Remember the good old days before cancerous little insufferable

>>724729742
Curious, how old were you back then? I was an insufferable 12 yr old cunt, but I mostly stuck to making my geocities websites.

So. Many. Marquees.

>>724730007
I don't know, I'm 25 now but I was a teenager back then. The problem is with the more recent wave of kids coming on the internet. Everyone is one now whereas at one time the internet was still very much for the weirdos of the world.

Hey gais check out my youtube video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbaTur4A1OU

>>724730314
If you're 25 now you weren't even a teenager.

I was talkin about like 1997. You probably don't even remember BBSes before that

But I get what you're saying. I like it more now, really. Having normies and 12 yr olds is a trade off I'm willing to make to have millions of insta-tiddies at my disposal.

>>724730916
Oh no I was on the internet back then too but I mean more the old days of 4chan, before it was all cancer and trap faggots

>>724731050
Now you're just romanticizing the past for no good raisin. /b/ was always cancer. And I'd argue 4chan came around after the good old days.

>>724730916
its just not worth it in my eyes. the instant titties is great and all but that is outside 4chan anyway, and there were always tits here. 4chan is just spam, traps, shit pasta, and alt-right retards nowadays. I miss the days when people did things just for the lulz and thought the posts were still shit they weren't gay as fuck and were at least a little more varied. But the whole internet has been ruined by little kids and the people who make content for them. Its really depressing to see this place I spent so much time inhabiting as a social outcast become what it has today.

>>724731412
/b/ was always cancer but traps were just that- traps. fags posting dicks were an object of ridicule and memes weren't stolen and used by corporations. Also people didn't really care about politics and raids werent just some little preteens spamming some losers twitch chat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ5LpwO-An4

http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1153226-starter-packs

>>724731694
I guess so, but the stuff you miss is still alive. /b/ isn't the only random board on the interwebs, the anons you used to laugh and raid with just fucked off to different less gay and less modded chans. You can do it too.

And so I cry sometimes when I'm lying in bed just to get it all out, whats in my head and I-I-i am feeling... a little peculiar....
And so I wake in the morning and I step outside and I take a deep breath, and get real high and I, scream from the top of my lungs, WHATS GOING ON?!

And I say.....
HEYYEYAAEYAAAEYAEYAA, HEYYEYAAEYAAAEYAEYAA....I SAID HEY! Whats going on?
And I say
HEYYEYAAEYAAAEYAEYAA, HEYYEYAAEYAAAEYAEYAA....I SAID HEY! Whats going on

And he tries... Oh my gosh do I try! I try all the time, in this institution.....
And he prays! Oh my gosh do I pray! I pray all sanctity...MYEEH... for a revolution!

And I say.....
HEYYEYAAEYAAAEYAEYAA, HEYYEYAAEYAAAEYAEYAA....I SAID HEY! Whats going on?
And I say...

Don't cry outloud! Just keep inside... And learn how to hide, your feelings.....

HEYYEYAAEYAAAEYAEYAA, HEYYEYAAEYAAAEYAEYAA....I SAID HEY! Whats going on? YEAH!

sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage sage

>>724732091
They didnt. every chan is now dead and every other imageboard is 100% pedophiles now. The last bastion of decent internet in gone now. its been 10 years and there is nothing good left.

i was on 56k. i know the interwebs

>>724732091
where though? all the other imageboards look very dead to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVj0ZTS4WF4

>>724732527
I reckon this board would look pretty dead too without all the bots.

>>724732702
Nah, theres plently of activity here. Threads frequently hit the image limit on the occasion that there is a decent thread. The internet is shit these days, it has no soul anymore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NNMHxqJp6A

>>724732998
Doesn't mean there's lots of people. Like this thread, there's like 20 posts and 4 posters only 2 other people other than us chimed in.

>>724730916
>fuckin 1997

Shiet, i still remember getting battle of la on cd.
Different times man.
Now its just children and retards everywhere.
The thing that shocked me most since then is social media.
We were always told never ever put anything of yours on the internet, now your a wierdo if you dont.
And as a result we have dyed hair faggots literally everywhere

>>724733316
Then were did all the people from 10 years ago fuck off too? I've tried all the other imageboards and they're all either dead or flooded by pedos which is worse than death. I've been looking for my people for literally a decade now and could never find them.

>>724733711
I used to play Diablo and Diablo II constantly as well as after dark games and that fucking one with the beavis and butthead game on, it was like a demo disk thing. Just thinking about the way things used to be makes me wish i could go back in time. Everything is so depressing now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4eEGeqC-8M

>>724733711
Yeah, you can really tell how old somebody is/how long they've been online by the information they're willing to share. Having to make a linkedin with my actual name and personal info fucked me up hard.
You should never share that shit.

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>>724732119
I love you for posting this.
Want to be friends?

>>724733711
THIS.

>>724734131
Yes. I knew there'd be someone around who remembers when 4chan/the internet wasn't shit!

>>724734126
Anyone can find out your name by looking in your mailbox bruh.

