I first got the internet in May 2002 as a kid, but feel free to talk about 90s shit too.
who maidmarian here?
who yahoo pool here?
who habbo here?
>>27331670
Newgrounds was and still is pretty shit.
It was a place for the punk-dumbass kids to hang out and make things that they enjoyed. Since it was 1 of the few content creators, whatever it had created pretty much became the staples of the Internet's culture
Now it seems to be filled with the "to cool for you" group.
>>27331670
Newgrounds was the shit between 2003-2007
>>27331825
>Now it seems to be filled with the "to cool for you" group.
Have you ever actually been to Newgrounds, now or in the past, whatsoever?
>>27331876
Yes. And I will still stay that is the vibe it gives off nowadays
>>27331825
Newgrounds gave into the PC crowd taking down 1/2 of the old content.
>>27331876
2007 was like the beginning of the end. It's been discussed before.
2007 was the beginning when internet got more accessible and mainstream, gaming became pretty mainstream
2008 was the beginning of social media booming and a lot of other 'nerdy' things becoming mainstreams, nerd culture becoming a thing
2009 was when it all kicked off. Everyone had a facebook, twitter got big, wi-fi, everyone just had the internet. Older people and companies started jumping on the social media bandwagon.
I'd say around 2012 was when memes started frequently being used in every day use and a lot of this whole 'Millennials and instant gratification' talk began.
>>27331887
That was a rhetorical question m8
It's obvious that you were banned from newgrounds because your parents deemed it too risque and now you're blind from eating too many sour grapes
Newgrounds is effectively dead nowadays
Not very many animators or game designers use it because there are better platforms
>>27331809
I went on the space version of maid marian, I went on Habbo, what is Yahoo Pool?
>>27331825
It's where newfags came from
>>27331974
Lol the internet became shit around 1999. Gaming was huge then too.
>>27332070
I meant console gaming becoming a big thing, WoW getting in the millions, CoD kids and shit, streaming and LPs becoming a thing.
>>27332042
newfag detected
I bet you came here in 2013 but claim it was 2010
>>27332100
Console gaming was huge before the ps2 came out.
Who is your oldest online friend? Mine is from 08, lost all my older ones in time.
Was it possible to beat Orgasm Girl?
>>27332205
No, but it beat me many times.
Well, mostly I beat myself.
>>27332070
You can literally tie gaming going mainstream around halo, wow, gta 3, and call of duty modern warfare era. Although most of these games were pretty great, they were highly successful to the point where every gaming exec said to follow suite on these games for their genres. Wows changes managed to kill an entire genre, though I blame corporate thinking to reach a wider audience more than the games themselves. I don't think any genre has really recovered from the copy successful games meme.
Over ten years later I'm still waiting for a company to release an mmo that focuses on its fan base and maintaining its community standards over pulling in every average Joe.
>>27332249
MMOs are dead, all the big corporations moved onto MOBAs in an attempt to copy that instead, causing its oversaturation and eventual death.
I remember back in I think 07-08 or something YouTube having chat rooms to watch videos in while talking to other people.
Nobody else remembers and I can't find any images of it online so idk if I'm just delusional or what
Half of the shit I got from Limewire I'll NEVER see again unless I want to go to jail.
>>27332280
Isn't that just Synchtube/Instasynch?
>>27332303
no, it was actually on YouTube's site and people put in videos in a queue to watch
FlyFF was my first MMO. What a great time.
>>27332328
I don't remember anything like that, just Instasynch which is up now and Synchtube which was 2011 - 2013.
There were probably others before it, but none by Youtube. It was probably unofficial.
>>27332364
found it, it was called YouTube Streams
Is mrpregnant's website with songs about fucking cows and eating dog shit and enjoying it old enough to warrant nostalgia?
>>27331670
>those dating sims
Surprised I could never get into 2D after that
>>27332393
Never ever used that. Guess that's why they took it down?
>>27332423
My first fap was to Simgirl's ending.
>>27332447
I don't remember it being too popular, probably why I haven't met anyone else who remembers it
>>>27332176
Some girl I added on steam back in 2009/2010, dont talk much considering she's Russian and timezone fuckery and was gone for over two years at one point and hasny been online in over a year according to steam.
>>27332500
meant for
>>27332176hi hi I am a little bit of a new one of the day
>>27332423
Actually did one of these for another thread
>tfw its only full of hentai as thats what was accessible at the time
>Other porn places required credit card sign ups
>They were also full of viruses
>Newgrounds was the only safe place
>Not that it mattered much, I could climax over something as simple as a banner
Young'uns have it easy now with pornhub and such.
