Do you miss anything about the early 2000s, /r9k/?

Not being almost 30.

My dad not being dead

Warcraft 3

I miss the WC3 custom game lobby so much. Just hours of good times.

Then DOTA came and spread like a plague, ruining it.

>>34377271
Being 10 and going to blockbusters and renting and enjoying video games

>>34377271

Not really, that wasn't that long ago. But I do miss plenty of things about the late 1980s.

the music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy57ItxZDqI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtvsozMhbS4

>>34377271
Dad letting me play Microsoft Flight Simulator and thinking it was the coolest thing ever made

The cartoons from before Cartoon Network turned into CN

>>34377284
ouch I didn't ask for that feel

I miss the TURBO button on my PC and the SUPER BASS button on my cd player

Clear plastic electronics and games not requiring enormous patches on the first day.

Me and my friends building bike ramps, going to amusement parks, going camping, and having sleepovers where we'd play Mario Party/Super Smash Bros/Mario Kart until sunrise.

Then sometime in middle school they all became Chads and more or less told me to fuck off.

>>34377271
The absence of social media in its present form, probably more than anything

>>34377271

Hope.

>I was muted for 4 seconds because my comment was not original.

being able to enjoy video games was pretty nice

Going back to 2000 with todays internet speed would be great, elsewhere it would suck.

>>34377271
My interest in flash games, being part of a poor family does that.

i miss the optimism of how convinced i was that i would get away from my parents and their home soon

Dark, edgy music was mainstream. Nu metal, goth rock, even alt rock in general could be a bit more hardcore than what we get these days.

It was cheesy as hell, I even knew it at the time, but it was still really enjoyable in a way that's hard to explain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWW8KK8kd1I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hCE51oBszQ (1999, but close enough)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiKK7ULsqXk

Nowadays mainstream rock is all about breakups and depression and mundane shit. I want the angst and the existentialism back.

>>34377284
Fuck I need to lie down now

Upon my 5th birthday, I remember telling my sister I was afraid of turning 5 because maybe I wouldn't like the Power Rangers anymore, like magically. I think I miss that aspect of the most important things in my life being fucking tv shows and toys and card games and whatnot. When walking back home now I not only think about animu but also about what will I cook today, how will I manage my times, how much of an idiot did I look that day in public, will I pass that uni test, did I forget anything important. In the early 2000s I used to come home and stay hours drawing dinosaurs and DBZ characters in MS paint.

I miss totse.com bbs, was around way before this place and it had the dankest memes. Jenkem, goatse, molotov everything and raid to name a couple classics
>&T

How old school MMOs were, When forums were big, Pre-Youtube video sites, lack of social media, when having your real name as your username and a real photo instead of an avatar was considered weird, rather than the other way around.

>>34377289
this anon
my mom died while i was a teen just when the 2010's started
I yearn to experience the past again
Nostalgia makes me hurt inside

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>>34377271

Big name video games had mod support. Those days are long gone.

Everything. 2003 was the last year I felt happiness.

>>34377317
stories old anon?
33 so not old enough to remember the 80's
just really fuzzy memories of riding in the car as seeing really old cars you dont see anymore and being at random stores
>I have this one memory of being at this breakfest place and it being really smokey and wood trim EVERYWHERE

I remember being a depressed as fuck teenager and dropping out of school in early 2001 because I was addicted to Ultima Online and it was fun as fuck. Playing counter strike and tfc. SNES roms with Seiken densetsu 3, terranigma, neogeo roms. Dark age of camelot, eating whatever the fuck I wanted. Ragnarok Online, staying up all night. Phantasy star online, Neverwinter Nights. Finding 4chan in late 03 while looking for ragnarok online porn and then acting like a retard on it and then acting like a retard on other websites. Masturbating to hentai shit and cosplay stuff and your online character sprites. Hating those days at the time but feeling like they would never end. Going to stupid websites and being depressed, walking outside, sunrise, sunset. I realize I'm typing like a retard but who cares. Those days are gone. All I do now is spend money I don't have and take prescription oxy to forget and keep moving to avoid killing myself.

>>34378634
>ultima online
Fuck yeah, do you still play?

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>Limewire
>iMesh
>Napster
>Zone.com
>Rainbow Six Rogue Spear on zone.com
>age of empires on zone.com
>renting video games/movies
>the AOL welcome sound
>007 Goldeneye
>Perfect Dark for N64
>CCS magazines
>CKY
>Faces of Death videos with your friends when your parents went to bed
>watching the russian beheading video from Limewire and contemplating life
>Briana Banks
>Whyville
>skateboarding
>Bonzi Buddy (turns out this fucker was legit malware)

beige computer cases. not white. beige.

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This was the best part of the fucking week, waiting for the site to update.

>>34378695

Sometimes I still feel like I want to. I went back and the game seems to be similar to how I remember it from back then. I recently heard about some new game called shards online, bought the beta but have yet to download it. I did try mabinogi to scratch that UO itch

Oh yeah and Arcanum was the shit and so was science and industry back in the early 2000s

>>34377271
Being a kid

>>34377284
Not being over 30.

