Who else /ancient/ here? I've been posting on this website

>>38096211
Newfag here. How has 4chan culture change overtime? Give a timeline of the great epochs. I started browsing only in 2013 and the dominant memes were already pepe/wojak.

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I've been posting since 2009 and I feel entitled to be part of your team

yeah around 2008
>i was 12-13 at the time

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>>38096211

i just barely make it then

i don't have any good old memes to post though

>>38096211
I found 4chan in 2007 and just realized I still haven't even visited a majority of the boards, maybe I'll have look at some today

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>>38096227

i remember advice dog

good times

>>38096211
2007 here. not feeling that ancient

I was 11 when I started and I'm 24 now.
Realistically there shouldn't be that many of us.

I don't even remember how I found this site it's been so long, I think around 2005 it was mentioned on somethingawful and I got curious or I stumbled upon it while looking for hentai

I didn't really pay much attention to it though until the Scientology stuff started

I started browsing in 2004ish but only on /h/, /f/, and /s/. Essentially I was just here for hentau and occassioinally 3dpd porn. I can't believe it's been 13 years. Very soon I'll have been on 4chan longer than I've not been on 4chan

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mid 06 here

>buddies tell me around dec '03 about this cool new site
>10 y/o me spends a 50/50 split between /b/ and /c/
>99.99% sure growing up with that fucked me for life

>>38096323
I'd call bullshit on this for reasons but I don't like when they become about epeen.
What did people post that early? And wasn't /b/ /vip/ back then?

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>tfw I still have never felt a deeper connection to another human as the time we all united in hatred of Rossiu

>>38096226

It sucks to say it but I sort of define the epochs based on major media coverage. Because every time 4chan got major media coverage it brought a wave of newfriends who would have NEVER discovered the website otherwise. These surges of people were so large that each time it happened the culture of the website was changed forever. This is why rules 1 and 2 were always the most important. It's also why I use 2008 as the cutoff, that was the first year that 4chan got serious international mass media coverage. It was because of Project Chanology and after that the website was changed forever. It brought a huge wave of people who thought 4chan was some kind of organization bent on bringing truth and justice to the world. The most recent epoch is thanks to /pol/ getting Donald Trump elected.

So yeah in my mind I think of 4chan like pre and post Project Chanology or pre and post Fappening or pre and post Trump.

Also the other big definer of epochs would be whenever new boards are added. /r9k/ is huge in my mind for that reason because it created a kind of bridge between /b/ and the rest of the boards. It was originally like a sort of slow /b/ but it's evolved so much over the years it's really cool. Every other board has a topic so it can't really evolve and /b/ has always just been /b/ so /r9k/ is unique in that it's truly grown and developed in a unique and unrestrained way. I'm sure someone could write a college dissertation on it. Also I absolutely think of a posting epoch as pre and post /sp/. I don't even post there but I don't think any other blue board has exerted more influence over the general culture of the site. So much of what's common demeanour EVERYWHERE on the site originated on /sp/.

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I've been here since 2006. I wish I spent my life doing more worthwhile things.

I wonder what Snacks is up to these days, but I'm kind of scared to look him up

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08, heard about it from a bud in half life 2 deathmatch, met people from all kinds of boards and i love the people and culture

>>38096425
>I wonder what Snacks is up to these days, but I'm kind of scared to look him up
Still has his show doesn't he? Midnight snacks?

Other than that he's a web developer

>>38096211
Started in 2009, 11 years old. And that's how I know a large population of people here are underage, or reddit faggots

>>38096227

Nope sorry, you're an oldfag and no one will challenge that but you're not truly /ancient/

>>38096259

I've been to every board, I highly recommend it. There's so much interesting stuff happening on the site at all times, it's why I still haven't left yet. I even go to boards I have nothing to do with just to lurk and be fascinated.

>>38096261

I remember when advice dog was considered cancer and newfag bait that brought the worst type of posters imaginable to the site.

>>38096298

Damn I've never even thought of it like that but I guess it can't be helped.

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remember your first ban?

>>38096390
You delivered a non answer even a newfag could have given.
Fag.

>>38096473
It stings. I posted OT on /v/ unintentionally. I had a discussion about cats in a thread and someone reported me. It's clearly OT but I didn't even realize before the ban.

>>38096342
Nah. early early first iteration 4chan was /a/ anime, /b/ random, /c/ cute, /h/ hentai, /y/ yaoi from what i recall.

/b/ was shit like guro(most from a now dead hardcore BDSM site that also had death videos), the occasional Pizza, and genuinely random shit.
/c/ i only vaguely remember as going between people drawing, posting cute anime girls, and posting /h/ content I didn't fully understand at the time like Bondage Fairies or Alice in Sexland.
Shit died for a bit then i remember checking back one day and suddenly we had proto-/k/ and my lifr as a crazy motherfucker was assured.

I don't recall /b/ ever having been /vip/ but i could have missed that entirely.

'07 fag here.

Spent most of my time on 420chan though before /r9k/ existed.

