What were the early 2000s like, robots? I was too young at the

>>37611325
They were shit. I had no friends and my family was alternately abusive and distant.

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the internet was better, everything else was just about as shitty as now.

>>37611325
It was v comfy. A nice time to be a robot since you weren't exposed to the toxic shit like today. Far less red pills, less piss bottles, more gaming. I thank god every day I wasn't born 5 years later. Never would've escaped.

>>37611325
They were as good as you made em. that is....if you are an autistic loser now, you would have been one then too, only with shittier technology.

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>>37611325
Today's boring as fuck dystopia hadn't quite set in yet, but everybody was rah-rah America for a few years after 9/11. Our president thought that people and fish could co-exist. Sports were a lot better.

People felt a lot more optimistic about the economy, at least, even if terrorism was the bogey man and Osama was basically Satan on the news. America wasn't quite so much of a joke as it is now, and Europe was still cool and not Islamotopia.

>>37611362
What made the Internet better back then?

>>37611325
The first few seasons of King of the Hill. Literally. Especially that no doubt episode

it was the best. i was playing vidya all day and everyone was loving me at the same time. and vidya was so better than this shitty crap games we have now. now they hate me for playing vidya and being lazy at home.
and i dont want to stay like this either i want to go to university i want to have some friends but thats too late for me either.

It was a great tie to be a Sonic the hedgehog fan.

Sonic adventure was exciting. Sonic Adventure 2 was epic. Sonic heroes brought back the chaotix!!!!! shadow the hedgehog was different and weird but fun and kept things moving. Sonic battle had a great tale. Sonic Riders.Sonic and the secret rings..The advnced series..Sonic Rush

Everything was so..woven together and comfy...and there was so much of it...Sonic 06 was he grand finale. It was shit and seemed to be in an alternate universe but it was the last sonic game that had a soul of early 2000 sonics. Now we just get 1 game every 3 years with sonic tails fighting eggman and everyone else nowhere to be found. it feels so lonely

>>37611398
this, its just nostagia talking. every site looked awful in early 2000s. Of course it was more "free" but that's it. thank god, never again

>>37611325
I liked it a lot. There was a balance between playing video games and playing outside. Before 9/11 everything was way safer to the public eye. Nobody really gave a shit about social progression so you didn't have to tiptoe with your words. The economy was decent and the cost of living was substantially lower. All in all a good time frame compared to now

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Pre 9/11, shit was pretty dang good. The cold war had been over for a decade, and we were finally entering The Future (aka the year 2000). The internet was starting to go mainstream, PlayStation 2 was the hot new shit, and life was generally more chill.

Post 9/11, people started fearing a lot more, trusting eachother less, and generally feeling worse.

>>37611409
oh man. i miss those times so much. i was so innocent and basic back then. didnt have any emotions. just sitting back and enjoying life. we appreciated every single basic thing. we loved life. but now everyone complains and everything seems sad for me.

>>37611463
>t. underage dork
The total lack of social media outside of geocities (which forced you to write) or something primitive like MySpace meant people were substantially less retarded and narcissistic. At least you weren't forced to know the opinion of everyone around you and could imagine them as decent people.

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>>37611398
far less normies

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>>37611599
it's fewer, dumbass

>>37611325
Early 2000's:

>Late teens
>Reasonably attractive
>Slim
>Had all my hair
>Still couldn't get laid

>>37611468
9/11 was the birth of modern SJWs who marched the streets demanding people apologize to the muslims who we forced to bomb us.

>>37611325
Well for starters anime was shared into irc that annoying interface which refuse to die and torrents was p new there was this shit called mule wich was like mix of torrent and irc shit was annoying.

They were shit

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Golden age of videogames and internet, back before normies inhabited both mediums and quality was much much better it was truly a time to be alive.

I feel pittance that you couldnt take part

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>>37611463
no

qaulity was much higher back then , the only people who used the web back then were people who gave a shit and geeks.