>>34377271
diablo 2
having hopes for the future

>being a kid
>runescape
>newgrounds
>fapping to newgrounds

>>34378416
>I want the angst and the existentialism back.
I WANT MY TEARS BACK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV2C9_MAJ0E

>>34378416
dude lmao just smoke weed lol

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>>34378464
Big games had actual support, meaning you didn't have to wait for exhaustive patching the minute a bug was found.

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>>34378634
Jeez, I thought I was the only anon still around from the early 2000's chon.

It's nuts meeting someone from the golden age.

>>34377299
This.
>Tfw will never again rent a cool looking ps2 game and play it non stop with my brother for three days straight

>>34378300
this so fucking much

social media and normies have ruined the internet

I miss my ex gf, I genuinely thought we'd get married and all, then she left me for a guy from a rich family with actual prospects in life.

Everything's been completely pointless since then.

>>34377271
i miss the internet when it was... less monitored so to speak.

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Bingewatching adult swim, delirious on sleep deprivation, as the lineup goes through twice reality, dreams, and the TV blending together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9FMhoKIQMQ

>>34379061
Kill yourself then, you sure aren't welcomed here.

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>>34379038
Golden age? It was cancer then, it's cancer now.

...But it's our cancer.

As for the question at hand: yeah, hope. Or at least the lack of worrying about having a hand in what's going on in the world. I'm sure some Illuminati fearing poster's going to say otherwise, but I miss not having to worry about having a say in what goes on. It was nice just kind of accepting things as they come and just hoping for the best.

Oh, and AIM and YIM. Spent more hours on there than I can remember. It was weird. I actually kind of love chat rooms, but they seem to have died recently. *shrug* I functioned better online than in person back then. Kinda glad that I got over that.

I miss having a sleepover at my friends house or at my house where the other person would be ring their playstation and you'd play command and conquer retaliation on link up or play dune 2000 linkup coop or some final doom. It was like a personal arcade.

When they release psOne I bought one because my old psx was faulty and I wanted to play linkup still and the guy in the store said the ps1 was the exact same as the psx. Get home and realize it has no link port. Too afraid to tell dad it was the wrong thing so just kept it and played quake 2.

>>34377271
half life 2 and the countless mods made for it

>>34377271
Not feeling dead all the time.

Bars with proper music, willing goth chicks, and no social media to fuck everything up.

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>>34377271
Of course I miss some stuff, but that's just nostalgia. Your picture for example makes me feel a deep nostalgia for the old internet, old computers, being younger and inexperienced with technology, etc.

But the reality is, that shit actually sucked. If I went back in time and had to deal with dial-up internet again and constantly fuck my computer up with viruses from lack of internet knowledge, I would fucking kill myself.

As soon as I take off my nostalgia goggles I realize the early 2000s were pretty shitty compared to my life now.

>>34379401
>>But the reality is, that shit actually sucked.
Then you don't understand what everything that came after that did to culture, society, and humanity.

>>34377284
>Not being almost 30.
>>34377327
>Windows XP
>>34378300
>The absence of social media in its present form
That about sums it up.

>>34379038
I've met a few others. There was no golden age, though, things have just grown so shitty that the old days look good in comparison, because at least they were unique. The entire internet is a homogeneous mainstream slurry now.

Just the old Internet, I guess. The Internet was more fun even in like, 2011 or something. But it went completely downhill in 2013.

>>34379038
does coming here in 2006 count? it feels like an age and a half since i started coming here

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>spending hours talking to shitty people in these shitty chat rooms

>>34379501
Not that guy, but I'd say the culture shifted irreversibly around 2007 or 2008, so sure.

>it took more then 3 seconds to load a page
>older Chan culture, no SJWs
>everything else mentioned in the thread

>>34379792
*than
t. Me

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>>34378634
>Ragnarok Online
This fucking game. I still listen to the BGMs every month, look for servers to play but it just isn't the same. I wish I could timetravel to iRO beta times again.

>Waiting for flash videos on newgrounds to load
>played ps2/gamecube/xbox while waiting

Shit was hype as fuck once it loaded.

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>tfw WebTV
Also
>Opened first pack of pokemon cards
>Didn't care about resale, just liked the art and variety
>To this day I still like card games for the aesthetic
>Have a 900-card binder full of MtG foils

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>>34377271
>PC games that were polygons but somehow remember them being very realistic
>Flash games
>The internet was more used amongst youth, so it felt cool using it
>Kinda had a hint of 90s I guess
>Everything. Some reason it just felt simpler yet changing into the future. Much better times.

eh now I sound like a 90s kid

>>34377271
childhood
friends
hope for my future

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0th1x1DzQb4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0tNFSO_3dQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88XnUHAX5-o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BHQWhdrBF4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzr1hmWIWaw

>>34377271
Everything.
My parents being together
My country being together
>>34377294
>>34378300
Also these.

My life crumbled in 2006

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i grow up with this and still watching this
autistic to say

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>>34377327
>Windows XP
>Rainy on school holidays
>Comfy inside listening to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuyogMrZqd4
>Playing around on the 3D design software we got free with the computer.

