I looked it up and apparently Usenet is still a thing and has millions of users. That, and it's actually a completely separate entity from the Internet, and started existing in the early 80s. I find it truly fascinating.
What the hell are you talking about? It's not a seperate entity from the internet. It couldn't work without internet. How did you think the information got shared between computers? Through magic?
technically the first message was "LOL" because after this first "LO" crash, the guy rebooted everything and tried to type login again, and he typed "L" and it crashed again. All in all pretty epic imo
Zork is an interactive fiction computer game. It was originally developed by four members of the MIT Dynamic Modelling Group - Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels, and Dave Lebling - between 1977 and 1979 for the DEC PDP-10 mainframe
9:19 not gonna lie, i'd much prefer to see people express themselves by writing creative poems instead of making repetitive, brainless "memes" in which they share their controversial opinions on various subjects trying to mask them behind being ironic.
@@lockerbuddy2039 yeah but if you had to choose between expressing your feelings and thoughts as memes vs expressing yourself via normal talking you'd choose normal talking, right? Because ngl, both poems and memes would get repetitive, boring and stupid after a while
Dude the internet used to be full of engineers and academics who would sign their posts with their home address, phone number, and real name. Now the internet is full of people who can barely read and if you post your initials a SWAT team will kick your door in.
There's still a plenty of active forums to this very day. So, it's not that surprising to go to read old forums, unless you want to see older people trash talking your childhood games when they were still new and get a hard dose of reality that the past wasn't sunshines and rainbows.
I’m pretty sure that Since the system crashed before he fully typed “login” he tried to send it again Meaning the first 3 letters sent on the internet were technically LOL
Don't worry, 30 years down the line zoomers will struggle to accept that their favorite childhood past times are unrecognizable to the next batch of kids.
Omg the ending is amazing. A person asking for advice Then it turns into an argument between 2 people. One person understands time in days. The other understands time in weeks And they need to solve a problem of how to schedule something XD amazing
Im 40 so I remember 90s internet And Usenet And chat rooms And AOL And MySpace Damn this was a fun trip down down memory lane It was really good times from a simpler age. I mean yeah I do miss it. Ahhhh good times 😂
12:20 I love the old internet man People used to post whatever the heck comes to their mind instead of trying to entertain a bunch of random jackasses or making themselves closetted because they are afraid of offending someone or facing repercussions (like getting banned, or getting a hate campaign) I was not there back then, but the internet continued being like this for a while, and I love that there's a lot of things today that go way back Edit: Oh yeah, that too, the pointless arguing. God why do so many people want to find any pointless reason to argue. I hate the internet today, I wish I could just swear at someone and go away. There's so much that pisses me off about the internet today. The only reason I feel pissed off is because I don't want to accept that what I used to have is gone forever, and there's no forum or place where I can just be myself anymore (Other than friend groups) Edit2: I'll see if I can update this if I find that place one day. As I said, I don't want to accept that what I used to have is gone forever, that's why sometimes I believe it's my fault that it's gone and not the internet changing, the internet changing is only partly at fault
correction: I wish I could just tell someone to fuck off. Let's see if UA-cam doesn't delete that. I hate that. It's not even that bad of a word, it's so ridiculous I can't say it sometimes.
At least there's yesterweb, and it's pretty cool to look at. I sometimes wish I explored 2000's internet a little more as well as a kid. I'm also disappointed in people trying to pick petty fights over stuff that won't matter decades later.
@@lol-ih1tl You: Oh! so you [worst faith interpretation of your comment with a sense of hyperbolic importance outside my specific echochamber] Me: wtf no?? Obviously [Incredibly defensive response that is then construed as further evidence for guilt] touche. Perfect example of pointless arguing lol thank you
Before the corporatization of the internet it was a pretty special place and everyone used dialup or DSL and only had cable internet speeds starting around 2000ish
Without scrolling, Starfleet Battles was a turned based, ship to ship combat game based on Star Trek. It was fairly complex (the rules) and expanded the universe of Star Trek. It was first published in '79. Oh by the way, one hex was approximately 300,000 kms across.