>>27331974
the internet became shit one normies started using it just like vidya has become shit because normies started playing it, so pretty much normies ruin everything
>>27331670
I was the 7th guy to have got internet in 1999 in Belgium.
>>27331670
The first time I discovered Internet porn
>be me
>9 years old
>playing ski free or chip's challenge or some shit
>bored
>looking around for something to do
>see internet explorer
>okay whatever that is
>open it, first thing I type is about vidya
>leads me to gamefaqs
>all this previously unknown information
>wOaH
>time passes
>one day curious kiddo
>google images naked girls
>looking at naked girls
>wOaH
>erect
>someone knocking on office door (i'm using the family computer this is olden days)
>"open the door op! i need to do my work"
>rapidly trying to close internet explorer
>screen frozen, naked girls
>"op! what are you doing in there?"
>just turn off monitor and open door, hope it closes itself
>"jeez op, what's your problem?"
>turn on monitor
"you are about to close 2 tabs. are you sure you want to continue?"
tfw bill gates' shitty web browser got me grounded for googling naked girls
Gore sites are all we have left.
>>27332176
2005, but they became my real friends around 2010.
who /geocitieswebsite/ in the mid to late 90s?
who /quake/ on high school LAN
who /warcraft2/ on high school LAN
who /downloadwarezfromtop50warezsites/
>>27332176
mine are from about 1999-2000, i still chat with them on IRC all day erryday, doing that right now actually
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGlyFc79BUE
Who could forget?
who /ultimaonline/ here
The Palace Chat.
>>27332176
>talking about Stick RPG with my friend in 3rd grade
>teacher yells at us because she hears us reference caffeine pills and smokes
>explains to us why drugs are bad and makes us promise never to do drugs
>10 years later we're both druggies
Also I swear to god my brother played this song constantly after discovering ytmnd, though it's also probably a part of the reason I live in Germany now so it's cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOJei7Nn1dU
Anyone rememer usenet door games I think they were called? You'd all dial into a machine and play some terrible laggy game.
>>27335411
right here brother
>>27333612
>9yo
>tabs in IE
underage faggot or liar detected
>>27336008
this
I remember this game so much, seeing that picture makes me comfy as hell
Post yfw 2008 was the beginning of the end and you had no idea
>>27336008
is it still worth playing the private server?
>Look at "Internet safety tips" page from 1998
>First tip is "Never post your personal information online"
>Second tip is "Never post pictures of yourself online"
>>27331670
I also first got the internet in 2002 around that timeas a 17 year old
I used to have to go to the library and get a scheduled half-hour of internet there, print out web pages and then later read them at home like a magazine. Newgrounds was one of the first sites I came accross, through a random black kind in school actually, and then found out about Seababy through EGM magazine.
>>27332285
everybody loves Raygold!
>>27337334
Truer and more relevant today than it ever was back then
>>27331670
who bonus.com here?
>>27337408
*Seanbaby
I'm amazed that the dude is still around, still writing and doing other things like Calculords, afaik he was one of the first internet comedy writers and most of them from around that era just completely fell into obscurity.
Albino black sheep was the shit famalam
Honestly, if I haven't discovered ABS my life would've probably been so much better
0x5f3759df
>>27337131
I still play the official shards, but there are a number of free shards to try out. But remember that it won't feel the same as when you first played it, that feeling may be gone forever. It's all about finding the right people to play with and making your own adventure.
>>27335533
Oh yeah, those shitty doll makers!
>you will never have that same addictive thrill of playing world of warcraft as you did in 2004-2005
>>27337470
bored.com, I think it was a lot of people's first website.
Oh the chrischan days
>>27337692
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE5oaOOwInE
>>27336008
I used to RP on UO shards.
>>27337408
How did you used to fap without the internet? Making do with underwear catalogues?
I first got on the internet in 1992 the year i graduated from HS
I remember typing out my own webpage on the units unix system. Had PPP dial up and shit as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaVklXhNBP4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSVNbxjdvv8
>>27337965
At first, just willpower.
Then, my older sister's Archie comics. Nothing like Betty and Veronica and all those other side bitches taking a day off at the beach.
I did occasionally take a Sears catalog or Wal Mart flyer to toss in the bathroom as well if the Bra models weren't too old.
