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I somehow managed to avoid the really heinous stuff like beheadings, but I do remember a lot of the classic shock websites.
Apparently the cock from MeatSpin belonged to a trans woman porn star. So that's fun, I hope she's doing well, whoever she is.
my middle school classmates were browsing rotten.com on the school computers in the breaks, so I've seen at least one drowned corpse when passing by ๐คข
I saw Saddam hang. Louder than you'd think.
I saw war crimes and decided war was bad. Guess who decided that we shouldn't be able to see war crimes?
itch.io has so many really cool free games that can be played in your browser. Neocities exists. So many cool communities exist on the internet
just because most of the most popular websites are terrible doesnt mean cool sites dont exist
Yeah, its the same as old man saying there's no good music.
There's not much corporately popular shoved in your face good music. But now is literally the golden age of all media, before we are all restricted from enjoying any of it without being a criminal or paying subscription fees just to log into my PC. I give it 5 or 8 years . they're already coming for emulation because people are sick of shitty new games.
You can still find the good of the internet. Use webrings, kagi small web search, use your bookmarks, neocities, Its still out there.
The fediverse is a big one too
The real issue is all your normie friends have no idea of this or are terrified of anything that isnt corponet, so they will not partake in ye olden web. But thats OK.
Saw some lemons making party, some girls with a cup definitely not doing the cup song and a few leaks live, but otherwise it was a great time.
When I was a kid I saw a video of guy being high on drugs and cutting his own dick off. Was the best demonstration of that drugs are bad ๐
Or maybe he had a really itchy dick, you ever thought of that?
There was a brief moment in the internet during this time, not the wild west age of unmoderated forums and ascaii memes but the budding frontier town of rage comics and early social media. There was an exact point, just before the year Facebook became the defacto social network, where the internet could have taken a different path and lead to something great. You still see the chipped paint of that mural in places like Reddit before the premium and Lemmy before the shill accounts. The hangers on from the old world that catch the scraps the mega corps drop. Gaiaonline is still propped up by a dedicated community. Small forums grow like weeds in the cracked pavement.
If we could find those places, sure up their crumbling palisades against the endless effort to advertise, breathe life into them in our own quite ways. Create the internet we wanted instead of sulking in the one we were given.
Ok but people are already doing this.
Please point me to this.
I was moderator on an online video platform at the time. I arrived to work early, get my coffee and went to my desk for my morning empty-the-queue-list routine... spitted my coffee, maybe puked a little... and moved on with my tasks!
I never watched any beheading videos, for obvious reasons; even in youth or now
I did enjoy the Charles Cork shooting or whatever his dumbfuck name was? Forgot
Whole head did not come off. 2/10 beheading
Welcome to our neighborhood!
Does it have cartel beheading videos in 120p
Rotten.com
I never went looking for extreme violence, but in my teens I sometimes visited the "extreme/bizarre" shock blogs of my country, so saw quite a few disgusting sexual videos that are burned into my mind forever, like cock-and-ball torture (up to self-amputation) and various bestiality types ๐ฌ
Welcome to the internet!
Have a look around...
Anything that brain of yours can think of can be found..
We've got mountains of content, some better, some worse
The laugh Bo gave in that track made my skin crawl, I'll never forget it
everyday I'm thankful I never let curiosity get to the better of me as a kid on the internet
Yeah, I used 4Chan for a while as a kid. From what I've heard it's more tame now, but I saw some stuff no person should ever see. I think it helped shape me as a person though, largely in a good way. It helped me form opinions about death and killing that I think are good.
Personally, I think people should have to watch some combat footage before they vote. Your vote can send people to go kill other people. If you don't know what that looks like, maybe your opinion on the matter shouldn't be worth as much. Until you see someone dying (actually dying, not hollywood dying), I don't think you should be allowed to make decisions about killing people.
Extra benefit: identify the very small % of people who actually are extremely enthusiastic about it when watching that kind of shit and somehow as society try to deal better with those people...
Back before governments realized they could spread propaganda and disinformation everywhere through the internet, and companies could make boatloads of money manipulating people algorithmically through social media.
Honestly yeah, the internet was better before all that. And now we have AI generated news and websites showing up everywhere and it's being shoved down our throats, and we are on the precipitous of global "age verification" (cough more privacy violations)
But, other than that, the modern internet is fine. Everything's fine.
In hindsight, a decentralised and democratic internet is indeed better. We are trying to recreate that in Lemmy.
Goatse
Tubgirl
Lemon party
Yeah, those were simpler times.
Detroit hardcore, Kids in a sandbox
If I could go back, Iโd pass on the beheading. Damn morbid curiosity.
I wouldn't. I didn't enjoy them, but they seemed important. A brief glimpse into extreme reality.
It certainly broke your bubble when you saw it.
I was an adult when that was going around. I decided I wasn't that curious. I've never seen 'two girls one cup' either. I don't regret my choice.
Edit: I also didn't need to see the Charlie Kirk murder, either.
RIP Flash
Lots of people talking about beheadings, but the video that I can never unwatch was of a woman in a blank walled room facing the camera and getting unceremoniously shot in the head with a revolver. I've no idea if it was real or not, but the lack of, for want of a better word, "spectacle" makes me think it was.
I don't want to look it up again to find out but if anyone knows for sure...
My worst was a cat that was put into a small cage and then poured gasoline on, and then lit on fire. I didn't even look it up, I just saw (and heard) it because someone else was watching. I never recovered from that
:(
Analogue youth, digital teens, here.
Simpler times... when we'd watch Jimmy Savile on TV, and were told he was a beloved children's entertainer. O_O