I've got stuff to do so I can't finish watching your video, but that was fun. I was on Usenet near the end of the 90s, so it's not just 60 year olds but 40 year olds too. Though, I do know a 60 year old I met back then... Well, he wasn't 60 then obviously! Anyways there were people who spoke like that back then but they were mostly either nerds putting on airs of being some pastoral gentleman or religious folks trying to be the next big prophet. Otherwise yeah, there were a lot of chain letters back then. You still see some nowadays but a lot less.
everyone wasnt weird back then, its because only a select clique of people used the internet in the 80s and 90s which is why theres so many weird posts
9:03 this poem sounds like some time traveler gave the Internet to some random dude from the 1600's, and after clicking on alt.bondage he wrote this poem
I highly recommend “THE DUMBEST BOY ALIVE. PRETTY GOOD, EPISODE SIX” for really everybody that hasn’t seen it already. It’s a video by Jon Bois going into greater detail about the forum thread at 19:34 (I also recommend really anything by Jon Bois, both the older videos on his personal UA-cam channel and the newer ones on SB Nation. They’re mostly sports-related but even if that's not your thing they’re still very entertaining and there are still a handful of Pretty Good episodes on other topics)
holy shit THATS why I know that thread! At least I think that's why I recognize it, my friend liked to show me Jon Bois stuff when we got drunk, like that video where they run one play in Madden or the Mariners documentary, love that man's stuff, hope his sandwich shop opens soon
There are only three consistently active forums i can think of and they are all realted to a specific game, franchise or media. Forums that are very broad in scope have all stopped in time.
reddit gold is the equivalent of the second impact to the internet
Reddit Platinum is the 3rd Impact
I never really got into Gundam
@@shred1894 yeah I never me too, I never found that robot cartoon interesting.
"Yeah, I'll be paying for that with reddit gold"
so what was the first impact?
I looked it up and apparently Usenet is still a thing and has millions of users. That, and it's actually a completely separate entity from the Internet, and started existing in the early 80s. I find it truly fascinating.
What the hell are you talking about? It's not a seperate entity from the internet. It couldn't work without internet.
How did you think the information got shared between computers? Through magic?
@@NoName_NoTitle :(
@@socialgutbrain7774 🫣
It's actually a separate thing from websites, which became a thing in the 90s.
Internet > Usenet/Websites
@@NoName_NoTitle i was the wizard that maintained it, yes.
technically the first message was "LOL" because after this first "LO" crash, the guy rebooted everything and tried to type login again, and he typed "L" and it crashed again. All in all pretty epic imo
So the LO alone was the first message and the L was the second message good way to prove yourself wrong in your own comment
@@JesusChrist42000 He said TECHNICALLY. Jesus fucking Christ dude.
@@JesusChrist42000nah
@@JesusChrist42000 😐
@@JesusChrist42000NEEEEERD
"The more things change, the more they stay the same."
- Aristotle, probably
aztrotle
Zork is an interactive fiction computer game. It was originally developed by four members of the MIT Dynamic Modelling Group - Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels, and Dave Lebling - between 1977 and 1979 for the DEC PDP-10 mainframe
I LOVE TA
Yeah, I have zork I and Zork II on 5" floppy discs. I could never figure out how to work them because you have to input very specific commands
Good old graphic adventure games like DND and King's quest and Zork. How could Aztro not know these? Smh now I feel like a redditor and boomer.
You can also play Zork in call of duty Black ops, that's how I got into it. It's a fun game
NEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRD
9:19 not gonna lie, i'd much prefer to see people express themselves by writing creative poems instead of making repetitive, brainless "memes" in which they share their controversial opinions on various subjects trying to mask them behind being ironic.
yeah this is pretty interesting, and it rhymes so it's somewhat pleasent to say out loud. If I ever said a meme put loud I'd feel pain
I think the poems can come off as just pretentious. I'd rather someone say it as a dumb meme as it's to the point even if it's cringe.
