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>Green Day and Linkin Park
>Iraq and Afghanistan wars
>Warcraft 3 and WoW
>post-early internet but pre-social media
>Naruto
>LOTR, Star Wars and Harry Potter
>first generation to grow up with easily-accessable internet porn
Was being a 2000s kid actually great or am I just being nostalgic? For your information, you're a 2000s kids if you spent the majority of your school years in the 2000s, preferably the early ones. So if you're born somewhere between 1989 and 1998, you're a 2000s kid.
I feel sorry for the kids born before us who never knew the joy of growing up with the internet, aswell as the kids born after us who all grew up with their smartphones, ipads and mandatory facebook-accounts.
>>25406067
>I feel sorry for the kids born before us who never knew the joy of growing up with the internet, aswell as the kids born after us who all grew up with their smartphones, ipads and mandatory facebook-accounts.
And kids born in the 70's will pity you. Kids born in the 00's will pity you. People born 2050's will pity you.
Everyone thinks their own time was the best.
>>25406067
2000s were pretty cool but the music was cringy as fuck
The housing crash sucked too. We almost lost our house
>>25406095
You could make a case for those born before us but growing up after us must be hell for any robot. Imagine all the shit you got in middle- and high school but taken online?
>omg anon is such a loser he only has 34 facebook friends XD
>loool anon won't be accepted into the facebook group for the class he stinks lol
>XD film anon sperging out and put it on youtube for likes we will totally become youtube celebss
>>25406105
The music was fitting for us. For the first time ever robots could bond with each other all over the world in online games, forums and imageboards. We became a market for the edgelord music that came to define our lives.
>>25406067
Your good points look like shit, son
>>25406067
People born in the late 90s were too young to really remember it.
>>25406067
As a person who started college in 2004, all of you faggots ruined facebook with your myspace tier bullshit. fb used to be comfy af. Also, my generation grew up with easily accessible internet porn. In the mid 90s on dial up I was still getting porn, maybe not high def but who needs to see some snatch in HD anyway.
also
>wow sucks
>naruto really sucks
>wanting to live through war
>music really sucked
The internet was fun though. Before normies and children got their hands on it. In 2004 I met some slut off of AOL chat and fucked her. She was 29 and I was 17. I wish I could have my secret club back for sure.
:(
>>25406067
>>post-early internet but pre-social media
>>first generation to grow up with easily-accessable internet porn
How are these right? We had lots of social media and you could easily get porn on the net in the 90s.
>>25406067
95 fag here. I dont really miss any of that. My family was super poor so I only got unrestricted internet access in 2009.
I dont know, maybe its because I hated being a kid I dont have any nostalgia.
I do agree that video games got so much shittier though especially because all these shit indie games and dlc cancer.
>>25406067
Was born in May 97
So I guess I;m a 2000s kid, the only tie I have to the 90s is me being born in it but I was fucking 3 when it came to an end, the only contact I remember having with it was watching VHS tapes of movies and shows from it in the early 2000s and occasionally they show some shit from it on TV
All the 90s kids were already out highschool by that time so yeah
Growing up in the 2000s sucked balls, inner city ghetto black culture had taken control over all music, social media had taken off before 2010 even showed up
It's only gotten worse since then but the 60s, 70s, and 80s truly were the peak, 0 social media, 0 feminism, 0 SJWism, 0 nogs dominating our culture, all the guys were relatively based and wanted to be your buddy, and all the girls were nice and bubbly and wanted to be your fuck buddy
Now unless you act like a dipshit, listen to inner city nig nogs rapping about drugs and killing, dress like a faggot, tout the leftist SJW shit all the time, and spam pound symbols, then you are officially outside of the main crowd of people.
