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Anonymous Mon 12 Oct 2015 19:27:21 No.2734761 View Reply Report Delete

Anything from usenet to geocities, and even shockwave games

Interesting resources:
Automated Geocities screencaps (yes, it's tumblr, but it's an intersting blog)
http://oneterabyteofkilobyteage.tumblr.com/
The many geocities archives that I don't know if I should link or not
Interesting telnet stuff including usenet archives and old text adventures
http://telehack.com/

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 12 Oct 2015 19:31:25 No.2734772 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2735463

What were compuserve and such like when they ran their own services in the 80s and early 90s? [ie, distinct from the www or usenet]

I see them mentioned on old computing shows or old magazines, but i've not found much online detailing what they were actually like to use as an individual, instead of as a marketing brief.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 12 Oct 2015 19:59:47 No.2734817 Report Delete

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>>2734781
Type the url in a search engine and the first link should be an archive link

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 12 Oct 2015 20:21:36 No.2734843 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2734928 >>2735027 >>2735150 >>2735884 >>2738480 >>2740968 >>2740989 >>2741925 >>2742191 >>2754897

>SMBHQ is dead
>The GHZ is dead
>Kirby's Rainbow Resort is dead
What the fuck happened to fansites

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 12 Oct 2015 21:07:26 No.2734928 Report Delete

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>>2734843
Sadly with the rise of social networks and the fall of services like Geocities and AOL hometown, people found it much more efficient to just make a group on shitbook or other sites.

It really sucks because I fucking loved those fan sites, they had their own unique charm, instead of just being another generic feed with just a banner and avatar to separate it from the others.

Tumblr is sorta neat with the ability to use custom themes and such, but sadly the community is just shit, not to mention I'm not a fan of the Heart and Reblog system.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 12 Oct 2015 21:47:36 No.2734992 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2736965 >>2744714 >>2744843

My big motivation as an eleven year old was to create a site about Final Fantasy VI on angelfire. I even made my own fan art. I collected all the midis I wanted to play on each page.

My friends did the same thing with Dragon Ball Z. That was just the thing to do.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 12 Oct 2015 22:07:06 No.2735027 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2737709

>>2734843
ZHQ is gone too, and the artist who created the art for the site has moved on to some other career. (Really friendly guy. Neils T'hooft? Can never remember how to spell it...)

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 12 Oct 2015 23:41:01 No.2735150 Report Delete

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>>2734843
>Kirby's Rainbow Resort is dead
>tfw reminiscing spamming an unused Kirby's Rainbow Resort forum on forumplanet
At least the website is still up, even if it isn't being updated regularly. I think fan wiki's killed/replaced fansites, although of course no fan wikis that I've seen show the same degree of love or content.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 12 Oct 2015 23:43:53 No.2735154 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2737003

So I went through my archive of Geocities midis and decided to collect a few of them into a zip file and share them with this thread

http://a.pomf.cat/rsgjcv.zip

Hope you enjoy the music I chose... even the ironic ones

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 13 Oct 2015 02:14:54 No.2735346 Report Delete

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I haven't looked for any of this shit in a long time but I bet all of the Petz kennel websites are super dead.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 13 Oct 2015 03:20:07 No.2735463 Report Delete

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>>2734772
They were just huge BBSes with no warez.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 13 Oct 2015 03:41:33 No.2735501 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2735661 >>2738285 >>2738609 >>2744303 >>2745263 >>2745846

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWq4DWfrpu8

Very relevant to this thread.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 13 Oct 2015 05:43:43 No.2735661 Report Delete

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>>2735501
That's some nice music he's got going there, especially with the reverb

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 13 Oct 2015 09:49:48 No.2735884 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2736134

>>2734843
It's simple. Life happened.

I imagine a lot of them moved on and got families or more time consuming jobs. That's what happens with these things. Life just happens.

Also, what you find these days is that the information on those sites became common knowledge and condensed down into easier to digest YouTube videos and for the most part.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 13 Oct 2015 13:09:53 No.2736134 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2736150

>>2735884
>information on those sites became common knowledge and condensed down into easier to digest YouTube videos
And the youtubers take/get all the credit. It's a crying shame.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 13 Oct 2015 13:27:36 No.2736150 Report Delete

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>>2736134
Doesn't matter. The info's getting out there. The legacy continues. We know, so that's important enough.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 13 Oct 2015 15:25:38 No.2736274 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2736694

Last time I checked about a year or so ago Y2Khai's website was still up with all the flash videos, so I was about to post it here.

But sadly it's gone now.

Truly the end of an era.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 13 Oct 2015 16:23:28 No.2736390 Report Delete

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Youtube
Facebook
Wikipedia

Things being easier to find, took away the soul.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 13 Oct 2015 16:34:24 No.2736406 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2736586

The original ape escape site is still online

http://www.ape-escape.com/

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 13 Oct 2015 18:24:19 No.2736586 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2736624

>>2736406
Space Jam movie website's still up

http://www.warnerbros.com/archive/spacejam/movie/jam.htm

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 13 Oct 2015 18:47:08 No.2736624 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2738684 >>2752087 >>2759182 >>2761172

>>2736586
It's too bad the Amanda show website died though.

I thought Nick was all about 90's nostalgia especially now with Splat actually taking off faster than 90's are all that ever did in 4 years, but I guess not if they closed the Amanda website

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 13 Oct 2015 19:09:33 No.2736670 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2736676 >>2752160

There are quote a few old internet relevant links in here amongst the more CGG specific things

http://pastebin.com/UdmipND6

Not included because it's not pre-1995 but it's still an interesting site nonetheless is

http://www.ftp-sites.org/

Quite a lot of these are dead but there are still many active ones to sift through.

Also I encourage anyone who's interested to join SDF and cyber1. If you leave your sign-on for either in this thread I can point out some of the more interesting features of either. If you make an SDF account I can validate it once my ARPA membership clears (they said I would get every feature of membership in a week or two).

http://olduse.net/ is also a very cool site

It's been circulated quite a bit but if you haven't seen gopher.su, it's a fairly active BBS with the best software I've seen in a modern BBS. You can access it by typing

telnet gopher.su 1234

in any shell that has telnet

Here's a list of dial-up BBSes:
http://www.telnetbbsguide.com/dialbbs/dialbbs.htm

Never been to one of these threads so sorry if any of this is reposting.

Again I mostly just post in the computer gaming general but I'm not sure how much crossposting there is so I thought I'd share some relevant links here.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 13 Oct 2015 19:10:35 No.2736676 Report Delete

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>>2736670
*quite a few

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 13 Oct 2015 19:21:27 No.2736694 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2736804 >>2738572

>>2736274

Fuck..... no......

I really miss the charm of old internet. People just making content to make it. None of this google bux patreon shit. Sure we had PayPal but donations weren't expected.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 13 Oct 2015 19:35:28 No.2736720 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2737272

>Nick
>90s nostalgia
I'd be more excited about it if one of the first things they aired wasn't that "All Grown Up" shit.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 13 Oct 2015 20:11:10 No.2736785 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2737602 >>2739494 >>2745724 >>2749860 >>2750557

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Anonymous Tue 13 Oct 2015 20:23:04 No.2736804 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2737059 >>2737060 >>2737149 >>2737452 >>2737602 >>2741680 >>2741954 >>2744594 >>2750413 >>2750557

>>2736694
And finding good sites was like finding treasure. Communities were tightly knit, and people went by each other's first names, not to mention meeting up in real life.

>that one vidya forum you went to back in the late 99s/early 00s is long gone
>those two guys who absolutely hated each other
>you remember the day you got blasted by the mods for putting a large .gif in your sig
>that one poster who you and your friends thought was a girl
>the guy who went crazy and posted threads while doing acid and got banned

I want to turn back the clock. Before MySpace and Facebook...

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 13 Oct 2015 21:57:30 No.2736965 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2744714

>>2734992
>midi

Oh god, this. I remember having a bookmark list full of Zelda and anime sites just to listen to their midi pages. That was the best part of 90s internet imo.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 13 Oct 2015 22:23:45 No.2737003 Report Delete

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>>2735154

Bless you, fellow anon. This took me back.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 13 Oct 2015 23:01:40 No.2737059 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2741989 >>2762017

>>2736804
>and people went by each other's first names,
I thought before facebook that was considered a big mistake.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 13 Oct 2015 23:01:51 No.2737060 Report Delete

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>>2736804
And that poster who everyone thought was a guy but actually WAS a girl.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 13 Oct 2015 23:52:53 No.2737126 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2737602 >>2739986 >>2740194 >>2760815

>that first pair of anime tits you saw when you were just trying to look up art and midis

Thanks random Tenchi shrine.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Oct 2015 00:07:49 No.2737149 Report Delete

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>>2736804
>The one guy that went crazy

Oh man, the memories.

The one kid that had been on the site for a while who did something stupid, got suspended and then backlashed by either hacking the site or IMing the mods and complaining, and everyone heard about it because the site's community was so tightly knit.

Anyone recall a western fantasy fansite called Wrathgar Unlimited? (Or something like that) the site was a little out there but man was it fun to be a part of way back when. Usually people talked about D&D, Yu-Gi-Oh! and LoTR I think, and the site would constantly play the tavern theme from Daggerfall. There was a time when one of the moderators passed away and some kid named battle127127 who had been there a few months made everyone mad by making light of it with a joke and he got banned, came back like three months later by making the site read that "battle127127 has hacked your netz! 1337!" or somethin' of that nature. Eventually everything calmed down, but they never did take down the red banner that said "battle127127 has been banned PERMANENTLY from the site, so he will no longer be causing any problems! :)", I remember it staying there for years after it happened, eventually became a joke with the other members when newbies would ask who battle127127 was. God damn, memories. I miss the old Internet.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Oct 2015 01:53:53 No.2737272 Report Delete

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>>2736720
It's better than before when it was basically 2 of the same 4 shows reran over and over and some days you had fucking Rocket Power.

That and Splat has game show reruns

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 14 Oct 2015 02:25:29 No.2737304 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2748623

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Anonymous Wed 14 Oct 2015 05:08:04 No.2737452 Report Delete

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>>2736804
I love it when forum drama turned into forum lore.

>MTG Salvation lay relatively dormant and forgotten until January 1, 2005, when a number of staff members from MTGNews, including rancored_elf and urzassedatives, announced their resignation from the Staff on the website front page and as a forum-wide announcement. Their reason was in protest of the man appointed to oversee the forums, Subterranean Spirit, by Raa, the owner. Within minutes, several decided to use this to their advantage, spamming the MTGNews forums with links to MTG Salvation.

>When MTGNews was temporarily closed to the outside to remove the spam and lawlessness that had accrued since the announcement, a significant number of the most prominent MTGNews posters, including rancored_elf, began posting on MTG Salvation. Quickly, it became as active as MTGNews had been the day prior, and the presence of older members contributed significantly to the validity of the site. By the time MTGNews was reopened a few hours later, many saw it as "the new MTGNews".

>While MTGNews was open again, Subterranean Spirit began to enforce a policy of banning any member who mentioned MTGSalvation in their signature or elsewhere, which was in stark contrast to the previous policy of allowing any advertisements in signatures. This, coupled with the protests of important members and the banning of several others, led to MTGnews becoming partially abandoned. Most of the members who were banned relocated to MTG Salvation.

http://mtgsalvation.gamepedia.com/MTG_Salvation

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Oct 2015 08:30:21 No.2737602 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2737617

>>2736804
>And finding good sites was like finding treasure. Communities were tightly knit, and people went by each other's first names, not to mention meeting up in real life.

Traveling the webrings to find random shit. Eventually the SNES webring starts to get weird as shit as you progress into the 10k area.

There's a lot of old shit I miss. But as for forums I'm still active on Gamefaqs after all these years...

But the forums I miss the most are the ones in the early 00s that had avatars and battle systems built in. Think like Gaia but not complete shit.

Also I miss finding weird sites. There was this one site I knew of that had satellite pictures of cities, and if you clicked a box it spelled words using streets in these cities.

>>2737126
>>that first pair of anime tits you saw when you were just trying to look up art and midis
>Thanks random Tenchi shrine.

Mine was some badly drawn DBZ art someone scanned. I wasn't even looking for it. But when I became interested in hentai I remember lurking and searching through Yahoo groups to find it. Since at least for me finding decent hentai was hard as fuck at times.

>>2736785

Remember shit like Slingo and how shit loads of old people played it?

Also I use to be ranked really high in either MSN 'or was it Yahoo?' chess.

Basically I would have Chess Master running in the background and play the computers moves against the other player.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Oct 2015 08:35:49 No.2737617 Report Delete

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>>2737602
>Basically I would have Chess Master running in the background and play the computers moves against the other player.
I've heard this story before, and I always wondered what would make you guys do this

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 14 Oct 2015 08:36:58 No.2737619 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2737674 >>2737698

The Wayback Machine on the Internet Archive is very useful for this kind of thing - https://archive.org/

You can search for snapshots of old websites so long as you remember the URL. Some go back to the mid-1990s.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Oct 2015 09:26:29 No.2737674 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2737683

>>2737619

Yeah, but it's just no the same. No interactivity, most pictures and website assets are missing, and you're limited on how far back you can go per website. It's like looking up on Google earth your old house that you grew up in and was later demolished. No matter how many times you look at it, nothing new will come from it.

For me, it was planetnamek.com and vegetainsane. Used come for the music videos that were continuously posted, but I stood for the forums. I never posted a whole lot, just read what everyone speculated about.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Oct 2015 09:32:53 No.2737683 Report Delete

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>>2737674
>No interactivity, most pictures and website assets are missing
There is interactivity of sorts. If you click a link, it will look for the oldest archived version of that link. I don't often find an unarchived link. As for pictures and other features, perhaps you're just unlucky. Most of the sites I've found on there have plenty of pictures. Of course it'll never be the same as the original site, but it's usually this or nothing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Oct 2015 09:57:25 No.2737698 Report Delete

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>>2737619
Oocities and reocities are also useful for looking up old GeoCities websites (and possibly your own geocities website)

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Oct 2015 10:15:52 No.2737709 Report Delete

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>>2735027
ZHQ was the shit. Spent so much time just listening to the Zelda remix midis they had playing on the front page. Their forums were pretty active as well. Also you got the name right, it was Neils T Hooft and he has a personal website he posts shit to occasionally. ZHQ's "sister" site metroid-database is still alive and being updated fairly regularly, but it's lost quite a bit of its oldschool charm.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 14 Oct 2015 10:30:59 No.2737719 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2737846 >>2738119 >>2750557

Remember the internet humor before rage faces and advice animals? This was the funniest shit I had ever seen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSGJObJkWf0

It's still pretty funny.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Oct 2015 10:32:43 No.2737721 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2744550

I'll leave this here

cameronsworld.net

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Oct 2015 11:26:09 No.2737774 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2738119

Maybe not 90's but definitely from the start of the internet as it is today and a classic all the same

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fvTxv46ano

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Oct 2015 12:28:56 No.2737846 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2738119 >>2738162

>>2737719
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqO5lNS094M

this was my lifeblood

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Oct 2015 16:19:06 No.2738119 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2738264 >>2760878

>>2737719
>>2737774
>>2737846

It's pretty amazing how internet humor has evolved. Back in the days (which was only about 10 years ago) the whole idea of humor relied pretty much entirely on the novelty of having something animated. It didn't have to make any sense, just a bunch of random flying clip art, reaction images, and maybe some song that is funny/cool sounding on its own.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Oct 2015 16:30:34 No.2738131 Report Delete

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http://www.angelfire.com/realm/SLIPKNOT/aska.html

:)

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Oct 2015 16:41:33 No.2738148 Report Delete

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Just out of curiosity, who was it that did the Asuka Slideshow ROM for SNES ?

