Do you ever miss the early internet, /v/?

All the time.

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yes

Yes. I bet a bunch of you nu-/v/ fags never downloaded viruses on kazaa and limewire before.

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>>386608926

>>386609089
Fuck.

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>geocities fansites

>>386609234
>downloading porn only to get the same avi of the cheerleader getting railed

>>386609234
you mean the good ol'
>metallica_LOTR_r@ygold_9yo_10yo_11yo_12yo_13yo(FULL PRIVIT).avi.exe
??

>>386609473
I know what your talking about

>>386609473
Goddammit I would get so mad. I would wait for like a fucking half hour for the download

>>386609506
Kazaa is how I found out about PTHC

>>386608926
>>386609506

never fell for .mp3.exe

>>386608926

Holy shit, yes. Especially Audiogalaxy and its forums.

>Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Rings complete RIP.exe (299kb)

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>in a yahoo chat room at very young age
>dude randomly PMs me "Hey do you want to play pokemon red?"
>Being the naive child I was, I agreed
>"Cool, all I need is your IP, here's how to find it out"
>leads me through how to find it
>being internettually retarded I give it to him
>a few minutes later my screen was flipping upside down

What was the first gaming forum you joined, /v/?

Gametalk here.

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>mfw waiting patiently for that 30 minute download of a 3mb song to finish

>>386609234
>spend countless hours downloading porn
>fire up realplayer
>first video is some black chick fucking a horse
>fucking nice
>second video is just a black screen
>then the sound started
MY FELLOW AMERICANS

>>386610198

The gaming section of Megatokyo's forum.

>>386610058
I remember once I downloaded something for whatever reason and it showed the shutdown screen from win95 and then "restarted" into cmd and it typed by itself format c:/

I have never unplugged my computer as fast as I did that day. Later I found out it was just an swf.

>>386610198
TheTechGame

>>386610198
A Harvest Moon fansite. I forgot the name but I'm pretty sure my sn was larcthedragoon

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>MSN Gaming Zone
>Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight
>No guns
>Sabers only
>Battleground: Jedi

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>>386610362
>larcthedragoon
My nigga
I don't think I've ever seen Legend Of Mana discussed on /v/.

>>386610198
Used to use the chatroom on an old pokemon site. But I didn't really join it, so probably IGN

Fuck, do I miss limewire and, later, soulseek.

I also miss my taskbar being filled with chats as I blared black metal off my stock media player WITH the visualizer. I remember practically running home (no bus route kek) to chat with my internet gf and then talk eachother to sleep late at night over the phone.

Then one day she sent me a care package with a copy of this shitty sci-fi movie we were obsessed with, a bracelet, and her panties and it was the greatest day of my pathetic early teenager life.

God damn those days felt like they would never end

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>>386609234
>find tenchi muyo hentai browsing whichever p2p
>was the hottest shit
>never saw it again

>>386608926
I don't miss the terrible speeds and various other drawbacks but I miss the style.
And since it's in the picture, I also miss the old Pokemon games where you would see Voldemort just walking about wherever.

>>386608926
God no.

>>386610695
iktfb they were innocent times

>>386610198
I didn't use gaming forums but I did make Pivot Animations on MSN Groups, Droidz.org and DarkDemon.org.

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>>386610643
I still try to play it yearly. It really never gets old, even when trying to min/max the manas and shit.

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consumption junction literally ruined 12yo me via sensory addiction

>double amputee starts fucking herself with her own crutches

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I miss coming back home on mondays from school and being happy to see a new Strong Bad email. those were the days

>>386611037
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

>>386610198
This one. I didn't have internet until 2011, so I typed "video game message board" and I found this place.

>>386610860
>that one gif of sailor moon and sailor venus scissoring with x-ray

>>386610198
SEGA Boards

no, it got old quick.

I remember sending an extremely angry and long e-mail to some sonic site because you couldn't play as metal sonic in sonic 2 but my friend told me you could full of @&#$%-style censored words when I was like 7

>>386611123
>I didn't have internet until 2011
Jeeezus Christ, I'm only 22 and I've been using the internet unrestricted since 2003. You got fucked.

>>386610198
gamingsteve, i didnt feel the need to join any until the wait for Spore

>>386611123
This, but I was also lucky enough to have been using /b/ for a short time beforehand.

>>386611037
I only ever saw one of these things. I've been needing to get into Homestar Runner for years and I'm not watching anything at the moment so I guess now is as good a time as any.

>>386611224
I'm 24, and I didn't get the internet until 2005. I missed so much.

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>all those websites made from scratch
>now have google/gawker copy and paste trash

>>386610198
/v/ in 2007, quite honestly. Gaming forums always seemed weird to me as a kid but I was never able to quite put my finger on why until later.

>>386611156
I still have it saved. Saw it posted relatively recently. Good stuff.

>>386611123
>The Tester Season 3 was 6 years ago

The actual programs and shit? No, everything sucked and was slow as fuck.

I miss the fact that it wasn't full of social media shit.

>>386611224
I always wondered what the early internet was like. Luckily archives exist.

>tfw spending hours to load images
>See small thumbnail of some hentai shit
>Huge boobs, click it
>Fapping furiously as the image loads horizontally
>Suddenly a dick, been fapping to a futanari for a few minutes without knowing
>Too into it to stop
>Cum to it
>Urge to look for more the next day

Old internet gave me fetishes

>>386609683
I remember that. It's much harder to stumble upon that stuff now.

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>>386608926
I miss the early Internet almost as much as I miss the pre-normie computer game industry.

Give me my fucking hobby back.

>You never got to flirt with dumb emo sloots on MySpace back in 2004 because you thought you were too cool for social networks with your 8 tabs of Stick Death Theater and Newgrounds

We all have our crosses to bear

>>386608926

>pokemon walkthrough
>ever needing them
>when pokemon is so easy that i beat the game without knowing english at the time

I don't miss the old internet

>>386610198
I guess this one. In 2008-ish my ex introduced me to /b/ with her unfunny fucking 'man teh harpoonz' memes. I thought this site was stupid as shit at first, but I kept coming back. Then came /v/

>>386611341
>plain HTML sites
>now every site has a million fucking things in flash and java running in the background, every site tracks you, can't even copy + paste from sites without them inserting a fucking advertisement in the paste.

