to a utilitarian degree - you may need to provide pictures or facial recognition for authentication, or scan a QR code, e.g. But the architecture could be such that streaming video would be so clunky and choppy that it would be unusable.

You could easily put a verification token on all government apps and in the firmware of the government phones that private entities wouldn't have access to (and/or would face severe penalties if they used said token). Yes, mod chips and upgrades would come into circulation, even with updates and countermeasures taken against them, but you could penalize that as well if detected. You can afford a mod chip to bypass the government phone? Cool, get yourself a real phone - your government plan is revoked.

These people never had effective parents, so society/government needs to show them what real discipline is.

[ - ] RollinDaGrassTyson 1 point 1 monthMar 11, 2025 10:14:23 ago (+1/-0)

But the architecture could be such that streaming video would be so clunky and choppy that it would be unusable.

It could forego GPU acceleration. A utilitarian device just needs a basic chip where software rendering is adequate. It is not the in the interest of welfare to supply multimedia entertainment.

[ - ] TheNoticing 0 points 1 monthMar 11, 2025 10:30:17 ago (+0/-0)

Remember the obamaphone nigger?

[ - ] PotatoWhisperer2 0 points 1 monthMar 11, 2025 10:56:17 ago (+0/-0)

To have access to the Internet back then you had to be reasonably smart

Yup, more so the further back in time you go.

and financially stable.

Ehhh, you could get around that. I did.

[ - ] KyleIsThisTall 1 point 1 monthMar 11, 2025 09:39:37 ago (+1/-0)

However this led to Obamaphones which allowed niggers to redpill us brainwashed by kike media.

[ - ] lord_nougat 5 points 1 monthMar 10, 2025 20:50:17 ago (+5/-0)*

I think it was late 80s to late 90s, give or take. Cool shit was still happening in the early to mid oughts though, you are not wrong.

[ - ] Empire_of_the_Mind 1 point 1 monthMar 11, 2025 21:18:14 ago (+1/-0)

i liked mid/late 90's internet a lot and there is an argument that the dotcom era was a peak. but as bad as video and such have become it's hard to argue that they aren't part of what the internet offered and there were a ton of cool things going on in 2007 that weren't happening in 1999.

[ - ] albatrosv15 3 points 1 monthMar 10, 2025 23:55:42 ago (+3/-0)

Until 2007. Facebook ruined everything.

[ - ] bobdole9 0 points 1 monthMar 11, 2025 07:08:53 ago (+0/-0)

MySpace did not help things.

[ - ] texasblood 0 points 1 monthMar 11, 2025 08:35:15 ago (+0/-0)

"Max Headroom" started the hemorrhage.
MTV rolled off the cliff and AOL spread like cancer,doing bong rips as culture started to burn

[ - ] Empire_of_the_Mind 0 points 1 monthMar 11, 2025 21:18:43 ago (+0/-0)

Myspace was good

[ - ] TheBigGuyFromQueens 3 points 1 monthMar 10, 2025 23:45:10 ago (+3/-0)

The internet had less morons back then, for sure. There were morons, but a lot less of them.

[ - ] Freespeechplease 0 points 1 monthMar 11, 2025 08:03:28 ago (+0/-0)

Back then you had to be smart enough to configure a modem router. That alone helped keep the idiots offline

[ - ] KyleIsThisTall 0 points 1 monthMar 11, 2025 09:42:23 ago (+0/-0)

Sorry, but my jew landlord paid me to set up internet for his other tenants.

[ - ] NuckFiggers 3 points 1 monthMar 10, 2025 23:36:36 ago (+3/-0)

The best time of the internet was the first year or so it was available to the public and the dumb whores ruining it thought it was only geeky nerds using it.

[ - ] gat 3 points 1 monthMar 10, 2025 22:50:00 ago (+3/-0)

BBS days were pretty sweet. Hanging out, playing text games, talking shit, sharing music and games.

[ - ] texasblood 3 points 1 monthMar 10, 2025 22:34:34 ago (+3/-0)

Came online 1994
By 95 everything was AOL and Yahoo thru 97/98
Yahoo news groups were the shit.
Still have my free eBay stocks that have been amazing to say the least.
1995 eBay Account still dusty but functional
All cool shit until......

