Why was early 2000s Internet so God-Tier?
Even when Newgrounds was vogue only underage retards went on it.
less normies, less jews trying to monetize everything
the two are closely related tho
>>25295875
it wasn't, you just were little boy
Who remembers Waterman and Tomorrows Nobodies? Wonder what happened to those guys.
I think the dude that did Salad Fingers and Burnt Face Man still puts stuff out.
>>25295875
Because you were young/happy unlike now.
>>25295875
>there will never be another episode of Beebo
:(
>>25295875
no normies were online
>>25295875
Because you were a child then, and everything from your childhood is good.
I've spent my whole life waiting for a fourth episode of The Decline Of Video Gaming :'(
>>25296328Real life is the fourth episode.
No normies or females
>wanted gf like that girl from Foamy
>fast forward to today
>lots of girls look like this
>they're all insufferable humorless cunts
JDIMSA
>>25296328
>>25296341
Did that show not predict everything?
Almost everything anyway.
>you now remember stick death
>>25295875
Because you think it is.
It was something new to experience and now that the old site you used to spend your childhood/early adolescent has changed and been monetised into something you don't remember.
Nostalgia is one hell of a feel, faam.
>>25296393
Careful of what you wish for
>>25296393
I wish Foamy did more rants instead of having to see big humorless tits doing sfw porn things.
>>25296479
he found his audience m8
>>25295875
It was still very immature. Everyone was genuine.
Now the internet is in its teens. Everyone trying to fit in and be as cringy as possible.
I just wonder what will happen in another 10 years. Probably NO FUN ALLOWED, TIE YOUR ID TO EVERY POST/THING YOU DO!
>>25296299
Yeah, this. The internet was "for nerds". Everyone online had some autism or abnormal reason to be sitting on there. Now normies are everywhere.
>>25295875
>tfw spend so much time trying to make flash games with actionscript
>tfw asking newgrounds bbs for help
>tfw never finished any of my shit
Did learn to program though, so it wasn't a complete waste.
>>25296438
Superbeast was the shit.
>>25296479
I miss those rants.
You'd think he'd still be putting out weekly rants with all the shit going on.
Illwillpress was kinda like Ghost.They're both right about almost everything too.
>>25296185
Nah, games from back then just fucking ruled.
I got the demo for Trials, and HHHHOLY FUCK that game is balls-out fun even still.
>>25296299
I think it was this, as much as I hate the phrase "normies". It was mostly children and weirdo adults making content, there was way more OC going back and forth... It was a new frontier of content creation and sharing.
>>25296515
It's already happening. Youtube is tied to Google+ and recommends giving your real name. Everything requires a fucking phone numebr to sign up now. It's ridiculous! I don't know how anyone is gonna practice basic internet safety in the future.
>>25296569
>tfw was a mac babby so I couldn't get into Doom modding and shit and had Marathon instead
>tfw even when I got a Windows PC and got to use the tools forSourceyears later, the modding scene was already dying
rip in peace gaming
>>25296438
>that one christmas where the relatives came over and one of my aunts mentioned it off hand and my dad got all excited
>we actually watched some Stick Death shit on someone's big laptop for like an hour
having a web 1.0 family rules
>>25295904
This, I used to be one of them.
>>25296152
Waterman is still around, he keeps saying the movie is finished and he'll release it someday.
>>25296569
I learned how to shitpost on those boards. Internet is still great but the communities on old forums were a hivemind, we'll never truly have that back.
>>25296396
Soul Calibur Final Fantasy Online maybe.
It wasn't, it was fucking trash.
Everything was slow.
Piracy wasn't as efficient as today and you could get viruses from basically anything.
4chan was Reddit with anime reaction images (inb4 mad oldfags telling me about the good ol' days).
The only thing that actually went bad is political correctness and social media bullshit.
Get your nostalgia goggles off for once.
>>25296152
>I think the dude that did Salad Fingers and Burnt Face Man still puts stuff out.
He actually got commissioned by the BBC and has other personal projects on Youtube.