It was the first porn I ever saw and I really wonder who could have done it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Oct 2015 16:47:54 No.2738162 Report Delete

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>>2737846
animutations were my jam, hyakugojuuichi especially

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 14 Oct 2015 16:49:35 No.2738168 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2740203 >>2741963

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Oct 2015 17:26:03 No.2738232 Report Delete

Quoted By:

http://www.cameronsworld.net/

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Oct 2015 17:46:02 No.2738264 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2738526

>>2738119
A lot of those old ones had charm though. All Your Base is classic for that and it still manages to crack a smile. It's YouTube Poops that aged like milk. Obviously a lot of the CD-i stuff became legendary but the poops themselves just dissolved into nothing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Oct 2015 17:54:39 No.2738285 Report Delete

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>>2735501

Glad to see the speed and functionality of IGN has largely remained unchanged.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Oct 2015 17:59:19 No.2738293 Report Delete

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I miss multiplayer games having communities that weren't utter shit.

This place is pretty bad and yet it's 10x better than any other shithole out there. Nobody wants to discuss things anymore.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 14 Oct 2015 19:25:35 No.2738423 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2738439 >>2753874 >>2753971

So what guilty pleasure/weird shit have you guys browsed back in the day?

Picture is unrelated to me, I don't like dentures.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Oct 2015 19:38:24 No.2738439 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2739047 >>2739667

>>2738423
I was a frequent visitor of the "Assassin" portion of Newgrounds, which had the "kill annoying celebrity in hilarious ways" games. They were pretty stupid, but since of them were great. The one I remember the most starred the "Pico" mascot and tasked him with killing the Bear in the Big Blue House. I think they got a C&D for that one, so they changed the names and likenesses around.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Oct 2015 19:54:45 No.2738468 Report Delete

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Anyone remember the AIM profile website? It was a place you could make a text based website that often was linked in AIM profiles.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Oct 2015 20:10:26 No.2738480 Report Delete

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>>2734843
Unless they got exclusive insider info there's really no need for them anymore. Word travels so fast now that it's nearly impossible for them to do anything to keep them relevant. I'm honestly surprised Shenmue Dojo is still a thing despite close to 14 years of absolutely nothing to talk about until 3 was announced.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Oct 2015 20:22:12 No.2738490 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2738492 >>2739026 >>2745929 >>2747397

>IRC is still used, not only that but commonly
I'm kinda impressed

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Oct 2015 20:23:08 No.2738492 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2738498

>>2738490
I've used IRC for 3 years (2011~2014) straight almost everyday and met a lot of people there.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Oct 2015 20:31:04 No.2738498 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2738538 >>2738568 >>2741890

>>2738492
How do I get into it? It's always the same thing
>Find a chatroom of a community I am kind of involved in
>Enter for the sake of it for some time
>Eventually realize I haven't entered in two days
>Don't give a fuck
>Forget about it a week later.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Oct 2015 20:53:47 No.2738526 Report Delete

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>>2738264
>It's YouTube Poops that aged like milk.
The ones that had their own jokes derived from the source material instead of cramming unrelated YTP memes into the work are still great.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Oct 2015 21:04:50 No.2738538 Report Delete

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>>2738498
You need to get a hobby with a strong community in an IRC channel. For example, I've spent one entire year joining the same channel about visual novels, and there was always someone to talk about what he was reading there.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Oct 2015 21:18:29 No.2738568 Report Delete

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>>2738498
Be like me, and get an irc client, and join a shit ton of channels you're interested in. Eventually you'll learn that your only friends are on IRC and that it's important to life.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Oct 2015 21:21:13 No.2738572 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2739259 >>2740809 >>2740954 >>2747395

>>2736694
I think an interesting aspect of the old internet is also how normal people acted on it.

I mean you have random old guys making personal pages on geocities about their gardens and stuff. It's beautiful, in hindsight perhaps even cute. That's what the internet should have been, it should have been personal, individual and yet optionally impersonal.

Instead, everyone fills in their mandatory data-box on facebook. I won't detail my reasoning too much, but the end conclusion is that we're more obsessed with individualism than ever while doing more than ever to suppress it.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 14 Oct 2015 21:22:00 No.2738574 Report Delete

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>my face when I was 14 I asked a girl on Planet Namek's forum for nudes completely out in the open and got banned for it

God that sucked. I loved that place, but I was a bit of an idiot back then. I was paranoid for months that the FBI or someone was gonna raid my house and arrest me.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 14 Oct 2015 21:29:31 No.2738591 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2739270 >>2739305 >>2740010

I hope I wasn't the only one who visited this place. There was a section all about Mario called Mario Mania! and there was a Zelda section called The Grand Adventures. I remember the Mario section had this adventure game, but the farthest I got was some elevator puzzle. The Zelda section had a bunch of fan fics. There was some recurring character named "Ofish" or something weird like that.

I just remembered this site a little while ago and remembered I could visit with the Wayback Machine.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 14 Oct 2015 21:44:19 No.2738609 Report Delete

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>>2735501
>Touch Yourself starts playing
Ouch.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Oct 2015 21:58:03 No.2738635 Report Delete

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I used to play this game a lot when I was younger, cool to see the site is still up. http://www.synthetic-reality.com/wosHome.htm

SternumSteven

SternumSteven Wed 14 Oct 2015 22:28:26 No.2738684 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2739316

>>2736624
Amanda was 2000's shit, and they reran the show outside the block before bynes fucked herself up

Drake and Josh reruns ftw

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 15 Oct 2015 05:06:07 No.2739026 Report Delete

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>>2738490
I've been using IRC for over 10 years now and I use it every single day.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 15 Oct 2015 05:33:58 No.2739047 Report Delete

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>>2738439
I remember that game, I don't think anything got changed. It was a parody, so it was protected.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 15 Oct 2015 08:34:52 No.2739235 Report Delete

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SCHLAMMER IN THE COOLER

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 15 Oct 2015 08:41:41 No.2739247 Report Delete

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One of my favorite things of old internet, still makes me laugh. Originally from Newgrounds.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J4FXUMOw8k

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 15 Oct 2015 08:49:36 No.2739259 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2739601 >>2740809 >>2740954 >>2758661

>>2738572

Agree. The best way I can describe the current Internet compared to like the Internet of 10+ years ago is it got gentrified.

The old internet was like a massive shantytown of cobbled together websites arranged next to each other. You could wander the maze of alleys, and side streets finding weird/unusual/strange things and stop off at major sites to get information/news/play games.

But starting around the MySpace era the Internet started to get bulldozed to make way for the next wave of users. With the release of the iphone in 2007 that all but sealed the fate of the Internet we knew.

Millions of people flooded into our space, corporations/corporate minded people took note and built massive arcologies over the ruins to house and entertain the new unwashed masses.

A second Eternal September.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 15 Oct 2015 08:59:16 No.2739270 Report Delete

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>>2738591
Holy shit. I fucking loved that site.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 15 Oct 2015 09:51:44 No.2739305 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2740010

>>2738591
I loved that site, it was my go-to source as a kid for getting the drop on all the other shitbags who thought they knew their Zelda lore.

anyone remember Detstar? I recall it had a page dedicated to weird Bros. Melee screen caps. A friend of mine was stoked his 'Pokesex' submission made it onto the site. I'll leave that to your imaginations.. as it doesn't exist anymore.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 15 Oct 2015 10:02:32 No.2739316 Report Delete

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>>2738684
Yeah, I'd agree it's more 2000's, but it was initiated in 1999, and the website was an early example of an official website dedicated to a show.

Other than that, it had pretty fun madlibs

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 15 Oct 2015 12:31:07 No.2739494 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2736785
>Tanarus has literally one person who plays it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 15 Oct 2015 14:15:02 No.2739601 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2739259
That's a perfect way to explain it.

I MISS THE INTERNET /VR/

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 15 Oct 2015 15:01:28 No.2739664 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2739917

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRNyGDRikSw
Good ol interbutts

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 15 Oct 2015 15:03:30 No.2739667 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2739757 >>2753872

>>2738439
I used to go on that section non stop, I'd bet its still up. I just went on it because I thought Steve from Blue's Clues flipping me off was the funniest shit ever

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 15 Oct 2015 16:07:20 No.2739757 Report Delete

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>>2739667
You made me hear Steve say "Fuck you!" happily in his voice

On the subject of Nick, remember those spooky halloween Clickamajigs?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 15 Oct 2015 16:30:08 No.2739778 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2739930

> "Welcome to Hotline"

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 15 Oct 2015 18:04:27 No.2739914 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2741985 >>2741994 >>2751343 >>2751375 >>2751442

>google my name
>my old website from the late 90s shows up
>my real name plastered over everything
>embarrassing photos of myself
>original donutsteel sonic and pokemon art all over the place
>tfw anybody who has ever googled my name has probably seen it

Welp, time to sudoku. Or I could at least attempt to deny everything and claim it was someone else with same name.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 15 Oct 2015 18:06:27 No.2739917 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2739664
One of my all time favorites. I once found the youtube channel of the guy who made that flash, he does some let's plays of old DOS games nowadays.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 15 Oct 2015 18:08:09 No.2739921 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2740090 >>2740217

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 15 Oct 2015 18:09:15 No.2739924 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>tfw you will never browse internet with sweaty and oily Bret Hart

Why even live?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 15 Oct 2015 18:11:29 No.2739930 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2739778
miss u hotline

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 15 Oct 2015 18:22:20 No.2739949 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2744476

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 15 Oct 2015 18:45:33 No.2739986 Report Delete

Quoted By:

I remember visiting...

Cheatcc.com and gamerevolution.com before I discovered gamefaqs.com.

Playing Bonus.com's "Battlefield," which you can now play on tankpit.com

Visiting http://planetquake.gamespy.com/ when Quake III Arena was still big.

Newgrounds.com and stickdeath.com

>>2737126

Dude. I remember visiting it back in middle school after becoming a fan due to Toonami. Nice.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 15 Oct 2015 18:55:13 No.2740010 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2738591
Hell yeah, that was my go-to site every day after school. My favorite sections were Mario Mania and the Death Match Arena. It also introduced me to fan fiction, of all places.
>>2739305
Oh shit, I was trying to remember the name of this place just the other day. I submitted a few screen shots as well.
I actually purchased an Action Replay for the sole purpose of trying the Debug Menu exploits he showcased. Fun times.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 15 Oct 2015 19:15:29 No.2740045 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2740065

Anybody hear of neocities?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 15 Oct 2015 19:33:42 No.2740065 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2740219 >>2740764 >>2740884

>>2740045
It's not really the same though, not as many sites with cool gifs and midis, and no actually weird shit

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 15 Oct 2015 19:47:16 No.2740086 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2740128 >>2740764 >>2745153 >>2745170

discussion mailing lists

lol, BINARY mailing lists

arcade music rip websites that hosted entire soundtracks as WAVs and MP2s because MP3 wasn't big yet

Mondo 2000 and eventually "Hackers" being overdramatic about hacker/cyberpunk culture

a majority of people older than college age not knowing what email or websites even are

that one dang Japanese FF website designed like a town with all the character sprites all over

all those Geocities anime and jpop websites

1994-1998 Mac websites (holy crap MacInTouch.com is still THE SAME)

finding my dial-up ISP's old telnet BBS archives still hosted GIF images dated 1991 of girls with really big hair

flashing my 28.8K modem to 33.6K

the REAL alt.hackintosh (before being co-opted by fake Mac builders)

Slashdot

Hotline

CU-SeeMe

BearShare

some late '90s mainstream radio stations that aren't around anymore but every time you hear those songs you can remember what else you were doing on your computer while listening to them being streamed

You mean I can buy all those Japanese games I saw in EGM and Die Hard Game Fan myself on this eBay thing?

Fireman Comics, Jeff K, Photoshop Fridays being new

8-Bit Theater being interesting and unique (sprites, nice)

Homestar Runner feeling all new and awesome

Animutations

YTMND

mid-2000s 4chan

every website looking like absolute shit on phones because they're optimized for desktop

personal websites dying because of Myspace, then Facebook

bye Geocities

hello iPhone

every website looking like absolute shit on desktop because they're optimized for phones

cell networks learning how to rip people off by studying how home broadband became so cheap

"like/share/tag/checking in" culture

hey everybody save all your shit in our cloud

no use our cloud

please don't ask what a cloud is, we want you not to know, but here have some free gigabytes

to use this device or service you waive all rights to privacy

living in a society that gladly waives those rights without question

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 15 Oct 2015 19:52:52 No.2740090 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2739921

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 15 Oct 2015 20:24:04 No.2740128 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2740086
I miss the times when each website looked unique, hell, I even miss the times when each profile on social networks looked unique and had stuff like different mouse pointers and shit. Now it seems like everything has to look the same.

Sure, geocities had a lot of shitty looking websites, but at least each one was unique in their little own way, and wasn't limited to some standards like "Photos have to go here, your interests go here, your banner goes here and that's the only thing unique about your profile"

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 15 Oct 2015 21:06:43 No.2740194 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2737126

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 15 Oct 2015 21:17:48 No.2740203 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2738168
is he that guy from stand by me?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 15 Oct 2015 21:33:56 No.2740217 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2739921
this is me every single day.

i only got online in the late 2000s because i'm a poorfag and there's nothing i regret more in my life, except perhaps being born

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 15 Oct 2015 21:38:05 No.2740219 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2740323

>>2740065
Oh yeah, I definitely agree with you. But unfortunately it's the closest thing I can find to the geocities community

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 15 Oct 2015 22:35:38 No.2740323 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2740627 >>2740809 >>2740919

>>2740219
It really does seem like we will never have another age like the Geocities age unfortunately. Even if people just "Make another geocities", it just won't be the same because all the other people are using facebook. The cool thing about those old geocities pages was that they felt authentic and human, unlike sites made that way today where they were obviously made because "Remember geocities?", you no longer have people saying "Hey, I'm not that great at web design, but here is my home! Please take a minute to look around and sign the guest book!".

Tumblr does come close to this, but the community is shit and it's more like a "haha, this thing on the internet made me laugh! Let me repost it" blog than a "Hello, welcome, check out this cool stuff on my webpage" home.

Yeah, I know that I'm basically saying the same thing over and over again with these posts, but that was the beauty of retro internet, the sites were human.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Oct 2015 01:48:00 No.2740627 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2740323
Yeah, everything was much cozier way back when.

I really want those days back, maybe you're right by saying that we never will see an era like that again :(((

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Oct 2015 04:24:34 No.2740764 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2740834

>>2740086
>to use this device or service you waive all rights to privacy
>living in a society that gladly waives those rights without question
see the pic on >>2740065

People just gave that shit away anyway back in the day.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Oct 2015 05:18:13 No.2740809 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2740323
>>2739259
>>2738572
you all summed up exactly how i feel

this site is in the old geocities style and there's a lot of cool shit. http://www.legowelt.com

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Oct 2015 05:42:16 No.2740825 Report Delete

Quoted By:

Was anyone here on the pre-tcp/ip internet?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 16 Oct 2015 05:53:54 No.2740834 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2744509 >>2744683

>>2740764
At least it was their choice instead of the policy of the service they signed up for

Then again, post Yahoo Geocities had that bullshit in their ToS where anything uploaded belonged to Yahoo

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Oct 2015 06:54:17 No.2740884 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2740065
oh wow, coolspot

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Oct 2015 07:27:34 No.2740919 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2740323
I think that's the great tragedy (and hilarity) of the modern age. Everything is misleadingly labeled.

We want to tell ourselves we're social individuals, so we use Facebook. Facebook's interface simplifies our unique attributes down to a photograph and a friend count. The nature of the site, intended to be social, is often perversely anti social - when it isn't encouraging lazy behavior like hunting for likes to get another hit of dopamine. The customization options are essentially limited to raw data - you can 'like' a movie, but you can't really organize all your thoughts about that movie like you could on a fan-page covered in flaming skulls.

Outside (but interlinked) with that is the obsession with being a unique individual as a whole - it often, tragically and hilariously, leads to the unique quirks of actual individuals being overlooked in favor of 'unique' dress sense or other aspects of appearance that, when distilled to a simpler form, make people pretty much identical. Everyone is a unique individual, just like everyone else.

