Old /a/

code geass

lucky star

gurren lagann

need i say more?

>>141796882

Wow, old /a/ was worse than new /a/.

>>141796882
Looks autistic.

yeah pretty sure nobody on /a/ today remembers /a/ before 2010 :^)

>>141797147
It was pretty good until 2006.

>>141796882

How is that any different than the /a/ of today?

>>141796882
>2010
>old
this is the state of neo-/a/

>>141797209
They were doing it unironically.

>>141796882
It's just as dank and ebin as i remember

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>>141796882
>old
>2010

>>141797255

>time constantly moves forward

Old /a/ were genuises who could take it easy.

>>141796882
>old /a/
>2010
Fucking newfags.

>>141797209
>>141797265
Back in the days, gets actually meant something.

>>141797308
>>141797255
>from a given range
>picks the upper limit
>igores range

math flunkies FTW

>>141796882
>creates a /v/ shitpost magnet thread
>every other thread's quality goes up
Doing God's work friend.

>>141797255
>neo-/a/
You aren't better than him nigger.

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>wake up one night about two years ago
>go to boot up pc
>whirring and clicking but nothing else happening with secondary drive
>the drive I had since 2002 and used to save screencaps and the like on
>attempt to save the data with conventional self methods but nothing works
>way too expensive to get it done professionally

All of that history lost.

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>>141796882

Boku no Pico.

>>141797386
>not realizing what a closed interval implies
Come the fuck on.

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>>141797370

Pretty sure they still do.

>>141797535
pic of the 30m on /k/?

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>>141797600

>>141797370
>>141777777

>>141797339
I really miss the happy-go-lucky attitude of 4chan back in the day. A lot of today's anons seems to be cynical grumpy assholes.

>>141797711
Newfags act overly hostile in a poor attempt to fit in.

>>141797711
It got too big, too fast. You can't even use LOL anymore.

>>141797771
It sounds retarded when you could post a reaction image.

>>141797771
>You can't even use LOL anymore.
Yeah, I'll never understand this one. I mean, up until 2010 you could say "LOL" but now its like a taboo to use it.

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>moot will never cause a board meltdown again
He may have been a faggot, but he was our faggot.

>>141797771
>>141797830
>>141797919

What's funny is that you can still use lulz absolutely no problem today, and no one will bat an eye.

You use lol and you're told to go to Reddit.

so we all know this thread is basically kog's way of making a thread in advance so that way he can get quints in this same thread, right? why else would the op's pic be cirno getting repeating digits?

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>current year
>using acronyms when you can reply with gifs/webms/images on an imageboard

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>>141798020

>>141797975
>comparing lol to lulz
>double spacing

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You now realize there was a point in time when /a/ was free from:

- Pepe
- Doubles Guy
- Generals
- id@lmaster
- Daily Japanese threads
- ARC-V

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It wasn't on /a/ but this remains one of the funniest things I've ever witnessed from the image error shenanigans. I have a few /a/ ones saved somewhere but my image folders are just an unsorted jumble of chaos.

>old /a/
>epic
>lol
>I love you
>fap fap fap

>new /a/
>fuck off
>fuck off
>shit
>fuck off

Why?

>>141798089
fuck off

>>141796882
How about no?

>>141798089
I don't even think using epic and lol nowadays would be an issue as long as it's not overused and everyone is self aware about it.

>>141798053
If anything, Idolm@ster has lessened significantly. There used to be the anime and mobage threads up all the time but the latter has been diverted elsewhere. Cinderella Girls ended over a year ago and that's dissipated quite a bit too.

>>141798089
There was still a lot of fuck off before but there's more people not following the rules today.

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>MT is still a thing
Mother of god

>>141798200
>...
>tripfags
Disgusting.

>>141798200
Only the good die young.

>>141797711
>A lot of today's anons seems to be cynical grumpy assholes.
Wait, it wasn't like this all the time?

But people still say shit like "go to reddit", right? Except replace reddit with whatever forum was popular back then, Digg? Ebaum's?

>>141798053
Why do you separate ARC-V threads from Generals? They're the same fucking thing at this point.

>>141798300
so, /a/ before is /v/ now?

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>you are now browsing in a post-moot era
>there are anons posting that came here after moot left
I hope he comes back and gets an honorary admin system just so he can fuck our shit up for a day. I don't care what some anons think, it was always humorous.

>>141798250
I don't really follow the tripdrama. Maybe it's just the nostalgia goggles but I don't recall any awful trips or really any trips at all from before taiga and that bunch.