Smartphones introduced normies by droves and brought down down the quality of everything (introduced social media , corporate jewry etc

>>37611325
it was edgy, just check out old youtube videos for a good picture of it

I remember discovering that disc in some drawer when we bought the PS2. My father mistook it for something else and just saved it in his office. Later that year...

>my teacher asked my mother to hand her my new PS2 to reduce my distraction
>she agrees
> stupid teacher just places on top of the classroom's coat-hanging wardrobe for months
>bullies would joke about stealing it
> had to BEG the fucking nun for it, even asking other students to convince her to give it back
> she "took it hom everyday to make sure it was safe"
>could see the PS2 still there

My mother has been abusive and lazy all my life. She's a coward who's never helped me in any way nor made any sacrifice to avoid coming threats. But this was just absurd. All because she knew the woman well as she was one of her childhood teachers. Shadier and straight up worse than that unprofessional thongs have happened at that joke of a place.

And of course, at home.

I remember playing peicos school on newgrounds it took like half hour to load. I would be reading Harry Potter book.

>>37614054
she was takin it home to game dude

>>37612512
i guess if you were forced to go on social media sites but you're not. you're a retard complaining about shit that doesn't affect you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_jWHffIx5E

We were all all stars

>>37613724
>youtube
>early 2000s

Confirmed for underage. Mods plz ban.

>>37614123
That wouln't be so bad. But still... silly move on her part overall.

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>>37611398
Less moderation, laws and cybersecurity. Cyberbullying wasn't considered a thing yet. The internet used to be a real troll's paradise. Less attention whoring because youtube wasn't a thing and uploading pictures to the internet was tricky. GameFAQs wasn't a thing yet and bullshit videogame rumors were floating around everywhere, adding an air of mystery to the gaming scene.

Exactly like it is now only you could smoke in restaurants, we weren't getting spied on as much, people didn't have their phones out constantly and everyone was 10 to 20lbs lighter.

For some reason every decade before 2000 had a fantastic sense of style and identity. Now it's just blob of apps, social media and whiney teenagers who get a voice (but really shouldn't).

>>37614399
This blob of apps and social media is this decade's identity, dumbass. People in the 30's would have said the same thing about radio.

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>>37611463
Remember myspace? It looked like shit but was still better than facebook. I remember kids going to school with shirts that said TOM IS NOT MY FRIEND to show how cool they were for removing Tom from their friend list.

>>37614412
Except to be on radio back then you actually needed talent and ambition. If some teenager came on to say, call someone else a dumbass or faggot everyone would just roll their eyes and do something else.

There is so much garbage information that it drowns everything else out

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Memes were danker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar4WzQ7KHak

>>37614397
the internet used to add an air of mystery to everything. part of that was probably youth, too. but what a fucking thing the internet was for a youth. is now too i suppose. we're livijg in strange and beautiful times and we neither notice nor appreciate it.

Early 2000 era games are basically all I play now

>aoe 2
>gta sa
>Pokemon crystal
>yugioh before the 05 banlist
>tony hawks underground
>Simpsons hit and run

There's a small handful of things I play that are modern; total war Shogun 2, shadow run returns, asscreed (amazing how it's a decade old this year....), gta 4.

Internet back then, was fucking awful. I remember how many tears and frustrations I had trying to download game maker 6 on a dialup connection. It took 4 HOURS to get my 3mb file. It took me WEEKS to download it without the download stalling, someone fucking calling, the laptop randomely shutting down because it got too hot because it weighed 120 kilos, the whole thing was fucked.

Gaming was great. It's funny, back then it was it's own era. Now, we are in the same state we were in in 2007. It's been 10 years and the era hasn't changed at all? The world is fucked.

>>37614475
Do you remember the first time you used a search engine? For me it was altavista and I was fucking mystified. I spent hours searching gibberish just to see what would come up.

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POOL'S CLOSED DUE TO AIDS!

THERES AIDS IN DA POOL

>>37614397
GameFAQs was around in the mid 90s along with GameWInners and IGN What are you talking about?

