The internet was extremely popular before then. I became hooked in '97 and every single day since. This forum was at its height 2005-2010.

What you're referring to is the smart phone and mobile internet.

When I become dictator the internet can remain as is for use on laptops and desktops, but phones and mobile devices with internet will be banned except for very limited use.

Ahh another thread where people can’t take responsibility and accountability.

It’s not the internet that’s the problem it’s the idiots on it.

15 years ago the internet was awesome

No complaining
No social justice
No politics
No blackpill ideology

Something infiltrated and changed it all around 10 years ago

Even this forum was massive 10 years ago and it was mostly all interesting/funny threads or threads about lifting and improving yourself now it has like 12 new pages of threads per day. Mostly all political stuff or blackpill but no lifting threads

It was clearing that in an hour a decade ago

This video reminds of this topic



He spent 12 years in prison and now he’s disappointed how much people are engrossed on the internet now

Three big things redefined the internet into the hellscape it has turned into today



1. Smartphones brought internet with us. Previously you would only be able to access it from a desktop computer. That meant if you were on the internet you weren't out in the real world doing something cool. To post on boards back then or spend 3+ hours a day on internet made you a loser (speaking from experience). But it was like going to the gym, it wasn't with you all the time so when you logged on it felt like a luxury


2. Social Media - previously being on the internet you held back your identity. We were raised with advice such as dont put your name online, a picture online, etc. Which seems comical now. While social media when created mostly worked as attention. Share funny pictures, comment on funny things, etc. It was an extension of hanging out with your friends. However, it has morphed into an echo chamber to say whatever for likes - and the fear of cancel culture has given outsized power to a radical group of people.


3. Consolidation because of big tech. One of the coolest parts of the internet in the 90s and early 2000s was the hundreds of random websites you would find, and then share with your friends. It was like a treasure hunt to find a random site and then spend an entire evening there. Every hobby, unique interest, etc. had it's own group of sites to explore. Now the majority of time is being spent on like 5 sites (Amazon, Reddit, ********, etc.). Which have killed off a large amount of smaller sites.


Sad part is it's gone and aint coming back. While the internet is certainly better today in terms of speed, accessibility, sheer volume of content, etc. it's like comparing exploring the woods as a kid (internet back in the day) to just going on a predetermined hike as an adult. The wonder is gone. Internet, she was the best man.

it baffles me that people think that smart phones and social media are net positives in our quality of life

like, sure smart phones make our life easier and social media makes keeping up with family/friends easier; but god damn if we're not way way more miserable because of them.

not to mention they both make marxism 100000x easier to implement since before, you could not be censored or canceled because not enough people could be reached for someone's efforts to be fruitful (unless you actually did something that warranted cancelling).

it baffles me that people think that smart phones and social media are net positives in our quality of life

like, sure smart phones make our life easier and social media makes keeping up with family/friends easier; but god damn if we're not way way more miserable because of them.

not to mention they both make marxism 100000x easier to implement since before, you could not be censored or canceled because not enough people could be reached for someone's efforts to be fruitful (unless you actually did something that warranted cancelling).

Will say they made going anywhere easy as hell with a GPS, which is nice. Compared to just getting lost or looking for a highway name in the olden days

But at a net I agree. Hard to get lost in a moment with your smart phone

If you don't look at the internet for a while you will get all kinds of happy chemicals firing in your brain. It's very hard to do it for more than a day though

wonder how this covid chit would go if there was no easy internet

and all youd have was news and local friends

Smart phones ruined everything because it allowed the lowest of class a voice.

Look at twitter. How many of us actually use it? I know 0.

The internet was extremely popular before then. I became hooked in '97 and every single day since. This forum was at its height 2005-2010.

What you're referring to is the smart phone and mobile internet.

When I become dictator the internet can remain as is for use on laptops and desktops, but phones and mobile devices with internet will be banned except for very limited use.