I sound very pretentious here, so I should obviously clarify that I'm not in any way 'above' these things. I do things just to keep up appearances, most 4chan users are familiar with posting bait just for the dopamine hit of people biting. It's a very human thing to do, but the internet is capable of so much more than that. The internet should have been, could have been, so much more empowering. A year zero of sorts. It's a place where very few of your physical attributes need to matter - even location is trivial - yet we see it used for the same sort of thing you'd see in a small town 60 years ago: Individuals competing for social status against those living 3 doors away.

Oh well, the guy who invented TNT only wanted it used for mining, I guess everyone has to come to terms with the fact mankind doesn't always use things in an ideal way.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Oct 2015 07:42:45 No.2740936 Report Delete

Quoted By:

I used to visit Dan's Sonic Fan Games Page (vanished in 2000 or 2001) and Sonic Fan Games HQ plus all the other websites from people who made the Games (Aytac aksu/magicgrafx, gregorsoft/Sonic ultra, the very first SAGEs...). I also remember downloading anime on dialup and with the aid of download managers from forums vía lots of pictures (uploaded to mail servers most of the time) that had bits of the vídeo encoded in that had to be joined and decoded with a especial program.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Oct 2015 07:47:08 No.2740941 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2740948 >>2741610 >>2741907

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmtzQCSh6xk
This was probably the first viral video in the tubes ever.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Oct 2015 07:52:55 No.2740948 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2741907

>>2740941
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPPj6viIBmU
what about this?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Oct 2015 07:57:42 No.2740954 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2738572
>we're more obsessed with individualism than ever while doing more than ever to suppress it

I think you nailed it.

>>2738572
>>2739259
The people who put stuff on the internet by then cared about stuff like getting the contento and assembling it. It was not only myspace and facebook but also the digitalisation of everything. I remember in 2005 going in the train and finding funny how many more people than say 5 years ago were wearing headphones and texting. Flash forward to 2011 and everyone (not just some people) are carrying at least two digital devices and most of them lost inside their use (either music, browsing, chatting, eBook reading...). Facebook gave people a boring template and people started to fill it because they could and everyone was doing it, making it become the community of the whole internet.

I really like the comparison you made with a city and I really don't like the uniformism of today's web.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Oct 2015 08:19:29 No.2740968 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2734843
Don't worry, there's still a Gex fansite you can visit!

http://itstailtime.proboards.com/

Remember Gex?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 16 Oct 2015 08:37:37 No.2740987 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>learn basic html
>build fansite about anime , games whatsoever
>found BBS
>MSN Group chat , irc all night
>meet up with BBS members

It's a magic kind of feel in a hot summer .

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 16 Oct 2015 08:37:43 No.2740989 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2760126

>>2734843
>tfw blamethepixel.com is dead

Comfiest Worms fansite, dead. Few year back it was still fully up and running.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 16 Oct 2015 14:38:38 No.2741546 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2758886

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Oct 2015 15:08:16 No.2741610 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2741634

>>2740941

Eh, not really. But it was probably one of the first massive internet breakout to real life videos out there.

I think it was the turning point were the media stopped being like 'The internet is nothing but hackers wearing sunglasses and sex offenders' and more 'The internet has funny videos, lets see what else we can dig up for ratings.'

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Oct 2015 15:21:27 No.2741634 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2741610
I remember the whole war between Viacom and Youtube, but it was pretty clear Viacom won in the end, as a bunch of the most popular youtubers went on to star in Nick shows

Then again, they were shitty youtubers.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Oct 2015 15:53:45 No.2741680 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2736804
King Yugi ;_;

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Oct 2015 17:25:33 No.2741821 Report Delete

Quoted By:

https://web.archive.org/web/20021128053943/http://www.blackborder.com

i used to post on this shitty magic the gathering forums when i was a kid. it's dead and looks like shit now

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Oct 2015 18:20:18 No.2741890 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2738498
the IRC chat I use has a constant 30 plus people in it who are always usually talkative. I have been on irc since about 98.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Oct 2015 18:34:33 No.2741907 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2740941
>>2740948
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3G5IXn0K7A

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Oct 2015 18:40:28 No.2741918 Report Delete

Quoted By:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omLgv9lJ9jE

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 16 Oct 2015 18:42:40 No.2741921 Report Delete

Quoted By:

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Oct 2015 18:44:39 No.2741925 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2741929 >>2758672

>>2734843
social networking happened.

Fansites moved to facebook, reddit or 4chan

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 16 Oct 2015 18:48:06 No.2741929 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2758672

>>2741925
The one time where it is ok to actually blame the normies.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 16 Oct 2015 19:17:14 No.2741954 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2757369

>>2736804
I remember joining a forum dedicated to anime series I didn't even watch during my weeb period. Ended up being a part of it for several years until the community fell apart.

It was really fascinating to see a relatively small independent community grow and develop. Drama happening and becoming ingrained in the annals of forum history. Local lore, culture and unique, contained memes/in-jokes developing. Even admins and mods being as personal as the next guy.

All of this is gone with the advent of web 2.0. Social networks and megaforums including imageboards did away with the need for independent discussion platforms. There are no longer small, self-contained forum cultures, only the global internet culture of reddit and 4chan.

When we were talking shit about non-anonymous forums here 7-8 years ago we just didn't know what we were about to lose

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Oct 2015 19:25:13 No.2741963 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2738168
I like how the guy is simultaneously old enough to manage his own business and young enough to have a NO PARENTS ALLOWED sign.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Oct 2015 19:37:18 No.2741985 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2741994 >>2742218

>>2739914
you don't have the credentials to just delete it now?

I lucked out in that I put my name on a ton of embarrassing shit (message boards, flash cartoons) yet by the time I grew up I was either able to get them deleted or they just happened to fall off the face of the net, all without the wayback machine capturing any of it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Oct 2015 19:38:02 No.2741989 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2737059
Yeah I agree. I never went by my first name nor did anyone in any community I was part of with a few exceptions.
Hell, most people still call me by my old username now.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Oct 2015 19:42:02 No.2741994 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2741995 >>2751343 >>2751375

>>2739914
>>2741985
>Was a cringeworthy little shit on forums years ago.
>Stupid political posts, edgy crap, etc.
>Fortunately, got an admin to delete all my posts in 2010
>Feel great, but then get a little paranoid and read around a bit
>Some screenshots of my 'ebin' posts still exist, with my username (real name) still on them
>Can't get the image host to delete them
>The site will stay up for the foreseeable future
>The admin is ruthless in keeping backups and certainly has one from before deleting all my posts.
>If he ever sees me get notable (or someone is posting screenshots and I'm lying to deny it) he could put them back online somewhere and ruin me.
[Paranoia intensifies]

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Oct 2015 19:45:10 No.2741995 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2741994
If you don't have a photo of yourself alongside them, you could say it was a different person entirely. I wouldn't fret.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Oct 2015 20:02:44 No.2742027 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2742021
not funny :(

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Oct 2015 22:03:39 No.2742169 Report Delete

Quoted By:

There was an old NES forum with people like Clawwarriorx, Qix and I think someone named flowingmindspin. Anyone still around from those days?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Oct 2015 22:13:49 No.2742191 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2742312

>>2734843
wikis.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Oct 2015 22:27:05 No.2742218 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2741985
I put my name on exactly three things online in the '90s, all of which I'm somehow not ashamed today. One's still up in a sense as a marketing testimonial for a product no longer available for purchase, and the other two went unarchived before dying (as with you).

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Oct 2015 23:26:08 No.2742312 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2742191
It's a good thing that people finally found out the stupidity of Wikia and have gone to hosting their own wiki sites instead, fuck Wikia man

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 16 Oct 2015 23:35:26 No.2742319 Report Delete

Quoted By:

Not necessarily /vr/ related, but for those that are a little younger, did anyone else here randomly guess on URLs before knowing about search engines? When I was 6 years old (1996) I remember having an obsession over license plates and I'd guess random things until I found a valid link for license plates. I'd also write down URLs on paper, not knowing about bookmarks. My dad taught me those and Dogpile a bit later, and then I relied on webrings for gaming and anime stuff.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 17 Oct 2015 00:01:11 No.2742356 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2742775

>Thou shalt honor the Artiste's hard work and generosity by displaying a logo which links back to Web Jewels *on the same page* thou usest her graphics on. If the art is good enough to go on thy page, then a logo/link back should be there too. Under no circumstances is credit on a "links" page a way of giving back to the creatives of the web: its an afterthought that limps pathetically around the back corners of your site, while our work brings the main pages to life.

>Thou shalt write to the Artiste and tell her where her images are, so that she may visit them and admire the wonderful worlds thou hast wrought with them, as well as consider thee for the *very* rare "Best Dressed Site on the Web" Award.

>Thou shalt not spindle, fold, distort, filter or resize any of the Jewels. Thy humble creatrix hath made them perfect and free - just for thee.Kindly respect her vision by leaving the images *intact*. These are not cyber "notions", and thou shouldst honor the artiste's inspiring muse by refraining from chopping them up, re-compositing them or creating your own art using any portion of the Jewels, unless thou hast Moyra's expressed permission, and such is rarely, if ever, granted . However, thou mayest and shouldst add thy own text to the title and subtitle graphics!

>Wherever thou seest the "IRON CLAD RULE", knoweth that those are NOT free linkware graphics but the exclusive and most copyrighted property of the Visual Mine Operator and her Fabulous Clients. Prithee, keepeth thy cotton picking right clicking mousey mitts off those images!

I used to cringe when I'd write online similar to this, but looking back, people were just so much more unabashed back then. I remember on forums there would always be a "Ye Tavern O' Musings" or "Sp4c3W4lk3r's Cyber Bar" thread in the off topic section, and everyone try their hardest to fit the theme as they rambled on about things in their lives. I won't say I miss it, but...

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 17 Oct 2015 05:34:38 No.2742775 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2742356
Man we had so much nerdy fun back in the day. It was nice being a geeky teenager before the western world decided to adopt the culture and piss on it.

I mean beyond the bullying and beatings.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 17 Oct 2015 06:36:27 No.2742835 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2743963 >>2756159 >>2756196

>search for free game downloads
>find some shady looking website
>download "games" from the site
>game.exe, 12kb
>click on the .exe
>command line just flashes on the screen for a fraction of a second, too fast to read what it actually said
>oh well, I guess it didn't work
>download 10 more, same thing happens every time
>get tired, turn computer off
>next morning turn computer on again
>slow as fuck and full of viruses

If I ever get kids I'm going to teach them about web safety and not to click on stupid shit. My little sister still keeps clicking on everything. Few weeks ago I had to delete a virus named "free_spotify.exe".

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 17 Oct 2015 06:44:00 No.2742838 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2742936 >>2749867 >>2758894

>tfw you will never be hacker in the 90s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql1uLyuWra8

Goddamn I can't find the Masterminds (1997) scene where the main character hacks to some secret website, and the hacking process looks like a shitty Sega CD game.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 17 Oct 2015 07:02:48 No.2742869 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2743971

Rinkworks.com was one of my favorite little nerdy websites and the administrator still maintains it, all of his little games are still available to play and he still runs a couple of monthly games with a handful of people still playing them. He made a long and thoughtful post about upcoming movies on his own message board despite the latest post being in May and only saying "Anybody nows about vampires something!"

I still visit it just because it's like a relic of old internet nerd culture. A couple of the adventure games probably still stand up okay as well.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 17 Oct 2015 08:11:13 No.2742936 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2742838
>pic
that movie
that friggin movie with those friggin freaks

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 17 Oct 2015 08:26:22 No.2742946 Report Delete

Quoted By:

barneyandotis.20m.com/

Check out the ballin website a friend and I made for our HL Modpack that never actually got beyond ideas.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 17 Oct 2015 16:38:31 No.2743613 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2762737

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 17 Oct 2015 20:26:48 No.2743963 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2742835
You better hope there isn't some successor to limewire when you get kids.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 17 Oct 2015 20:28:43 No.2743971 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2742869
I'm gonna have some fun with this.

http://www.rinkworks.com/dialect/dialectp.cgi?dialect=redneck&url=http%3A%2F%2Fboards.4chan.org%2Fvr%2Fthread%2F2734761

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 17 Oct 2015 21:06:51 No.2744038 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2744156 >>2745342

Still up after all these god damn years

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 17 Oct 2015 23:05:04 No.2744156 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2744038
Amazing

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 01:10:38 No.2744303 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2744358

>>2735501
What's with the coding shit?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 01:48:36 No.2744358 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2744303
that's irc....

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 03:00:59 No.2744449 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2734761
I fucking remember these dancing Pikachu gifs.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 03:13:33 No.2744459 Report Delete

Quoted By:

The shittiest and incest-ness of this page creeps me out so much.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 03:16:56 No.2744467 Report Delete

Quoted By:

Heather needs better friends.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 03:25:42 No.2744476 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2761965

>>2739949

Can someone edit the last scene to say "trade it for cocaine."

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 03:30:58 No.2744483 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2744492

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-xxE43SHw0

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 03:40:13 No.2744492 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2744483
Some one needs to rip those 2D avatar graphics and put them in a Doom wad so we can have Deathmatch.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 03:54:16 No.2744509 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2740834
>heterosexual transvestite

Ah, the 90s..

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 04:02:50 No.2744519 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2758617

yo for real though

the fucking avatar palace

aka The Palace

dat communities.com beautiful shithole

large portions of my youth spent wrapping myself in a blanket, playing tribes 2, listening to weezer's green album and secondhand rollins band discs and falling in love with goth/raver broads (to include my first online gf who i actually talked on the landline phone to lol) on the fucking avatar palace.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 04:06:37 No.2744524 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2758617

yo i can't believe this shit still actually exists

http://www.thepalace.com/

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 04:38:58 No.2744550 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2744881

>>2737721
man what's the song called looping in the background?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 04:49:15 No.2744564 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2764873

Rotten.com was one of the earliest websites I remember visiting. It's satisfying to see it's still up and still looks the same as it did back then.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 05:29:44 No.2744594 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2736804
>first site I really posted on was gamespot and bloody disgusting
>I remember sitting up all weekend posting on them

So, so comfy

I prefer it here though

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 06:09:17 No.2744617 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2744697 >>2744716

>watch few episodes of the First Wave (1998)
>episodes about computer users refer internet users as webheads

"He's a total webhead" and "I know a webhead when I see one!". It's weird how technology related shows in the late 90s made the internet sound such a magical place.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 07:36:50 No.2744683 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2740834
>Amateur Radio

I'm still into this shit. I rock my Baofengs constantly.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 08:06:55 No.2744697 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2744617
Information Super Highway

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 08:31:56 No.2744714 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2736965
>>2734992
I really wish I went where you guys did, one of my first experiences with midis was playing S3&K PC. Jesus.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 08:36:17 No.2744716 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2744617
it was magical anon
right up until xp was released

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 10:22:55 No.2744779 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2744864 >>2745138 >>2751004

>90s movie
>hacker nerds use apple computers

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 11:49:50 No.2744843 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2744845 >>2750413

>>2734992
Internet content just hasn't been the same since it moved on from lovingly crafted fansites to big centralized websites like Wikipedia or dedicated wikis.

There's barely any room for personal agency anymore and it makes me real sad.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 11:51:05 No.2744845 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2744843
Yeah it lost a lot of "soul" in favor of bland and boring information.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 12:13:09 No.2744864 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2744867

>>2744779
That movie had bigger problems than using macs.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 12:14:57 No.2744867 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2744879 >>2745645 >>2745743

>>2744864
Of course our human made virus will be compatible with alien tech, Anon. It just works!

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 12:26:52 No.2744879 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2745158 >>2745645 >>2745743

>>2744867
>Of course our human made virus will be compatible with alien tech, Anon. It just works!

I would find it conceivable that a human made computer virus could work its way against alien computers.

