>tfw now having nostalgia for early 2000s
Does anyone else know this feel?
>tfw too young to appreciate early 2000s
>tfw will never go back at my current age (25)
>tfw seeing old pics of my town and the buses we used to have (showing things like spy kids ads)
Yes I do.
>tfw you'll never get to use Tiger as your full time OS again
>>25180924
Nah. the 2d porn was really bad and the switch from that horrible plastic that turns yellow in a year to black powder-coated metal was one of the most important technological advances computing has ever seen.
no, fuck those stupid CRT monitors. Fucking pain in the ass. I have more nostalgia for when I was a really little kid and we had an Apple IIe. Jesus that thing was a noisy fuck.
Early 2000's was meh!
Bad over used cgi
Shit governments
Shit websites.
You want mid to late 2000's
>>25180924
>its 2003
>turns on windows xp
>loading
>5 minutes of loading
>finally loads
>plays doom
>loading
>playing at 2 fps
>decide to fuck it and go to internet
>adware everywhere
>computer gets hacked
>loading
>loading
>loading
>explodes
>tries to do work
>mother fucker paper clip bitching
>begins to search
>dog dancing around at 1 fps slowing down computer
>finally loads after 5 minutes
>1000000 results
>takes a gun
>pulls trigger on head
>loading
>you'll never experience the golden age of half-life 1 mods ever again.
Fuck me the HL1 mod community was amazing. S&I, the specialists, natural selection, earths special forces, etc, all the thousands of custom models for CS, admin mod, that TFC extension mod with special abilities, fuck I miss that shit. I wish I had taken modeling and skinning and animating more seriously when I was a kid so I could be developing games with all my old friends now.
>>25181017
>Tiger
>not System 9
fuck off
>>25181085
>Thinks the Bush administration was any worse than Obama
They're basically the same shit. Both horrible.
>>25181017
The amount of times i listened to Catch you, Catch me back then after finding anime and growing a crush on Sakura
Browsing Gaia weebing it up with qt's was that entire era to me before hopping onto 4chan like a flea
>>25181152
OS X past 10.3 was way ahead of everything else at the time for everyday desktop use. Honestly if I had to choose between Windows 10 and Tiger I'd go with Tiger, easily.
>>25181167
I was on some shitty SA spinoff site. I'm pretty sure they helped me develop my avoidant personality. Fuck them.
>>25181115
this but for HL2. SMOD, Eternal Silence, Hidden: Source... Source is my favorite engine and I love using Hammer to make stuff. I hate coding in general so I could never make a full mod, but like architecture and have enough knowledge to prototype simple singleplayer stuff in Hammer alone.
Buuuuut I never really got into the mod/mappack scene when it was still fucking relevant, so now I have a bunch of skills with a dead engine no one wants to use and everyone constantly makes fun of despite powering some of the most popular (if not THE MOST popular) games on Steam today, and not just because it's made by the people who run Steam in the first place. :V
>>25181155
Bush Sr. was okay. Like him or not, he did his job.
Bush Jr was genuinely incompetent and did everything wrong. Nigga could barely even give a speech.
>>25181111
nice quads and pretty funny too
made me chuckle, made my day
>>25181231
Are you saying Obama isn't incompetent? They were (are) both horrible. Their incompetence lead to shit like the DMCA, NSA spying and even ISIS.
Imagine if we had another 8 years of that with Shillary.
I miss 9/11
>>25181115
Yeah those were good times. I also remember when they started selling map packs in games and I was like who is gonna be dumb enough to buy those when there are entire games you get for free because they are mods.
I'm 31 and I don't have any distinct impression of the early 00s, culturally.
>>25181290
NSA spying predates obama but yeah in retrospect he was pretty shit and I take it back. but obama is actively shit, bush was just kinda there letting shit slip and in my book, that's worse
like, obama is evil and horrible, but bush is just straight up a dumbass who only got a job because his daddy ran shit years back
32 years old, so I can clearly recall early 2000s.
