Remember when /b/ was the cultural epicenter of 4chan?
Remember when you could actually put sage in all fields?
Remember how difficult it was to browse if you didn't know about noko?
Remember when there were tripfags who were notorious across the entire site?
Remember when it was ebaumsworld and somethingawful instead of reddit and tumblr?
Remember when board rivalries were more than just posters being told to fuck off back to >>>/pol/?
Remember when rage comics and demotivationals were 'our' thing?
Remember when goredumps were a daily occurrence?
Remember those spammers who recruited unwitting idiots to botnets?
Remember when moot was just another one of us?
Remember when 4chan felt like the wild west?
I miss those times.
I remember. You just made me super nostalgic. The internet got so normalized.
>>25025287
>Remember when there were tripfags who were notorious across the entire site?
Like who?
go back 2 gaia OP
>>25025287
This is a MAJOR point for me: Remember when normalfags didn't know what a "meme" was? Nowadays they still don't really know, they just call image macroson facebook "memes".
Which brings me to another point; remember when they were called image macros?
>>25025319
Zezima, senpai.
Yeah but I was so young, too. I'd probably find today's /b/ just as fun as it was back then if I was 14 right now. It was pretty cash, though. Being part of an obscure internet comunity and all.
>>25025287
Remember when we were legion?
I remember when there'd be near daily ass threads on /v/. Nowadays, anything nsfw on a blue board gets deleted, as if 4chan could ever be considered worksafe, and even on-topic threads get deleted if the mods don't like it.
This place sure took a nosedive in recent years but there isn't much of an alternative.
>>25025287
I remember, OP.
I actually considered all this stuff to be very important historically and devoted a lot of resources towards making an archive of the times (having started browsing in 2008).
Then in 2012 the hard drive with my data on it died. I've only managed to salvage a few relics since then, as well as things I can scrounge up from threads like this.
I'll add to the list, too:
Remember 7chan?
Remember when this was an anime site and not an edgy-teenager site?
Remember LURK MOAR?
Remember the time before dubs?
You realize it's your faults, right?
4chan got so normalized because it kept popping up on the news or social media leading to some kid saying "hey I'll check that place out" then reporting back to tumblr/reddit/normiebook about how cool it was, leading to more newfaggy idiots joining in.
Now going on 4chan is like being a nerd, something that used to be bad but is now looked at as "cool" or "hip"
>>25025632
>"hip"
Nobody says 'hip' to mean anything besides the outside of your waist, unless you mean in the word "hipster". Stop talking like an old man to try to sound more legitimate.
>>25025303
Kill yourself normie.
Remember when moot was a cuck and everyone wasn't from fucking reddit?
>I can't call niggers niggers b/c pol or b8
Fuck off.
>>25025658
Newfag can't handle the fact that somebody over 30 would shitpost too.
Someone say Tripfags?
>>25025658
I thought people still used it to talk about things in fashion
I.e. "Oh yeah, that's hip now"
>>25025632
Remember when posters got lectured about RULES 1 & 2?
I hated tripfags then, I hate them now
>>25025745
Remember when the mods cared?
I swear it's like every day some guy breaks a rule and the mods give less then 2 shits
>>25025736
>aikawa kizuna not on the list
Probably the only one I remember. He'd always post the same thread, something like "Good morning anonymous-san. How was your day? Play any video games?" and he'd get chewed out for it. I liked him because like damn nigga at least he was trying to talk about video games.
Remember when 2010'ers were considered newfags?
Remember when /v/ had dubs?
>>25025785
That list is from Jan 2009.
>>25025809
I see that, anon. Kizuna wasn't active then?
Remember when it was .net?
>>25025736
Whatever happened to cap-tan?
>>25025737
I mean shit didn't know the word hip wasn't hip anymore. People still use it.
>>25025516
>Remember LURK MOAR?
the day we lost that was the beginning of the end
>>25025785
Sounds like the lolicon faggot who used to post on /g/ before it turned to smartphone board.
Every fucking morning with the foxgirl from that stupid anime telling me to have a good morning..
Remember when /l/ was a thing?
We really need Hiro to add it back, it'd be such a clean up for /b/
>>25025917
I agree. I have to wade through the cesspool of /b/ for the loli threads.