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>>38096211
Started broswing maybe 5 or so months after 4chan was regged.
Sime in january of 2004 when i was 16.
Good times anon, its good to look back on old 4chan sometimes.

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>>38096476

I dunno what you want me to say lol.

2006 here. I was 17 when I started lurking /b/ although I was pretty aware of this place earlier from other anime forums and memes carried over.

>tfw posting since 2003
Kill me

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Does anyone else remember "initiation" threads?

I don't know what else to call them but it was usually someone dumping some fucked up comic or series of images. People used to dump stuff like that all the time just because the reactions from new posters was always so funny.

There was also a sort of culture of "you're not a real 4channer until you've seen this thread before" and usually the sentiment "what you're feeling is the weak part of you dying".

Just noticed no one really makes threads like that anymore. Also if you've never seen this comic dumped you're not a real 4channer.

2009 here

It's shit, never come here because not only is it ruined by reddit newfags but /r9k/ will make you hate yourself

i was happier when i didn't' have /r9k/ to self loathe myself in

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>>38096464

i remember when something being "cancer" felt like it mattered.

>>38096390
>tfw when never been on /sp/ because not interested in sports
To think of all the memes I missed ;_;

>>38096211
fuck man i was wondering why no one has posted rei dick in forever

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>>38096211
I have other images but here is one with a time stamp I was here around 2005-7 i cant remember desu when you get old shit just starts to blend together and you forget shit I am 30 now fucking christ

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I've been here since late 2004, my dude. It's been a wild ride, watching our "seekrit club" become the main culture of the entire fucking internet. I remember when Megaloop was on the front page, and it blew my mind. For a while, I keep wondering where I had seen all that weird, fucked-up hentai I keep thinking about, then I remembered 4chan used to have a guro board. I was 16 when I found this place - a guy on the SSX messageboard I frequented kept posting linked pictures from there, and I got curious. I followed 'em back and have been here ever since. I remember /b/ was so slow at night, you could refresh the page over and over and nothing would move.

I saved pic related in May 2005 - up until that point, it was the funniest thing I'd ever seen! I would stare at that third frame and laugh until I almost threw up, over and over.

>>38097083
the first guro shit was on some image search site when waay before 4chan even existed

>>38096261
>When advise don't spawned what is now considered memes but is actually just image macros

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Ha, found an old screenshot. I remember when people were confused by "roleplay threads" and thought this guy really was gonna rape somebody.

>>38096211
>Not a single mention of habbo yet.
Fucking hell lads.

>>38096568
God I remember the collection of those images.
The person was/is an artist.

2005 here. Came here from Newgrounds because /b/ kept trying to '''''raid''''' the NG boards. Didn't actively start browsing until like 2006.

>>38097205
What do you want us to say m8? Habbo was the beginning of the end. It spawned the first newfag flood and it's never been the same since.

>tfw had several HDD failures and didn't have back ups
>No way to prove I've been here since 2007
Motivationals were all the rage

u fucking normie, ur calling urself fucking /ancient/ bitch people like you are called OLDFAGS

>>38096211
me!

ive also been here since 05/06. i basically legit grew up on these forums as i moved around a lot and never grew deep roots anywhere in my youth

i was instantly attracted to r9k when i discovered it and was there when the first incarnation died and i was severly depressed because i thought they'd never bring it back

otherwise just another mid 20's incel neet on bux broken human etc etc

lately ive been super getting better and losing weight and all this other shit, but who knows what that even means

my fantasies consist of a girl falling deeply in love with me, to the point of burning everything else in her life over me. thats what i want most i think, i dont really care too much for money or even slaying or whatever, i just really want to swim in someone else's love

im buying anti-hairloss ru58841 this month and some other stuff for weight loss even tho im not really fat... i dont know

i hate people, i think

>>38097285
Mate this site has always been shit.

SA culture is fucking cancer, and redtext ban/edgy mod attentionwhoring look-how-cool-i-am shit is fucking AIDS that runs contrary to the spirit of the software
the first movers on the whole "american anonymous imageboard" deal were the absolute worst fucking people possible and it should have been literally anyone fucking else

also, no one posts shintaro kago comics anymore and like 65-70% of what brought people here is bannable now

so, enjoy your AIDS, as they say

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>>38096211
I can't even remember when I started posting here, but it was definitely before 2008. I browsed 2chan, too, just to look at the pictures.

>>38096211
What's the cut off year for /ancient/, because I've been here a couple of months, and I'd say that I've got a pretty good grasp on the chans.

>>38097205
habbo sucked
all raids sucked
IRC culture fucking sucks
>>38097417
an addendum to this: hiro stole the anonymous board thing. there were anonymous boards before this, mostly dedicated to warez and shit. he's like moot, hyperverbal and cunning, but also kind of a fink

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As true today as it was a century before.

>>38097417

That feeling when an essential park of chan culture has always been that one guy in the middle of the thread who's super pissed off about something tangibly related to the thread topic but is not actually quoting anyone and really just ranting at everyone and no one simultaneously.