>>386609234
there was a time on limewire where no matter what you searched, it would always append the search string to something like GIRL_HAS_A_VIBRATING_ORGASM.AVI.EXE

it was weird

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Did anyone else had an autistic folder full of printed out hentai pics? Me and like 4 neighborhood friends used to fill it up until the folder fell apart from the weight.

God, I fucking miss the late 90s.

I used to hide it under the last drawer of my dresser.

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I yearn for the day when social media dies, and every migrates to the next cool thing. It's more a pipedream, I know it'll never return but I really do miss the old days of the internet. Back when things were like the west

>>386611341
>all those games made from scratch
>now we have tons of engines, assets and plugins so every game is a mix and match of pre made stuff
>somehow we end up with LESS creative stuff out of this

I don't understand

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>>386611341
>find art forum with amazing community
>lurk mostly but still neat to see other peoples work and read the discussions
>watch it slowly die
not even kidding there's probably less than 10 of the old guard and they're the only ones that use it

>>386611293
It's always a good time to watch Strong Bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R22zSrpeSA4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwZwkk7q25I

>>386611613
>Implying you know every pokemon you can catch in every area
>Implying you can even get information in game about the Power of moves in RGB

>>386608926
Holy fuck I remember Realplayer. What happened to it? What happened to .rm files for that matter?

People still use IRC though I think. You can get cracked shit there that's harder to shut down than just following google links to shady russian websites. It's like the backyard garage sale to Web 2.0's big retail chains.

>>386611647
I printed out bulma hentai a few times but I'd just cum on it then rip it up into a million pieces and flush it down the toilet

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>>386610198
Battle.net Via Starcraft. I can't begin to tell you how much time I wasted in the Use Map Setting section of the "chat" room. I eventually switch over to Halo PC. Man, the online of this game was so much fun. I wish I would have found out about Runescape instead of both those two game instead.

But yeah, it saddens me that Halo PC went F2P and is full of beaners and brs.

>>386611341
People says that the stuff you put in the internet last forever, but many of the old things I use to venture are all gone. RIP Geocities.

>>386609473
I've seen Debbie Does Dallas more times than I can count, and not by choice.

>>386611827
>What happened to it? What happened to .rm files for that matter
it's a shit format for a time of shit internet

we don't need it anymore

>>386608926
>all those wonderful child model sites
i honestly don't know if they still exist, but I'm not gonna look in post 9/11, NSA world.

>>386609393
>webrings
>guestbooks
>animated mailbox gif that leads to an email address people would actually respond to

Ye Olde Social Media

>>386611827
I used to download a shitload of porn videos with it a few years ago until it suddenly stopped getting the videos out of the sites.

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>>386608926
Any time I feel nostalgic for the good old days I go to cavernsofblood.com

It's a Halloween horror site that's barely been touched for the past 17 years. The front page got rid of its geocities fire and dripping blood skulls, but the better chunk of the site pages are still in their virgin state. I highly recommend playing their HTML games, and checking out the horror graphics and midis gallery:
http://www.cavernsofblood.com/cobtips.html
http://www.cavernsofblood.com/CQ/CQ.html
http://www.cavernsofblood.com/scarystuff.html

>>386608926
I have my old icq # written down in an old txt somewhere

>join video game director's cuts forum and post on it for years from age like 10
>Randy Solem died

>>386611645
That happened with emule if you used shady as fuck servers, and all had an unrealistic amount of high speed, low queue sources.

>printing out porn and hiding it in a shoebox under the bed

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>>386612045

>>386612103
FUCK I FORGOT

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>the passage of time is inescapable

>>386610198
isonews. Left around 2008 or so.

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>>386611689
>tfw internet forums that aren't part of some company or service (game forums etc) are dead
it's all twiiter and facebook now

>>386612170
Don't do this to me anon. Webrings aren't even a thing anymore.

>>386612170
Fuck, I remember when websites used to shout eachother out. Those little rectangles were so visually appealing in retrospect.
I miss exploring the internet, back when everything wasn't a feed.

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>>386610585
>Playing AoE2 on Microsoft's Gaming Zone
Fuck

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What would you guys do differently if you go back in time to when the internet is in its infancy

>>386609234
>you will never download a dialer again

>>386611586
you have to do what anyone with dignity does - shut yourself off and generally refuse to acknowledge the scrapheap overwhelming you.

>>386612252
>Single account
>Everything at one click away
>Always functional no matter what
>On PC and phones whenever you need it

There's literally nothing wrong with everything vidya related to be handled through twitter/steam forums

>>386612413
Go forward to about 2003 because that was the golden age

>>386612415
>Youl will never install a dialer from a demos CD that came with that one magazine with The Sims 1 cheats

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>>386610243
>That feel when you wake up to all your songs downloaded, burn a CD, and pop it in your Walkman before going about the best days of your life

>>386612413

Kill moot.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0

>>386612413
Work my ass off making Mods instead of abandoning them to focus on school and shit so I would be hired by a big company and make loads of dosh today

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>>386612170

I wish I was old enough to be nostalgic for anything older than windows XP. And I barely got to experience Windows XP too.

>>386612543
who?

>>386612605
It only gets worse from here on out. Don't forget that.

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>>386611598
>17 years old
>Hitting on girls on Nintendo forums/chat rooms
>One of them was a fucking 35 year old cerebral palsy sufferer and we were her only friends
>Another one said she was a gymnast
>Charm her into sending me a pic
>She's clearly like 8 years old
>Try again with a girl my age
>She lives near me and asks to meet
>Agree to meet her at the mall and sends me a pic so I'd recognize her
>She's a 1/10 man jawed Asian girl absolutely riddled with acne
>Stand her up and tell her the day after I couldn't find her
>Never talk to her again

I just wanted an emo sloot...

