Rambler OP admin wrote on December 10, 2020 at 3:12 PM

Reply to comment by darkmoor in How are YOU accessing the website? (clearnet, I2P site, Tor site, yggdrasil?) by Rambler

Welcome, and you make some good points.

Social media is a cancer. The prime internet, to me, was the mid 90's to early 00's. That was a time when file sharing was becoming mainstream, the internet was in more and more people's homes and more people were connected on IRC, chatrooms, and standalone message forums. You almost never knew or cared what the name of the person was you were interacting with, because everyone was behind a handle. If they shared an image for a profile picture (for example) it was almost always a movie, TV or cartoon character.

It was a simpler time in the digital age. A better time.

darkmoor wrote on December 10, 2020 at 3:56 PM

Totally, I started out using Kazaa Lite and Morpheus. We had a nice amount of bandwidth for the Era at home, something like 8mbps. Then I started torrenting a bit later on suprnova.org. Now most people's experience on the internet is seeing posts from people they've known their entire life. It's narrowing, most of the culture i've learned about was from interacting with Europeans on IRC from Oink.me.uk and What.cd.

Rambler OP admin wrote on December 10, 2020 at 4:02 PM

Holy hell, I haven't seen or heard of Oink and What.cd in a long time. I remember when an old room mate invited me to those.

Man, I sure do miss Napster, Kazaa, Limewire, Morpheus, etc. I used to have a pretty large music collection at one point. Though now I enjoy listening to some of my favorites on vinyl. We need a music forum, stat.