What are some things you used to do on the internet back in the day but don't do anymore for whatever reason

[Mayne]

I used to troll forums.

 

[BoomerD]

Congratulations...when are you planning to stop?

 

[IronWing]

I used to update my website.

 

[sdifox]

Download gif

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Used a coupon site that actually gave coupons that worked!
Amazing....

 

[IronWing]

I used to frequent usenet before it turned into 100% kiddy porn. I don't even know if it exists anymore. I can't imagine legit institution/company wanting to risk linking their servers to it.

 

[pete6032]

AOL chat rooms, MSN gaming Zone. I used to use gamecopyworld to download cracked .exe files so I didn't have to put the damn game CD in my CDROM drive every time I wanted to play.

 

[Exterous]

ICQ

Uh-oh!

 

[amdhunter]

Post in this forum.

 

[ultimatebob]

I used to get valid video game cheat codes off of websites that didn't require a subscription! That's becoming increasingly tougher now.

 

[nutxo]

AOL chat rooms, MSN gaming Zone. I used to use gamecopyworld to download cracked .exe files so I didn't have to put the damn game CD in my CDROM drive every time I wanted to play.

LOL. I did 2 out of 3 of those things. Gaming zone was great for MW2 and I did the exe thing as well from the same site. I pretty much did chat on yahoo maybe?? I also hung around the linux chats. Bitchx

 

[Motostu]

MUD, ICQ

 

[Dr. Detroit]

Flash games

 

[pmv]

Visiting multiple different non-paywalled newspaper sites, for different takes on events.
These days it's down to the twin poles of The Guardian and The Daily Mail. Which, still constitutes a pretty large range, I guess.

Downloading 'user-made levels' for games like Quake.

Going back even earlier - using usenet.

 

[Captante]

A lot of the same kind of stuff I do now.


But really really slowly.

 

[JujuFish]

Came in to say IRC. I see that multiple people have already mentioned it.

 

[zinfamous]

clean out my email inbox.

use some of those browser tools/websites that send you to random websites that tend to be interesting (forgot what the one I used was called).
feed my fish in Opera browser (I assume they are long dead by now)
religiously follow/post in CL Rants & Raves (basically my jam before I discovered all the sociopaths at ATOT)

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Yeah an empty mailbox, I forgot that was even possible.

 

[repoman0]

Torrents and pirating. Killed by streaming services and just having a real job that makes money

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Torrents and pirating. Killed by streaming services and just having a real job that makes money

I know, without high speed internet I was so happy if I could find, successfully download and have the proper sound quality with 5 mp3’s Per night.

 

[lxskllr]

See ads. I kinda liked some of those 'old school' pages with ads down both sides flashing like Time Square. It was pretty cheezy, but I like the old time huckster feel.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

I’ll say it because you all are too shy.

Seeing a naked women on the internet.

 

[sdifox]

I’ll say it because you all are too shy.

Seeing a naked women on the internet.

You don't do that anymore?

 

[Fanatical Meat]

You don't do that anymore?

Not as exciting as it used to be

 

[snoopy7548]

Not as exciting as it used to be

They now have a lot of uh... exciting categories.