>>34377271
The year 2000.
>realising the y2k didn't happen
>last year of being a child for me (would hit puberty and become a teen next year)
>pokemon generations 1 and 2
>playing video games or outside with friends
>those rare moments when you get to use the internet
>reading magazines (printed, not digital) made for pre-teens
>games are better
>music is better
>some bright colours from the '90s are still there
>have some hope for future
>the world seems to be a happier place somehow

>>34377289
Most of my grandparents still being alive and in relatively good health

>>34378368
>today's internet speed
And prices.

>>34377284
This.

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>>34381851
>PURAAAASMMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
muh nigga

Who /usenet/ here?

>>34377271
you make these threads every month or so

>>34377271
windows XP was a great operating system

I could rearrange folders and .jpgs in any order I wanted.

>social media will never go away
>the internet will only centralise more and more
>corps have an iron grip on it entirely
FUCK

>>34382311
>it's hard to be unique anymore
>lack of iconic creativity
>anything new dies literally the same year
this decade sucks fucking dick comparing to others

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>Girls weren't as picky
>People were generally more friendly and less narcissistic
>Rock music was still alive
>No sjw cancer
>No white guilt
>No Jewbook

And it will never come back. Thanks for fucking up my day, OP.

>>34377271
How carefree and communal the internet was.

Techno and electronica still being drug-fueled and tribal/underground, as opposed to pop normal people pretend to enjoy and take selfies to.

Society was still white enough to be carefree and silly, or autistic and edgy, without trying to take itself too seriously and act hard.

We still had the promise of a cool, cyber future, as opposed to the ugly, corporate end of cyberpunk, we have today (your Apple iMPLANT has decided this is the optimal hour for you to wake up, based on your googleNET search history)

>>34382411
>We still had the promise of a cool, cyber future, as opposed to the ugly, corporate end of cyberpunk, we have today (your Apple iMPLANT has decided this is the optimal hour for you to wake up, based on your googleNET search history)
Something I like about the past in general is that you could generally be more optimistic about technology and the future.

I'd say we had already lost that by the 2000s though. Now we basically live with space age tech and we see how jaded it is.

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>>34382374
And this is how humanity ends, not with a bang but a whimper.

>>34382462
>>34382411
You just failed to realize that cyberpunks are, you know, outlaws. And in an authoritarian system that has access to all that technology, outlaws only exist in stories and in prison.

Normies do not appreciate the internet and shouldbe banned. Social media and ease of the internet is the issue.

I liked it when you had to work for it.

Burning CD roms, counter strike 1.6, firearms mod, GameSpy.

Newgrounds, mouse breaker, yahoo pool (new one is horrible). MSN chat rooms. MSN messenger. The joy of getting broadband for the first time with no limits on use.

Windows XP (pro) non legit of course.

I could go on

>>34382528
Forgot to say I'm actually a normie, but I get this whole thing so much.

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Not really, no. The 2000s were shit.

>>34377271
>no social media

>beginning of things like steam, YouTube, etc.

>SJWs were still just myths

>generally more positive vibe

>like the 90s but without the bullshit like Boris Yeltsin and the Yugoslav wars

>PS2 and GameCube

>silent hill 2 and 3

>I was actually a little happy with my life and not as fucked in the head


This decade sucks fucking dick through a garden hose.

This went from a nostalgia thread, to a depressing circle jerk of emotion

FUck OP it's all his fault

>>34378300
This and G4/TechTV and shit like that. And actually enjoying video games and having hope for the future

I miss chat rooms and have no idea how to meet people online in 2017.

>>34382749
There is no "online" anymore in 2017, everything is online now.

>>34382749
you basically have to insert yourself into a community with the same interests, any friends i have now i either met thru generals on 4chan or through racist anime girl twitter

>Actual good cartoons on Cartoon Network
>Actual good cartoons/shows on Nickelodeon
>AOL chatrooms
>Fapping to models the same age as me and not realising it was wrong
>Joint Ops playing in servers with 100+ others playing
>Myspace the only real social media platform
>It was considered weird and dangerous to post a picture of your face plus personal info about yourself online, not the other way around
>Torrent sites were easy to access
>No internet policing like today
>You could call someone a retard as a general insult with no real consequences with no fear of getting arrested for hate speech or "trolling" as today
>Trolling actually meant something, not just a general term used to describe someone with a different opinion to the masses
>The internet and real life were two separate entities
>Those ruffled tops with the wide neck line that would sometimes slip off a girls shoulder
>Cropped leggings

>>34382749
I don't know how either.

Forums are pretty much dead, and I don't like the upvote system on reddit. All I've got is 4chan but I cling to my anonymity here.

>>34377271
Still having to watch out for paedos online

>>34382861
>The internet and real life were two separate entities

Wow, this is actually a great summary of the feels of this thread. So true anon, well done

>>34378634

i searched the page for 'ultima online'

i wish pre-2000 lasted forever, fucking everquest heralded the end of fun mmos and now it's all gone to shit (i had fun playing DDO before that went to shit also though, only other mmo i liked)

just fmsu though, my life has been total shit apart from those 3 years of ultima online and dropping out of high school to play it (my parents were going through a divorse and they didn't even realise i wasn't going to school)

>>34378785
Holy fuck, the feels.

Also Neopets.

>>34379476
>>34379038
I've been coming since 2004/05... and now I'm almost 30 too. Fuck.