>>141798089
Because we need to police the board more than ever now

4chan has become big enough to where we need to be constantly vigilant of normies and newshits. Not to mention the crossboarders

>>141798089
because my life is awful so I need to be mean to other people on the internet

>>141798361
I was posting before Moot leaves, but just barely.

What had he done? I remember n/a/ruto, though I'm not sure if that was only in 2008 (?) or if he does it again when Naruto ends.

Oh I also remember something about pudding song and EVA OP playing whenever you go to the cat/a/log.

>>141798268
Reddit was considered to be an inferior Digg

>>141798361
There was that special "founder" capcode someone discovered near the end of 2015. If moot returns, there's a possibility he'll shitpost with that.

He also did mention he wanted to continue browsing the site, just not in an admin position.

>>141798200
I'm surprised people saved screenshots from back then and kinda regretting that I didn't. 11 years of 4chan with nothing to show for it.

>>141798478
>11 years of 4chan with nothing to show for it.
I can smell the old, dried faggotry.

>/a/ then: shitposts and memes
>/a/ now: shitposts and memes
What the fuck happened?

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>>141798435
I have a bunch of caps somewhere but they could be on any number of drives, I have like 10tb of storage now not including old PCs.

There was a lot, geass, naruto, tons of eva shit, a lot really.

What made it special is that he really didn't do that on other boards. Even if he stopped watching animu, it seemed like /a/ was really what he considered his first born.

>>141798464
I don't doubt he still lurks as anon, but it would be nice if time to time he would toss on the old red lettering and cause a shitstorm for a bit.

>>141798478
I posted
>>141797419
I really regret not making a backup of that drive considering how fucking small it was. I had just never experienced harddrive failure before.

>>141798535
shit memes and meme posters. memes

>>141798394
>normies
you are part of the problem

>>141798614
I think that's you

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Old /a/ was more autistic. Now people think 3DPG is some inside joke instead of the gospel. Stuff on the level of pic related was more common here too.

>>141798614
I know, right? The term is shinners.

becuz 'shin' is japanese for 'new', u see xddd

also it sounds like sinners, whoa dubs am i rite, wwww

>>141797240
Classic.

>>141798394
>normies
Nigger.

>>141798721
Sure is new in here

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>>141797386
Oldfag is not a relative term.

Oldfags are the fags who've been there from the start. Everyone else is a newfag

>>141798739
They are called normalfags, unless you want to be associated with frogposters.

>>141798897
How do you pronounce 4chan anyways?

>>141799027
>>141799059
When did mods stop being fun?

I know this isn't related to /a/ but god damn I just visited /b/ for the first time in a few years and what the holy fuck has happened to that place? /b/ has generals for gods sake.

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>>141799112
Maybe around 2009 or so?

>>141799112
4chan is a super serious place where highly intelligent people defend their opinions against other people on the internet.

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You can say what you will about moot and the job he did. But he at least remembered his roots and what birthed this site, and stuck to it.

I worry for the future, to be honest.

That's all I've got without delving into more drives and such. Goodnight, /a/.

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>>141799314
savage

>>141798268
Gaia and livejournal were the most frequently shat on, and with good reason.

>>141799193
That's just how it is.
>Thing gets popular among normalfags
>Normalfags see it as this new trendy alternative thing
>gets into it but find it too alternative for them
>turn it into thing they are used to thereby killing off the reason for its (alternative) existence in the first place

In this case, generals are them trying to turn this weird imageboard thing into standard forums that they are used to.

>>141798268
Not on /a/ it wasn't and back then we told people to go back to gaia or Mal

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>>141799420

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>>141799364
;_;

>>141799314
>I worry for the future, to be honest
I don't think 4chan can get any worst really. It might have changed over the years and Japanese culture seems to be on the back burner now but this website will always be a place where degenerates and perverts gather.

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>>141798576
>There was a lot, geass, naruto, tons of eva shit, a lot really.
KILL
YOURSELF

WE HAD MONTHS OF SHITPOSTING AFTER EVERY FUCKING SHITTY TROLL MOOT DID

HE IS A FUCKING NORMALFAG PIECE OF SHIT AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN

>>141798641
well this is sick honestly
it is a good thing we don't get posts like these anymore here.

>>141799193
Kids who wanted to become edge4lye and 2cool4me

there were no smug anime girl images a long time ago.

