I remember watching saddam hussein hanging video when i was 12, good times
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VelvetStorm@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Umm annon that was not the wild web. The wild web was in the 90’s and early 00’s. That was truly the wild web.
rabber@lemmy.ca 21 hours ago
50MYT@aussie.zone 21 hours ago
Ah the good old “korn_music_vide.wmv” that immediately cuts to someone in an orange jump suit on their knees.
Korn really getting intense with the new music videos
VelvetStorm@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Ya, I remember the first time I went on rotten and my young mind was not prepared for it. Honestly I miss the good old days when the most shocking thing was lemonparty and tubgirl.
watson387@sopuli.xyz 14 hours ago
Don’t forget about the goatse man
Zementid@feddit.nl 20 hours ago
Googling CD Keys, Torrents and Cracks was easy back then. DC++ was the way to go and Limewire was not yet Infested with CP and Viruses. There was a sweet spot but only for 2 years. After that, the golden age of Piracy with the File-Hosters came and Reddit wasn’t shit.
If I have to pinpoint the timeframe: When 4Chan got really racist.
Zagorath@lemm.ee 17 hours ago
Oh man, we had DC++ semi-officially endorsed by the inter-college IT department at my university in 2013/14. It was fantastic, especially since in my first year we only got 5 GB of data per month (with a large number of unmetered sites, including anything from Google), so without the unmetered file intranet it’d have been really hard to manage. Unfortunately as they increased the data caps it killed the popularity of DC++, which ended up getting killed off not long after I left.
BreadOven@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Too many beheadings in the wild web. But yeah, those years were really the wild web.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 21 hours ago
Nah I think they’re more or less right. I’d maybe pull it back 3 or 4 years, but not as far as 2004.
What killed off the old wild web was the popularity of centralised platforms. Facebook (open since 2006, really started taking off more around 2008/9), YouTube (first video 2005, really takes off from 2007/8), and Reddit (self posts first allowed in 2008), and other things like that which were admittedly great for allowing more people to share their creations with the world, but we’re disastrous for the open web, because they killed off independent blogs, forums, and other smaller websites.
canihasaccount@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
MySpace was huge before Facebook, and it killed off a lot of blogs. Late 90s and early 2000s were truly the wild web IMO. I had a geocities page with its own forum before MySpace made me abandon it due to inactivity.
mwproductions@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
So it sounds like the Internet died in 2008.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 14 hours ago
I would say it contracted a terminal illness at some point around 2006±1 and went into palliative care in 2008±1, but didn’t fully die for another 5ish years. The death of Google Reader seems a good landmark to use, since RSS was a really helpful tool that became less necessary as sites became more centralised.
scaramobo@lemmynsfw.com 10 hours ago
Right about with the uprise of the smartphone i guess
Alk@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
When people without computers were let loose onto the web.