Also once a week there would be a softcore/erotic movie playing on a local TV station, since we didn't have cable.
I didn't know what a vagina properly looked like until we got the internet at home. I WISH I was a kid or teen living in 2016.
>>27333612
>you will never have an orgasm as quick, yet as much of an intense full body experience as you did back in those days.
Anyone else remember Super Smash Stadium? basically an epic Super Smash Bros fanfic site thats been running since the N64 days. It was part of like a huge Mario fansite that had some great webcomics too but sadly I can't recall what it was called. Any help?
>>27333612
>>27336784
He could be 18 or 19 years "old" since IE had tabs starting in 06.
>straight to the roots
>>27337943
I still do. It's fun if you find the right people.
>>27338191
It's always fun to freak people out when there's discussion about stuff like say... how people were able to watch anime subbed on Youtube in 2006 and thats how they discovered anime at age 10 and someone says they're underage b& then you reveal that's 20 years old.
Also there are high schoolers who can't remember 9/11, there are middle schoolers who weren't even born then. There are teenagers who can't remember the internet without Youtube. There are eighteen year olds who have never had dial up internet.
>>27332330
This shit right there destroyed me... I played a lot in middle school, private servers and all those shit... During holidays I'd play more than 16 hours straight a day for two weeks, when I got in HS I started playing again... Like a few hours every single day, almost all day long on week ends...
I've become so disgusted that even 3 or 4 years later I still can't play mmos for more than an hour straight.
>>27338309
I never got the interest of Flyff, but I only spent a day on it.
>>27332393
Maaaaaaan, I totally forgot Youtube channels used to look like that... DAMN
>>27338332
It ruined my life... Don't play, you'll be doomed.
who /kongregate/ here?
I joined in 2008, it's been years I don't go there though
I used to make maps for Free Rider 2 while chatting with mybrfriends in the only portuguese chatroom at the time
Who /ROBLOX/ here?
>>27338350
Yep, remember to give the video five stars!
Also never forget customizable channels with backgrounds.
It's disturbing to think of how many things the modern Internet has ruined.
>>27338462
I remember downloading photoshop ONLY to use a youtube channel template back then...
I miss old 4chins
Being 24 now and working as a lawyer I sometimes look back on my old times on here from 2006-2011
So many memories.
Linetrap, jizzbottleguy, that dude who stuck his dick in a catacombs skull, butterfly, finding the amazing atheist banana video, wallmart employees threads, moses return of the feels, and the general life ruining threads every weekend such as destroying rose, Rebecca black and Jessi slaughters life.
DEM FEELS
>>27338275
the worst is how 18-20 year olds complain how today's internet sucks because le normies ruined it, or how bored they are.
Nigger you have everything we had in the 90s and so much more, literally all of the knowledge of recorded human history and movies and music and radio and TV shows and porn oh god do much porn -and they still manage to go HMMM THIS ISN'T VERY GOOD THIS WAS BETTER WHEN I WAS SHITTING MY DIAPERS IN 2008
I mean, I do understand childhood nostalgia for whatever years you were a kid and for anyone who's younger than 30/late 20s that means having grown up with the internet.
>There are teenagers who can't remember the internet without Youtube.
Truth be told I'm 30 and I barely remember when I used to watch videos before youtube. Mostly yahoo iirc.
>>27338229
Eh, I found with each month shards got more and more barren as people moved on, I don't think its fun if there's like six people on at one time and they're all spread across the map, it's too much of a trek, I like my big events.
>tfw Roleplaying Private Servers for MMOs are cliqueish and elitist
>tfw main servers for MMOs are low quality in RP.
>>27338510
Tom Green's show is on in five minutes. EVERYONE GET IN HERE. Girltalk afterwards.
>>27338519
Ebaumsworld for me. Newgrounds for flash.
>>27338510
Sweeteva, Stickam Raids, Transformice.
>tfw no one remembers JKCinema
who remember this little guy?
>>27338519
Yeah a few people in this thread have said how kids these days have it easier when it comes to finding porn but if anything it's worrying because they're subjected to all this stuff that it becomes dull. Like the fact that I had to make do with a slow loading image to get off meant that I wasn't constantly searching for porn, vanilla stuff had to do, and at that age, vanilla stuff would do me fine, even a bit of light underwear action. Now it's easier to search for the dominatrix stuff, all in like pornhub and xvideos, so they're subjected to that stuff right off the bat. What happens when that gets dull? And so on and so forth.