>>141798089
Newfags trying to fit in by being overly hostile.

Basically newfags trying to sound like "oldfags".

>>141799667
>we don't get posts like these anymore here
Did you not see the robots at the end?. He came from /r9k/

>>141799634
booo

>>141799634
>WE HAD MONTHS OF SHITPOSTING
So literally nothing changed.

Only faggots didn't have a good laugh over mootposting.

>>141799710
Wrong, actually. It just wasn't nearly as prevalent.

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>>141799667
Here's something more to /a/'s liking then.

>>141799390
>>141799428
Ah, how did I forget gaia. My newfaggotry is showing!

who remembers night time /a/

that's what I miss the most

>>141798897
Wait, what the fuck, Moot was a goon before he made 4chan?

Man, how wide is Lowtax's reach?

>>141799962
Summer vs not was always a fucking meme.

Day vs night was really the true difference.

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>>141799841
>So literally nothing changed.
You think shitposting now is bad? You don't have the slightest clue.
Let's see we had kubo's epic troll threads, that shitty bleach ripoff manga, spinning sasuke threads, and park ranger's non stop shitposting spree around the clock filling up multiple pages.

>>141799314
I remember the days when we put words inside two slashes as if to put emphasis or italicize them.

Those were good days. 2013.

>>141800019
>you will never post on night-time /a/ ever again

kill me

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Anyone remembers those?
We need some graphics anon make a new one.

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It's always been bad. This is from 2007.

Most of the points are still relevant..

>>141800023
These screencaps have never been funny, I don't understand why they're "classics."

Is winter ball or whatever it was called still a thing? I haven't seen boards asking other boards out in a while.

>>141800039
Fun things are fun. If you're coming here for serious discussion, you're doing it wrong.

Yeah moot would obliterate /a/ for a few hours or whatever but it was usually pretty funny and all done in good humor.

You'll recall it all in a better light when the influence of moot fades even more as normalfags slowly destroy it all.

>>141800094
The site as a whole was just better back then. /tg/ is a hollow shell of what it used to be, /k/ is a stinking shitheap comparatively. Nothing about 4chan has improved for the last few years and most of that is due to heavy handed moderation.

>>141799856
I truly wonder if there has ever been anyone who has done something like that

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>>141800139

>>141800205
>/tg/ is a hollow shell of what it used to be
Did it discuss more board games in the past? I swear to god /tg/ should have vastly more board game discussion than endless repetition of RPG campaigns.

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>>141800238

does anyone even remember love line /a/?

those were some of the best threads.

>>141800161
Usually the faggot doing it, screencapping their own posts and thinking they're the height of comedy.

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>>141800265

>>141800039
Park Ranger was such a fucking Autist, holy shit. Completely miserable to have in a thread.

>>141800249
It discussed more of everything in the past and was honestly an absolute engine of content creation. Great draw/writefags that were mostly purged by nazimod. /tg/ was at its best when discussing things related to the hobby as a whole, rather than having stupid magic/d&d/etc generals like it does now.

Honestly if you had been there in the past you'd hardly recognize what the board has become. I don't even bother with it anymore.

Question for the old folks of /a/:

Are there vastly more discussion of touhou before /jp/ was made? How much more? Is it like Kantai Collection or Idolm@ster threads today, or is it different?

>>141800308

one of the only tripfags who were worth their weight in gold on /a/ was gendo.

Man that guy was high as a fucking kite every time he posted.

>>141800323
nah, it wasn't like generals. more like touhou hijack all the time

but it was fun. I kinda wish /a/ and /jp/ would be merged back together

>>141800308
Taiga was worse, I think.

But I remember derailing a thread it has posted or at least posted in by writing a rather detailed fapfic about it. Much to its ire.

>>141800341
Fuck I remember a comic about him getting high as balls on trix cereal or something before sitting down to post.

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>>141800323
There was always a Flavor of the Month. Adding a captcha really cut down a LOT of the bullshit, and generally slowed the boards down.

>>141800139
>We need some graphics anon make a new one.
Didnt the old one die?

>>141800309
Nice stealthy "no u" response.

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>>141800205
>Yeah moot would obliterate /a/ for a few hours or whatever but it was usually pretty funny and all done in good humor.
oh so you're the reddit cancer who came in with this shit.
I'm not going to bother arguing with you. Maybe it'll hit you in 5 years when /a/ looks like fucking facebook and you're surrounded by underage trash who care about anime even less than you.

