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I miss the 2000s internet that no one has nostalgia for or cares about

Like where it was Actual Nerds and Losers (no bots) and disc...
cowgod
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cowgod
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cowgod
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The Penis
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cowgod
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The Hole
  10/11/26
everything went downhill with the iPhone which made it more ...
hex
  10/11/26
nah social media ruined it
ferengi
  10/11/26
bro the iphone is social media. they are Joint and Several.
cowgod
  10/11/26
First it was AOL in 1994 and then Apple in 2008.
The Hole
  10/11/26
normies on the internet without social media would've develo...
ferengi
  10/11/26
facebook is social media. and it was just your friends from ...
cowgod
  10/11/26
Facebook was actually way more Healthy and Pro-Social than a...
tacobellguy1995
  10/11/26
"facebook is social media." yes that's what i'm ta...
ferengi
  10/11/26
I meant the 2004-2010 facebook that wasn't just proles/boome...
cowgod
  10/11/26
sure it obviously wasn't as bad but it was the beginning of ...
ferengi
  10/11/26
Zoomers are the problem. Or people using it from age 10 onwa...
cowgod
  10/11/26
We had a good thread about this recently iirc Part of it ...
tacobellguy1995
  10/11/26
A lot of people don't see the value of The Unknown and like ...
cowgod
  10/11/26
I think that many people value The Unknown, but it doesn't e...
tacobellguy1995
  10/11/26
occasionally i will still visit a place, or a bookstore, or ...
peeface
  10/11/26
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tacobellguy1995
  10/11/26
instead of reddit you had message boards on disparate server...
Oh, you travel?
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cowgod
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tacobellguy1995
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Johnsmeyer
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ferengi
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hex
  10/11/26
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animeboi
  10/11/26
Some of these still exist and are great.
Ass Sunstein
  10/11/26
what else besides: https://www.airliners.net/forum/
...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;..,
  10/11/26
https://www.skyscrapercity.com/forums/
animeboi
  10/12/26
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Trust If Aryan
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harnessman
  10/11/26
2026: “ohhhy boy that guy with a wife? He’s so c...
Johnsmeyer
  10/11/26
I was on AOL in '94 when it was just chat rooms and very rud...
....,....,.......,.........,....,.,....
  10/11/26
were you in the nick@nite chat?
The Hole
  10/11/26
i was in the aol grandstand tennis chat in the mid 90s. so c...
...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;..,
  10/11/26
Ur Old. Keyra Agustina, of Supertangas ass-shaking fame, is...
Emperor CRISPR Chad von Neumann III
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.,.,,..,,.,.,.:.,,;:.,.,..,.,..,,:.........:..,.::
  10/11/26
that's how a 35 year old uses emojis, not a 25 year old.
r|cky
  10/13/26


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Date: October 11th, 2026 6:01 PM
Author: cowgod

Like where it was Actual Nerds and Losers (no bots) and discussions didn't get contaminated by so many idiots. The Internet that gave birth to this place which is gone from this world like tears in rain.

2000 Gen X poster: "Methinks the sheeple doth protest too much, LOL!!! Perhaps thou shouldst unplug thy AOL modem, crawl out of thy parents' basement, and acquire a clue, good sir. tips fedora ROFLMAO!!!1!11!"

2026 internet user: "nahhh ts actually got me CRYING 😭😭💀 bro is genuinely COOKED fr 💔🥀 unc thought he ate but whole time he was doing tricks on it 😭🙏🏽 deadass the aura debt is generational 💀💀 lowkey diabolical work twin, crashout was NOT on my 2026 bingo card 😭🫩 ts hits different when u realize bro been moving like an NPC this whole time 🥀 gang we are NOT making it out the group chat 💔😭✌🏽 wallahi im weak asl icl 💀💀💀 nga got negative motion and still talking bout "let him cook" 😭🙏🏽 tuff 💔"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5911922&forum_id=2#50184416)



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Date: October 11th, 2026 6:09 PM
Author: cowgod



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5911922&forum_id=2#50184445)