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>>386612636

>>386610695
Soulseek was amazing. I spent so much time fucking around on that site.

>people asking for tech advice
>you gotta reformat your drive to speed it up. Open cmd and type format /c
>they log off
>people looking for leaked albums
>download country music or rap and rename to unreleased albums

Lots of other crap i did, I spent a ridiculous amount of time on that program. I Haven't thought about it in years and I'm having a nostalgia trip. Thank you anon

>>386611598
>Stick Death
My dude right here.

>>386612413
warn them about 9/11

I didn't have internet until 2005 when I was 12. Missed out on a lot I guess.

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>>386610058
I did shit like that back in the day

>>386611625
Sounds like you gave up a self aware keeper. Most women get fat eventually.

>>386612501
you mean diskman?

>>386610058
also if you had a good trojan it would send you an ICQ message with your victims IP. Common household routers ruined all this.

>>386612132
I had a folder in my closet and a bunch of ziplocs under my mattress.

>>386612809
would that even work? who would you call? what would you say?

>tfw arguing with sister for the family computer only to have mom come in and "ban" you both from using the computer for a day
simpler times

>>386612576
Tell me about it
>I HAD the potential to make a bunch of morrowind mods
>retarded me think it too hard
>late 00 later, I figure out the in and out of the CS
>but it too late

>>386612831
>self aware keeper
Cringed, my dude.

Self aware women are still not free of the mind of a woman. They still feel the same shit. Don't go thinking they are inherently better or that self-awareness is even a valuable resource past age 25.

>>386612907

Of course it wouldn't work. 9/11 was an inside job.

>>386610198
Probably NSider, Nintendo's official forum, posted there for several months when I was 14. A dude there made one of those ancient 'build up attack/defense/etc' turn-based browser games and a bunch of us would hang out there in a chat room. I miss those guys and have no clue how to even find them anymore.

>>386612907
I think there was a TV show or movie on this exact premise. It involved you getting accused of being a terrorist and interrogated. In real life they'd probably accuse you of being involved and then you'd be charged with doing a 9/11.

>be 7
>go on the internet only for neopets, video game cheat codes, or to google "dragon ball z" and look through 50+ pages of fan sites

>>386612413
Create a porn aggregation site.

>napster
spotify
>aol
facebook
>irc
discord

>>386611123
Do you live in sub-saharan africa? I've had constant access to the internet from home since 1995 and my family was lower-middle class.

>>386612580

Iconic. Except I don't remember her having an eye on her forehead....

>>386609234
>Still miss the times I was able to download legit childporn videos from those places
Aaah...those were the days.


FUCK OFF FBI I ALREADY GET RID OF THEM YEARS AGO

>saving 300x300 jpgs of cartoons and anime I like watching
>not even porn, just low res screencaps or shitty paint drawings that I like
>I still have them on a drive somewhere

>computer in dining room
>up all night looking at porn
>constantly looking over shoulder every time I hear a noise
>"Anon what are you doing"
>My mom had materialized right behind me silently
>jump up to cover the monitor
>pants fall down
>all I can manage to say is "Ah! You scared me!"

>>386612170
You know what's really weird?

The old fansite I discovered Final Fantasy at 17 is actually still around and is updated.

>>386613113
Close. I live near Canada.

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>>386612413
I'm amazed you guys didn't try to be youtube famous, even before Something Awful does.

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>>386612687
You are not a nice person.

>>386612589
And the misnomered NN bill of 2015 enables this bullshit. It's like have land titantics pay the same at the weigh station as a tiny Nissan pickup.
It's just a handout to silicon valley giants as a thank you for campaign donations.

>go looking at my old forum because of this thread
>find out someone I knew died like a month ago
Shit.

>>386613178
My friend didn't know how to take screencaps so he used to take photos of anime images he liked using his camera, upload the photos to his computer and trace them on MS Paint.

>>386608926
I wasn't online until 2006

>>386613150
I downloaded CP when I was 17 and forgot to delete it when I moved away to college.
My sister found it on the computer and I had to make up some bullshit about it being mislabeled as an album.

>>386613150
>I already get rid of them
Not a defense scum. Just because you got rid of them doesn't mean you don't deserve to rot in prison.

>>386613189
>ara ara it seems my little boy is pent up!
>m-mom it's not what it looks like!
>shh let mommy take care of that for you

>>386613248
>Didn't try
Bish, I succeeded (not anymore tho, i stopped uploading years ago lol)

>>386613248
>youtube before it was owned by jews pushing their leftist globalist agenda
those were the days

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>>386610198
The earliest I explicitly remember are the linear 2 private server forums o frequented in high school but it has to be waaaay earlier than that. Did old SC era battle.net have forums? It was probably statecraft related either way. That was the first game I got super into online.

>>386608926
Yes. Cherish it. It's only going to keep getting worse still.

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>running around doing barbarian things
>suddenly running in place
>run in place for several minutes
>watch the game play at warp speed for a few seconds and end up across the map and dead

>everyone had a shitty fansite about their favorite game
>loaded with animated gifs
>best viewed with netscape and internet explorer at 1024x768
>the site under construction animated gifs
>everyone had the rotating @ symbol.gif that linked to your e-mail address
>downloading patches and demos from fileplanet
>getting all your vidya news form blues news and scary's suga shack
>reading .plan files from developers talking about awesome development stuff

good times

>>386608926
Fuck no, anyone that actually used the internet remembers how awful it used to be. Fuck off with that rose tinted revisionism, kid.

t. browsing the internet since before most of /v/ was born.

>>386613448
Did you play those tower games? Or the Thing? Or the RPG map? Or are you that kind of player that only play MEGA RESOURCE MAP?

