Let's have a "Back in my Day" thread, /a/.
I'll start. "Back in my day there was no such thing as moeshit."
back in my day newfags fucking lurked
back in my day I still felt happiness
>>136327314
This
back in my day we sage'd threads
>>136327314
>implying
when the fuck is this "newfags used to lurk" meme gonna end
>>136327349
I did sage though famzilla
back in my day i wasnt drinking myself to sleep every night
>>136327372
I know that's not true it was just the first thing that popped into my head as a snappy retort to this /v/ tier thread
>>136327233
Nobody from back in that day is still alive.
Back in my day image macros were a bannable offense.
Back in my day, /v/ and /a/ kind of got along.
Back in my day moot was a person.
>>136327349
Back in my day, sage was visible.
Back in my day moot was a white dude.
Back in my day, "fujoshi" was just yaoi fangirls.
Back in my day, /a/ didn't fucking exist.
>>136327539
Back in my day, not every girl is a fujoshi, and the otome/shoujo market is a real thing.
Back in my day there was no place to formally bitch about shit anime.
>>136327233
Back in my day I used to browse 4chan only for futanari.
I was just about the only place I knew.
Back in my day, best girl always win.
>>136327233
Back in my day we had no internet and watch anime on VCR.
>>136327729
Are you a dinosaur?
>>136327233
back in my day /a/ had better taste then now
>>136327748
Nice one. Okay guys, I'm back. Any oldfags remember me?
Back in my day shitty threads like this got sage'd.
>>136327771
holy fuck doc
where the hell have you been jesus christ
I'm only a 2006fag but I still heard about you
>>136327791
Eh, was busy doing MAL server stuff. I can't believe it's gotten so big, lol. I started it as a simple thing for me and my friends to use.
>>136327791
Back in my day, anons didn't give tripfags the attention they crave
Back in my day people still made 'Back in my day' threads
>>136327746
Newfag spotted
>>136327233
back in my day we have Quality Threads.
>>136327862
fuck off newfag
this guy made MAL
>>136327917
A heaping pile of shit
Back in my day, Keit-Ai didn't exist.
>>136327900
It was a fuckingjoke.Don't bully so hard.
>>136327917
I laugh my sides off in your general direction. If anything YOU'RE the newfag here.
>>136327931
newfag top lel
damn I wish I knew where all the 2008fags fucked off to, if doc posted back then the thread would be fucking filled with replies
>>136327781
Back in my day, Accelspammer's bot still worked.
>>136327964
Are you baiting, or actually this autistic?
>>136327972
A heaping pile of shit
Back in my day fan subs came on VHS.
>>136327862
>>136327964
pls be real
>>136327964
>N-No you
>>136327972
I'm one of them, it's just MAL.. eh. I never used it personally.
I get more excited seeing Hox.
>>136327964
kill yourself
Back in my day, One Punch Man threads weren't filled with casualshit cancer.
Back in my day, Rei clones trip were used for self moderation. I miss old /a/is the trip still banned?
>>136328033
>>136328036
>replying to tripfags in any capacity for any reason at all ever
But he's right. If you newshits didn't completely run this board today, you'd be getting anally annihilated more than this.
>>136328080
>, you'd be getting anally annihilated more than this.
I just lost my sides
>>136328056
Sugoi samefagging senpai
Back in my day, Ranma fanfic writers actually thought a bonbori referred to Shampoo's weapon.
>>136328080
you're probably a faggot who thinks he's an oldfag because he joined in 2014
pls fuck off
>>136328129
Back in my day I still had a life.
>>136327946
A girl falls in love with a boy.
Unable to confess, she stalks the man in order to get his phone number. Never minding the strange area code, she immediately calls him, and is overjoyed to find out that he has a crush on her as well.
But, the next day, when she recounts the previous day's confessions to the man, he only looks at him with a perplexed expression. After some investigation, she finds out that the man she called is not the same man she fell in love with. In fact, he doesn't exist in this universe at all. He is the man's alternate universe counterpart, who has fallen in love with the MC's own AU self, who too is blissfully unaware of his crush.
