How did /a/ watch anime back when the board was created in 2003? I'm thinking 480p was the norm? Were torrents even widely used? Did people download their cartoons on Limewire?
I used eMule for the most part.
Learned about new anime by browsing people's shared anime folders
>>139552596
You need to be 18+ to use 4chan, kid
IRC and usenet was a thing.
Maybe they took what they got and were satisfied, unlike you young kids today
>>139552751
Even if you're 18 now, you would've been 5 in 2003.
>>139552596
>480p
>widescreen format in 2003
>not 300x400
Also I almost miss ogm.
>480p
That wasn't the standard back then. Back then you would get whichever you could get your hands on.
>50mb rmvb with semi-decent
This was a revolution compared to those shitty 40 mb wmv or asx or whatever the format was. Those files had super garbage shit nigger garbage tier qualities.
There were still VHS rips circulating, like this.
>>139554111
>>139553539
>>139553422
So how would /a/ follow the winter 2003 season for example?
>>139554150
You didn't follow an entire season, there were just a few shows spread by word of mouth
>>139554150
They werent defined to the most anime watchers. For most anime watchers, it was simply watching whatever was available online. Years later did we have an established seasonal subbing practices that became widespread.
Kazaa. Took me two days to download a single episode. You kids don't know how good you have it.
>>139554150
You hope that somebody would pick up whichever titles you might be interested in, and wait. You then had to decide whether to go for the quick and dirty speed-subs that would come along in about ten days, or wait a couple more weeks for a decent set.
i downloaded it off Kazaa mostly. took forever and the files were huge and the quality was shit compared to vhs or dvd. i think it took me over a week to download love hina.
>>139554779
>Kazaa
and you would never find the entire season/series from the same rippers/subbers, so the quality would vary wildly from episode to episode
>>139552596
The first time I tried downloading anime, I had found some megathread on an old forum that I used to go to, and it was full of megadownload links to really shitty hardcoded 480p dual-dub encodes to tons of series.
I stupidly tried to download them all. That was the day my backlog started.
That was 10 years ago, I still have those old ass 480p rips.
I haven't watched a single one of them.
>>139555114
Maybe you could upload some of them somewhere.
I want to experience the cancer.
>>139555114
You could have goofed harder. I burnt over 150 DVDs full of old ogm and avi rips that I will never watch.
>>139556000
Just look in the mirror, kid.
>>139552596
Usually you spent several days downloading an episode over IRC on 56k, weeks or months after it aired if you were lucky.
Flea market and library VHS collections
>>139554150
Torrenting was already a thing in the early days of 4chan.
I think Spring 2002 was the first season I really followed, aware of what was starting. That was via file serving on IRC thanks to uni broadband.
>>139552596
Animu sites, 25~50MB files, RMVB format.
I'm not sure if those videos were even 360p
bump for interest
>>139552596
A friend started downloading Hellsing via DC++ back in 2003 which we watched with DivX. I didn't download my first anime until 2004 and that was with torrents.It was Naruto.
>>139552596
I have no fucking clue, I just know that my brother was on an anime group, and they always got new anime to watch, so he bring it home and he watched it with me, too bad he is gone now, I mis those days.
Kazaa, direct connect, irc. Shit sucked. I remember getting the "original " bittorrent client. It was magic. I still have old burned dvds and even cds. I'm sometimes tempted to go and watch some, but I never will. Let the past stay there. You little fag got some have no idea.