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>>141800389
—and the 2010 version

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>>141800294
>>141800265
>>141800238
>>141800139

I was actually in one of those.

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>>141800430
and 2009. Dunno if there's more to this set, but this is all I have.

>>141800389
Oh god, Tomoko started in 2011? I remember the first thread when people just started scanlating it. Nice time.

>>141800430
Puddi was 2010!? God, knowing I was here for 6 years make me feel old, and I'm still a fucking newfag. I can't imagine how you people who's here since 2004 feel.

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>>141800389
>you'll never again watch newfags reply seriously to accelspam threads.

>>141800419
I predated all of that shit. I was here as Gaia became /v/ and then reddit.

>Maybe it'll hit you in 5 years when /a/ looks like fucking facebook and you're surrounded by underage trash who care about anime even less than you

Joke's on you, that's been happening for years and the best days are well and truly gone, never to return.

>>141800441
fucking step it up kog, you've been missing like wild lately

>>141800389
I miss accelspammer

>>141798020
lol

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>>141800490

June 8th, 2009 - 22000000 {22M} on /a/
April 24th, 2011 - 6000000 {6M} on /vp/
October 27th, 2011 - 115000000 {115M} [S] on /v/
January 19th, 2012 - 22222222 [S] on /mu/
March 30th, 2012 - 390000000 {390M} [S] on /b/
April 17th, 2012 - 394000000 {394M} [S] on /b/
November 6th, 2013 - 217000000 {217M} on /v/
December 18th, 2013 - 2000000 {2M} on /hr/
January 27th, 2014 - 101010101 on /a/
September 24th, 2015 - 131313131 on /a/
November 9th, 2015 - 133333333 on /a/
November 17th, 2015 - 2000000 {2M} on /an/ and 317000000 {317M} on /v/
December 24th, 2015 - 321321321 on /v/
January 14th, 2016 - 61000000 {61M} on /pol/
January 22nd, 2016 - 8000000 {8M} on /gif/
February 3rd, 2016 - 137000000 {137M} on /a/
February 9th, 2016 - 327000000 {327M} on /v/
March 14th, 2016 - 674000000 {674M} on /b/
April 5th, 2016 - 27000000 {27M} on /mlp/
April 7th, 2016 - 138000000 {138M} on /vg/
April 16th, 2016 - 58000000 {58M} on /int/
May 10th, 2016 - 9000000 {9M} on /cgl/
May 11th, 2016 - 141414141 on /a/
May 12th, 2016 - 684000000 {684M} on /b/
May 18th, 2016 - 685000000 {685M} on /b/
May 19th, 2016 - 30000000 {30M} on /k/

Oh, it's quite the contrary.

I have gotten more high profile GETs in the past half year than I did in my first 8 years. It's pretty scary when I come to think about it.

If The Flash has Speed Force, then I might have obtained some kind of GET Force.

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>>141800556

>556
>wasn't even trying for 555, posted at complete random, looks like I was trying and failed

Somewhere, Cirno is laughing at me and calling me a baka.

>>141800556
Or you just post on 4chan way too much. Was that really you on /cgl/?

>>141800475
>I can't imagine how you people who's here since 2004 feel.
Strange, really. /a/ has kept me alive for years. I'm really not sure what I'd do if it were ever gone. I've spent more time here than on any other activity, it is a daily thing for hours on end.

I miss the old days fondly, but I could never go back to the old extension-less layout.

>>141800509
He did keep a lot of the trash out.

>>141800509
He's in a better place now.

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>>141800556
Yeah you have been loosing your touch lately

>>141800441
>>141800556
>>141800579
What's the first ever GET or anything of its ilk? Did KoG get that one as well, or did it go unnoticed? If the latter, what's the first GET KoG get?

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>>141800556

May 10th, 2016 - 9000000 {9M} on /cgl/
May 11th, 2016 - 141414141 on /a/
May 12th, 2016 - 684000000 {684M} on /b/
May 18th, 2016 - 685000000 {685M} on /b/
May 19th, 2016 - 30000000 {30M} on /k/

I was here for that 141414141. Good work sir.

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>>141800593

Yeah. I was expecting far more people to be going for it, but it turned out to be really easy.

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it's /b/ but /a/ loved pokemons too

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>>141798641
Something like this would now immediately get replies calling it a blogpost. /a/ even used to have threads about con stories, although I'm pretty sure the post in my pic is from /cgl/ there would be threads on /a/ where these pics would be shared, along with many other stories. Can't do that anymore. Hell back when the US niconico site was a thing, we'd have threads dedicated to the streams and enjoy that as well. /a/ is literally no fun allowed now.

