Fucking hell does anyone remember when piratebay was cool and everyone involved with it was cool af and it was cool to be an internet rebel fighting against it all?
I really fucking miss that period of the internet. I'm not misremembering am I? It was like that.
I keep coming back to the death of MySpace. It was still cool and the internet I remember still existed when myspace was still a real thing, when Facebook took over the entire internet changed.
I mean, I think specific tipping points like that are more based what era your formative years on the internet were in. People who were heavy into Usenet and whatnot in college point to whenever AOL opened up usenet to everyone but that was like 1993 so there's still like at least 8-9 following years of really important (imo) shit like Geocities, MySpace, etc that came into the fore.
Personally, I think the real tipping point was probably not the death of MySpace but instead Web2.0 in general - in a slow death by a thousand cuts sort of way. Smartphones and mobile apps in general were the real final nail in the coffin. I remember as late as ~2008 still having friends that were just completely oblivious to the internet and believed Hackers was an accurate depiction. But that tracks, since prior to ~2011 less than half of adult americans owned a 'smartphone' and now that number is 85% as of February 2021.
2000-2010 was probably the last decade where that was 'the internet', even if it was basically in its final death throes by then. After tablets and smartphones became accessible, not only did you have the average 18-35yo on the internet but now those same people could also buy grandma an iPad for Christmas and get her on the internet at large. By then, of course, as @bud said -- the internet was already being corporatized but now there was an even larger void created by these newer internet users & boomers that even more corporations could fill.
It's so interesting though how depending on the difference in age, two people can have wildly different ideas of what the internet is/was. My younger brother, for example, is only a few years younger than me but does not have the same level of nostalgia for shit like phpBB forums and stuff like albinoblacksheep/newgrounds that I do - despite us both having the same level of access to the internet at the time. His early memories of the internet instead line up with when I played WoW in 2006-7 when the Burning Crusade was released since that was when he really started taking an interest in computers/pc gaming/the internet as a whole.
Fucking hell does anyone remember when piratebay was cool and everyone involved with it was cool af and it was cool to be an internet rebel fighting against it all?
I really fucking miss that period of the internet. I'm not misremembering am I? It was like that.
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What was the tipping point?
I keep coming back to the death of MySpace. It was still cool and the internet I remember still existed when myspace was still a real thing, when Facebook took over the entire internet changed.
I mean, I think specific tipping points like that are more based what era your formative years on the internet were in. People who were heavy into Usenet and whatnot in college point to whenever AOL opened up usenet to everyone but that was like 1993 so there's still like at least 8-9 following years of really important (imo) shit like Geocities, MySpace, etc that came into the fore.
Personally, I think the real tipping point was probably not the death of MySpace but instead Web2.0 in general - in a slow death by a thousand cuts sort of way. Smartphones and mobile apps in general were the real final nail in the coffin. I remember as late as ~2008 still having friends that were just completely oblivious to the internet and believed Hackers was an accurate depiction. But that tracks, since prior to ~2011 less than half of adult americans owned a 'smartphone' and now that number is 85% as of February 2021.
2000-2010 was probably the last decade where that was 'the internet', even if it was basically in its final death throes by then. After tablets and smartphones became accessible, not only did you have the average 18-35yo on the internet but now those same people could also buy grandma an iPad for Christmas and get her on the internet at large. By then, of course, as @bud said -- the internet was already being corporatized but now there was an even larger void created by these newer internet users & boomers that even more corporations could fill.
It's so interesting though how depending on the difference in age, two people can have wildly different ideas of what the internet is/was. My younger brother, for example, is only a few years younger than me but does not have the same level of nostalgia for shit like phpBB forums and stuff like albinoblacksheep/newgrounds that I do - despite us both having the same level of access to the internet at the time. His early memories of the internet instead line up with when I played WoW in 2006-7 when the Burning Crusade was released since that was when he really started taking an interest in computers/pc gaming/the internet as a whole.
The people that did pirate bay are still cool, haven't got the boomer brainworms yet
RIP Directconnect, edonkey, WINMX
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aiosearch.com
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I am calling Nintendo on you!
Trying to find a decent new torrent site.
Gracias