I fucking hate them and can't tell you offhand what they are, but my friends have shown me them and claim they're good (I think they're insane and gay, salad fingers was pretentious shit too)
>You will never fap as good as you did in the early 2000s
>Play hentai section
>Pop a boner over something as simple as pantie shots
>Don't even make it to the sex scene, just a lewd one
>Bash really fast
>Orgasm in 30 seconds
>Still this amazing, earth shattering orgasm
>Horny again in five minutes due to still playing the game.
Sometimes something as simple as an advertisement banner could do me.
>>25296780
>4chan was Reddit with anime reaction images
Reddit didnt exist at the time you fucking idiot.
Stop projecting and fuck off back to Reddit.
Does anyone remember the miniclip game where you raced, and either finished first or destroyed the other cars to win?
And you could choose from fast weak cars or slow tank - like destroyer cars? I've been trying to find this game forever!!
>>25296780
>4chan was Reddit with anime reaction images (inb4 mad oldfags telling me about the good ol' days).
To be fair, 4chan is NOTHING like Reddit.
4chan
>Can post without an account
>Designed as an image aggregator
>Other than the OP, posts are only listed by time
>Limited number of boards; have to find the board relevant to your interests
>Software ripped off from 2chan, an open discussion forum kinda place that is largely self-contained
Reddit:
>Account required for posting
>Designed as a link aggregator
>Thread-based discussion with branches and proper reply chains
>Boards can be made by users; if there's not a board for your interest, you can just make one and hope it takes off
>Software ripped off from Digg, meant for sharing content you've found elsewhere that would be otherwise hard to find, without intending to discuss it
your opinions of either aside, they are simply intended for different activities right off the bat
>Try to go to flashplayer.com to rewatch old stuff
>Redirects me to fucking IGN
What the hell happened? Are all these old Flashes just lost forever now?
>>25296836
nice reading comprehension, chap
4chan of yesterday had the sense of humor of today's reddit
>>25296878
I was talking about the attitude and sense of humor not the site design
I remember going on a chat room when I was 8 (2002) and somebody said "Fuck fuck fuckity fuck!" and I still say to this day whenever I stub my toe or something.
>>25296827
To be honest youngens these days have it better with pornhub, being able to fap to actual porn without the fear of viruses and pop ups and dodgy downloads and long loading games.
>>25296827
What happened to those kinds of sims anyway
>>25296904
>4chan of yesterday had the sense of humor of today's reddit
You are full of shit. Newgrounds and 4chan had much more in common and still have more in common that Reddit would.
The only reason you see Reddit humor outside of Reddit is because Reddit fagsyoucant stay on their own fucking site.
>>25296827
>>You will never fap as good as you did in the early 2000s
Oh no. Go fuck yourself on that one. It was super hard to find decent porn until like 2012, especially in 2d shit. There were maybe five good artists among all genres.
>>25296925
Simgirl actually got completed, the other routes that is. But it took so long everyone got bored waiting and moved on to other stuff like actual hentai visual novels rather than flash games.
>>25296865
NEED FOR MADNESS AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I played this game when I was fucking 7 man fucking hell
>>25296904
the attitude and sense of humor are borne of the site designbut yeah I get what you're talking about and don't really disagree, reddit is basically Old /b/ with a cataloging system
>tfw I didn't know how to fap when these were out, so I'd just sit with a raging boner watching them all.
>>25295875
>No Facebook
>No Twitter
>No Instagram
Pretty much everything was good before the normies came in.
>>25296904
I can understand why you confuse 4chan and Reddit's senses of humor since Reddit does nothing but steal content from here.
>>25296878
One is for being angry on the internet and the other for circlejerking?
I remember back when Newgrounds exposed me to porn at an early age. Coming from a very religious household, I knew this shit was taboo to me. I used to have intense shivers while watching because it was a totally new experience.
>>25296932
Not for me, I was a Newgrounds fag so the hentai section did it for me. I was also like twelve then so something as simple as taking the clothes off a dress up game would do me.
>>25296931
As I predicted in my first post, mad oldfag spotted.