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>>386608926
>Able to talk to anyone about anything you want
>not having weirdoes try to track you down IRL if you say the wrong thing
>lots of vibrant communities to join, typically a part of 4-5 communities at once
>Most of the people who had the know-how to operate a community back then were adults
>Vast wealth of information kept in plain-view without any strings attached or misinformation planted
>Clickbait was easily ignored
>The worst ads were banner ads, and the solution was not to look at them.
>Even if there was a banner ad that interested you, clicking on it wouldn't instantly fuck your computer and bank account.
>everything on the internet was set up for ease of use on Desktops
>Everything was small and loaded quickly if you met the 48K-56K recommended speed.
>Since everyone used the same type of connection hardware, all the games ran the same way in multiplayer, too.

Frankly, I don't know how the internet even keeps going in its current state. It's an architecture that is too big to fail at this point that has lost all of the charm and sense of community.
Sure, I can download Anime porn in a few seconds, but at what cost?

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>>386613189
Hahahaha, I remember doing that kind of shit, also printing hentai on a Loud as fuck and Slow Bubblejet printer in the middle of that night that could wake the dead

You DID sign guestbooks, right?

http://www.angelfire.com/games5/cultureshock18/

The kid who made this site was a middle school friend of mine. Wonder what ever happened to him.

>>386613520
Go back to your crypt, grandpa.

>>386613514
>everyone had a shitty fansite about their favorite game
Oh boy wanna see something?
http://cammyfan.com/

>>386613645
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH GOD

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>>386613248
Good times

>>386613635
I used to print out sheets of video game walkthroughs to keep on top with the porn printing out underneath

>>386613273
>And the misnomered NN bill of 2015 enables this bullshit.
What? You're crazy. Traffic to small and unusual sites would be of the lowest priority to any ISP since there'd be no monetary incentive to prioritize them since almost no one actually cares about them.
Instead they'd prioritize the giants that people actually subscribe for giving them cash as well as the business deals that sites would no doubt make to be prioritized.

>>386609234
>Virus

>>386613685
I'm only 27, I'm not that old... right?

>>386609234
Viruses? Get on my level.

I spent half a day downloading a movie on Limewire and it turned out to be just Fight Club that some fag renamed. Multiple times. I specifically went for the ones with lots of seeders. Surely those 100 people wouldn't keep seeding something if they knew it was a fake, right? Wrong.

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>tfw finding out about internet history for the first time
I freaked out because I looked up so much hentai. Looking back, my mom probably saw the history, but ah. I guess it's something every parent had to experience

>>386613189
I used to tilt the entire CRT monitor down when someone walked in. Little me didn't realize how hilariously suspicious that made it look instead of just accepting my digimon hentai like a man

>>386609234
I never got a virus, though one time I was downloading the song Tribute by Tenacious D and thought it was taking too long, only to be pleasantly surprised I had downloaded the music video instead of the song.

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>>386613776
Now I feel like shit. I'm 30.

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>all those people kind enough waiting for me to load a song on FFR Multiplayer
Thanks bros, even if you did only stick around for 2 songs

>>386613695
This is actually kinda cool. I certainly prefer this to just typing "Cammy" on Pinterest or whatever.

>slow as shit speeds
>if the phone rings you're internet dies
>pop up ads everywhere
>macromedia flash
>huge bugs never patched


rose mother fucking tinted glasses. the internet is objectively better than it is now. just because your lives were "better" then doesn't mean that the internet is worse now. fucking retards

>>386612589
I feel like video sites are going to make a comeback unless youtube actually fixes their interface to be actually useful searching for content. While it works ok on a personalized level its fucking awful for finding to something to watch with a friend or a family casted on a big screen. and the top and trending stuff is socially engineered garbage that can only appeal to a finite amount of people. no i am not going to magically wake up one day and want to watch some chick paint her nails, or bake some stupid psuedo nerdy nummies, or watch a vlog from some muslim chad.

GUYS JOIN MY WEBRING
geocities.com/hollywood/sunsetstrip/backstage/games/arcade/332424779929/myfirstwebpage.html
GUYS JOIN MY WEBRING

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>>386612843
Yeah man.

>>386613921
>you are internet dies
>calling others retards
an hero, ESL trash

>>386612413
Apple + Google shares
Also try to make Myspace.

>>386613006
I just meant she probably wouldn't turn into a hamplanet. Only an idiot would get married. Don't over think it.

>>386613921
>He didn't have broadband in 2003
>Implying Flash was bad
LMAO

Also the internet FUNCTIONALLY is better now, but the overall ecosystem of the internet is completely fucked thanks to social media centralizing everything.

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I JUST WANT TO GO BACK

WHY IS THAT SO MUCH TO FUCKING ASK FOR, JESUS CHRIST

>>386613416
Post youtube account

>Do you ever miss the early internet, /v/?

Yes and no

XXX password sites
Premium-rate porn-site auto dialler malware
Disabling ActivX
Green Guy Link-o-rama
Adultcheck age verification
Realplayer and Quicktime
Webrings and top-100 sites
Yahoo Pool
Chatrooms
Warez

just some things that come to mind

Yeah I fucking miss it ;_;

>>386614125
i dont miss those loading times

>>386613921
The moment the internet moved away from the phone lines it became objectively better than it is now.
And it was arguably better even before.

>>386610198
The rockman-exe.com forums. I miss IRC, especially Hikari-Labs.

>cruising the porno tgps
>pop ups
>POP UPS
>INFINITE NEVERENDING MOTHERFUCKING POP UPS
>close them all instantly with zen speed
>do this for hours
>time to sleep
>every time I close my eyes I'm bombarded with pop ups in my mind
>ANON TIME FOR SCHOOL
>make up excuse to stay home because I couldn't sleep

That was a wild day.

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>those p2p programs let you see the search terms others typed in
It was hilarious and disturbing at the same time. It was the moment I lost faith in humanity.

>>386612437
>Single account
Don't you see the problem here, already? Single account means that it's infinitely easier to ignore you, now. Everything being a click away also means that everybody can easily infest your communities, including children. The only advantage is the ability to take it around on your phone, and is the trade-off that great for it?

I would much rather have an internet where everything was made with Desktops and mice in mind again than everything made for the lowest common denominator (Phones and watches).

>>386613713
that is my favorite version of windows media player. fuck this trash i have now.

