Before 4chan goes to shit (or gets better, who the fuck knows), post some choice events in /v/ history.
Also, we are building a timeline of things that have defined this board. Get in here http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/v-history-timeline
I'll be posting shit to keep the thread alive.
You have a sense of optimism stop it.
the community is what defines /v/. circlejerking over things in the past is exactly what is hindering original content and improvement.
do you want a board of witty and good people or do you want a board of stupid idiots that adore witty and good people?
>>280356478
I doubt anything will happen to destroy /v/, worst case scenario I see posting ID's on /v/ to try to detract shitposting.
>people think shit will change
You know moot likely has had very little to do with the site for a long time now and the "new guys in charge" are the same guys who have been in charge for a while now
Moot was a figurehead like the monarchy
>the history of /v/
But all of these things were the _ruin_ of /v/.
This is your /v/.
If you hate anything in this, you are not /v/.
This was /v/ up until 2009. (well, minus the trip culture)
Not sure if this one is /v/, but whatever.
>>280357506
EPIC FRUSTRATION. One of the greatest works of art that this board has ever made. And it shows a bygone time where people put time into rage comics.
There was even a flash adaptation:
* Original flash: http://swfchan.com/9/43253/?V-rage.swf
* Youtube rip - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVys7jcCJDs
All I've really got is some information on >2011+1. I have been on and off this board since Le Lenny face was first posted.
>>280358375
I wonder exactly how /v/ stopped talking about video games (and became essentially a colony of /b/)
And how did /v/ recover from that (around 2012) to the state it is today?
>>280358375
>DS, like every other Nintendo handheld, has no region coding.
God damn it.
>>280355525
>/v/ falls even farther into shit and everyone gets upset and blames moot.
>/v/ improves and we start discussing vidya without constant shitposting and everyone gets upset and blames moot.
It's a moot point, but here's to the memories.
Anyone else got these SCARED images? They're my favorite derivative of WHY.
>>280359004
Pretty much when secondary /b/ jumped ship and some other site that died around the time also came back here. (I think 7chan went through some shitfit at the time as well and most came back)
Board got sort of fixed through extremely heavy nazi moderation and the board splits.
Large imageboards are never a good thing.
Even /b/ got good in the days the DNS shit itself and most of the site couldn't get on.
gaming according to a nintoddlette
>>280359446
For some reason posting is very slow for me today.
>>280359706
I'm sure this was the first of these.
this was probably the epitome of /v/
that's not saying much tho
>>280359897
>>280356164
As a newfag i enjoy these sort of stories
>>280358401
I can't believe I've never seen this image before. i've been on here for years. fucking awesome.
>>280360390
This one is different.
>>280356164
I blame the "le epic maymay" bs.
>>280359276
>its a moot point
surprisingly i havent seen this joke made today until now
>>280356164
>someone actually makes oc for once
queue twenty IS THIS THE BIRF OF AN EPIC NEW MEEM posts
>>280356164
>original content
There wasn't a single original post on this board since 2010.
>>280360298
Thanks anon. This was awesome to read.
Anytime you see someone begging for games, think of this.
Anyone has the original e-mails sent to CWC with the fanarts from /v/? Can't find them on the cwcki.
Remember
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urfADUE22zA
>>280361403
Ha, found it!
>>280356164
Why can't people admire past threads while still creating new OC? Do you really think taking time out from shitposting to laugh at old stuff and maybe teaching newfags the board's history is a bad thing? Would you rather they get it from r/4chan?
>>280360390
'bootin.
>>280361398
That was around the time I started going on this damned board.
>over three years
This is the future I chose.How do you feel?
>>280361591
These were glorious times, truly.
>>280358375
>ad about brain tumors on /v/
ha.
>>280361739
Chris' obsession with vaginas begins.
WE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN
>>280361591
>I AM STRAIGHT, DAMN IT!!!! I WILL NOT BE VEERED IN ANY OTHER DISGUSTINGLY GROTESQUE DIRECTION
heheheehe
>>280361835
And that was the last reply.
Then Chris must have sperged out or something.
>>280355525
I hope this timeline goes well, can't wait to circlejerk about the good ol' days of 09 when mods knew how to have fun.
>>280356164
I'd like to add people's descriptions of those times too where images couldn't capture the moods of the board.
>that one pink bg guy on the etherpad page
You guys don't know shit
>What do you niggers think of Max Payne? I think it's good.