> There was no golden age, though, things have just grown so shitty that the old days look good in comparison, because at least they were unique.
Definitely true, senpai. Like the other anon said, it was cancer then, but it was our cancer. 4chan has just been reposts of reposts of reposts of reposts since then, newfags coming in and reposting as the oldfags leave, and in the end, we're left with a funhouse mirror version of the culture that used to be.

> The entire internet is a homogeneous mainstream slurry now.
This is what I miss the most about the early 2000s. I hate that reddit, social media, and YouTube define the majority of the internet now. I miss angelfire and geocities and homestead creating new and unique (if not rubbish) websites. Websites felt fresh and exciting, and most importantly, genuine. There wasn't a competition to be the next website to go "viral" so you can monetise your popularity... Now every website feels shallow and like it has an angle or a "shtick" to try and stick out.

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I miss not caring about love and relationships.
I wish I could just stop wanting it.

>>34383227
true. i remember having a unique myspace with a cool page song. it felt cool and part of my identity.
now we have fb profiles which are fucking plain and have just reposts of meme videos

>>34377271
Lack of "SELFIE CULTURE xDD!"

We have a computer at work running XP.

so I am still stuck in the early 2000s.

It's slow and shitty, not as good as you remember.

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>>34377294
here's an internet hug for you anon

>>34377294
Ohhh I know that feel desu, when I was an aspie child I used to love playing the Family Guy TD map, not because I especially liked Family Guy, but because there was a glitch in the Quagmire tower that you could sell it for more than you bought it from. I think that existed in v1.4 and was fixed in v1.5, but most people would still play v1.4

Custom games were the best. So many creative maps... Resident Evil: Escape Raccoon City, Starship Troopers: Survival, Gladiator Arena.... there was this one, I can't remember the name of, but I think it was called Murder House or something.

One person was a murderer and the rest were civilians, but you had to figure out who the murderer was.

>>34379038
Mmm, what's up /oldfags/.

Late 90's-2004 era internet was the golden age. No denying it.

>>34379387
Tell me more about these willing goth chicks senpai.

>>34379487
How old are you? The internet was just as shitty in 2011 as it is now. Golden age was 2001-2006

>>34381916
>>the world seems to be a happier place somehow
it was before 911 and before the internet made everyone so ideologically polarized

Furry porn being 80% female pussy-focused art, the females that existed not being men with tits/dick or gay garbage. Hardiman was still alive and I had hope.

Women, homosexuals, and normals couldn't use the internet and thus could not invade introverted male spaces (IRQ conflicts and desktop computers were hard). Smart phones and big bang theory opening the door to these cancerous locusts in the digital space.

Video games catered to the hardcore with things like Everquest, the entire MMO genre was pussified because the demographic is now normal people with jobs. The thrill of losing months worth of gear to wiping at the bottom of a dungeon and not respawning with it was amazing. You had to beg rival guilds to bail you out, or pay someone a ton of money to summon your corpse. Every corner turned was dangerous and the dopamine was unreal. You could lose yourself in those worlds, not anymore though.

Video games in general didn't cater to progressive types, they was no narrative. You could kill kids, deal with adult themes, and have games that didn't appeal for the same fag/women/weak male demographic.

Anime was actually putting out classics instead of Fujo shit/female MC slice of life. Budgets were there, the CG shit hadn't gotten bad.

4chan had absolutely no niggers, homosexuals, or women (until 2007 when the chanology/BBT bullshit made us a target), it was great. Now you go to /b/ it's full of gay/trap propaganda, facebook threads, /soc/ attention whoring, dick rating, etc. The entire 4chan community is full of tryhards and irrelevant faggots now, there isn't much good content worth looking at. Loli was still a big part of the community.

I had hope, the world wasn't full of antifa clowns and the anti-white male propaganda was exponentially lower. Now Generation Z is full of feminized faggots because they are drugging them and destroying them with propaganda during their childhood. My only solace is that these queers will all kill themselves before 40.

Having friends.

I mean, I guess.
They didn't ever really like me.

>>34383796
>furry /pol/ack

what a world to live in

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>>34377284
>tfw turning 28 in 3 months

30 is going to be here in a heartbeat and I'm still going to be working the same part time job while barely paying the bills and hiding from the world

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>>34383837
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOed6snEslA
What can I say? Once you know the enemy is the unwashed hordes of queers and 3DPD women out of line you have to put your cards in and fight the good fight.

GO GO GOOD TEAM!

>>34383796
I miss porn with normal looking chicks with hairy pussies, pits, arms, legs... nowadays if you want hairy porn it's all tattooed pierced SJW tumblrites who work as professional BDSM prostitutes.