My mom talks about going to college and everyone was constantly talking and hanging out, smoking pot and listening to rock music and she doesn't say but I can infer that there was a lot of casual sex (not that shit where all the girls only go after chads, I mean like fucking everyone could do it)
Now I can go into class and everyone is either half asleep, texting, or doesnt wanna talk to anyone (not even each other)
Outside of class its the same
I can be in lines with 30 people for food and its the same
I dont even think the normies socialize with eachother in person that much anymore
I think they are starting to abandon real life interaction and normify technology and use that
I was at my grandmas house a few days ago and my 9 year old cousin was on her fucking phone the entire time
Wanting to take fucking selfies
>being born in 1991
>mostly listen to music from the 90's and early 2000's
>tfw born too late to enjoy thse bands when they were at their best.
>>25406218
It wasn't the same because social media wasn't mandatory and really only used by a few special snowflakes with odd interests. The average Stacy and Chad didn't have a myspace account or a facebook account before 2008 somewhere. Nothing was connected to this as it is now when everything circles around your internet profile.
I assumed porn wasn't as easy because most people didn't even have internet in the 1990s.
>>25406204
I got my facebook in 2008 when I was 17 and it was absolute horseshit then, even more than now because most people moved to instagram for their pictures.
>>25406242
Don't forget early access, biggest fucking bs ever.
Instead of getting paid to alpha/beta test a shitty game that's full of bugs, you pay them to do it.
>>25406105
Then your parents are irresponsible idiots. You'll understand when you buy your own house, market. Crashes don't mean shit if you're not a retard.
>>25406259
Tbf being born in 97 is probably pushing it, I'd say 95 is the limit. You were 8 years old when WoW and youtube came out, 10-11 when facebook became mainstream and the music you will connect to your early teen years will be Rihanna and Drake.
Shoutout to all my /1996/ homies truly the best group
I was born in 1982
Fuck you all and your so called "nostalgia"
>>25406067
Dont make me replay Warcraft 3 again please...
It was a shitty era of blind consumerism and everybody being bluepilled.
>>25406268
I had facebook from 2004 and it required your college email address. It was fantastic for keeping in touch with people I graduated HS with, and also for meeting new people on campus. Shit was comfy.
I also had a myspace during that time but that was more like, for talking to sluts in towns surrounding my own and getting some. myspace was like a massive dating website whereas facebook was like, an actual social network. Once they put in the "news feed" and allowed people without college emails on fb, it became cancer. I seriously never thought that memes would be something normal people talk about or use. btw I joined 4chan in 2007-2008, I was playing pokemon world online and someone mentioned it
>>25406321
So tell me about your years then you old fucking piece of shit.
>>25406325
>rushing home from school on a friday afternoon
>quick trip past the store to buy snacks
>time for lan party
>spend the night playing through all the gorillion custom games with your friends
>footman wars
>HLW
>Tree tag
>dbz tribute ultra
>risk
>DotA
>>25406328
Hey faggot if you actually knew the origin of the term bluepill, you would know that's a good thing.
It's nostalgia.
>>25406259
'91 here. I got my first phone with 15 as a present, never had kikebook, whatsshit or any other social media.
I've never used a phone to browse the net, feels like I'm the only one in my country who's like this. Do I miss something when not using snapchat, whatsapp and such?
>>25406382
Are you a normalfag? Yes.
Are you a robot? No.
>Green Day and Linkin Park
>Iraq and Afghanistan wars
>Warcraft 3 and WoW
>post-early internet but pre-social media
>Naruto
>LOTR, Star Wars and Harry Potter
>first generation to grow up with easily-accessable internet porn
I'm born in 86 and I sincerely don't know which point of the above is supposed to be good except maybe the usefullness of the internet and the Potter books that many seem to like.
I mean was is obviously shitty, we don't have to talk about this. Shitty reboots everybody hates.. great.
And then you say you're the first generation who grew up removed from the world (WoW, lots of porn to a childs mind, etc.), making you the robot you are today and that's good why?
>>25406321
someday even 2016 kids will be 34 like you. And they will be saying that 20s kids are dumb and entitled. Funny
Born in 1999. Easy porn access, video games, lots of 4chan. However SJW and lefty run schools. So many whiteknights at schools. Social Media makes it easy to get pussy. Also im 2700 rated on wow so yeah being a 200's kid was sick.
