Whenever I feel like this, I just visit zombo.com and I feel better. Anything is possible at zombo.com.
Anon revisits early youtube
Submitted 11 months ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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Outsider9042@lemmy.world 11 months ago
DoctorWhookah@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Where you can do anything!
DarkGamer@kbin.social 11 months ago
Back in my day the Internet was better, no video, we had to connect with 56k moderns, the hardware cost a fortune, most people were in AOL, we had to upload both ways in the snow, and we liked it that way…
You kids today with your tikky Tok and your faces-book don't understand
nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
I remember trying to pirate Doom at some point in the 90s over a 56k modem. It was a 10mb download. I got shouted at by my parents for tying up the phone line the whole evening but I persisted. Turns out it was just the demo for Doom.
Good times.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I downloaded dude where’s my car over 56k. I’d connect it at the start of the day before leaving for school and then pause the download when I got home so I could play StarCraft online. Took a week to get it, and then it wouldn’t play.
Figuring the file just got corrupted during the download, I wrote a program that would break the file up into segments of n bytes and generate a checksum for each segment into another file, then you could take that file and run it against another copy of the original file and find any segments that were different and generate a patch file.
Surprisingly, the guy hosting the file on IRC was willing to run the executable a random user on IRC asked him to (probably noticed me taking that week to download the movie lol), but then his copy and mine were exact matches. Then, he taught me about codecs and I was watching that shitty quality 500MB movie just a little while later.
RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
had to wait for titty pics to load one line at a time, and we liked it that way…
We really did not like that.
Land_Strider@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Hey, speak for yourself. Some of us did get increasing fun with every pixel loaded, as the same image kept its novelty for like 5 minutes.
sparkle@lemm.ee 11 months ago
face fetish
Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Didn’t be a dipshit. You can’t understand their point?
They’re not talking about technology. They’re talking about creative quality of content.
OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world 11 months ago
He’s making a hyperbolic joke.
stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub 11 months ago
ITT: anon realizes the world doesn’t stop changing for everyone, what once was will soon cease to be
You’ll be alright OP
henfredemars@infosec.pub 11 months ago
All is temporary. Change is the only constant.
chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Technically change isn’t a constant. Eventually everything will stop changing, because all of the atoms will have drifted too far apart to react to each other, and the universe will just be a thin soup of everything that will never touch anything ever again. Tomorrow is Wednesday, though, so only a few more days until the weekend!
thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Except war. War never changes.
zurohki@aussie.zone 11 months ago
I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”- Percy Shelley
savedbythezsh@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 11 months ago
OP sails off into the west
PoliticalAgitator@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s a cycle we all go through. My “when the internet was good” was when long-form text content ruled, before memes and videos took over. The kids of today will fondly remember the deep fried memes and TikToks from before the human race became functionally extinct.
wick@lemm.ee 11 months ago
While I’ll agree the internet has been overrun by shortform shit, calling internet memes uncreative is such a boomer-ass take. This guy is just nostalgia baiting for points.
summerof69@lemm.ee 11 months ago
What points on 4chan?
NegativeInf@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Brownie points.
wick@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I think for 4chan any post that doesn’t result in you getting called a slur is considered a +1
booly@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Yeah, plenty of Gen Z memes still make me laugh. They’re just in different forms, including some video “templates” where you just slap some captions on characters in the same scene:
- Starship troopers “I’m doing my part” montage interrupted with Tim Robinson "I didn’t do shit!"
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid scene with kids auditioning from by singing Total Eclipse of the Heart, giving way to some kid who’s actually good.
Are they really that different from some high quality gifs or deep fried memes from the late 2010’s, advice animals from the early 2010’s, demotivational posters or absurd flash animations from the 2000’s, or joke websites from the 90’s?
People will always be funny, and some internet jokes will start fresh before being run into the ground. Remember the ones you like, and then forget the ones you don’t.
Jumi@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They’re molding after all
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
spotlight ruined my humor the latest to do so.
Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 11 months ago
HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s basically Geocities in the modern world. You can explore rabbit holes, make your own site, and enjoy the wonders of the web of creativity.
Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Old guy here. Word.
LinusSexTips@lemmy.world 11 months ago
YTMND
Strange this site still exists, thought it would have been well gone by now.
Kaput@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’ve listened to leekspin for hour at work. It was great to numb my brain against the daily stress. I think my record was 6hours straight.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
the darkweb is literally just the old internet, plus or minus some racism.
It’s great fun.
Raiderkev@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Idk about the minus part
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
it depends on where you go.
And where you go on the clear net.
There’s tons of racism on the clear net, and theres tons of racism on the darknet.
But there’s also shit like cookbooks on the darknet.
TheHooligan95@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
I think that’s the whole point. Being capable of surfing the web properly already was at the time THE test to get in, much like private forums often have some kind of interviewing process. It felt a little more nerdy, and well organized, as you actually had to be both things to contribute. As it always was.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
it’s so much more visceral, in the sense that it’s just fucking html 90% of the time. And it’s incredible.
Insanelysick@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Light the way friend.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
i am sorry i cannot do that for you.
It would fuck up the name.
PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Nice try, FBI agent
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
hey! I’m a CIA agent!
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Lasted about as long as the Wild West.
soba@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Eh, 2011 internet was already corporate garbage. The takeover was already finalized by then. The internet died circa 2003.
gears@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
The internet died when the eternal September started
son_named_bort@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The Internet died when the second person logged on.