I just don't find it possible that Jeff Goldblum can whip one up in a minute, with zero research done before hand on how the alien ships computers work.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 12:27:03 No.2744881 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2744550
It was actually originally created for the site.
http://www.cameronsworld.net/music/

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 15:09:18 No.2745138 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2744779
>implying they weren't running A/UX or mklinux

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 15:18:31 No.2745153 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2740086

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 15:20:58 No.2745158 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2744879
If it were anyone but Jeff Goldblum you'd have a point.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 15:29:56 No.2745170 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2740086
>Hotline
Hotline was fucking great. Filesharing while forced to chat with random sysops, the BBS experience distilled

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 15:37:37 No.2745182 Report Delete

Quoted By:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot_Comedy
Has any more of this besides this short segment leaked yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94FdMmCIfSY

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 16:17:54 No.2745250 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2745257 >>2745363 >>2745890 >>2745927

Hey /vr/, want to watch Good Will Hunting?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 16:19:40 No.2745256 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2745712

I miss this. Nothing else like it since.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 16:19:43 No.2745257 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2745250
I wanna watch Faggot_Crying.mov

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 16:25:38 No.2745263 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2754882

>>2735501
I miss the "old internet" days. They were just so much more "magical".

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 17:27:35 No.2745342 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2745475

>>2744038
That was still getting updated up until about three years ago.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 17:38:48 No.2745363 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2745250
>FreeMovies.exe

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 17:42:57 No.2745372 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2745924

Tim and Eric show is everything I loved and hated about the old internet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5BZkaWZAAA

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 18:40:11 No.2745475 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2745342
I heard the guy behind it moved on to another website which has a forum that looks just like the Lemmy's land forum. I forgot what it was called though, but it's sort of an end of an era, since I used to make polls on lemmy's land

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 19:35:55 No.2745567 Report Delete

Quoted By:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBvDVPinlWo

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 20:31:58 No.2745645 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2744867
>>2744879

In a deleted scene he talks about understanding it or some shit.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 20:46:59 No.2745670 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2747430

I think it launched in 99, but I took Gamespy and Planethalflife/planetquake/planetcounterstrike/etc were awesome. Shame how I took it all for granted since I thought they would last forever.

Never did like their game/server client system though

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 21:10:16 No.2745712 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2745256
I can't separate Comic Chat from Jerkcity. I'm pretty sure those guys were the only ones who used it, anyways

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 21:17:09 No.2745724 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2745741

>>2736785
>zone.com

I-I'm probably not the other one who was thinking about the other Zone, right guys? Right?

>tfw Zone's been doing porn since 1998

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 21:20:52 No.2745736 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2745926 >>2751451

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 21:23:01 No.2745741 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2745724
I discovered 4chan because of zone

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 21:24:27 No.2745743 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2745841

>>2744867
>>2744879

Nevermind the program compatibility, how was it possible for alien technology to use the same interface as human technology, in this case a floppy disk? I would accept an asspull like

>their ships are based on military prototypes that went missing a few decades back

And thus knew about their own technology.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 21:33:47 No.2745754 Report Delete

Quoted By:

yahooligans

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 22:48:48 No.2745841 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2745743
I thought they just modded the captured fighter to interface with with laptop and uploaded the virus from there.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 22:51:37 No.2745846 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2735501

>Anime Web Turnpike

Fuck.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 23:01:15 No.2745859 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2745863 >>2747452 >>2754417

NEWGROUNDS WAS FUNNY WHEN WE WERE ALL 12 LIVING IN THE SUBURBS LISTENING TO LINKIN PARK WATCHING DRAGONBALL Z DRINKING PEPSI WHILE PLAYING HALO CO-OP ON THE EASIEST SETTING DURING WHICH WE CONSUMED DORITOS AND LOOKED AT PAINTBALL GUNS ON EBAY IN INTERNET EXPLORER CONNECTED THROUGH AOL ON A 56K MODEM BEFORE HOPPING INTO OUR BALDING FATHERS’ LATEST MIDLIFE-CRISIS-IMPULSE-SPONSORED JAPANESE-BUILT SUV TO HEAD TO THE MALL AND GET MORE SKATEBOARDING SHOES AND THIRD-RATE IRREGULAR LEVIS AND MOUNTAIN BIKE PARTS BEFORE HEADING HOME, VOTING DEMOCRAT AND MASTURBATING TO THE LATEST SEARS CATALOG WHILE HUFFING PAINT IN YOUR GARAGE BEFORE TALKING TO PEDOPHILES ON AIM PRETENDING TO BE WHATEVER CAMWHORE THEY’RE RANTING ABOUT ON MYSPACE WITH A MATRIX QUOTE/ANIME CHARACTER NAME/TRIPLE SIX-ASTERISK-PARENTHESES-SURROUNDED SCREENNAME BEFORE HEADING TO YOUR SUPPOSED “GOOD SCHOOL” IN THE MORNING TO BUY MORE POT TO SMOKE DURING YOUR COUNTER-STRIKE LAN PARTY WITH JIMMY AND THE REST OF HIS FRIENDS TAKING RITALIN AND ADDERALL AND PROZAC EIGHT TIMES A DAY BEFORE TAKING A CASUAL PASS AT LOCAL, STATE OR NATIONAL GOVERNMENTIAL FIGURES, LEGISLATURE, OR STRUCTURE TO APPEAR EDGY AND INTELLIGENT IN FRONT OF YOUR BUDWEISER-SNEAKING, LIMP-WRISTED, NEAR-TO-COLUMBINE SOCIOPATHIC “DEEP” FRIENDS WHO PLAY THE VICTIM WHEN THEY START LOSING ARGUEMENTS SIX DAYS BEFORE THEIR BOTCHED SUICIDE ATTEMPT SIMPLY BECAUSE SCHOOL TRAMP NUMBER TWELVE WOULDN’T GO UNDER THE BLEACHERS WITH THEM TO LET THEM GET TO SECOND BASE BEFORE THEIR THIRTEENTH BIRTHDAY

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 23:03:46 No.2745863 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2745859
>he didn't have DSL immediately upon availability

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 23:27:43 No.2745890 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2745250
>1000s_OF_PORN_MOVIES.exe
Jackpot.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 23:56:26 No.2745924 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2745372
I love T&EASGJ

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2015 23:59:20 No.2745926 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2745736
thanks for the url, strategy guide

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2015 00:00:39 No.2745927 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2745250
>weezer.mov

Who are these homeys dissin' mah girl?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2015 00:03:20 No.2745929 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2747402

>>2738490
The infosec team I'm in still uses irc. It's a fun place.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2015 00:16:20 No.2745942 Report Delete

Quoted By:

Anyone remember C:DOS Ababdonware?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2015 08:40:18 No.2746349 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>1995
>inbox (1)
>oh shit, I got email!!!
>2015
>inbox (216)
>oh shit... email...

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2015 08:42:27 No.2746352 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>older brother teaches me how to download games and music from online
>within week I had infected the family computer with every single imaginable worm and virus

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2015 08:49:39 No.2746358 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2746436 >>2748382

>he doesn't hang out with data cowboys
>he hasn't read Neuromancer
>he hasn't experienced new-wave, nextwave, or the dreamwave
>he doesn't know cyberpunk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLlj_GeKniA

It's a world where you're judged by what you say and think, not by what you look like.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2015 10:21:48 No.2746436 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2750419

>>2746358
>The 'cyberspace information superhighway' used to be something so magical and mysterious...beyond the comprehension of most mortals. Now we use the internet to watch cat videos and videochat with grandma.

Fuck, that comment is true

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2015 10:48:46 No.2746478 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2748450 >>2748826

>tfw all the chatrooms are dead
>no more MSN Chat; no more YahooChat; no more AOL Chat

Sucks that Facebook has replaced chatrooms.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2015 10:57:23 No.2746492 Report Delete

Quoted By:

50,000 people used to live here. Now its a ghost town.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2015 16:40:12 No.2747091 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2747094 >>2747110 >>2748830 >>2751008

The internet I thought I knew is dead.

It's not technically dead yet, there's still a little brain activity in there, but it's impossible - without divine intervention - to save it.

I realized that today as I read official advice on 'branding' yourself online, so you could advertise what a great individual you are.

The place where you could use a username to hide your weirdest hobbies and obsessions, speak behind a mask safely and explore new ideas has become the place where individuals are no better than corporations. Everyone is out to lie, to improve the social standing of their real name instead of exploring the ideas they actually think.

I want to cry. I feel like a kid being told Santa isn't real.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2015 16:42:08 No.2747094 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2747110

>>2747091
Why do you think I hide out on places like 4chan these days? Everything else is about names and social standing online.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2015 16:48:52 No.2747110 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2747114 >>2747120 >>2747461 >>2750971 >>2751008 >>2763064

>>2747091
>>2747094

Please pardon the term, but that is what will happen to pretty much anything once normies arrive. Instead of learning the ins and outs of something and adapting themselves to fit in, they instead force it to become what they think it is/want it to be. There wind up being so many differently bland forces pulling on the thing that it eventually becomes a blander, generally worse version of itself.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2015 16:51:14 No.2747114 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2747148

>>2747110
When people starting making Myspace accounts I kind of figured a lot of it was over. I honestly had no interest in plastering myself online and adding my friends to my online activities. I was happy sitting in my NES IRC chat and fucking around with my online buddies.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2015 16:53:41 No.2747120 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2747148

>>2747110
It's not an ideal term, but you have to build on it somehow.

I think it's that there's a certain group of lazy people or something who contribute nothing - geocities cites from the most normal of normies can be fascinating insights into the lives of individuals. In that sense, those people are fine.

Maybe it's because they deferred to superior knowledge, or maybe it's something else. I know they killed usenet, so maybe it's just that only those who made the minimal effort to learn HTML posted, filtering out the laziest of lazy people.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2015 17:10:48 No.2747148 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2747210

>>2747114
>>2747120
>Maybe it's because they deferred to superior knowledge

That was the idea behind lurking moar. Someone is new somewhere, they don't know the rules, they don't know what is accepted and not accepted on the site(s), so they observe, learn, and decide if the community is one to which they wish to contribute. Others fly in thinking they know what the site is about and go to town. If enough of these new voices enter at once, each trying to yell the loudest to make it what they want it to be, they drown out the original userbase and what's left is something different, an averaging of the new voices.

Yeah this is totally off the subject of games and borderline word salad, but I guess the best summary I can think of is when you start mixing too many colors together you wind up with brown.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2015 17:44:03 No.2747210 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2747148
That's actually a really good analogy.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2015 18:01:30 No.2747252 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2747361

Sometimes I think this place is one of the last bastions of old Internet. Newfags or no newfags.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2015 18:59:43 No.2747361 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2747252
Man, I never hopped on the FB bandwagon back in the day and it was a pretty smart move beyond people thinking I am some kind of recluse. Last time I posted on a forum was something on Atari Age and that was over 10 years ago.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2015 19:10:55 No.2747370 Report Delete

Quoted By:

A living fossil of anti-Microsoft from the late 90s. Still updated infrequently.

http://toastytech.com/

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2015 19:28:14 No.2747395 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2738572

Goddamn anon, good job in summarizing the situation.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2015 19:30:46 No.2747397 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2738490

It's also a good tool to download stuff, that helps.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2015 19:33:55 No.2747402 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2747423 >>2748465

>>2745929
IRC seems to the last place most "normal" people have not really invested any time in. I really wonder why that is. It is not super hard to use.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2015 19:45:07 No.2747423 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2747435

>>2747402

Commonly people don't want to install multiple stuff to please their needs on a PC.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2015 19:46:38 No.2747430 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2745670
Gamespy was literally spyware and I'm glad that shit shut down for good.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2015 19:47:46 No.2747435 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2747439 >>2764227

>>2747423
Wait. Do people really hate having programs on to install on their PCs these days?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2015 19:49:44 No.2747439 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2747456

>>2747435

The less the better for the general user, especially for communications.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2015 19:57:40 No.2747452 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2745859
>playing Gaylo
>drinking Gaysi
>listening to Linkin Gayrk
>liking Gayball
>using Gayternet Explorer
>going to gay parties with Jimmy
>wearing Gayboarding shoes

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2015 19:59:20 No.2747456 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2747439
Well that goes a long way in explaining the amount of bloatware that comes with the average laptop.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2015 20:00:02 No.2747461 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2747110
Don't you have some people to slaughter frogposter?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2015 22:53:03 No.2747695 Report Delete

Quoted By:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfMrVKnGzwg

Remember to talk with your friends on chat lines! And transmit your email at no cost!

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Oct 2015 06:26:37 No.2748382 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2746358
Who hired the aliens?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Oct 2015 06:40:43 No.2748390 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2748391

At least Anime Theme exists

And Salamando's Stove is still up despite not having been updated since 2003 or 04.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 20 Oct 2015 06:44:11 No.2748391 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2748390
Forgot the salamando appropriate picture.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Oct 2015 07:10:23 No.2748402 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2748461 >>2758942

Zophar's Domain still exists.

How is this possible?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Oct 2015 08:14:40 No.2748450 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2746478

This. This SO FUCKING HARD.

well, now people are using snapchat and kik and shit so, take that shitbook.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 20 Oct 2015 08:24:31 No.2748457 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2748557

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Oct 2015 08:36:14 No.2748461 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2748402

where else will people get their emulators anon?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Oct 2015 08:42:51 No.2748465 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2748479 >>2748480

>>2747402
I mainly use IRC for downloading anime. There's a lot of older anime that you can't really find torrents of, and have to dig through IRC file servers.

IRC is probably the last remaining bastion of pure geekery on the internet. The main people who use IRC are pirates, programmers, and oldschool gamers (like Quake, etc.)

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 20 Oct 2015 08:43:13 No.2748467 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2748478 >>2748523 >>2748557

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Oct 2015 08:53:58 No.2748478 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2748467

Fuck, i forgot penn was in hackers.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Oct 2015 08:55:07 No.2748479 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2748465

Is the /vr/ group still active ?
It was fun playing bomberman.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Oct 2015 08:55:38 No.2748480 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2748465
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2rGTXHvPCQ

I think this scared a lot of people off too.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 20 Oct 2015 09:06:12 No.2748489 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2748494 >>2748557

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 20 Oct 2015 09:07:40 No.2748493 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2748557

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Oct 2015 09:08:08 No.2748494 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2748489
That movie really was something else.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 20 Oct 2015 09:18:04 No.2748498 Report Delete

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Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 20 Oct 2015 09:20:24 No.2748501 Report Delete

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Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 20 Oct 2015 09:24:13 No.2748503 Report Delete

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Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Oct 2015 09:50:14 No.2748516 Report Delete

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>>2748503
/r/ing the scene where they play the Wipeout arcade

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Oct 2015 09:59:26 No.2748523 Report Delete

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>>2748467
>read his resume
>he's a "hacker"
>put in in le trash

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Oct 2015 10:00:34 No.2748525 Report Delete

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>>2748503
>white boy having sex with girl
>suddenly bunch of black guys burst in the room and take her away

Something something cuck something

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 20 Oct 2015 10:03:33 No.2748528 Report Delete

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Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 20 Oct 2015 10:06:21 No.2748531 Report Delete

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Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Oct 2015 10:10:08 No.2748538 Report Delete

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>>2748531
cheers bruv

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Oct 2015 10:11:15 No.2748541 Report Delete

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>>2748531
ANGELINA JOLIE WTFF

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Oct 2015 10:12:39 No.2748545 Report Delete

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>>2748541
it was pre-rendered fyi

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Oct 2015 10:21:09 No.2748557 Report Delete

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>>2748457
>>2748467
>>2748489
>>2748493
>>2748498
>>2748501
>>2748503
>>2748528
>>2748531
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k07cflKCl-Y

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 20 Oct 2015 10:59:16 No.2748597 Report Delete

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Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 20 Oct 2015 11:07:37 No.2748606 Report Delete

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Anonymous Tue 20 Oct 2015 11:09:10 No.2748608 Report Delete

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Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Oct 2015 11:16:08 No.2748618 Report Delete

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I miss the marquee html tag

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Oct 2015 11:23:38 No.2748623 Report Delete

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>>2737304
> 10.2 fps
kek those were the days

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 20 Oct 2015 11:37:20 No.2748632 Report Delete

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Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Oct 2015 14:03:56 No.2748826 Report Delete

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>>2746478

I liked The Zone chatrooms. Microsoft still has a Zone, but it's nothing like I remember.