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>>38096211
Is 'old chan' and 'old /b/' nostalgia hyped, or was it really as great as people are saying that it was?
I fucking hate /b/ and this site... yet I keep coming back

>>38097417
although to be completely fair to everyone involved, the people who did it were probably the only ones who could've pulled it off
the entire situation is hideous but it's not completely their fault

>>38097493

>2007
>light hearted posting about Bridget and being gay for traps
>2017
>constantly post about seriously wanting to fuck / be a trap

what happened

>>38097508
that feeling when you read his posts and realize that he's right

2004 - 2017: 13 years of shitposting.
I'm turning 29 this summer.

>>38097541
Ha ha, yes, light-hearted. *gulp*

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>hard drive crashes
>lose most of my old shit
>hear this type of story everywhere
>nobody is willing to share their collection of old chan stuff
Why don't we have a thread on >>>/t/ for this? I would seed everything forever.

really, I would set the ancient status cut off at 2006.

by 2007 you've got Chanology shitting the place up

>>38097526

The site has always more or less sucked. But then every once in a while there's something so insanely funny or absurd or entertaining or interesting that you stay hooked no mater what.

Also people forget what 4chan was like before /soc/ that was the original and most important containment board. Cam whores used to legit ruin every board on the site, nothing else was more infuriating. Just go on /soc/ right now and imagine all those posts were intermixed with EVERYWHERE else on the site. People would straight up cam whore in the middle of really good and popular threads because they weren't getting enough attention elsewhere. It still makes me angry just thinking about it. Also people would dump gore and CP if you disagreed with them or if they didn't like your thread so I don't miss that either.

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( ._.) [. [. glumly kneading robot tits

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>>38097585
I think this image lost the contest for the birthday image, but I thought it was the best.

>>38097526
I dunno. Personally, I might perceive it as greater than it was simply because the rest of my life has been pretty shitty

>>38097640
>camwhores
>ruined

well, moot DID ruin the site, so...

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Epic Fail Guy's origin. He was everywhere for years.

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>>38096211
>tfw joined early 2009 and still feel like a newfag
>tfw it's been 8 years since I've been here

Holy fuck

>>38097705
What ever happened to the guy that drew it?
It kind of just became community OC and died off...

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>>38097640
I agree with all of these points. A lot of people think 4chan is this retard bin, but we're way better about things now, and we deserve a lot of credit for that.
I'm also glad that we've cut back on the creepy young cartoon girl porn, and that the stupid crusade against furries has finally died out. Now if we can only build enough consensus to make /r9k/ a blue board...

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>>38097705
Pretty wild how an idea (meme) like this can mutate into the whole chanology V for Vendetta thing.

Calling all oldfags.

Calling all olfags.

Please write at least a paragraph on the history of r9k and its major trends, characters, and most wonderful moments. Thankyou.

>>38096226
It started with sincerityposting: Imma chargin mah lazer, EPIC FAIL, happy negroe and cockmongler.

Then there was self-awareposting: I seriously hope you guys don't do this, the rise of /r9k/ version 1, Internet hate machine, sincere feelposting

And then came ironyposting (shitposting): *AUTISM INTENSIFIES*, what did he mean by this?,

Fappening newfag here. Forocoches since 2014.
I try not being cancerous.

>>38097780
>glad that we've cut back on the creepy young cartoon girl porn
There is literally nothing wrong with "creepy young cartoon girl porn".
The only reason you don't see it is because it's against the rules now, there is a loli thread on /b/ almost every time I look.
> and that the stupid crusade against furries has finally died out
See:
>>>/global/rules/3
and
https://a.uguu.se/AswQILo1XKuX.mp3

>>38097979
>not recognizing the sarcasm
I was making fun of the stealth /soc/sticky-defenderfag

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Do still you liek mudkips, /r9k/?

>>38097950
I like how "shitposting" became a meme/religion/life calling solely because one butthurt mod constantly used it in bans.

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>>38098003
>not recognizing the sarcasm
mfw

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I got started when /tg/ was first added in early 2007. I don't think I've ever seen such a wonderful outpouring of creativity as in those early years on /tg/. I miss all those old drawfags and writefags.

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I miss the times when images like this were enjoyed and edited simply because they were funny images. No need for irony or sarcasm or intertextual metameme knowledge to enjoy it.

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>>38098042
Remember them killing /tg/ back in '09?
>/tg/ is not a discussion board, it is an imageboard. post images.
>mfw

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>>38097417
>o one posts shintaro kago comics anymore
Because people don't get it

>>38098121
The "Anamorphosis" series with the kaiju and the camera angles was top-notch. It seems like even guro and hentai have gotten tamer these days, though. Sucks.

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>>38097705
I miss those types of threads the most.
I prefer this one about the idea of comics multiplying so much they mutate

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>>38098089
Old /tg/ was really something else. Kharn was a pretty fun guy.

Found 4chan at the babe of 13, back in 2004

Funnily enough my little sister has been on 4chan longer than I have by at least 2 hours. She was 11 and called me over to the family computer to look at fucked up gore/death pictures. We both couldn't sleep for about 2 weeks after that.