>>386613729
The only thing the bill does is prevent the ISPs from charging Google, Facebook, amazon, and the likes their fair share. The bill stifles small completion if anything.

>>386610198
Sonic Cult and Simon Wai Sonic 2 Beta

If there's one thing I don't miss, is the slow download times. Dial up sucked.

>get shown albinoblacksheep
>find simgirl
>begin searching for other fappable flash games as a means of plausible deniability if my searches were ever questioned
>find newgrounds
>after exhausting it stumbled on to /f/
>end up checking out /b/ and eventually /v/

I honestly don't know how long I've been here

>>386614125
>spending a day trying to convince dad to stop deleting Netscape and just use it because it's better than IE
Pain. Suffering. Rage.

>>386614168
I won't say that loading times were good. But I have very fond memories playing gameboy while browsing the internet.

>>386614280
Small competition*

>>386614125

Too bad they muted the nostalgic music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWq4DWfrpu8

I felt like the smartest hacker in the world because I figured out how to delete the browser history and kept all of my porn pics on 10 or 12 floppy disks named "school project xxx"

The perfect crime

>>386608926
The main things I miss are the early web sensibilities. Sites that were self-sufficient and didn't need to call a bunch of shit from 3rd party repositories(that end up tracking you even with other standard protections in place). Standard HTML tags used to quickly and cleanly display sites instead of a bloated cancerfuck of javascript to so much as display an image. Pages that got to the fucking point immediately with the information I wanted. And last but not least, the Golden fucking Rule of the internet that has since been lost, "Do not give out any personal information on the internet ever."

>>386614405
>not putting a password on your folders so no one could open it

>>386613124
So many variations of that one, most of them being just colour swaps

>>386613929
who the fuck sits down with their family and watch youtube clips?

>>386613004
Shit dude, same here. I started two total conversion mods for Morrowind and never finished them. Didn't even post about it.
Also spent thousands of hours modding Age of Empires 2, Age of Mythology, Warcraft 2 and Dungeon Siege.
I knew the guys who worked on the AoE2 HD, the forgotten empires team and shit, it could've been me if I wasn't too much of a lazy pussy.

>>386614435
>"Do not give out any personal information on the internet ever."
this is facebook now and practically most sites. amazing that the standard was overturned the moment normies took over.

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>>386613635
I was printing out porn at my dads house and the computer blue screened. Decided not to turn it back on and finish what I was doing. A few hours later my dad gets on to check his email and the printer starts printing the porn I tried to print last. Have to distract him while I snatch the pc of paper saying it was something for school.

>it was lewds of botan from yyh

>>386614405
>C:
>Program Files
>Epic Games
>Unreal Tournament
>Data
>Files
>Misc

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It's conflicting to know both that I'll miss 4chan immensely when it dies one day, and that it'd be sad if I were still browsing past the age of 25.

>>386614316
This is almost me except it was ganguro girl leading to /a/

this was 2006. I was underage at the time.

>>386610198
PSPISO.

>>386614562
to think botan use to be the poster girl for anime. it didnt last long apparently

worlds.com

>>386608926
The reason the internet sucks now is because everything is fucking centralized. Everybody is seeing the same shit being shared on Facebook, Reddit, Twitter or whatever and then moves on to the next thing. It's not just about the people who spend their time looking for cool shit online and then linking it to their friends. Everybody just sees the next big thing because their favourite feed of choice spoonfed it to them.
"Hey did you see that thing"
"Yes of course I fucking did"
Wow, how riveting. Sharing and discovering on the internet used to be excited and not based on algorithms. Not to mention people can't create their own successful website full of content anymore because everybody just watches YouTube videos instead. Everybody knows that functionally the internet is better, that's how all advancements work, it's just the social aspect of the internet is completely fucked. We're lucky that we can even experience the internet in the age we're in now considering that we're a ballhair away from having government mandated online IDs.

I turned stealth night fapping into a goddam artform.
>computer was in living room, screen clearly visible from the hallway
>first thing to do was obviously dim the monitor
>minimize whatever programs were open, remember the order they were open in
>after I was done I would reopen everything in the order I found it so nothing looked out of place
>would rotate the chair to be facing the exact way I found it
>and finally bring the monitor back to full brightness before putting the computer to sleep

Browsing the net in the middle of the night on diallup at a penny per minute playing Kingpin and Team Fortress and got my first £250+ phone bill

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Back when the internet was good, Windows looked beautiful, and game developers still had some soul left.

I miss messenger apps like AIM quite a lot. It was really the perfect chatting setup. If you were online it meant you were actually in the mood to talk to someone and you could talk to anyone. Nowadays we have text but its not the same dynamic you never know if someone is in the mood to talk or if might be interrupting or inconveniencing someone.

Had a lot of great relationships unfold that are not possible today.

>>386614565
this. when you had porn, you knew you had to hide it in the most obscure places

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>>386614562
>at dad's house
>no computer
>WebTV
>printing porn in his bedroom with door locked.
>yells at me to open door
>HOLD ON!
>JUST A MINUTE!
>walk out like nothing was happening

>>386614281

Lol I remember one of my internet friends telling me about sonic cult and we made forum accounts to troll until we got banned because we didn't give a fuck and it was funny. That site actually was kind of interesting though. I looked it up recently again and it still has pages that say "coming soon" but they never will.

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>>386614736
bitch, you werent the only one

Golden age of internet for me personally was 1998-2006. It was shit then on many fronts but there was a charm to it. In 2007 things took a noticeable decline even as the problems inherent to the older internet were done away with. A lot of things beyond the internet went wrong in 2007. It's such a pivotal year.

Winamp, it really kicks the llamas ass

>you will never get on chatrooms and talk about all kinds of shit while listening to music and playing your GBA into the wee hours of the night

Kinda sucks. I miss chatrooms

>>386614575
>it'd be sad if I were still browsing past the age of 25.
You're never going to leave.
I'm 22 and actually live quite an average life but I still come back here sometimes. It's comforting. You must be like 17 or something if you think age 25 is a long time away. Just accept that you find Anonymity comforting and addictive because you're never going to truly "leave".

