January 2004- December 2009

>>136651543
we were still young and most of our lives hadn't ended up in the gutter quite yet

CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRLIE

I already served my country and went through my first semester of college during that time. It wasnt until my senior year until I noticed the pussification of the military and universities

>>136651660
100% accurate

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>>136651543
ah yes, those were the days. 2004 just graduated highschool, 2009 got married.

Back in 2004 I spent a significant amount of time masturbating to online porn, except back then free porn didnt stream full length videos in HD, no no. Back then you'd have to download these little 30 second mpegs previews and make do with that.

And a YouTube video would usually load like shit and you'd have to refresh the page to get it to load right.

And though I went to 4chan once or twice I didn't stay long enough to make any sense of it, and retreated back to ytmnd

and everyone hated ebaums world

and memes had nice borders around them

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>>136651660
oh god.

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>>136651543

That was before the liberal cultists got control and forced their sick faggot politics on little children. They aren't just gay wad trannys, they are also child molesters too. That's why they are trying to get them while they are young.

>>136651543

>youtube
>roblox
>MySpace
>Facebook wasn't popular yet
>Internet in general was great
>life was better (not for me since I got my ass shafted at 9 years old in 2006 with 5 deaths killing off my dad and grandpa 6 months after my mom and dad got married)

>>136651543
ignorance is bliss. the pieces were just being put in play and nobody but the very sharpest could make out the game plan through the fog

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>>136651543
JUST STICK A BANANA IN YOUR EEEEEEEEAAAARRR!
>>136652660
>roblox
Muh nigga

>>136651543
Because you were ignorant. During college these years were as intense as they are today. fist fights were breaking out at the college republican booth at my school every other week the entire election year. We had dirty hippies protesting the war by living in tents and shitting in the storm drains. It was intense.

The only difference was, liberals form that era didn't go after your job if they discovered you weren't liberal. They at least pretended to have discussions, but they were still arrogant smug pricks. I was studying engineering and having artists call me stupid.

During Bush they tried to go after conservatives. They called us racists, they called every republican a Nazi. Just look up "_____ is a Nazi/Hitler" and look up any politician from that time that was a republican.

This shit never changes my friends.

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most ppl didn't give a shit cause pop culture was still big, 2000, WTO Seattle and iraq war were the first time liberals chimped out like niggers hardcore there were huge protest marchs everywhere, but liberals weren't full retard like the ones today

>>136652963
I still play it since it helped me as a kid deal with my bullshit

Its like my stress relief now

>>136652660
Facebook was explosively popular. You could not have a social life in college without it. There used to be a host of social sites, facebook took them all by storm but it started inside of .edu emails.

Those were the glory days of Facebook. People had parties all the time and everyone was posting anything they wanted. Then as time went on some of us had parents or professors or coworkers joined. At first we made fun of people that added losers from outside the college scene. Then it got worse. As we started leaving the college scene Facebook didn't want to lose us so they opened it up to everyone.

Now the shit we hated the most, is most of what's on it today. Baby pictures, family, mothers and siblings that read everything. I basically stopped using it. It's just a platform for my boss to preach liberal bullshit from.

This is dan

>>136651543
Shit-Libs were raging against Bush.
They never change.

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4chan was being coded by early African Kang Tyrone Goldstein

>>136653883
bush was a neocon cocksucker

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>>136651543
>2004-2009
That was the cliff, after that was the fall we are in right now.

Crazy times back them. North Korea was threatening the U.S and everyone was freaking out. But we all moved passed it when we realized nothing was going to happen. Crazy times.

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>>136651543
Wow.. remember when "Emojis" were called "Emoticons"?

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>>136654705
I remember when they where typed in ASCII :)

>>136652660
>>136652963
>>136653612

Roblox use to be the shit. It was also how I got into politics, WWC forum

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>>136653674
>>136653324
>>136653261


no stop. I want to go back. I want to play Commander Keen and Reader Rabbit

>>136651543
We were young and there was a lot of optimism around Obama's presidency. Now we are old and jaded

>>136651543
It all ended in 2007

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>>136652579
don't act so surprised. its the fate you chose

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>>136651543
>(((((NEOCONS))))) with absolute power
>the SJW left rising at breakneck pace
>the destruction of white countries and institutions already in full swing
>comfy

kys underaged leaf cuck.

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>>136653612
>>136654786
I was literally in the Roblox Nazi Party
HAIL VAKTUS!

>>136655081
>Obama's presidency
Horseshit, this attitude was before him.

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>>136655076
The future is unfortunately now.