>>38098222
>skubfag shows up to ruin the thread
new global rule when

>>38098089
especially rich considering that, iirc, there wasn't even a /tg/ textboard at the time
What Did He Mean By This

>>38097927

It was really cute and sincere when it first opened. Lots of random interesting threads and green text story threads. Then for some reason or another people felt compelled to post their personal problems / blogs in /r9k/. I think it was mostly because other boards had topics so if you blogged you got banned and /b/ would just ignore / troll blog threads.

So /r9k/ slowly became the unofficial board for posting about all your inrl problems. Because most robots were pure hearted and intelligent they would try to help the blog posters to the best of their abilities but eventually it started to flood the board because people would get decent advice so people would make more blog posts.

Moot became aware of this and tried to help by creating /adv/ an actual board specifically for posting about your inrl problems. However people kept blogging in /r9k/ anyway because /adv/ was slow and you'd get more / better replies on /r9k/.

Eventually this drove off many of the boards best posters who just got annoyed by seeing the board filled to the brim with people blogging and asking for advice on inrl stuff day in day out. It was always the exact same shit "there's this girl and i like her but she doesn't know it what do i do" or some variation on that theme. It was just tedious shit and clogged up the front page (this is pre-catalogue).

It was at this point that things got bad. With no one to give out advice the advice seekers began to wallow in their own shit. They would more or less just bitch and complain to each other and the board became a giant cesspool of people competing in the my-life-is-worse-than-yours-olympics.

Eventually these people stopped wallowing in their own pity but instead of trying to better themselves inrl everyone just became bitter and slowly the board became known for what is still it's most iconic trait to this day: misogyny.

>>38098306

It was at this point that moot got so fed up he pulled the plug. /r9k/ was supposed to be a sort of intelligent utopian /b/ essentially a /b/ where no one could rehash the same replies over and over thus stimulating intelligent conversation. It worked in the beginning but becoming known as the sober and intelligent part of the site it only attracted people seeking advice for their problems. When the amount of those people multiplied and everyone else jumped ship the remaining posters turned bitter and became hateful and misogynistic nihilists with nothing but contempt for everyone and everything.

So moot said fuck it. He straight up deleted the board because it was so toxic and garbage. Then a bunch of people petitioned him to bring it back and that it still had its moments, so eventually he did and it was slightly better after that. However it eventually more or less went back to its old ways.

Then came the greatest epoch in /r9k/'s history which was when everyone finally got bored of being sad and for a few months got extremely weird and meta. pee pee poo poo and /mischief/ threads ruled the board. everything before and after this is irrelevant. as someone who's been on the board on and off since day 1 this was by far the most creative and hilarious time in the boards history. the influence of that short period still remains to this day but it will never be fully re-captured again. i don't know what it was but for some reason everyone just collectively when absolutely mad. new memes and variations on memes were being created weekly and it was glorious.

I still believe the best of /r9k/ could be yet to come but it certainly feels like we're in a slump at the moment.

>>38096211
Was around since late 2003.

>tfw wasted life

>>38096640
That isnt an old thing tho, has it really stopped on /b/? Havent been there in a long time. Those were always fun tho.

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I miss that the majority of people who used to visit this website were disgusting abominations who were rightfully publicly shunned.

>>38098306
This is 100% accurate. God some of those story threads entertained me for entire nights back in the day.

Reminder that people that bitch about name/tripfags are the biggest newfags.

>>38098378

Pretty sure this is still a thing. Just make threads asking people to post their rooms and there is always at least a couple replies like that.

>2006
Don't feel ancient, can barely remember anything from back then. All the shit that happened around the time went right by me. It sure as hell doesn't feel like 11 years.

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>>38098306
This is all due to dumb "containment board" theory. We had "ronery threads" on /a/, NEET threads on /jp/, and some analogue of those on /v/, and they were all fine. People who wanted conversation instead of Reddit-tier topicalposting could have it, and everyone else could have their own fun, "at no one else's expense", to paraphrase a janitor meme. You could stay on a board, adapt to the culture, get to know the people there, and have a grand old time.

But then A-San (whom I think either invented or popularized herein the term "blogposting") got a bug up his autistic ass about it, and lead everyone on a purge of those threads, which was easy to do, because sad people are gross, and it's okay to shit on them. Suddenly, threads that were okay for two, three years had to move, and since /b/ was really fast and unusable, there was really only one place they could go: /r9k/. At this point, you have the collected, concentrated sadness of the entire website, divorced from any kind of support group or context, just shoveled into one big honking mire of despair. Now, thanks to the one-eyed wonder weasel and his magic car-home, they're not sadposting and then going and playing video games or something. Instead, they're just sitting here, talking to OTHER sad people, and commiserating about how hellish everything is, which as you can imagine isn't exactly conducive to recovery and a healthy, optimistic outlook.

And of course, everyone blames the sad people instead of the idiots who were dumb enough to think that severing users' ties with everything and dumping them into the same trash heap would result in anything good. Looks like the robots were right about normalfags after all!