>mobile phone calls were super expensive
>Internet was slow and unwieldy
>windows XP was an improvement on prior versions but still lacked many features we take for granted such as a functioning search for keyword phrases in directories
> browsing the Internet on a daily basis was considered nerdy
>the iPod was an extremely expensive accessory and most plebs like me relied on tapes
>CD burning was possible but CDs were markedly more expensive and access to CD burners was still limited
>Simpsons was still one of the funniest shows on television
It's easy to get nostalgic, but the technology at the time was awful.
I didn't do much flying prior to 9/11 but I still recall early 2000s airport security being incredibly relaxed and easy compared to the shitshow we take for granted today.
>>25181359
NSA spying expanded and developed under him, apparently with his approval. Things like the Utah Data Center were completely under his administration. Extending the DMCA, signing the NDAA, pulling out of the middle east at the worst time possible because "muh troops", etc.
Obama only seems smart because he reads off the teleprompters and only does interviews when he gets softballed (e.g. liberal late night talk shows)
Bush may have seemed stupid, but at the end of the day they were both awful and if either one wasn't president we'd probably be a lot better off.
>I will never relive the early ps2 era
>I will never play wow for the first time again
>>25180924
The 2000s were the most forgettable decade in the past 150 years, besides 9/11.
Most people lump today's decade in with it.
There is a strange lack of any good/memorable music from that period.
>>25181457
>NSA spying expanded and developed under him,
of course it expanded but it was always a thing dude. and don't 5get that Patriot Act shit
>but at the end of the day they were both awful and if either one wasn't president we'd probably be a lot better off.
i'll tip my fedora to that, fampai
>>25181550
what about Linkin Park/Evanescence, Limp Bizkit and all that milquetoast nu-punk?
>>25181536
>There are highschoolers now who weren't even alive when PS2 came out
>>25181577
I don't think those bands will be remembered particularly fondly.
Possibly electronic groups like daft punk and justice?
>>25181550
>I didn't like anything from the 00s so it lacked good music
Why not just be honest with your post
>>25181392
Where I live, mobile phones weren't expensive and broadband was already available. Nothing special about CD burners either.
>>25181577
> what about Linkin Park/Evanescence, Limp Bizkit and all that milquetoast nu-punk?
I actually liked listening to bands like Korn and Orgy in the 90's actually. After that I decided alternative rock was dead.
>tfw no more bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Sound Garden
>>25181654
>Possibly electronic groups like daft punk and justice?
Aren't those more 90s?
also, just see >>25181666
i used to type "hentai" into altavista image search and fap like a lunatic
why cant i go back
>>25181550
>There is a strange lack of any good/memorable music from that period
>what is eminem
>>25181696
forget eminem, what about 50 cent and yeezus
fukken lil jon and shit
christ
>>25181692
I remember when Google rolled out and I just thought there's no need for it because we already got based Altavista.
>>25181740
Yeah this dude's a retard
If you've never actually listened to lil wayne listen to tha carter 2 right now
One of the GOAT albums
>>25180990
I'm 24 and remember the late 90s. Either your memory really sucks or mine is really good. 1999-2004 was the blandest most forgettable time in the past 30 years. The fashion wasn't even stimulating at the time. Imagine throwing a 00s party, what lame shot would even highlight it?
9/11 is all that came out of it. There was nothing cool about the 00s and no one is going to miss it 25 years from now.
>>25181550
Hail to the Theif is Radiohead's best album
>>25181741
I remember when Google was only a mild-mannered, innocuous search engine.
>>25181791
>The fashion wasn't even stimulating at the time.
lol seriously? early 00s fashion was loud as fuck (in the bad way), your memory really sucks
>>25181783
I used to unironically listen to lil wayne
I only don't anymore because I got sick of it after listening to it too much
MOO LAH BAY BEE
>>25181838
same, I remember when it was Yahoo and MSN that were looking to become the giant megacorps tryna do everything
and then google did google video, fucked it up, and bought youtube
rip in peace every1
>>25181847
That's more mid 00s but as a whole it was just baggy, generic, and barely distinguishable from the late 90s. The 70s-early 90s was waaaay more impressionable and distinctive. You're a moron who doesn't pay attention to detail.