>>141800556
>556

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>>141800603

Fun Fact: Cirno getting 5555555 and 6666666 was my main inspiration for becoming KoG in the first place.

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>>141800341

>>141800650
Are CYOA threads still kosher in /a/? I remember that long series of one starring the characters of that disabled girls VN, but I haven't seen one in ages.

>>141800632
Yeah, it's a really quiet board compared to here especially. It's like 4chan's little crafting corner except bitchier.

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Remember this guy?
though he was mostly in the buyfag threads
I ended up emailing him and he told me that he had grown out of having a waifu

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This was gold

>>141800660
Yes that's the comic.

>>141800689
No, they go to /tg/ or /qst/. I'm not sure Bromont has posted anything in a long time, but Bizarre Slime threads on /a/ were some of the greatest things to ever experience here.

>>141800689
try /qst/

>>141800723
what about all the stuff that he brought

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>tfw only .5% of current /a/ were around before the 1 millionth get

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>>141800650
I'm pretty sure it's a general internet culture thing. Posting on the internet wasn't an extension of real life, it really was the "Secret Club" that is so derided nowadays. Everything about the experience was wholly divorced from reality, so whenever the two mixed it was kind of special and unique.

Like the "exploding van" story, or when that sociologist showed up on /a/ and turned the place into a science experiment. I think the iconic image from that is that blue haired Erio girl from the Denpa-whatever anime.

That shit just wouldn't happen on contemporary /a/, with the wider internet populace embracing an online social experience.

>>141800775
and I'm glad most of the people could move on and left this place

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Another Fun Fact: Roulettes like the one you see pictured here were the precursor to the endless roll threads you see on /b/. Roll threads literally DID. NOT. EXIST. on /b/ until /a/ made them popular. /b/ was too busy going for combos to care about roulettes.

>>141800785
>>141800650
Also take into account that most people didn't really use the internet a ton before 2006/7 or so. At least, nothing beyond emails and shit. 4chan really was the wild west back before 2008/9.

>>141800794
Don't forget, you're here forever.

And a lot of them probably died.

>>141800750
>>141800751
>/qst/
God, I've never even realized that was a thing.

>>141800755
From what I can remember he said that he abandoned anime went on to do his own thing

>>141800794
But Anon
where am I to go? ;_;

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>>141800775

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I really need to update this...

>>141800847
Well it is only a couple weeks old.

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>>141800847
Hopefully it isn't for long.

>>141800853
We all end up there eventually, anon. Some just take longer than others.

>>141800903
so many cirno gets...

I only came to /b/ in 2007, /v/ in 2008, /jp/ in 2009, and /a/ in 2013

I wish I had been around for 1999-2006 internet, not even just world2ch and 4chan shenanigans

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>>141800723
So? I've been here since 07 and I don't have one. It seemed to me like most of the people who claim to have a waifu just pick their favorite character of the season to fit in and the people who actually do take this stuff seriously, while their dedication is impressive, they just want to circlejerk with other people about their waifus and that's how they actually get their social needs. It's fucking retarded, always has been. I've come to accept that I'm going to always be lonely, better that than to fool myself into believing a lie. 2D can't save you.

>>141800962
Nice boat was 9 years ago. Fucking hell.

This place sucks, but it's still one of the best things on the internet.

>>141800915
>Hopefully it isn't for long.
/tg/ has significantly improved because of it.

So is there anything on current /a/ that is at the very least the remnant of a thing on old /a/?

I would have expected buyfag threads to be eternal.

>>141801003
>Nice boat was 9 years ago
can you fucking believe it ;_;

>>141800265
>>141800238
Back when /a/ actually liked loli. Such a shame.

>>141801038
buyfag threads are relatively short lived in /a/'s history.

>>141800978
Well I get what you mean, but what was surprising about him was how passionate he was with Yuno. Kept talking about her all the time and he was so excited when a figure came out. Then all of a sudden all his excitement just dies and he gives up on her

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>>141800978

I have seen so many people switch waifus that it's disgusting.

Remember SHiN and how Kagami was his waifu?

HA.

>>141801059
ok I laughed

>>141801059
He made a lot of threads. That does show some dedication.

Is it possible that in a few years when 4chan is abandoned by normalfags for the next big thing, /a/ will be good again instead of endless generals and "I want to fuck X girl" threads?

