10 Years Ago

can someone give me an invite to gmail?
I can get you in demonoid in exchange

>>56234173

There is no chrome and phones are nicer

only college students can access facebook

Kazaa and eMule are used by lots of normies to download anything.

>>56234211
>and phones are nicer
I like it that japan and korea are 5 years ahead of my tech, too

I would have been playing Runescape and instant messaging my crush on AIM

>>56234341
wow just realized 20 years ago I was still using ICQ and slowly transitioning to AIM

>>56234173
>"Intelligent" "deep" content

Get over yourself

>>56234358
I still use ICQ.

>>56234173
I got an invite to Google+ before it went public. It kinda died soon after that.

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>>56234173
Do you think Kevin Rose ever considered suicide?

Ten years ago Digg was a massive website that was extremely overvalued. This guy basically invented Reddit.

He could have cashed out like Tom from MySpace, but instead he rode the website into the ground and completely transformed it.

It ended up getting sold for a measly $500,000 back in 2012.

>inb4 $60 million in 18 months
Kevin has gone on record saying that whole article was mostly bullshit

>>56234498
The Business Week article was based on the estimated value of Digg in 2006. In 2008 the website was worth around $200 million. It was actually bigger than Reddit up until around mid-2010.

>$500,000

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>>56234498

I always thought Kevin was pretty cool. I know he has the reputation of being a slacker, but at least he's not a sperg like 99% if the silicon valley elite.

Since he's working at google, I wonder if he and moot ever talk about old times?

>>56234173
WTF happened to Kevin Rose? I used to watch him on tech tv. Now he's totally off the radar.

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>>56234358
>transitioning
2016
this term now refers to getting your balls cut off

moot is still a fag

>>56234173
>Digg is Reddit
>Reddit is tiny with an inferiority complex (and full of stupid faggots karmawhoring)
>There is no iOS
>There is no Android
>Gmail is two years old

>>56234498
>Do you think Kevin Rose ever considered suicide?
He's still a multimillionaire with a hot, scientist wife.

>>56234818
Ya that's true, he still ended up being very successful.

It's not like he's Pete Best or anything.

>MS03-026 and MS03-039 still infect 1/2 XP machines online
>msf was not used by every skiddy known to man
>still compiling own exploits
>all my backdoors, botnets everywhere

>>56234839
>It's not like he's Pete Best or anything.
More like Pete Second-Best, right?

>>56234498
>Robert posting on /g/

Not sure how I feel about this

>>56234839
> still not Leo Laporte

digg used to be pretty good, the only people who used reddit were weirdos

then digg changes their whole fucking website and ruined everything

>>56234891
>> still not Leo Laporte

Is there any new Leo drama?

>>56234173
>buying a smartphone to use the web and IRC anywhere
>normies still use IRC
>normies still use news groups
>Google pays whopping 1.65 billion for some video blog site called YouTube
>RSS feeds and Google Reader are the future of web
>having to learn programming without referencing StackOverflow

>>56234929
Totaldrama.net

Latest is he's moved twit headquarters out of Petaluma to some suburban office park
Dvorak is banned
He showed his dick a year or so ago
He showed his wife's pussy on his moto360 a while ago
That's about it. Must be fun to be his kids.

>>56234578
I met Kevin twice, he seemed really cool in person. I approached him at the Revision3 launch party, explained i was a huge Digg/Diggnation fan who road tripped there, he bullshitted with me one on one about his vision of the future of social media and virtual reality. He was big into the Snowcrash style metaverse. Really welcoming friendly person.
I also met Alex Albrecht and he was not as cool, but whatever who am I to bother them

>>56234990
>>having to learn programming without referencing StackOverflow

Remember ExpertsExchange?

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did reddit seal its voting system from bash.org?

YouTube is still full of music videos, the quality is horrid and length is limited to 10 minutes and we're all wondering how they are going to survive without being sued to death by record labels.

>>56234173
4chan was still shit

>>56235061
I remember being able to watch entire anime series legally uploaded on youtube. The copyright enforcement was pretty tame back then.

>>56235061
i'd rather have that than the ad filled piece of shit we have now that requires ad blockers

>>56235028
I didn't know about it. Maybe it required registration or didn't show up on google?