@@lockerbuddy2039 yeah but if you had to choose between expressing your feelings and thoughts as memes vs expressing yourself via normal talking you'd choose normal talking, right?
Because ngl, both poems and memes would get repetitive, boring and stupid after a while
We should have poem battles instead of debates.
I drew myself as the chad! So that means I win! See! See!?
The Internet user behavior never really changed pretty much.
Dude the internet used to be full of engineers and academics who would sign their posts with their home address, phone number, and real name. Now the internet is full of people who can barely read and if you post your initials a SWAT team will kick your door in.
@@MegaGrawpno shit people nowadays don't sign their name and home address, maybe because they didn't wanna take the risk of thiefs, killers etc?
it has changed a lot, actually
@@Vorticough with casual bigotry no longer being acceptable.
"I think people were more unhinged back then"
YES. Yes they were.
Simply, less woke
"we're going back into ancient times!!"
Az, this was 20 years ago. Don't you do that to me.
Some of the posts were from the early 80's, making them around 40 years ago I think
20 years ago was 2002
@@ziad616 wow that was 40 years ago
Thanks, Aztrosist. It sure is nice to surf the forums to see what people back in the day wrote.
Aids poems
There's still a plenty of active forums to this very day. So, it's not that surprising to go to read old forums, unless you want to see older people trash talking your childhood games when they were still new and get a hard dose of reality that the past wasn't sunshines and rainbows.
I'm old. _Yes,_ I remember the AIDS poems era.
This is a really good video it helps me forget my failing marriage
-Ron black
I’m pretty sure that Since the system crashed before he fully typed “login” he tried to send it again
Meaning the first 3 letters sent on the internet were technically LOL
Truly incredible moment of history
I recognized like 95% of the stuff Aztro didn't. I guess I'm old now
Just goes to show how old we're getting
Don't worry, 30 years down the line zoomers will struggle to accept that their favorite childhood past times are unrecognizable to the next batch of kids.
hows it like being one foot in the grave, old man
@@vinesauceobscurities "noo wtf how do you not know chicken shooter for the wii"
I can't believe he didn't recognize Heretic!
Omg the ending is amazing.
A person asking for advice
Then it turns into an argument between 2 people.
One person understands time in days.
The other understands time in weeks
And they need to solve a problem of how to schedule something
XD amazing
the guy that said 4-3-4-3 was the only one correct
And my parents don't think that there was Internet back in the 80s. Usenet absolutely proves them wrong.
internet was first created in 1969. Although it was exclusively for the US Military.
Usenet is technically not internet
i miss the old funky websites so colorful back then
YES
YTMND is still like that, so do a lot of porn websites.
@@lol-ih1tl whats YTMND
@@cyxx414 You're the man now dawg.
@@cyxx414 "you're the man now, dawg!!"
Im 40 so I remember 90s internet
And Usenet
And chat rooms
And AOL
And MySpace
Damn this was a fun trip down down memory lane
It was really good times from a simpler age. I mean yeah I do miss it. Ahhhh good times 😂
these old internet surfing videos never fail to disappoint, lovin this shit
12:20 I love the old internet man
People used to post whatever the heck comes to their mind instead of trying to entertain a bunch of random jackasses or making themselves closetted because they are afraid of offending someone or facing repercussions (like getting banned, or getting a hate campaign)
I was not there back then, but the internet continued being like this for a while, and I love that there's a lot of things today that go way back
Edit: Oh yeah, that too, the pointless arguing. God why do so many people want to find any pointless reason to argue. I hate the internet today, I wish I could just swear at someone and go away.
There's so much that pisses me off about the internet today. The only reason I feel pissed off is because I don't want to accept that what I used to have is gone forever, and there's no forum or place where I can just be myself anymore (Other than friend groups)
Edit2: I'll see if I can update this if I find that place one day. As I said, I don't want to accept that what I used to have is gone forever, that's why sometimes I believe it's my fault that it's gone and not the internet changing, the internet changing is only partly at fault
correction:
I wish I could just tell someone to fuck off.