I don't wanna give misinformation, but I'm pretty sure there's no longer a main chatroom like there used to be... currently visiting the current version. Ctrl+F "chat" pulls up nothing on the homepage. You would think the web would have become more fully featured over time, not less.

I started browsing the index of free games and the site tells me the list's unavailable. Bravo, Gates!

I also remember that AIM had a way to search users based on interests. If you had configured your interests, then you may occasionally receive messages from randoms, which was neat.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Oct 2015 14:06:28 No.2748827 Report Delete

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>>2748826
Chat rooms and the like seem to have died off in popularity. The main stream folks wanna talk to friends they know in real life. Not random people on the internet they have never met.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Oct 2015 14:08:55 No.2748830 Report Delete

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>>2747091
>The place where you could use a username to hide your weirdest hobbies and obsessions, speak behind a mask safely and explore new ideas has become the place where individuals are no better than corporations. Everyone is out to lie, to improve the social standing of their real name instead of exploring the ideas they actually think.

It's strange that anonymity is suppressed these days in favor of adding a profile on Facebook with one's **actual biographical details**. At least on MySpace / LiveJournal / Xanga / etc., I would reckon that a large proportion of the profiles did not offer actual names. There was usually a sweet spot where you'd have actual pictures and a few biographical details so your friends could figure out it was you, but not enough such that parties such as potential employers could locate you.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Oct 2015 14:09:56 No.2748831 Report Delete

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>>2748827

a/s/l?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Oct 2015 14:37:34 No.2748863 Report Delete

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>>2748831
Goddammit. Even that annoying line makes me nostalgic.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Oct 2015 16:56:03 No.2749047 Report Delete

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>>2748830
Now I'd imagine that if you don't have a "real you" trail on the internet, employers probably think you're trying to hide something. I closed my FB long ago. Waste of time. If someone is truly a friend, I see them in real life, call them, email or text them. I don't need to e-stalk them nor do I need dipshits tracking me down and scrutinizing my photos or favorite movies.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Oct 2015 18:29:16 No.2749183 Report Delete

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>>2748827
Omegle briefly had a great resurgence of the random chat culture but it's become just preteens spamming "kik". I remember an anon saying that meeting people online was kind of like being a kid on a playground for the first time, everybody was exploring this new thing and had a common ground just in that they were a part of it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Oct 2015 19:12:03 No.2749282 Report Delete

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>>2749183
Omegle was a lot of fun before webcams played into it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 20 Oct 2015 20:50:40 No.2749463 Report Delete

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>>2749183
Webcam omegle is 99% cocks.
Chat omegle is 99% KIK, Guys who wont chat to anything without tits, or Kids.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 20 Oct 2015 23:06:44 No.2749723 Report Delete

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Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 00:14:36 No.2749827 Report Delete

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>>2749463
Why do they want to use kik?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 00:45:24 No.2749860 Report Delete

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>>2736785
I LOVE YOU ANON

I've been looking for that Ants game for literally years, but never knew what the name was! I finally found it!!!
Memories man...

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 01:03:08 No.2749867 Report Delete

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>>2742838
h4x t3h GIBSON

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 07:02:08 No.2750291 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2750358

>>2749827
So they can send you pictures of their dick, in return for tits. Same as Chatrooms ever were just not over e-mail or CAM PLZ.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 08:34:09 No.2750358 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2750383

>>2750291
Once, long ago, I did get tits from a girl over a chat room. Thing is, I wasn't being one of those peeves. It was weird. Anyway, this was before most people had digital cameras, so she actually leaned over her goddamn scanner and sent me pics. It was awesome and also had this weird "artistic" feeling to them, if that makes sense.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 09:04:01 No.2750383 Report Delete

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>>2750358
Now thats dedication.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 09:27:41 No.2750413 Report Delete

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>>2736804
>that one vidya forum you went to back in the late 99s/early 00s is long gone

We've gone through a few iterations over the years, but the core group of people that I left the Gamesages forums with back around 1998 still have a community forum that we all go to. We're also on each other's facebooks and whatnot now, but most of the discussion still happens on the forum.

It's pretty awesome to me that these people I met when we were all pimple faced teenagers are now grown with families and shit, but we're fundamentally the same. Even the guy who pretended he was a girl for half a decade before coming out.

I also have had the same account on Gamefaqs since 2000, but I virtually never go there anymore.

>>2744843
>There's barely any room for personal agency anymore and it makes me real sad.

There's actually plenty of room for it. Websites are cheap these days, you can make anything at all you want. The problem is convincing people to come to it.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 09:32:23 No.2750419 Report Delete

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>>2746436

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 11:31:36 No.2750557 Report Delete

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>>2736785

I tried so hard to download the Indy Car racing game demo there but sadly failed.

Also, man. It's later than what you guys lurked on but I recall spending hours upon hours on (x) Planet (namely KOF, Blood, Doom and whatnot), Cyberfanatix/KOF Online/Orochinagi and MMCafe. As well as old Gamefaqs.

And old lewd fan fiction archives. Made me being a huge fan for KOF better, but ultimately soured my like for Gundam Wing. Good fucking times.

>>2736804

I got scolded over not following signature sizes, but not animated ones.

Communities were rather tightly knit back then too. It's no wonder that drama would shit things up so bad it spills over in real life. Was nice to still be in touch with most of them but at this age it's not the same for the current generation I guess.

>>2737719

I wanna go fucking listen to some Group X now for some reason.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 14:33:03 No.2750901 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2750905 >>2751000 >>2751016 >>2751021 >>2754270

>yfw first time seeing hentai

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 14:35:04 No.2750905 Report Delete

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>>2750901

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 15:01:50 No.2750971 Report Delete

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>>2747110
ex. 4chan

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 15:19:04 No.2751000 Report Delete

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>>2750901
Hold the fuckin phone. This is a thing? Tell me this is real, but don't lie to me.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 15:23:47 No.2751004 Report Delete

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>>2744779
They still hack with macs on SyFy channel.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 15:25:25 No.2751008 Report Delete

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>>2747091
>>2747110
You people are babies. The internet still exists, and 4chan is part of it. Just because social media exists and people use the internet for more than just arguing about anime and watching porn, doesn't mean those are the only things it can do.

You're like old men just sitting and bitching that the world has gone to hell because it's not exactly the same as it was when they were 20.

The world is constantly and ever changing. You can accept that, roll with the changes and find a way to enjoy life in the new paradigms. Or you can close yourself off, convinced that it's all going to hell in a hand basket and kids are terrible for ruining everything you loved.

It's your choice of course, but one will lead to a happy and fulfilled life and the other will make you a bitter asshole who hates everything.

Choose wisely.

And yes, I'm old enough to remember the old internet and the world before the internet at all. Shit changes yo.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 15:28:15 No.2751016 Report Delete

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>>2750901
I always read that in Kramer's voice

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 15:28:23 No.2751017 Report Delete

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Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 15:29:57 No.2751021 Report Delete

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>>2750901

Now this make me feel old as fuck because the first time I saw hentai was from a physical comic book that my friend showed me (it belonged to his older brother). This was like in 1996 or so.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 15:38:34 No.2751037 Report Delete

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http://tombraiders.net/index.html#

>tfw playing Tomb Raider as a kid and visiting Stella's Site to get past some of the hard levels
>Been using the site since 1999
>Stella still maintains the site, used it to help with some collectibles in TRReboot

It's like visiting an old friend

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 15:39:57 No.2751040 Report Delete

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>>2751017
shame this behavior is now written of as edgy nowadays

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 15:40:40 No.2751041 Report Delete

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Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 15:52:09 No.2751071 Report Delete

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>>2751000
Not original anon who posted, but I'll tell you:

It's a flash game that was on Newgrounds. I actually knew the girl who did the female voices in it at the time. Crazy stories, but a bit too personal for 4chan, though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 16:00:09 No.2751098 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2751127

>>2751008
Considering the medium very much has changed, and not for the better, I will retain my pessimism, because even now the amount of places I visit on the web is dwindling instead of staying the same or growing.

Your argument reminds me a lot of a friend who told me the same sort of argument of "finding a way to live with changes to the world you don't actively enjoy", but in the same breath makes it sound like he doesn't give a shit about why said changes happened or actively cares how much it screws him over.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 16:07:48 No.2751126 Report Delete

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>>2751071
>too personal for an anonymous basket weaving homepage

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 16:07:59 No.2751127 Report Delete

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>>2751098
Maybe your friend was crushed by them in the same way you are, but isn't able to admit it. Don't get me wrong, it's not that I didn't like the old internet or have some nostalgia for it. But not everything about it was great and not everything about what exists now is bad. I still like the internet. A lot. I feel the same way about games. They've sure changed a lot and not entirely in ways I liked, but overall they're still pretty great.

If you want to stay a bitter pessimist angry that things didn't stay the same forever then it's your choice, I just think it's a sad one.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 16:09:13 No.2751131 Report Delete

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>>2751071
>Crazy stories, but a bit too personal for 4chan, though.

Yeah sure anon and I got a Nintendo 3 but my dad won't let anyone come over to play it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 16:11:01 No.2751136 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2751157

>>2751127
Considering there's even less things I find I enjoy about anything on the web now, you can keep your assumptions of how bitter I am to yourself, because it has nothing to do with frame of mind when I find things that I don't enjoy end up sucking.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 16:19:27 No.2751157 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2751163

>>2751136
You said yourself you're going to "retain your pessimism" you're clear that there's less and less online that you enjoy and your tone about everything is extremely bitter. It's not like I pulled that out of thin air.

They took Tomb Raider, one of my favorite series of all time and turned it into a clone of Uncharted which I think is one of the worst games of all time. Did that suck? Sure. But I'm not going to mope about it and let it get me down. I'd rather focus on things that I do like.

Disappointment in life is inevitable, but bitterness and pessimism is a choice. Again, live your life any way you want but I think people like you are sad.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 16:23:23 No.2751162 Report Delete

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>>2751008
Yes goym just give google your first and last name, phone number, and address w- I'm sure nothing will ever go wrong. :^)

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 16:24:05 No.2751163 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2751790

>>2751157
>Disappointment in life is inevitable, but bitterness and pessimism is a choice
This nigga gets it

Appreciate what you've still got, I'm just glad that this website still exists and is full of like minded people who play old video games and romanticize the shitty early internet

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 17:31:37 No.2751264 Report Delete

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>>2751008
People are as free to criticize change as they are to accept and adapt. And there's no dichotomy in doing all of those things. You're not exactly doling out rare wisdom so quit trying to sound like anyone's dad with your condescending advice.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 17:35:54 No.2751279 Report Delete

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>>2751008
I am fine with change. I just get annoyed when people shame me for not having a Facebook or not getting Snap Chat. I just don't care enough to look at updates of all aspects of my friends life. Come talk to me about it instead of posting boring pictures of your breakfast on internet sites.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 18:18:23 No.2751343 Report Delete

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>>2739914
>>2741994

You were just kids, no one will blame you for that. Just let it go. It's not like you've been put on a government watchlist.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 18:30:57 No.2751363 Report Delete

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>>2751127

>If you want to stay a bitter pessimist angry that things didn't stay the same forever then it's your choice, I just think it's a sad one.

I believe it's not about being bitter because "things didn't stay the same forever", but that things didn't turn out as goos as they could have, it's a disappointment.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 18:38:27 No.2751375 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2751390

>>2741994
>>2739914
Hey at least no one found your posts on an erotic fiction board you made when you were 14 talking about how you're a filthy cock slut.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 18:44:51 No.2751390 Report Delete

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>>2751375
Speaking from personal experience?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 19:02:04 No.2751419 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2751420 >>2753520

>>2751390
No I'm actually speaking about someone /tv/ dug up a ton of info on awhile back.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 19:03:09 No.2751420 Report Delete

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>>2751419
That sounds interesting.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 19:05:39 No.2751427 Report Delete

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>>2751420
He's the perfect example of why you should never EVER share the same username and emails of your porn related stuff with everything else.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 19:06:51 No.2751432 Report Delete

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>>2751427
Talking about me? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 19:11:27 No.2751440 Report Delete

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I love the old internet "aesthetic". It's just so sterile and clear, but also looks hi-tech in that child like wonder kind of way, if that makes any sense. All the news websites back then were named like "Newspaper-online!" or "Newspaper - the website" or "NewspaperNET", just to highlight that they were indeed websites, in CYBERSPACE! Ooooh!

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 19:11:43 No.2751442 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2751446 >>2751450 >>2754917

>>2739914
Google my name, I get murderers and politicians. I'm not sure what to make of my future.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 19:13:41 No.2751446 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2751458 >>2754845

>>2751442
I get an outlaw from the 1800s and some dude busted for child porn.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 19:16:20 No.2751450 Report Delete

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>>2751442
Bundy never wins, but a Bundy never quits!

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 19:16:35 No.2751451 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2751461

>>2745736

Man Fuck the FF9 guide.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 19:18:59 No.2751458 Report Delete

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>>2751446
>some dude busted for child porn.

Was it you?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 19:19:57 No.2751460 Report Delete

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>>2751458

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 19:19:59 No.2751461 Report Delete

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>>2751451
That thing is hilarious in hindsight.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 19:22:49 No.2751463 Report Delete

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>>2751461
>>2751461
I don't get how they thought it was a good idea. A lot of people still had dial up when it came out. It was a pain the ass.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 19:25:14 No.2751467 Report Delete

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>>2751463
The best part of it was the website was an entire walkthrough in its own right. It was basically a big book that amounts to a physical pop up ad.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 19:29:41 No.2751474 Report Delete

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>that kid who had a fansite for Predator where he listed all kinds and types of Predators from AVP universe, most of them were just made up
>lengthy descriptions and drawings about these different types of Predators, their culture, habits etc.

I was that kid

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 19:31:31 No.2751479 Report Delete

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Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 19:33:25 No.2751484 Report Delete

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>>2751479
>mid 90s
>excited about computer class, imagine all the crazy shit we get to do
>finally get my hands on computer
>it's BeOS

REEEEEEEE!!

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 19:35:25 No.2751492 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2751526

>>2751484
I do not miss Real Player.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 19:36:12 No.2751493 Report Delete

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>>2751484
>REEEEEEEE!!
That has a specific use and I don't think it applies here.

I would have been ecstatic.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 19:38:37 No.2751496 Report Delete

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>>2748831

28 m cali

MajorSauce

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MajorSauce Wed 21 Oct 2015 19:45:34 No.2751512 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2751531

Miniclip.com

Stick Figure Death Theatre.com

The only two websites I ever visited back in 2000 when I first used the internet at age 11

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 19:54:20 No.2751526 Report Delete

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>>2751492
me neither but aesthetic

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 20:00:01 No.2751531 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2751537

>>2751512
Stickdeath was the shit, I love how in hindsight it was blatantly racist and owned by a white trash republican but I was just too innocent to tell.

>stay up late with dumbass friend watching stickdeath cartoons
>burn through free trials of flash to make edgy cartoons that would get blammed immediately just to troll newgrounds
>obsess over shitty metal guitarists on the music portal as if they were legitimate musicians

God tier childhood tbh

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 20:05:43 No.2751537 Report Delete

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>>2751531
>I love how in hindsight it was blatantly racist and owned by a white trash republican but I was just too innocent to tell.

It's pretty crazy how obvious it was once you really started thinking about it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 20:06:41 No.2751538 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2751853 >>2752825

>>2751008
Not all change is positive change. Only by fighting negative change and pushing positive change can we have a desirable outcome.

