When did anime become widely available on the Internet?
I started watching in 2010, but some of my highschool friends already watched in 2006.
When youtube was born.
IstreamedEva in 2006.
>>139438723
Early 00s. Back in the day before copyright troll organizations were made, you didn't even need torrents or file hosting sites, but could just stick direct downloads of episodes directly onto your site if you wanted.
>>139438723
You had to search a bit harder after 2000, then you could just download stuff off private websites.
Later on it was torrenting or Youtube.
I thnk I still have my old Oyasumisubs NHK torrents.
>>139439107 "Episode 24 2/3" can't find part 1 "
>>139439600
This! I remember way back in 2003-04 I actually had to stop looking for sites because you remember how bad fansubs used be.
>>139439600
Also they used to have those 2 page long descriptions on the screen about what "baka" means. Good..ish times.
>>139439600
>Episode 24 1/5
>it has a retarded border on all sides
>it's mirrored to avoid copyright
>etc.
>>139439600
I friend of mine once told me he downloaded Love Hina on Kazaa around 2001.
I think it was on that time.
>>139439983
Fuck Kazaa, eMule was where it was at.
>>139439724
>>139439803
That's why the whole Keikaku thing happening made me giggle as it reminded me of the batshit TL notes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RREpnkt4xaw
Oldest EVA video I could find on youtube.
>>139439904
Remember Youtube Publisher accounts so you could have videos longer than 10 minutes?
Limewire
>>139440072
Those aren't still a thing?
>>139438723
The real answer is "not long after porn did".
>>139440072
I also remember how nobody uploading anything had one.
>>139440106
Shit, now I feel silly for not quite being able to answer that.
>>139440149
I had the prerequisite anime introductions but when I got internet it was wide open and I was watching any crap.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJb_fMgrDv0
Anyone remember these guys?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKmP-sa4_4s
>>139439904
Those were the good ol' days anon.......the good ol' days
>>139441811
I think because of that and AMV Hell I seen a lot of the anime that formed my taste.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns6ukv5L0e4
It's because of this I seen Chobits.
>get into anime around 2002 or 03 when Inuyasha was airing in Canada
>I was 11 at the time
>rent .hack// games
>advertisement for .hack//SIGN on it, want the fuck out of it looks great
>Get my dad to go on ebay and buy some knockoff chinese box set for me, still have it
And that's the story of how I came to love yuri at the tender age of eleven.
>>139442451
.hack is yuri? I have a few of those bootleg DVD's before I knew any better.
Chobits, Ah My Goddess, and Trigun.
>>139439600
This. My friend in middle school gave me a CD with Japanese raws of Dragon Ball GT in 2001. Apparently anime was available on the good ol filesharing platforms like Kazaa eDonkey etc. I didn't use them because we only had a 56K modem.
>>139439983
I used Kazaa to download DBZ subs back in the day
Holy hell they must've been like 96p quality or some shit
>>139442687
End of //SIGN has a canon yuri relationship.
Abused girl x Cripple girl
I remember when BitTorrent was first released, and the first few clone clients were popping up, one of the sites used a Fullmetal Alchemist download for its example screenshots.
>>139438723
When that chatting program exist, micr might be the name i forgot
>>139440106
it's super easy to get approved for that now. literally anyone can, you just select an option in your settings
>>139439600
Crazy stuff.
I think I watched most of Naruto on YouTube when I was like 14
>>139438723
Guess around 2006-2008
I've still got a complete NGE burned on ONE cd somewhere in my parents house.
Shit was like 20-30mb per episode.
No Idea how old it is. I think 2002 or 2003 is the year.
>>139439241
Which sites did you used?
In 2003 when broadband internet became widespread
>>139438723
there were less shows per season until recently, back when 720p wasn't really a thing yet, I would say only half of a season would get translated, and back when shit was irc only/>480 only a handful were ripped online at all every season
>>139442416
>AMV Hell
>not Nico Kumikyoku
pleb
>>139452451
Wasn't AMV Hell a good 4 years before that in 2003?
NND came later for me.
>>139452221
It wasn't until sometime after 2007 that I remember stuff being translated same day (not counting hilariously bad speedsubs). "Fast" subs were within a week of the show airing, good times.
>>139453135
>Jewel Christian
kek
I remember downloading all of Haibane Renmei and some of Azumanga off of Napster.
However back in the early 2000's there was also this thing.
It was pretty much an early version of cloud storage except for the fact that you had to pay to have anything more than 100MB of space, or something neanderthalic like that.
Anyhow, sites or message boards would have some huge collection of anime listed, sort of like how any torrent or mIRC channel with an XDCC bot works now, but you'd have to email an admin what episode/series you wanted, and they'd transfer it to your folder when they saw it.
I remember thinking it was the best service in the world, but thinking about it now makes me sick.
who else watched shitty streams off piggymoo?
2003-2004 was the beginning.
2005 was the explosion thanks to Youtube.
As much shit as Youtube gets it did give people the opportunity back then to watch a lot of anime that never would have done so before.
I remember watching a shit ton of subbed Shin Chan in 2006 on youtube. Gotta miss that amazing 240p anime.
But that was then.
You have no fucking excuse to stream anymore.
I remember using streamload (online storage) back in 99 or 2000 to dl most of my shit.
mIRC in the early 00s made it more accessible.
We are truly living in the future.
>>139456171
The only excuse anyone ever had for watching anime on youtube is being a newfag.
Haruhi-chan not withstanding.
No one will believe me, hell I wouldn't believe me but, I was internet savvy enough to find and download Evangelion (in realmedia format, mind you) back in 1996 (it MIGHT have been 1997 but, my memory is pretty positive of it being 1996)
I feel like the ease of getting anime off the internet exploded arounded 2005, maybe.
I didn't start obsessively trying to follow every show every season I could until, probably, 2010 or 2011. The 00's is the decade most heavily represented on my backlog/to watch.
>>139458421
>The 00's is the decade most heavily represented on my backlog/to watch.
I think all things considered, you'd either need a strong preference or some concerted effort to end up without a backlog dominated by 00s titles.
>>139458421
I still don't get the people who watch like 20+ shows a season. Even when I was a fulltime NEET I didn't watch anywhere near that much anime.
I mean I guess they could just playing it off to the side while they do other shit if they don't really care about some of the shows but I like to pay attention to what I watch.
How old are people ITT?
>>139460811
Not having much else to do/watch helps a lot. And if you are one who watches some western cartoons and live action shows as well.. with enough practice, even though people meme about it a lot, speed watching is legit and does work. I mean, of course, why wouldn't it be legit? Almost nobody complains about speed readers but, people are going to go nuts over people watching shows and movies faster than it's intended playback speed? What a load.
As for the whys of trying to get as much shows in as possible:
A lot of it is simply following /a/ herd mentality where people are trying to watch all those anime that the Toonami and tumblr casuals AREN'T watching.
And like many collection related habits, it becomes an addiction.
>>139461380
I'm 32