Obviously underwear action doesn't get me off that much now, but it was a natural progression, unlike where it would be now where it's like BAM hardcore sex off the bat. Hope this is making sense, I'm feeling like it's not.
>>27338761
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9DST-6jIBU
>>27338761
BONZI BUDDY
>>27338577
There are a few free shards that have consistent numbers. The majority of the official shards are dead or mostly dead. It's all about finding the right people though, which is hard to do because a large percentage of people who RP are mentally unstable.
As far as I know, UO is currently the best MMO available for RP. Most other games are pure shit in that regard.
>>27331670
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGJ9wuk_Yyw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9F7FKcz80k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kFPM3sZ2WA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2MK5jTm3-o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xyd7moA_Q_M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDJ6KFkJZBM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYZfKWO92oM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4MGKeQgS-o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkOA_HAVoqU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzZDOJkFBqE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrQSbGoRrnM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0y2huQoOnw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkR7zClEkAo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvELT5aIo9A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uywvgq_LUF8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9fIjYnPazc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr1aFFmPqmY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rS_n3JVTPE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew0o5-X5AiY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZMwKPmsbWE
>>27338629
Yeah albinoblacksheep as well, but those were like the 'epic fail viral video' of that time. Stuff like music videos and news reports were all spread out over multiple websites.
>>27338805
It does. People do get addicted and desensitized to porn. That's what leads to shit-eating ball-punching fetishes if not hebephilia. Same with being desensitized to violence. Less is more.
>>27332176
>Maplestory
>Neopets
>Old youtube
>MSN Messenger
>Old flash animations
Holy shit, where did the years go? Being a young kid felt like it was only a year ago or something.
>>27338914
>the real legend of zelda
>brawl taunts
>>27338920
Music I used limewire
News I used aol's homepage and wikipedia.
>epic fail viral video
Remember failblog on youtube?
>>27338825
>bonzibuddy.tk
>naked ladies
>>27338920
Yeah it's why I can't agree they have it 'better' porn wise when it's gonna fuck them up later on in life probably and skewer their perceptions. I mean I was introduced to porn through the internet at a young age too but again, with speeds at the time it was a simple slow loading picture of a pair of tits, nothing hardcore. It was essentially the same thing you'd fine in a playboy that every young person would wack off to before the internet, except more accessible.
But now, the harder stuff is more accessible in an instant from a young age.
>>27338992
I remember when break.com was (at least for me) a more reliable of those types of "dude hits nuts on railing EPIC FAIL LOL" or "this is what happens when you chug vodka and mountain dew!" videos
The Flash animation/game community was really something unique. You had tons of people animating cartoons and making games purely for its own sake. Creativity purely for creativity's sake. That type of community and genuine interest will never be seen online again.
You never know what you have until it's gone. I'd give anything to go back.
>tfw all this is gone
>moved away quick just like your life
>every second you spent on these websites and games
>you'll never get back
>we all die someday
Reflect on each year (don't get too personal-bloggy, preferably on pop culture on things like music, vidya, television, internet, cultural trends and your feelings towards them, also stuff you liked i guess)
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
>>27339543
>The Internet's "Golden Age" lasted less than 10 years
>It was completely ruined in only 2-3 years
>>27339657
Fucking normies ruim everything.
>2002: First got the internet, roamed chat rooms mostly and played flash games on stuff like addicting-games, start playing Habbo in late 2002
>2003: Spend almost all of my time on Habbo, discover Newgrounds, share time between Habbo and Newgrounds, sometimes on Cokemusic, I start using the internet a lot more, discover porn thanks to Newgrounds hentai games and hentai ads.
>2004: Learn to fap, first online fap was on google images, would do it a lot to Newgrounds games too. Stop playing Habbo, start hanging around on the LegendaryFrog forums, Gaia and Neopets. RP on Neopets and Gaia.
>2005: Go back to Habbo for a bit, stop going on those forums, still RP on a proboards forum and on MSN Groups, I get MSN messenger
>2006: Get into WoW, don't get hooked as everyone else did, but I start online gaming more - Between WoW, Adventurequest/BattleOn and Maplestory. Not on any forums anymore, still sometimes on Habbo, start watching Youtube videos, mostly animu
>2007: Get into .hack, go on a .hack forum and watch animu on Youtube, weeb phase, go back on Gaia, still play WoW, discover 4chan
>2008: Stop playing WoW. Still on gaia, get onto Myspace and start using Stickam and BlogTV, start using 4chan more, /b/tard phase, be a part of raids and stuff
>2009: Start going on /x/, start playing BYOND games like SS13, other than that still the same as before.