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Date: October 11th, 2026 6:15 PM
Author: cowgod



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5911922&forum_id=2#50184472)



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Date: October 11th, 2026 7:22 PM
Author: The Penis



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5911922&forum_id=2#50184605)



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Date: October 11th, 2026 8:35 PM
Author: cowgod



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5911922&forum_id=2#50184673)



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Date: October 11th, 2026 6:02 PM
Author: The Hole



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5911922&forum_id=2#50184421)



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Date: October 11th, 2026 6:05 PM
Author: hex

everything went downhill with the iPhone which made it more accessible to normies

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5911922&forum_id=2#50184428)



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Date: October 11th, 2026 6:06 PM
Author: ferengi

nah social media ruined it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5911922&forum_id=2#50184433)



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Date: October 11th, 2026 6:08 PM
Author: cowgod

bro the iphone is social media. they are Joint and Several.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5911922&forum_id=2#50184439)



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Date: October 11th, 2026 6:08 PM
Author: The Hole

First it was AOL in 1994 and then Apple in 2008.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5911922&forum_id=2#50184443)



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Date: October 11th, 2026 6:09 PM
Author: ferengi

normies on the internet without social media would've developed less narcissistic and more literate

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5911922&forum_id=2#50184447)



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Date: October 11th, 2026 6:13 PM
Author: cowgod

facebook is social media. and it was just your friends from irl and none of them posted anything iirc except shit on their Walls. That lasted like 6 years before iphone saturation and it wasn't the "social media" people complain about now. but it was fucking social media with 1,000,000,000k users.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5911922&forum_id=2#50184465)



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Date: October 11th, 2026 6:16 PM
Author: tacobellguy1995

Facebook was actually way more Healthy and Pro-Social than any Online Destination that exists today. Really demonstrates how bad things have gotten

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5911922&forum_id=2#50184473)



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Date: October 11th, 2026 6:18 PM
Author: ferengi

"facebook is social media." yes that's what i'm talking about are you high?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5911922&forum_id=2#50184483)



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Date: October 11th, 2026 6:58 PM
Author: cowgod

I meant the 2004-2010 facebook that wasn't just proles/boomers/Scum. like where you just Poked chicks and stuff. no one associated that with mental illness or whatever they say now.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5911922&forum_id=2#50184574)



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Date: October 11th, 2026 7:00 PM
Author: ferengi

sure it obviously wasn't as bad but it was the beginning of the end, the oversharing and self-absorption it inspired and later social media platforms reinforced

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5911922&forum_id=2#50184576)



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Date: October 11th, 2026 7:16 PM
Author: cowgod

Zoomers are the problem. Or people using it from age 10 onwards. Iirc millennials just put their profiles on private. In like 2009, before instagram, millennials had sort of dropped Facebook in terms of actually using it. I had like 1000k friends but the poasts were coming from like 3 mentally ill ppl over and over again and the phenotype expression pics weren’t proliferating very quickly.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5911922&forum_id=2#50184599)



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Date: October 11th, 2026 6:06 PM
Author: tacobellguy1995

We had a good thread about this recently iirc

Part of it is that we were younger and there was still so much of The Unknown. But The Unknown has shrunk for everyone now imho. An reasonably sharp 18 year old kid today has already been exposed to basically Everything. There is no longer any Secret Knowledge or even anything that seems like it could be Secret Knowledge

Kids learn that Phenotype Is Everything and Society Has Fallen and No One Cares About You and Only Money Matters while they are still children. It's brutal.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5911922&forum_id=2#50184431)



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Date: October 11th, 2026 6:08 PM
Author: cowgod

A lot of people don't see the value of The Unknown and like The Same Thing over and over again.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5911922&forum_id=2#50184442)



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Date: October 11th, 2026 6:20 PM
Author: tacobellguy1995

I think that many people value The Unknown, but it doesn't even exist anymore as an option. The world is now Totally Global and Homogeneous and The Matrix has permeated everything

I don't think it's fair to bash normies for doing The Same Things when that's all there is anymore