I've been on 4chan since there were only two boards. There was nothing edgy or original about very early /b/. It was literally Reddit: the self-aware sense of humor, penchant for geek culture, atheism, all the elements were there. 4chan started to actually develop an identity when it got a little more well-known.
>>25295875
It was still pretty shit, plus there were no chans. There was SomethingAwful *shudder*. The only good things I can think about it is file sharing programs that aren't torrent sites. Only good service now is slsk but that's only a fraction of what it was.
>>25296983
Same, I also found a group that taught me about weed as a kid.
>>25296932
>Oh no. Go fuck yourself on that one. It was super hard to find decent porn until like 2012
THE STRUGGLE WAS PART OF WHAT MADE THE RELEASE SO SWEET
When you think about them, a lot of those sites were pretty shitty in their humour and not that funny.
YTMD, Newgrounds, Somethingawful, Ebaums, AlbinoBlackSheep. It was all toilet humour really. It was just that you were a kid so your humour was less mature. It's why Pewdiepie is so popular these days.
Now Ark, don't you eat this pie!
>>25296904
I get where you're coming from. You tie the connection because reddit and memecenter picked up on years old memes and tried to pretend they were in on the joke. Two completely different contexts.
>>25296995
Redditors try to pander to the masses, 4channers did not fear being against the masses because they were anonymous. Either you're not an oldfag, or you just haven't been to reddit.
Also madness combat was the shit.
>>25297011
Exactly, I dunno, for me simple stuff would do, now I need tabs. I could fucking orgasm in seconds, maybe it actually was just because It'd have to take so long my boner couldn't take it.
>>25296995
>As I predicted in my first post, mad oldfag spotted
No shit. You posted something stupid and I'm calling you stupid.
Early /b/ started in '03 and early Reddit started in '05 so I think you're full of shit and trolling.
You cant have early /b/ be like a site that doesnt fucking exist yet.
When Reddit started, it had 4chan's/Newgrounds sense of humor for a short while before it became what it is now.
If you think there's nothing original on 4chan then you're saying there's nothing original on Reddit, either.
>>25297025
Yes, you're right. We probably found it funny because we were younger and naive; the whole internet was naiver. 4chan circa 2005-2006 is where things really started to take shape, to form an ethos. It had an identity that was unprecedent in my opinion. Everything we see today is mostly a rehash of this golden era.
Before there was Omegle, there was stickam.
All those creepers and catfish lurking around.
Who here stickam?
The early 2000's internet is the reason I looked at furry porn for 8 years. Disney had nothing on that.
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>>25297089
Still, it's the reason pewdiepie, markiplier is so popular etc. It's childlike humour just like Newgrounds was, hence why they're popular. They just get huge numbers because the internet is more popular. It's not exactly the internet degenerating or the youth degenerating. It's just young people being young.
>>25297060
Well, you were in puberty
Now though its probably still healthy to lay off the porn. It's not good for us. The kikes use it to keep us docile.
>>25297025
>comparing YTMND, Newgrounds, Somethingawful, AlbinoBlackSheep to PewDiePie
Who here /totse/ and SWIM
Did you get all the pictures?
Did anyone say nostalgia vault?
>>25297054 and >>25297086:
>4chan of yesterday had the sense of humor of today's reddit
early 4chan enjoyed the same things today's reddit enjoy, that's all I'm saying. 4chan actually created this content, I know that, but that doesn't change the fact: oldfags enjoyed the same brand of humor Reddit enjoys today.
>>25297011
nigga the porn was SO BAD that it spurred me from not caring about drawing to actually teaching myself basic anatomy and linework just because I wanted there to be decent 2d porn in the worldI never made it though ;A;But Fchan did tell me I had some promise and that my main problem was hands and faces like everyone else so I actually restarted trying to make decent fursmut last year. Still not making it but I'm trying ;___;
>>25295875
Old ass internet huh,
>lime wire to watch anime
>less /pol/tards, and if they were on it was a joke
>rightwing mocked without ceasefire
>no religious nut jobs
>gamespot, newgrounds,4chan, and ytmnd were hubs
I still fondly remember when ebaums got their shit kicked in
for stealing that one dude's video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BijChf8ROJU
downside
>hard to find episodes of your favorite shows
>no tutorials for any 3D shit or anything in general
>hard to find porn
>phones were shitty
>no skype
>>25297148
Can't believe none of you fuckers hasn't posted this
>>25297139
Yes. I did. If anything our humour was worse way back because it was a lot of exposure to sex and drugs to people in a young age.
