>you will never go back to the early to mid 2000's >you

you are obviously not a robot or 30+ get the fuck off my board child

>>39512774
The internet got ruined in 2008. It's when the normies invaded like flies.

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>>39512727
I miss playing old co-op games, lad. Playing games today I feel like doesn't bring me as much joy. I used to come home from school, fire up Doom 3 or FEAR with co-op mods installed and see the same people every day. SWAT 4 and Republic Commando too. Sometimes I even woke up at like 5 and played for about an hour before going to school. As autistic as it sounds, I occasionally wonder what the people I've played with are up to these days, if they're alright and whatnot.

>>39512727
old /b/ was shit
the PSP/do a 360 and walk away were shit
g4 was shit and im glad it got canned
take off those rose-colored glasses, your nostalgia is misplaced

>>39512888
I got TF2 at launch and would often go to bed early, waking up at 5 in the morning to play for a couple hours before high school. It was great. I remember thinking how great the game would be once Valve added some new maps, and how gaming could only get better from here on.

It only took a few months to realize how wrong I was.

>>39512836
The nu internet of your babby years maybe. The internet was ruined long before 08.

>>39513013
it is truly still and always will be september

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If you've never seen this window, you don't know shit about the internet.

>>39512727
>infiltrated everything
sure, learn different ways of communication

i can imagine that everything you wrote is pretty much the same for this generation if you adjust everything to present year

>>39513102
>tfw no semaphore gf

>>39512836
the fact youre calling people normies shows that youre new

>>39512727
I miss the 2009-2013 period

>having that PC Matrix game made by atari
>Shitposting on french Call of Duty forums
>typing retarded 10-year-old message on old aesthetic dinosaur fan forums >watching my shows on megaupload
>playing Half Life 2 Deathmatch on my favorite servers, getting banned
>orbiting this japanese player in my group
>coming home on christmas even knowing my parents will be out of town for the vacations,
>waiting for the 2012 apocalypse on the 21/12/12 night

>>39513137
see >>39513168 for proof
an underage had the same experiences as you did

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>>39513168
>2012 is nostalgia now

>>39513233
I was 11 years old in 2009, robot

>>39513248
2012 was the best year of my life (2013 too but less fun)

Albino Blacksheep. It used to be so good

>>39512727
I missed the opportunity to be an early YouTube celebrity when the criteria and standards were fairly low.

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>tfw we'll never go back to a time where it was considered highly risky and dangerous to post information about yourself and pictures of your face online
I just wanna go back to a time before social media and normies shit up the internet

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>>39513327
>mfw I see some numale youtuber on steam who has full name and face picture

Spending all day on Newgrounds.
Source of entertainment and porn

>Tfw you will never play Red Dead Redemption again

>>39513326
I hate this too, if you just mashed together sloppy call of duty videos and then gradually stepped the editing up if you got onto it at the right time you would have done incredibly well for little effort

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why couldn't it be 2003-2008 forever :(

i miss farming flasks 12 hours a day for aq

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>>39512727
4-player console coop (N64, gamecube). N64 was old by 2003 but some people still played it especially for mario kart, smash, perfect dark. Hell a lot of kids played old school PS1 games - twisted metal, FF7/8/9, legend of dragoon

DnD v3.5. The PS2 era. Warcraft 3, Age of Mythology, Rise of Nations, RTS games in general. Groundbreaking games like GTA 3 and Halo first coming out. Magic before the Mirrodin block. Limewire. pre-2007 WoW (before burning crusade).

old school /b/, sites like ebaumsworld, newgrounds, stickdeath. MSN Messenger and Livejournal

Anime conventions were a lot better, much less amateur e-celebs, patreon models, and attentionwhoring. Less posers and barely any "gamer girls." Barely any politics or SJW bullshit. Panels were actually interesting, not some fat dyke lecturing on "Expressing Gender Through Cosplay"

Really feels like the mainstream has degenerated

What was the first community you guys joined?
For me it was Habbo, then the Legendary Frog Forums for first forum.

>>39513514
"Nerd culture" and "Geeky" stuff being cool now killed conventions.

Also old /b/ raids.

>>39513272
same here, back then I had all the opportunities and thought the future will make things better

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>>39513326
>2011
>"let's plays"
>people uploading themselves play games?
>everyone plays games
>this will never take off
>mfw

>>39513539
Gaia Online or Stormfront

>>39513615
Damn those are two complete opposites.

>>39513588
>Haha what if I uploaded myself playing FF6 for the same time
>Nah nevermind nobody would care
>1 year later was the lets play boom
>Another year later was when people started to get big bucks on it

>>39513550
Back when nobody knew memes and so whenever they were raided they'd be confused as to what the fuck people were saying or what 4chan was.

>>39513327
>"Lol why do you have some video game picture as your avatar anon?"
>"Your username isnt your real name?"

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>Bad Company 2
>MW2 before hackers
>Halo 3
>Halo 2
>playing all of this until 4am on weekends
>playing till 12 on school nights
>friends wanted to do things and have fun instead of being normies with responsibilities

Fuck.

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>>39512727

Remember when Pure Pwnage was like the premier online show? Christ I miss this show so much.

>>39515039
Imagine if someone said I pwn n00bs to you today

>>39513588
I really wanted to be the next Armake21 but my voice was ( and is) too gay to pull off the whole angry gamer thing. Shit sucks but you just have to wait until there is another niche to exploit.

>>39515064
Yeah plus at the time angry gamers reviewing games was a big trend anyways. It became the first thing oversaturated on Youtube probably except from people uploading music

>>39515062
Depends if they know what they are referencing. Pure Pwnage was fun to watch but now its aged into being a really comfy show to watch.

Its really just about the day to day life of the greatest gamer in the world.

nothing, I was a fat, lonely teenager
only similarity is still no gf

remember when we had shit like troll police on youtube

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

surely i can't be the only one that remembers the legacy of mtndewman4000

https://youtu.be/_QPAKjJ6Pd4

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I miss all the XBOX HUEG memes. I miss couch co-op. As overmemed as it is, I miss 4chan feeling like a seekrit klub.

>>39515039
jesus the memories

i feel like most people dont remember this show

2004-2008 was the best

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp1X_F-uwAo

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>>39514932
not sure I was entirely ready for this feel anon.
when friends were real and we just had fun playing video games

>>39512727
>>you'll never reexperience the hype leading up to the PSP and Xbox 360, watching 24/7 coverage on G4, not knowing that it would lead to the normification of gaming

Man that was legendary I remember watching the 360 release live too

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>mah face when

>>39516611
>growingup.jpg

>>39516611
>filtering threads
hey there reddit

2005 was probably the peak year for me in many ways at age 15. Revenge of the Sith and YouTube were big that year. Possibly the last year I remember being happy consistently.

>>39517319
Youtube when it was the top animu source. You could find entire episodes on there.

>>39517319
>>39517665
>not getting your anime through irc downloads because your school was being a dick

blocking torrents didn't work out for them :)

>>39517700
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Psr4rq-ICu8

>>39513539
Neopets in 2001. Invader Zim fan forms in 2002. YTMND in 2004. /b/ in 2006.

>>39513475
Fuck, what happened to Krinkles?

>>39512727
The normiefication of gaming was brought on by the ps2 dumbass

>>39517976
This, games like Grand Theft Auto ruined so much. My dad even got a PS2 while everyone was moving up to the 3rd gen

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give back the invasion board

>>39518429
4chan never had an invasion board you fucking fag

>>39518429
Proboards was the beast. I remember forum roleplays on Proboards and MSN groups.