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>>25406406
>born in 98
Well obviously you wouldn't know. You can't even legally fucking post here dumbass. There were plenty of robots before our time but unlike us, they had to suffer in loneliness without being able to find peers online. I don't think you understand what WoW did to many of us. It was the first time we had any social status to speak of.
>>25406431
war* is obviously shitty
>>25406445
I'm angry even though I also posted here as a kid.
Text to girl: 'Do you have any new years resolutions apart from sex with me?'
>>25406406
Yeah I'm wondering that as well; if that were the highest points of 00s then it was utter shit not even worth arguing here.
As for easily accessible porn, I only fap to traditional stuff like the face features, hips, cleavage, legs, feet and etc. so that does not make a big difference for me but I can see why it's so prejudicial to many. People lack self control and get too easily excited with certain images.
>>25406431
>>25406406
Fuck off underage
BHwygwijjfll
>>25406450
meant to say 86 not 98, I copied the later number from the OP
mhm, I don't get how one can think spending 3+ hours a day playing video games is in any way good.
I played Finaly Fantasy VII and C&C in 97, and some Lucas Arts games, but I didn't do that beyond school.
How is this "social status", it doesn't get you anything in life
I know I don't get far on 4chan saying anime and video games are a waste of time, but at least I'd hope there are some people who agree and just stick to it because they like it, not <actually> think the emergence of MMORPGs is something positive
>rise of Apple products
>rise of yearly game releases from the same series (some even less than a year like guitar hero)
>rise of restrictive and terrible computers designed mostly for media consumptions
>rise of JavaScript
92 here. As I was watching the ball drop last night, I was remembering doing the exact same thing in 2000, and thinking about the good ol' days. Downloading music off Napster and Limewire. Trying to stream blurry porn over dialup while the parents were asleep. Grinding on Runescape all Friday night. Homestarrunner. Jesus the internet sucks now.
>being discouraged from ever using your full name online
>>25406513
PS
I remember going to an internet lounge (paying 5 Euro to browse the internet for an hour or so) and secretly downloading 9 images of women in bikini on the beach (including Claudia Schiffer) on my USB drive, so I could watch them on my Personal Computer at home.
I had great faps this way.
And I don't see why it would have benefited me in any way straight out of my teen years I knew people could get so numbed to just regular porn videos, that they'd turn and get off to face fucking, let alone sticking womens faces in toilets and whatever.
I'm not really judging here, I'm just saying that if I'd needed that at this age or earlier, I would think my perception of sex would be a sick one.
>>25406067
>kids born before us who never knew the joy of growing up with the interne
Anon, I've had internet access since 1994 or so and I don't think I was even that early. That being said all internet before social media was great. Social media and normies trampling the internet is what made this place such shit that it is. And this includes a lot of 4chan too, especially /b/.
>>25406445
how does social media make getting laid easy
>>25406513
You don't seem like a robot then. Reality was always shit for us, video games allowed us to hide away somewhere but online games is what truly changed our life. In WoW I made friends and got a social status because my character was fucking good. I even had a online gf at some point although that was in Maple Story.
I know this probably sounds pathetic but if it wasn't for games, I would've been even more lonely.
>>25406634
I think he means you can have one-one conversations with anyone, especially after you had a chat and exchange information. Everybody has a phone now too, even 5 year olds. Before, if you're any sort of sperg level, you couldn't even talk to the people on the table up the social letter, and you'd have to read the paper or take word of mouth to find your local chess club.
>>25406631
1994 is extremely early, like you're in the earliest percentage in the west to have it. Also it was mostly older people who wouldn't let their kids on it.
>>25406673
I have friends who drifted into online gaming, and who are NEET to this day and spend their time binge watching all the old Stargate episodes and so on.
I'm not a robot, sure, but those people also would have other options - I would have liked to interact with them more but these are of course the kind of people who get stressed and bitter when at a party for 15 minutes (>is this what normies understand by having fun) and so I'd argue they don't WANT to meet new people, i.e. they don't gather the energy to actually go through the moves of getting an bros.