But fuck, I mean the humour back then was a chipmunk flying around the screen going "WEEEEEEE" and "All your base are belong to us" and "THIS IS SPARTA." How is that any more intelligent than Pewdiepie screaming around?
>>25297149
Define this brand of humor. The "le so ironic" replies are the only thing I can think of.
>>25297095
the raids I participated in 2007 were one of my fondest memories as a /b/ newfag
>>25297149
>oldfags enjoyed the same brand of humor Reddit enjoys today
That doesnt mean 4chan is "literally reddit."
Yeah. They feed off our content.Then they fucking come here and try to tell anons that we're the same.
>>25295875
Boomers weren't on it.
>>25296908
im sorry but the diagnosis is autism
>Pools Closed due to Aids will be 10 years old in summer 2016.
>>25297176
The motivation behind the content is what makes it different.
We made stupid memes because it was funny and made other people laugh.
PewDiePie pretends to enjoy playing video games to make money.
>>25297176
I agree, but I think the shit was far more original than the shit of today.
>>25297146
These games were cool enoughand I was blossoming into enough of a faggotthat I didn't even care about the porn, these were just fun adventure games.
>>25296749
I thought he left the movie unfinished?
>>25297233
I guess so, yeah. But it is still the answer to "Why is Pewdiepie so popular" And it's simply because to twelve year olds, he's funny, just like how those websites were popular. That's what my comparison was meant to be about.
>It never got finished
CELES WAS MEANT TO TURN GOOD AND KILL KAIN DAMMIT.
>>25297185
>Define this brand of humor.
Sincere, geeky, witty, safe for work, uncontroversial. Very early /b/ was all about this shit, it was just after a couple of years that 4chan became edgy and left-field. The sincerity was still there during 2005 or so, but the childlike quips were starting to disappear. When early 4chan humor started to become widespread, /b/ reacted by going even more left-field: shit that was literally illegal, raids and so on. This is the moment when the 4chan identity started to take shape.
>>25297203
4chan isn't literally Reddit, early 4chan was literally Reddit
>>25296827
>earth shattering orgasm
I still remember my first one about 10 years ago, I really didn't understand what was going on at first but it was much better than what I experience these days.
>Nudges
>Winks
>MSN Plus which was spyware
>People with ridiculously long names
>People who used emotes in their names, specifically bats.
>Changing your display picture almost daily
>Getting invited to huge chats and instantly leaving with anyone else
>Getting pissed off as they keep reinviting
>Being invited into a chat when you have someone blocked or someone blocked you and they come to the realization and its awkward
>Appearing on busy because you wanna talk to only one person
>Appearing offline in order to avoid a person.
>All the sounds
>That feeling you get when the person you like comes online
>Not typing to them first in order not to seem desperate but keeping their window up
>Talking until like 1am
>Deleting your message when you see someone else is typing
>Adding complete strangers and never talking to them
>MSN groups
>Blurry ass webcam chat
>The person trying to convince you to get shirtless or you trying to get yourself shirtless by saying you're heading into bed or whatever
>Webcam lewdity
>That feeling you got when you did your first lewd thing on cam, that heartbeat because holy shit you're getting naked for someone
>Actually not being a beta and flirting with people
>Taking forever to sign in
>That feel when you heard what was 'Windows Live Messenger' at the time was closing
>MSN.
Who here used to RP? on MUDs, MMOs, Forums, whatever?
Maplestory, Neopets and Runescape.