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>>724731412
I found this place pretty much right before "Operation Chanology"
The influx of normalfags and overall the shift in dynamic here was actually fucking crazy.

The internet we knew took its last breath when they 'rick rolled' that thanksgiving parade or whatever.

Fuck web 2.0.

>>724734230
Can't tell if troll or identifying as not-cancer just because you found someone else who has seen old memes.

>>724734230
I kind of always remember the internet being shit, it's just faster and easy to access now.

Oh yea, and 4k porn.

>>724732452

mudkips was the oldest newfag cancer now it's obscure

/b/tards used to have so much power. Now we can't even hold back the tide of cancerous kiddies

>>724734277
oh god I love you. I didn't think anyone was left. I came here when the Habbo raid was going on, and haven't really left.

>>724734427
fuck you

ahh the good old days. I was in my 20's. kiddie porn was easy to get. Usenet was a thing, and IRC was the cool way to chat. Doom 1 and 2 were the greatest PC games of all time....

>>724729742
i remember when cp was posted daily and derailed

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>>724729742
BRING BACK SNACKS!!!

>>724729742
>Better times
>Took me leaving my comp on all night to download one mp3

Reeeeal great

>>724730655
4chan's true goddess.

Who rules the skies? Cracky-chan.

>>724734230
>>724734427
figured

>>724734901
just because things took more time/effort doesn't mean the people and culture weren't better

>>724729742
>Remember the good old days before cancerous little insufferable 12 year old cunts took over the internet?

Oh, you mean back when we were little 12 year old shits?

>checks Delphi account

>be me
>the year is 2001
>be 13 with AOL 4.0
>wake up
>sit in aol chat room and try to cyber with babes
>3 hours and 4 spent loads go by
>time for Mechwarrior 2
>3 hours and 2 spent loads go by
>doom 2 or chit chat on AIM until bed

I didnt discover 4chan till 2007, thanks stumbleupon!

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>>724729742
I was 13 when I stumbled into Yahoo! Chat. Oh, how many cyber sessions got botched due to incoming calls. On top of JPEGs taking 15 minutes to load and tending to abort after 7, life was the endless torment of blue balls.

>>724733729
Some of us are still here to lament, gnash our teeth and rend our clothes. We miss Cockmongler and Happy Negro, and remember that only Gaston can stop the boatlights desu desu desu.

>>724735210
we were different little 12 year old shits to the ones these days. There was some joy in 4chan. Its all just depressing hate, spam, and gay posts these days

>>724735338
but where are we supposed to go now?? I don't want to have to wade through endless piles of shit threads and spam bots.

Good culture is still around, you just wont find it in "mainstream" places. Have you tried infinity chan?

>>724735509
Well I'm afraid that comes with popularity. Find a niche board

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>>724734581
<3
I come back here now and again when I wanna kill some time or practice my argumentative skills, or just to catch up with fags like you, but as a whole I've moved on to fresher communities/chans. No use beating a dead horse. Although I've found myself returning here alot the past couple weeks. I think it goes in phases..
Keep it real, homeslice.

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>>724735235
>enter chatroom
>i'm big boobed lesbian want to cyber
>cyber
>have ephipany
>if i'm a guy pretending to be a big boobed lesbian, maybe the person i'm talking to really isnt an actual lesbian as is probably a boy like me pretending
>continue cybering

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>>724729742
It's not all shit. I mean, we created a president for our lulz ffs

>>724735509
We go where we have always been: to hell. Our kind were never meant for the light of day, and some fucker broke rules one and two so often that they shone the sun into our little dark box and illuminated the travesties we had wrought, leaving us in the burning eye of day. The internet was once a place to hide from the cruelties of society; now it is society writ large. Like we were exiled from that world, we are exiled from our own. Unsung, unfound, unheard. Welcome to our doom. There's no way out; we are stuck in a pit from which there will be only the escape of death.

>>724735551
that place is just like /pol/ 2.0 and is a pile of shit. and the honey is so sticky and gets all over your shoes, you feel weird going there wearing less than 7 proxies

>>724735551
Its dead. Posts come in exceptionally slowly and new threads are made like once a month

>>724735759
no, the alt-right newfags did that

>>724735630
Thanks man. Its nice to know people like you are still on the internet. It sucks theres no real place for us anymore.

/b/ used to be lousy with ponyfags, too... they eventually were "given" their own board and this place stopped being so much of a shithole.

To fix it now, japmoot would have to step in and create a "cuck bullshit" board and slide all the faggot threads onto it an start /b/anning then when they dump their shit here.

problem is I'm 90% sure that mods or janitors are part of the cuckspam autism crew

>>724736125
>no, the alt-right newfags did that
ty for pointing out that they're alt-right newfag faggots. real anonymous during the operation chanology days would have fought hard against that shit

>>724735759
You. Fuck you in specific, and your ilk in general.

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>>724733729
I'd tell you where I frequent, but we /really/ don't want a bunch of meme-lords coming along for the ride because its still quite small and fairly intimate. Sorry. You might not like it anyway, its based around a somewhat niche cyberpunk anime.
>>724733959
have you ever considered that you might just be depressed? Im not saying things havent generally gone to shit, but life is what you make it, only as real as you let it be.