>>141801052
/a/ hated lolis now?

I thought /a/ wasn't one person? I guess it was back in the days of old /a/?

>>141801038
can't actually think of anything besides the mugen homo circlejerk
and casual overrated shit threads

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>>141800977
Shit was very different. Digital cameras weren't common. The average desktop PCs lacked the power to do proper photo editing, and even if they did, a great deal of people didn't have a connection worth a shit. Images were much, much smaller.

"Internet Culture" wasn't really a thing until...about when 4chan popped up. Not saying it was responsible for it, but it did act as one of the early pillars of original content. Back alongside SA's golden age.

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>>141801083
>>141801089

>>141801092
>when 4chan is abandoned by normalfags for the next big thing
the golden age isn't coming back

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>>141801059

>>141801059
>59

>>141801053
Well buyfag threads only became mainstream over the past few years with the buyfag general. Before that they did exist but you'd get people spamming in them telling them to go to /jp/ or /toy/. That being said, they have been around for years

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>>141801125
>>141801059

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>>141801158

>wasn't even going for 59

>>141801038
I was going to make the joke that "/a/ never talks about anime." but realized that the board is much more on-topic than at pretty much any point.

Nostalgia threads have been a thing since AT LEAST 2007. Pretty sure I've got a screencap buried in my drives somewhere of someone making a thread complaining about how the board has gone to shit (with a moot response) that's dated 2005.

>>141801023
Nah. Quests were always a part of /tg/ and newfags can fuck off if they don't like that. Nazimod killing the lewd was the first blow to /tg/, this could end up the second if the remaining /tg/ quests are relegated to die in /qst/

>>141801198

No, that picture is not a lie. There was a time on /a/ where the time of day really DID matter. Now, it doesn't really matter when you come on /a/. It's all pretty much the same.

when did doubles guy become a thing?

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>>141801198

>>141801221
It's still relevant. Just less so. 1000GMT generally marks when the european shitposters start hitting the boards.

>>141801221
Yep, the differences used to be quite stark.

>>141801244
2009 I think? The years all sort of just blend together after a while.

>>141801244
checked

>>141801221
So at least there's always Late Night /a/ on every time of the hour, then?

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>>141801244
>>141801270
>>141801278

Fun Fact: Bateman was actually getting doubles BEFORE he became Doubles Guy.

Scary, right?

>>141801221
Usually morning CET are pretty boring because Murricans are sleeping.

But that also means less shitposting.

if your waifu gets posted you have to go to bed

>>141801378
don't start that garbage, there are already multiple waifu dumping threads on /b/

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>>141801352
Shitposting magnitude goes aussies>canadians>yuropoors>mexicans/pooinloos>USAUSAUSA>nobody else even matters

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>>141801352
0000EST to 0800EST was around when late night /a/ was. The beginning could vary an hour or two, and weekends could make it never happen at all, but I always assumed it was the Europeans waking up that ruined it. *shrug*

>>141801415
What about people who moved to different countries? Are Australian immigrants in USA worse than an American immigrant to in Canada?

Also, you can excuse canada, they're so nice irl, they must vent somewhere.

>>141801415

That statement is 100% accurate. Most Australians would agree.

>>141801404
I didn't even know /b/ had waifu dumping threads, I kind of miss the times when having a waifu was something special.

>>141801470
They'd call it sledging, those cricket-loving cunts.

>>141801415
Australians doesn't even for real, they're like urban legends.

>>141801467
>What about people who moved to different countries?
It's in your fucking blood.

It is why the poos all wear fucking polo shirts and reek like ASS in my gym and never do any actual lifting.

You retain your shitposting genetics no matter where you actually live.

>Also, you can excuse canada, they're so nice irl
I live in Michigan and for the most part Canadians are a bunch of ignorant drunk cunts. The "good" ones all move here and do their best to be Americans.

>>141801530
>*doesn't even exist.
Fucking typo.

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>>141801489
I remember it being a joke about some people who were SUPER SERIOUS FANBOYS about things, hence the faux-asian spelling.

Then people took it seriously, and suddenly everyone's got a fuckin waifu and the whole thing becomes synonymous with "perving on 2d".

>>141801554
looks like we've got a live australian here!

Yo cunt, g'day m8.

>>141801467
Canadians need to be exterminated. I've never met a Canadian that wasn't a terrible person.

>>141801582
If you've met one in Australia, they're very nice.