[ - ] AugustineOfHippo2 2 points 1 monthMar 11, 2025 07:59:25 ago (+2/-0)

Totally agree. Today the Internet is absolute crap.

I blame web developers.

[ - ] KyleIsThisTall 0 points 1 monthMar 11, 2025 09:46:48 ago (+0/-0)

That's because most "web developers" were scammers charging a premium to make a template like Wix or WordPress with a bunch of plugins.

Then it just became "social media managers". All websites for any local company is just a single landing page pulling assets from things like Node.js to have a flashy interface for just displaying their address and phone number along links to their facebook and instagram accounts.

[ - ] lord_nougat 3 points 1 monthMar 10, 2025 20:49:16 ago (+3/-0)

I was at a place where many famous dorks presented interesting talks about stuff all weekend. This specific topic came up a shockingly high number of times. Internet tech nerds notice it extra hard.

[ - ] kammmmak 2 points 1 monthMar 11, 2025 04:19:41 ago (+2/-0)

I thought this post would say include the fact that when you would return press back from a page it would be automatic because if auto cache memory and not like now where the page reboots counting as a download again.

[ - ] glooper 2 points 1 monthMar 11, 2025 03:03:22 ago (+2/-0)

BBS are hot again.

Lots going on on the dial up.

[ - ] Freespeechplease 0 points 1 monthMar 11, 2025 08:01:34 ago (+0/-0)

Got any BBS you recommend?

[ - ] observation1 2 points 1 monthMar 11, 2025 01:04:32 ago (+2/-0)

It was affluent and intelligent only.

Had to have a family with money for a computer with a modem, and willing to pay that stupidly expensive monthly fee, then you had to have the wherewithal to actually explore the internet in a way that you were engaged with other people. Not only that but the search engines actually took you to places you actually wanted to find. It was like a space odyssey and you found others, but the barrier to entry was high and rare to even land there.

It helped that money was pouring in leading into 2000.

[ - ] Empire_of_the_Mind 0 points 1 monthMar 11, 2025 21:21:23 ago (+0/-0)

computers were common by the mid-90's and even the lower class had them. Internet service was usually around $20/month at that time.

[ - ] observation1 0 points 1 monthMar 11, 2025 21:29:34 ago (+0/-0)

Mere possession wasn't the barrier to entry. Re-read my comment. By 1995, anyone who logged in was standing on the shoulders of giants.

And $20 in 1995 was nothing to balk at. That could buy me fucking 60 hamburgers on a random Wednesday at McDonalds.

[ - ] puremadness 0 points 1 monthMar 12, 2025 10:10:56 ago (+0/-0)

everything was better 15+ years ago

[ - ] Looneyskiprooney 1 point 1 monthMar 11, 2025 06:43:19 ago (+1/-0)

It was the wild west . I was downloading on winmx having a blast.

[ - ] Anus_Expander 1 point 1 monthMar 11, 2025 06:39:56 ago (+1/-0)

Everything was.

[ - ] Razzoriel 1 point 1 monthMar 11, 2025 06:35:01 ago (+1/-0)

I still miss Geocities dearly.

[ - ] boekanier 1 point 1 monthMar 11, 2025 04:17:43 ago (+1/-0)

internet nowadays sucks. It's all about how to make money. And sex, of course. And then the jews, don't forget them, they have their claws on every aspect of things.

[ - ] Pasty 1 point 1 monthMar 11, 2025 03:54:12 ago (+1/-0)

I'll tell you what it was,more colourful and creative. Almost every other week there was something funny and dumb but was original.

It was the death rattle when the dumb traced pictures became the new 'memes' and everything become political. People don't know how to have fun anymore and separate their identity from their content.

Came online myself in the early 2000's and I've pretty much hung about all the arse ends of the internets.

[ - ] lolxd 1 point 1 monthMar 11, 2025 02:39:51 ago (+1/-0)

The internet was great before we turned it into a place for retards to fight for internet points and shill to the highest bidder.

[ - ] Empire_of_the_Mind 0 points 1 monthMar 11, 2025 21:19:57 ago (+0/-0)

the 2000 election drama was the start of that and the PS2 launch finished everything off.