>>25297398
AIM was godsent but MSN messenger was incredible. When they went under I was devastate
>>25297165
>>less /pol/tards, and if they were on it was a joke
>implying /pol/ existed back then
f u c k o f f
>>25297426
I used to hang out on RolePlayChat to get my furfaggotry fix but was never particularly good at it. Made some short-lived friendships, tho
>>25296945
THANK YOU!!!
I was literally looking for two fucking hours the other day. Such a great game for the time.
>Had dial up
>Had to log into the internet using AOL.
>Was scared that my mother would know my browsing history
>Start using Internet Explorer
Anyone else do this?
>>25297498
>didn't know how to delete search history
>googled porn with vague terms that I could use an excuse for
In hindsight naughty Santa is still pretty obvious.
>"There are no girls on the internet!"
Remember when this was a legitimate claim?
>>25295875
Because the Big Bang Theory showed up in about 2008 and ruined EVERYTHING. Also I'm sure Apple has something to do with the influx of normies into tech/internet culture.
>>25297643
Yeah, they say 2007 was the period it all started
>Apple preparing their smartphone products
>Big Bang Theory begins
>Xbox Live and PSN growing, so internet beyond computers
>WoW was in its popularity boom
>Social Media starts to become a thing
>Internet becomes more accessible
>WiFi
>Computers get cheaper.
2007 is where it began, 2009 was when it boomed. Think back to those years and you'll realize how much change and how much the topic of the internet came up and how much internet culture started to spurn into the real world.
>>25297466
It died long before they pulled the plug. Gradually over the years people in my "friends" list just stopped coming online until it was just me and a few others left, we held on to it until the very last moment.
I tried Skype but I didn't like my webcam and mic being so easily accessible, I preferred hiding behind the keyboard.
>>25297480
you know what I mean.
No actually political racists dipshits
everyone was just CHARGING LAZORZ
>>25297699
>>WiFi
Fuck that shit making everything connectable to the internet. If it doesn't have an Ethernet port then its not worth my time.
>>25297712
I noticed the drop when they changed from MSN Messenger to Windows Live Messenger. Microsoft wanted their MSN web page and stuff to be more popular after a bad hit of press when it was discovered that on MSN groups/chat there was like some pedo stuff going on. So they renamed to 'Windows Live' if you remember, this was when @hotmail.comemails were no longer available, only @live.com, dunno why they changed MSN because it was the most popular messenger at the time, had been for years, taking over AIM years ago. After that it dropped and skype took over. They changed a lot of shit about Windows Live then, taking away a ton of statuses, you had to use your real name and they took the handwriting feature away.
>>25297169
D A R K C U T
Thanks for saving my evening senpai.
>>25297699
Yeah, before smartphones with significant internet accessing capabilities, normies would have had to use a computer, and mind you in 2008, laptops weren't as widespread as they are now. With the capabilities of the iPhone series, and the probes sent to normie-land in the form of TBBT, the world was sure to change.
Even though being young on the early 2000s internet was great, Neopets, Gaia, Runescape etc. I missed out on all the adult stuff, which sucks, I'm curious as to what it was like. Since it was a lot more sectioned than it is now, not every adult had the internet or used it. It was mostly stoners I guess.
Stuff like IRC back when it was massive, usenet, forums were big, stuff like that. People smoking weed through their blurry ass webcams.
>>25297699
I'd also throw in the rise of Youtube to this. 2007. Although the people making money off youtube thing didn't really happen until 2010/2011
>>25296827
I've fapped with that game
>>25297201
I found this place shortly after the first Habbo raids I believe and took part in the second annual one, as well as a number of others. They too are some of my fondest memories.
Also;
>Fapping to some porn that I discovered when I first got the net at home
>Just some chick modelling but still hot.
>Logo on the pic says 2002
>Look at the girl and start to wonder how her life turned out since then
>Wonder what she did for Christmas
>Fapping ceased as I'm overcome with nostalgic thoughts.
I can't be the only one?
I feel weird that I actually did go to SA before 4chan even existed, and found 4chan through means other than SA.And I even only came here for the furry porn, in like 2008 or so
>>25297956
Do you wonder what happened to all the girls you used to flirt with/trade nudes/do cam stuff with if you ever did?
