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Anon browses ancient memes (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 10 months ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] VelvetStorm@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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 2 points 10 months 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.

[–] Zementid@feddit.nl 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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 unironic racist (and the Stromfront forum leaked to the rest)... oh and Facebook...

[–] rabber@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I remember watching saddam hussein hanging video when i was 12, good times

[–] 50MYT@aussie.zone 1 points 10 months 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

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Too many beheadings in the wild web. But yeah, those years were really the wild web.