What was the decade like? I know about 9/11, Bush, Iraq, recession in '07, wild west internet golden age. What was the culture like and what do you miss most?
2000s thread
Carson Sullivan
Aaron Ross
9/11 made everything depressing but people still acted normal, the government was corrupt but didn't seem irredeemable and you could literally say whatever the fuck you wanted to online and literally no one gave a fuck
Oliver Ross
I miss being able to mind my own business
Kevin Lewis
Watch Crank. I can't explain it better than what you'd see in the Crank movies.
Ryan Butler
2000s was the last year of sovl
Oliver Scott
lmao this isn't even a bad shout
it was a lot like that, actually
Jacob Foster
Zoomer must leave
Carter Hill
Early 2000 were golden age of PC gaming, where PS1/2 lost their massive dominance. This was already in decline by 2007 however, and neither console nor PC gaming reached that level again. Smartphones may be a factor in that, and cancerous business models.
P2P file sharing also experienced its first boom with mp3 and CD sized DVD rips. It was completely unregulated and unsupervised, but bandwidth was poor to mediocre.
Robert Peterson
Everything was fine before facebook. The internet was dope af back then. Newgrounds, rotten.com, joe cartoon, stick figure games. Downloading music on sofwares like Kazaa and Limewire. I miss it
Jackson Clark
If that man was on his ranch, he was cutting brush.
I miss that 80's and 90's afterglow. It was like being a high class passenger on the titanic, the party was raging and we had no idea the lower deck was flooding.
Ian Smith
I was born in 1964. The 70s ruled. The 80's were brightly colored and dull as hell. The 90s was crap but saved by the Grunge scene. After vidya games and the web, it all went straight to hell.
Mason Ross
Pretty good Bush pic
Jordan Nguyen
The internet was free. Truly free. I miss it do goddamn much, every single day. One of the greatest achievements the human species has ever made has been ruined.
Andrew Thompson
The world would be a better place is he had fucked up during that photo op and planting the saw in his chest.
Easton Wood
I feel that
for me, the internet was country or continent in its own right
with no natural borders or regulations and a populace of people who all shared a common interest and belief system
the internet was not a real place, it was not real life, it was an amazing resource for the sharing of information and founding of communities
I've never felt as alienated as I did when all my friends got online and they treated it like it was a real place and an extension of their own pathetic real life identities
why were they so different to me?
weren't they using the same internet?
I got into many arguments about it with people I know IRL whom for them the internet was only ever a place to use Facebook
it's so sad what we did to the internet
Adam Sullivan
>What was the decade like? I know about 9/11, Bush, Iraq, recession in '07, wild west internet golden age. What was the culture like and what do you miss most?
Bentley Stewart
>is he had fucked up during that photo op and planting the saw in his chest.
Whoa! That's not the kind of community we are here. Remove your past now, or I'll have to put you in a time out. Up to you. You've got 5 minutes.
Kayden Bennett
neck yourself
James Bailey
I wanna kill every fucker I see with this cut in person
Christian Lewis
Obviously OP is too young to know about the era, or else he wouldn’t be asking about it.
Bentley Sanchez
Agreed. People sperg out about Trump, but forget about how bad Bush really was and how many people died as a direct result of his decisions.
Gabriel King
Not really good anymore. Virtually everyone born ~after 85 was seriously fucked in the head.
Adrian Anderson
holy fuck you're old
Ethan Sanchez
Blowhard?