Does anyone here remember the old internet? What was it like?

Does anyone here remember the old internet? What was it like?

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praying that nobody will phone in so that your pstn wont drop

It was free.

Stop reposting the same rehashed thread every week faggot

Slipknot fan sites, Resident Evil and Silent Hill fan forums. Local student and subculture forums. ICQ chats with girls and friends. All gone.

>trips
gtfo out here satan
>UH OH!
>BUH DOO BUH DOO BUH DOO BOOOOOO *static*
>skype-incoming-call.mp3
>every site had static pages with terrible legibility or that UI design where theres that weird gradient or reflective glare
it was pretty fun

Heaton,
Potti,
hl1 like Bunny Jumps in 1.3,
All Seeing Eye,
Clan war
#PCW om mirc @ quakenet
Lan cafes.
Some people played some kind of cs clone mod for unreal unreal tournament called TI TO(tactical ops).
Heaton sold a gaming glove.
Nip > SK > Nip
CPL
Chocke and Loss "was the reason" you didn't kill them.
Software graphics because shitty computer.
most people could only play 60 fps.
Smoke ban because of the lag.
de_aztec was super popular.
protect the vip mode
Knew the ip for the local cs server in the head, 27015 was default port.
"-console" on cs shortcut to activate console.
configs was shared on lan. Some configs was even able to display blood though walls undetectable without cheets.
3rd party anticheat installed on computer.
realbot and podbot
Superhero mods on public.
kreedz made 90% of all kz maps
One map had a tank
de_rats
pubmasters
func mouse mats
mx 500 and ms 3.0 were the only mouses that was good.
cl_updaterate 101
cl_cmdrate 101
fps_max 101
FragBite if you were swede, and it felt like 30% playing was swedes.
I swear I played surf maps before some youtube historians claim was the start of surf maps.
Pay to play on Public servers where "famous" cs player played casual.'
walle, miniwalle, microwalle
weapon default on left side.
Half life generation

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I forgot downloading 128kbps music album all night by dial-up.

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you opened more sites every day than just Any Forums, reddit, twitter.
you scoured new sites you discovered for links. this was how you found new sites that you liked.
you read much more of random-but-informed people's sites than uninformed and dumb as shit rando comment threads

>ICQ chats with girls
>girls
Girls using anything other than sòycial media like snapchat to communicate is so strange to me. We must go back.

>func mouse mats
I still have mine from 2006.

Ironic how these threads gets posted regularly with the same picture and same text.

;_;

It was like this on our side of the planet:
ICQ>Skype>Telegram
In USA it was MSN and Myspace?

Don't forget AIM

I learned getting groomed isn't that bad.

My mom used ICQ back in the day. We're American.

... and to addon, she was so computer savvy (how I got into technology) but now shes just an NPC with a tablet using faceberg for everything

it was slow
wait an hour to download 10mb slow

This.