It was good times. Just browsing and shitposting on Playstation forums and playing video games with my friends. Just started highschool around then and that one girl that just messed your life up. 2007 was the last good year. Fuck

>>136651660
FP as always.

>>136655723
No I would say the 90s were pretty optimistic. Then there was 9/11 at the start of the 00s and then the crash at 08. Obama was seen as a new start by many

>>136655225
This. Even Lego started to suck in 2008

>>136652518
>>136651543 (OP)
>and memes had nice borders around them

Those were demotivationals, a type of meme but not memes in and of.
The rest is definitely accurate though.

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Because you were young. You were innocent. There were still hundreds if not thousands of brand new experiences you hadn't even yet glimpsed. Every and all opportunity was still ripe in your eyes. You hadn't yet experienced anything that would erase a dream of yours, you still had no idea just how difficult some things were, you still had no idea that there were girls that would reject you, and on the hierarchy of man you had no reason to think you didn't sit on top.

Of course, this is a romanticization. In reality you cried more at that age just as often as you experienced bliss.

>I am trying to rip open the inconsolable secret in each one of you—the secret which hurts so much that you take your revenge on it by calling it names like Nostalgia and Romanticism and Adolescence; the secret also which pierces with such sweetness that when, in very intimate conversation, the mention of it becomes imminent, we grow awkward and affect to laugh at ourselves; the secret we cannot hide and cannot tell, though we desire to do both. We cannot tell it because it is a desire for something that has never actually appeared in our experience. We cannot hide it because our experience is constantly suggesting it, and we betray ourselves like lovers at the mention of a name. [...]

>>136656128
>[...] Our commonest expedient is to call it beauty and behave as if that had settled the matter. Wordsworth’s expedient was to identify it with certain moments in his own past. But all this is a cheat. If Wordsworth had gone back to those moments in the past, he would not have found the thing itself, but only the reminder of it; what he remembered would turn out to be itself a remembering. The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came through them was longing. These things—the beauty, the memory of our own past—are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself they turn into dumb idols, breaking the hearts of their worshipers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.”

>>136651660
>THIS.

>>136651543
It wasn't comfy youngfag. There were actually active wars going on and shit.

>>136651543
2004? Ahhh the Iraq war you fucking tool. It was an election and Bush somehow won again. 2009, a the economy was destroyed because of asshole.

>>136651543
The political climate was muh WMDs and the internet was "fuck this war sucks so *spoots* xDdddd Random le unicorn weasel". Everyone just wanted to forget 9/11 and the fallout or at least make fun of it.

>>136651660
fpbp fuckman

>>136652518

yup, 4chan was gay as fuck then. still is.

then /pol/ blew up and i never escaped

http://ridinspinnas.ytmnd.com/

>>136655225

Agreed.

>>136653261
Too true. Just watch any current event type shows from the early 00's. There was definitely less cancer and niggers, but the overall bitching was the same.

>>136651543
>why was it so DAMN comfy
>I was in middle school/highschool

there you have the reason

>>136651543
Bush absolutely obliterated the credibility of conservatism for years, paving the way for the disaster that was the Obama administration, his supporters, and the zeitgeist of social and economic insanity they've brought about.

But social media was less prevalent and less political. So it wasn't in your face all the fucking time, and the crazies hadn't quite become settled into echo chambers on a massive scale yet.

>>136651660
The most shocking thing in your post to me is the fact that 4chan Pass has been around since at least 2012.

>>136651660
geez, I can relate. I was an innocent young boy by then, only interested in vidya and hanging out with friends. My my, how life has changed! :(

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>>136656128
>>136656215
that was nice. whats it from?

>>136651660
Pretty much this, I would play CNC and war lords battle cry 3 and was a proud part of the internet hate machine

>>136651543
Wasn't that comfy. My dad was in the military, got deployed 3 times in that entire span of time, to a region of the world I never even heard about, and later, didn't give 2 shits about. Ever since I went there when I was in the military, I figured out why he was so salty 24/7, and I wasn't even there for 12 months, I was there for 9.

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>>136651660

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>>136651543
I hated that fucking video

>>136651660
>mfw

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>>136656215
tldr nostalgia is...bad? and its not based on the things we experienced, but rather it was just that time in our life? idk that studd was a little too heavy to follow.

desu I have a lot of my niche interests relate back to the mid-2000s...and i think I do that (like playing a game from that era, even if i never played it myself) because I want to rekindle the feelings I had of my youth; bike rides with friends,time to do nothing but play games, no smart phones, real friends....or maybe because I feel empty today, my lack of romantic skills. what is life, philosophy...

gah I struggle with "is nostalgia a good or bad thing" past vs reality, happily looking on the past vs escapism...who knows

>>136651660
https://youtu.be/4WgT9gy4zQA
even if life was in the gutter there was some pretty neat stuff to take your mind off od it. media wise i'd say that was one of the most entertaining few years for young children like myself.