>>724730916

I basically partnered with a guy in my hometown to build up his BBS. He was the technology, I was the $$$. It was the first BBS in town that two people could log into at the same time. Two people could battle it out live in a game! Legend of the Red Dragon. Exitilius. Fuck those were good days.

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all of u DIE

>>724736407
Yep. 4chan used to be, if not liberal, anarchic rather than authoritarian. That was kinda the whole point of anonymity.

420chan is decent if you dont mind the whole drugs thing.
Mods are fucking nazis though.

>>724735949
Shit, thats heavy. Can't we invent our own new place? The internet is not for our kind any more, so why bother with the internet at all? Though I guess theres nothing you can do with technology these days that won't be destroyed by society/authority.

>>724736407
Exactly, this new wave of shit is nothing to do with our people. We were in it for the lulz, not necessarily because we were hate filled assholes. We were outcasts looking for our own place, not bigots.

>>724736440
this.

>>724736311
>problem is I'm 90% sure that mods or janitors are part of the cuckspam autism crew
Absolutely 100%. brush up on the cointel pro tactics and you can understand the cuck bullshit is an actual psyops-esque effort by the administration of the site to infiltrate the psyche of it's users

>>724729742
wont it be weird to say we grew up when the internet started 50 years from now ?
fuck ....

lol I'm 12 and what is this?

>>724736543

Same<3
Except my partner was the money and technology, I was just my mom's 2 car garage and my neighbors electricity. I used it for porn and he was into cracking games, shit I never got into.

>>724736485
Of course I'm depressed, I'm basically a NEET because I have no motivation and social anxiety. I'm too scared to get a job, and I feel like all of that shit is pointless anyway. But /b/ used to be a place for social outcasts like me, now theres nothing left and theres no wonder weird people are always killing themselves. The world is a depressing

>>724729742
Even back in those days we did not save fucking thumbnails.

>>724737272
lol accidentally missed out the 'the world is a depressing place these days, i think everyone would agree' from the end of that. It was almost like candleja

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>>724737374

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>>724729742

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>>724736638
yup. 4chan used to be a anarcho-capitalist (with a grain of salt) paradise.

wanna know what changed that? paid shills. internet is becoming the new television and i for one am scared.
especially considering how television used to be in the past. i mean around the days of its inception. this is a really good televised interview with aldous huxley that, from almost 60 years later, is still extremely relevant today. they would never show something this real nowadays because the medium has been compromised.. is this the fate of our internet? i pray not.
I recommend checking it out for kicks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TQZ-2iMUR0

>>724737374
>>724737374
yeah i just grabbed it from google because I didn't have anything else to use as the image for the thread

>>724737197

Remember when AOL stopped charging by the hour, and everyone went insane? Chatrooms full 24/7. Cool shit being forwarded to everyone, everywhere, all the time?

I was on Prodigy for about a month or two when that happened. I think my screenname was P4K6GG3, because Prodigy didn't let you choose that shit. AOL did.

>>724737374

Back in those days, that pic took at least three minutes to download.

>>724737643
Back in those day we still had
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0

>>724736440
I just realized your right, fuck

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>>724737554
too bad google wasn't around when this thread was pointed in the right direction

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Who here had two phone lines into their house? One for the phones, and one for the computer?

>>724736407
>real anonymous
>operation chanology

Choose one. Operation Chanology was the turning point of /b/. Before that, we were basically pure chaotic neutral. No right or wrong morality motivating our actions. The only thing that drove /b/ back then was the pursuit of lulz. One day /b/ would track down animal abusers, the next /b/ would flood an epileptic support forum with flashing gifs. /b/ had no moral compass, and that was the point. We sought out lulz, no matter where they came from.

Operation Chanology flooded /b/ with white knights who wanted to feel like a cool hacker taking down some big bad evil. The primary goal, for the first time, was not lulz.

Then that faded, and somehow anons snapped hard in the opposite direction. Now instead of fighting the big bad threat, the alt-right circle-jerk newfags are raising one up.

So yeah. /b/ was never good. But /b/ was never evil, either. That was the goddamn point. Fuck politics all together. I miss the lulz.

>>724729742
there were no good old days, everything has always been shit

>>724737789
that's one thing I won't miss :)

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>>724737272
Hey.
I'm in much the same position as you.
The world is depressing but you dont have to be.
Believe me, I have my down moods, but when I am up like this I can see it for what it is. Truly, one needs to be the change they want to see in the world. Lately, embracing this concept has been very positive for me and I find myself feeling down alot less..
My life is still a mess, but I have been improving and making plans and I think I may end up okay.
I love you, anon. You are never alone. In the end. I'm on your side. Don't give up.. The future is never certain.