Even though I don't go there to shitpost I still feel ashamed for even having it in my browser history.
>just delete your history anon!!
It's not the same and you know what I meant.
>>25025917
>>25025936
Why is /b/ so full of porn anyway?
I mean theres like 6 other boards for porn, why clog up /b/?
>>25025287
ALL OF THE FEELS!1!1!
>>25025319
Investment banker
Remember when Captcha was a "temporary measure"?
Remember when Moot was voted Time's Person of the year?
>not yet at least heh heh
>>25025287
Remember when Moot said captcha was temporary?
Hey guys...you remember /5/ right?
I constantly feel like it was a board but everyone tells me it wasn't
It was just like mods circle jerking and getting 5's
>>25026108
>>25026117
Captchamind
>>25025516
what happened to 4+3chan?
>>25026173
It's still there, but it's a ghost town, honestly.
>no more take it easy~
>no more PARTY HARD
>no more PREMIUM FUCKING CONTENT
I think their /vip/ split is what killed them honestly.
>>25026173
Posters dried up.
It's still around. You can go to 7chan today the traffic is just super slow.
it's more like old 4chan than present day 4chan is.
>>25026125
Haha, you're delusional anon, haha
>>25026011
/b/ is the same 2 dozen threads over and over again it's been like that for so long now. I came to 4chan in 2005 and left /b/ sometime in 2007.
Remember when 4chan was a sekrit club? I sure miss that.
>>25025516
Newfags honestly believe that "lurking moar" is a meme. Granted, they believe everything is a meme but it has never been more appalling.
>>25025736
Aw I'm not familiar with that one. There's another one I am but it might be the '10 one.
>those get posted sometimes on /v/
>newfags instantly throw a tantrum saying no tripfag has ever been popular or renowned and so on and so forth
It's all so silly.
I remember when /x/ had new OC made on a near-daily basis, and content that could actually keep you awake at night. Creepypasta used to be so much more scary and creative 6 or 7 years ago.
Remember when a ban meant you couldn't even browse the site?
>>25026125
/5/? Whaaaat?
it must've been a dream anon
>>25026287
Still to this day this is one of the most painful images to look at. Just fuckin tears into your soul, i want to save it but i cant bring myself to do it.
>>25026125
M-mods
Haha, I meant, haha I don't know what you're talking about anon
Haha
>>25026125
/5/?
Mods circlejerking?
Wh-what?
Anon, you're drunk, go to bed
>>25026125
Mods moved it to /z/
http://boards DOT 4chan DOT org/z/
>save this a 4chan.hta and run it
>this thread is filthy. Let's clean it up
>Fantastic! The surgeon is inspired!
>GIRUGAMESH
>desu desu desu...
This is all I saw when I first came here. Can you pinpoint the date? Because I've forgotten.
I miss the Tom Green raids.
>>25026560
FUCK
God damn it, fuck you anon
>>25026601
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
How new are you, buddy?
>>25026560
>>25026601
>>25026621
Ah /z/, the good ol' newfag detector
>>25025287
The internet is being flooded.
There is no Noah and no ark. Prepare to perish.
This entire thread feels like a youtube comments section.
I remember regularly going to threads where anons linked to girls on Stickam or BlogTV and demanding them to show tits before chaturbate and mfc were a thing. It was more fun those days.
>>25026666
Thank you Satan
Even nostalgia ain't what it used to be
>>25025736
i miss Reliable Ecchi Deliverer Sniper
>>25025287
I miss the atmosphere of the old Internet.
I miss when memes were few and far in between, weren't spammed all the time and were completely unknown to the masses.
I miss when social networking was next to nonexistent and the only way you could access the Internet was with an actual computer.
I miss when people created online content purely out of interest, not out of profit.
I miss when the online world didn't bleed into the real world and didn't warp people's behavior.I miss when I was still somewhat optimistic and had hope for the future.
I remember when tumblr was originally hated for stealing trollface memes before any of this SJW obsession came about.
>>25026287
or you were younger and easier to scare
probably both
>>25026748
Bro I just saw that guy like yesterday
Can't remember which board but someone asked him when he's actually gonna deliver the ecchi and he started dumping
>>25026768
I was 20.