>It's shit
560 posts and two hours later
>Look, if what you're trying to say is that there's a secret Jew conspiracy to put socially progressive values in to games so that we accept niggers as equals and ruin the white race whilst they continue to only breed with their race and stay pure then you're a fucking lunatic. I don't know what else to say to you.
>KEK good goy
Fuck this board.
>>280362320
ass and balls
![hI1yH[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/Qi9Wz34.png "hI1yH[1].png")
3 years
>>280362531
Threads on here can certainly make interesting turns. I recall being in a feminist bait thread on /co/ that ended up mostly being a debate about guns.
>>280362669
A classic.
>>280362690
RememberGOTTA GO FAST?I think that was around the time moderation got very heavy on /v/.
>>280362719
>feminism
>>280362880
I know that feel.
![0f9[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/fnR6SIw.jpg "0f9[1].jpg")
>>280362863
Reddit does. Anybody who ever says "dank memes" is confirmed 100% a redditor.
Never forget sony ponies
>>280362447
>reply doesn't say BLOCKED
fake!
>>280362690
>I have done literally nothing with my life since then
>>280363163
Is that really supposed to be shocking? I started playing the vidya at 8.
>>280363142
>dank memes
I'm still waiting for ironic bullshit to die already. That shit gets popular quickly on Reddit, Tumblr, and other websites nowadays, anyway. It just ends up being what it's mocking faster than ever before.
>tfw I've gotten a total of one job interview
>tfw didn't get the job because of no experience
>tfw can't get experience because of no job
>>280358401
>10/29/91
>91
What the fuck, am I missing something here? Or is that just a photoshop?
>>280363570
Make shit up, say you've done painting or construction or some shit. Use random relatives with different last names as references.
I didn't realize we no longer have a pre-2012 archive. The site is now down but does anyone have a copy of the database somewhere?
>>280363673
Read the post, dumbo.
>>280363570
>what is volunteering
>>280363673
newfag
>>280363473
Reddit is a festering pile of shit. Remeber the train simulator montage parodys we did a while back? Reddit took over that shit WAY too fucking far. They copied our festering pile of shit, regurgitated it and made it a hideous unbearable pile of shit. What's even worse is they are everywhere, posting on this board. It's awful and the reason it won't die. Here's the sub by the way.
http://www.reddit.com/r/montageparodies/
thread theme song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUGsQqM2wZM
I want everyone to think long and hard about how 4chan has affected your life, so many things about my personality (that i consider good and apart of me) were spawned by this website and its people
>>280363237
But he's right.
>>280363992
That's fucking terrifying.
>>280363869
Yeah, man. I just can't stand most of those anymore. Way too many of them use the exact same jokes. I really wonder how there's an entire community based upon it now.
>>280363992
Oh my shit I cannot tell you how much this website saved my highschool years. I had no idea what an autist I actuaily looked like.
>>280363237
Ok, please post "videogame doesn't have to be a game" next.
>>280363796I did, and I still don't get it.
>>280363837Please?
>>280363992
I think that 4chan has stopped more school shootings than any gun control ever has.
I miss the days when /v/ was relatively mod free, and "shitposting" wasn't so frowned upon. That's what initially set /v/ apart from your typical dull video game forum full of circlejerks and mod cocksuckers.
>>280363992
>long and hard
I learned about video game series I probably wouldn't have known about otherwise and picked up a new hobby. There's not that much to think about.
I feel like 4chan memes are usually worse than other memes.
At least other memes are old and predictable.
They're put out by people too stupid to come up with something new.
4chan comes up with a new meme every god damn week and you never know what you're going to be fucking annoyed by next. And then 4chan being the god damn meme taste-makers of the internet inevitably spreads that shit all over the internet.
>>280364257
no spoonfeeding newfag.
>>280364257
I think /v/ had some kind of vidya nostalgia day. Or maybe I'm thinking of a different site, I don't fucking remember.
>>280361591
That blue sonichu has blue arms
>>280355525
>>280364385
As funny as it sounds, I think at some point, we tried to mimic reddit, and failed miserably.
I miss a post like this, pic related.
>>280364556
I'm pretty sure that was some other kid's OC. I don't recall who.
>mfw I'll be 30 in less than a year and still on here.
>>280364458
Well, I've only been here for a few years, but honestly I've never seen that posted before. So I'm confused as shit.
>>280363237
It's sad how over the years, his statement became truer and truer.