Being extremely introverted must suck, but I'm sure without the developement of the web, at least some of them would have been forced to not become those piss bottle boys.
I grew up poor so I only had TV and an old Gameboy AdvancedSP. I would go over to my friend's house and hangout there. We would take turns playing Xbox. all we did was play San Andreas until i got an Xbox360. I played so much halo and cod it was not even funny. I found newgounds around 2006 and youtube at around 2007. i got a Dsi and went on flipnote everytime i had to got to bed.
Then it was 2012 and everything went down hill from there. Now everyone is a faggot that listens to drake and goes on shitstagram posting emojis all day.
>>25406242
What's wrong with indie games, at least they try to make new shit as opposed to AAA games that are all alike.
>>25406259
'93 here, I agree with you for the most part, kikebook took over when I was in highschool, I feel like social interactions are broken due to technology, and most people live their life not trying to have fun but trying to appear cool on social medias. It's like doing something per se doesn't make sense anymore, I'm always appaled when I see the number of tools that film with their phones at concert just to prove on fb they were here, having a good time, instead of ACTUALLY enjoying the show. Social medias make people so fucking shallow and narcissistic.
It's all nostalgia. I was born in 1994 and while I remember the early 2000s very fondly and even yearn for the days before 2008, looking back there was a lot of stressful things going on for adults at the time.
As a kid you were able to lose yourself in the last great gaming consoles, explore the internet, and be some of the last kids to read magazines or use CD players. It was great.
>>25406267
Try listening to 70's progressive rockbands, it's like running against the clock trying to see the few bands that still tour before they die.
>>25406067
>tfw playing runescape in the early to late 00's
Life was fucking good. RS is shit now, it's really sad.
Also the proliferation of internet access has led to far more retards voicing their shit opinions. It feels as though mainstream discourse has really dumbed down now that everyone from 14 years old and up is in on it
>>25406369
Please elaborate (concerning the bluepill)
>>25406431
Robots always existed I believe, we just found a shelter here, but nerds always existed, they just crawled in other places.
>>25406445
GTFO you fucking underage normie.
>>25406467
I don't know about you, but I never mentioned my age, being underagb& was serious shit for me. Fucking kids don't respect anything now.
>>25406591
This anon's got it. Data mining wasn't a thing back then.
>>25406297
Bless you anon.
May '96
>>25407592
God damn kids
>>25407650
Not something I can help. I'm just old enough to remember pre-9/11. That should probably be the cut off.
I remember how there was always some kind of WC rts lan party going in the PC laboratory at my old school and how i kept buying floppy discs at that one place before it closed down many years ago
Good stuff
>>25406160
This
I was born in 1993 and i can still remember a lot of shit from the time such as playing super mario on NES at the neighbours house, playing with my grey gameboy on the streets or all the balkan wars back then among other things
>>25406259
>I dont even think the normies socialize with eachother in person that much anymore
>I think they are starting to abandon real life interaction and normify technology and use that
Yeah even my mother does this now and gets drunk in front of the PC because of it, it's insane
>>25407765
>WC rts lan party
Playing dota and tower defense with the other weird nerds from your class. Playing WoW all night in high school. Playing diablo 2 all night in middle school.
>>25406067
I don't miss those times at all. The 2000's sucked for me and almost everything you posted sucked. I also went through puberty during the 2000's so that made it worse.
>>25406095
Absolutely wrong.
You're correct only if you consider each era to be similar in terms of progression and change, but when you consider the 2000s as the era in which the internet boomed then your idea is wrong.
Yeh i realise that someone born in the industrial age or when cars became affordable or even in the future when they make VR might say that their era was awesome because of the change, but objectively the internet has had a larger effect on the individual than any other large change has.
Mainly due to the advantages, fun, exploration of the internet only bring perceptible to those that lived through the transition (hence why today kids are so used to the internet that they can't see how big of a change it had on everyone).