We need a /nostalgia/ board
Just for us to reminisce and recreate the old 4chan
The joke about 4chan gold accounts always made me uncomfortable, I could feel that it wasn't going to stay as just a joke.
>>25026799
Lmao
And then the pass came along
Thanks, Moot, you cuck
>>25025287
I, too, remember when the letters G. T. F. O. still meant something. Take my hand, and make 4chan great again.
>>25025736
>tfw even nostalgia about anonymous-defaulting imageboards can't let you escape attention whores' popularity contests
>>25026780
there's room to mellow out more by 27
Remember when you actually had to lurk moar to find out what something was? Back when spoonfeeding shit like knowyourmeme didn't exist?
>>25025287
I remember 2008 too OP.
Who remembers?
>>25026915
Know your meme's okay for some shit
It should stay away from things like board jokes and shit like that and should just stick to the more popular memes though
>>25026043
didn't he live in thailand and fuck kids?
what was that shitty pedo text board site that was created by that huge autist who spammed /b/ so badly moot instituted captcha?
An old classic.
>>25027000
Anontalk? I can't remember the guy's name. Here's our forgotten lord though
>>25025354
>Zezima
Was that name used in Runescape or on 4chan first? I remember looking up to him as a god when I was a kid grinding agility on the ape atoll course.
>>25026575
about 2009ish
>ctrl-f "alpha"
>no results
FUCK
It's amazing how much the world has changed in just ten years. Imagine something like this happening today.
>>25026936
I do remember this occurrence even if I don't recall what year it was! 2011, maybe?
>>25027189
Imagine what 2026 is going to look like.
>>25027068
Kimmo Alm was the name.
>>25027262
I don't want to. I don't think I can take another ten years of this.
What was the turning point my boys?
>>25025287
I probably think on the death of old, truly free internet too often. It is starting to truly depress me on the regular now. Time to wait for the next degeneration of things until it gets too shitty and I give up and fade away.
>>25025287
Remember duckroll?
>>25025736
Holy shit who made this and why am I on top tier?
>>25027374
For me it was dubs. But that may have just been the scapegoat for the general downward spiral that the site had been on.
>>25025287
>noko
fuck man i completely forgot about noko
>>25027542
I remember it being spambots and every second reply being 'you sir, are an idiot', but those might just be scapegoats as well.
>>25026753
>I miss when people created online content purely out of interest, not out of profit.
>I miss when the online world didn't bleed into the real world and didn't warp people's behavior.
These two are the worst change from the early 2000's to these days.
>>25027568
You, sir, are and idiot. :)But nah I remember those too
>>25025287
And now we're stuck with this modern day hugbox this site has become.
Remember this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MC0G-Lbuuk
I guess we were already way past the point of no return by then.
>>25026310
Yeah, I actually miss that
Let it go, anon. 4chan nostalgia is old now, by now you should accept the change and learn to live with what the site has become.
I just hate all the malignant narcissists who won't leave and dominate so much of the discussion.
Remember when /a/ and /jp/ weren't seperate?
the fact that this site changed so much is the reason I mostly browse other imageboards and only come here rarely
>>25027696
Le hating anything that is old ebin maymay
>>25027696
Oh I sure do enjoy the current 4chan a lot. It's still okay to wallow in nostalgia sometimes though, but not too often.
>>25027374
Fox News with hackers on steroids.
Then it further declined with Project Chanology, along other events.
>>25025287
boxxy, I miss her now.
How long ago did all these new site features come up?
I'm talking like...no need to noko, quick reply window, ctrl+s for spoilers, auto update with sound, etc.
I still think of them as new features but they've probably been around longer than I'd care to admit.
It wouldn't make me so sad if there were a spiritual successor where the essence of the old 4chan lived on, but there isn't. At least not that I'm aware of. Maybe it's because I grew up without any friends and the old Internet was more of my home than anything else, but I legitimately feel like crying thinking about those years. I wish the spirit lived on.
Remember no name fields?
>>25025516
Oh god, that picture takes me back. My friend had a first gen ipod touch and he'd save anything that would give him even the slightest reaction. I remember one day he stopped bringing it to school because there was only enough room for two albums, the rest was filled with pictures. You couldn't even open the pictures app without the whole ipod crashing and restarting.