>>280355525
/r/equesting the comic where all the other sites are sucking moderator dick. but on /v/ it has the 360 ps3 and wii brandishing knives with the logo of /v/ being /v/ - bawwwwwwwwwww
>>280364662
When the people here put effort out and actually use wit its fucking legendary. But instead all we get are HE, baneposts, and ironic pepe posts designed to strike back at reddit for stealing our memes.
>>280363731
4chan archives are a relatively new phenomenon. However, the archives might not end at 2012, that was just a guess. Check Archive.moe to see how far it goes.
However, you should archive important threads on your own. Every archiver will delete full images eventually.
This script archives all images, thumbnails, and thread HTML+JSON for later reading:
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/BASC-Archiver/
>>280364662
Are you referring to 2011 where the "le x face" meme was conceived in response to Reddit's rage comics? I am sure that was the main reason why OC has been discouraged for a while, but it wasn't too bad until early 2012 with le monkey face's creation.
>>280364731
im turning 20 this year and thinking about callin it quits after 2015>tfw been here since i was 13
>>280364926
Mods cracking down on off-topic posting has practically neutered any chance at new OC/memes
>>280364731
lol
>>280364731
Ive been posting since i was 12 m8, fucking 7 years of my life spent on here changing my life
>2008 was 7 years ago
Why cant i hold all these feels
Try posting something not from 2012 and after.
>>280364378
Yeah it was nicer but then shitposting/off-topic became really really bad, plus the spam. I remember when we got captchas, we got a dramatic decrease in spam suddenly.
>>280364889
There was another archival service before then. I know one of the earliest CWC threads was archived there but it seems to be gone now
>>280365057
Hello fellow '95fag.I have been going here since I was 15.
>was reading the timeline
>suddenly deleted
okay
>>280365057
We should ban you retrospectively, for 5 years
>>280365103
>12 year olds from when I first started lurking are now considered adults
what the fuck is my life, jesus.
all of these are really recent
they feel all new because I've been on and off for the last 3 years
still, I can still remember some salvageable moments from 2006~2011, never saved any
Mostly from /a/ since that's where I began this shit
dang
4chan always make me laugh. I love you guise
Newfag here why do we hate reddit so much
>>280365116
4chan in 2012 and before are pretty "facebook" tier.
any funny /v/ingo stories?
Those were really all the rage a few years ago
![673461096[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/wF6LzXj.jpg "673461096[1].jpg")
>>280363992
I found this place in mid 2011 while I was a freshman in high school. I was stupidly obsessed with nyan cat, rage comics, and Anonymous. I didn't hide it at all. I whistled the nyan cat song EVERYWHERE and even sang it. I ran off to OWS for a day hoping to join anonymous, but turned back after realizing I would have to talk to people. I was literally in the train station at Wall Street holding a guy fawks mask by the string. I also watched every MLP episode to date and was JUST about to come out as a brony, but then I found this place. You guys showed me just what a sorry broken autist I was. I saw everything you had to offer and begun to hide my power level.
Thank you, Anonymous. You saved me. I-I can't thank you enough.
>>280365526
Because reddit is a hugbox full of casual fagwads.
>>280365441
God dammit im crying right now
I love you and everyone on here, i thank you and especially moot for everything that has happened here
>>280365526
>>280363237
That image started it all.
>>280356478
someone post the wallpaper
>>280365296
Quick and dirty Etherpad backup
Wait up, we will restore the timeline.
http://pastebin.com/dM2BhD5Q
Been here since pic related was a thing.
I hate you faggots, but you're alright.
>>280356164
if you don't pass down the knowledge then we will repeat the same mistakes in the future!
Did anybody here ever find out what the Rock was cooking? I was too busy keeping my mouth shut and learning my role to know
>>280365526
I remember when gaia online was the target of hate
I think it died and we had to collectively find something else
I've never much browsed it, I am jealous of AMAs but can't get into the layout of the fucking thing. plus usernames and voting and the like are really gratty
>>280366002
rip michael clarke duncan
>>280365816
The only problem is that we pretending that 4chan isn't the same fucking thing.
>>280358375
>just get a fucking pda
oh man, that brings me back
>2010 was half a decade ago
Can i kill myself now
>>280356969
One of mine died in the war, another one some years after.
>>280366239
>>280366205
Nigga I aint readin all that shit
And what the fuck is with all of the screenshots from '12 and '13? Where did the oldfags go?
I remember when /v/ collectively shat a brick due to the newfag summer of '07. That's ancient history by now.
