Internet Posts Used to Be Crazy

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[@socialgutbrain7774]

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.

[@NoName_NoTitle]

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?

[@socialgutbrain7774]

@@NoName_NoTitle :(

[@willevensen7130]

@@socialgutbrain7774 🫣

[@slimysomething]

It's actually a separate thing from websites, which became a thing in the 90s. Internet > Usenet/Websites

[@Storse]

@@NoName_NoTitle i was the wizard that maintained it, yes.

[@rottingbnnvy]

reddit gold is the equivalent of the second impact to the internet

[@narwhalthepilot]

Reddit Platinum is the 3rd Impact

[@shred1894]

I never really got into Gundam

[@TN47050]

@@shred1894 yeah I never me too, I never found that robot cartoon interesting.

[@squirrel1331]

"Yeah, I'll be paying for that with reddit gold"

[@duroburo7039]

so what was the first impact?

[@cupofdirtfordinner]

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

[@JesusChrist42000]

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

[@gooflux]

@@JesusChrist42000 He said TECHNICALLY. Jesus fucking Christ dude.

[@3katd]

@@JesusChrist42000nah

[@jc_art_]

​@@JesusChrist42000 😐

[@Sharkie_numbskull]

@@JesusChrist42000NEEEEERD

[@user-sl1wt1dv4y]

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

[@spicy_quaid]

I LOVE TA

[@sterlinsilver]

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

[@eichornfilm7122]

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.

[@ryanrobot7975]

You can also play Zork in call of duty Black ops, that's how I got into it. It's a fun game

[@najadamu2724]

NEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRD

[@chris135x]

"The more things change, the more they stay the same." - Aristotle, probably

[@pomtubes1205]

aztrotle

[@nosville22]

"I think people were more unhinged back then" YES. Yes they were.

[@Lieutenant_Matrix]

Simply, less woke

[@sloppyslabba]

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.

[@maestrofeli4259]

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

[@lockerbuddy2039]

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.

[@maestrofeli4259]

@@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

[@skeletonking2501]

We should have poem battles instead of debates.

[@wetoddedd]

I drew myself as the chad! So that means I win! See! See!?

[@dlobelow760]

"we're going back into ancient times!!" Az, this was 20 years ago. Don't you do that to me.

[@ziad616]

Some of the posts were from the early 80's, making them around 40 years ago I think

[@suzuxiiiahdv]

20 years ago was 2002

[@portugeese_man_o_war]

@@ziad616 wow that was 40 years ago

[@nathanarcher5292]

This is a really good video it helps me forget my failing marriage -Ron black

[@lol-ih1tl]

The Internet user behavior never really changed pretty much.

[@MegaGrawp]

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.

[@forelamp6873]

​@@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?

[@Vorticough]

it has changed a lot, actually

[@lol-ih1tl]

@@Vorticough with casual bigotry no longer being acceptable.

[@TalkingWeirdStuff24]

@@lol-ih1tl I see a fair deal of casual bigotry to this day. I wasn't online in the "old Internet" era so I can't say for certain if there has been an increase, but I still see a good deal of racism, sexism, homophobia, faithism, etc. And I still have to carefully tailor my internet interactions to even attempt to avoid it.

[@ninjamonkey9848]

Thanks, Aztrosist. It sure is nice to surf the forums to see what people back in the day wrote.

[@spartan2867]

Aids poems

[@lol-ih1tl]

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.

[@memebait]

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

[@Lieutenant_Matrix]

Truly incredible moment of history

[@Guro-Blue-kun]

I'm old. _Yes,_ I remember the AIDS poems era.

[@helloworldmasteredmusic]

6:46 _hovers over Extreme Needle Torture_ "yeah, maybe i won't say that one."

[@joeconti2396]

I recognized like 95% of the stuff Aztro didn't. I guess I'm old now

[@dlobelow760]

Just goes to show how old we're getting

[@vinesauceobscurities]

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.

[@7240-z8z]

hows it like being one foot in the grave, old man

[@Darachu]

@@vinesauceobscurities "noo wtf how do you not know chicken shooter for the wii"

[@zestyzucc7645]

I can't believe he didn't recognize Heretic!

[@mitchconner403]

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

[@maestrofeli4259]

the guy that said 4-3-4-3 was the only one correct

[@cyxx414]

i miss the old funky websites so colorful back then

[@Heezbungus]

YES

[@lol-ih1tl]

YTMND is still like that, so do a lot of porn websites.

[@cyxx414]

@@lol-ih1tl whats YTMND

[@lol-ih1tl]

@@cyxx414 You're the man now dawg.

[@pimposki6232]

​​@@cyxx414 "you're the man now, dawg!!"