Good_morning@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
I can only think of that green day song but I imagine you’re meaning something more?
coaxil@aussie.zone 11 months ago
I memeber… And I’m still salty about it
lessthanluigi@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’ve been using Protoweb on my 98 computer for some time now. Protoweb is a proxy for a old internet, mainly for old computers. (Not very secure, because http, but it is worth the time travel)
Anyway, it has WarpStream on it. It is basically a Old YouTube recreation, using unusual means to play videos (Flash, RealPlayer, or Windows Media Player.) It has what this guy is looking for. Also it has new videos, but mainly from retro YouTube channels.
https://protoweb.org/2023/12/10/warpstream-net-video-streaming-for-retro-pcs/
lugal@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
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idunnololz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Beans, jeans and 💩
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’ve always said the same thing myself: I miss the Internet just there for fun. Now they try to make a living out of it; either in good faith or scamming you.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
BackInMyDay.jpg we used the net for looking stuff up. Mozilla 1.0 was faster than gopher and something something altavista web crawler grey hair getOffMyLawn.gif
But it was a special time, back at the uni in 92 and using the 56k link (!!) to play muds/moos on a server in f’n Bosnia. Or read the MTG mailing list. Uh, I mean, do class work.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 11 months ago
~Life~ Internet was so simple back then. None with all these fancy gadgets and instantaneous loading of
pornimages and videos! Just living in the moment, being patient to wait for your favourite Internet material to load for 2 hours!
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
I remember being excited when people on the television or “irl” would mention anything to do with computers or even the internet.
Like wow mainstream culture is talking about the niche nerd thing that I love!
Now the internet is the mainstream culture.
metaStatic@kbin.social 11 months ago
The day wasn't good, youth was. Now you're old and everything is shit.
hoxbug@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Oh wow that meme brought my mood way down, childhood is long gone now.
EtherealMoon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
/b/ was never good and Milhouse is not a meme.
metaStatic@kbin.social 11 months ago
Millhouse is not a meme is a meme
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If you want to get really old school: I miss web rings.
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 11 months ago
Need that meme play list link.
I’m so over YLYL thread’s full of fluigiwiggle shit
Emi@ani.social 11 months ago
The creativity is still there, you just have to look for it. youtube.com/@Eltorro64Rus
There was always shit content too.
Fluid@aussie.zone 11 months ago
Capitalism loves to capitalise…
tacofox@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I’m surprised I’ve only seen one mention of the good ol’ Stumbleupon.com, I used to spend hours alone and with friends just hopping from one random thing to another. Found some pretty cool stuff too.
Emmie@lemm.ee 11 months ago
It turned from video sharing service to a shitty streaming one. theoretically for free except you are the product
FluorideMind@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Time for the industrial webvolution.
tvarog_smetana@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I feel like the last version of this kind of thing was the Important Videos playlist which was 2017-ish, I think
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
Wild web still exists. It requires a special web browser though. And it’s full of illegal shit.
eeltech@lemmy.world 11 months ago
But do you remember YTMND? Like can you imagine trying to explain those memes to the kids online these days?
Hegar@kbin.social 11 months ago
I have such fond memories of the days of rick rolling. I knew these two women who were into amateur choirs and they would come up behind people at parties and rickroll them IRL.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 11 months ago
Mr T ate my balls.
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Raiderkev@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The north remembers operation soda steal
eeltech@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Nowadays its all about monetization :/
Lemmy is kinda refreshing and reminds me a lot of the early internet/reddit.
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milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 11 months ago
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Internet in Skyrim… Skynet? Interim?
gmtom@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah me too.
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milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 11 months ago
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TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 11 months ago
As the cycle continues the more niche places will continue to have that feel. Always vigilant for the nuttos but comes with it being a non mainstream community. Good and bad.
SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Thats the crux of it all. The a lot of the funniest videos 15+ years ago were just random videos on random accounts. There was no monetary incentive, so a lot accounts were just people who luckily captured something funny and uploaded it. Creative stuff felt authentic too, they were not chasing a trend, they were just trying to show off their original skills. I still love a lot of what we have today, but it is getting buried by trend chasers.
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Nowadays…
If there is one eternal constant in human history, it’s that every generation inaccurately believes that the problems they face are new.
Human creates thing.
Thing is cool.
Humans exploit thing.
Thing is no longer cool.
Humans reminisce about how cool the thing used to be, and lament the loss of cool.
If Lemmy gets popular enough, it too will be monetized and we’ll al have to find somewhere else to go.
Zink@programming.dev 11 months ago
If the future involves big popular mainstream paid instances, it sounds like the fediverse was a success.
Lemmy won’t be what it is now, but our niche instances can still exist.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Geeks, muggles, and sociopaths.
OnlyTakesLs@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Just with a lot more communists
Arelin@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Explains why it’s not monetized to shit
M137@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I don’t think there will ever be a place like the old web again. Lemmy is better than reddit, but lots of the crap from there is just as common here, stuff that really wasn’t as common before. I’m absolutely certain a disturbing amount of people say dumb shit, make spelling mistakes and stuff like that simply to get “interraction”.
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Culture changes. The best we can do is keep influencing it for the better, just wherever we’re able.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I can’t speak for everyone, but I post more frequently here than I did on reddit because we gotta get those numbers up.
SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It hasn’t reached the critical mass for monetization. It’s not ripe for the picking yet.
andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I was to comment that this realization came to me when I’ve found an antique but active forum about gore, that I can’t access it anymore, and I’m stuck thinking if it’s for the better.