Reading a book and asking on IRC was what I did back then.

>>56235080
>Legally

Nah bruh
But there still are quite a few up there. Easier to use kissanime or whatever now though

I am going to become e-famous by getting 1st place on newgrounds

what is youtube.... oh... huh that's kind of cool i guess

anyways yeah newgrounds

>>56235039
arf arf arf

>>56235095
it was this site where people could ask questions, but you had to pay to read the answers. However, they programmed their site to show the google crawler all answers so they were indexed.

This resulted in people getting really pissed because answers to their questions showed up in google search results, but they were unable to read the answers for free. Google eventually banned the entire domain for this practice.

All the hottest memes still come from ytmnd, and the first thing you downloaded off limewire I was limewire pro. I remember when edonkey or emule or whatever became a big thing and tormenting I was still super new.

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>>56235016
>met Alex Albrecht and he was not as cool
Guessing you didn't have any Curly Fries or Dill Pickle flavoured Potato Chips.

>>56235088
I don't really remember ads on YouTube at all because I was using an adblocker back in 2006.

>>56235145
>the first thing you downloaded off limewire I was limewire pro
kek
it was a different time, an easy time

>Bebo profile pages auto playing videos

>>56235245
Remember multi-part RAR files? That's one thing I'm very glad we've left behind, especially when all the parts were uploaded on RapidShare and part 15/17 had been taken down.

>>56235274
Try downloading Original Xbox games.

I can confirm that RapidShare hell still exists.

>>56235274
usenet still does that

Schools were still running Windows XP on their computers and Windows XP was less secure than Windows 7.

I miss Windows XP simply for the lulz that I was able to accomplish.

>>56235274
Fuuuck! That was horrible!
Hell, sometimes the file had mirrors and you could download some parts on rapid and others on megaupload. But that shit was so rare.

>>56234204
>tfw used to sell gmail invites for $5 a pop at highschool

>Dude come check out this funny site on ytmnd

>>56235308
>printscreen
>paste in paint
>save
>set as background
>delete all icons
>omg teacher the computer is broken!

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>Digg
In 2006 I was still in college and I had already wasted a year of my life on this website. Pic related is the first SFW pic I've saved from here.

>>56235475
No, no. I'm talking about fucking with direct-play by inserting code into the debug file and that would cause the screen to go into seizure mode.

I'm talking about being able to write a batch script and literally removing the passwords off the administrator accounts.

I'm talking about being able to delete system32 on an unprivileged account.

The ITs blocked the command prompt but IT couldn't do anything about batch files because IT was ignorant as to what batch files were.

>>56235642
oh


cool

I was a cringeworhy 7 year old xD

I didn't have a life in 2006 and I still don't have a life ten years later.

>>56235676
> 7 + 10 = 17
> U n d e r a g e
MODS

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>>56235679

*sigh* this

2006 pic related

>>56235261
Oh shit i remember that annoying "feature"

>>56235061
>we're all wondering how they are going to survive without being sued to death by record labels
How did they survive?

>>56237628
Record labels got their own channels and realized hosting their own content on Youtube was far more profitable than suing Youtube into the ground.

>>56234498
I'm such a jew that I'd probably cash out at the $1 million, bank 95% of it and live the NEET life off the interest

>>56234173
I was just entering high school. Got my first Samsung flip phone. The few friends I had wondered why I wasn't on Myspace. I didn't see much point in it. Just four years later I would discover 4chan and it would consume my life, not that I ever had that much of a social life.

>>56234173
>os x was the only good os
>os x can't get viruses from the web
Now it's only partially true considering how linux matured up and windows finally has a compositing window manager & os x became popular enough for viruses

and remember when safari was good & the only webkit using browser? Even had a windows version.

>>56234691
the world is a really shitty place to live on, in 2016

>piling up coins from lunch money to buy cds every weeks end

Im sad now

>>56234173

>gets offered $70 million (so he says) for digg
>Declines it
>Proceeds to run website into the ground

Seeing him makes me nostalgic for diggnation though.

I want replace Windows XP with Linux. Wich distro?