IN SHORT: Internet needs to die out somehow. Pre 2011, the internet wasn't everywhere and didn't engulf us all. Now the internet is far too widespread, there's 0 mystery and it's far too easy to access mind numbing trash 24/7.

Like, when I was child growing up, my parents were extremely strict with internet usage. So our house pc was kept in a viewable room, with a billion types of parental controls. Even in 2008, I'm sure the internet was polluted with trash, however, the main difference was that the "trash" stayed immobilized to our house pc. Which was perfect. When I misbehaved, I would just head to a friends place, but not every household had internet back then and that was the norm. So I ventured out miles away to the library or a cyber cafe. Fast forward to today, everyone has a phone, a 5 or 85 year old probably have a £900 phone at hand, so the internet is accessible EVERYWHERE to EVERYONE. This shift ruined the "mystery" of life and changed it all after 2013.


Our parents are meant to be what we are in the future, but, that was once upon a time. Times have changed a ton. Like, I'm nothing like my mum and dad, but me and my brother are fairly similar. Yeah for sure, environmental factors change a person a lot, even the era and being introverted and weak or being popular at school changes you for life (So I've heard). That's the common theme for now, where the parents are pretty much useless, technology guides all kids born after 1999 for sure. Growing up I had "K9 web protection" on our house pc to stop me accessing internet trash. That's a joke these days. Parents these days only have the choice to install some kind of software on the kid itself to be successful hahaha.

Kind of sucks how the climate of this era changed so much. Use the internet, and your life makes a U turn big time.

All of you miscers back in 2005-2011 probably accessed the internet through the same methods as me. People wherever you went did this aswell. I remember racing home to watch the latest retard video, play some epic online game or download some music. All very basic and had pristine balance to an extent where I wasn't addicted to the internet OUTSIDE. 2013+ took away that "mystique/mystery" of the internet by being able to Google everything in an instant. No more dictionaries, SAT navs, libraries, pamphlets, NON internet related outings and no more brain function. Even to explore the world we live in has been altered.


It's weird, as current culture for people is to introvert awkward talk on their little social media iphones 24/7, use their little iphones when a conversation goes bad, act pretty when they're ugly and really just become completely addicted to their phones. Their/your lives will flash by in an instant if you're using the internet when you're out. (In my mind, 10 minutes is too much, save that for the HOUSE)


But seriously, when I finally grew up, I was pissed that gym people (supposed epitome of people) and whoever are painfully addicted to the internet in a really unmasculine way. ("Scrolling" for 7/8/9+ hours, not using your brain for basic tasks) Where as before 2010/11ish, they were these people, literally living, using their flip phones and savoring their inner nerd for when they return home.

But yeah, 2010, had the perfect balance of everything.

Example pics of the ideal "internet" setup. (In my mind, the internet shouldn't exist at all) (Incidentally there's also a pic of the ultimate hairstyle)

the only thing i would struggle to live without is google maps. but then again most cars have sat navs and if on foot i can take time and map out where i need to go.





i remember from reading sapiens that, i think it was in the first chapter, he talked about hunter gatherer life and although i dont remember him overtly saying it, i think the underlying tone at least was they were way happier than us.

that life was a bit of work (hunting and gathering) but there was a lot of down time where we socialised and bonded. we may have died from a cut or a broken leg or got a caveman club upside the head from another tribe, but the short time we were there, we were not depressed or chronically anxious but pretty happy.

so there is a middle ground somewhere where peak civilisation could be achieved and we could live based on our biology/psychology optimally

Ahh another thread where people can’t take responsibility and accountability.

It’s not the internet that’s the problem it’s the idiots on it.

it is the 21st century messenger/"light bringer" that Jesus was considered to be and which manifests in various forms every time a new Age of Enlightenment is transitioned into. just like how Jesus signaled the start of the age of pisces and transformed the world with christianity, the internet and age of information is closely associated with the technological and intellectual aspect of the age of Aquarius

ironically "computer" in Sumerian gematria translates to 666; Lucifer = bringer of light

Predicted in 1982.