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>>724737789
>me listening to that

even though mine was slightly different i think

>>724737488
Its already happened friend. Corporations control it all now. Memes are monetized and politicized, its all either alt right propaganda or super left propaganda. Not just 4chan but a lot of the internet once leaned more towards anarchic capitalism. The authority is everywhere now and just as Aldous Huxley overpopulation has given rise to a totalitarian regime that controls our freedom on the internet. The government and cable companies want to control as sell the internet with stuff like SOPA but the government has already had a strong presence for years

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>>724738148
here

>>724736784
Two out of three of your replies are to me. My thinking is that we can't escape; we're doomed. I'd love to see the brighter side here, but even a commune would fall prey to the world. All borders have been set. Here we are in the cracks, screaming at the world "LEAVE US ALONE" but authority does not like a remainder in the equation. The only choices for us are utter revolt to the point of taking up arms, or languishing in despair until the only unbroken promise is fulfilled. That promise is the sweet silence of death, and as pleasant as that peace may be, it does not compare to a good steak, or doing something for the lulz alone. We are the left-overs, the living fossils in flesh and blood. Either take up arms or bend over and think of England, as it were.

>>724738250
What, are you saying you don't look back on the analogue feel and the robotic noise fondly?

>>724738136
What is that? I want one.

>>724737789

That would make one Hell of a ringtone/alarm for a phone.

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>>724738149
i miss the lulz too. i came upon /b/ in '06 and promptly hit the second life raids...plenty of alternate raids including habbo and sweet eva alot of good stuff

>>724738493
Well, at first the internet was awesome. But I also witnessed the upgrade and then realised how slow these old routers where.

But the internet back then was so chaotic and random, I loved it

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>>724729742
You might have to defrag your hard drive. I'm NOT exactly sure what that is, so you might want to ask a grown up.

>>724737488
It's always been too late; our kind are born doomed.

>>724736407
Real anonymous in chanology?

REAL anonymous participated in chanology for 1(one) month. After they forced the entire movement to go nonviolent at the end of january and the hacking/attacks stopped (we were ripping shit the fuck up m8, it was great) anonymous as it stood packed up, left, and disbanded. Old anon would have been hacking the shit out of the clinton foundation. Like holy shit, we would have been hitting that shit HARD. I'm still kinda weirded out that the meme war was fought WITHOUT the use of Ion Cannons at any time.

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>>724738349

TANDY! Fuck yeah Radio Shack!

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>>724738335
perhaps. if its true, i keep myself willfully ignorant for my own sanity.
people are waking up though.
personally I believe that something only becomes hopeless when you admit it is.
the best we can do besides killing ourselves is to do our best to be a positive influence on people, to conduct ourselves properly and spread the good word of truth. people are looking for answers, and its imperative that the right people provide those to them.
hope only dies with the last believer.

Hey I'm sephiroth666 asl

>>724738482
There is no winning this fight though. Why bother fighting back at all if the odds are so heavily stacked against you? I don't like the thought of just bending over and taking it but what else is there to be done? I just want my place back. Every time the downtrodden or socially misunderstood claim any space of our own the horde inevitably invade and make it theirs.

>>724739058
>Phone Answerer

Whew lad

>>724739155
xD didn't notice that. I guess "answering machine" was proprietary maybe?

>>724739116
Holy shit, could you just stop your bitching? Just sew that facial vagina shut and go kill yourself if it's that bad. Right now. Call your mom and say sorry, and drown yourself in a toilet. People like you are worse than even alt right faggots.

Just shut up.

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>>724739058
Remember- the internet is NOT regulated!

>>724738945
>ion cannons
yknow, you make an interesting point.
this alone kind of shows that old anon is dead.
even tho LOIC was sort of a shitty meme in and of itself.

Use to get 2-3 AOL cds in the mail every week. Gamefaqs was new and noone stole your username

>>724739155

$160 of 1991 money for a fucking portable "walkman" style CD player. That's $286 in 2016 money.

>>724739116
It is that kind of thinking that ended us where we are. And being as my people will not take up arms with me, I languish. Become sheep, and the wolves will eat you. There is a time in a man's life when he must spit on his hands, hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats... Or slit his own. Will you die like a dog, or will you fight?

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>>724739465
u mean the best me-me ever
>shoop da whoop

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>>724739058
moar back then

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Who cares about the internet? I found that hardcore porn channel "cinemax" by using the cable box fine tuning dial. It's not perfect, but shit, there's tits!

>>724729742
A/S/L?

>>724739382
NO U

>>724739465
Hey, they worked, even when we dragged them out for the Australian conflict.

>>724739715
amen
the best

>>724739795
14/f/CA

And nearly $1450 for a camcorder that's not even close to as good as what's in every 14 year old cell phone now.

Shit guys, I'm so down now. I came hoping to find the last remnants of true /b/tards but all I learn is that there is nothing left for our kind. The governments of the world want rid of us to pave way for the new Star Trek society.

>>724739684
I would gladly fight to carve out a space for my people. The internet is no different to the real world these days, all narcissism and conflict.

>>724739878
They certainly did. Probably still have a memory stick around somewhere.

>>724739998

Hello 42/m/NY.