>>56239401
You should try the Ubuntu 6.06 LTS. It is targeted to new Linux users and they've put extra effort into making it easy to install and use. It even has a graphical install mode. It is pretty similar to Debian and actually uses Debian packages but they've also included proprietary drivers and tools in their repositories.

Be warned there is some setting up with flash if you need it and you have to migrate to open source applications or fuck around with wine if you depend on some windows only software. Those IE6 exclusive sites might be a problem too if you need to use corporate intranets.

If you have ATI card you should stay away though or join the green team. ATI drivers are a clusterfuck and require fucking around with the Xorg.conf a lot unless you have the one magical model that happens to work.

>>56239401
simplymepis

Anyone wanna meet me on habbo hotel?

>>>/b/ was full of original memes like pedobear, rickroll and pool is closed

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this guy was the original linus - an annoying as fuck tech manlet

>>56234173
The "meme" word was mainly used around here

>>56239161
Was it like reddit today? What was so great about it?

>>56234173
>omg guiz did you see the teaser at Otakon?!
>SNACKS IS BACK

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>>56234173
>"reddit is tiny and has an inferiority complex"
Sounds like how 4chan was, is and will always be.

>>56235016
Didn't know about his wife, kek. thanks anon I lold

>>56234578
>Since he's working at google, I wonder if he and moot ever talk about old times?

Wait, moot is working at google?

>>56240974
>Wait, moot is working at google?

where the fuck have you been?

>>56234173
>tfw I was invited to gmail in 2005
those were the days, with the counter showing how much storage I had in my account always growing.

DC++ was actually really nice for downloading things, not sure if it's still a thing.

flash everywhere.

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>>56241320
>get blazing cable connection to replace modem
>on a good day 4Mbit/512Kbit speeds
>expensive but considered good on local standard
>DC++ Sweden hub
>10/10, 100/100 BBB and Bonet users plentiful
>get kicked for being too slow
Fuck those fucking Swedes right in their superior fucking IT infrastructure. FUCK!

>>56242101
my current connection isn't much better than that
hell, can't even get cable

>>56234173
>most of tumblr's userbase were still embryos in their mother's womb

>>56234211
How do i generate secure tripcodes?

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Remember when you could stream and download anime in quality no different from the releases available on boxtorrents and through XDCC at high speed?

>>56234173

>reddit
>full of actual intelligent deep conten

Bahaha, (you)'ve earned it.

>>56243007
no, because i was still using dialup in 2006
(so i waited patiently on 35M rmvb releases instead)

>>56243385
Fortunately, I was off dialup before then. You could download the entire DBZ uncut remastered release at ~230M each in a few hours.

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>>56243029

From the front page of Reddit - Feb 2007

https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/15svm/onions_why_cook_them_until_theyre_translucent/

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Radio, on the internet
your own name .com - just because

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Slicing your every image in your website into smaller segment blocks to ease download time

Every company had a website for every product ... for no reason. Any orphan sites out there from the 90s? Hot Pockets dotcom?

Every website had an Intro page or opening animation. Also, having to turn off the audio multiple times on every website.

Your phone, tv cable and internet were completely different worlds.

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>>56243762
>smaller segment blocks to ease download time

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>15 years ago

>Epic AOL Pranks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTapP1yylY8

>tried to install debian on my hp compaq laptop
>it doesn't support the sata controller
>found ISO with newer kernel
>doesn't support ACPI well, so the fan won't turn on or if it's on it wont turn off

Those were the dark ages. I'm glad modern loonix fully supports my laptop, so that old beast can be still of use.

>>56243762
Pages with flash elements absolutely everywhere
Flash in general
Shockwave was still a thing, but clearly becoming less popular
Macromedia was just bought out

Chuck Norris once hit a horse with an uppercut. That horse was the first giraffe.

>>56244888
that was like 5 years ago, mr. wasted trips.

>>56244930
I distinctly remember Chuck Norris being a cool meme when I was a freshman in college in 2005.

Discovering YouTube as a 10 year old
Project Gotham Racing 3 videos
RuneScape
Happy Tree Friends

Slow ass Acer TravelMate which my dad bought me after selling my small sailing boat.

The Web was still good back then.