>>25181550
>There is a strange lack of any good/memorable music from that period.
Nigger are you serious? Radiohead was at their peak and there were plenty of good albums. Hell, one of my most favorite albums came out in 2002 and it was about 9/11.
Pic related.
The old internet flash scene was the best, could never get enough flash animations and games
>>25181924
>That's more mid 00s
That picture is literally from 2003
>>25181847
No it the fuck wasn't. This picture from 1999 is basically what everyone looked like from 97-05ish. It's bland and forgettable.
>>25181111
Implying pr0n loading at a bar at a time didn't make it that much more exciting.
>>25181838
>>25181885
There was a time when the web was still anyone's game to win, and sites and services came and went. I think the big players we have now are here to stay for the foreseeable future, and there's not going to be some search engine or social media shakeup that's going to sideline Google or Facebook.
Same thing happened with microcomputers. There was an all-out battle from the late 70s to the early 90s with everyone and their dog putting out their own systems, until the generic "PC" wiped out everyone else, aside from Apple.
Did anyone say nostalgia
>>25181550
What about Blue October? They're my favorite band.
>tfw no justin furstenfeld bf
>>25181976
>No it the fuck wasn't
The Bucs won the Superbowl in February 2003, the year everyone had their bandwagon gear like that pic. Why is it so hard to accept that a Diplomats picture taken in 2003 was taken in 2003?
>>25182028
Ow
My soul
>>25181969
Your average person didn't even dress like that faggot. Average joe clothing in the 70s-90s was more distinctive than average joe wear in 2003.
>>25182070
Average joe clothing has always been bland and forgettable, that's kinda the point of them
>>25182069
Stare at it. Examine it, analyze it.
I created that vault and I've been posting it in every nostalgia thread i've seen. I've been breaking robot's hearts with nostalgia and mixed feelings.
I believe it makes us remember where we came from. It makes us stronger.
>>25181951
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fCWD1PFkFQ
Heaven will always be a funky moose to me.
>>25182028
I have played all those flash games. thanks for the feels senpai.
shit, I found about newgrounds when I was 8 in 2002.
had enough knowledge of the english language to make an account in 2006.
>you will never stay up until 4am to watch Inuyasha again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-E_ToLbzLw
>>25182060
I accept that, but how often did you see people dressed like that at the mall or anywhere dipshit? That '99 picture is what you saw when you went out, fuck the Bucs. That means nothing, the STYLE is the conversation, not the fucking words on a shirt. Is there a Bucaneers brand that rose from that Super Bowl? That's not a style dumb fuck.
![1426772339257[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/m5h9Oqo.png "1426772339257[1].png")
>>25182028
growing up is horrible
>>25182112
You are now aware you owe 80% of your english level to the early internet and videogames and music
Fuck learning english in academies.
>>25182098
Yeah but it's easier to picture average joe on 1975 and 1985 than Average Joe in 2005. Looked cooler too, that's not even subjective unless you're a tasteless autist
>>25182134
I dunno senpai, Goth dress from the early 00s was pretty distinct and memorable for bad reasons but it's still memorable and was really popular back then
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlR_drv6be0
>>25182151
Don't be discouraged by the nostalgia vault. It makes you remember where you came from. It reminders you that those glorious days existed. Why wouldn't you be able to recreate that again?
The nostalgia vault and my childhood memories are the only reasons I wish to have children. They will be as happy as I was when I was a kid, and I will help them avoid 4chan completely.
CUZ IM JUST A TEENAGE DIRTBAG BABY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC3y9llDXuM
>>25182028
WHY DID I GET RID OF ALL THE CLASSIC PORN CLIPS I DOWNLOADED ON LIMEWIRE
>>25182206
>be 12
>thought it was legal for me to download porn of people my age so I did on Limewire
>learn 3 years later that I'm retarded
Holy shit my family would've killed me if I got my dad v& for my stupidity
FALLING LOVE WITH A GIRL AT THE ROCK SHOW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7hhDINyBP0
>>25181791
Best thing to come out of early 2000's fashion was the revival of those elasticated neckline tops that could be worn on or off the shoulders. I swear it's because of them that I have a shoulder fetish today.