Hijinks ensue as she strikes up a deal with the man's student to give each other their darkest, most private secrets in order to equip her with the weapons they need to conquer the heart of their other selves in exchange for her dead sister's diary. While the two chase their respective loved ones, DRAMA ensues as they begin to fall in love with each other instead and question the NATURE of LOVE.
>>136328192
I remember when this idea was first written up. Good thread.
>>136328147
Don't worry, you'll have a life again once you die.
ITT: redditors
>>136328237
Back in my day no one gave a shit about reddit you fucking newfag memelord.
>>136328237
More like ITB: redditors
>>136328237
Back in my day, we'd instead say, "ITT: Gaiafags"
>>136328258
When does the narwhal bacon???
>>136328258
Back in my day, we called them "Internet phenomena" instead of memes.
Back in my day, /b/ was actually considered to be good.
G B 2 G A I A
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>>136327946
>Kate-Ai
A Canadian girl falls in love with Japan.
Unable to confess, she is gifted by a deus ex machina with Japan's phone number. Never minding the strange area code, she immediately calls the country, and is overjoyed to find out that Nihon has a crush on her as well.
But, the next day, when she recounts the previous day's confessions to Japan, she gets no response because Japan is a country, not a person. After some investigation, she finds out that the nation she called is not the same nation she fell in love with. In fact, this Japan doesn't exist in her universe at all. This Nihon is the alternate universe counterpart of her crush, who has fallen in love with her AU self, who too is blissfully unaware of his crush.
After finding out, she slammed her fist into ther palm and said, "SOU NAN DES KARR." Hijinks ensue as they strike up a deal to give each other their darkest, most private secrets in order to equip each other with the weapons they need to conquer the heart of their other selves. While the two chase their respective loved ones, DRAMA ensues as they begin to fall in love with each other instead and question the NATURE of WEEABOO.
>>136328349
>gorillia
Is this made by a huehue?
>>136328340
>quickly realize it's Sketchbook kate
>skim text for SO NON DES KARRR
>not disappointed
>>136328340
>Kate-Ai
Back in my day, we were nicer to each other.
Back in my day, this wasn't a dank meme.
>>136328482
Nostalgia.
>>136328302
Come to think of it is that really what they were called, though? "viral" didn't exist in common vernacular in late 90s either I don't think.
I think they were called crazes, or trends. Like you'd see news reports about the Dancing Baby craze. I don't recall how people described Hamsterdance though.. I guess another craze. I was in like 6th grade when it came out and some kid went and had half the computer lab open it at once. Quite noisy.
>>136327366
>when the fuck is this "newfags used to lurk" meme gonna end
When I got here for the first time, about november 2003 (the second time is easier to remember: same year December 24th) I didn't really understood how 4chan worked, much less the memes going around at the time. But I did get that I shouldn't post because of that.
I returned in mid 2004 and been here ever since. I lurked for months, barely posting images until I trully understood what this was.
>>136328512
>I think they were called crazes, or trends.
Not the ones specifically found over the Internet, though. Those words referred to any craze inside or outside the Internet.
>>136327233
Back in my day I didn't know what /a/ was and I didn't watch anime.good times
>>136328523
The entire reason behind lurking was to avoid being ridiculed and shat on by other anons for not understanding how things worked around here. Once the shitposting reached critical mass and newfags stopped being afraid of getting called out and embarrassed, lurking was no longer as important as it was before.
>>136327372
>famzilla
Kill yourself.
>>136328735
you laughed don't even front nigga
>>136327233
Back in my day, I hated it.
>>136328735
Back in my day, /r9k/ stayed where it belonged.
>>136328576you know this is not true
>>136327746
That's what, ten years ago?
Any one older than thirteen should remember VCR
>>136328325
/b/ was never good.
Except when it was a fussion of /a/ and /b/.
>>136328523
Exactly.
>>136328593
"ironic" shitposting killed 4chan.
>>136327233
That's a long time ago because moeshit was already an established term in 2007 (when TTGL and Lucky Star were airing). It probably predates 07 but I can't really remember and the archive is being stupid.