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>>724740038
technology becoming easily accessible has its ups and downs.
To stay with the ups, I'm very excited when VR becomes more advanced and easily accessible. No reason for real life anymore then

Sooo what OP wants is to lure the mods into this thread I guess.

>>724729742
The good old days of the internet I was already an insufferable cunt.

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If you want to try EMAIL, you can go to www.juno.com.

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>>724740120
i'll steal the money from mommy and daddy to fly to you

>>724739382
you are not helping.
i'm redirecting your post back at yourself,
you fucking shill.
>>724739116
there are alot of us just waiting for the right catalyst.
okay, think of it this way actually.
when i was a kid, and i was visiting the beach, id take a bunch of shells and rocks home, and my parents would tell me 'if everyone took that much home there would be none left for anyone else'. bear with me, but if we all resign to bring home defeat with us, there will be nothing left for anyone. it is our personal responsibility to all the things we know to be true and all the decent people in the world to stay strong and stay together. its all we fucking have left, and its going to take the lot of us.

>>724740237
Too bad they won't show up.

Because they're cock monglers. OTHERWISE THEY WOULD HAVE BANNED ME FOR THIS POST

>>724740073
instead of bitching, be a positive example and show newfags the real spirit. How can they not become cancer in the culture (even on 4chan) these days?
They need guidance, they just want to fit in

>>724740354
>shill

>you're not the cancer

The question that really matters is...

who was phone?

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>>724740293
excite is the best search engine

>>724740354
don't feed the troll. Ignoring them is the best way to get rid of them

Every once in a while, I see a thread that will remind me of original /b/. It'll hit me like a ton of bricks. No matter how much we wish this place didn't suck, or how much we hate newfags, it just won't be the same ever again. I'm happy I got to be along for the ride though. I feel bad for anyone who wasn't and says things like
>/b/ was never good

Rip the old Internet.

>>724738824
>>724739408
>>724740293

In case you never saw this... cringe off the scale. Be sure to adjust your VCR's tracking for the BEST picture!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A81IwlDeV6c

>>724740530

I prefer AskJeeves myself. That's what Netscape Navigator advises.

>>724739998
perfect response. :)


wanna cyber?

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>>724729742

fuck yeah! dude, I'm downloading the new Medal Gear Solid trailer.

>>724740629
Those are some nice titties.

>>724740629
Every time the Jameson's son, Peter, looks at the camera, you KNOW he's thinking about that time he tortured a cat to death.

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>>724729742

a/s/l ?

>>724740798
dont worry it will freeze at 99% and then you'll be fucked.


also, download hitman, part 1 of 58.rar

>>724740836
{S con/con

>>724740237
What, why?

>>724740375
>>724740354
I guess, but in todays world I'm not sure any amount of old anons can make it like it used to be. Its all gone to shit, even in the last 10 years things have gotten measurably worse with the world as a whole. I don't think /b/ will ever be the way it was unless the world as a whole becomes a more positive place.

>>724740585
this. I'm here for you /b/rother.

One day the current wave of trap posting, alt-right fuckwits will move on, and I will still be here.

>>724740568
Yup. Everyone who says things you disagree with are trolls. That's not exactly the mentality that got us here in the first place.

>>724740659
kek

>>724740836

>setting up AOL so you didnt have to type in your password anymore

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You need an INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER. They'll even give you FREE DISKS to install it.

MAJONG.exe

1001 and one games! CD ROM

INSERT NEXT DISK TO PROCEED

HALF THE PORN PICTURE NEVER LOADS. FAP ANYWAY

70% of PORN ON KAZAA, SAME NAME

>>724740073
Would you take up arms in meatspace? I doubt that very much. And if only it were star trek future; they had all the freedoms there. No, this will be a brave new world.

We build our own traps, and then back into them, exclaiming "Who did this? Oh woe is me."

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Our son Peter is ALWAYS online!

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prodigy
bbs

>>724740364
fgsfdgs.

>>724738148
Me bro. Fucking annoying before we got the two lines.

There's NO WAY I already used my free 20 hours on AOL. I have to PAY for this from now on? How much per minute?

>>724740375
You and your positivity can go suck the dicks of authority elsewhere. Here we bemoan and rabble rouse and SCREAM BLOODY MURDER. This is not a place for positivity. Never has been, faggot.

>>724729742

What you forget is that in "the good old days" you were the insufferable cancer.

>>724730655
What years was cracky chan active? I remember her but can't remember the exact year.

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>>724741235
>1001 and one games! CD ROM

That's how I discovered DOOM and the joys of FPS's.

How about using a NewsRover like program for d/l'ing porn from the alt.binaries.whatever newsgroups? Letting it run overnight so you didn't tie up the phone lines, then having to sort through tens of thousands of files to find a few nuggets of low quality porn...

>>724741604
Gonna say.... 2006?

>>724741052
this

>>724741084
just say lol or something newfag

>>724741293
i would fight for my freedom IRL if anyone else appeared to give enough of a fuck about what the government and corporations are doing to the internet. its supposed to be a repository of a vast amount of human knowledge but what we can look at is being more and more restricted. They want to make us pay for subscriptions to access certain sites and shit, its insane.

