Do you miss the older internet?

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I do miss it! When we first started, it was on WebTV. Forums were bigger & more popular on top of everybody's personal websites. Then came Social Media where forums took a nosedive.
I miss the WebRings we used to have. That connected all of our personal forums & sites.
Life was "easier" at the beginning because we didn't have as much. Now unless you have a huge site, it won't stick out.
So, do you miss the older internet?
 
I don’t miss waiting fifteen minutes to load a single web page when we had dial up Internet. I do miss being able to solely focus on how websites looked on a computer, and not having to worry about mobile optimization with all sorts of different screen resolutions…. Also, SSL wasn’t essentially mandatory, and we didn’t have too many domain extensions beyond the main TLDs. Times were simpler.
 
nope, SLOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW and OLD

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Yep, I do. I miss when not everyone had Internet. I also just miss sites that died without reason. I knew many were just a part of the dot-com bubble, but still yeah some interesting things. Forums were popping, and there were fan sites for video games and other things.

Otherwise yeah, it was slow back then and annoyed me.

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I do miss it for sure. I remember when forums were great places to hang out and chat with others, you could meet so many awesome friends just by being active on forums, and then social media came along and every just kind of went there and that was when we saw forums take a hit. I have nothing against social media as it has it's positive and it's negative but I do miss how forums used to be back then before social media became as popular as it did.
 
Yes I miss the older Internet

We had

WebRings
Geocities (The one I use was on Yahoo)
Instant Messengers (Yahoo, AIM, MSN)
MySpace
Ask Jeeves
Lots of Forums
Freedoms

After 2010 The Internet isn't great how it was

Now we got

Crypto
More Facebook crap (Destroys lives / Internet after 2010)
Less freedoms
More Google crap
Big Tech
 
Pre-social media internet, absolutely! Not a fan of going back to 56k or even 14.4k, but the wild west nature of the internet was fun!
 
I do miss the pre-social media internet, even though I didn't get to experience it much. I wish forums were as big as they once were... I don't miss the slow loading times though. xD
 
Noble said:
I don't miss that at all.
The sound of it makes me want to smack something.😱
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What, you don't love the sound of the old dial up modems screeching away at you? 😀

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It bothers me almost as bad as.....

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I miss the 2008 to 2012 internet for sure. Design was fun, forums were all the rage and people were generally less nasty. Nowadays the internet just ain’t as fun.
 
We still had plenty of nasty back then as well, but ya it has changed for sure.
 
I miss those internet classics since the days I had DSL for the first time in late 2000.
 
I do miss the more social aspects of the earlier Internet which ironically was almost killed off by social media. Other than that I do rather like with a few exceptions what the Internet has become and I hope I live long enough to see where it might be going.
 
Swiftie said:
I miss the 2008 to 2012 internet for sure. Design was fun, forums were all the rage and people were generally less nasty. Nowadays the internet just ain’t as fun.
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I do too. I was way more involved with stuff like Facebook pages, doing fun internet things with online friends, etc. Nowadays it's just not near the same or as fun as you stated.
 
ZandraJoi said:
do you miss the older internet?
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Dial Up was horrible back when it was new. I remember having to wait up to an hour just for a page to load and that's if I didn't get kicked off. No thanks.
 
Not the speeds (or sound of dial up), but I do miss the old days when the internet seem like a more fun place.
 
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