>>136328831
Like I said, it was just a joke qt3.14. I remember fondly VCRs, casette tapes, etc. There are probably people on this board right now who probably don't even know what a floppy disc was.
>>136328846
I said when it was considered good, not necessarily good. Back when good things did come from /b/ rather than it being a complete shithole like it's been for years now.
>>136328924
I'm still mad. I will always be mad.
>>136328928
>It probably predates 07
I saw it mentioned in "Sensei no Ojikan", which aired back in 2004.
Back in my day we had /l/ and /a/ and /g/ were full of loli loving men. If some old hag wanted us she would have needed to rape us.
>>136328924
Ironic shitposting basically started on /jp/ (which also coined the term shitposter to begin with, along with crossboarder), yet somehow it's spread everywhere now.
Makes perfect sense really that /jp/ would want to kill the rest of site to spite moot.
>>136328989
>2004 was 12 years ago
>>136328989
Shit nigga you old. I wasn't even on /b/ back then.
Did it have the same meaning as in applied to the whole show or was it character specific or maybe something else?
Back in my day I owned this site.
>>136329047
>Shit nigga you old. I wasn't even on /b/ back then.
I was on /b/ back in 2004.
Ostensibly because it's full of porn. Only learned about its other activities 3 years later in 2009, at the height of Boxxy shitposting.
Good times.
>>136329047
>Did it have the same meaning as in applied to the whole show or was it character specific or maybe something else?
The guy who said it in Sensei no Ojikan was the otaku character, so yes, "moe(shit)" carried the same meaning as it does now.
The funny thing is that his classmates were wondering if the word was even Japanese.
>>136328989
It wasn't really big a buzzword until Lucky Star though. Even then I think it wasn't until K-on that it started to become ubiquitous, albeit that's really as a backlash from butthurt edgy kids/manimefags because in actuality Lucky Star and K-on were raging popular and fucking swept across 4chan.
>>136329121
>I was on /b/ back in 2004.
Whoops. Meant 2006. My bad.
>>136329141
>It wasn't really big a buzzword until Lucky Star though.
For westerners and casualshits.
Moe was all the rage among otaku (as in real otaku, not this "western otaku" nonsense).
>Even then I think it wasn't until K-on that it started to become ubiquitous
Again, for westerners.
>>136329121
Was the shit suffix transliterated english or like kuso something?
>>136328593
THIS.
>>136329224
There was no "shit" suffix. I was talking about "moe" as a concept and slag being popular even back in 2004.
The anti-moe people did call the moeshitters as "moepigs" though.
>>136329121
>2009, at the height of Boxxy shitposting.
>Good times.
Funny, I remember that people took this as a sign that everything is ruined forever.
>>136329312
*slang
>>136329117
Who are you?
>>136329330
It's always ruined forever. Every fucking time there's a change it's "ruined forever".
>>136329343
Well it's either moot or some guy.
It's not moot unless he timestamps himself or something though.
>>136329343
An attentionwhore, clearly
>>136329117
Host another AMA on /b/ or /a/, mootykins.
You roodypoo.
>>136329343
HE IS COMING
Back in my day we had real anime with real men making real fights in real robots.
Not this moeshit that we have today. Thanks Kyoanus.
>>136329388
>gif
>>136328523
Samefag here, wish I had taken lots of screens back then.
Still, feels good, going to sleep with a smile in my face.
It's either that, or manly tears.
>>136329428
Gets me every time.
Back in my day we didn't have 4chan. We had to browse Geocities sites and Anime Turnpike to get out information and anime/manga pics. You had to use mIRC if you wanted to keep up with the scanlations, and even those scanlations were retarded guesses at best, like the Ranma one.
>>136327917
then tell him to fuck off back to his garbage site
>>136328326
I miss the days when this site was our arch nemesis.
Things were so much simpler.
>>136329460
>anime turnpike
With that said, webrings are the earliest form of Internet cancer.
>>136329460
>and even those scanlations were retarded guesses at best, like the Ranma one.
see >>136328108
It's hilarious to people who know Japanese. The funny thing is back in the day if you tried to correct them about it, they'll just block your email as spam.