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>>37611378
> economy became bad after 9/11 for a while. A lot of companies on the brink didn't make it. It improved for a while afterwards though, at least for a little bit
> there was no 90s nostalgia, just '80s nostalgia
> political correctness was largely limited to "happy holidays" and isolated incidents in liberal areas
> after 9/11 air travel and access to military bases sucked though
> video games were awesome, even Nintendo fans had things going for it
> Apple was making cool products due to a recent turnaround and not an insufferable brand like today

>>37614533
Oh. Shit. They were? I didn't find out about it until at least 2004. None of the kids I knew could competently find real cheat codes on the internet.

Neopets. Sabrina the teenage witch. Gargoyles. Lizzie McGuire.

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>>37611325
Verrrry distopian and emo like pic related. After 9/11 all of culture became dark gritty and war based.

Rock was better, rap was better. Fashion was a trocious

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Classic piece of art from 2003.

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>>37611409
Orly?
http://www.sonic-online.com/sonicpassion/

i enjoyed it as much as any 5-10 year old would

>>37611398
It was sort of like the wild west mysterious and lawless. I long for a time before social media again. Things where a lot more fun and comfy, you had people who generally understood the sort of unspoken rules. People really could just do their thing, and wasn't flooded by fucking Normies on there god damn phones. Social Media and smart phones are the absolute worse thing to ever happen to the internet. I have a lot if old fond memories posting on forums and hanging out in chatrooms.

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>>37611325
I lived on an island with 300 people on it and played in the woods all day

Pretty good times

i was happy, and that's it.

Surely too damn young to realize life's not worth living.

>>37614580
Just bought a box set of Sabrina. It's a nice show to play in the background while programming.

>>37611378
>Today's boring as fuck dystopia hadn't quite set in yet,

Yes it fucking did you were just too young to notice it. The media would cover the fucking whacko shit and milk it for what it could but you didn't have every fucking tv show, internet ad and conversation go on about it non stop for days weeks months or years at a time, like some faggot on here going on about the colombine shooters or fucking elliot rodgers. There were fucking whacko people all over the place except they pass as normal because people were less "PC" and documenting everything said or done to the point even minor things unless they were trying to bully you over something until you lost your shit and beat the fuck out of them, everyone loves watching a fight, then one of you'd probably end up moving and nobody would hear from you again since they couldn't go on and on about their bullshit and talking about the same shit over and over again without the internet unless they were in person where they're bitching about every minor thing that happens around them.

>>37611325
Not really different from today.

Bush=Trump

Britney Spears=Daya

Lil Wayne=Lil Yachty

The only difference is that 9/11 made speaking out against Bush unAmerican.

Bump - still debating if I should post my hugely personal response :)

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I can only really remember 2003-2005.

I remember playing the Wind waker for the first time on gamecube. It's still my favorite game up until today. Also Monster Rancher on the ps2. I remember staying up late playing that.

My taste is music was terrible and I cringe when I look back on it.

Also, there was a really bad gang war back in 2005 cause I lived in a shithole and there were dead bodies and garbage everywhere.

>>37611398
Online flash games

>>37611325
Fucking good times 93 here

I didn't have internet till 2006 and i'm from a poor country so no one had internet either, so it was very great. Had to finish SH2 and SH3 with no guides, the way it should be.

Popular cultural was pretty good.
Real life was still crap, but that was because of personal circumstances.

>>37611325
One thing that was cool about it was that Hot Topic-tier edge was way in-fashion. Newgrounds was better, too.

>>37611325
>battlefield 1942
>counter strike
>unreal tournament
>far cry
>medal of honor
>vietcong
>aliens vs predator 2
>half life 2

the early 2000s produced the best PC shooters ever but all anyone wants to talk about are the console games

Internet was way better, far less normies. The social media influx that started around '05 ruined everything.

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>>37611325
The early 2000s was the end of an era. Around 2004, everything changed for the worst, and we've been in a tailspin since then.