Does anyone remember the first day they got cable internet/DSL from dialup?
I remember it more than most Christmas present opening desu lads.
>Pretend to be sick
>Skip school
>Magically heal when I hear doorbell
>Watch over the dude installing it
>Jump on and do speed tests while bragging on AIM and Clan forums
>>25182174
1975 joe too much denim
1985 joe ray bans that don't fit his face
2005 joe ugly fubu
They all look like shit, normiewear is always bad no matter what year
>>25182169
it's true though lmao. I tried to think up a more accurate percentage, but 80% seems right. actually, more like 60% internet, 20% cartoon network. growing up in eastern europe is cool.
>>25182099
and man it's cool that you, a random 4chan user, made that vault. I thought you found it elsewhere. it really is a good compilation of pics.
HE WAS A SK8ER BOI SHE SAID SEE YA LATER BOI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIy3n2b7V9k
>>25181976
>all those columbine obsessed forums that popped up
I should of saved all of the pics and info
based reb and vodka.
Today I will remind them.
>tfw 30>Just fuck my shit up, senpai
>>25180924
Dude, I had that exact same computer case as in OPs picture, with the aqua-blue transparent plastic trim on the front. Bought it at a computer trade show, back when they still had such things frequently. It made for a nice upgrade from my old desktop-style AT case.
>>25182028
I have more nostalgia for the 90s web, and I was never that much into flash stuff.
>>25182326
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TA-2p1xm3k
Who /AMV/ here
>>25182383
I've always had an instinctive revulsion towards AMVs and have probably never watched one to completion. I've thought about doing them myself, but I would use music from the anime itself.
>>25182201
not sure I'll ever have kids, but either way. I want that to be me again. I just hate getting older.
>>25182383
Bruh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjjLnm4aTC8
>>25182453
>tfw used to unironically watch this and my Maplestory name was some shit like xXDarkChild666Xx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvqfDaY3V8U
>>25181550
KID A KID A KID A Everything in its right place
>>25182284
>fubu
>nigger bullshit has gotten so bad that I almost miss the Baby Blue Sound Crew era
>>25182620
Really? If anything it got a lot tamer since most rappers stopped making their own clothing lines and wearing their shitty stuff
There's only a couple of people who are super flamboyant NXTLVL in their clothes like Yung Thug
>mfw sometimes tug on the wireless mouse to let up slack like we used to with wired mice
this is some phantom limb shit
>>25180924
>tfw everyone ITT is nostalgic for their childhood
>tfw early 2000s were my late teens
>tfw 90s kid
>tfw supposed to be grown man in 2015
>>25183308
>wireless mouse
full anta baka
>>25183437
I have 3 wireless mice, one is an exact replacement for another, you angry? are you a "gaymer"?
>>25181670
I suppose it was from my perspective of having limited disposable income...
Looking back I guess phone calls weren't that expensive and the phones themselves weren't as expensive as mid-tier smart phones...
Really the issue was everything was limited and rationed out.
The idea of having every song ever recorded at your immediate disposal was a still Sci-Fi material.
Hope that makes sense: limited availability + limited money = perception of things being expensive.
Yeah, I'm 20 now. I miss playing flash games that people put effort into making like the newgrounds game 'The Ugly' and shit like that. The pain is remembering the summers and how I could enjoy a whole summers week on only a small amount of money now to have fun I have to spend shit on stuff I don't need or want rather than just enjoying friends company, exploring the world as I knew it back then. It was WAY bigger and better back then.
tl;dr - The early 2000's were my childhood.
>>25183308
if I had a wireless mouse I would lose the small USB thing in a moment.
>>25184843
all of mine of have internal carriers, also I have like half a dozen extras sitting around from various other devices so I'm not worried about running out
>>25184861
>half a dozen extras sitting around from various other devices so I'm not worried about running out
man, wish I lived your life.
unburdened by lack of various devices.
but alas, I was born in Iran...