>>386614510
who doesn't ? there isn't fuck all on TV these days. And Hulu and Netflix are limited catalogs.

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>>386614776
>and game developers still had some soul left.
it's gone now

>>386610198
GameFAQs of course. Though it may have been the WoW forums. Either way I got banned for shitposting constantly.

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>>386613645
>tfw my cringey anime roleplaying guestbook signatures are probably still alive on some websites somewhere

I don't use that email address anymore, but damn...

>>386611625
>My ex

What happened?

>>386612794
You know Soulseek is still active as fuck?

T. /mu/

>>386614936
>That massive TV
How attractive and quaint.

Big TVs don't even feel big anymore because small high resolution screens pretty much give me the same effect these days.

>AOL
>"early internet"
I'm sorry your first internet experience was trash, kids.

Started using the internet in the late 80s/early 90s. Still remember Eternal September and how the AOLosers basically ruined the internet forever.

>>386614884
Aren't we in a chatroom right now, you idiot. I'm sure chatrooms still exist but they're probably filled with third worlders who just discovered the internet.

>>386610198
SimRTK a forum post board for rping about the RoTK games as well as hanging out and chatting.

>>386611613
>rc
i do miss the old internet, but not rly for walkthroughs. i always called my good friend a fag for looking shit up back then.

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I had a real future shock moment recently.
>be checking out Legendary Frog's old stuff
>his animations usually had cute little stuff that played while the main thing loaded, like Kerrigan listing all the things you could do while you waited
>back in the day it took like five minutes
>now it takes literally around 1/8th of a second

>>386614884
>you will never play runescape while chatting with your irl friends on irc
>you will never get 99 range and hit 22's with your rune arrows and msb
>you will never pk with your friends in the darkest part of the wilderness at the darkest hour again

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>>386609234
>download limewire
>download limewire pro from limewire

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>>386614405
>make folder on desktop
>open up list of characters and name the folder a blank character, and then change the icon from a folder to a blank image

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>>386614808
>Web TV

>>386615139
A möbius coil of piracy.

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>>386609234
I

FREE

CLUB

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>tfw you used to write Digimon lemons in between playing D2

I'm still worried someone will find them and link them to me someday

>>386609234
>pokemon harry potter college student anal sex fuck limp bizkit.mp3.wmv.exe

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>>386614435
THIS. I miss when websites had a clearly defined archive of whatever the website was about. You'd have 20 articles to a page, organized by genre and posting date, making it insanely easy to find whatever it was you liked even several years later. Then mobile design came in and fucked it up. Fuck giant buttons. Fuck infinite scrolling screens. Fuck it all.

Pic related, if mofunzone was your childhood this is how it looks now.

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>>386613556
>Did you play those tower games? Or the Thing? Or the RPG map? Or are you that kind of player that only play MEGA RESOURCE MAP?
All of the above. I started out playing multiplayer then moved deep into custom games. My favorite was motherfucking Aeon of Strife which eventually spawned the entire MOBA genre. It blows my mind that some rando custom game for the original starcraft spawned a genre with pros making millions of dollars.

>>386615091
Wow an internet with 0 content and nothing but college campus elitists memeing at each other sounds fucking great grandpa

Early-mid 2000s was objectively the best time to be on the internet. Everything was so damn comfy. Flash games and stick figure fighting animations were everywhere, and they sucked, but they sucked with charm. You'd log onto a forum with a bunch of people who shared your interests and over time, you'd get to know them as friends.
The internet really became shit around 2012 or so. That's when everything became centralized and hyper-commercialized and any soul that the internet had left went away, when memes became image macros instead of funny internet in-jokes. Sometimes, when I'm feeling particularly nostalgic, I'll log onto once-bustling forums where I used to chat with shittons of internet friends and see them abandoned. There's no way that I can put this feeling other than sad.

>>386615298
Jesus wept

>>386614405
>yfw you forget all about those disks but they're still out there somewhere
>20 years from now your relatives will be rummaging through great uncle anon's computer stuff
>Open the school project files expecting 90's nostalgia
>find pictures of Sailor Moon taking a horse cock up her ass

>>386614575
Dude I've been here since before /vp/

I don't even remember how long ago that was maybe 3 years tops

>>386615121
An even worse shock is that he's still making shit and his trash has barely even improved

>>386608926
>RealPlayer
I haven't used that shit since 7th grade. It's a strange way to download music, flash, and videos (in .flv) though.
I'm pretty much a Winamp user, though.

>>386615378
I talk openly with my dad about the old Playboy stuff he used to have, so maybe that scenario is just an extension of that.

>>386613798
I browsed porn sites a lot for the previews

One day mom finds out while I'm sitting right next to her. She fucking goes on to the sites with this smug ass smile on her face

And that's how I learned to fucking remove my browser history

>>386608926
Yes, you could say lol and omg, people laughed at stupid innocent memes and everyone was a lolicon, nowadays you have to justify in a 300 word post why you think something is fun or funny and you have to pretend liking thing you would not normally would not like just to fit in.

>>386610198
A Lineage II private server forum.

>>386615454
Hey now, old LF stuff like Kerri's Invention is comfy as fuck.

>>386615378
>find pictures of Sailor Moon taking a horse cock up her ass


Oh man her lips looked so moist and sensual

>>386614280
But it's always been in the interests of the ISPs to be best buddies with biggest sites. If the service towards these site would be sub par, people wouldn't choose them as their ISP. They're the only sites they would ever care for. The only exceptions would be if they were paid to ignore one of them, or if they had a service that they had a personal investment in. Which many of the biggest ISPs have.

No ISP would prioritize smaller sites.

>>386610198
The forum of my first game clan. We mostly played in an X-wing vs TIE-Fighter on that Microsoft Zone site, or whatever it was called.