>tfw you will never listen to linkin park and limp bizkit at a lan with friends at one of their houses again

>>37617868

Youngfags today will never experience the joy of the bbs/internet culture from the early 80s-early 2000s. I agree it all went to shit around the mid 2000s.

> where's my fucking time machine?

>>37618027
The internet shat all over itself during the mid-2000s. It used to be a niche thing that only "nerds" or "geeks" used. And then all the normies and third-worlders came online, and I can't decide which of the two ruined the internet more. It will never be magical again. Sad!

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>>37618027
>tfw one of those early 2000's kids that helped ruin internet culture

it was rubbish
the fun and glam feeling and aesthetic of the 90s had departed and popular culture became a lot more conservative and grim
it seemed like people became more bleak and mean spirited too

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9/11 and Jar Jar Binks lol

Everyone was a lot edgier. The internet was a lot less heavily moderated than it is now, and thus funner, even if it did run like shit in comparison. Normies were a lot less savvy, so whenever media attempted to tackle internet culture the results were varying degrees of hilariousness. Bullies were tougher, the bullied a lot more prone to histrionics like cutting and shooting up the school. Music was terrible, but it's been like that for about 40 years now. Fashion was a lot blander and more indistinct, but on the other hand, various subcultures with their own styles were a lot more common. I didn't watch TV in a long time, but I feel like it was a lot trashier back then. In America, the conservative christians were a lot more politically powerful than they are now, and they were the ones going about muh children, muh video games, muh safe space, much like the liberals are doing now. It was a pretty lulzy time.

>>37617868
>>37618073
As soon the social media shit began, the internet went to shit completely. Remember when uploading a picture of your face was a big nono and everyone had nicknames like mysteriousguy486, yeah that was a long time ago.

>>37618143
I consider the '90s to be the end of cultural progress. Everything got progressively worse after 2000.

>>37618195
>whenever media attempted to tackle internet culture the results were varying degrees of hilariousness
Famous example
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNO6G4ApJQY

>>37618196
The facebookification of the internet caused nothing less than culture shock for me. It's become a completely different animal.

>>37618195
honestly bullies were not any meaner, a lot of them were pretty stupid and just repeated the same old shit over and over again, about as intelligent as a parrot. It really got tiresome hearing someone talking about cutting down instead of across like it was some funny meme that was clever or some shit. Honestly people were way more annoying in the 2000's and it was so fucking easy to troll them that now everyone thinks everything you say or do is a troll because they're paranoid about how stupid they are and looking dumb.

my teenage years were 2003-2009 and i feel like that's one of the most boring points in history to have your teenage experience
life and culture only started to get more interesting again after 2010... 2001-2009 was this completely barren time where it seemed like normies craved blandness

>>37618304
I don't know, I feel like physical violence and pack mentality were a lot more common before bleeding heart PC police took over.

>Honestly people were way more annoying in the 2000's
Ain't that the truth. While I miss a lot from 00's, at least LOL SO RANDUM XD ""humor"" is fucking dead and gone.

>>37618492
Yeah there definitely was a lot more physical violence then. That sort of thing was almost entirely normal where I was from.
I don't think the pack mentality went away though, those people just ended up on social media with a bunch of friends on there and are too busy trying to impress all them they don't really bother to pick on people outside their immediate friends group unless it's meme level shit like trying to pick on some guy that still lives with his parents after high school, because again, parrot IQ level, lol he lives in mommies basement it's a meme.

i was 15 in 2000
that was pretty much when my life started becoming good
i had a bad childhood that's why i come on r9k and mope sometimes but the last 17 years have been pretty comfy desu

my friend and i broke into an insane asylum and made a website on geocities or some shit blogging about it and we ended up getting busted
that's how i learned about anonymity on the internet

>>37611325
p. cool
tube tvs and monitors
fm radio
skateboards
college
blockbuster vhs rentals

It was good because you didn't have to see how great everyone else's lives were. No seeing Chad post his GF in a bikini in vacation or in their high rise penthouse. It felt okay to be who you were and it will never be that way again. We will all compare ourselves to the upper echelon of society now, rather than being content with being average

