What do you think were the best years for anonymous bulletin

Anytime before redditgate

>>1389044
before 1993

2001-2007, roughly.

>>1389056
Usenet is at least honest about not being anonymous.

>>1389044

Were you actually using this site during winter 2003?

I didn't have net then at home so all i did was use my friend's computer to get gamefaqs tips or play tomb raider or carnivors a little.

>>1389076
Funny joke.

>>1389058
This!

After 2007 everything started turning to shit.

Phone modem BBSs were anonymous sometimes but limited to slow speeds

>>1389094
Ahhh, the days of dial-up. How they are truly missed more than one could imagine.

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>>1389058
>>1389090
It wasn't after 2007, it was exactly in 2007 that everything went to shit.

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>>1389616
>lucky star popularizes modern moeshit

>>1389625
Yeah, maybe when i stole that post i should have edited out that part.

>>1389625
>>1389627
That threw me off too. TTGL and RuckySutah are masterpieces compared to what /a/ unironically likes now.

>>1390154
I enjoyed them too, but admit it, those shows attracted a lot of newfags, either you like it oir not.

Even today newfags are still trying to discuss those series, despite the fact that the discussion as already worn-out years ago. In 2007 /a/ was only Lucky Star and TTGL

>>1389625
Jesus Christ that bitch will always trigger me, why did they decide to kill off Hilda(best char in the series) and left that useless character to annoy everyone

>>1390165
https://youtu.be/26lAg-wj2uw

I still suffer PTSD from those days, trust me I remember.

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>>1389044
Unpopular opinion, but I think that there has never been a better time for imageboards than now and tomorrow. All the things you're nostalgic about are still here, they're just contained on slower boards and sites. You also have the added benefit of being able to access these places anywhere, anytime, and in HD.

>>1390463
You've clearly spent too much time around normalfags on this site.

When people talk about when 4chan "was good" almost nobody ever is referring to trivial shit like "meme quality".

So yes, the types of discussions might be similar. The types of content posted might be similar.
But you know what is done a complete 180? The attitude of the average poster, and the general atmosphere of 4chan.

Today 4chan feels MUCH closer to the real world than it ever did before. For most people the hobby side of 4chan is basically just considered to be a side note and they think the real meat of 4chan is activism.
Old /pol/ could at least comprehend the notion that some people didn't care about politics. New /pol/ are such normalfags that they can't even conceive of people who are so disconnected from the world that they know next to nothing about donald trump.

That last statement is the difference. Either the majority of 4chan was actual people who didn't keep up with real world events, or it was full of people who pretended to not keep up with real world events. But either way, the general attitude was that nothing in the world was worth respecting or getting worked up over, fuck everything and just have lulz. That's the complete opposite of the general sentiment on 4chan today.

>>1390525
I see that as a half-truth. Everyone knows that things have changed, and it's impossible to replicate that comfortable feeling one used to have from naturally inferring other people on the net were just like them. Now it could be literally anybody lurking. That implicit trust is what's missing, not necessarily a shift in real world concerns.

>>1390525
Just a symptom of the beast. A fortissimo of a reckless feast. It burns bright but it won't last. A finis spell will soon be cast.

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>>1389616

when ostracized adults for the first time could not cope with an influx of children and halted evolution by refusing to move on, setting a standard for discourse by pretending to be retarded

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>>1389616
>>Call of Duty Modern Warfare released
How is that a bad thing?

>>1391078
This, but replace "ostracized adults" with "neckbeards" and "children" with "normalfags"

>>1390168
Because cat girls are cute.

>>1389044

>>1389044

>>1389044

>>1391086
It started the Call of Duty faggot craze.

>>1391086
420 no scope lmao

>>1389044
I think 2007-2008 was the peak for other *chans. It was the height of chan culture, before social media /really/ started to take off due to smartphone adoption and facebook. It's been on the decline since, with lots of key figures disappearing after '10-14 as they grew up

Anything older than 2005 goes back to IM days when Yahoo pedo rooms were the norm.

>>1391086
Dumb kids like you kept buying them and oversaturating the market with garbage.

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>>1394775
Kill yourself. COD4 and COD6 were two of the best ever FPS games.

It's hard to say. A lot of perceived decline in quality is probably to me getting older.

>>1395591
I rate your bait 4/10.

>>1395591
>COD4 and COD6 were two of the best ever FPS games.
You need to be over 18 to post here.

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>>1397062
>>1397095
Two games that changed the face of the industry forever. Extremely advanced tech for the time. Legendary plot. Really balanced multiplayer except for commando shit and dumb spawn system. The "360 noscope MLG" thing became a thing years after MW1 and MW2. The community of both games was mature, most people weren't the 12-18 year olds you're thinking of (today they're in their 20s/30s) those jumped into the bandwagon later on. Things started going downhill after Black Ops.

>>1398190
Truly epic.

Suck my cock dude