Content was still the king. Most of the time.
No "modern" flat crap.
No likes, no Facebook crap.
No popovers that demand you to hunt the tiny X button if you make the mistake of letting JavaScript to run.
No dozens of trackers on every damn page.
No dozens of external fonts, images, CSS, etc. on every damn page. You actually could browse the web on a 2 MB ADSL connection perfectly fine. These days, I feel a 100 MB connection is sluggish and that's after removing most of the junk from the pages.

And web browser UIs were still good. Chrome didn't exist yet and it hadn't infected everything with the "dumb my UI down" virus.

Give me a time machine. I want to go back.

>>56234173
world of warcraft is an enjoyable experience on my athlon x2 2600+ with 2gb ram and radeon x1950 pro with 256 mb of vram at 1280*1024

>>56245518
>No likes, no Facebook crap.
I distinctly remember having a Facebook account in 2005, and for several years before that there was Myspace

>>56239401
Use mandriva...duh.

>>56245586
MySpace was awesome...every page was unique and interesting (though often garish or overdone). And I found so much music there. No always connected Bullshit like facebook...check it once or twice a day and you're done...or not at all.

I still maintain a MySpace account just in case people come to their senses again...I despise facebook so much.

>>56235039
wtf this website has so much reddit-tier cringe

>Curt teh Juggler: our graduation ceremony was today, and right when some gamer nerd got his diploma, someone in the audience played the zelda "get item" music and he did the zelda spin-hold-out-item stance
>Curt teh Juggler: it was quite possibly the most amazing thing ever.

/b/ was my home. Also IRC. The second part still stands.

>>56245756
>The nerd's name? Albert Einstein.

>>56245756
anon is just discovering bash.org

how cute

I remember when downloading a 30mb video clip took about 30-45 minutes and that was on cable internet. Fapping was a whole different game back then. Now I can have 40 tabs of ultra HD streaming porn open all fully loaded in seconds

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>>56245847
you don't even know the pain of dialup

kys

In 2006 I still used xdcc to download movies. I got into private torrent trackers in 2007.

>>56240974
Who?

I used to watch their podcast where they drink beer and shoot the shit about tech stuff

>>56234204
Nope sorry go fuck yourself. Cool people only

>>56246144

40s of shitty malt liquor consumed by a millionaire

>>56245518
Now websites embed an auto starting mp4 and download enough JavaScript to surpass DOOM's filesize

>>56234361
Do those words really trigger you that much?

I hate 2006, it's before trump came to save america from liberal cuckolds.

>>56246079
I do actually we had dialup in 99 when I was 8

>>56235274
>downloading Emperor: Battle for Dune because fuck yeah dune games
>it's in 24 rar files
>butthole clenches each time I start a new download

All the parts were there, game worked perfectly. I felt like god.

Selling demonoid invites

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I was playing WoW in 2006.
I also finished high school and got into university.
When I moved to a new house for uni, it took 1 month for me to get ADSL. That was a nightmare.
I also finally removed my braces after like 8 years of fixing up my shitty teeth.
I don't remember much else.

What a waste of an 18 year old.

Shitty prodigy and CompuServe disks everywhere

Amd btfo Intel with 64 bit

Having to heave three thousand pound CRT monitors around to tilt the screen

Police quest

Test drive in all green on a 486

>>56235078
>4chan was still shit
and it's changed like how in that time?

I just got the Wii! Anyone wanna come over and play?

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>>56246499

wanna cyber?

>>56239555
>If you have ATI card you should stay away though or join the green team. ATI drivers are a clusterfuck and require fucking around with the Xorg.conf a lot unless you have the one magical model that happens to work.
so not much changes in the ubuntu corner then...

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>>56239757

>>56246306
That's what #incomplete was for. When you got a pack with a fucking missing rar you could replace it.

>>56242101
BBB had shit routing to my isp. Only faggots affilied BBB sites so I wasn't on them much but when I did check them I was getting like 15k/s. Was all about the Korean sites that shit was no joke. You could pre something on just one of those and it would be spread fucking everywhere in no time at all.

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>>56234204
Is current demonoid a honeypot?