>>25406138
>anon won't be accepted into the facebook group for the class
That happened in my last three years of high school, they never talked to me about it, but I knew it existed, sometimes the other students said to the teacher "yeah we'll post the notes it on the facebook group".
I never got those notes.
>>25408069
>tfw you went to school before smartphones were a thing
So glad I avoided being unable to turn off my social life. Now it's impossible for you to forget that one minor embarrassing thing you did. If you're extra unlucky it will go viral and the whole world will see your shame.
>>25408069
I'm in community college right now and I'm gonna sue the school so hard if they give me assignments that require facebook. Thankfully it hasn't happened yet.
>>25408287
People still spread rumors and could ruin your reputation before smartphones. I didn't even go out or interact with my classmates and they still made fun of me for embarrassing shit I didn't even do.
>>25408345
Yeah, me too actually. But nowadays it's added a whole new level.
>>25408373
When I was a junior in high school Facebook became accessible to high schoolers. After that people were more interested in what their friends were doing than what the loners and weirdos were up to.
>>25408413
But they still found it funny to laugh - together, online - at what the losers and weirdos were doing.
In my case anyway.
Now I'm a fucking officer in the army commandos and they're all working shitty office jobs though. Hah.
I got to level 200 on maplestory in 2006-2007
never again
>>25406450
Yes you can
my birthday is on the 1st of January 1998 and i can post here, i'm 18.why am i even proud of this, this place is hell
>>25407323
The bluepill is basically living in blissful ignorance. You're happy which is all what matters.
>>25408624
Well did you arrive today? Obviously I know underage go here and I also went here as underage but it doesn't make you less cancer. It also automatically makes you somewhat a newfag unless you came here as a fucking 13 year old but at that age you're too young for it to matter anyway.
Oh well I'm probably the one who should go, at 22 I'm clearly too old to be here.
>>25408821
i came here as a 14 year old, and used /b/ as a porn site of sorts.
Then i browsed /pol/ for a bit, then i actually gained some interests and browsed /g/ and /a/ and sometimes /v/, then porn on /gif/ and now i'm here, still a newfag, but i'm guessing a lot of people here have not been here for much longer than 4 years.
>>25408858
I just realized I've been coming here for 8 years and it only gets worse. I wasn't even underage when I started visiting.
I was born 1989, around 2002/03 is when stuff started to suck.
>>25408923
but there is nowhere else to go, any other place is nearly not as fun as it is here, every other place is filled with people i can't identify with or discuss anything with, but on 4chan i sorta can, most of the time, even with all the shitposting here sometimes, i feel like i'm at home here for once.
>>25408970
This sums up my feelings perfectly, I'm >25408548
>>25408970
Are you still in high school? Things are different after high school. High school is super weird and I'm surprised more people don't shoot up their high schools. College is like that too and I'm surprised there aren't more shooters there either.
I had a professor once tell me she thought there would be more school shooters, she had a point but it made me really uncomfortable.
>>25406067
it sucked and this decade sucks more
I NEVER WANNA ACT MY AGE
WHAT'S MY AGE AGAIN
WHAT'S MY AGE AGAIN
>>25409068
lt's only January 1st, and that is the dumbest comment of 2016.
>>25406819
Oh you did flipnote too?
>>25406295
So do you mean I'm a 2000s kid or no?
>>25406382
Ive never had a kikebook or anything else either, and using a phone to browse the internet is like using a fork to eat soup, its fucking stupid
>>25407234
>I feel like social interactions are broken due to technology, and most people live their life not trying to have fun but trying to appear cool on social medias.
Yeah its like everyone is trying to put on an act, no one just wants to chill its all about social status
People from decades ago didn't operate like that, they couldn't there was no outlet for that shit if you wanted any social interaction at all you had to go and talk to people in person and they had to do the same '
>>25407962
Any other examples of that?
I know just the other day some normie fell off a cliff because he was texting
Gif unrelated I cant find anything good right now
