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Old school internets. What do you miss?

I miss the community on livejouranl

chatting on aim

I miss chat rooms that were not all perverts and spam links but actual people.

What do you miss?

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Permalink Reply by AbsentElemental on January 21, 2013 at 1:53pm

I still chat on AIM with 2-3 of my friends who refuse to go to google chat. Trillian and Pidgin make life simpler that way.

I'm on board with the non-spam chat rooms.

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Permalink Reply by Ginny on January 21, 2013 at 2:57pm

this nice thing is that you can log into aim in gchat. I stopped using aim though due to being spammed all the time. "Check out my cam!!"

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Permalink Reply by AbsentElemental on January 21, 2013 at 10:48pm

Also, I just remembered the greatest part of the past internet: Homestar Runner

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Permalink Reply by Hayden Fennell on January 21, 2013 at 4:38pm

I generally don't miss much from the "olden days" of the internet. It used to be pretty terrible (although we had no idea, because we did not really know at the time what it would become), and things are pretty much just better now.

I do, however, miss the days of AIM and dedicated chat clients. Facebook chat has taken over, for the most part, but I sort of liked the "privacy" of chatting on AIM, even if it was just imagined. It just felt like more effort was required to maintain a relationship with someone through chat clients like AIM. It demanded more user attention, and I kind of miss the carefully cultivated friends lists that gave it that sort of "I actually want to talk to you" mentality.

Also, the sounds. I used Pidgin for really long time, and I loved hearing the little blips and bloops.

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Permalink Reply by Ginny on January 21, 2013 at 7:13pm

The sounds! Yes! I wish I could make my gchat make the aim sounds.

I kind of miss the pre facebook days.

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Permalink Reply by AbsentElemental on January 21, 2013 at 7:16pm

I got off Facebook by choice in June of last year, and I honestly don't miss it. The first few days without it was a bit awkward, but I personally haven't found a need for it since that I couldn't get around through other means (email/texting/visiting people)