>>18968373That's not the old, old Internet dammit, counterstrike didn't come out till 99. I started with Prodigy in 93, on a computer I built from parts from a paper catalog lol. First game I played online was the original red alert.
The quality of people on the Internet has gone down steadily from that time, and was already bad before the early 2000s. It used to be so heavily male that females were assumed to be dudes. Not troons, just dudes. It was also completely white; there weren't foreigners except maybe a few Brits, and we made sure they behaved. The age group was almost totally 15-35 (generally late genX early millennials,) the only place I ever interacted with boomers was peak kino 90s Stormfront, but they were truly based boomers. I'm talking Jackboot, Muaddib, Johnjoytree, the old man, and even Don Black himself. If these names don't ring a bell you are a new fag. Zero Indians, chinks or blacks. The first foreigners I really interacted with were annoying Koreans on battlenet. Bots were rare and when they were present they were so crude it was obvious they were bots. The average IQ had to have been well over a hundred. The only thing that sucked was the speed. 14.4 then 28.8 then finally 56k....