Accepting negative changes is the worst thing one can do.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 22:02:58 No.2751790 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2751796

>>2751163
>Appreciate what you've still got, I'm just glad that this website still exists and is full of like minded people who play old video games and romanticize the shitty early internet

Don't worry, it too will go away soon enough. You'll run and you'll run but eventually you too will be swallowed by the sinkhole that replaced the glorious GeoCities of old.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 22:04:46 No.2751796 Report Delete

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>>2751790
Nothing is beautiful because it lasts.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 22:05:20 No.2751798 Report Delete

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>>2751479
>>2751484

Not gonna front, I'd love to have had that in my life back then.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 22:31:20 No.2751853 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2751865

>>2751538

I agree, but there are institutional forces that shape the world which are greater than individuals or collectives. the rise of social networking and conglomeration of the internet are tidal forces that were almost inevitable once computers/internet became more widely available and connections became faster.

don't get me wrong, we can make a difference. but we can't turn the internet back to the pre myspace era.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 22:36:40 No.2751865 Report Delete

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>>2751853

I guess the best we can hope for is to find a corner to hide ourselves in and work with what we can.

Neo-Geocities when? The webring of Web 1.0 must come to fruition!

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2015 23:36:23 No.2752016 Report Delete

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>>2751484
>Lula
I see he likes the computer boobs

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Oct 2015 00:03:43 No.2752079 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2752090 >>2760569 >>2761371

Anyone here still have a personal site they update?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Oct 2015 00:05:20 No.2752083 Report Delete

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>>2751484
BeOS is amazing

Let me guess you wanted the latest Windows

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 22 Oct 2015 00:06:02 No.2752087 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2752157

>>2736624
>Gorilla Biscuits
>Not punk

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Oct 2015 00:06:25 No.2752090 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2752079

I have a fan site devoted to a niche musician, but last update I made was in 2011. It was cool though, got to interview him for my site and all 2 or 3 fans were really happy with the result.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Oct 2015 00:39:13 No.2752157 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2752087
http://www.oocities.org/sunsetstrip/towers/5540/ here's the full list

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 22 Oct 2015 00:41:06 No.2752160 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2752195

>>2736670
>telnet gopher.su 1234
Why doesn't it let me hit Enter key after typing in username? The other keys work, but it just times out eventually because the line doesn't get submitted.
I'm just using plain old telnet inside an Xterm, nothing fancy.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 22 Oct 2015 00:57:25 No.2752195 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2752231

>>2752160
Works for me even through xterm (which I clearly don't use that often). Maybe try it through a separate TTY, that's where I normally get text-based work done anyway, this was the first time I started X today.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Oct 2015 01:16:48 No.2752231 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2752250

>>2752195
Same thing from text console. I even setup a new local user, so everything is default. No special keyboard mappings, no locale (so just "C" default), shell is /bin/ksh, and TERM=vt220. OS is OpenBSD 5.7 (amd64), which is probably about as POSIX-compliant as you can get.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Oct 2015 01:25:56 No.2752250 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2752280

>>2752231
Huh. My pic is slackware, but I just tried it on my NetBSD box and it worked there too. Works with ksh and zsh.

Can you telnet into other places?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Oct 2015 01:28:31 No.2752256 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2752672

I need more viruses
fill me with viruses!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WEe-TNw8Z0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D-Ygt-uSzM

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 22 Oct 2015 01:46:18 No.2752280 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2752849

>>2752250
Yeah, other telnet stuff works. I only noticed this with the gopher.su BBS.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Oct 2015 02:00:58 No.2752295 Report Delete

Quoted By:

/vr/ BBS when?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Oct 2015 09:48:12 No.2752672 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2752720 >>2752805 >>2752812 >>2754396

>>2752256
whatever happened to viruses? I don't remember hearing anything about them these days

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 22 Oct 2015 10:30:33 No.2752706 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2752717 >>2765345

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Oct 2015 10:42:09 No.2752717 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2752808

>>2752706
Ahh sprite ripping.

RIP the dbz fan sites with tons of SNES sprites ripped to gifs

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Oct 2015 10:45:38 No.2752720 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2752672
Automated stuff got better, security holes got closed. Really, cyber security issues are pretty much limited to people falling for REALLY stupid tricks or just being lazy nowadays.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Oct 2015 11:49:30 No.2752805 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2752672
It's no longer romanticized about, also with better security on systems all around it also makes it so stuff like "Fun" viruses that try to provoke some sort of creative death scene just don't happen anymore.

Remember the virus that forced you to play poker with it's program and if you lost it crashed your system?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Oct 2015 11:51:58 No.2752808 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2752717
I remember having an animated Zero sprite from Megaman X4 as my avatar on many forums... sadly the site was hosted on AOL hometowns, and it wasn't long until that site got closed down.

It just sucks that everything has to die

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Oct 2015 11:55:54 No.2752812 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2752672
It's all about ransomware these days. Install this "flash player" and get a bunch of text saying your PC is blocked and you need to pay to get a code to get access to your files. The most interesting thing you can get is the fake FBI message which states that the cyber police caught you downloading CP. The old viruses that would do interesting things are pretty much dead. It's all about the money.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Oct 2015 12:07:17 No.2752825 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2752842 >>2753429 >>2753737

>>2751538
And who judges what is positive change and what is negative change? Especially considering how relative good and bad are, positive change for one might be bad for someone else.

Presumably you are fighting hard for the changes that in your perspective are the right ones. Because that's what we all do. I am not talking about simply accepting things and not doing anything about it. I am talking about accepting the understanding that despite your trying you probably won't achieve all of what you want because there are many other people out there just like you who disagree.

People around 4chan especially love to hate on Facebook and social media, like it's this disease that took over "their" internet. But I just see that as selfish and juvenile. It's popular for a reason and an increasingly important part of modern culture.

You don't have to love it, but raging against it also won't help you and if you keep up the attitude through your life you will end up a bitter angry old man who hates everything. The other option is to look for the good in things and work with what is happening. Don't be such a selfish prick and realize that the other people who have now come to the internet deserve to use it and change it as well.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Oct 2015 12:15:48 No.2752831 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2751484
It was 1997 or so we got new computers at my school's drafting department. They were so fast we could be playing Doom, see the teacher stand up and be able to reboot and be in AutoCad by the time he was on our side of the room.

That's pretty well all we did that whole year. Also the first time I saw computer porn.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Oct 2015 12:23:20 No.2752842 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2752861 >>2752869

>>2752825
Facebook and social media looks like a plague because, facebook especially, saw the end of personal websites and consolidated the want of many people, businesses included, to stop giving a shit about ever upkeeping a personal site that you had full control over instead of some slice in the zuckerburg mainframe that is always plastered with some really ugly and needless bullshit on either side of the page.

That and social media put together have fueled this fucking obsession over what other people are doing at any given time and people not giving a damn about parsing info properly. The fact I've seen news channels field "Twitter" or "Blog-o-sphere" crap is embarrassing, and then shit I see on TV where people get on because of dumb shit that would never have seen the light of day otherwise, like some musician who is only on to talk about being "Genderfluid" or some enormous piece of shit crying into another's bosom because of "Fat shaming". It just feels like when these people were allowed to connect and share ideas at such a fast pace nobody is willing to critically think anymore and just accepts bullshit as truth, and it leads to all this goddamn degeneracy. At least message boards you were only TECHNICALLY fielding info to the entire world, not that anyone would actively hunt it down and read it, whereas the current tumblr culture is hungry for any shit it can get.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Oct 2015 12:24:55 No.2752849 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2752280
I like the software but that BBS is pretty dead compared to the native bboard for SDF.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Oct 2015 12:27:12 No.2752853 Report Delete

Quoted By:

I used to post in the blink182-online forums back in the day. Met a few people there. Ricky, who introduced me to this super hot chick he used to date for like a day. Talked to her for a little. Didn't get any nudes but come to think of it, I wish I did! Met another chick from Ohio there that did send me some nudes. She was older than me too. Very awesome. We stayed in contact up until maybe 2-3 years ago. Last time we talked she was going to a blink concert and wanted to pick me up. I didn't go. Was dumb at the time. Fml. She was so fucking cool!

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Oct 2015 12:35:10 No.2752860 Report Delete

Quoted By:

I had an awesome post typed up but then some asshole started punting me before I could turn my IMs off. Sigh.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Oct 2015 12:35:42 No.2752861 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2753446

>>2752842
It's all a giant brain coming online. The next phase of evolution, which is scary but also fascinating. The same way that you are a collection of some 70 trillion individuals all attempting to live in tandem and think as one, so is the global society of humans becoming. Everyone is connected and communicating in a way that has never happened before. This is only the tip of the iceberg of something we can barely understand.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Oct 2015 12:42:12 No.2752869 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2752934 >>2752940

>>2752842
>facebook especially, saw the end of personal website

But you're acting like Facebook was this huge boogeyman that came along and hoodwinked everyone into giving up the personal freedom to make their own website. The reality is that they just started using it because it worked better than everyone having their own personal little websites.

You might miss them, but they went out of fashion for a reason. And to be clear, no one is stopping you from making your own. It's super easy to get a .com all your own and build just about any personal site you want.

The problem you will run into of course is the realization that once you've made your own little cozy internet hole with whatever blog entries and rants about shitty movies, you will realize no one is coming. Because no one really cares about you or wants to read your ramblings.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Oct 2015 13:29:00 No.2752934 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2760979

>>2752869
>Because no one really cares about you or wants to read your ramblings.

you think that stops me?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Oct 2015 13:32:57 No.2752940 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2752950 >>2753239 >>2753376 >>2760979

>>2752869
No one cares about ramblings on social media either, they're just forced to digest it as part of their ritual. The more people you have added on Facebook the lesser the fuck they collectively give about you.

You got what? Parents, siblings, a significant other and a few mates, who the fuck needs to have a thousand people they hardly know read everything they write? How presumptuous do you have to be to think they really give a fuck?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Oct 2015 13:37:34 No.2752950 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2753239

>>2752940
Thank you. I don't get why more people don't give up on things like FB or Twitter when all most of it is trash. Why do people force themselves to just scroll through mindless updates and "like" horrible shit? And people think I am the odd one out for not even using the services.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Oct 2015 16:59:05 No.2753239 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2752940
>>2752950
I barely use Facebook and just have people added from whom I live far away from. Even when I do use it, it's just a few minutes of whipping past updates until something looks important or I get bored.

I use Twitter to keep myself entertained when I'm either on the can or stuck standing on the train to work.

Tumblr is actually the only social networking service I really use, as I found that ignoring sponsored suggestions and just exploring tags or entertaining responses to people I already follow feels the closest to exploring the web ring links of old. I've actually also picked up a couple a mutuals with whom I feel a sense of camaraderie in regards to our humor and interests. That feels great.

I also still visit one other message board, but mostly because I'm one of the old-ass members who remembers the olden days and still have some wisdom to impart on the younguns or pal around with some of the other "Old Ones" on the board.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Oct 2015 18:31:09 No.2753376 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2752940
>How presumptuous do you have to be to think they really give a fuck?
It's because people are conditioned to crave attention (amongst other things). John Gatto has a lot to say about this. Search for his online writings if you want to understand the root cause of many social issues. I wouldn't recommend using google though, as they're becoming more and more invasive every year.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Oct 2015 19:12:40 No.2753429 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2752825
>you will end up a bitter angry old man who hates everything
life goal #1

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Oct 2015 19:19:04 No.2753446 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2752861
>muh singularity
>implying there won't always be individuals positioning themselves for status and control over the masses
thanks social media

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Oct 2015 19:56:03 No.2753520 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2751427
>>2751420
>>2751419

Please share more

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Oct 2015 22:07:04 No.2753737 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2753784

>>2752825
>Don't be such a selfish prick and realize that the other people who have now come to the internet deserve to use it and change it as well.
Yes, people, individuals do.

However in the case of social media, the companies that provide the services are held to account very poorly. Facebook stores your data and uses it for purposes far beyond the scope of showing it to those you wish to share things with. This shouldn't be tolerated.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Oct 2015 23:01:13 No.2753784 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2753787

>>2753737
Terms of service, though. People have already given Facebook permission to do that with their info.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Oct 2015 23:03:15 No.2753787 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2753903

>>2753784
They have not given educated consent. Nobody reads the ToS.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Oct 2015 23:08:00 No.2753794 Report Delete

Quoted By:

Reminder: There is NO money to be gained from helping you keep in touch with gammy and the girlfriend and the boss for free.

There are BILLIONS to be made tracking all your activities and associations for marketing purposes.

Welcome to the generation of children and corporations having direct lines of communication to each other. Essential (NON-OPTIONAL) viewing:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/generation-like/

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 00:02:43 No.2753872 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2739667
I WASN'T PLAYING WITH MYSELF IN THE BATHTUB!

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 00:04:04 No.2753874 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2738423
rotten.com

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 00:17:55 No.2753903 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2753787
That's their fault. People should stop being lazy or stupid. That's how the internet got the way it is now.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 00:54:43 No.2753971 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2738423

Sakura Fan Fiction Archive.

It was good stuff for the most part.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 02:06:08 No.2754143 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2754235

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 03:03:23 No.2754235 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2754143
It's fun to see people talking online the year I was born.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 03:40:27 No.2754270 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2754765

>>2750901
>my first hentai was dragonmoon x
>my first doujin was goku fucking chichi in the tub before going ssj

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 04:24:17 No.2754302 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2754305

It would be a shame if Microsoft were to read this...

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 04:26:41 No.2754305 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2754310

>>2754302
Where are you finding these?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 04:27:02 No.2754306 Report Delete

Quoted By:

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 04:29:55 No.2754310 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2754312

>>2754305
Just telnet to: telehack.com

They have a pretty big Usenet archive (or 2 if I can remember) full of ancient stuff

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 04:32:04 No.2754312 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2754310
Thanks Anon.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 04:52:54 No.2754325 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2754332

Awww shit son

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 05:03:38 No.2754332 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2754325
So... any /vr/ hobbyist with an ancient Mac up to trying this?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 06:19:30 No.2754396 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2759346

>>2752672
No point in going after individuals anymore when you can just break into a major company's database and steal everyone's personal info they datamined instead.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 06:31:26 No.2754417 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2745859
This reads like a fucking Whitehouse song. Can someone do this in the style of Whitehouse, please?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 13:00:11 No.2754765 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2755271

>>2754270

>You will never be young enough to ignore the animation issues and fap to Sailor and the 7 Ballz again

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 13:52:36 No.2754845 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2755112

>>2751446
>outlaw from the 1800s

Was it you?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 14:11:26 No.2754882 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2745263

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 14:16:58 No.2754897 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2734843
>image boards
>wikis
>Youtube

I'm not sure if I feel sad or glad.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 14:25:16 No.2754917 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2751458
>>2751442

By going on 4chan it is just a matter of time before it happens to each of us, especially when various products start implementing automatic file scanning to protect dem chilluns. Hell, you won't even have to notice it was posted.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 16:06:11 No.2755112 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2754845
Oh fuck they're onto me!

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 23 Oct 2015 17:42:12 No.2755271 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2754765
They still sell that at FYE

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 03:46:45 No.2756138 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2756142

Rmember... flash ads?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 03:53:45 No.2756142 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2756268

>>2756138

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 04:12:44 No.2756159 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2756164

>>2742835
To be fair, the web is a bit safer than it used to be, especially since Limewire and eDonkey are dead.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 04:14:30 No.2756164 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2756183

>>2756159
Now everyone not well versed in computers just clicks on every download button they see and installs tons of spyware and bloatware.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 04:31:58 No.2756183 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2757504

>>2756164
People will always find ways to fuck up their computer like idiots, but I still think it's not as easy to do as it was before.

Most browsers automatically block pop-ups nowadays - Those were usually "baby's first virus".

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 04:42:33 No.2756196 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2742835
I remember back in Elementary school, the one thing that every single kid would do when they have free time on the computer is search for free games and embark on a giant quest for that site that actually had them playable.

>"Are you bored? Bored? Bored?..." flash cartoon
>That one site with the smooth jazz tune and that happy guy's face pulsating slowly along with a log in prompt of some sort
>That moment when the one game we manage to find is that shitty Mario flash game
>That moment when we find Mario Rampage and get kicked off of the computer by the teacher

By Middleschool, the quest was less about finding a playable flash game website, and more about actually finding a website that wasn't blocked and praying to god that the school wouldn't pick up on it. It wasn't too uncommon to play on an unblocked site one day and then come back to it a week or so later to find out it's blocked.