>>280366205
What retard made this
>>280366005
said hitler
to nobody
because he killed himself out of shame
>>280365526
Its filled with normalfags and people too concerned with fake internet points and their precious "reputation".
4chan allows you to say and do shit you'd never get away with on other sites. Like it or not, discussion can flourish here because no one is worried with what these other anonymous faggots think because come next thread you can turn into a completely different person.
Wow, didn't realize until now just how new the userbase is. I remember when crazy threads happened and we had to ask people to archive the thread by linking an archive request. Times have changed.
>>280366461
our spirits were broken but our bodies still linger. our hard drives have passed on, but we remain
>>280365804
I know that feel. I know it all too well.
>>280366239
>Portal will be a decade old in 2 years
>>280359004
My sides when I've seen more civil video game discussion in /b/ regularly than in /v/
>>280358062
>Tfw you don't get it
>Tfw you're still a newfag and. Will never experience early 4chan
>Tfw 4chan might die before you even come close to becoming an oldfag
What am I doing guys?
I'm scared and sad, /v/. I don't want things to change. I don't want Moot to go away, even if he was a gigantic faggot cuck.
>>280356770
what the fuck happened here
>>280366779
>What am I doing guys?
Worrying way too god damn much about how much of your life you've wasted on a website dedicated to Chinese cartoons.
>>280366463
>What retard made this
4chan.
>>280361956
Never forget Tile Fucker.
Fresh as fuck.
>>280366205
>>280366612
We archived our threads in chanarchive, but we forget to archive chanarchive.
>>280355525
The timeline got screwed up by trolls, so here's the semi-finished product:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gza1Yi6TwunpQbI51NDg9mCDez8BPtxDwKA6c9DQj54/edit?usp=sharing
You can now make comments on to add to items.
>>280366779
>Tfw 4chan might die before you even come close to becoming an oldfag
No, you idiot, you can never become an oldfag
Oldfag isnt a title you get from time youve been here, its a title you get from WHEN you've been here
Basically, since /v/'s inception.
You can be here forty years
And You'll
Still
Be
A
New
Fag
>>280364734
You don't see much get posted from back in 90's 4chan. Hell, you don't see much get posted in these threads except shit from the last couple of years. That's one of the few pre-2000 caps that are still around. Most of them were lost when 4chan.net died and didn't get brought back as 4chan.org until 2004.
SOMEONE SAVE THE TIIMELINE DAMN IT
>>280366779
We're all newfags pretending to be oldfags man
I dont think theres one person who's been here for 12 god damn years and knows almost everything there is about a boards culture
>>280358062
>>280366779
>tfw you get all of it
>tfw you remember /v/ being a place to discuss video games
>tfw there are people out there that dont at least look up these easily archived events or 4chan culture in general
>>280367009
Basically anyone who isn't a former SA goon from ADTRW who first came here back in '04 is a newfag
/a/ is depressing me
>>280367045
We exported it. We'll publish it later.
>>280367009
this anon gets it
>newfag
>cancer
>neo /v/
these are eras not your status as a member
>>280367009
>you can never become an oldfag
>actually bragging about wasting time in this shithole
McFucking kill yourself, this isn't something to be proud of. If I could go back and never discover this place I fucking would in a heartbeat
>>280367140
>SA goon from ADTRW
I haven't heard this phrase like a year.
>>280366993
JAPAN TIME is sorely lacking
those were some of the funnest nights I've spent awake
>>280366482
Bullseye, this fucking guy gets it.
In one of it's most infamous invasions, /v/ decides to raid a controversial Steam group.
>>280367551
>>280359706
same here, I dont know why
>mfw the 4chan source code breaks down into nothingness once moot leaves
>>280367551
This better not be what I think it is.
>>280367695
God damn it.
>>280367695
I'm honestly gonna miss this site, is there going to be anything like this ever again? no the other chans don't count, maybe IRC but who knows
>>280365804
>2011
>Freshman in high-school
How fucking disgusting, and browsing this site hasn't made you any less of a memespouting faggot. Your disgraceful displays of autistic activities will forever remain carved into you, and your only option left is to end it all.
Here's an extra bit to the legendary Mr. Bones thread.
