Well said Magoo! I agree, there's nothing like the old feeling of connecting to the net and staying up till 5 roasting people. Here's some more stuff that may remind you of the old days.

-Tilesets looked like they were made in MS paint.
-Everyone wasn't sick of using the Diamondus night tileset.
-People never used to say 'Oh no not this level'
-People knew you didn't flame the oldies.
-Wakeman was so much more nagable. (Now, I'm afraid to nag him in case I find something nasty in my burger )
-When someone threatened to roast you, you took it as a serious threat, unlike today where newbs flame you and try to roast you.
-People knew who Martin was.
-When the serverlist was more than one page long (:P).
-When the oldies and respected people actually talked to you.
-When you weren't afraid of having Dizzy on the opposing team.
-When DM used to be called MERC (love that name).
-When you could call Fquist 'His Sir Quistyness' as much as you want.
-When 'Derby:Content Edit' was unrecognised.
-We still had the good old JMMB.
-When people like Onag, IceWing, Icewolf, Martin, Noraa and others still played.
-In the good old days, levels came in truckloads whenever Wakeman had multiple reviews done.
-Wakeman was promt and efficient in updating...oh wait, that was my imagnation.
-The main JJ2 site at the time, J2C, had at least one update a week, compared to one update every few months.
-The 'Daily' Carrot was actually Daily.
-There were less cheating programs.
-You could impress people with your level making skills. Now they absentmindedly say 'Oh, yeah, nice, uh huh...'
-Bobby, Magoo, EvilMike, Myself, Quo Avek and many others were newbies.
-Dethman was 'elusive and hard to find' as opposed to 'Elusive and never around'.
-Arjan actually acknowledged that little green rabbit named Jazz.
-People didn't use the annoying invisible mode in ICQ as much.