>>38096440
He was DJing at AX tonight

>>38098447

This also makes sense, I was here since 2010 but the best time I had on this board often involved 'misogyny' - both real and ironic, and it was great.

I can imagine mods or just anyone coming to associate that with r9k, projecting their fantasies that all r9k posters were losers, and then trying to refer people here, which would explain the sudden influx of pissjug posters back in 2014-15.

is hating underagefags a meme? I think most people started coming here when they were underage, i started at 14 (19 now). just seems a bit hypocritical desu

>>38097927
What >>38098306 >>38098320 this guy said is really accurate. Stuff like spaghetti stories went from being lighthearted and people making fun of themselves to genuinely wallowing in misery.

/r9k/ has always attracted interesting people anyway, since the start, but even after it started going to shit. People post a lot about their personal lives, feelings, a lot they wouldn't post elsewhere. There's been tons of bizarre and hilarious tripfag and other drama in this place, probably more drama and shit than anywhere else on 4chan, which I think most people aren't more than vaguely or superficially aware of or interested in, and don't get involved with. At one point around I think 2013 or so the attention whoring and tripfags were so cancerous a lot of people stopped posting completely.

>>38096211
March 2006 here. I don't remember the life without 4chan anymore.

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>>38096425
>he didn't go to the AX after party

>>38098447

Nah fuck you.

Sad posters got banned from their home boards because they were ruining them. Then they ruined /r9k/ instead. The blame lies squarely upon them. I can still see their threads burned into the back of my retina's. You're divorcing them from normalfags in your post but sad posters were the original normalfags. Their threads were always about the most trite normalfag problems (doing bad in school, having an argument with a friend, unrequited love etc). There's a reason those types of threads and postings were made bannable on all the other boards and it's because they sucked. When I go to a board I want to read about and discuss the boards topic. A little bit of meta or culture posting is alright but sad posting was something else entirely. The threads would always start off with "I know you guys hate these threads but I really feel like you guys get me, so here's my problem..." fuck that, even they themselves knew they were a detriment to the quality of their board.

>>38098502
I think it's partly because we know how bad the site was for us and they also make the worst posters all around, and draw funny fail face guy in real life highschool art classes and wear memes to school and are generally cringey

>>38098502
Consider that one can hate their own previous actions.

it was 2006. i think i was 12, or had just turned 13. good times

>>38096211
What i don't get is how a 14 year old knew php ,mysql and other programming languages at a young age.
No wonder he is working at google now

So many people just left this place because they suddenly had grown up and gotten friends and stuff. Does anyone else feel kind of left behind? I feel as if people grew up and left me behind.

>>38098684
Php is easy but what he did was download the open source code form niichan.

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>>38098569
I see the Mod Internet Defense Force has arrived. Your problem is that you use IRC or Twitter for conversation, and the boards for Serious Internet Business, and you think that other people should have to do the same shit.

Obviously, "they were ruining the board" is an opinion, and you want to sucker me into either trying to define what is or is not a "normalfag problem" and then whether or not 2007-era posts that no one remembers fit the definition, or trying to LOGICALLY FUKKEN PROVE whether they sucked or not, because you know that these are meaningless blind alleys where no one can prove anything.
For any newfags reading this thread: This is how janfags argue-- they attempt to drag you into opinion-based pissfights where no advancement is possible.

Instead, I'll say this: You got your wish. You segregated all the problem users into /r9k/ and /pol/, which are now the two most relevant boards on the site, and the producers of the content everyone thinks of when they hear "4chan". The other boards are mostly dead or dying, supplanted both in productivity AND quality by sites like (ugh) Twitter and (god help me) Pintrest. As a result of this, your time is mostly spent putting out fires caused by these ungodly Frankenstein agglomerations of users who have no business being near each other, and pleasing the remaining holdouts in the topic boards, who have been led to believe by your past actions that all they need to do to get rid of shit is whine about it. You have successfully killed the goose that laid the golden eggs.

Was it worth it?

>>38098684
Moot's Jewish IRL, no joke. The Ashkenazi IQ meme is real.

To be honest if you didnt emigrate to 4chan from &Totse, you are new and are probably REALLY dumb, so go huff raid

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>>38096211
2007 here. What have I done with my life?

>>38098720
Still, tekk savvy. Hosting, maintaing the site etc etc, pulling this off. I didn't know this shit at 14

>>38098755
Meh. There is a bunch of sites out there that offer a LAMP stack where you can upload through your browser and it's a server + domain in one. All you do it pay once a month and they handle security and all that stuff.

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>>38098732
Oh, and may I add: Because of your dumb, ham-handed interference in something that didn't need fixing in the first place, "4chan problems" have gone from "this girl in my class doesn't like me" to "I did what you said and my pissbottles caught the house on fire". Have you made peoples' lives, IRL, measurably worse? Who can say? (Yes.)

