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.
Too many beheadings in the wild web. But yeah, those years were really the wild web.
Anyone has one of those lists? Can we move these memes to peertube or something?
The ancient legendary YT meme that Anon has as his profile pic is Leek Spin by Xyliex, created 18 years ago! I think it also popularized the Levan Polka as a meme song staple long before it’s revival with Bilal the street drummer/cat vibing video.
And luckily it’s already on archive.org so we’ve got one down!
Profile pic, good one.
I can hear that!
4chan doesn’t have profile pictures. That’s the image anon posted
I feel like there’s some amount of nostalgia filter here.
Nah the first time I saw Leeroy Jenkins and some of the Habbo pool stuff I was genuinely laughing my ass off. Nothing gets me that high anymore.
People comparing the hits of yesteryear to the norms or even lows of today is a thing.
Back in the day, nostalgia was better
Jessi Slaughter and many others.
There’s plenty of new good stuff on youtube still. Just a lot more junk as well
We can make it anew! I feel like Activitypub and federation has given us the tools to revive the old internet, made by our own hands.
I’m working on a decentralised sharing protocol, so that anyone can have their own website, I just have to find some people interested in testing it out 😊
I know that flash animation alone was a HUGE part of the old internet. At least there is an archive for some of them called “flashpoint”.
my knees hurt
It’s not the realization of the years that have passed that makes you old. It’s the belief that the things that you loved when you were younger are somehow better than what exists now that makes you old.
Don’t pretend that enshittifiation isn’t real.
Enshittification of services is real, but the linked greentext complains about something cultural: that internet humor isn’t as funny as it was in 2011.
Which I’d say is a matter of taste, and probably wrong. There are still new greentexts being written that make me laugh. Plenty of tweets/toots/other microblog posts still make me laugh out loud. There are video memes that are pretty funny, and that format wasn’t really feasible until Vine in 2012, and more recently has been made more accessible through simpler editing apps for splicing videos.
For mainstream culture, there’s still great standup comedy out there, good TV comedies, podcasts, etc.
Yes, I love the old stuff. But I like the new stuff, too.
It’s real, it’s just not exclusive to the internet. Anything capitalism touches becomes in enshittified eventually.
Yeah, if used to be people made a comfortable living and if they had the time, shit posted on YouTube. Now to have time to make YT content you have to try to make a profit from it.
Most of my old playlists are missing a ton of videos that have been taken down over the years. Worst of all you can’t even look up what those videos were called to search them somewhere else.
Influncer didn’t exist yet? I think young mind OP just didn’t understand that he was market to lol
Smartphones is what killed the internet, giving everyone easy access was a bad fucking idea.
If you don’t know what Eternal September is, you are part of the problem.
Elitist gatekeeping garbage 🙄