>>25297931
I remember watching my older brothers beat the game and make her cum in the end, but i didn't know what the fuck was actually happening or what that liquid even was, just that it was "porn lol"
http://www.freearcade.com/Jetslalom.jav/Jetslalom.html
Posting the best flash game for all to see.
>>25297372
>Sincere, geeky, witty, safe for work, uncontroversial.
>I have no fucking clue what I'm talking about
>>25298035
and now I'm a neet that sometime fap even for 8 hours in a day.
Hope you ended better
>>25297978
Pretty often yeah
>2005
>Autist trying to be funny
>Went through a stage of entering random AOL chatrooms and spamming Michael Jackson jokes until everyone left
>Do in one room one day
>Two girls left and they are just about to leave
>"Lets leave"
>"So he's all alone"
>Ten years later and I'm all alone in real life too.
>>25297712
It was amazing for music producers because you could stereomix clips of what you're working on in chat. I really fucking miss MSN messenger
>>25297372
>>25297149
>>25296995
>>25296904
>>25296780
In case any newfaggots are redditarded enough to listen do this moron, stop.
>>25297203
2011 funnyjunk was best funnyjunk
>>25298159
/b/ was all bro this bro that camaraderie. now its all just roll threads
>>25298290
4chan.org was a foil to the early 2000s web forum/otaku culture. It has no real modern analog, least of all to reddit.
>>25297372
kill yourself.
It was good when there were gore breads and extreme shit.
Stop trying to rewrite history.
>>25297398
MSN was so much better as a messenger than this kludgy piece of shit Skype.
>>25298534
>MSN was so much better as a messenger than this kludgy piece of shit Skype.
True. MSN group chats with forum members were the best shit.I miss you, renchan ;_;
That said, I get my chat fix from IRC. Fuck skype.
>>25296152
>tfw quote Waterman jokes all the time.
>tfw no one else to laugh at them.
My steam name is still "The Mighty Fighty Shushbugs."
Less corporate interference. Considered too risky to set up wholesale.
No viral marketing/social 'advertising' companies manipulating trends and running massive bot farms. Pic related, the slayer of the internet.
No normalshits.
Wasn't a major target of western/major eastern government in social experimentation/programs.
>>25296962
>tfw you finally got the hat trick
>>25296827
>couldnt fap to 2D then
>still cant fap to 2D
I really enjoyed those dating sims
>>25297165
the left created the right, unfortunately
>>25297212
>The first Spongebob movie is almost 12 years old
>There are kids in high school now who weren't alive when the PS2 came out
>We're further away from Twilight Princess' release, than Twilight Princess was from Ocarina of Time's release
>We're closer to 2040 than we are to 1990
>>25295875
>what is sjw's
>>25298797
>High school kids can't remember 9/11
>I mean high school seniors
>>25296152
Yeah, he did a music video for Flying Lotus.
Meanwhile, LazyMuffin is still irrelevant and penniless, and it feels so good.
Simple explanation anons, no iPhones yet and social media gadn't fully taken off except for cancerous MySpace. So all the normies played outside and you have to remember Comiccon hadn't integrated yet with television so people in large numbers weren't watching online about bragging how much of a nerd they were like now. The year 2007 is when both real life and the Internet went to shit, everything got dumbed down so that it was more user friendly for idiot normals and that's also the year being a nerd became cool with them so companies like Apple wanted stupid normies to buy their products, market them online by telling other normies what a nerd they were for buying a piece of shir mobile device and I think that's when Autism acceptance was happening too, MAY have been 2008, as solo n as Aurism acceptance was getting off the ground and peopled were using it in social media profiles to describe how needy and quirky they are I knew that's when things started to go to shit. 2007 also happened to be the year The Big Bang Theory started too so it can't have been a coincedence.
Excuse the errors, I'm very drunk
It's still the same, just more popular. What you're experiencing is simply getting older. Becoming more aware of this, maturing and as such not sharing the same humour as you did as a kid, which is why you don't get what the kids are into anymore. It's not that things have changed, you just don't find that funny anymore. A combination of maturing and getting used to it. It's not fresh and new anymore.