>>280363473
I want cuck to go away but that's not gonna happen either
>>280367779
The /a/ thread getting 5030 posts and 2159 images in 3 hours might have something to do with it
>>280367695
>>280367551
>>280359706
blame moot
>>280359706
This happens whenever there is a giant thread with no post cap. Happened when there was a fappening thread on /b/ that hit 10,000 posts. Right now I'd say it's from the Moot farewell thread on /a/ that has like 5000+ posts
>>280367270
jesus christ so would I, so much time lost in this shit-hole, coming on here was theworst fucking decision i ever made in my life
>>280366867
moot being a little bitch cuck
>>280365804
>Where did everything go so wrong
Spore.
Somebody post the screencaps.
>>280358543
I remember someone tried to have a retro rage comic thread, the classics,
And the thread just got shitposted to death. It was kinda sad.
>>280367551
>>280367987
Just imagine what you were like before 4chan.
Would you really go back?
>>280367948
Was it even ever meant to be ironic? It's already becoming the new fag/autistic/fedora/whatever.
>>280368060
You would be nothing without him
A literal redditor faggot
And you wouldnt know of anything better
Also have /v/ - Australia and Chinman
>>280356164
No.
/v/ circlejerk about past threads because they cant make good ones.
All you see nowdays is daily unfunny threads about the same shit.
Now that moot is gone can we keep the weebshit in /a/?
>>280368220
It's /tv/ being /tv/
>>280367962
im fucking dying at these
>>280367948
I actually find it devoid of sense also
chinman anyone?
http://imgur.com/gallery/4jAMy
too lazy to post the whole thing bit by bit
>>280363454
8/10. You got me to reply
>>280368378
shut the fuck up bitch
>>280367551
In 2 days, this steam group got over 300 hats for cyber.
Here's an extremely recent OC
>>280366867
Weebs getting BTFO
>>280367909
Suck my ass
>>280368060
lol buttmad cause a bunch of weebs got banned for liking shitty chinese cartoons
>opens timeline
>see this
I don't think this is what people call a ''timeline"I fucking hate shitposters
>>280368617
but didn't they fell gay doing it or were they just that slutty and cheap?
>>280368779
>not whoring yourself out for hats
>2011+4
>>280368719
>detroit
man that thread was the shit, I even remember us wanting to buy a house for 1 dollar and making the /v/ mansion there
>>280355525
I know you're making it for this specific board, but check this out.
http://tanasinn.info/wiki/Complete_History_of_4chan
Does anyone have the one where the shit in a bag and threw it into a park or something, and then went back to pick it up and take a picture of it?
I can't really remember what happened.
>>280368767
Don't worry, we saved it.
>>280366993
>>280369004
Thanks, it was in the timeline before it got fucked.
Honestly, my favourite part of /v/ was when we went to Wurm.
Getting lost with fenpenny, the raid to fight a bear, the shanty towns and strife, mayor goulash, us actually just going there to play and check it out and the server losing their shit like we lagged them on purpose...our giant statues and retardedly pointless mines with bros stuck in them, some guy welcoming us to his estate and giving us cookies and showing us animal and shit, every single other player being pissy spastics, it was so much fun.
There, done my part.
>>280358375
Dammit this screencap always makes me sad.
/v/ was so civil and comfy back then.
And way funnier too
>>280366205
>4chan
>hugbox
nigga its the exact opposite, arguing is literally ~80% of 4chan
>>280356164
But besides GG, 2014 had a lot of neat shit underneath all the console wars.
>>280362856
still makes me chuckle
How about 2014 in a nutshell?
>>280358375
>hundreds of trip and names fags
>no one shouting at them
times have truly changed.
>>280369438
its not even arguing, its just shouting increasingly creative obscenities at each other.
Did you faggots forget about the LURKMORE wiki, or some shit?
>>280369521
2014 was objectively the worst year of /v/ ever.
>>280356478
This one gets me every time.
I need a cigarette ;_;
IF WE SAY HIS NAME ENOUGH TIMES, HE WILL COME BACK TO US
MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOTMOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT MOOT
>>280369521
Does anyone have the images for 2012 and 2013?
>>280362447
Tha'ts one of the few things in recent time that made me happy to be on /v/
>>280369928
>katawa shoujo general
To think I used to post there. What a shame they turned into a circlejerk.Shizune best waifu
Hey, do any of you know where the fag that made that time capsule for /v/ is?
>>280363992
I turned into a huge prick.In the end, I met some of my best friends through here
>>280358543
I haven't seen that flash in years, I almost forgot about it.
Thank you, anon.
hey galo sengen.
>>280365526
They can't make up their own Identity.