>>38098785
He probably had rich parents so he afford to host 4chin

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started browsing /b/ at like 12 in 2007. I was part of the Habbo Hotel wave. Discovered 4chan thru Encyclopedia Dramatica. I am part fo what originally killed this site.

>>38098823
His mom was a single mom, no money. There was a "donate or die" event back in the day because he couldn't figure out how to do ads and needed money to host the site.

>>38098732

Dude I have never used twitter and I have used IRC once or twice although I can't even remember what for. Never been a mod or a janitor and I think hands off moderation is the best approach (some of the funniest and most creative threads could only be allowed to bloom in a low moderation environment). With that said, blogposting should be bannable. The thing about peoples problems is they are always significantly less important and interesting to literally everyone else. An off topic thread about someones girl problems should either go on the board made specifically for that purpose (/adv/) or be deleted by mods.

I dunno what to make of the last paragraph in your post. I don't have anything against current /r9k/ or /pol/.

But yeah you sound like a butthurt blogposter so it seems like if anyone should go off site it should be you.

>>38098862
How far back do you go? You seem to know a lot.

>>38098911
Idk, we weren't in the thousands that browsed back then. We were all still underage at least, that i know.

>>38098889
"Blogposting" is a dumb A-San meme. I'm not hip to the opinions of a man whose home has bucket seats. You're trying to get me to defend the idea that BLOGPOSTING IS INHERENTLY GOOD and I'm not doing that. I'm simply saying that /r9k/'s current state is a direct result of the dumb moderator need to shuffle shit around.
However, I'll also say this. Sure, peoples' problems are more interesting to them. So are their opinions. Are you trying to say we should keep opinions off the boards? What do you have then? Because it sounds like you just want a Booru.

Ronery threads weren't top-of-the-line content. They were fair to middling. Deleting them was a stupid, user-abusing misstep that directly resulted in /r9k/ becoming Depression and Misogyny Central and indirectly resulted in that kind of thing spreading to every other board.

>>38098862
Fun fact: the guy who used to mod the textboards got 4chan kicked off its server for hosting loli. Then he got banned from SA for being a lolicon. I can't post the "dunno lol" emote here, but just act like I did.

did you guys have oldfag threads in 2008?

>>38099008
One other thing: This asinine need to have everything be ALL QUALITY ALL THE TIME EPIC GOODPOSTS, instead of making room for the fucking users to use the site like they want, is goon to the core, and has completely poisoned this site. Yes, let's iteratively cull the bottom 10% of everything! What the fuck could possibly go wrong!?

There's no understanding of wabi-sabi in that shit. Thanks for fucking it up, retards.

>>38098008
EMPH EMPH EMPH

>>38096379
ROW ROW, FIGHT THE POWA!!!1!

>>38099027
Nah. Summer threads started happening around then though. I guess the whole triforce thing started around then as well.

im 2010fag and immigrant from 9gag

please accept me

>>38098720
I've been here since 2004 and I grew up and got friends. I still come here, though.

>>38096640
>tfw first seen this in 2002 or so

>>38099008
This is not, of course, to lay all the blame at modcat's feet. He's a decentish guy, just not one I want having life-or-death power over my fucking home.

>>38099239
There was a thread like in... (I have no fucking idea) where the guy who made that posted the sketches. Calls, inside the house, etc. I'm glad I didn't roll furfag on the sexual disability chart.

>>38099067
Users shouldn't have free reign over the site because users are retards. 4chan may be among the least moderated social media sites in existence but advocating for zero moderation is advocating for a flaming pile of garbage.

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Late 2004 here. I've posted a few times in these threads, so... what else can I say?

I miss the days when moot would randomly add music and a message at top. Seemed like a special day and things were fun :)

I enjoyed the old XBOX IS HUEG days. And heck, even ALL YOUR BASE was still considered to be funny. But it was never really my crowd. Really I think 2007-2009 were the glory days of /b/... coincidentally, when people started talking about "the cancer that is killing /b/". YLYL threads first started appearing, and advice dog split into a ton of different things. I consider the new era as starting with "so i herd u liek mudkips", and there was 4chan's first mainstream exposure on FOX news, calling it the "internet hate machine", and that was really amazing and hilarious. And the Scientology activism made things real. And moot faked there being a meetup in Boston, and a bunch of people showed up and were all meme'd out and having a blast. And everyone online was saying how horrible and embarrassing it was, but I thought it was great. And shortly after, moot met up in NYC, and everyone there had to be sooooooo sophisticated and totally normal... jeez, how boring.

And then for a long time, the standard greeting was "Ron Paul /b/,"

>>38099320
You know, the last time I successfully dodged all of these little rhetorical traps, the guy I was arguing with somehow went through my post history on another board (:itisamystery:) and just started shitposting at me. I'm gonna try for a repeat!

Did I say, anywhere, that I wanted ZERO moderation? No, I didn't. I said that, specifically, THIS moderation decision was stupid. Oh, and while users may in fact be retards-- how the fuck do you rationalize "users are retards" with "this site is great"-- I've seen the chatlog leak. Are weird, Reddity lifer-janitors and aging hipster sellouts, both of whom hate everything about the way the site works and most of the users, better? Should I be pleased with this shit?