>>386611123
I did have dial up back in 2004-2007 (it was telkomnet dialup, iirc). It was amazing to browse yahoo games for the first time. Also one of my friend introduced me Worms 4 Mayhem. I did play W4M online for once with some random russian dude. The ping is unbearable. The next year I moved out and there is no internet/dsl/dial up connection next year. My dad brought me 3G modem, and it was blazingly fast. I can watch youtube for the first time (with limited data caps. Shit was expensive af). Then three years later I had DSL connection. Lately, my area has been upgraded to Fiber Internet.

I wish gamespy still alive. I want to play W4M again.
Thanks for reading my blogpost.

>>386615682
smaller sites dont use up a lot of bandwidth anyway so it's a moot point that they would be any slower

>>386608926
I know a few people who moved to Japan around 2008 so right after the internet starting going to shit, and because they lived in a foreign culture during that big shift in culture until now they're like time-capsule human beings. Still saying shit like "z0rz" and "epic fail" without a hint of irony. It doesn't even make me cringe because it's not their fault we became so ironic and terrible.

>>386609234
>download mp3
>it's Bill Clinton every time

>>386610198
bungie.net, xbox.com, and the GT forums before they got purges

in b4 im a fag

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>>386611224
>>386611297
Holy fuck. My mom would let me go on the internet when I was eight years old without any restrictions. I found /s/ when I was a horny 12 year old and I stayed on 4chan ever since.

Be honest anons, were you underaged when you first went on 4chan?

>>386609234
>Download freeware to make stopmotion animation videos as a kid
>It came with so much adware that it literally crashed the computer at startup and the OS had to be reinstalled,

>>386614565
This, but inside some fake Windows folder

>>386614936
I'm so proud of my parents, they just got rid of that TV in their living room. Almost as old as I was

>>386615897
I wasn't allowed free reign of the internet until I was 12 or so. Around the same time I discovered Newgrounds from a commercial on G4.

>>386609234
>Sister is too stupid to tell the difference between
"Britney Spears - Toxic.mp3" and "britney-spears-toxic-song-free-mp3.exe"
>She would virus up every computer our mum bought us
>I always got the blame because i'm a boy for some reason
>All my friends had the same problem

Why was it always our fault, my guys? All I did was play MapleStory.

>>386615682
you are confusing popularity with bandwidth consumption. ISPs love websites and services that are low on bandwidth, so yeah they do love smaller sites. People so easily forgot how netflix single handily raped the web since they used their extremely wasteful streaming instead of the buffered video approach (which they didn't do because it was too easy to copy movies )

>>386613313
Tell your friend he's a beautiful human being and to never stop believeing.

>>386611641
>>386611341
That's why you use NoScript.
>>386612252
There are still some forums. There was one that was posted here dedicated to older internet culture (90s-late 2000s)

The thing I really, really hate about the internet these days is how hostile and apathetic it's become.

Don't get me wrong, hostility doesn't trigger me or anything, I've been on this site (and the internet) for a long time. But you used to actually be able to make long-lasting friends on the internet. Even if you playfully ribbed each other or argued once in a while.

These days, nobody truly gives a shit about anyone else, even their online "friends". Since everything has become so centralized and easily accessible, whenever there's the slightest disagreement between two people, you can just remove them from your life with a single press of the button and immediately find a replacement. You just can't make worthwhile friendships online anymore.

Plus, there aren't really any communities anymore, just crowds of people trapped on corporate-funded websites. There's no sense of community anymore, and basically no moderation. The quality of content has fallen to rock bottom because shitposting or being unfunny isn't punished anymore. In the old days, it'd get you removed from a community or ignored, but nowadays, there's always attention to be found, so you'll always get positive reinforcement of bad or annoying behavior. And, since there's are no communities on the internet anymore, there's no reason to generate content for a community. All content generated on the internet past... 2013? is entirely self-serving and used to bolster one's popularity or ego.

There's no going back. It's lost man. If the republicans don't kill net neutrality when they're in control of the government, the democrats certainly will. The free internet is nearing the end of its lifespan. What comes next is a heavily controlled, restricted playpen similar to satellite/cable TV. Free expression will go extinct.

I don't know man, I'm just really fucking depressed thinking about all this shit.

>>386615897
Yes, I was 14 when I first went to /b/ because someone on school told me about it and how fun it was.
I'm 25 now. It's been over a decade in this shithole. I cannot leave.

>>386610198
GameSpot

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>>386615606

>>386616131
Thanks for rewriting my post but making it much better. Basically what I was trying to say.

>>386612413
Change my birthdate because I'm a 1999faggot.

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this isn't as old as some of the other stuff here but still before phonegeddon

>dad buys me psp on release because he won lottery at the lodge
>1.0 so mods and shit oob
>dowloading tons of porn and roms on my 128MB card
>transcoding episodes of robot chicken and anime to watch in class
>books and manga too

Shit was so awesome. Loved being able to put a porn video on it and jack off anywhere I wanted. Friends would come over and we'd vote on a video to convert and take turns fapping to it in the bathroom.

>>386616053
Because our video games take up too much "memory."

>>386612589
REEEEEEEEEEE I WANT MY INTERNET BACK FUCK OFF NORMALFAGS

>>386614405
I still does that today.
>/mnt/sdcard/.systembackup/.fordbidden/.Newfolder/.nomedia

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Remember that time when it chat room full of pedo was a thing?

But seriously, was there one person that it was was aware of Chris Hansen's trap and troll the area? Like someone coming out of the car with a sign "I'M ON TV" or some shit like that?

>>386615897
i visited about /tg/ when i was 13 and i didn't really step foot anywhere else on the site until i was about 16

>>386610198
Gamefaqs, ign, serebii. In no specific order. I seem to remember ign actually being a good source of gaming news at one point but it could just be my memory playing tricks on me

>>386608926
I still use IRC to download RPG books.

>>386615226
>Lemons
The forbidden term

>>386614405
I just turned up my mouse sensitivity to max and my mum was literally incapable of using my computer lol

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>>386614125
>tfw have this loading screen because of my 260 kb/s internet

https://www.warnerbros.com/archive/spacejam/movie/jam.htm

This website makes me feel empty and scared. It's terrifying how quickly time goes by and how short our lives truly are.