Let's see if UA-cam doesn't delete that. I hate that. It's not even that bad of a word, it's so ridiculous I can't say it sometimes.
I'd say this is about the same as certain parts of 4chan, but I guess there's still more arguing from the amount I've been exposed to.
At least there's yesterweb, and it's pretty cool to look at.
I sometimes wish I explored 2000's internet a little more as well as a kid.
I'm also disappointed in people trying to pick petty fights over stuff that won't matter decades later.
So you just miss the past because everyone was saying slurs without any consequences.
@@lol-ih1tl You: Oh! so you [worst faith interpretation of your comment with a sense of hyperbolic importance outside my specific echochamber]
Me: wtf no?? Obviously [Incredibly defensive response that is then construed as further evidence for guilt]
touche. Perfect example of pointless arguing lol thank you
Homophobic smash poetry, thank you internet
we need to bring this back
this is fucking amazing
Zoomers being confused why people talked normally 20 years ago is crazy to me. Fr fr no cap onG I swear ion bussin down sexual style
I'm a zoomer and this filled my soul with anguish
Y'ain't goated with the sauce
Jesus Christ never type another thing on the internet you old man
@@i-man872 Listen to your elders zoomer, what are your pronouns?
I wish I was interesting enough to have a favorite paperboard
it's refreshing to see that times haven't changed that much
Relieving to know that maybe the end of the first world isn’t so close after all
It feels lonely being a fan of SHIFT-JIS-style ASCII art nowadays...
You're not totally alone. I think it's really cool myself.
Well maybe if you were a more proficient friend
(4:52) Aztro, they’re all real places. That’s the joke, my dude.
Ah, yes. Two unskippable 15 second BTS ads were exactly what I wanted to see before this video. 😀😀
6:46 _hovers over Extreme Needle Torture_
"yeah, maybe i won't say that one."
Before the corporatization of the internet it was a pretty special place and everyone used dialup or DSL and only had cable internet speeds starting around 2000ish
Without scrolling, Starfleet Battles was a turned based, ship to ship combat game based on Star Trek. It was fairly complex (the rules) and expanded the universe of Star Trek. It was first published in '79. Oh by the way, one hex was approximately 300,000 kms across.
star trek games were fucking nuts back in the day, some star trek fans to this day still swear by the lore of the 1982 FASA tabletop rpg.
imagine making a whole board dedicated to your favourite beer, and it's old mill 🤢 1996 was rough man
Remember me when the replies erupt in debate
I've got stuff to do so I can't finish watching your video, but that was fun. I was on Usenet near the end of the 90s, so it's not just 60 year olds but 40 year olds too. Though, I do know a 60 year old I met back then... Well, he wasn't 60 then obviously!
Anyways there were people who spoke like that back then but they were mostly either nerds putting on airs of being some pastoral gentleman or religious folks trying to be the next big prophet. Otherwise yeah, there were a lot of chain letters back then. You still see some nowadays but a lot less.
everyone wasnt weird back then, its because only a select clique of people used the internet in the 80s and 90s which is why theres so many weird posts
Make a part 2,this video was soooo good
I laufed so much astorsit!!
Thank you for your video. Best cvidoe for me this year. I laugh a lot
Cheers, -DANIEL
The heck is a cvoide?
The internet could have just been cooking recipes. With angry comments about where Onions come from, 15 years after the recipe was posted.
Probably would have been for the best given the sorry state of the internet today.
Great video, you’ve been making very interesting videos about the bowels of the internet recent
This is the quality of someone in the tens of millions of subscribers, upload more old internet videos this was great!
it's ironic the man who made 20 posts on their individual favourite things picked spam as one of them
I hope Ron Black is doing better these days
I literally live EXACTLY 5 minutes away from Hell Michigan💀💀
This was surprisingly captivating. Love your sense of humor. And that ending was unexpected :))
This is like an older aztrosist video. I missed that style for a while, although I liked the more essay type videos
Modem speed used to be measured in bauds
When we upgraded to a 56K baud in '96 I felt legendary
Awesome video, thoroughly enjoyed!!