>2008 is 15 days away from being 8 years ago
>>25026748
He posts on /v/ iirc
The first set of word filters were the best set.
Roody-poo
Candy-ass
and Femanon
will always be my favorite times.
>>25027833
This, this so hard. Where did the spirit of things go?
>>25027868
Anon...those were far from the first wordfilters.
>>25027782
also gentlemen, this is where it all went down hill. Media attention killed the 4chan star.
>>25027886
the first I can recall, from when I first was a new new fag. But I never posted. Still don't even make threads, I just lurk and watch on.
>>25027868
How long ago was that? I remember thay and had been lurking for over a year at that point. Trying to pinpoint when i started here
What were the original domains for various boards here before it uniformly became boards.4chan.org?
It feels like so long ago, I wish I could remember
>>25027912
Anon, I was gonna ask you the same. Cause I have done a shit ton of drugs since, and last I recall 2011 was when I stopped lurking due to gf. (ex gf now) 4 years later I'm back, not to sure..
Like everything in the world, the larger a community around something gets, the worse it becomes.
>we'll never experience a social media free internet ever again
>you'll never experience a comfy feeling of community online ever again
>you'll find original and enjoyable anything online again, because everyone's trying to ride someone elses coattails to e-fame and fortune
Even though we're nearly rock bottom, it'll only get worse.
>>25027934
samefag. I remember Snax, why has no one mentioned Snax? or am I just not paying enough attention. Moot and Snax were the original domain owners, until Snax has some cheese pizza problems.
>>25026287
The problem with /x/ is that it got invested by women who do nothing but talk about astrology, and bronies who do nothing but talk about tulpas.
The creation of /x/-tan was the beginning of the end. Something like that is not for men, but for women. /x/-tan is just le dark and edgy caricature that dark and edgy women want to be.
>>25027972
Snacks still posts on /r9k/ sometimes. He used to start a thread every Saturday, I believe. No idea what has happened since then.
HOly shit I miss it when posting your picture or any info about your real life identity on 4chan was the biggest fuck-up you could do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0cEJAq8bmg
and these two /f/ beautiful creations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar4WzQ7KHak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYxlSDJZbn0
everything we all truly love and miss are in these 3 vidya's. And all of that is dead and gone following the years to come leading up to this thread... Goodnight true /b/ros if you still exist.
>>25028023
/r9k/ is the reason I came back, no sign of snacks yet. sadface.
Why is /b/ nothing but porn now?
I remember there being porn threads, sure, but now every other thread belongs in /s/ or /hc/.
>>25028045
>Kao Dekai
Man. I knew about this song way back only because of Dr. Slump.
>>25025736
Wow that's vintage.
I remember my first day on 4chan. I was 16 then.
I'm 26 now.
I remember being confused seeing people post "SAUCE!" and wondering what it meant.
It's funny, we used so much jargon that newcomers could scarcely understand us.
When asked about something well-known, channers would say "LURK MOAR"
I remember watching raids.
I remember noko and sage.
I remember when people actually lurked.
>>25025287
>Remember when there were tripfags who were notorious across the entire site?
Quentin is still like this T.b.h.
>>25026287
>so much great creepypasta
>Texas stiltwalker
>technotango
So many great threads in 2008
>>25026287
People shit on the tripfags that used to be there during that time, but they were honestly some of the best content creators because they were trying to be /x/ famous.
>>25028056
>>25028023
Snacks's threads were on Tuesdays, for his radio show. He's not hard to get a hold of btw. Go to #MidnightSnacks on rizon on a Tuesday while he's broadcasting and you might be able to get his attention. I've talked to him plenty.
>>25027262
The same as >>25027189 but everyone will be dressed as CIA and Bane
There will never be another year like 2008. Why even continue?
I lurked 4chan for 3 years straight without making a single post.
Why can't they just lurk for a little bit? Why do they have to come here and change the place? Can't they appreciate it for what it is?
>>25027957
>Like everything in the world, the larger a community around something gets, the worse it becomes.
>Like everything in the world, the larger a community around something gets, the worse it becomes.
>>25028380
There still are notorious tripfags, Alphonse from /o/ is one.