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>>34377284
>>34377336
>>34378422
>>34378856
>>34379476
>>34381916
>>34383839
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV0wTtiJygY

where did it go

>no social media
>before normies ruined the internet
>GREAT AAA video games before PS3, X360, PC piracy and normies ruined them, back then they were still made by our guys, nerds, around 2006 big corpo started taking over and buying every possible studios, most of the rest went bankrupt and today there's AT BEST 2 AAA games worth cheking out a year. if not for indie games I wouldn't play at all today
>i was young and not yet depressed and suicidal
>football (european) was a lot more fun to watch before Mourinho and Benitez ruined it for everyone by popularising their anti-football tactics with 1 striker, relentless pressing and emphasis on physical strength, there's no team today as fun to watch as Real Madrid 1996-2003 whose entire philosophy was "year, we'll concede 3 but we'll score 4, lol"
>SJW still wasn't so mainstream
>I still had friends in grade school

>>34383227
If only all people's sites were as practical as RMS
https://stallman.org/
>all of that Web-1.0-ness

>>34383904
I'm miss Tawnee Stone desu

I had always hoped that internet culture in the future (from the perspective of back then) would just be a cooler, faster, more advanced version of what it was; instead, we have a complete stagnation of anything worthwhile

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>>34377271
How everything used to be so entertaining because I was 6 years old in 2000 and 11 in 2005.

Younger years
>could have fun outside in the backyard for hours doing nothing
Mid years
>whoa my own bike!! This is so awesome!
6th grade
>wow middle school! I can finally make friends!!

I didn't get my first video game, (crash bandicoot team racing) until third grade and I'm glad they waited that late. Also they limited computer and video game use to one hour so I didn't waste my day.

I don't live in the past, my early 20's are fun in a new way.

>>34377271
GTA Vice city
Linkin park (Meteora was a masterpiece)
Slipknot
Blink 182
Fast and furious was still good
Dragonball z
Jackass
Tony Hawks Underground
Runescape
Final Fantasy 10
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Warhammer 40k,when the old necrons were new

Skating all day without any responsibilites, and then playing ff10 till 5am was pretty neat.

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>>34382779
>>34382868
i used to browse a handful of forums and post a decent amount. shit, even places like the old eddsworld chatroom were mildly engaging. now everything is cancer and shitty memes for mobile consumption. fuck social media

>>34384116
Tony Hawk Underground was so good. The sequel was complete shit...

Runescape, damn, that takes me back. I remember when it first went semi-3D and that cost a subscription. Now the "classic runescape" all the children on the internet seem to remember is that 3D one.

>>34384116
>Linkin park (Meteora was a masterpiece)
>Slipknot
>Blink 182
>Fast and furious was still good

jesus christ

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i miss msn the most

>>34384305

All my old MSN friends are gone

>>34377271
honestly i miss the simplicity of computers back then i was only 6 but i can remember my parents old white thick computer. i did not appriciate what computers could do back then but now that i am going for an IT degree of some sort i can say that i will be making my own early 2000s build and play all the games i missed out on

>>34384352
IMO there's just something about the design of 2000s computers that just catches my eye every time. It's not flashy or excessive or anything. It's simplistic, down to earth. Modern specs are great and all but the designs are just too out there for my liking. Fuck maybe I am an old man trapped in a young persons body, especially considering the last game that I ever played that was new at the time was BO2 and CS:GO.

not being vaccinated, and vhs

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>>34377271 (OP)

>Didn't cursed so much
>I was a little kid
>Lots of friends
>My family was complete garbage, but at least I felt happy because dad didn't left
>Everything felt exciting, not so depressive
>Unlike now love was real
>People were more open and honest, but downsides would be high criminal activities (because I lived in Eastern Europe) and the fact that I was weak, so I was bullied by others
>It was easier to make friends/get a gf
>Still felt the spirit of 90s
>Start of modern technologies
>Less hipocricy and no SJW shit
>People didn't scandalised shit so much
>No Kardashians
>Social media bullshit didn't mattered
>No "X things you should know about/do before Y" type of shit
>Journalism wasn't that bad
>Video games were pretty good, most of them were original and made from idea with lots of honesty
>PS2 and Gamecube
>Forums were active back then
>Youtube was just about to start
>Lots of good music I miss:
> Rise Against pre-ATR
> Linkin Park
> Sum 41
> Blink 182


I think I'm going to cry. I want some of those things come back.

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>Discovering subbed anime for the first time
>practicing Japanese language for the first time
>going on walks with friends
>high school gatherings
>being small enough to lap sit fat girls and 6' girls being taller than me


What I don't miss
>cufew until I was 17 (worried parents)
>not having a driver's licence till I was 18
>not having easy access to anime until lime wire at 16
>sucking at art and not having a support group
>not being able to get a date because all the girls were dating 24+ dudes while in high school
>roms were harder to come by
>not as much disposable income


It's even trade, but I would say my life is better now
>>34379038
Nah there are a couple of us still lingering

It wasn't golden but it was actually better than it was now
>people weren't actually racist, they did so just to be offensive
>no alt-right nutjobs who think they are the enlightened 8
>/b/ was a madhouse
>/ic/ used to be good
>/v/ was somewhat civil
>no "normies"
>no one was complaining about virginity
>feminists weren't around and no bitched about them ruining everything

This site was pretty alright


>>34382123
true dat

>>34384638
Fuck man your description of 4chan sounds awesome. I never witnessed that considering the first I heard of this place was in 2012 and I started lurking in 2014 (inb4 newfag). People on this damn site have such a huge stick up their ass about everything, and /pol/ and /b/ leaking their current garbage here isn't helping my opinion.
Wish 4chan would go back to the chill place it supposedly once was, with certain boards existing to be the crazy places while others were there for actual calm discussion.