- Tim Lee
I like how you question whether they are still alive when you are looking at posts from only like 20 years ago
Reddit really is full of dad jokes. Maybe we should rename it to...Daddit
Ba dum tsss
Booooooo
Boooooo
Wooooooo
W pun
1982?!
1982?1
okay but "A VIRUS IS A MINDLESS THING" is kind of great tbh 9:35
this is just tumblr but straight
Enjoyed, thank you!
3:04 I hope you know that exclusively say cellular phone just to spite you
9:03 this poem sounds like some time traveler gave the Internet to some random dude from the 1600's, and after clicking on alt.bondage he wrote this poem
I'm taking a life draining shit
Dope
This could be an infinite wealth of content
i still use forums sometimes, theres the allegro cc forums for programming with the allegro game library for c++
My favourite Internet era is the 2000s.
COSMIC WIMPOUT GOES CRAZY
I live in Michigan, thanks Aztro.
I highly recommend “THE DUMBEST BOY ALIVE. PRETTY GOOD, EPISODE SIX” for really everybody that hasn’t seen it already. It’s a video by Jon Bois going into greater detail about the forum thread at 19:34
(I also recommend really anything by Jon Bois, both the older videos on his personal UA-cam channel and the newer ones on SB Nation. They’re mostly sports-related but even if that's not your thing they’re still very entertaining and there are still a handful of Pretty Good episodes on other topics)
Jon Bois' stuff is amazing and I've been hugely inspired it
holy shit THATS why I know that thread! At least I think that's why I recognize it, my friend liked to show me Jon Bois stuff when we got drunk, like that video where they run one play in Madden or the Mariners documentary, love that man's stuff, hope his sandwich shop opens soon
please do a full stream of reading through these
There are only three consistently active forums i can think of and they are all realted to a specific game, franchise or media. Forums that are very broad in scope have all stopped in time.
this video is veritable GOLD
2:17 forums are actually still around and kicking surprisingly new ones are sprouting up off and on.
Preciate you being on squizzy's sentience video
Great content keep it up
We didn't realize how good we had it, now it's kinda crappy ):
18:17 That describes meme theology
I luv this video
Vsauce2 made a video about Zork as well as that workout schedule discussion
16:39 AD&D is the second version of D&D
"You can say whatever you want on twitter..."
No you can't lol
8:44 This guy is a French Canadian so that's why his english wasn't the best.
10:29
saving this for later cause i find this thread hilarious
Whats crazy is i tried looking up buttole and i genuinely couldn't find any record of this town
please do more of these
haha, the zoomer lacks critical information about Zork
as one of the 3 people in michigan i can confirm LET ME OUT PLEASE
times may change but people dont
i missed you man
i miss the internet
dude i could you not, im 100% shure ive seen the exact words at 20:30 in a reddit post, wtf matrix
the forum argument about the weekdays thing was a mega64 flame war theater vid and its one of my fav
Yep
I love it
i love your videos
Hey bro. I just wanted to say you are my favorite UA-camr. I found your UFO video and I laughed so hard.
Good video, good job.
I wonder how the person who posted their favourite things is doing.. hope they are well.
wish i couldve experienced it
It was Lo, as in Lo and Behold. IT WAS LITERALLY EXPLAINING IT AND YOU SOMEHOW IGNORED IT WTF
My Favorite UA-camr
AZTROSIST
No contest...
what about Root Pooty?
10:58 - check out the incel in the faded text!
first message ever was almost lol
great video,
mario rodrigues
Nice to see American and Canadian internet relations haven't changed lol
If i can make an altgirl on twitter delete her account in a day imagine all the destruction modern trolls could do back then.
2:18
Give it time, you'll be an old man soon enough.
What happened to Buttole Town, It doesn't show up on Google or maps, did it die along with Usenet?