>>136329460
The cool kids swapped ripped VHS tapes in meetups too.
Don't forget when getting anime online had just become a thing it was all in 4:3 at like 320x200 or some weird shit resolution not terribly bigger than that, all with the lemon yellow subs. We were happy to have anything at all even if it was many years old in Japan already.
Back in my day, I'd ITT and blogshit the hell out of threads like these.
I still can't bear to part with this place.
>>136329621
I miss late night blogshit ;_;
>>136329619
Or rather 320x240. Damn it's been a while since I even thought about that size. For some reason it seemed adequate at the time, probably because monitors were commonly at like 640x480, or 1024x768.
Back in the day, Yahoo looked like this.
>>136329649
I was also living in a literal basement back then. Misery loves company.
>>136329718
Monitors are just going to get bigger.
We'll be streaming Blu-Ray quality video in high speed Internet by the next decade.
>moeshit
And 3DPD, why don't you fuck off to >>>/v/.
>>136329729
And Netscape Navigator was the shit.
And people unironically used AOL, or at least some did. The rest of us got a free coaster CD in the mail every other week.
>>136329388
>>136329428
Fuck you guys, I was just about to hit the bed now I have to turn every single fucking light in the house on because my pussy ass can't take these JUST
Back in my day, Gainax was the undisputed best anime studio.
>>136329729
Only us older kids understand.
>>136329817
Anon, it's okay. I'm here with you! Just remember all us cute girls and you won't have to be afraid.
>>136329843
Good Lord, there's a bit of nostalgia. Did you eversearch for 3D on 89.com too?
I've got a question for the true oldfags here. What was it like getting your hands on any doujinshi? Was that even possible back then?
>>136329765
>We'll be streaming Blu-Ray quality video in high speed Internet by the next decade.
And people are going to complain it's all crap, while torrenting lousily made 8K -> 1080p transcodes.
Everytime i see you oldfags talk about vhs tapes and anime clubs, i remember how glad i am that i didn't get into all this weebshit too soon.
But then i look at my backlog...
>>136329897
I went through RealPlayer. I know that feel.
I don't consider myself an oldfag as I have been browsing 4chan since late 2009/early 2010 so I missed a lot of great things on this board such as watching Death Note, Code Geass, TTGL and other things while it aired along with /a/.
The other day I saw a bunch of anons complaining that a certain anime was taking too long to be released, when I started to watch anime (again, not an oldfag) the earliest you could expect a release of your thursday or friday show was 6 to 12 hours, though most of the time subs were out the next day. Crunchyroll, funi or daisuki (this one didn't even exist back then) wasn't that big back then so not every show was subbed by them. I remember downloading HorribleSubs CR rips for The World God Only Knows in late 2010 so those guys were around back then.
I remember I could read and fap to good doujins in Fakku without paying or subscribing to shit.
I was part of the 10bit shitposting mainly because my computer was so shit I needed hardware acceleration to watch 1080p 8bit stuff, my computer couldn't handle 720p+ 10bit anime, I had to upgrade thanks to 10bit.
Reddit wasn't the boogieman, it was Gaia. People lurked more, there was less crossboarders, and if there was they didn't make it as obvious. Each board had their own memes, not like today where you see baneposting everywhere.
Also for some reason people made more original content back then, original images for jokes I mean
>>136329907
It's just going to get more advanced to the point where you'll wonder if you got into weebshit too soon anyway.
>>136329832
If they didn't go kaput after PSG and made more original stuff they possibly still would be a top tier, although it's hard to say really. TTGL gained them a lot of mileage right when they were starting to fade from the spotlight.
It's weird they're still around but adapt little piddly stuff and Trigger has struck off on its own odd somewhat half-assed direction.
>>136329884
The closest I got was getting a whole book of manga some Japanese person left at an airport (not a doujin).
>>136329884
Of course.
I was utterly confused. I did not understand the idea behind doujin, or why Shampoo was getting screwed by several men. Did Rumiko Takahashi draw/allow it? Why? I started to grasp the idea by the 1996 that people drew this kind of porn to indulge themselves.
