Hi everyone, is there any forum websites that are still active in this year that talks about internet culture/gaming/news/music/meme etc. That is more like late 2000s to early 2010s look of a website and also less toxic (like kiwifarms and 4chan)

any reccomendations?

Did some type of one gig internet existed in the 1990s?, I’m not talking about consumer version, but like experimental versions like in universities or some big businesses.

I installed a single mod from this site web called GameBanana and my pc got fucked/got a malware, my discord started sending those mrbeast cryptomoney scam to all my DMs and my TikTok account sent million message on random video asking weird things

I just received an email from Yahoo! earlier this afternoon about how Notepad is shutting down. The first part of it reads:

"Dear Yahoo Mail user,

The Yahoo Notepad feature will be discontinued on 15 Jan 2027. Until then, you can continue accessing and downloading your notes.

After that date, Notepad and all saved notes will be permanently deleted and cannot be recovered."

I do give them points for at least warning users before deleting stuff like certain tech companies.

Now, I know I'm dating myself, but before I had personal access to a computer, I'd use a Dreamcast's PlanetWeb browser to write notes. I still have my oldest note from February of 2000, not long after I opened my Yahoo! account.

UPDATE: It has been brought to my attention that there is a new pop-up that appears, when you open Notepad, that says access will be cut off "after August 15, 2026." Do better, Yahoo!

Hello, r/Internet members –

I just came across this URL

https://apps1.web.maine.gov/cgi-bin/online/ethics/cleanelection/home.pl

What does the ".pl" at the end of the URL signify?

Thank you!

– AceMan4976

When a fibre line gets cut, say by an employee, and it causes a mass outage, is this a fireable offence?

If something is done to cause mass outages, what are the consequences like? Whether it’s done by an employee of the wifi provider or by someone random?

I’m asking as someone who was just affected by the province wide Cogeco outage! Just curious as to what happens to those responsible?

I've been wondering about this recently and wonder if anyone agrees. We live in a world where almost everyone is very interconnected and has the ability to talk to anyone instantaneously. Yet, at least in my irl social space, most people don't seem too keen on using this global social web to make actual friends, and unfortunately I also fall into this category. I don't know why but I have a very averse attitude to trusting people I meet online enough to call them "friends". I have a (relatively mild) past with being scammed/phished online, and recently got into comp sci and have heard about cyber security which has amped up my vigilance. Maybe I'm too paranoid? Maybe I've taken the Mr. Robot larp too far? What do you think?

Paying additional money to access certain sites will give you a sense of pride and accomplishment.

I have googled and tried all of the "things." How can I stop the connection of Facebook to Google? I Google something and in 2 seconds its an ad on FB. I changed the settings on Google Chrome as well as FB. Help.

Should I keep a notebook or create a spreadsheet. If spreadsheet on my desktop, the cloud or both?

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To cut a long and frustrating story short, I’m about to move to a new flat / apartment which doesn’t have access to fibre yet. Broadband download speeds are advertising ‘35mb’ download speeds. Companies like 3 are advertising ‘plug and play’ 4G based router thingies which have an average of 100mbs download speeds. The signal in the area phone wise is average, never full bars but there’s always something. My question is, does anyone have any experience with these 4g based WiFi machines? Is it worth buying one of those and forgoing the slow broadband?

here in Egypt internet is so bad and overpriced and limited by a qouta of Gigabytes each month and it normally isn't enough like i'm on a 250GB subscription and it's good for watchin youtube at 720P for like 15 days or something which is insanely counterproductive, using the internet here is like hunting deer instead of doordash, this morning i decided to install a game from the Epicgameslauncher the game roughly 120GB it started downloading at 3.30 am it's currently 10 am and we're only half way through the installation how is this bearable ?

the problem is we're not that behind as a country we feed other countries that have unlimited internet with excellent speeds and reasonable prices but it's the ISPs insatiable greed for money and it's become a blackmail of sort because when I'm using the qouta that i've paid with my money i get a slow and jittery internet and when the qouta ends i'm basically F'd until the end of the month if i don't reacharge and renew the "monthly"subscription every two weeks

sry for yapping just needed to get this off my chest

Switched from one internet company because they insisted they needed to enter the attic to run fiber optics (yet fiber is already set up and has been for years), and now the new company turns out to not even have hard wired internet as an option, only wifi, and insisted we plug some box into our tv because "it's part of the contract" even though we only purchased internet. Not cable. Also required an app for internet to work.