>>141801457
Where can I find racist wapanese girls?

From what I can conclude from the screencaps old /a/ was shit, full of samefags posting roleplaying and epic chains that were even more epic than slowpoke LOL

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just dropping this here

>>141801679
/a/ is shit.
[a/ was shit.
/a/ will always be shit.

but it's home.

>>141801415
>>141801467
I've been shitposting since I was 13 and I got bored. Now I'm 21 and just post seriously or not at all.

>>141801679
>>141801729
/a/ is always shit. Anyone who says 'lurk more' is shit. I mean, what do people know if they lurk more? In-jokes? Why do people care about that kind of shit in a website decidedly for anonymous people? What, you don't care about "special snowflakes" but care that they get your stupid references?

Threads of people saying to others "we don't care who you are" think they want social cohesion? A social medium whose very concept is the lack of any obvious identifying features wanted a 'culture'? What lunacy.

>>141801661
I think they're all racist.

>>141801404
There were always these threads on /b/ but since half a year they basically have a constant general and they even had a guy who posted his fucking hand as his waifu.

>>141801798
Yes because if there is a online community with it's own "culture" new people should not try to understand it by observation but instead ask dumb question and act like retards.
Things only become "culture" if you can slap a name on it and identify the creator.

You are so smart.

So which board did old /a/ hate the most?

And which board did new /a/ hate the most? As far as I know there's a constant /a/-/v/ battle, but has that been relatively recent as well or does it go back to the older days?

>>141801921
I don't know if it's still a thing, but the /a/ board-tan was always depicted as a trap, and /a/-/v/ were tsundere for each other.

The /jp/ friction has mostly dissipated over time.

>>141801798
see
>>141800156
Lurk moar.

>>141798394
>normies

No dice. Go back to /v/.

>>141802009
What's the proper term?

Also I've never really differentiated between normies and newfags.

Who were the most popular girls and archetypes back then? Is there a waifu rating of old /a/?

>>141802071
>Who were the most popular girl
Asuka. It has always been Asuka.

>>141802028
Fuck off.

>>141798361
Who is moot?

>>141802028
Don't call them out for what they are. Call them out for what they do.

"You're a [name]." isn't going to have much of an effect because that shit's ubiquitous on the boards and just lead to more namecalling and shitposting, ruining whatever thread it's in.

Pointing out that they did something stupid and counter to board culture/norms and getting people to laugh at them will leave a lasting impression. Communities define what they are by what they are not. By clearly pointing out what is not acceptable /a/ behaviour, you are reinforcing what is.

>>141802114
Some old moderator or something. Complete nobody.

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I can post a couple, I guess.

>>141802090
Except for the heretics who claim it was Rei.

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I'm not actually sure if these are from /a/.

>>141802090
>>141802193
Newfags pls go.

Best girl is moot. No competition.

>>141802090
>teenage girl
As expected of /a/. No love for cyborg girls like Alita, Deunan Knute or Motoko?

>>141802090
Fate's ass was famous and saw a TON of threads. Fate+Nanoha was very popular, particularly because loli types were popular.

NGE was the original waifu wars.

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I don't get this one, but have it anyways

I've been here for 9 years but I can't remember anything.

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Who even remembers EFG at this point?

>>141802305
So WAKE UP, anon.

It's time for you to WAKE UP.

See the wall behind your computer. What does it say? WAKE UP.

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Am I posting rare reposts yet

>>141802226
While good, those series were from before 4chan was really a thing SAC was 2002 or so, and 2nd gig was the first in an increasingly long line of disappointments.

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>>141802337
Not all of the old ways are lost.

The best thing about these posts is there very few reposts or templates.

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>>141802415
>>141802444
Welp, that one's a staple.

>>141802444
Fuck, I remember this thread...and the months of stupid reposts and rehashes it generated.

>>141802461
I remember the good old days when /a/ regurgitates memes from anime endlessly to the point of massive annoyance!

>>141802479
At least memes from anime would be related to /a/, as opposed to memes from other boards.

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I have way too many 5 posts saved.

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This one still gets me.

>>141802506
Ah yes, no memes better than /a/ memes.

>>141802531
So how often do you masturbate with your pinky out, anon?

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>>141802479

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>>141796882

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Say what you will, but Ge/a/ss Sundays were probably the highlight of my years here.

>>141802563
Huh, we've never really done much japanese emoticons now, haven't we?