>>25296438
this was my shit, family
>>25299403
I just found this pic in my old photobucket account I remember thinking as an ignorant 14 year old "I wish I could preserve this moment forever" truly the best of times that the internet had at that time.
Wish I could find the original https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRc3RTHE75E
>>25296932
Calling bullshit on this. Usenet had so much porn. alt.binaries.erotica for days.
>>25298673
More info about this? I used to see posts on /v/ all the time saying "that guys just a paid spammer" and shit, but I haven't seen them in awhile. I always thought it was bs, surely no one gets paid to shitpost, but this seems legit.
I feel like sjw's are doing this shit right now too. Damn... The internet really is all bullshit.
>>25298673
MGS2 WAS PROPHECY
>>25297144
Totse. Zoklet. I want to kick spectral in the face.
>Go back and watch flash shit I loved in 2004 when I was 12
>It doesn't hold up
What's her name?
>>25300646
http://www.somethingawful.com/feature-articles/next-week-on/
>>25300646
LegendaryFrog.
>>25297203
there needs to be a 2015 version of this image with facebook taking shit from 9gag and cutting out memebase and digg because those are ded
also tumblr and 4chan shitting into eachothers assholes
>>25300646
animutation isn't very funny anymore and that makes me sad :(
>>25299499
Is the pool still closed?
>>25295904
Yeah
And we were the underage retards
>>25295875
Because it was still the wild west. Corporations/governments did not feel the need to play god and mess with shit.
>>25296438
Ah damn that was so good
>>25297372
Are you fucking serious? /b/ has always been full of sick shit. Get the fuck out newfag. Early 4chan and reddit could not have been more different. Early reddit was very much like Hacker News is now: focused on computer science and programming and a very small, intimate community. You'd never see gore or tits on reddit before the era of subreddits.
You're so new that you believe that reddit has always been the way it is now. Reddit went almost 5 full years without any subreddits.
That single fact alone destroys the comparisons you were trying to make.
And speaking of reddit, perhaps you should go back there.
>>25296827
>Sometimes something as simple as an advertisement banner could do me
They still do for me, at least whenever I see kancolle on here
>Sincere, geeky, witty, safe for work, uncontroversial.
literally the 2nd image in my /b/ folder from October 4, 2004
>inb4 sjw's
>>25301541
That picture was literally none of the words you used to describe it
>>25301612
That's my point fagotron.
Just your typical reddit humour guise
I think I saw this on /r/funny yesterday
>>25296827
>leave one of those dating sims on my PC
>uncle is visiting, totally forget about it
>later walk into the basement and see him on my PC playing the dating sim
I literally just turned around and never spoke of it, I was like 14, but shit was awkward.
Kind of like when my dad told me to stop jerking off in the washroom.
Not internet related but while we're reminiscing about the 2000s
>there will never be a new episode of Jackass, Wild Boyz or Viva La Bam
Those shows all make me very nostalgic
>>25301737
If you go on Reddit you're no better than the redditors you try to joke about
Please leave and don't come back
>>25301822
>>there will never be a new episode of Jackass, Wild Boyz or Viva La Bam
those were all terrible
>>25301737
Fuck off, Stupid Reddit scum
>>25301737
Kill yourself you stupid Reddit shit
>>25295875
>see thread
>backtonewgrounds.mpeg
>fap to Meet'n'Fuck Detective, and Ocean Cruise
>mfw
>>25301737
Disgusting Reddit scum, go back from whence you came
>>25301737
Ive got a song for you, buddy:
Pleeeeeas
Killllllll
Yourseeeeeeeeeeeeeeelf
>>25301737
Haha go back to Reddit haha
>>25297039
I love how the pie sounded like Ganondorf in that other flash
>>25301737
Wew lad
Jew dad
Go back to reddit
>>25297127
The numbers would've really increased thanks to the common use of smart phones and wi-fi hotspots. The internet has become so much more commonplace if not necessary today than it was fifteen years ago.
