Old Internet Reminiscence - Where did it all go?

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Old Internet used to have the best internet web comics and chat rooms that had many different and unique looking characters that made you wonder how and why they were short lived.

Fast forward to today, you now see Twitch and corporatized cartoons made by Google and Amazon being made to give the illusion that they are unique and interesting to look at.
 
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Good times.
 

The internet will never be the same. The big corporations took it all over. Today it looks like a retarded Six Flags. While the kids watch Elsa dental videos and play Minecraft, Mommy and Daddy drop the house payments and Junior's college fund on buying property in Cryptoland. In the old days, file sharers knew your handle, knew what anime you were wanting to watch or what Doom mods were worth playing. Today it's like signing something a the fucking DMV. Today it's all gone. You got some old Quake vet grognard with years of kills to his name showing up in a Fortnite game and a 9 year old calls him a cuckold. After the old 4channers finally got knocked out of the box, the internet providers tore down just about every one of the old boards. And where did the money come from to rebuild the net? Junk bonds.

In the end, I wound up back where I started, writing homebrew RPG settings for curious randos and playing Blood. And why mess with a good thing?
 
Ponychan shut down, a bit ago.

It and the MLP community have always been a fascination for me. It was such a clear defined generational marker. The biggest thing in the universe, people thought it was going to go on forever until it suddenly didn't.

I was able to find one archived thread: https://web.archive.org/web/20151106042756/https://www.ponychan.net/arch/res/12879.html
And it struck me how it really was just cringy weirdos having a good time. Meanwhile everything now seems to have this depressive haze to it. And that is probably what I miss the most. It became normalized activism to base your entire world around whatever issue you hold dear now.
 
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