[@tehrybite]

these old internet surfing videos never fail to disappoint, lovin this shit

[@SmokeTheHorsehog]

And my parents don't think that there was Internet back in the 80s. Usenet absolutely proves them wrong.

[@lol-ih1tl]

internet was first created in 1969. Although it was exclusively for the US Military.

[@shingosshojiopoulos6608]

Usenet is technically not internet

[@YourCapyFrenBigly_3DPipes1999]

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 😂

[@AwesomeYena]

I know all of those too. I'm not 40, though...

[@hashtag_swag]

we need to bring this back this is fucking amazing

[@thisisasupersayin376]

I wish I was interesting enough to have a favorite paperboard

[@YourCapyFrenBigly_3DPipes1999]

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

[@l34h6]

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

[@ShumuStudios]

This was surprisingly captivating. Love your sense of humor. And that ending was unexpected :))

[@simonghoul3602]

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

[@simonghoul3602]

correction: I wish I could just tell someone to fuck off. Let's see if KZbin 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.

[@dianesherrill9006]

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.

[@DCNRS90YT]

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]

So you just miss the past because everyone was saying slurs without any consequences.

[@simonghoul3602]

@@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

[@thebrutusmars]

Homophobic smash poetry, thank you internet

[@itryen7632]

It feels lonely being a fan of SHIFT-JIS-style ASCII art nowadays...

[@socialgutbrain7774]

You're not totally alone. I think it's really cool myself.

[@auntbill8166]

Well maybe if you were a more proficient friend

[@paultidwell8799]

everyone online has always been unhinged, maybe I should start acting more crazy to fit in.

[@paineoftheworld]

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.

[@nefariousgremlin7554]

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.

[@PhoenixPilot]

Ah, yes. Two unskippable 15 second BTS ads were exactly what I wanted to see before this video. 😀😀

[@ReleeSquirrel]

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.

[@hoodiereviews6003]

(4:52) Aztro, they’re all real places. That’s the joke, my dude.

[@3katd]

I literally live EXACTLY 5 minutes away from Hell Michigan💀💀

[@666Shinedown]

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

[@socialgutbrain7774]

I'm a zoomer and this filled my soul with anguish

[@GatorMilk]

Y'ain't goated with the sauce

[@i-man872]

Jesus Christ never type another thing on the internet you old man

[@666Shinedown]

@@i-man872 Listen to your elders zoomer, what are your pronouns?

[@AwesomeYena]

Everyone thinks I'm 30+ years old just because I type semi-formal and in proper grammar! :D-(

[@grumpydusty]

The internet could have just been cooking recipes. With angry comments about where Onions come from, 15 years after the recipe was posted.

[@TrappedInFloor]

Probably would have been for the best given the sorry state of the internet today.

[@dienison4209]

Make a part 2,this video was soooo good

[@simonghoul3602]

it's refreshing to see that times haven't changed that much

[@Lieutenant_Matrix]

Relieving to know that maybe the end of the first world isn’t so close after all

[@Sticks_And_Glue]

Great video, you’ve been making very interesting videos about the bowels of the internet recent

[@thestagesofgrief6454]

This is the quality of someone in the tens of millions of subscribers, upload more old internet videos this was great!

[@Psx806]

2:17 forums are actually still around and kicking surprisingly new ones are sprouting up off and on.

[@YourCapyFrenBigly_3DPipes1999]

Modem speed used to be measured in bauds When we upgraded to a 56K baud in '96 I felt legendary

[@hammerbeam]

I like how you question whether they are still alive when you are looking at posts from only like 20 years ago

[@swap_cake]

3:04 I hope you know that exclusively say cellular phone just to spite you

[@portugeese_man_o_war]

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

[@nosville22]

it's ironic the man who made 20 posts on their individual favourite things picked spam as one of them

[@caseys2698]

okay but "A VIRUS IS A MINDLESS THING" is kind of great tbh 9:35

[@bigearcat96]

16:39 AD&D is the second version of D&D

[@FeeshUnofficial]

The "liberal left extremists" thing is especially crazy when you consider that that was DECADES before PizzaGate which made that whole thing popular in the right and basically created the alt right movement

[@riplimewire]

imagine making a whole board dedicated to your favourite beer, and it's old mill 🤢 1996 was rough man

[@Lieutenant_Matrix]

Remember me when the replies erupt in debate

[@StudyLOL.]

Awesome video, thoroughly enjoyed!! - Tim Lee

[@Khora]

I laufed so much astorsit!! Thank you for your video. Best cvidoe for me this year. I laugh a lot Cheers, -DANIEL

[@theschnozzler]

The heck is a cvoide?