Removing ronery threads was fucking stupid. It will always be stupid, and now it's too late to put the toothpaste back in the tube, because if you suddenly allow them again, they'll just fill up with /r9k/ shit. GG fucking EZ.

>>38098447
that's how mods kill shit they don't like while retaining plausible deniability

>take /topic/ and move it to /shit board everyone hates/
>people complain and refuse to post on the garbage board because it's humiliating
>they post it elsewhere
>/topic/ is now shitposting, spam, and therefore bannable, even on the garbage board

this site is run by /b/tards. god bless /pol/ for breaking that shit when they tried to pull it with them

>>38099408
>Removing ronery threads was fucking stupid
Removing off-topic bullshit is never stupid. 4chan is not your fucking personal therapist. People go on specific-topic boards to discuss that topic, that's what the board is there for. They don't need to deal with retards whining about random shit.

>>38098566
>The saddening fact that I could have gone to this.

>>38099456
>Removing off-topic bullshit is never stupid.
Welcome to Reddit.

Nice work causing GG, by the way. You hector /v/ for fucking years to JUST TALK ABOUT DUH VIDYA, completely neuter their culture, and that's the result. From this, you learned nothing.

>>38098447
I used to mope around the ronery threads on 4chan before Valentines day, and on 4chan in general. Essentially, ronery threads was this big circle-jerk of self-pity where we all commiserated about how alone and unhappy we were.

I haven't seen them in years. They never made me feel any better. The only comfort was the fact that I knew that other people felt like I did and that I could somewhat comfort them.

When I left high school, I had never even had a girl look at me romantically. I never fell in love with anyone, I never went to a dance, all I did was gaming, homework, sleep, eat, repeat. I had people tell me that I was mildly attractive, but that only made it worse because I felt like I was wasting something. My parents only made it worse when they were concerned about me. They thought there was something wrong when I ended up never bringing home a gf in my life.

It was Valentine's Day not that long ago and I'm still trying to get into university. Still have no gf, still feel like a loser. But I've dated a couple times. Fucking up a lot and drove off a girl or two because I have no experience with women whatsoever, but I think I can make things work out if I just keep trying. I've learned a lot about life and people. I just hope I don't die a complete loser and fall in love at least once.

That's all I want. I just want to feel in love at this point. I don't care about sex or dating or anything. I've never felt it before, but I hope it's as good as people say it is.

>>38099502
>all shitty trends on 4chan are duh mods fault
good one

>>38099539
When you prevent people from talking about things that interest them, they'll find their fun where they can. That's Five Guys.
However, Gamergate (not necessary Five Guys), would never have reached critical mass without the legions of other posters disgruntled by the mods' bullshit judgment calls, e.g. /sp/ and so on. It's squarely on them.

>>38099525
Yeah, and IRC is this big circlejerk of +o affirmation. So? I appreciate that they didn't help you, but that's not what we're talking about. For what it's worth, I've grown to appreciate the stuff that's bloomed out of /sadr9k/, but you can't pretend like it wasn't a mistake to begin with.

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>>38097526
People shared more valuable stuff, and put more time into their posts/shops, because it was like an exclusive club. Less people, and threads moved slower. Minor celebrities would show up- I remember Tom Waits, and the guy who drew Garfield cartoons. The glory days from 2007-2009 (yeah I'm that guy) was when people shared infographics full of helpful information. ...Then, once more and more people flooded in, it slowly went downhill. I don't consider /b/ as culturally significant at all anymore- just a place for children, chads, spammers, and such hardcore losers that they don't even want to read or type. For instance, the internet's newest successful meme primarily comes from here (and... god forbid... /pol/).

>>38097705
Yeah, EFG threads were an event... that's how /b/ used to be, folks.

>>38098320
Yeah, that was really fun when /r9k/ went nuts :) Last really creative phase on 4chan.

>>38097705
This was his origin as wearing the mask, but he was present as a character before that.

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Yeah, I think it was 2005-ish. People on the SA forums kept mentioning /b/.

Part of me wishes I'd never come here.

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Internet Historian said there's a Habbo Raid reunion later this month. I should get in on that.

>>38096211
>Cut off for /ancient/ status is 2008

kek. I started shit-posting on dial-up BBS'es in 1989.

>>38099738
You'll notice he never said WHEN this period was. He just likes pee pee poo poo and /mischief/.
But only ironically! God forbid genuine robots, instead of epic ironists, exist.

Also, /mischief/ is banned now, if I'm interpreting the deleted-OP tea leaves correctly. It's fucking annoying. I still do that "putting effort into your 'shops" thing, but now I have to find a new board to visit, because the shit I come here for is being voted off by a bunch of autistic forum faggots who missed the off-ramp for Small, Well-Managed Subreddits. And you can't even disagree with them or try to defend yourself, because they're better at fucking imageboard politics than you, and they just turn whatever you're trying to protect into a snarl word, and howler monkey speds who've never had an original thought in their fucking lives jump on the bandwagon, and your forum cred status points go to shit, and it's all over. You know, like how an anonymous forum is supposed to be.
Effortposting is nothing compared to a bunch of /b/-tier retards shouting "kek effortposter btfo" at you, which is why they do that. Of course, when chat isn't coordinating them to defend stupid deletions, they're whining about how this site isn't smart anymore. Whatever. 2009 was really when everything went to shit, but they were always sort of bad.