>>34384638
>people weren't actually racist, they did so just to be offensive
You're an idiot. Post-2007 when /b/ was attacking Hal Turner is the moment those people left and others started coming in that ruined everything and gave way to chanology and the normalization of chan space. /a/ was racist as fuck too. It all was, and it wasn't to be edgy.

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>>34379058
>this so fucking much
I think you're on the wrong side of town. Redditit you need to fuck off.

>>34384451
Same here. I also miss when the looks were simplistic and down to earth. I sometimes feel like an old geezer inside a young adult. Shit, I even now use my Pentium4 PC.

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I miss Ragnarok Online and life without smartphone and social media.

I can't believe this goddamn game is still alive. Goes to show what a masterpiece it is. It was so comfy back then.

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>>34384964
Those were the days.

>tfw still friends with some of the people I met on there

I miss world2chan and ADTRW

>>34377271
Warcraft 3 customs and not hating myself yet.

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>>34385013
>you will never experience 2005 ragnarok online for the first time again
why even live

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP_404eJwLc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiALFduL9FA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNW9TAwImBY

>>34377299
renting games was the best. the morning after is even better, I was so excited to play them on a saturday morning.

I never understood LOAP

Is it really just the precursor to G-Mod rp servers

>blockbuster
>being in elementary school/middle school, having sat and sun off
>surge
>pokemon card collecting
>limewire
>getting excited when a youtube video buffered fast
>not knowing about how disgusting humans were
>no SJWs
>toonami
>listening to the radio

>also /b/ wasn't dumb as shit

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>member of a small forum

>old style message board like from the early 2000s

>the community is small but nice

>some of the people want to make it bigger and are discussing plans to integrate social media into the forum and make viral videos to draw new people in

Why do normies have to ruin everything

It's like it's not even a passive thing that normies just sort of do naturally over time. They actively and deliberately try to ruin everything.

perhaps my only regret in life is that I'm too Yong and was too isolated to take part in the emergent internet landscape of the early 2000's

I look back now and see relics. Those decade old stick figure animations from CS, a time when words like " pwn" and "uber" where considered acceptable and the whole online gaming scene was first comming together.

I wish I'd been one of those guys who dragged a heavy-ass tower across town for makeshift lan parties, I wish I had memories of warcraft 3, NWN online or even the early days of TF2.

I played around with Gmod a few months back. Running around jailbreak and rp servers came just close enough that I found it amazing

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>>34384819
nah /b/, the old schoolers were still here in 2007,
it was chanology that made everyone leave.

They usually attacked people who had it coming like the ebaums dude.
>/a/ was racist as fuck too. It all was, and it wasn't to be edgy.
nah, it wasn't they were kidding.
I mean those robotnik comics were just for fun no one meant anything by it.


Also another thing I miss is that memes used to be funny jokes or gag gifs instead of the bullshit that advice dog spawned.


For example
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THgwGskyj8s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X7_vN5VxS0


Instead of.....
<-pic related
They came to accessible and easy to use by normies.

i hate the past things are much better now wtf guys. you guys didn't get bullied?

i do miss dbz coming on everyday, nardo sucks so much fr

>>34378738
duddeee it was the best day when a ccs came in the mail

>>34385413
yeah v true...i hated going to school. constant bulling and embarrassment...things are much better for me to anon...<3

It hurts to read this thread.

>>34377271
Not really, I was already a lost cause by then.

If anything I'd like to go back to 2002 when I turned 18, that was a good birthday.

>>34383860
You`re my kind of anon,tbqh.

>all these faggots saying that the 2000s are shit
Enjoy it, it's only going to get worse from here. There will come a point years from now when you'll give anything to come back to this

>>34377271
Being a young child and having friends.

The power and vigor of my youth.

>>34377271
My dad was alive and wasn't as such as a recluse as I am now on neetbuxs

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>>34386213
I hate to admit it but you're right. The early 2000s weren't that great and yet, this decade makes them look like a party by comparison. I know the 2020s are going to be even worse, but I can't imagine what will happen in that decade to make one miss the 2010s. I can only guess as to what kind of things are in store for us.

I also had hope and dreams but that's all gone out the window when I became depressed and miserable

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>>34384116
Newcrons are much better. They`re not like mechanical,boring Tyranids now and have their OWN FUCKING PERSONALITY.

i remember seeing the first episode of american dad the first day it aired.. such a nice memory

>>34386364
Same story for me with the Ed Edd an Eddy Christmas special. Watched it an went on the forum to talk about it. I say talk, I tried to join in the discussions but nobody responded.

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>>34382563
Kind of that weird place between archaic technology and advanced technology.

Bought top-tier computers for $1000~ only for it to be worthless just five years later.

>>34377271
Internet was not ruined by normies.

>>34383796

There was plenty of faggotry/traps back in 4chan's golden age.

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>>34386946
>post-2007 write off or Gen-Z trojan horse.
Nice revisionist history

>>34386804
Normies brought the corporations and social media. Soon they'll be able to arrest you for shit you say here, let alone on Twitter or Facebook. The Internet will become indistinguishable from real life.

