To hell with the internet

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Yeah, who's with me? Bah.

I vaguely remember a distant time when I could download a file by clicking on a download link. Now I have to battle through an endless amount of confusing, poorly designed, soulless mass-produced pages of flashed advertisement banners and bottomless navigation panels where everything is so full of information and garbage that it's hard to find anything. Then, after I've waded through a few pages, I'm told that I need to register so that the ****ers can shove spam up my ass until I bleed to death. I assume they are also trying to flood me with popups (who the **** even reads them?), but Mozilla is keeping them at bay. At the moment I'm trying to acquire Steam, but I'm out of luck because all the file servers either require registration or are not responding. It's a rule of thumb that the more mirrors you have, the less mirror you have (98% will be broken or useless).

And every gaming site looks the same. You've got your navigation panel on the left, your big-time logo on the top and the compulsonary ad below it. Same goes for corporate sites - they all look like they are coming from an assembly line. But Gayspy really took it to the next level - they streamlined every Planet* site to look, feel and behave exactly the same. The future of gaming! Meanwhile, people are fervently working to make online games an eSport (tm) (r) (c) where people win lots of money by sitting on their ass and developing carpal tunnel syndrome all night long. Shit, I even saw a documentary where this big-time UT23K player lived like an emperor while explaining how he practises twelve hours a day (in other words, he plays a video game and jacks off to porn, thus getting money). Ok, whatever.

Just to make sure that the internet really has no point, people are going apeshit over the prospect of downloading movies from the internet, because, really, it's just too expensive to go to the cinema. And it's so much cooler to watch low-resolution garbage, because you can tell everyone that you saw Return of the King before the premiere! But where do they get the money to maintain a high-speed internet connection and a fast system? Who the **** knows! Probably from mommy and daddy. Corporations are in panic, so they introduce a number of strange legislations and embarrasing copy protections that are bypassed with the shift key. Well, who can blame them, when kids with DSL are getting everything they release for free.

Jesus pissing christ! What the **** is going on here? The internet is one of the most useful inventions ever made, and everyone is hell-bent on ruining it as fast as humanly possible, including the so-called fans of Half-Life 2 who don't see anything wrong with ripping off Valve and telling them to piss off. Afterwards they will get the gold release from some virus-ridden FTP, I'm sure. Meanwhile, people are clogging up the bandwidth with spam, porn and illegal games and movies.

I don't even know who I should fear more: the crackers, virus developers and thiefs or the corporations that try to control everything. And if they can't control it, they will sue, buy or sabotage it. Especially if it's free, like Linux.

Goddamn it.
 
Ah, I remember the good old days of the internet .. just 4-5 years ago:

- Free unlimited hosting (space and bandwidth) with no banners/popups
- AOL was cool
- Pay to Surf
- You could actually download files > 20 MB from places other then P2P

All seems quite bizzare now.
 
heh..

see...my site host its own downloads...click = download. :D
 
Hehe.. I was scared.. Running around saying "Ohmigod, ohmigod!, to find out it was just a pop up. :D
 
Brilliant posting...pretty much agree with most of it.

And Mozilla rules :)
 
You mean the whole WWW.turnofftheinternet.COM?

I love that thing.

Hehe.. I was scared.. Running around saying "Ohmigod, ohmigod!, to find out it was just a pop up.

:LOL:




Ah yes...the good old days, when it was time to get out the champagne because you got a download speed of...4 kbs I remember sometimes during the brief time when the Americans werent on you could get that up to 6 kbs
 
Originally posted by LoneDeranger
Ah, I remember the good old days of the internet .. just 4-5 years ago:

- Free unlimited hosting (space and bandwidth) with no banners/popups
- AOL was cool
- Pay to Surf
- You could actually download files > 20 MB from places other then P2P

All seems quite bizzare now.
I agree with all of this except AOL always sucked.


But, I do remember, and deeply miss, free hosting, it used to be everwhere, now the only free hosting you can get will make your customers order a bottle of viagra or have so many ads and popups you cant see the page.
grah.
 
Yeah free hosting was good. Prices arent to bad at the moment but i can imagine that in the future they will be worse than.....mobile phones bills or something.
 
Ah i can remeber getting in a panic when i was on the internet too long racking up a huge phone bill... then came unlimited access rates yay!
 
Hehe, u guys complain - us in brasil pay our damn R$34.00 a month + we pay 0.06 for every 4 minutes as telephony charge except sundays all day, 00:00-6:00 normal days, and after 2:00pm on saturdays......unless u got dsl, which aint cheap...

HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL...
 
I even saw a documentary where this big-time UT23K player lived like an emperor while explaining how he practises twelve hours a day (in other words, he plays a video game and jacks off to porn, thus getting money). Ok, whatever.

LMAO.
 
I even saw a documentary where this big-time UT23K player lived like an emperor while explaining how he practises twelve hours a day (in other words, he plays a video game and jacks off to porn, thus getting money). Ok, whatever.

Same here, except I don't get paid and have to find my own porn.
 
Originally posted by Thadius Dean
what is that website? im not planning to go there.

Just pops up words on a black background, they say:

"You have now safely turned off the internet"

Just press alt+f4 to get out.
 
I remember as a kid on a 14.4k modem typing on an ancient IE explorer (Or was it netscape?) address bar: games.
Then I got upset because it wouldnt work. Now you type games and you get a all fancy yahoo style search engine page that pisses me off!
 
Originally posted by cpu killer
Hehe, u guys complain - us in brasil pay our damn R$34.00 a month + we pay 0.06 for every 4 minutes as telephony charge except sundays all day, 00:00-6:00 normal days, and after 2:00pm on saturdays......unless u got dsl, which aint cheap...

HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL...

que saco!

wait, do you speak portuguese?
 
Originally posted by pHATE1982
AOL was never cool!

Compuserve forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

American ISPs have always been shite, long live Demon & Nildram ^_^
 
Nice post. I agree, although I'm online for 3 years only. I don't think that the whole internet will be overtaken by corporate companies...

I remember when the fileplanet servers weren't pay-per-download and everyone could download for free and directly without annoying banners.
 
Corporations are the true evil in this world, and they just can't wait to get their hands on all the new fancy technology just to screw us all over a little bit more.

Everything is going downhill, and anyone who has ever attempted to watch a Disney DVD will know exactly what I mean.
 
I have to agree with you on the DIsney thing.

I remember (in fact its probably still going on) when companys liked Disney were trying to make it legal for them to install stuff on your computer over the internet without your consent. So things would just popup and advertise [insert company name here], and they would run programs and stuff. It would also have included the now mandatory spyware that comes with everything corporate nowadays.

I still think its amazing how these companys act like single entitys (im sure theres a proper term for that but it has slipped my mind). I mean, they save the company a millon pounds ina year, but who really benefits from that? The limbs?(People who did the actualy work) or the head? (The big boss man:)) Its all crazy, everyone is told that they should just get their head down and work until they are 70 when they can finaly retire and live off a pension that will probably last 6 months, unless of course you can do a David Blaine twice a year.

Anyway, before i completely hijack this thread im going to stop, as you can probably tell this is something i feel more than a little strongly about.
 
I watched a film called "Con Air" the other day. This guy (allegedly crazy) goes on about how sitting in an office 5 days a week for 40+ years before being told to "f*** off" is what is crazy, and that he in fact is the sane one.

I kind of agree with him (although he was a mass murderer so not completely). If you've ever watched one of those nature documentries you'll have noticed that 90% of the animal kingdom seems to spend a few hours a day hunting for food, then generally spends the rest of the day lazing about. We humans appear to have created a very strange situation for ourselves whereby we actually work more than we probably would have done if we weren't so "intelligent".

Also, while we're at it I'd like to add Advertising to the list of true evils. I swear the only reason I like Mars bars better is because I've been brainwashed by wave after wave of Mars bar adverts. It truly amazes me that these things are still legal. Can everyone seriously be that oblivious to what is actually going on here?
 
Originally posted by Farrowlesparrow
Ah yes...the good old days, when it was time to get out the champagne because you got a download speed of...4 kbs I remember sometimes during the brief time when the Americans werent on you could get that up to 6 kbs

Man, you are SO right. I can remember a time when those were my exact thoughts, I was truly happy when I managed to get 4KB/s on the good ole Napster...

ah, nostalgia

thank god for dsl
 
I was a member of AOL back in 1993 - there were only a 1/2 million of us poor souls at the time...still sucked tho especially on my little modem!

But I've been online since 1986; that was with a Commodore Amiga, thank you, and the only thing on the internet was BBS's or university ftp's. Modem was a blazingly fast 2600 baud monster (I could push it to 9600 baud tho)! Ha! 40mg hard drive was elite, too.