>>724735949
lol.. this faggot

>>724741661
sounds about right. some time either side of habbo and stuff

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the exploding whale with dynamite was literally the first rekt vid I ever saw. It was my first and I will never forget it. Sure, the quality was shit, but it was edgy and revolutionary for its time. I was maybe 13 or 14 at the time.

>>724741729
>hey gov't fite me IRL 4 my freedom fgt . do it u wont

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You're surfin on the internet!

>>724741729
I am here. Pick up your weapons and build your bombs. Sadly, we must remove electricity to certain key areas, making it so that certain key spots can be eliminated. Read Fight Club?

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>>724740585
No not rip. There are people here now that will see this as the good old days and people here then that saw it as not as good as it used to be. Illusions are everywhere, friendo

>>724741607
Usenet was the shit. If I had all the hours back I spent on there... I would be like 12.

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>>724741952
I became a registered sex offender in the early 2000s. All thanks to the internet!

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>>724741871

on the topic of nostalgic rekt..... do you or anyone else remember the website "goregasm"? i saw more rekt there than all the years of /b/ and liveleak thus far combined.

i still have nightmares of shit i saw there as a kid. and some nocturnal emissions as well.

>>724729742
i remember this dopey looking book

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I used NetZero for a very long time. I was a poor fag and my parents didn't understand WTF was the deal with the "internets". they got me the computer, because that's all that was need it. An extra bill was a huge No No.

Maybe the old /b/ would return if only we did things for the lulz again. That was all that made 4chan what it was. raids these days are just twitch spam or some stupid shit. Its not like things like habbo and scientology don't exist in todays world. We have more of that shit than ever before. We just need to start doing shit for our own amusement again.

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I remember operation scientology was the turning point of cancer and white knights breaking rules 1 & 2 and letting all the victims of various raids in.

Back when I first started coming here this was the internet hate machine
Does anyone remember Richard Sickler?

Op is a cool guy and doesn't afraid of anything.

Boxxy was always cancer

Gore and traps started getting spammed alot more when the cancer got worse as this was chemo.

Pools closed

Christopher poole

>>724729742
the government and your isp are monitoring your online activity http://www.ipanon.com

Bring back the lulz!

Its not like there aren't opportunities for raids anymore!

Anyone wanna see my homepage at Geocities?

>>724742305
Shit. I got my first "job" to pay for the phone bill to surf the web. Parents thought I was a 12 year old doing janitorial work for a convenience store/strip mall complex. My boss was really sending me out of state on a train to pick up luggage full of untaxed cigarettes and bring them back up.

All i could think of traveling the train the middle of the night was getting back ONLINE

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>>724742756

I still remember installing a US Robotics Sportster 56k modem in my Gateway 2000 386/DX desktop. Friends came over to use it because it was easily the fastest rig they'd ever seen.

I used FunnyJunk a lot in 2006-2009 and I think it was connected to the rest of the internet enough to say that I experienced the culture of the time
then in 2009 I found 4chan and stopped using FunnyJunk which had gotten pretty stale by that point anyway. FJ used to feel so fresh and relevant, it's sad how things and people change

>>724742790

Fucking shit! You worked for the mob at 12 years old! Lucky bastard.

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I've been online since the bbs days. I still like it just as much if not more 2bh family. Thats also a problem. There was a life before personal computers. I would like to go back there again someday

i remember using both AltaVista and Google for searching...

>>724741032
i mean fuck /b/ and fuck anons in this context. the systems we need to build to fix this mess are far more reaching than that.

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LOL, downloading shitty pop songs from Napster and burning them to CD's to sell for $3 bucks made a hacker back in those days. I grew up in a poorfag blue collar community and hardly anyone had a computer at home.

▲
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>>724730655
Ewwww, with those poorly drawn eye brows and shaggy teeth no thanks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssgm5rUpgUs

>>724743399
WHO TOOK THE BOMP

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Hey guys im a 12 year old girl, how are you all doing today?

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I miss the old AOL chat room days. Car Chat was my favorite. A bunch of motor heads getting together to talk about anything...and occasionally, our cars. People would pop in and demand free help for their cars and we'd send them to Napa for vacuum recharge kits, give them instructions that would burn out their cars computer, tell them to test their air bags with a battery, tear up their carpet to find the "fuel reset switch"... ahhh, heady times.

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>>724742520
hey, mind telling me what this thing with tmp_ filenames is that ive been seeing?
is this some kind of add-on to save images from cache that you people are too lazy to rename, or what?

November 17, 1992. MLB holds its expansion draft to create the Colorado Rockies and the Florida Marlins. I had a TV ran into my families computer room so I could keep track of it all on CNN, while updating people and talking about it all in an AOL chatroom. Had good old pencil and paper charts to track who the teams were drafting at what positions and such. The f'ing Marlins drafted one of my favorite Royals prospects, Jeff Conine, early on. He went on to be become Mr. Marlin, dammit.

People from all around the country, in one chat room, talking about the same thing while watching it happen live on TV. Fucking blew my mind back then. Technology.....wow.