>>34378300
This easy
Dubs checked to boot

>>34387001

I've been shitting around 4chan since 2005. 12 years of this garbage.

>>34384201
Fuck off, THUG 2 was a riot
Adrenaline: the game, unlike THUG 1 which just pulls you aside to watch a cutscene every 10 seconds before you activate your next challenge

This is weird, but I miss the humming sound the early pcs made, and the feeling of quietness that came when you turned the pc off after several hours of that humming

>>34387002
>Soon they'll be able to arrest you for shit you say here
But they already are and have been for years.

>>34378738
>CKY
dude holy shit i forgot entirely
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIGKJnOY-gU

Playing Battlefront 1 all the time on my Xbox. I love Star Wars and I thought its the best game ever. I never liked 2, it was too fast placed with that bs reward system.

And you know what? I still play it all the time and I still think its the best game ever. I wish I knew people who would play with me on Xlink.

I miss being able to connect with people online, it was a separate world from the "real life" social networks.

It was the only way I could get a gf, nowadays they all ask for a picture before they even talk to you, and don't want anything to do with you if you're not from their country/city/street/literally living in their apartment building, so yeah.

Even being from a shit country, I managed to make proper connections with people all around the world back then, that dismiss me right away now.

>>34387369
Rest my case then

-old internet which was mostly just nerdy types and no normies invaded it yet
-country was pretty moderate instead of divided with both extremes (USA problem only I guess)
-being young of course
-videogames were tarnished with so much bullshit yet

With that said, the whole post-9/11 2000s sucked.. It had its pros and cons.

>limewire
>kaaza
>no fags online
>no niggers online
>nascar was good
>nfl was good
>games were good
>no kikebook
>no social media
>yahoo pool
>chatrooms

>>34378738
>>Bonzi Buddy (turns out this fucker was legit malware)

Kek.

I always knew it was spyware but the fucker was fun.

>he didnt mention KaZaA

Seriously? That's what I used after Napster and before Limewire.... and I think its what turned me into a pedo with so much CP disguised as other files I accidentally downloaded.

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>>34377284

>tfw turning 30 in a couple of months

Oh man.

>>34379792
>>older Chan culture, no SJWs

No SJWs *and* no alt-right /pol/ crap.

The extremes in both sides fucking ruined this site.

>>34377271
not really. I think the high points for me were
>1996-2000
>2007-current
2001 and up wasn't all that great. Lot of media was selling out in a bad way. Game systems had DVD players, comics were marketing to movie crowds, Films were stagnating on original ideas, it just wasn't a great time.

>>34378416
This. I would even say that there was more non-mainstream edgy music being produced too. It's a shame, they're getting harder to torrent these days. A lot have 0 seeders when they might've had 10 or so five years ago.

>>34388482
>>no fags online
>>no niggers online
>>nascar was good

>no rednecks online

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>>34378300
>tfw you are wise/strong enough to just ignore social media.
I never made accounts and just avoided it. I wasn't some staving idiot wanting attention. I always get a kick of people sharing how much they dislike social media because they are basically admitting they use and follow it like the tools they are.

>>34388482
>no fags online
>no niggers online

There were. It's just that nobody cared or bothered to play identity politics (or politics at all, really, because we were mostly teenagers at the time).

I remember going to the countryside, just to see my grandfathers. We had a good time, I brought my ps2 and played Gran Turismo 'till the next day. They passed away however, and whenever I go to that house again ( my uncle leaves there now), I just feel sad and depressed about everything I though was how life should be.

>>34377271
miss my bro...

miss the innocence

>>34377271
Let's see:
>No porn
>No booze
>No friends
>No vidya
>Family constantly arguing
>Deeply depressed

Off the top of my head, no, there's nothing I miss.

>>34377271

No, that was a shitty time and I don't recall any redeeming value.

>>34381470
i loved how comfy the first set of cards were for pokemon

>>34377271
Hey fucking leaf, why do you keep making these threads on /r9k/ and /pol/ every month or so? They always begin with a phrase like "Hey guys, 98fag here, what was life before 9/11 like", "What was the Internet like before smartphones", "What was life in the early 00s like", etc. and always use the same 4 or 5 stock images.

Why do you keep reposting them? You already get 500 replies to them, do you want 500 more?

2000-2003 = Early 2000s
2004-2006 = Mid 2000s
2007-2009 = Late 2000s

I notice that a lot of people tend to lump the early and mid 00's together (for example, I hear people saying Danny Phantom is an "early 2000s cartoon"), why is that?

>>34388610
Direct downloads sites are much more popular than torrents for underground music rn. Just look at all the music blogspot with zipped albums and discographies

>>34386746
>Bought top-tier computers for $1000~ only for it to be worthless just five years later.
And nowadays laptops have been stagnating for almost 5 years, except for the more expensive ones.

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>>34377271
Yes.

The political landscape not being so overbearingly omnipresent and absurd. Partisans were always there, but the interconnectivity and and instantaneous transfer of information throughout the world via social media has only heightened the tensions of everyday life in a multitude of ways too numerous to list in one post. I miss the simplicity, or when there was more of it anyway.

For every single benevolent purpose new technology has, it seems to have a myriad of malevolent ones.