[@YourCapyFrenBigly_3DPipes1999]

I hope Ron Black is doing better these days

[@fatalcrabnow29]

This is like an older aztrosist video. I missed that style for a while, although I liked the more essay type videos

[@jktech2117]

i still use forums sometimes, theres the allegro cc forums for programming with the allegro game library for c++

[@seanthebeast300]

COSMIC WIMPOUT GOES CRAZY

[@Real_Boye]

I'm taking a life draining shit

[@MacJames4444]

Dope

[@TheZombiesAreComing]

2:18 Give it time, you'll be an old man soon enough.

[@hollyhock9638]

Nice to see American and Canadian internet relations haven't changed lol

[@winnamon7587]

The Canadian guy who was ranting is definitely from Quebec

[@kyuurimi]

My favourite Internet era is the 2000s.

[@FollowerofDuck]

times may change but people dont

[@thepungun4246]

Whats crazy is i tried looking up buttole and i genuinely couldn't find any record of this town

[@jayjam_]

If i can make an altgirl on twitter delete her account in a day imagine all the destruction modern trolls could do back then.

[@cs_kevin]

9:28 it really was Reddit in the 90s

[@Finneagan]

"You can say whatever you want on twitter..." No you can't lol

[@ivycat_]

as a canadian can confirm that here on the other side of the bounder. we know where the usa stand on the map, and are capable of placing washington D.C. and a couple of major americains cities.

[@chicken8597]

as one of the 3 people in michigan i can confirm LET ME OUT PLEASE

[@elspencicus7123]

This could be an infinite wealth of content

[@MegaGrawp]

2:00 Dude I used usenet and I'm not a boomer.

[@lotfi2631]

If the fire message was balls , humanity would be doing much better

[@maliciouslyContent]

this is just tumblr but straight

[@wwg2005]

We didn't realize how good we had it, now it's kinda crappy ):

[@kkarhiiv95]

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.

[@yokuutsu9097]

I live in Michigan, thanks Aztro.

[@kiri4936]

14:00 DO PEOPLE NOWADAYS NOT KNOW ABOUT POG!??!?????

[@cricricreator]

8:44 This guy is a French Canadian so that's why his english wasn't the best.

[@gigi12gigi12]

Reddit really is full of dad jokes. Maybe we should rename it to...Daddit Ba dum tsss

[@rebralhunter6069]

Booooooo

[@anopirsten7565]

Boooooo

[@1O1neTake]

Wooooooo

[@BSC_69]

W pun

[@tolafia6708]

i miss the internet

[@ferretman6790]

8:35 this guy has to be Quebecois judging by the poor English and Spelling of “American”

[@TheSkypetube]

18:17 That describes meme theology

[@ElectricKitty]

dude i could you not, im 100% shure ive seen the exact words at 20:30 in a reddit post, wtf matrix

[@gemwolfz2860]

these people would love tumblr

[@sumsizzurp]

I luv this video

[@19DannyBoy65]

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 KZbin 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)

[@phyzyks]

Jon Bois' stuff is amazing and I've been hugely inspired it

[@JoshFloor]

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

[@Ulrna]

first message ever was almost lol

[@LambdaVids]

this is why i wish i were able to go on the old internet,it was just awesome,and i hate minimalism cuz it looks like a plastic toy's balls

[@storytimewiththecrimsondm1318]

ok, lots of lols, I like the old internet, seems like people just said what they wanted and we could laugh

[@lol-ih1tl]

You want to go back to when screaming slurs was accepted?

[@tango_doggy]

Vsauce2 made a video about Zork as well as that workout schedule discussion

[@krma8775]

I wonder how the person who posted their favourite things is doing.. hope they are well.

[@mightysurtur752]

Preciate you being on squizzy's sentience video

[@RandomFandomOfficial]

I know what usenet is for, and I’m not a boomer… Pirated Content!

[@iscoute8353]

In 3:22 there is no timestamp save database back then or it was but not used in blog website since there is no used for that so it sets to 0

[@zestyzucc7645]

"ass drugs...rofl" - DeV I really want to know the context.

[@afsanehnoohi1683]

I like stamps

[@Vailskibum]

1982?!

[@krispy4L]

1982?1

[@micjimster4845]

Wasnt expecting to see you here..

[@nicholaskremin4987]

I’m trying to find an old text comic, I think it was crapola something or other. I remember a specific comic of a cat drinking either a milkshake or glass of water then dying because it had a brain eating amoeba.

[@gemwolfz2860]

tastes like prion disease!

[@Toxo]

10:58 - check out the incel in the faded text!

[@midnightman3918]

9:42 OMG NIRVANA REFERENCE !!!!!!!!

[@c0vish]

10:29 saving this for later cause i find this thread hilarious