Id do anything to go back to 2004 and relive my life. Would be great to play all those ebun vidya games for the first time and be rejected by all the same grills once more. Oh what a ride

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>>136651660
>the time when you had a ton of friends and were careless and happy is never coming back

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>newgrounds
>Youtube stream chats
>counterstrike
>flashgames
>MSN
>being a weaboo was still something everyone shunned

>>136654705
The word emoji isn't even related to emoticon. Emoticon comes from emotive icon, but emoji is borrowed from Japanese 絵文字 e-mo-ji picture-writing-character. It just happens to sound like emote. It's weird.

>>136656496
This, people reminisce now but they forget bomb threats were a regular thing, people were terrified of airports. And there were at least 1 school shooting per year. It was a scary time

>>136662324
Fuck. I almost never hear about mass shootings now that Obama's out of office.

One could say that the media usually tends to report on things to push the establishment agenda or when not doing so would arouse suspicion.

>>136651543

>2004 - 2009
Lots of shit on the news about Afghanistan and Iraq
Lots of arguments over the actual numbers of dead in those countries
Lots of people across Europe mad that we cant destroy the heroin poppy fields in Afghanistan without severely fucking up its economy.
Still searching for Bin Laden
SJWisms were starting to become mainstream but not quite.
George Bush was humiliated every month by something embarrassing

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>>136663281
it was all on a different level back then though. wasn't it? that's the weirdest thing for me still, its like all of us here, on the chans specifically have access to a kind of super brain that nobody else does. I didn't see it this way at first obviously, it was just /b/ with the stupid memes and all that, but it really is something like a global super conscious, the only thing i have seen that is similar is what Jung called the collective unconscious, the only difference being that this one is sentient, it is actively conscious and nothing can stop it so long as it survives. the more people crowd into it the stronger it gets because they must conform, they have no other option, it is conform or be ridiculed and proven wrong endlessly. it will erase all other idologies and thought systems handed down to you or you will leave and once you are here your are here forever, as they say.

does anybody else feel this? that you can almost plug in and connect to another part of your brain that without the endless conversation and memes you are you and only that, a simple one minded person, but with all my anonymous brothers i am an army of thought

it's like something the ancient Illuminati would have dreamed of

>>136651543
>I was a child from 2004-2009
>What was the political climate at this time and why was it so DAMN comfy.
THE POLITICAL CLIMATE WAS SHIT AND SO WAS SOCIETY.
IT FELT COMFY TO YOU BECAUSE YOU WERE A CHILD STILL HAVING THEIR ASS WIPED BY ADULTS.
GET OUTTA HERE WITH THIS BULLSHIT.

>>136651543
It was actually pretty nice.

>very little SJW type bullshit, yet there wasn't any racial tension, was actually probably the point of least racial tension in the US - hence Obama
>most people were total bluepilled normies who believed everything Bush said and their beliefs barely extended outside of their party dogma if they cared about politics at all(most people didn't)
>the birth of the Zeitgeist generation which created 9/11 is an inside job type conspiracies and mistrust of the government, Alex Jones was actually sane
>people all across the board looked at a corporate elite "illuminati/NWO" as being responsible for the ills of the world instead of the Jews as on the right or white men as on the left today

I miss it actually. Here's an old conspiracy site that was one of the first I was introduced to.
http://educate-yourself.org/

>>136665107
>http://educate-yourself.org/
You have more useful web 1.0/2.0 websites? I miss when the internet used to be like this.

Click the road. New road pops up. Click the road. New road pops up. Click the road. New road pops up. Click the road. Another fucking road pops up.

>>136663281

yeah, it wasn't that comfy if you were paying attention. It was when the division in this country became blatantly apparent.

In the 90s under Bush I and then Bill Clinton, there was still this feeling of a United America. That we were one country and one people, with a few differing views here and there. After the Monica Lewisnky thing, and then the 2000 election which was super close, the country became very divided.

Constant political mudslinging has reigned ever since. Liberals shat on Bush all day every day except in the period right after 9/11. Conservatives shat on Obama day in day out. And now the liberals are doing it to Trump with a heightened intensity.

If the country is to survive we have to figure out how to unify

>>136664474
I know what you mean.
Reddit is the liberal pussy version of this place, and it feels the same to speak out against the hivemind on fucking anything.
Even just saying Parks and Rec is not all that funny will get you personal pms of rage.
inb4 go back
Most of you faggots use kikebook, fuck off.