>>56247324
Probably not but it is and always was a pleb tracker.

>>56244888
Man, these jokes will never get old.

>>56243007
you still can

>>56246561
It's getting better as AMD has abandoned Catalyst/fglrx on Linux and has a new open source + closed source additions driver. It could perform better but at least it works for the new hardware while the old open source driver supports older hardware. Those having GCN 1.0 cards are fucked though at the moment.

>>56246519
a/s/l ?

>>56235274
>90s
>1.44MiB .arjs

>>56243829
GetRight was the best. It even had the browser plugin where you could select text and it would download all the linked files in the selection. You know, if you wanted to download a gallery of pictures for example.

>>56248012
Downthemall does that now. I find it very useful for downloading multi part rars from my seedbox.

>>56235274
>multi part RAR
I-I still do that...

I remember back then it took 20 to 30 minutes or so to download a 100MB part, now it takes like 8 seconds

what a time to be alive

Hey guys i just made a myspace, am i cool yet?

>>56235028
I always read that URL wrong. 14-year-old me thought it was the funniest thing ever.

>>56235039
I think it was from Slashdot.

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Maybe it was just my perspective at the time, but I thought Reddit was actually really good when it first started.

However, by being good, it attracted a lot of people that completely obliterated what old Reddit was actually like.

>>56243385
>no, because i was still using dialup in 2006

Holy shit me too and I wasn't allowed to ever get on it either because my Mom was wicked paranoid about everything, "OH MY GOD ANON WHAT IF SOMEBODY CALLS AND IT'S IMPORTANT AND THEY CAN'T GET THROUGH!!!".

>>56245262
Yeah, that and dead baby jokes

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>>56234173
>the internet will never be good again like it was in 2006
Fuck, I'm feeling nostalgic for how good it used to be. Now I just sit around here reminiscing about how good 4chan and the internet used to be before the cancer. Pic related is from my image folder, converted to a PNG because you can't post BMP images on 4chan, I saved it in May of 2006.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGBM5vWiBLo

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>>56234173
young-fag here(21)
>remember dad leaving the computer on over a few days to download movies
>remember that new site Youtube with the videos
>remember playing Runescape and flash games
I miss those times anons. Anyone who can take me back?

Any old fags who were on 4chan in 2006? Was it any less shit than it is today? What was it like before the memers won the war?

>>56249029
how about a .50cal aspirin?
>>56249063
it has always been a shitty place, boi

>>56249063
Memes have been a thing on the internet almost since the beginning. Dancing hamsters was one of the earliest memes.

>>56249063
We were all memers back then. If you could go back and read it you would cringe. It was way more fun though. Everyone here now hates themselves in addition to everyone else. Back then it was about fitting into the group, the hivemind.

>>56249123
>how about a .50cal aspirin?
Probably the only chance desu, but as Madoka said it's never wrong to hope.

>>56234173
Actually there is ios aka Cisco Unix steal

2006, I was still going to nsider forums while they were quickly dying. a couple other forums and digg. also was playing with ubungu already on my shitty laptop.

also was already lurking this shit site too. and while on topic, where did all the oldfags go?

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>>56249063
I think it was pretty shitty back then, but at least memes weren't in.

>>56249158
>madoka
out with your nu-male godess
Haruhi may be dead but she is still the oldfag godess

>>56249233
What are you talking about? There was lots of stuff like happy negro, cockmongler, desu desu desu, etc

>>56249241
I haven't even watched Haruhi, senpai. But I heard she was interested in a guy, which makes her a S L U T and not a pure yuri goddess.

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>>56249063
people used to unironically spam text reaction images

it was as cringey as today but less ironic

>>56235078
Stop pretending. You weren't even born in 2006.

>>56249233
>implying there were no memes in 2006
Pedobear has been around since what 2003 or maybe earlier?
Memes have always been on 4chan.

Source: got my first 4chan account in 2006

>>56237743
$1M is not enough to live off index funds

>>56249482
especially in silicon valley

>>56249063
The more things change, the more they stay the same.

>>56249482
It is if you don't live a wasteful lifestyle.

>>56249467
yeah but 4chan didn't use the "meme" as a catch all adjective back then.