Soon I will die, filled with regret. But the official Space Jam™ website will forever remain in the year 1996.

>>386613798
I remember not knowing you could delete history so I would just go on a bunch of websites and click a fuckton of links to try to push it down. Probably looked a bit suspicious.

>>386611393
>>386611156

Link?

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>>386610860
>find a sailor mercury latex reverse straitjacket bdsm pic
>lost it and never find it again

>>386616426
>>>386610198
>Gamefaqs, ign, serebii. In no specific order. I seem to remember ign actually being a good source of gaming news at one point but it could just be my memory playing tricks on me

It was okay before bring bought out

>>386616296
FUUUUCK SEE IT'S A GLOBAL ISSUE THIS HAPPENED EVERYWHERE
>She deletes the MapleStory desktop shortcut
>"Ok Anon now don't download that game again, it's virus'y"
>"Ok mum"
>*reopen game through programs*

>>386612589
Thanks capitalism

>>386614435
>apply for a job
>usual spaces name addy references previous employers
>last section asks for your "social media id"
>its required

I'm actually horrified for the future.

no one's probably heard of this but there was a place called teenspot I used to go on back in like 2006/7 and it was riddled with emo sloots. i got a metric fuck load of nudes from them over a few summers

>make profile
>fuck with people in the chats
>end up getting tons of nudes somehow
>get bored and delete profile
>make a new one
>repeat
I used to do this like multiple times a day, I have no idea how they didn't ban me. apparently the site is gone completely now and I can't find any traces of it anyway except an ED entry

>>386610198
Usenet. alt.games.whatever you were interested in.

Actually kind of amazing to see some of the people I first met on there going on to do other things. Zone is the exception: he has been doing porn for almost 20 years, and he started on an alt.games newsgroup.

>>386616521
Check out the Heavens Gate website.

>>386616619
Where are the nudes

>>386613620
I still remember playing Runescape and every corner of the browser is full of flashy banners.

>>386608926
>needing a walkthrough for pokemon

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>>386616565
For you.

>>386611925
Butthurt burger, probably in that times I kill you couple times.

>>386614562
Botan shoulda gotten with Kuwabara desu

>>386615897
I started to browse the site since october of 2003
when I was 12 or so years of age also I remember that 5chan and lolichan where a thing as well around the time time flies fast

since then I seen the site goes from trying to troll bush on live tv talk about nevada-chan and make her meme
Spaming Desus
talk about spinzaku

fucking with tom green messing with Hal turner

people going to 7chan after moot stop allowing raiding as well
as ban furries and remove loli and guro boards from 4chan in the process

still stuck in this shit hole.

and it all honesty shit has changed but this is pretty much the one site that feels like part of the early 00's

and it's why I keep on coming here.

>>386612412
>>386610585
>Playing Allegiance on Microsoft's Gaming Zone
The best space game ever made, nothing has ever topped it and it was literally just something Microsoft Research came up with in their spare time in order to develop internet authentication technologies

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>>386614565
>doing this
>father wants to check pictures on the computer
>search for .jpg
>finds your dirty stash

>>386616613

I find it funny because people give China shit for this but at least it was forced on them. We did it voluntarily like retards.

>>386616509
>260 kb/s internet
I'm pretty sure even ISIS have faster internet than you my dude

>>386616639
I'm slightly surprised some still get traffic. It's a good thing, though.

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>trying to find hentai before figuring out how to clear history
>parents find out and ask me about it
>blame brother
>brother knew I threw him under the bus
>walked in my room, shut the door and proceeded to show me how to clear the history

>>386612589
>2016
Is this an updated graph? I swear I've seen this image prior to 2016.

>>386611293
Homestar Runner is genuinely top quality cartoons. They are timeless. Most cartoons from that era are dependent on the time period, but almost all the Homestar Runner cartoons as still funny and charming as hell.

>>386614125
Anyone remember their Black and White forums? Plus their Mechwarrior forums?
I spent a chunk of my summer vacation there one year.

>>386616814
I usually have to wait for 1 hour and 20 minutes to download something that's around 1gb.

>>386616131
The trick is to find smaller, more specialized communities to join. A place where people are happy to have someone new to talk to, and who won't run you off because they know new blood is hard to come across.

Dead/old multiplayer games usually have communities like this, so try looking there. You might get unlucky and just run into a bunch of screeching third worlders though.

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>>386608926

I remember in 1996 when the gaming BBS i frequented enabled HTML in posts. was really weird being able to post a picture instead of just linking it

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>>386616697
he had a cute loli gf though

>>386616814
>mfw my connection is still under 380K/s
A-at least I can play online or watch youtube in HD

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>YFW YOU FIRST FOUND INTERNET PORN

Hngggg Newgrounds Hentai ads

>Little me, browsing chatrooms
>It has ads, one of them is something about anime girls
>It's site full of pics with them being raped but tentacles
>yell heah.jpg
>haven't hit puberty yet so just kept coming back to them to appreciate aesthetics
>realise recently that i have specific kink about rape and tentacles
I blame that chatroom. Well, a little. It was also easier to find porn you needed and not get a virus. Or i just got lucky.

>>386616839
>mom asks me about search history
>blame younger brother
>he was dying of a brain disease and no longer even capable of writing his own name and definitely unable to defend himself against accusation
>I stuck to my story anyway
>he's dead now

Thanks, Drew. You really saved my ass that day.

>>386616053
angry megaman.jpg

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>>386616679
It's always good to jerk off to classics

http://cameronsworld.net/

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>>386616053
my mom constantly accused maple story of being a virus from here extremely credible google searches
she felt so smugly proud when she called it a trojan like some stupid computer whiz

>>386614575
Tfw 26 in two weeks.

>>386616131
>dude republicans lmao

I also worship black dick and I want to be replaced in my home country, fellow enlightened antifa member.

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>>386612413
Prevent myself from ever accessing Something Awful.