>>25297258
Agreed, the nude pics were pretty meh, but at this point I discovered fetishes and could only get off to them. 4 was a pretty GOAT adventure game
>>25297483
Oh fuck me that brings me back. That level where you couldnt smash the cars was so tricky for me at that age and when I completed it for the first time, that feeling of accomplishment at unlocking all the cars.
I'll never have that back.
>>25295875
My 2 cents:
There are 2 reasons why the Internet sucks now
1. Despite what people say, the Internet has always been shit. The thing is, back then, it was genuine shit. People made content not because it was going to get them likes, views, or favorites, but because they were genuinely interested in it. There was a time when Mario, Zelda, Sonic, and Pokemon parodies were actually entertaining instead of being the first sign of a hack. I can watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2kgkeisv34 and admit I no longer find it that funny; but I can still smile at the fact that somebody made this because they just wanted to instead of popularity (there's a fucking reaction nigger video when I typed this in). Back then, there was a different state of mind. Most people back then were either 21+ and some sort of social outcast or underage b&. As time went on, most of them grew up and could no longer make content anymore or no longer have a community to work with. It's just life. The older you get, the more things in the past fade away. It's like returning to your hometown 10 years after you graduate and see your favorite playground taken down. Enjoy youth while you can.
2. As another anon said, 2007 was when the Internet boomed. MW1 and Halo 3 came out, WiFi became huge, Social Media began to rise and gave normal-fags a place to post their stupid shit outside of emails. There was now a reason for normal-fags to browse the Web. They came in and ultimately destroyed what the Internet was at the time. But they didn't kill it. That honor goes to Reddit. Reddit is what killed all entertaining content. Reddit shamelessly stole from all over the Web not to promote people's work, but to give themselves popularity. Reddit is the reason why people make content to become popular. Why their are multiple Minecraft, let's Plays, etc... The best examples I can think of is how they killed Rage Comics and are now killing Pepe. They also paved the way for Buzzfeed to become popular.
>>25302142
While I can't speak for other anons, IMO, the main reason why I'm so pissed about all of this happening is that I never expected it. I cans ee stupid shit like Vine and Instagram going away. I can see the shitty YouTubers who work at Polaris lasting another 5 years before their 5 minutes of fame is up. Yet I could've never predicted the Internet in general would do a complete 180 on what it was back in 2006 and prior. And now that it's all happened, I guess I wish I would've enjoyed it more while it was around and not taken it for granted.
That's my whole take on it.
>>25297633
But it's still true. There are no girls; only whores and sjw's on the internet.
>>25297781
>tfw I've still got my hotmail
>>25300646
I honestly can't think of any aside from LegendaryFrog. It's hard to take off the nostalgia goggles.
Normalfags could never handle stupid shit like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zDveKs7uZE
>>25295875
Social media killed the internet.
>>25303335
Not quite, it was more mobile phones, touch screens and fool proof OSes that allowed any moronic normie to spew out onto the new.
Social media was the beginning of the end, but smart phones were the nails in the coffin
>>25303413
Can't really agree
I mean when I'm out of my house I use my phone to go on /r9k/
The Internet should have never become this accessible. Were it not for social media and smartphones, there's a good chance it would be even better today than it was back then.
>>25297169
THE PASSSSST! KILL IT! KILL IT FOR I CANNOT HAVE IT!
>>25297169
Seeing this now and remembering how excited I was when I experienced those things makes me want to vomit in despair for how much things have changed.
Fuck this gay Earth.
>>25295875
Because you had to use a pc to get on the internet, and only nerds used pc's
>>25301737
B.B. would fuck Pedobear's shit up.
>>25301612
holy fuck you are retarded, he posted that as proof that it was none of those things
go to bed
>>25301822
is this what early 20somethings nostalgia about these days?
>>25295875
It really was, which is actually kind of weird because the early 2000's pop culture was pure trash even compared to the 90s.
>>25296962
I didn't learn how to masturbate until I was 16