Yeah, I know it's not exactly retro, but it was quite an experience.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 05:50:59 No.2756268 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2756142
CONGRATULATIONS YOU WON

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 11:22:31 No.2756621 Report Delete

Quoted By:

sidetalkin.com is still up

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 16:24:37 No.2757210 Report Delete

Quoted By:

THE ONLY LIMIT IS YOURSELF
WELCOME, TO http://zombo.com/

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 17:33:31 No.2757369 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2741954
>When we were talking shit about non-anonymous forums here 7-8 years ago we just didn't know what we were about to lose

You're right. We were supposed to be the alternative, not the norm.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 18:17:31 No.2757450 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2751041

>CAPSLOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL
>EVEN WITH CRUISE CONTROL YOU STILL HAVE TO STEER

I haven't seen that in ages, and it still makes me laugh.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 18:45:58 No.2757504 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2757629 >>2758890

>>2756183
In the 80's it wasn't so easy to mess up your system. You could basically keep most of your floppies write-protected, as very few games tried to save to disk, at least on 8-bit platforms. I copied tons of Amstrad CPC games from other kids at school, and never once had a problem. If something did happen, you could just reset the machine and be back to the original environment in a second or two (ROM BASIC), or slightly longer if you were booting into CP/M from floppy disk (but not much gaming going on there). I guess things got slightly more complicated with Amiga, because quite a few of those wanted to save high scores to disk, or save game or whatever, but I seldom had any problems there (my A500 once got "Stoned" virus, but it was localized to that floppy, and I marked it as such, and kept using it without problems). Also, 16-bit machines (including IBM PC) are where hard disks started to get common (but not until late 80's except for business users). That was a little more problematic, but the OS and software were small and simple enough that even if your system got totally hosed it was a simple matter for format the disk and reinstall everything (it didn't take many hours or even days like it would to rebuild a modern system from scratch). Also, there was no kernel mode vs. user mode divide, so if a virus did infect you, booting a virus scanner disk would most likely find it (and clean it up). These days malware can hide themselves much deeper into the OS, or even into the hardware's microcode. I think computers have become too complicated for their own good. Just look at the size of your web browser for example, and ask yourself how many bugs and possible exploits lurk in there...

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 24 Oct 2015 19:27:48 No.2757629 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2760123

>>2757504
>Just look at the size of your web browser for example, and ask yourself how many bugs and possible exploits lurk in there
>timeliness
>production costs
>scope of functionality
Pick two. It gets harder and harder as the digital world's demands grow.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 01:46:28 No.2758440 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2758443

Did anyone else in this thread used to go to the site called Pokemon Zeo/Sugarshock.net and all the fake Pokemon card communities like Pokemon Ahh? I still have my "promo" sneasel with the badge somewhere from Zeo. They were just fake cards printed out and taped to energy cards given out to people who donated to the site. The owner of the site was a girl named Purity who had red hair and was a mac fan.She was dating a guy named Echidna or something and they made the site together. I remember a lot of people there. I really wonder what happened to these people. The forum is totally down. And all the cards are down too. I wish I saved them.

A few years ago I found a blog from aguy who went there who used to have an avatar as a silly greet cat anmed kyattsui or some shit. He's turning even the new Pokemon into his avatar as somewhat recently as 2011.

I hope nobody remembers me because I was an autistic sperglord.

Fucking anyone else?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 01:49:09 No.2758443 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2758554

>>2758440
Holy shit. A quick google led me to this. It's like seeing someone from your distant past.

http://zeo.5u.com/sts/team-zeo.html

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 03:03:23 No.2758554 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2758443
Woah, that's really rather interesting actually.

Princess Sevenleaf !AnVbXjgZco

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Princess Sevenleaf !AnVbXjgZco Sun 25 Oct 2015 04:08:23 No.2758617 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2758884 >>2766480

>>2744524
>>2744519
Oooh, my gosh.

I spent so much time on the Palace as a tween. So many cute goth/skater/rivet/etc. guys to flirt with. The Palace was what made me buy a webcam back in the day.

I always thought the paper doll aspect of it was really neat, too. I enjoyed playing with paper dolls, and I had a lot of fun with PlayFKiSS. Yeah, anyone else remember Kisekae? Pic related.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 04:09:23 No.2758619 Report Delete

Quoted By:

Remember all of those petitions to get X anime to have a longer run or get onto VHS/DVD?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 05:07:04 No.2758661 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2739259
Most people like putting forth the minimum amount of effort if its not their prized hobby. It's not inherently malevolent, just human.

So back in the day, those who were obssessed with researching and indexing the interesting niceties of pop culture, subculture, or otherwise, really had no alternative but to bleed their teeth on early web development and forge their own space. Money wasn't an issue because the effort of making a transaction was almost always less than the effort of making the transaction itself.

On the other hand, it was the original casualization of these communities which allowed GeoCities and webrings to form. They were a step above the word-of-mouth, but also encouraged casualization of the web, with Geocities and Angelfire limiting the individual possibilities of each page to being a mirror of that individual and a little bit more. Everyone had their little plot of land, with an uncertain road interconnecting them.

Once the Internet started becoming walled gardens, the intuition of such services was lost, and instead of making our own spaces, it is natural to integrate within pre-defined networks. You get a guaranteed spot at the table, but the table is much, much larger and general than your hobbies. The self, already secondary to the community, is represented solely on their communities. It doesn't matter if you draw if no one networks your drawing skills through the social network. Simply being viewed almost equates to nonexistence, when it was once the norm. And with that, the pitfalls of human society become the norm, and any human capable of bridging the increasingly small gap from the real word to social media makes the jump.

And so the communities find new ways to establish themselves, in ways which wind up invisible to the majority.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 05:27:57 No.2758672 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2741929
>>2741925
The one upside is that it's easier to find something which particularly interests you.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 06:05:19 No.2758708 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2758710

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmOkNdDkaaM

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 06:07:25 No.2758710 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2758708
I wonder how this guy would feel about the overuse of the word "app" nowadays.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 09:00:35 No.2758884 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2758617
>PlayFKiSS
I definitely remember this image, but I can't remember anything else

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 09:01:50 No.2758886 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2741546
>Sailor Moon

i was big on SMU.

projectanime.com

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 09:05:09 No.2758890 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2757504
This is the guy you replied to.
That was actually very interesting and enriching, I wasn't familiar with pre-90's computers in general, so thank you for all that clear information.

I guess having more easily exploitable computers is a price we had to pay for more possibilities.
I'm under the impression that younger generations are at least more aware of the existence of viruses and such, and normies tend to stay on safe websites like Youtube and social networks, so aren't taking many chances.
Normies who do try to go beyond that may make a few mistakes, but will eventually learn the hard way what to do not to do, as a lot of us did.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 09:07:44 No.2758894 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2742838
They did this in Camp Nowhere as well.

Literally used a Sega CD game to trick their parents into thinking they were "Hacking" the USAF.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 09:35:34 No.2758942 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2748402
When he "retired" he just left it to SwampGas and some other Jews to keep it going.

I miss NES ROM pack releases.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 09:38:45 No.2758947 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2748523
"Security Consultant"

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 09:46:41 No.2758954 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2758961

Warning! This thread is in violation of the board rules! Please return to talking about retro video games. Old websites are NOT video games.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 09:50:49 No.2758959 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2751041
>The pool is always closed

I miss the HabboHotel raids.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 09:51:47 No.2758961 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2758975

>>2758954

mad 6th gen shitposter is mad that mods finally deleted his shitty thread

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 09:53:33 No.2758963 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2758975

NOT GAMES

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 09:57:41 No.2758975 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2758981

>>2758963

see: >>2758961

This shit is getting hilarious dude. Some of us can also see your IP. Stop.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 10:00:43 No.2758981 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2758983

>>2758975

I'll stop when you start actually talking about retro games. Because that's what this board is for. Not wanking off over old websites or old TVs. This thread has broken the rules and is NOT GAMES.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 10:03:07 No.2758983 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2758991

>>2758981

your butthurt is very amusing.

Let me tell that thanks to you 6th gen will likely never be allowed here, because we're always associate 6th gen with shitposters like you.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 10:08:34 No.2758991 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2758996

>>2758983

You're still not talking about video games. Go take this to /v/ or somewhere else that allows off topic posting. Here on /vr/ we follow the rules strictly and relentlessly shitpost in any thread that even looks like it might be breaking them. It's a time honoured tradition here, I'm going to assume you must be new.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 10:10:28 No.2758996 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2759008

>>2758991
No, seriously, thanks for being the way you are.

You're doing God's work.

By shitposting the way you are, you're living proog that allowing 6th gen here would bring the likes of you.

Thanks to you, 6th gen will never be allowed here. Thank you.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 10:16:36 No.2759008 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2759015

>>2758996

But anon, we all do it! It's perfectly normal here. Whenever somone is talking about games that aren't retro according to our sacred board rules that totally aren't arbitrary at all, we shitpost their thread to hell with our glorious battle cry of NOT RETRO. I fail to see how NOT GAMES is any different. Neither thread is talking about retro games so they both must be destroyed. So sayeth the rules.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 10:19:37 No.2759015 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2759019 >>2759023

>>2759008
>our sacred board rules that totally aren't arbitrary at all
If you want to discuss vidya that isn't retro, just go to /v/. This isn't rocket science.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 10:21:01 No.2759018 Report Delete

Quoted By:

https://web.archive.org/web/20030402130833/http://naughtydog.com/legacy/crash/index.htm

used to spend a lot of time on this site back in the days, very well made

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 10:21:35 No.2759019 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2759034

>>2759015

He's the shitposter that just got told when mods deleted the GBA thread.

He's having a childish tantrum by shitposting in different threads now.

Just laugh at him, and thank him because thanks to him, 6th gen has even less of a chance of being allowed here.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 10:22:19 No.2759023 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2759026

>>2759015

If you want to talk about old websites, you can go do that somewhere else too. NOT GAMES.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 10:23:23 No.2759026 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2759029

>>2759023
Why are you not shitposting in the CRT thread?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 10:24:05 No.2759029 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2759026

He already did

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 10:25:26 No.2759034 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2759035

>>2759019

What I love the most is that you can't even argue with my point. It's also hilarious that you can't seem to comprehend that you're being satirised.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 10:26:51 No.2759035 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2759046

>>2759034

Oh, so let me guess, you are just "pretending" to be retarded, right?

You're so smart, anon!!

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 10:31:24 No.2759046 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2759061

>>2759035

This constant lack of video game discussion is really triggering me.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 10:37:14 No.2759060 Report Delete

Quoted By:

I like all the free bumps that Mr. Shitposter is giving this thread. If he really hates it, he should report it.
Which should get him banned.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 10:38:07 No.2759061 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2759076

>>2759046
Arguably the thread should be primarily about old videogame websites and old online games. Personally I don't give a shit if it discusses other aspects of the Internet of the past since I miss the old Internet. You could positively contribute to the thread by mentioning old videogame websites that discussed old games or online games you played in the 90s since that would be board relevant and keep the thread on-track.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 10:42:13 No.2759076 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2759061

No, the thread was doomed from the start. It's not about games, it's about old websites, it even says it in the title. This is an infraction of the rules and the thread must be spammed to death. It's the /vr/ way and if you don't like it you can leave.

NOT GAMES.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 11:50:58 No.2759182 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2736624
Rancid is definitely Ska so they got that RIGHT.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 12:04:13 No.2759214 Report Delete

Quoted By:

not to brag oor anything but I was the first person in the world to sort of use Avidgamers to upload porn pictures stolen from pichunter.com. I was like the Retroactive Tumblr. My favourite was SkyLopez and Nikki Nova as Nova had no hARDCORE stuff at the time.

Princess Sevenleaf !AnVbXjgZco

Princess Sevenleaf !AnVbXjgZco Sun 25 Oct 2015 13:11:24 No.2759346 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2754396
Pretty much this.

Why bother stealing information, when social media users are giving it up for free?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 19:08:08 No.2760123 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2757629
The thing is, a lot of that stuff are artificial demands pushed by industry, in order to sell new products. For example, I don't personally need web browser functionality beyond something like Links-2, which can render HTML and images very quickly and efficiently even on a very old system.
http://links.twibright.com/
I was very happy with the old Web 1.0 environment, and never saw all the useless mandatory javascript and other junk as an improvement. Even when using Netscape, I always kept JS turned off (anyway it would often randomly crash NS 3 otherwise...)
But the WWW started changing for the worse about 10 years ago and I could no longer login to my online bank with just small, efficient HTML browser than supported SSL (which if you think about it, is all that should be needed).
The trend these days is to overdesign everything, with tons of useless features, which makes things overcomplicated and brittle. Now they want to make web browsers into a full-fledged VM that runs machine language (asm.js) downloaded from random websites. Not something I personally need or want. In fact, I'd rather stay far, far away from that kind of thing. Probably at some point the web will suck so much I'll have to go back to paper bank statements and do everything by mail and phone, like in the old days. Then all that'll be left for me is various hobby websites, and stuff like gopher. Which maybe isn't so bad, and maybe I can even use old 80's or 90's computer as my main machine...

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 19:09:23 No.2760126 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2740989
Damn. Last time I checked that site, people were still uploading soundbanks for Worms Armageddon.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 21:26:30 No.2760391 Report Delete

Quoted By:

http://toryanse.net/draculaxtasy/dxmenu.html

This Japanese Castlevania site has been around since 1999
I'd recommend checking the games section. It has a cute little classicvania clone.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 22:42:45 No.2760484 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2734761
Detstar
Matt's Vicinity
BetaBond
SubDrags Goldeneye Site

Those shit ton of Beta Zelda websites

Fuck the late 90s,early 2000s were great

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 23:33:03 No.2760569 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2760882

>>2752079
Baddesthacks.net. I don't personally update it but others do.

it purposely has a very 90's feel to it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 05:52:10 No.2760815 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2761128

>>2737126
Fucking.
Plasticman.

Found that site back when I was super into scouring for ROMs and emulators. Decided one day to check what else he had on his page. Lo and behold, H-manga.

That was my first run-in with Slut Girl, which I still consider a classic today.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 06:50:01 No.2760878 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2738119
this it's so fucking true because it was basically what we were doing in Computer engineering classes anyway...getting around that Deep-freeze.exe program was an achievement I still hold dear.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 06:55:57 No.2760882 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2760569
>Baddesthacks.net
nig nug the video game lul.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 08:25:05 No.2760951 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2761128

Oh man I miss yahoo pool.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 08:58:11 No.2760979 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2752940
>No one cares about ramblings on social media either

That's your opinion. I keep my facebook account fairly small with family, close friends, old friends I'm only a little in touch with these days and a handful of long lasting internet pals. Since I only have people I care about, I mostly only see posts I care about.

Also I think it's great that I can stay a little in touch with people I otherwise would never hear from. My best bud from when I was 10 lives in Indonesia now but we still get to have glimpses into each other's lives and chat from time to time.

Now if you don't like Facebook and don't want to use it, that's perfectly fine. No one has a gun to your head. But getting pissed off because other people want to use it is pretty sad.

>>2752934
>you think that stops me?

If you're smart you wouldn't let it stop you. But that guy seems to think that because personal websites aren't as popular as they were in 1998, it's impossible for him to make one.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 11:04:09 No.2761128 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2760951

You're not the only one. Yahoo had a pretty good games section. Didn't they have like, a 6-player word tetris or something? I remember playing some kind of game like that all the time.