I agree totally; the internet went quickly from being the cool place to hang out away from corporate garbage, to being a jungle of crap that has to be waded through with a virtual machete. What torques me off completely is BS like pop-ups - if I don't like them then I have to PAY a company for software that attempts to stop them? What a racket! Create tons of spamming popups/unders, then a bit later sell software to stop all the jackass company websites from being able to use them! I've sold my product twice. (I realize that I can stop them other ways, but the average consumer on the internet has no clue - believes the World Wide Web always looked like this/etc. I use Phoenix to browse sometimes just to give relief from the popups.)
 
Originally posted by Solidarnosi
I was a member of AOL back in 1993 - there were only a 1/2 million of us poor souls at the time...still sucked tho especially on my little modem!

But I've been online since 1986; that was with a Commodore Amiga, thank you, and the only thing on the internet was BBS's or university ftp's. Modem was a blazingly fast 2600 baud monster (I could push it to 9600 baud tho)! Ha! 40mg hard drive was elite, too.

I agree totally; the internet went quickly from being the cool place to hang out away from corporate garbage, to being a jungle of crap that has to be waded through with a virtual machete. What torques me off completely is BS like pop-ups - if I don't like them then I have to PAY a company for software that attempts to stop them? What a racket! Create tons of spamming popups/unders, then a bit later sell software to stop all the jackass company websites from being able to use them! I've sold my product twice. (I realize that I can stop them other ways, but the average consumer on the internet has no clue - believes the World Wide Web always looked like this/etc. I use Phoenix to browse sometimes just to give relief from the popups.)

Not sure what OS you use, but if you've got IE then the google toolbar is very good a blocking popups, and it is free. I use it all the time.
 
Just out of interest....does anyone here EVER actually click popups? For example, have you purposefully clicked on a popup in the last month or so because the product they were selling looked good? And after that did you go on to buy it? I don't know of a single person that has ever purchased something through an annoying popup.

...Having said that, those devious hit the monkey banners were kinda attractive...

;)
 
Have you seen the banners that flash and say "If this is flashing then you are a winner"? Well, i saw a couple of themt hat werent flashing, bit smarter than the norm i suppose but you would have to be dumb to fall for it. What i dont get, is why are porn popups for mad; you close one and 2 more pop up, eventually you just have to hold down Alt F4.

I just started to download something...it started at 7 kbs :x

Fortunately it sped up. I havent seen a download that slow since i had the 56K, of course when i saw it then i was crying with joy over the amazing speed.
 
Yeah, very annoying. There's also those lame ones that say 'You are the 100,000,000th user to the site! Click to claim a prize!' every time you refresh or revisit...hmmm...

Its the new generation of flash popups that worry me though - very slick putting them on a new broswer layer, but there's no way to close them unless they include a button. :flame:

*Edit: It can't be too long before we expand the broadband architecture so much that you can stream a DVD over the net...the current read rate for a DVD is only about 4-6 mb/s, no? oh the possibilities....
 
Originally posted by Farrowlesparrow
Have you seen the banners that flash and say "If this is flashing then you are a winner"? Well, i saw a couple of themt hat werent flashing, bit smarter than the norm i suppose but you would have to be dumb to fall for it. What i dont get, is why are porn popups for mad; you close one and 2 more pop up, eventually you just have to hold down Alt F4.

I just started to download something...it started at 7 kbs :x

Fortunately it sped up. I havent seen a download that slow since i had the 56K, of course when i saw it then i was crying with joy over the amazing speed.

yeah those area annoying, you gotta be quick and hit the close button before it has time to load any html.. then there's those popups that'll either open full screen (annoying) or those that open just in a certain way off the top of the screen so you can't quickly get to the menu or titlebar buttons to close it in time and three others appear (very very annoying)

then of course there are those popups that scroll in from the side, and trying to close it often ends up missing and opening it instead

the worst though, the absolutely worst are the new flash popups. They can open any size with just a small thing in the corner, but the rest of the screen is one very big invisible button that you don't even know is there until you click the screen (cause the thing itself is a tiny well hidden image in the corner and you just don't see its up there until your clicking away wondering why the web page isn't working, only to find some flash popup was there all along.. their also annoying with the trailers too, and the far too loud music many have, its just annoying, so very very asnnnoying
 
I fell for a porn banner that had a nice girl with the "interesting" bits slightly off top and bottom... and a fake scroll bar. Naturally I clicked on the scroll bar !!! doh
 
Originally posted by MrD
I fell for a porn banner that had a nice girl with the "interesting" bits slightly off top and bottom... and a fake scroll bar. Naturally I clicked on the scroll bar !!! doh

Auch, they're usually quite easy to spot
 
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