>>136327233
Back in my day we didnt have faggots like this spamming every trap thread and screaming at mods to delete it.
>>136329817
How is that shitty one even the slightest bit frightening?
>>136329916
Hours? It used to take days to get speedsubs. And people didn't mind because that was by far the best we could hope for anyway.
>>136329961
>>136329989
Thanks for satisfying my curiosity!
>>136329941
I can't imagine that happening, other than series i want to watch and manga i want to read not being translated or uploaded yet, i've got access to pretty much everything.
>>136330049
>I can't imagine that happening,
Neither did we till technology advanced.
I can remember my first anime induced boner. It was while watching Ranma, I think it was a certain scene where Ranma became a woman in the bath and you could see her nipples.
Another time was when I was up late at night watching TV, and there was this channel with some dude showing Dragon Ball Z porn, which I think was fanart sent by fans. I remember looking at Buu getting his dick sucked by Android 18, Goku fucking ChiChi. Oh and I also had an erection when Cell absorbed 18. Good times.
>>136330041
I personally just gave up and just ordered the books myself. Those took nearly 2 months to arrive to my backwater tiny town in Bumfuck, Nowhere.
$40 dollars for a lousy 2 episode VHS...
Back in my day, Naruto was just coming out and we watched each episode on YouTube in 3 parts.
Most of us still had dial up, so it took 3 hours to watch One episode.What a waste of time!!
>>136330041
I said the earliest was 6 to 12 hours, but yeah, if the show wasn't very popular or if the group subbing it was not fast, it would take days.
>>136329884
No. Didn't even know there was such a thing beyond magazines before I was sixteen.
Back in my day, computers didn't sing.
Back in my day /m/ was a nice place where we discuss all kinds of mecha shows. Now it's mainly Gundam shitposting central and good mecha shows go unnoticed.
>>136330101
What could possibly happen to make having access to anime much easier than it is now?
Back in my day, you can't use the phone if you're on the Internet.
>>136327407 (You)
>(You)
(You)
>>136330155
I have a crazy gunpla collection and thousands in garage kits, yet I never talk to /m/ because they seem to just hate everything and some autist shits on the gunpla threads there all day with mods doing nothing. I don't know what that guy's problem is, /m/ always had gunpla threads and simply shared them with /toy/.
Or rather I used /m/ a bit like, 5+ years ago, and it was a very, very chill place that felt more like a forum because it was so fucking slow. But I didn't mind, because people knew their shit and could give interesting replies.
>>136330164
A Steam like service.
>>136330164
60 FPS? A unified format standard on video? Sound-based caption-making technology becoming so advanced there's no need for manual subbing?
Who knows?
>>136330187 (You)
>>136330245
>paying for anime
I don't see the benefits unless it was devoted to subbing unsubbed series, releasing them regularly and in high quality.
>>136327233
Back in my day Anime was born
Now get off my fucking lawn
Back in my day no one complained about the moe genre
Stop posting (You)s, you're confusing my brain!
>>136330164
We can only imagine. But unless we're Nostradamus or in the tech industry, our predictions will be hilarious in hindsight.
>>136330299
now there's a hundred dollar idea anon, start up a fucking company and get to it. I'd subscribe
>>136330314
You COULD say that anime was born when Walt Disney was born.
>>136327233
Back in my day seinen was properly appreciated and even popular.
>>136330101
One thing that I'll definitely miss are high resolution reeditions of old anime. With everything being done digitally, I guess the original quality is final. So it probably won't make much difference if one watches a show when it came out or decades later.
@136330332(you)
Shes a cute anime
>>136330330
Because back in the day it didn't exist and/or it existed under a different, more generic name.
Like Kawaii Anime or some shit.
>>136330362
No you couldn't.
>>136330337
I wonder if the people of the 2040s will look fondly back at these meaningless arguments like some people still do with usenet posts.
>>136330255
>Sound-based caption-making technology becoming so advanced there's no need for manual subbing?
I bet Daiz is the one who develops that one.
