The best time of the internet was when everything was difficult.

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I remember when I started using the Internet in 2000 or 2001, I had a Pentium 3 800MHz with 128 memory, 30GB disk, terrible performance for the time due to the integrated SiS igpu.

At that time, it was very difficult to download games and music on websites, you got these things in P2P programs like Kazaa and eMule, it was slow to download, but you got everything or almost everything you wanted, it was very easy and simple to use, you searched something, just chose one and download, some P2P programs came with IRC, chat rooms, integrated video players, you did everything right there, it was like a free road, you had everything in a single place.

Also, at that time, you could not comment on any website, only in forums or chats, you could not buy and share files, and uploading videos, images and texts, or create blogs and websites for free was impossible at the time, these concepts did not exist at the time, today people are complaining a lot.

But it was very cool, it was clean, only people who understood something used computers and internet, today any irritating and degenerate idiot is online and is speaking foolishness, but at that time there was much more respect between each other, in reality it was all calm and clean, peaceful, you don't even talked too much with each other, not even by email.

So I think if something happens and if they block, censure or limit everything, this may turn out to be a good thing, imagine all the human garbage staying on Reddit, Facebook and YouTube, Twitter, etc., then you could be forced to escape, so this can force the P2P appear again as the only solution.

That's decentralization, and we had it in 2000, so I think this should come back, the notion of website is very "centralized", websites are mounted on servers and name registrars, which can censor and block you, P2P is much better, and I remember that some P2P networks were even shared between different software.

The actual "Internet" and websites are dead, in the place we are locked on Intranets like YouTube, Facebook, Gmail, etc, so P2P is the thing, hypothetically, I think you can run P2P clients on a website, or still use IRC for chat, and use temporary files transfer websites, so you create a room like "PSX ISO", and share your download link, or via Bittorrent.

Politics, media, celebrities had taken the mainstream Internet or Intranets, so I think it's good, I hope the smart people goes back to the underground Internet again.

I remember when I started using the Internet in 2000 or 2001, I had a Pentium 3 800MHz with 128 memory, 30GB disk, terrible performance for the time due to the integrated SiS igpu. At that time, it was very difficult to download games and music on websites, you got these things in P2P programs like Kazaa and eMule, it was slow to download, but you got everything or almost everything you wanted, it was very easy and simple to use, you searched something, just chose one and download, some P2P programs came with IRC, chat rooms, integrated video players, you did everything right there, it was like a free road, you had everything in a single place. Also, at that time, you could not comment on any website, only in forums or chats, you could not buy and share files, and uploading videos, images and texts, or create blogs and websites for free was impossible at the time, these concepts did not exist at the time, today people are complaining a lot. But it was very cool, it was clean, only people who understood something used computers and internet, today any irritating and degenerate idiot is online and is speaking foolishness, but at that time there was much more respect between each other, in reality it was all calm and clean, peaceful, you don't even talked too much with each other, not even by email. So I think if something happens and if they block, censure or limit everything, this may turn out to be a good thing, imagine all the human garbage staying on Reddit, Facebook and YouTube, Twitter, etc., then you could be forced to escape, so this can force the P2P appear again as the only solution. That's decentralization, and we had it in 2000, so I think this should come back, the notion of website is very "centralized", websites are mounted on servers and name registrars, which can censor and block you, P2P is much better, and I remember that some P2P networks were even shared between different software. The actual "Internet" and websites are dead, in the place we are locked on Intranets like YouTube, Facebook, Gmail, etc, so P2P is the thing, hypothetically, I think you can run P2P clients on a website, or still use IRC for chat, and use temporary files transfer websites, so you create a room like "PSX ISO", and share your download link, or via Bittorrent. Politics, media, celebrities had taken the mainstream Internet or Intranets, so I think it's good, I hope the smart people goes back to the underground Internet again.

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