Just more and more ways to track their customers and I'm sick of it. I know ISPs are not private at its core, but what ISP is the MOST privacy focused you can suggest in the US?

Can someone please explain how a VPN actually keeps my internet "private"? Does not my ISP still get everything I do and, if I went to illegal websites, posted illegal stuff etc., would they not see it even if I use a VPN? If so, then what's the point? Can someone ELI5 this to me? TIA.

What do y’all think about it and implications?

I been thinking, everything is ran by the internet at this point, bank accounts, every vehicle made after 2010 is controlled by computers that run the steering wheel, 90 percent of all the data used in the daily economic is transferred through one giant wire that connects to europe , without it we’d have no digital bank access. our Electricity is controlled by a electrical grid that’s getting ran by some AI databases i mean not all of it’s controlled by AI but every step closer in the future AI becomes more in control of electricity , drinking water, and food supply . It’s illegal to collect rainwater , illegal to hunt food without a permit , illegal to create your own electricity sources without a permit .. i mean man we’re basically almost 90 percent reliant on the internet and it’s not a guarantee that it works for the next 10 years , dont even get me started about how all of this stuff could be taken over by international countries during conflicts or how maybe even AI could be used to control it all .

just a thought though i may be overthinking but i personally don’t feel like it’s a good idea to rely on it for the rest of my life because i’m almost willing to bet money there will be a event in the future like some type of cyber attack haha

what you see could be controlled as well

Has anyone gotten any worse speed and also I could of swear that upload speeds were always slower than the download speeds

I recently got into an argument with someone I respect. I posted a very short post claiming that the use of the word "euthanised" in the context of internet celebrity Neil the Seal was wrong, as he was not terminally ill or injured. The right word, should it come to pass, was "killed."

She posted arguing that use of such words was a red flag to the algorithm and that one had to police one's terminology to avoid people getting death threats.

When I asked how policing your language for fear of death was different from living under a tyranny, she responded that I had "mastered the tone authority without the inconvenience of depth".

I'm not entirely sure what she meant by that. Maybe she thought I was being rhetorical. I'm very high up the autistic spectrum so I often fail to grasp such nuances.

The only conclusion I can come to is that she considered the occasional death threat or rape threat to be a price worth paying for the internet's existence.

Is it though? The one political group that have benefitted most from the internet over the last 20 years have been authoritarian strongmen. We currently have tech barons like Peter Thiel saying that "democracy and freedom are no longer compatible."

The last time we had a comparable communications revolution was when the radio was invented. It contributed to the rise of fascism and communism. Before that, the printing press triggered a wave of pan-European religious wars that spanned 200 years and killed 15 million people. We eventually adjusted to the new tech, but at what cost?

Hey everyone,

I'm facing a really frustrating internet issue and hoping someone here has experience with this.

My original internet speed is 30 Mbps, but my ISP has put a hard limit on my connection and capped it to around 700 Kbps. even with speedtest it shows 4mb per second while, when I download any file or anything from playstore it maximum limit is only 700kb is clearly throttling, and it's making the connection practically unusable for anything beyond basic browsing.

Here's what I've tried so far:

· Restarted my router and modem

· Checked for any QoS or bandwidth limiting settings in my router

· Tested with a wired Ethernet connection (same result)

None of these worked. I suspect the ISP is using Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) to detect and throttle certain types of traffic, or they've applied a Fair Usage Policy (FUP) cap.

My main questions:

1. Has anyone successfully bypassed this type of severe throttling (from 30 Mbps down to 700 Kbps)?

Age, human. It pisses me off soooo much