>>136330332 (You)
Don't (You) fucking tell me what to do.
>>136330399
It's quite fun.
>>136330391
Without Walt making Mickey Mouse, a certain boy wouldn't have been inspired to create Astro Boy
>>136330337
I'm still waiting for my fucking wingsuit, godammit.
>>136329915
>RealPlayer
OH GOD NO
>>136330117
>2005
>back in the day
Try using RealPlayer, sonny boy. It's the VLC of its day.
>>136330435
It was fun, but the fun bucket has to stop eventually.
Back in my Day Evangelion was a thing .
I miss the day ...
>>136330399
They'll probably be confused at all the smug anime girl posting.
>>136330512
Just wait a decade or even a few years and you'd have a fresh batch of hilarity in hindsight.
>>136330497
Nightmare fuel.
Back in my day,all anons secretly loved one another and this board.
>>136330117
>YouTube in 3 parts
Back in my day eMule and Kazaa in don't know how many parts.
>>136330538
There are posts back in the day that if you post now, people will redirect you back to Reddit.
>>136330557
Back in my day we separated episodes by multiple RAR files that you can't put back together unless you get all the parts and everything you downloaded isn't corrupted.
>>136330549
>mai waifu since 2011
Happily together forever. Good image by the way.
Back in my day, moot was cool and we all looked forward to his drunken escapades.
>>136330475
But they do exist today. They just don't have a bullshit propellant system.
>>136330606
Not as widely distributed as cars.
Same thing with flying cars.
Back in my day you could use emoticon and not called out for it
>>136330497
>RealPlayer
>OH GOD NO
Also, QuickTime, such cancerous memories.
>>136330549
Jii-san is dead, and we'll never know when exactly. Probably on a mountain clearing somewhere.
>>136330641
Back in my day, ":)" produced a syntax error.
Back in my day, we all used frames.
>>136330683
kek
>>136330750
Back in my day, tripcodes were used only when they were relevant to a thread's subject matter.
Hang yourself.
Back in my day, mods didn't DO IT FOR FREE.
>>136330626
Even with the craze over hover boards I was never really convinced with levitation technology. Though I do saw some Area 51ish things like donut holes in the sky.
>>136330750
Sup Hox.
Was anyone around for when 4chan had frames?
>>136329729
Back in the day, this was the page for the most viewed YouTube hits.
>>136330857
>some of them still exist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_CSo1gOd48
>>136328831
We're in 2016 anon. Anime download is a thing since like 2002, FOURTEEN years ago.
>>136330899
>We're in 2016 anon.
>>136327946
Back in my day we called it Ghost Slide
>>136330857
Holy nostalgia, Batman
Back in my day, anons saged politely when the situation called for it.
>>136330145
Back in my day, computers imitated singers instead of the other way around.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSIzexfuQMA
>>136330145
>the first vocaloid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T09iknuzDlw
Back in my day /a/ used to wet their pantsu talking about True GAR characters.
>>136330857
I hate that they removed the most viewed page, knowing that people won't watch new shit otherwise.
>>136331027
Basically DEEP and GAR back then kind of cover the "manime" type sentiment today. Only gar was kind of our own thing while manime sounds like what some insecure faggot would come up with.
>>136330857
>Mark Leung
Sad that his College Saga never panned out the way Smosh did.
Back in my day /a/ use to like and hate but now /a/ just hates everything /a/ related and started being edgy.
It's really sad how the media changed 4chan.I blame /b/ for this
>>136327474
>>136330857
>you are old enough to remember youtube before it became a radio
Back in my day Accel-kun defended /a/ from fags like OP.
>>136327964
fuck off
>>136331377
/a/ was best girl?
BACK IN MY DAY WE DIDN'T USE TERMS LIKE "MOESHIT"
BECAUSE THERE WAS NO MOESHIT
>>136331377
If those faggets just didn't rally and shit back at the day with their Guy Fawkes mask then we wouldn't have so much edgy faggets in the site.
I don't think /b/ is the blame, Blame Scientology.
Back in my day "back in my day" still had a meaning.