>>2760815

Slut Girl is probably one of the oldest porn comics on my hard drive. It IS a classic.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 11:46:00 No.2761172 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2736624
>Chaos UK, Infest, Varukers & Drop Dead not Punk WTF

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 12:58:19 No.2761309 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2761316 >>2762079 >>2762608

>no thread on the board
>no /vg/ thread

Guess I might as well ask about worlds.com here. Like, how the fuck do I get it to work on Win7?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 13:00:19 No.2761316 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2761309
/x/ is a better bet. They know a lot more about it than anyone else.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 13:49:17 No.2761371 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2752079
http://jhl2600.sdf.org

I don't intend for anyone to actually see it unless I link it, I only made it for the express purpose of hosting images of my computers, but I haven't finished cataloging my collection so right now there's just obligatory guff. I don't ACTUALLY think anyone follows it. It's not a blog.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 19:19:38 No.2761965 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2761989

>>2744476

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 19:33:02 No.2761989 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2761965
Works for me

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 19:44:25 No.2762017 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2762142

>>2737059
Before AOL it wasn't. The Internet becoming popular triggered paranoia

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 20:34:57 No.2762079 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2761309
It's not that hard to set up. There is a version that doesn't require the old java. It runs on win8 also. I will post links later if I'm not too lazy.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 21:08:51 No.2762142 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2762370 >>2762382

>>2762017
It depends. You had academics and professionals who used their real names and posted from their work accounts. But there were also random Joes who first started out on BBS, and just kept using their handle, or made up a new one. Then there were the shady types: hackers, warez d00dz, child pornographers[1], etc. They always used either a handle or a made-up identity ("Jane Smith" or whatever). University students could go either way, or only use their real name for school-related stuff and a handle for IRC and other activities.
That's how it was in spring 1995 anyway, which is when I got my university account. It was a little before AOL opened the floodgates.

[1] Speaking of which, I remember this one dude who simply went by the name "glass" and would totally flood some of the alt.binary.pictures.erotica.teen type groups with high-res pictures of naked pre-pubescent girls, sometimes even in sex acts. That wasn't really my thing, I was looking for girls around my age or a bit younger[2], but I always ended up downloading tons of that stuff because I'd set the newsreader to grab everything in the group and let it run overnight. There was also a beastiality group, and even an actual child group. I'm pretty sure those were still active until early 2000's at least.

[2] In that groups anyway, but I also downloaded lots from the breasts and blondes newsgroups. Was really into that MILF "Danni".

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 22:48:10 No.2762370 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2762142
>spring 1995 anyway, which is when I got my university account
Hello clone, how are we doing over there?

We're doing ok over here, fyi.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 22:51:30 No.2762382 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2762142
I generally use a handle that is my initials but don't reveal my name generally unless it's a close community with out a lot of traffic (mailinglists, SDF, university stuff, etc)

In more general things I tend to use really common handles like animal names and always provide a fake full name and address. The credentials alternate by nationality and if I feel like really getting fancy I'll use a VPN from those countries.

Not even really out of paranoia I just like creating personas, might just be me.

Only technically illegal thing I do on the Internet period is order chemicals which are dubiously legal (rc's specifically) and maybe break some state laws about internet use but who doesn't

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 23:06:31 No.2762404 Report Delete

Quoted By:

Fucking ezone doesn't load Lenny Loosejocks in Space in one go, so I can't rip it from the cache.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 23:26:10 No.2762425 Report Delete

Quoted By:

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2013/09/the_history_of_simpsons_message_board_alt_tv_simpsons.html

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 01:40:46 No.2762608 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2762618

>>2761309
Make an account. You get VIP for a week which allows you to use 3d avatars and such. Make friends with people and follow them. They also have tours sometimes.
>here are a few guides

http://wavidxm
.tumblr
.com/post/90132803912/miadoy-ximoki-this-is-a-worldscom-resource

https://paste
bin
.com/cDCjScqN

old blogs
http://thehiddenworlds
.blogspot
.com/
http://worlds1994
.blogspot
.com/2012/02/secret-nexus dot html

old vid. 25 million wooooow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L200frTdeI4

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 01:49:49 No.2762618 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2762608
may as well post the some bowie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsELFp6s-lo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvgqWO_TgP0

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 02:44:04 No.2762676 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2762726 >>2762880

It's kinda surreal knowing there are people actively looking and paying for those AOL discs that would come in the mail all the time.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 03:26:28 No.2762726 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2762676

The contents of their old floppies could be interesting, but I don't know anyone who didn't overwrite the ones they got because hey, free floppy disks.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 03:36:02 No.2762737 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2743613
> I hate bill gates.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 05:58:03 No.2762880 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2762676
what the...

ah, collectors

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 08:15:45 No.2762965 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2763804

I remember browsing the old lego website when I was a kid.
I loved every minute of it.
I miss those days... :(

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 09:59:03 No.2763064 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2763071 >>2763089 >>2763104 >>2763124 >>2763172 >>2763227 >>2763737

>>2747110
pic related

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 10:06:16 No.2763071 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2763081

>>2763064
>>2763064
Something like this happened on a retro gaming forum I used to be on. After it became the "cool" thing to like old Nintendo games and shit it just turned into a shadow of what it used to be. I think after shit like Game Grumps got big no one of the original community was even left.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 10:18:37 No.2763081 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2763071
Sounds familiar.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 10:31:49 No.2763089 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2763064
I've seen essentially this scenario play out in several communities I've been part of. It sucks.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 10:46:30 No.2763104 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2763109

>>2763064
It's either this, or the core group turn into such huge assholes that most of the people who still care leave out of disgust. The remaining members are the leftover core group who double down on "Don't like it? Leave!" and their sycophants.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 10:52:44 No.2763109 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2763212

>>2763104
>>2763104
I've seen both scenarios play out. In your case it stems from a small group gaining a lot of users on a forum that they then have power over. Power turns some people in giant assholes.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 11:08:33 No.2763124 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2763202

>>2763064

Yeah that's precisely why it was a bad idea for people to talk too much about 4chan outside of 4chan.

I think a good summary is that hobby communities begin to decay once people enter who view the hobby primarily as a way to boost their social (or in some cases economic ) standing and acceptance rather than the hobby itself being the primary form of entertainment.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 11:55:10 No.2763172 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2763223 >>2763413 >>2763502

>>2763064

It's interesting that this hasn't seemingly happened with Magic the Gathering. I am old, and I started playing magic back when Legends was out and you could still buy Arabians at the comic store. I played for quite a few years, and it got a little more mainstream popular and then went back to being a nerd thing. I stopped playing about a decade ago, and I've recently started playing again, and it's MORE complicated and deep than it used to be, and the people who play it seem to be even nerdier than before.

What went right with MtG? Did Wizards of the Coast just know how to run things correctly? It's amazing it's still going this strong at all.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 12:22:32 No.2763202 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2763209

>>2763124
Wasn't that more of mainstream media posting exploding vans? Or was it that retarded Scientology crap?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 12:35:09 No.2763209 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2763227

>>2763202
I seem to remember starting to see a change in late 2006 into 2007 (though it could've been later - my memory can be crap when it comes to specific dates), which came after a big Habbo Hotel raid.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 12:36:46 No.2763212 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2763215

>>2763109

Not retro, but Black Mesa's forum was like that during its development. I lurked exclusively, but they treated newcomers like shit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 12:39:18 No.2763215 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2763256

>>2763212
It worries me a lot, I help run a small subreddit and an IRC network and I hope I never turn into that kind of asshole. I know it is not my personality type but I have seen it happen to so many people I considered cool that I freak out that it must be easy to just slip into that attitude.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 12:46:00 No.2763223 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2763265 >>2763274

>>2763172
I think the barrier of entry with cards and the overall complexity of the game meant that people who weren't genuinely into it wouldn't stick around long enough to affect the player base. Anyone who does play Magic for long is almost inevitably going to be a nerd to some degree. I'm surprised and impressed it's still around.

And now you've reminded me of a story. Back in high school there was a hobby shop me and my friends hung out at a lot and the owner knew us all quite well. This was back when Magic was just starting to get big and she asked me if I played. I said no and she gave me two starter decks and an instruction book and said "Here, get hooked."

And I was. I played it pretty heavily for a year or so. I built a red deck and had a super sweet hydra that could really wreck shit. But then expansions kept coming out and I could feel that if I didn't continue upgrading my deck it wasn't going to stay competitive.

Then I was talking to a guy in one of my classes about how it was fun starting to loose it's appeal. He was telling me how sick he was with Super Empire Strikes Back, that he could never make it past Dagobah.

So we traded and both felt like we got the sweet end of the deal. I was no longer under the thumb of Magic and got a kick ass game I loved (Super Star Wars was a long time favorite) and didn't find so hard I couldn't beat it. He got a free Magic deck for something he never played anymore.

I never touched Magic again.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 12:48:41 No.2763227 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2763209
It was raid culture that ultimately did it. Most people didn't like the raids, but enough did that it didn't matter because they were going to do it anyways. In spite of spamming Ebaum's World the people being raided inevitably figured out where it was coming from and came here to return the trolling. Every time that did, a few stayed and this >>2763064 scenario played out.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 13:09:59 No.2763256 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2763382

>>2763215

Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and what not.

If you're concerned about it, then you don't have anything to worry about.

I forget all the details in Black Mesa's case. Project officially started in 2005. In 2006, the team had to deal with a security breach. In 2008, the team announced they were aiming for a 2009 release. Ultimately it didn't happen. Updates became less frequent and more cryptic. Fans and media accused it of being vaporware. Some members of the team got bitter (understandably so) and took it out on naive folks waltzing into the forum for the first time, wondering about the mod's development. They eventually released the mod in 2012.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 13:25:31 No.2763265 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2763270 >>2763274

>>2763223

>Magic's been around since the SNES days

I don't even remember hearing about it until like 98 or so

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 13:27:14 No.2763270 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>2763274

>>2763265
I remember playing it around 94? I think. I could be wrong.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 13:28:49 No.2763274 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2763265
>>2763270
>>2763223
first time I heard about it was reading about fake pokemon cards crafted out of MtG cards, kek

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 14:55:56 No.2763382 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>2763256
>They eventually released the mod in 2012.
By which point hardly anyone cared.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 15:18:01 No.2763413 Report Delete

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>>2763172
It hasn't happened with Magic or historical wargames but it has happened to a small degree with Warhammer 40K, (not fantasy luckily, because no one seems to care about fantasy).

Mostly the thing that it happened to this most was D&D. I was really satisfied with 5th edition, but that doesn't erase the pile of pandering shit 4th was and it doesn't get rid of the people who only have a superficial interest in the game because they saw it on TBBT.

Thankfully I still don't deal with this because I'm the youngest person who regularly goes to my FLGS by like 25 years and all we ever play is 2, 3.5 and occasionally 5 now that it's been revealed to not be complete shit. Elitism wards off the undesirables. It's not a dislike of newcomers though like what's already been discussed in this thread. They welcomed me when I joined just a year ago because I was actually willing to assimilate into the group. That's the key part. I've seen people come and go countless times, mostly trendy hipsters who wonder why the store doesn't even carry 4e or Pathfinder books and then beg people to play 4e and get really cross when no one wants to and then proceed to call us names.

The guy who owns the shop has already paid it off so he really doesn't give a fuck about getting new customers, there's another game store that's renowned for being hip and trendy literally across the street.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 15:22:10 No.2763417 Report Delete

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>>2763413
I have not played D&D in about 15 years. What happened with Pathfinder and 4th edition if you don't mind me asking.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 15:30:55 No.2763428 Report Delete

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>>2763413
>but that doesn't erase the pile of pandering shit 4th was

Whaaat? 4e was great. It's what got me interested in D&D again after almost 15 years. I grew bored with 2nd eventually and then never got into third much because it didn't look all that interesting and I didn't want to start buying books again.

4E was awesome though. Every class had multiple options in combat and felt a lot more team work oriented than before. 5th was where they lost me again.

That and all of us being this old it's only about once a month we can actually get together for a session. And even then these days we're running a West End Games system Star Wars campaign so who knows when we'll get back to D&D. 4E is the version I most want to play now when we do though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 16:33:13 No.2763502 Report Delete

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>>2763172
Some stuff is just so niche and unappealing to public audience that there is no way of making it look cool for those who don't want to spend lots of time learning new things. With video games and movies all you need to is lots of boobs and explosions and they will attract all kinds of people.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 16:52:22 No.2763535 Report Delete

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>>2763417
>>2763428
It was massively streamlined to the point was basically a party combat game or a tabletop MMO. The rules were too rigid as well, meaning there was absolutely no point in playing it over a video game because the subjectivity was completely gone.

Also I really take issue with that last statement, because it looks like you're trying to imply that because you're old and have responsibilities you just don't have the time, anyone who does have the time is young and irresponsible. If you really liked something you'd find time for it. I'm a full time student with two jobs and my brothers a professor with a child but we play tabletop games at least twice a week.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 17:03:29 No.2763549 Report Delete

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Well this was a fun thread. I am glad we got to bond a bit over shared memories and talk about interesting topics. Thank you /vr/.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 18:38:11 No.2763701 Report Delete

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Dudes
You don't actually have to open facebook itself.
Get pidgin, download the facebook plugin (XMPP doesn't work anymore) and ta-da, you can chat without a horrible page loaded. It's what I've done for years now.

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Princess Sevenleaf !AnVbXjgZco Tue 27 Oct 2015 19:01:10 No.2763737 Report Delete

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>>2763064
>girls have cooties D:

Can we leave this nonsense in /r9k/ where it belongs?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 19:14:14 No.2763750 Report Delete

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>>2763737
I think it refers to people flaunting their gender in order to gain attention.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 19:46:50 No.2763804 Report Delete

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I've noticed Japanese sites tend to follow a more web 1.0 design that the western web.
Anyone know any cool Jap sites?

>>2762965
Goddamn, I miss it too anon.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 23:44:11 No.2764227 Report Delete

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>>2747435

People seem to be afraid of computers "programs", meanwhile devouring "apps" on their smartphone. Even though they're both exactly the same thing. Applications.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 02:34:44 No.2764446 Report Delete

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>>2763549

Agreed. Let's do it again sometime, retro cowboys.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 10:57:39 No.2764787 Report Delete

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>>2763535
>It was massively streamlined to the point was basically a party combat game or a tabletop MMO.

I wouldn't call it streamlined exactly. It felt like it was designed for a lot more potential complexity than 2nd was when it came to combat. Certainly I found playing a fighter type character far, far more interesting in 4th than in 2nd/1st/D&D.

If it wasn't for you or your group, that's cool. But I thought it was the best thing to happen to D&D in a long time and calling it a "pile of pandering shit" is a bit much. It's a very well designed game and I think it caused a bit of a resurgence for D&D with good reason.

Also I should maybe note I'm also into tabletop wargames, so it bringing a bit of that flavor and strategy was a good thing in my mind.

> it looks like you're trying to imply that because you're old and have responsibilities you just don't have the time

Well I am kind of saying that. But it's more so that it's not just me. The people I game with are all in our 30's and 40's, work full time, have families and live spread across 3 different cities. We don't want to all split off and find new groups because we've been gaming together since highschool and are all friends. But at the same time, finding a spot that's clear in all of our schedules and that's big enough to devote to a good session is rare these days.

Maybe if roleplaying was our only or most important hobby it would be different and we'd try to get together more regularly, but it's not.

As for avoiding 5th, it's kind of like 3rd. I'm very happy with 4th and see no reason to start re-buying books unless what's new looks amazing. And there are too many other RPGs out there I'd rather sink money into.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 11:57:26 No.2764873 Report Delete

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>>2744564
Same here.

I was like 12 when visiting rotten the first time. Never had I seen something terrifying before, until I came across 4chan...

They added only few stuff since then and they stopped updating the site for a couple of years, so it seemed frozen. I am not quite sure what is it like at present. Guess I will have a look right now.

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Princess Sevenleaf !AnVbXjgZco Wed 28 Oct 2015 16:57:41 No.2765345 Report Delete

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>>2752706

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 02:54:54 No.2766250 Report Delete

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>>2765345
where's this from?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 08:47:33 No.2766480 Report Delete

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>>2758617
>Yeah, anyone else remember Kisekae?

I miss real kisekae, now it's all porn. I got nostalgic for it a while ago, but I the only viewer I can get to work on my box is an x68k one (which I have to emulate).

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 12:01:40 No.2766679 Report Delete

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bump so I can finish reading this thread

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