>>34382528
my internet options haven't changed since broadband lines were run in the neighborhood around 23 years ago

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>>34388650

Some of you were, sure.

The real difference was that one had to be something of a nerd to be here, on the internet, in the 90s and to some degree into the early 2000s.

Even minimal effort and required knowledge is an anathma to normalfags. If you were interacting with anyone on the internet you knew that they were at least a little bit like you.

Now there is no real social stigma against spending all fucking day on the computer, and everything has been dumbed down so that even a small child can easily use it.

So now I have to put up with SJW tumblrinas that spend all day on social media leaking out onto the rest of the internet and even real life occasionally.

>>34390061
How about you try in english next time you pompous pseudo intellectual tryhard faggot?

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>I got my first computer in 2004
I missed out on something beautiful, didn't I?

>>34377271

being a kid whose only problem was getting to a raid on time

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>>34377271
I miss early 2000s webshots sluts. Instagram sluts just aren't the same.

I want to be a kid with zero responsibilities again

>>34390366
First pc at 2006.
I feel ya man
Nice dubs

>>34390378
>not showing up to raid several hours early and helping guildies get their world buffs and mats for pots

fucking kids

>>34390366
Not really, 2004 was still in the good years. 2007 is when it all went to shit.

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>being a kid
>endless summers
>endless winters
>the "magic" of christmas and easter
>grand parents
>staying the night at grand parents house and staying up until midnight and falling asleep
>fun breakfast cereal boxes with puzzels and toys on the inside
>toys in general
>not having to worry about life
>malcolm in the middle
>saturday disney
>good cartoons thats aren't educational and focused on being entertaining
>cheez tv
>catdog
>angry beavers
>the weekenders
>camp lazlo
>rugrats
>wild thornberrys
>pokemon
>yu-gi-oh
>watching the simpsons every night at 6pm
>CRT TV's
>nintendo 64
>golden eye
>perfect dark
>mario party
>mario kart 64
>renting games and movies
>arcades
>buying physical games
>going to the cinema was a special thing
>movies seemed endless and but interesting
>long and endless car rides
>pokemon card trading/collecting
>topps pokemon cards
>school days/week days felt like years and weekends were too quick
>going to the park/skate park
>being scared of older kids
>being genuenly happy about life

just some stuff i can think of.

>>34377271
Ignorant Bliss and 90s vibes with early 2000s tech.

>>34391482
>Gen 1 YugiOh
Real talk that was the shit right up there with WoW and Golden eye.

>>34377294
>you will never play a good match of wintermauls ever again


feels bad man

>>34391482
>>camp lazlo
Not early 2000s

>>34391948
>Camp lazlo
>not early 2000s

It came out in 2005. What would you consider it?

>>34391948
>>34392164
I'm just naming things that were personal to me growing up. I know it came out in 2005 but that is still early 2000's.

>>34381851
>Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon

Oh fuck, the nostalgia. I was born in 1999 but this was my childhood game. We are poor so an N64 was all I had.

>tfw europoor and only a preschooler in the early 2000s

>i will never know what it's like to watch early 2000s nascar live on a crt tv

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>renting armored core titles over and over again like an autist everytime my dad and I drove to blockbuster
>fapping to keyra augustina and raven riley videos on shitty internet
>wearing baggy rave pants and skateboarding (was still an outcast in middle + high school though)
>electronic music was awesome
>reading Love Hina and Video Gril Ai at the local Barnes and Noble and self inserting
>gunpla kits
>krunk blasting everywhere

Oh fuck I miss it so much. Being an adult and providing for yourself is awful, no wonder people check out early around their 30's. Discovering 4chan, PC gaming and finding some likeminded friends during that time wouldve been awesome too

>>34392164
>>34392209
It's mid 2000s(2004-2006)

2000-2003 is early 2000s

2007-2009 is late 2000s

there just seemed to be less niggers around

lol why the fuck are old people on this board anyway

>>34377271
>OP Pic

Amazing, I have that same exact tower case that I bought at a computer show (back when they still had those).

I still use it for my Dad's PC that I keep running for his use.

>>34378888
>are you me

Nice repeating integers

>>34389281
because late 2k's a shit!

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>>34390061
>hurrdurr look at my big wurrds and speshool insight so smart
kys you redditurd

I miss almost everything about the early 2000s.

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I can still hear the "reload" in my mind.

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>>34379038
I know people love saying "IT SUCKED BACK THEN AND IT SUCKS NOW" but the old days were noticeably better. people on 4chan and the internet in general didn't care about moral faggotry, the main agenda was having fun. And we did.

At least that's how I remember it as.

>playing gaia online
>playing runescape


Anyanon play Gaia Online?

>limewire
>great cartoons like SpongeBob and Ed Edd n Eddy
>PS2
>Windows XP
>no social media

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>>34377271
yeah, my will to live

>>34394990
>people on 4chan and the internet in general didn't care about moral faggotry, the main agenda was having fun
I miss when everything didn't have to turn into a political issue

>>34377271
I miss being sperm

What happened to shock sites like Stile Project and Rotten.com?

>>34393528

1. For many of us, we've been on 4chan for a really long time and it's just habit
2. We have no life and so we come for feel threads

You'll be here when you're ~30 too.