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5911922&forum_id=2#50184491)



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Date: October 11th, 2026 9:50 PM
Author: peeface

occasionally i will still visit a place, or a bookstore, or a music store that has that feeling like you've stepped through a portal to 1993 and are discovering something strange and different.

don't think it can be curated, it has to be organic. and assume the last of these places will soon disappear. feel bad for the kids who will never know it.

obviously requires a certain physical and mental isolation, not just remoteness from other people but lets say a book store proprietor who is so out of touch he hasn't spent any time uploading his inventory to The Machine so it can be efficiently priced and the gems shipped off to a PO Box in Chicago.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5911922&forum_id=2#50184856)



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Date: October 11th, 2026 10:05 PM
Author: tacobellguy1995



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5911922&forum_id=2#50184879)



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Date: October 11th, 2026 6:08 PM
Author: Oh, you travel? ( )

instead of reddit you had message boards on disparate servers for whatever your particular intellectual rabbit hole. sometimes they would be hidden in the site map of a much wider www site so only the most discerning autists would find that small text link that reads "Discuss" and be transported to a little corner of the galaxy to frolic among Liberal Artists.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5911922&forum_id=2#50184441)



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Date: October 11th, 2026 6:08 PM
Author: cowgod



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5911922&forum_id=2#50184444)



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Date: October 11th, 2026 6:09 PM
Author: tacobellguy1995



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5911922&forum_id=2#50184448)



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Date: October 11th, 2026 6:10 PM
Author: Johnsmeyer



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5911922&forum_id=2#50184451)



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Date: October 11th, 2026 6:10 PM
Author: ferengi



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5911922&forum_id=2#50184452)



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Date: October 11th, 2026 6:11 PM
Author: hex



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5911922&forum_id=2#50184456)



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Date: October 11th, 2026 6:11 PM
Author: animeboi (.)

.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5911922&forum_id=2#50184457)



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Date: October 11th, 2026 6:13 PM
Author: Ass Sunstein

Some of these still exist and are great.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5911922&forum_id=2#50184464)



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Date: October 11th, 2026 10:35 PM
Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;..,


what else besides:

https://www.airliners.net/forum/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5911922&forum_id=2#50184923)



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Date: October 12th, 2026 6:04 AM
Author: animeboi (.)

https://www.skyscrapercity.com/forums/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5911922&forum_id=2#50185164)



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Date: October 11th, 2026 6:54 PM
Author: Trust If Aryan



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5911922&forum_id=2#50184565)



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Date: October 11th, 2026 9:43 PM
Author: harnessman



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5911922&forum_id=2#50184840)



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Date: October 11th, 2026 6:09 PM
Author: Johnsmeyer

2026: “ohhhy boy that guy with a wife? He’s so cooked bro! He’s 5’9! Sorry ngl thank god for every moment 6’5 where I slayyyyyyyy.”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5911922&forum_id=2#50184446)



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Date: October 11th, 2026 9:44 PM
Author: ....,....,.......,.........,....,.,....


I was on AOL in '94 when it was just chat rooms and very rudimentary websites.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5911922&forum_id=2#50184846)



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Date: October 11th, 2026 10:23 PM
Author: The Hole

were you in the nick@nite chat?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5911922&forum_id=2#50184907)



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Date: October 11th, 2026 10:36 PM
Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;..,


i was in the aol grandstand tennis chat in the mid 90s. so cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5911922&forum_id=2#50184927)



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Date: October 11th, 2026 10:22 PM
Author: Emperor CRISPR Chad von Neumann III ( )

Ur Old. Keyra Agustina, of Supertangas ass-shaking fame, is 46 and has four kids.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5911922&forum_id=2#50184903)



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Date: October 11th, 2026 11:35 PM
Author: .,.,,..,,.,.,.:.,,;:.,.,..,.,..,,:.........:..,.::




(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5911922&forum_id=2#50184974)



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Date: October 13th, 2026 2:18 AM
Author: r|cky

that's how a 35 year old uses emojis, not a 25 year old.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5911922&forum_id=2#50187357)