I want to see blood...


I has an idea for a discussion. Lately I have been thinking a lot about how much the internet has changed since I last had continual, easy access to it (some time about a decade or so ago). A lot has changed and being that we are all old enough to remember I was wondering if anyone had any, I guess features would be the right word, that they missed from days gone by. Heres what I mean. When I was like 15 and living with my folks we had AOL (at first they used to charge by the minute, or maybe hour, AOL blows) and probably the funnest thing I ever did back then was sit at the P.C. and download these
http://members.fortunecity.com/excalibur5/ (ha, notice the last update) They are called progs and punters, or rather progz. Basicly they were wonderful little add ons to AOL that hacked into it and let you get all sorts of destructive powers. Like a punter, it would send someone multiple instant messages at a very rapid rate, being that we all rolled on 56k this would quickly shut down just about anyones connection and kick or "punt" the person. At 15 this sort of power over something as big as AOL was a blast. Some other features were Macros, which would make pictures in chat rooms using what i can only guess were scripts programed to certain keystrokes. Also there were massmailers, and even chatroom games that you could host. Anyways, bottom line is you just cant do that anymore, and though I probably wouldn't even if you could, I still get sentimental about it because I'm a sap.

So how about you? What do you miss most about the old internet.