>>56235547
man, that pic has 2006 resolution indeed.

>>56249482
>$1M is not enough to live off index funds
Assuming 5% return (property averages 15%) $1Million will get you $1000 a week. Maybe more if you buy an annuity. Also depends on how much risk you are comfortable with.
For instance, the GFC took half my pension fund. Not even close to getting the balance back to where it was.

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>>56249063

>>56239898
but his monitors were so big!

>>56245847
stfu youngin. i remeber dialing into BBS's on a 9.6 kbps modem and searching text only directories for nudie pics. I'd settle on 3 or 4 of them, and just let my PC sit for the next 10 hours downloading a whopping 500kb of files, just to see some shitty playboy scans.

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>>56242101
>mfw 2016 and paying 30 dollars for 2Mbit/512Kbit

>>56243456
I can't do that today, probably would take a week at least.

>>56249029
On the good days I didn't even have internet (could not afford it), I used to spend all day at the computer using the software that came in computer magazines (it was plenty)

And for movies, my uncle used to download them first in VCD format (cancer) and then DVDRip, and burn them all in CDs and later DVDs, then one day he decided to buy hard drives and store all there, and gave me literally hundreds of discs with movies, I never felt I didn't need internet as much as then.

>>56249063
We were all memers in 2006 and earlier. If you want to sort of experience old memes go to another site like leddit or something. It was a different time.

>>56250163
VCDs were cancer but SVCDs were alright. At first I watched them on my PC with PowerDVD then I finally got a Koss DVD player that supports them so I could burn them to CDs. I didn't quit with that until 2004 when I soft modded my xbox and I could play xvid movies with xbmc. Added benefit there was I could play porno wmvs I got with stolen passwords.

>>56250163
With the growing enforcement of IPR we're getting back closer to the days when people would have parties to trade some bytes.

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i used to go on the Twisted Metal Head On online chat on my psp and get people to cyber with me while in my bed under the covers.

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>>56243007
>you will never discover anime (aside from Pokemon/Yugioh/DBZ) by watching episodes on Youtube split into 3 parts to evade the 10 minute upload limit again

>>56250620
I am very glad I didn't get into it that way. Fansub IRC channels were the way to go.

>>56243762
>Every website had an Intro page or opening animation

Don't forget needing to "enter" them.

>>56244782
>want to play games on the Nick or Cartoon Network websites on my dad's computer
>he's on dial-up so I have to wait 10 minutes for Macromedia Shockwave to download

>>56245586
MySpace didn't infect the rest of the internet like modern social media, plus MySpace itself was much less homogenized for better or for worse.

I know that once a social media site reaches critical mass it will just keep growing because everyone's friends are on it, but I wonder how Facebook got there in the first place when it never did anything new.

>>56245847
>first internet fap [spoiler]didn't even know I was fapping[/spoiler] was a video of some girl stripping on webcam
>said video wasn't even porn, the joke was that (presumably) her mom walks in and dances with her before she catches on

My tastes are still remarkably tame by 4chan shitposter standards, but damn how innocent I was.

>>56234361
It actually was good back then. There is a reason the site got so popular mate.

Now it's fucked, not gonna be too long before it's exclusively middle aged housewives and dumb teenagers.

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>>56246230
>implying 2006 wasn't the last year before everything started to shit itself

Reminder that you will never ever be around for Haruhi S1 or the first Phoenix Wright ever again.

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>>56249843
>chachamaru get

Negima just fell off the face of the fucking Earth.

>>56250500
I did similar things but in the battle.net channel 'Sex' on a laptop.

Was hard to get into it though, 40 person cap and it was almost always full... aahh to be 12 again.

>>56250645
I was 14 when I started, I have no idea how much of a dumbass I was.

I sure as hell recall fansubs being a stronger (read: existing) force back then, now everyone just steals shit from CrunchyRoll. Which works for the most part, but it fucking sucks when you have something like Blue Jacket Lupin not getting picked up for months.

Captcha there were no street signs in that picture, just some grass and an upside-down laundry hamper.

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>>56249063
No, it was worse before it was self-aware, overall, but a time before meemees was calming and made even shitposts seem funnier.

Even shitposts.