Guess how that makes me feel

( ≧Д≦)

>>141797017
Haruhi

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>>141802647
Posted the wrong image. Oh well.

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>>141802647
Best the board ever was. It was a magnificent trainwreck, and riding it with /a/ made it so much better.

I do miss the fansub drama.

>>141802695
I wonder what the responses are like for this perfect set of circumstances.

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Okay I think I'm done geassposting. Maybe.

Though fuck these new captchas, holy shit. Clicking on endless street numbers

>>141802647
>I can't get my post through! I keep getting SQL errors!!

>I guess I'm just a fag.

This is funny.

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Kind of miss these ones.

>>141797367
>old /a/
>after 1920
Fucking newfags

>>141802875
Some fags have been posting the threads when /a/ hasn't been down.

>>141802226
>liking old hag

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>>141802925
Yeah, I see them from time to time when I'm digging in the archives for translation threads, etc. Miss them whenever they're live.

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Bulk of my folders are gets and 5s. This captcha is really annoying me. Couple more and I'm out, I suppose.

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I'd probably have a slew more from 06/07 if I wasn't an absolute retard and saved all my threadcaps on a USB that I would later lose.

>>141800039
God I remember this

The shitposting was fucking legendary

>>141803076
>saber dump thread
More like 'Saber general'.

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>>141800156
part 2 of this

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>>141797666
>141777777

From yesterday.

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I have a feeling someone's updated this.

>>141798739
>normies
I fucking hate the new incarnation of r9k

>>141803168
I wish I had my very own Konata.

>>141803134
>#lurk
I learned about this and XDCC before I've learned about direct downloads from sites like Stop Tazmo.

Then I'm in some other IRC boards in 2013 and the people there talked like downloading from IRC is some brand new thing.

Pft.

>>141803208
>XD
First of all, fuck off. Second, IRC has always been fucking horrible for me. Terrible speeds, dropped downloads, no easily visible queue, no central location to search for things to get.

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>>141797771
>It got too big, too fast. You can't even use LOL anymore.

You can't use emoticons anymore. You can't take it easy anymore. You can't even
like things anymore.

Forget the Naruto and SAO fans, they're just wankers like everyone else. NOT LIKING THINGS is what neo-/a/ truly has become.

>>141803256
>First of all, fuck off.
>to the "XD" in some word
I love this /a/ meme. I genuinely do.

Okay, good time to bolt out of here. I'm out, sans a couple /b/ and /v/ caps that were posted on /a/ for some reason.

Hopefully someone got something out of that "dump".

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>>141798200
>Megatokyo

Speaking of which, Megatokyo finally started updating again after a hiatus of what, a couple of years? Maybe we'll get some more Sad Girls in Snow.

We even got some more Thin H Line / Sexy Losers in 2015.

>>141803256
Well memed fellow redditor

>>141801262
This. 4chan barely had Euro posters before, say 2010

>>141799103
Just what will make you think about this?

>>141803340
Appreciate it buddy, dumps ate fewer these days and people are genuinely hostile so it's nice to see someone actually giving a shit.

>tfw i'll turn 27 this year
>rfw spent over a third of my life shitposting on an american imageboard for japanese cartoons

>>141799103

Ah yes, and there was also CornFapper.

>>141803406
There has always been a lot of european visitors, maybe not in the first year but half of my school visited /b/ and old /g/ to be edgy back in 2006 because rotten was blacklisted.

>>141803353
I don't know, but he's been updating relatively regularly since December 2015.

I still followed it out of a sense of wretched loyalty.

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>>141800039
>2013

holy shit

three fucking years

where the fuck did they go?

>>141803505
What country was this? I never remember seeing many Euro's. Maybe it was just the time of day I browsed

>>141803257
>You can't use emoticons anymore.
Yeah but why would you want to?
/a/'s rules of conduct serve the purpose of counteracting the
>Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they're in good company.
They are there precisely so you can take it easy, because anyone who has lurked enough to understand /a/'s rules, has also come to understand where we stand on the topic of whether Japan is the holy land etc.
Sure, you can list other reasons (ugliness of emoticons, or the superiority of reaction images), but at its core it was always a way to separate /a/nons from the newly arrived that couldn't be bothered to adapt to the place.
That's why the years following Code Geass saw such a tremendous increase in grammar nazis too.

/a/ is still for taking it easy and for liking things.

If you feel that allowing children and newfags to come in unchecked is an acceptable price for the ability to post however you want, then I would have to decidedly disagree.