[ - ] TheNoticing 0 points 1 monthMar 11, 2025 10:03:01 ago (+0/-0)

Back when AOL was your internet provider, and Netscape was a browser. We never used Netscape though, it was AOL 100%. Used it for mail, browsing, and I used it for the heavy metal chatroom, when those were a thing.

A/S/L

[ - ] RobertJHarsh 0 points 1 monthMar 11, 2025 09:24:58 ago (+0/-0)

I remember those days. The Golden Age of the Internet. Now it's garbage.

[ - ] solomonpapermaster 0 points 1 monthMar 11, 2025 01:57:10 ago (+0/-0)

Was it ever a question? I thought it was established fact that the Internet used to be better. Same with movies, video games, etc.

Why, did someone say it was not so?

[ - ] wyrmblut 0 points 1 monthMar 11, 2025 00:49:07 ago (+1/-1)*

Smartphones dude 2006. Then Obama gave them out for free to every nigger and tard. Didn't take long after that

[ - ] Empire_of_the_Mind 0 points 1 monthMar 11, 2025 21:23:38 ago (+0/-0)

it wasn't the "smartphones" it was the camera phones and the ability to easily share photos. You can track the collapse of the internet to Instagram launching specifically.

[ - ] Anus_Expander -1 points 1 monthMar 11, 2025 06:42:39 ago (+0/-1)

The Free Fones 4 Niggers program started under Bush

[ - ] VitaminSieg -1 points 1 monthMar 11, 2025 02:16:08 ago (+0/-1)

This thread is dead internet. Shit's been discussed so many times now for the past ten years.

[ - ] bobdole9 0 points 1 monthMar 11, 2025 07:10:12 ago (+0/-0)

SAME AS IT EVER WAS

[ - ] big_fat_dangus -1 points 1 monthMar 10, 2025 21:43:05 ago (+0/-1)

DAE LE OLD THINGS ARE BETTER??

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[ - ] Trope [op] 1 point 1 monthMar 10, 2025 22:17:51 ago (+1/-0)

Yes, precisely.

[ - ] Joe_McCarthy -8 points 1 monthMar 10, 2025 20:33:26 ago (+0/-8)

Mostly idiots then too. Quality has definitely declined since then. Cell phones, more minimalist social media, glowniggers.

[ - ] dirtywhiteboy 0 points 1 monthMar 10, 2025 20:39:56 ago (+1/-1)

Everyone's a glow nigger because they hurt muh pedo feelings 😭😭😭

[ - ] Joe_McCarthy -3 points 1 monthMar 10, 2025 20:45:30 ago (+0/-3)

Don't make me laugh. The counterterror landscape has changed radically in the US since the Bush administration. Anyone that is paying attention knows this. Granted, that tends to be me and FBI agents.

[ - ] dirtywhiteboy 3 points 1 monthMar 10, 2025 20:59:04 ago (+3/-0)

You're literally just crying like a mega bitch ass baby because some call out your complete degeneracy.

[ - ] Joe_McCarthy -2 points 1 monthMar 10, 2025 21:00:40 ago (+0/-2)

Nope.

Even apart from the fact that I know what you and some others are what I just said is beyond dispute. Not even up for debate.

[ - ] dirtywhiteboy 1 point 1 monthMar 10, 2025 21:02:37 ago (+1/-0)

If anyone here acts like a fed it's the one trying to justify pedophilia. That would be you.

[ - ] Joe_McCarthy -1 points 1 monthMar 10, 2025 21:06:04 ago (+0/-1)

Fuck off, officer. Non-stop retardism and harassment, meaning your treatment of me, is COINTELPRO 101.

[ - ] dirtywhiteboy 0 points 1 monthMar 10, 2025 21:07:07 ago (+0/-0)*

Would it be possible for you to denounce pedophiles? I bet you are incapable of doing this.

[ - ] uvulectomy 1 point 1 monthMar 10, 2025 22:22:16 ago (+1/-0)

Get Jew_McCarthy To Denounce Pedophilia Challenge
Difficulty: Impossible

[ - ] dirtywhiteboy 1 point 1 monthMar 10, 2025 22:23:51 ago (+1/-0)

I noticed how he didn't respond. Lol.