>>25028640
>>25028472
>tfw 2008 will be 8 years ago in 15 days
It was as shit as it is today. You that grew older.
I remember every one of those
>tfw kids these days will never be told to lurk moar
>>25028348
Heh, I started at age 15 and now I'm 25...
>>25025287
>mfw I was born too late to experience this
I can only imagine the magical place the internet was before the normies
>>25028348
Ah, the days when raids were for the lulz and not just faggots trying to be edgy
>>25028939
It was a glorious place. It was a cesspool, but it was our cesspool
>>25027812
I remember she took my breath away. She seemed to be a pure idealization of unconditional, indiscriminatory love.
Remember lolz? I'm disappointed that my autocorrect had that word without me needing to teach it that.
this makes me cry
>>25025736
I don't miss any of them but it does feel really bizzare that these guys are just gone now or are just posting without the tripcodes.
Anyone remember that trip fag named aeris, from /b/?
Why did Moot leave? He finally got what he wanted right? Young teens using his site.
>tfw /v/ used to be dank and hilarious but now it's just redditcore
Remember ToadytheBRo? That shit was hilarious.
>>25026753
>I miss the atmosphere of the old Internet.
>I miss when social networking was next to nonexistent and the only way you could access the Internet was with an actual computer.
I pretty much believe that it was stuff like Myspace, facebook, bebo etc that turned the internet into what it is now, social sites bought a lot of people in.
I remember when the internet as a whole felt like this underground place.
>>25028065
I remember thinking it was full of porn when I first started using it but holy shit had it gotten bad over the years. You'll never see a combo thread, or EFG, or pinwheels, or trolldad/physics comics anymore. It's literally 99 porn threads and 2 YLYL threads ruined by banana man. I'd go fix it up if I had any of my old /b/ files.
Been here every day since 2007. I'm almost at a decade. Where the fuck did the time go. In my mind 2007 feels like 4 years ago, not 9. The 2010s are half over now. Fuck. I've done nothing for the past 4 years. This is what getting old feels like.
I want comfy small community internet back again.
Old mods got fired, everyone who complained got banned a while after chanology
Ever noticed that you cant apply to be a janitor for /b/?
rip, he was such an hero
>>25027411
egggroll turned into duckroll which turned into rickroll
now rickrolling is a genuine normie tier meme but i remember
what about candlejack? you guys remember th
>>25029024
Yeah, and how mad he got when people shooped cum onto his Cromartie avatars.
>>25029301
>that feel when captcha makes genuine candlejack impossib
>>25029281
MITCH!!
how did that get me muted. somebody else has shouted MITCH
remember when those /b/tards in england did loudspeaker spoilers of the last harry potter book on midnight launches dressed in pool's closed regalia and yelled 'EBAUMS WORLD' and called themselves 'ebaums soldiers'? that was a classic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c16wK-low4E
2:50 is gold, the guys yellign EBAUMSWORLD.COM
>>25029017
You do know there's like a 10 hour goodbye video moot did, right? It's on the 4chan Youtube channel.
>>25029327
He's resting in heaven now, listening to his long lost iPod
Is it even possible to make /b/ good again? Is good in the eyes of all the people who use it now?
>>25029359
i still get excited and shit when i see this
i could go from 26 year old to 14 year old /b/tard in a split second holy fuck
>>25029617
The sense of community is long gone in /b/ and its reputations so bad that no one will respect it again
People outside of 4chan used to fear /b/, calling it the worst place on the Internet, now it really is the worst place just got different reasons
>>25026748
reds was on /v/ a while ago
complete faggot now
>>25025736
>1236715185735
V I N T A G E
>>25025736
What ever happened to Namomo?
I miss Pops, I wonder when he died. I wonder what his last post was.
>>25025708
Apply yourself to your own advice shitskin.
>>25025736
who was autistic enough to create this? /v/ beats r9k when it comes to autism.
Anyone remember AMDG from early r9k?
He'd always pop up during any religious debate with long thought-out posts accompanied with some crusader image?
>>25029046
This is why I think we should start a new community on freenet or something. The internet was fun before normies discovered it. We need a new technically-difficult-to-access community.
I miss athens before he sold out for some pussy
I bet he likes jews now too.