>>724743399
LE GOOSEBUMPS UPVOTE THIS ANON TO KARMA HEAVEN

>>724743626
prove it. Post your worst pepe

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You ain't a real mf unless you got down on some shadowbane and toontown

>>724743864

Fuck, meant ESPN, not CNN, of course.

>>724742603
>http://www.ipanon.com
>shilling 4 hidemyass
>known for complying with federal investigations, handing over data
its not easy to find a VPN you can trust.

Having to use AIM to hit up bitches


Cringe

>>724744061
Wanna cyber?

>>724743899
are you under 21? toontown wasnt even a thing until i was old enough to remember it was a thing..

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>>724743629

>>724739998
It's a trap!

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>>724745321

>>724745524
cyber?

Back in the olden days, Newgrounds was where it was at...came here eventually and had fun with the raids. back when the raids were a thing. habbo hotel and the tom green show were tops.

But now newfags and normies are in here shitting it up and calling everyone else normies....probably the same faggots who destroyed the convention scene and killed the whole /a/ culture, both here and irl...

I was 12 in 2003 and took over the internet.

>>724745658
YOU'VE got MAIL!

Its about time we had a good old fashioned raid. There aren't exactly a lack of targets these days either. Everything has to be about fucking politics or fucking with feminazis these days. What happened to raiding because it was fucking funny? I'm just itching do dust of the old LOIC

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thanks for the thread OP, i'm out

nice to know there's a couple of ancient fags still here who have no idea what to do with themselves

>>724745781
Fucking this. 4Chan has been lulz deficient for years now, there's no wonder things have gone to shit.

>>724745997
I just make YouTube content now, calling people Cunts. Good money, mate.

>>724745781
Newgrounds... "Go outside or the sun will fucking RAPE YOUR SHIT!!!!!!

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>>724745997
Hey man, we'll still be here as long as you are. There's nowhere else for us, after all.

>>724746172

Hey dude
want to skip school today and play pico on newgrounds

>>724746472
naw, I'm playing Mafia Wars on AOL.

>>724746172

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XjbaN_LgEM

>>724746572
gayy bet u can't even ollie

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Remember when Sierra On-Line was the greatest game company in existence?

Check the requirement specs for this bad boy. And free Prodigy too!

>>724746717
fuk u I got WaReZ thatll fuk ur shitz

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>>724735338
>We miss Cockmongler and Happy Negro

>>724746821
I remember Scott Adams text adventure games.Fuck, I remember Zork.

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>>724731050
Lol get a load of this faggot. He was surfing the web at the age of 5 going on 6, when computers were *rare*. Fuck you can talk some shit, mate

SPINZAKU!!

>>724746965
Don't see any mention of computers being 'rare'

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>>724736407
HAI GUISE HOW ARE THINGS AT 4CHAN THESE DAYS?

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>>724746917

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>>724746790

STOP ONE SECOND
this made me think.

when the FUCK was the last time you heard another anon call a cumdumpster a cumdumpster? other than right now? when did we stop? please tell me someone remembers females were always called that

>>724730314
You're 25. You were in kindergarten in the early days of the Internet as we oldfags remember it, nice try though.

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a/s/l?

i like NiN RATM and Tori Amos

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>>724747061

>>724745997
This picture always makes me think of Chrono Trigger...

Yeah, I was an insufferable little 12 year old cunt.

2002 internet was best internet.

>>724747179
Not always, but yeah that used to be a popular term. Tbh, I have not seen that in uh, idk, a long time....

>>724747475
WTF IS THAT LOSER, POST KRACK SCREEN

>>724747179
The rooty toots ruined it.

>>724747179
Yep, those were the days. I don't really recall any mention of females that didn't involve the word cumdumpster. It probably stopped when the wave of faggots came. Then people either wanted to destroy them or call them godesses, or both.

>>724747535
2006-8 was the peak though

>>724747601
penis

>>724738737

Hi you're on the air!

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>>724747583
noob, Taipan was never protected.

>>724729742
Don't make me cry please I don't wanna feel

>>724738737
There's nothing stopping the return of the lulz. It might even fix 4chan.

>>724747844
Oh shit didn't know that. Still calling your mom though

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>>724729742
Your tiny ass 10KB picture would have taken 6-10sec to fully load when I first got on the internet.

We have come a long way. The internet back in the 2000s was rad. It's shit today.

>>724748066

I know. Only kids don't remember dialup

>>724748066
I miss the dial up days of the 90s. We were explorers in a new world.

>>724747954
I you feel there's hope we'll make a return to form.

>>724729742
/b/ was never good, faggot

Idk , the chans and the web has changed in the past 10 years or so. I agree a lot of the change seems shitter to me. Tech has improved though. There is more potential out there. It's not that the web has gone to shit, the user base has gone to shit.

I still am optimistic about the future. We have learned a lot, we can build something better if we choose to.

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inb4 404

>>724748227
That's just what people who don't remember say. Morally it wasn't good, but then it wasn't bad. That was the whole point.

