"the old Internet" is pre-social-media, dude. If you were moody back then, you put a Comic sans text on your free lycos Webspace, and if you were really fed up, you made it blink!
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You’re forgetting about AIM and MSN ‘statuses’, I don’t remember if they were exactly called that but that’s what they were.
Yep, they were statuses on MSN. Remember when they added nudges?
This picture... I can hear it
In the 90's: "I want to kill myself..."
"Oh no! Don't do that. We'd miss you!"
Now: "I want to kill myself..."
"Lol same, fam."
Depressed people reaching out for help while being too socially anxious to admit they are.. is still a thing
That will never go away, but the manner in which they are doing it changes throughout the years.
Honestly this is pretty common on Facebook still.
Isn't it still the case?
Definitely. half of my friends on discord still do this.
There's no way vague posting isn't still a thing. People have always been and will always be passive aggressive sadsacks from time to time. It's just changed formats, not disappeared completely.
u ok hun? dm me
Let’s not forget if you were pissed at someone they wouldn’t be in your top 8 anymore
Oh man…this brings back such cringey memories of ANGRY away messages that everyone knew exactly who I was mad at…
Jesus, the cringe…
And yes, the lyrics were screamo. Thrice, to be exact.
Side note, Thrice has a really deep catalog now and are still putting out great music. A lot of it is kind of allegory but they really moved on from the teen screamo type music.
Is that really "the old Internet" though? That seems more like the Internet from like... 15 years ago maybe? That's definitely not "the old Internet" lol I'm pretty sure people still do this don't they? I don't have any real social media accounts anymore so I haven't really kept up with it
People don't really do away messages anymore... that was over 20 years ago on AIM.
Every message is an away message now.
I still remember my ICQ number.
He’ll yeah! 3369689
Some of my friends had 6 digit icq numbers!
The internet from 15 years ago is the old internet for anyone under 30.
And anyone over 30 is obviously a Boomer so we can safely disregard their perspective.
Fuck man, my oldest is 15 now lol. He’s about to be the same age as I was when I was first dating the girl that I’m with now.
I disregard everything anyone says so maybe that’s either delusionment or enlightenment. Time will tell
This is the current Internet but with discord statuses.