>>38100064
kek effortposter btfo BASED hiro *plays minecraft*

>>38099738
>People shared more valuable stuff, and put more time into their posts/shops, because it was like an exclusive club.

why put effort into a thread that'll just be deleted for being a """"""""general"""" if it ever takes off
why spend your man-hours on 4chan and get called a dumb faggot by IQ 90s when you could be building a #brand on twitter or artisting on tumblr
why give anything of value to this bucket of AIDS that rarely gives anything back

also the anti-general crusade is the dumbest shit ever. 2chan has sequentially linked 1k-post general threads dating back years and no one gives a fuck but if 4chan does it, it's a national emergency. 4chan Is Not 2chan please adjust your watch. fucking gay as shit

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>>38100278
>why you put so much effort into things that disappear?
I do it because it is core of being anon. You do something for others just for lulz and others do it for you
EVERYTHING FOR LULZ
People like you only destroy fun people have

>>38100410
lulz is a stupid ED meme and i remember when it was wordbanned

ancient femanon who was here when /b/ was anime and random

sup robots

>>38096275
Don't be so sure. Sites like Newgrounds and YTMND were big traffic divers to 4chan.

>>38100433
go to bed allyson

>>38100433
I'm an ancient femanon and I think I started browsing around the same time. Started looking at 4chan when I was really young, been on /r9k/ since its creation. Man this place has probably been a horrible influence on me. Wonder what effect sites like this really has on people.

>>38100457
It's hard to say. I think I might just be autistic because I have always thought more like a man than a woman but maybe 4chan messed with my socialization process. Whatever the case, I definitely don't fit in with normie girls either in terms of interests or psychological profile.

>>38100474
Same I think, except I'm just crazy and not autistic. Don't fit in well with other girls or human beings in general but I don't really fit in well with men either and I'm distrustful of them. Feels like being an alien species.

>>38100553
I think I would fit in with nerdy men if I was male. I have nerdy interests and think in a similar way. It used to make me bitter because having a vagina always ended up making things awkward because they would lose their spaghetti around me in guilds or d and d groups or whatever. Over time I learned to accept it though, maybe even enjoy the power a little.

>2008, about 13
>Roleplaying some gay shit on gaiaonline
>Some guy comes in posts a bunch of gore
>Everyone one else in the thread is like "ugh fucking 4chan loser what a creep"
>Kind of interested in the gore, what's a 4chan?
>Look it up, go to /b/
>Lots of gore and protomemes, also normies talking about drugs
>Well that's neat, but what about the other boards
>Go to /r9k/
>So many green text threads, was basically a green text story boad
What happened /r9k/?

>>38100840
most of the epic greentexts came from /v/ and to a lesser extent /sp/
making /r9k/ the "greentext board" was an attempt to move all of that into its own place so that people wouldn't go bald from the stress of seeing greentexts on the world's fastest moving video games forum
of course, you can't completely separate a meme like that from its context and expect it to survive, so they dwindled out and died

I started posting in 2007. I learned of 4chan through sites like Gamespot/GameFAQs. My friends also started browsing at that time but all eventually stopped or moved on to reddit, but I stayed here because the culture was so interesting to watch develop. Ive been here for what feels like forever but almost entirely as a lurker. In 10 years I've probably only posted about 100 times or so I'd say. I guess I just can't shake the newfag mentality.

>>38100987
I learned of 4chan through gamefaqs in some ancient time too. I think on a social board. I forgot that site existed, that was such a long time ago.

>>38096226
>I started browsing only in 2013 and the dominant memes were already pepe/wojak.
2013 here, and this is bullshit.
Still called them sadfrog and feelsguy at that time. I remember the whole ree shit taking off in late 2014, early 2015, on this board and then it spread to the bigger ones.
I remember coming on /r9k/ after hearing that it was /b/ 2.0 but with the robot and making a thread, and politely being told not to post here, for my own sake.

I was told to lurk moar way back in 2006, and I still continue to lurk.

this site ruined me, and i'm just a passive member of the board but i'm on it 24/7

though i do shitpost hard when i get sleep deprived

>>38100987
When people stopped lurking moar is when this site stopped being interesting imo.

4chan was completely impenetrable to newfags, but now everything is spoonfed.

>>38097541
>what happened

The lighthearted kids who got to explore the beginnings of the internet grew up to be chronic masturbators and porn addicts.

>>38098720

I came here in 2010. I got a lot of friends since then, all but one of them online friends I met on this site. Given how much 4chan's rules and cultur have changed over the past 5 years, I think it'd be impossible to do that again.