>>724735759

newfag piece of shit detected

>>724748155
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0

I was using dial up for way longer than I should have, because my parents were cheapskates.

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

Lets walk down memory lane.

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>>724748155

for some reason, that post hit home.

>>724748317
I remember my balls rubbing your mothers labia raw

>>724748231
We have already tried many times. Any other imageboard ends up dead.

>>724748151
>>724748155
Did you ever pile blankets and shit on the computer to muffle the sound at night. I would sneak on late at night to play Diablo 2

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>>724748231
Son of a fuck.... what are the odds of the last 7 digits of my post being my fucking cell number?

>>724748445
What about lui links? It didn't die it just vanished

>>724733711
>The thing that shocked me most since then is social media.
>We were always told never ever put anything of yours on the internet, now your a wierdo if you dont.

So much this.

>>724730007
Good times. Typing out html. Used an angelfire account for a while where I was hosting midi's

>>724748586
I didn't get internet until I was on my own. I'd leave Limewire or Kazaa on all night and when I was at work downloading South Park episodes and music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg8GzsItSA8&list=PL31H2Mw-YyX4cTrE7Zk5NQKeRMugznICF&index=2

>>724748851
<3

>>724748774
Vanished=dead

Every other imageboard is dead or dying. Killed by the new wave of faggots and lack of lulz

>>724737488
20 years too late

>>724749003
Do you think this trend will continue?
Excited or sad for the future?

>>724748368
I remember when moot spammed that fucking song. That was the best meal of tears until last November lul.

>>724749003
Eh they didn't close up they just stepped sideways

>>724749262
Sad. 2007ish /b/ is very unlikely to return and social outcasts have nowhere to go. People forgot about the lulz and corporate shills and 12 year olds ruined memes.

>>724739998
Nostalgia af

WTF https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C77sa7AD4WI

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P?

>>724749612
U

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>>724736832

>proof?

>times were simpler
>CD players, Computers and the Internet brought wonderment
>the World was still halfway decent
>black lives didn't matter

we fucked it all up guys

>>724749640
Uddy

>>724749665
not OP, but if you go to infinity and search around for a min, you can find a link to the cointel pro pdf. good read check it out learn about misinformation and forum sliding and the such

>>724749519
Yeah bit change is part of life. Nothing stays the same. I took what I experienced from that time and brought it out into the world.
I have a phone number list up in my office, one of the numbers listed is for "cyber security police" the contact name is Officer Snacks, WT.
No one has ever called me out in it or questioned it. But I have gotten dirty looks from a couple people which makes me think they called the number lul.

>>724749485
Sideways into nothingness? There is like one post a month now on other boards and imageboard culture is pretty much done. People forgot how to have fun and ridiculous morals, corporations, and authority killed the /b/tard way of life.

>>724749857
puddi puddi puddi puddi puddi puddi puddi puddi puddi puddi puddi puddi puddi puddi puddi puddi puddi puddi puddi puddi puddi puddi puddi puddi puddi puddi puddi puddi puddi puddi puddi puddi

>>724749942
Things have changed but /b/ should never be a way of life, it should be part of your life

>>724749934
Change is a part of life, yes, but /b/ isn't real life. And normally things change for the better, which /b/ did not. The internets days are numbered, at least as we know it.

>>724749519
It's always when something majorly new happens that the outcasts will be the pioneers of that new field. I don't know but I hope with the new technological advances we can get a new golden era.

>>724750263
Maybe, but with the internet and law getting more and more restricted it seems unlikely that anything new could be as fun as what used to be.

>>724750187
Things don't always change.for the better. Still, I believe as long as there is life, there is hope.
Not in the inspiring uplifting overcoming difficult challenges kind of way.
More of a We can invite them.to lunch and have them all shot so we can get back to having fun kind-of way

>>724750413
Take it from a biologically old oldfag, it's always been like that for the last 30 years. Same old story. Shit changes, but also for the better a lot of the time. Learn to grow up

Think of the hyper realistic VR porn thats coming

>>724750437
One day they might just all fuck off to a different site. Right now there are still kids coming here because they think it makes them a cool hacker. Nothing last forever though, especially websites. The oldfags will probably still be here when they leave and then there might be hope for the return of the lulz

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>>724750157
GIGAPUDDI
This gif,

>>724750413
I fear you may be right. Hope dies last though

>>724750726
What do you think about nieche / private communites? Could they be the solution?

Rip bread had fun crying

Can we please have these kinds of threads more often? This thread really took me back

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>>724740836
>yfw you finally get into a room that took you 20 minutes of nonstop attempts

>>724751210
Maybe, some people in this thread alone said they manage to keep the spirit alive that way. Me though, I feel like its not the same as old /b/ unless there are a decent number or active users. Niche communities might just be the next best thing though. The essence of /b/ and pretty much imageboards in general used to be lulz above all else. There was no real morality or politics involved, people just wanted a laugh. It'd be hard for a smaller community to raid corporations/sites/whatever but if they can keep that feeling alive then true /b/tards will still be around.

>>724751872
this thread was beatiful