50 points

Awww yiss, walking around hittin’ degauss like a baws.

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7 points

The magic acid simulator button!

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8 points

BBBZZZSSSSHHHHH!

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2 points

tic

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14 points

You’re glad you grew up doing underaged girls with CRT monitors, instead of doing underaged girls with smart phones?

Weird flex, but OK.

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45 points

Old Internet was better. Way more raw and pure. No algorithms and ads littered everywhere trying to get people addicted to platforms and consume. I would much prefer the left side.

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31 points

I feel that the decentralized networks of the fediverse kinda bring a similar feeling back. To me at least, this feels like more of a wild west where everyone is brewing their own soup and people wander around tasting from every pot.

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11 points

maybe because there are way more old people on here… ^^

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10 points

Oh really? Well then I guess I am a youngster around here. Used to all the kids from reddit.

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17 points

Do you remember the old internet pop up ads that would play sound and music at 100% volume? And there was no way to mute a tab back in the day (tab browsing was in its infancy), so you’d have to rush to turn down the volume or find that popup and kill it.

Yeah I don’t want those to come back lol.

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3 points

The popups and auto play videos are just embedded directly into the page now.

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3 points

as someone who never really experienced the old internet, all I hear are the positive sides and I feel like the guy in xkcd 239

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11 points

There were definitely still ways to block pop-ups, and if you were really worried you just left your speakers at 0% volume 100% of the time.

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3 points

If you leave your speakers on 100% all the time you’re just asking for it.

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2 points

Yeah, but turning down the volume was easy. You just turn the knob on the computer speakers.

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12 points

I mean we did have to live through the era of popups and really annoying ads. (“Say something!” “Whaaaat?”)

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12 points

Crt make stronks!

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14 points

A 21 inch CRT can keep a large pizza in its box on top warm all Lan.

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10 points

The good old days when taking your computer with you somewhere built character.

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