Battle.net was great. I spent at least 3 years straight playing Diablo 2

I got internet at home around 1998. I had played around with it from around 1995 until then. I was big into Pokemon in 1998, and then Digimon in 1999. I would go to this pokemon "groupboard" site (it was a chatroom that also let you draw pictures on it) and met people there. Online forums were pretty good back then. There were always trolls (that usually just got banned), and there was far less focus on politics (unless it was a political forum which I steered clear from). You could just type to like-minded people about your hobbies without worrying if you were on the right side of history for enjoying a "problematic" story or whatever. All of those forums I used to go to are all dead. I've tried finding new forums, but forums just aren't what they used to be. I was never a fan of the big time forums with a bunch of users (like DC Comics' DC Boards or especially IMDB which has always been awful), but I still felt sad when even those places started to shut down, like DC did in favor of just making sure people posted on their facebooks or twitter, etc instead. I hate social media, I hate voice chat stuff, just wish I could find another small but active forum that is worth anything, or something reminiscent of those old groupboard chats.

>>37611398
To somewhat repeat other posters, the mystery factor, the niche factor and the fact that if you used the internet it meant you were part of a much more exclusive in group than nowadays, and because of that a lot of the special and unique feeling that was felt when using it disappeared with the advent of social media and most people making use of it to communicate and share info. It can still be magical at times though, you just have to search for the right shit and break past the normie barrier.

>>37611468
what is that creature
there are only so many original things

>>37611468
This. 9/11 was the catalyst of it all, it marked the biggest cultural and social changes in the west in decades. The 90s was an era of pure peace and optimism, and aside from a few domestic issues literally nothing had been going wrong. The threat of global war was ever decreasing, people felt safe, technology felt like it was advancing faster than ever, and there was a general sense of contentness with the world, at least in America. Then 9/11 hit, thousands died, the government went to war and enacted laws taking even more power from citizens, people became jaded and cynical and didn't trust each other and were headed in an uncertain future, and here we are now.

>>37619178
you don't know the offspring?

>>37618983
You know some of it was just that people would present stuff, and you wouldn't get a bunch of faggots screaming at you about how it sucks and stop doing it. Really fucking dumb having the internet full of people screaming fuck your feelings, while at the same time basically just ironically whining about theirs since they don't like it. You don't like something? Don't like someone? Don't care? Then shut the fuck up and go away, you didn't put anything better out there all you put on for people to see on the internet was whining about how you don't like things. Everyone is a fucking critic.

>>37619233
You never heard of the gulf war?

>>37619258
Course I know about the Gulf War. Shit was never so rosey as we remember it obviously. But at the same time, despite things like that happening, the actual attitude and outlook of people in the 90s was definitely one of much more optimistic hope and a sense of peace/direction. After 9/11 hit it was like a cloud came and since then everyone has become so much more critical of the future and of life in general and world problems seem to be magnified now more than ever. Obviously it's not just 9/11 but I do think that was one of the main elements that first shifted everything.

>>37619276
Well I don't know where you're from so I imagine it's possible some areas were like that. I think in general the internet was just a tool that let people present information in a new way easily accessible that books and movies couldn't really cover and you had to go out of your way to find a copy or showing. It really brought to light certain issues that people didn't know a whole lot about but they'd be slightly cynical about to sort of I suspect this to AHA I KNEW IT kind of stuff.
The political climate like when people talked about it when I was a kid it was super different in a way compared to 9/11, there was just so much anti bush propaganda around it created a stupid amount of anti government bullshit where a lot of that talk would of made someone seem like a fringe kind of thing where you only hear of a few people who do some crazy stuff like terrorism, then after 911 you got tons of these fringe groups everywhere, stuff really has gotten fucking nuts.

>>37614134
>normies coming for social media and staying afterwards didnt affect the internet

internet was better when it was niche simple as that

the internet was the wild west and you could download mp3s from stan's tunez site hosted by geocities