>2010: Still the same as before but now exploring more boards, move on from /b/
>2011: Start playing City of Heroes, get really into it, RP on it and such. Start going on /r9k/ though I don't think it's long until /r9k/ goes away for a long while
>2012: CoH shuts down, it sucks cause I loved it. Try Champions Online, not as good, /r9k/ gets replaced with /soc/ at this point? I make a Skype.
That's essentially my internet life from 02 - 2012.
>>27339842
was meant for
>>27339596
I forgot from 06 - 07 I get into ARGs and in 07 I join some weeb IRC chat.
>>27332176
2012 desu, I miss all my old internet friends
>>27331825
newgrounds had nice flash hentai games though..
d-did anyone else play them?
>>27339657
It's crazy how massive of a change and boom the internet went through from like 2007 - 2009, then a massive societal change in 2010 - 2011 where the internet was integrated into stuff like news and talk shows and became such an ordinary part of life.
>>27339657
>now these old websites are gone,or if they're still up filled with shit you could care less about
>the only website safe is the Space Jam website
>>27339963
There was always the one who grew up and became a normie. It hurts.
>>27339969
Yeah, never beat any of the dating sims, I just mostly watched Booty Call and played Franks Adventure.
>>27340028
>When you go to an older website and see that it's a shell of what it once was and is no longer active, or it hasn't been updated in years
>Still, it's a more merciful death than when you go to a website and see it was bought out by some big company or that it went corporation and mainstream
Zeeky Boogie Doog.
>>27340076
>tfw you remember a site you visited when you were a kid
>you remember the last thing you saw on there
>"Anon here,im having problems with updating the website"
>you go on to see what it has become
>LAST POST:06/07/04 "Anon here,im having problems with updating the website"
>the feels that are felt
>>27340180
>"Hey, the next issue/episode of webcomic/flash animation will be delayed! I'll try to get it out in the next few weeks. Going through some personal issues."
>Never updated again.
>>27340180
>03: 45 entries
>04: 55 entries
>05: 40 entries
>06: 20 entries
>07: 10 entries
>08: 10 entries
>09: 3 entries
>10: 1 entry
>11: 0 entries
>12: 1 entry - Goodbye post.
>>27331670
>tfw did literally nothing all day except play Runescape from age 10-14
the day I got ancients was the happiest day of my life
>>27340240
>>27340273
>tfw you spend years looking for a webcomic/animation/video/blog you followed
>finally found the creator of said series
>he's made a bunch of new shit
>you look through the updates to find said webcomic/animation/video/blog
>07/08/12:"Hey guys! i'm sorry about this,but im going to delete everything from 2011 backwards to make space on the website!"
>>27340427
>When you see the post where they say they've been purchased by some big corporation and how there's amazing things to come, but you know this is the beginning of the end
>When you see that update post that says "All good things must come to and end..." or "The End."
>When the updates get more sporadic and they just stop one day, and you keep checking, and then eventually you just stop and accept what's happened
>When you stop checking out the website, remember it, go back years later only to find out the webmaster died, or that they've turned into a shitty person into money or they're just a shell.
>>27339596
1/2
>2000
Great year. The 90s had only just ended and were still fresh in everyone's mind. No social media, no smartphones, no memes, no social justice psychos or the reactionary psychos associated with it. Economy was better, Internet was great, video games were great. We weren't involved in any major wars, it was the new millennium and there was a sense that the future could only get better.
>2001
Most of it was similar to 2000, until 9/11 came along and ruined things. September onwards was different, noticeably more miserable.
>2002
Stuff like Internet, games and such were still good for the most part. But the "War on Terror" was starting and people were now more afraid and on edge.
>2003
More war, but the economy was still semi-stable. Golden Age of Flash animation/games started. Video games continued to be decent.
>2004
Same as 2003.
>2005
Youtube comes on the scene, it's Golden Age starts. Some people are now wondering when we're getting out of the Middle East.
>2006
Golden Age of Youtube continues. PS3, Wii, and the 360 begin to casualize video games and social media is slowly growing.
>2007
The major tipping point. Social media is now getting big, smartphones exist now, more casuals are getting into video games. Middle East crap still going on.
>>27340548
>>27339596
2/2
>2008
Worst year of the decade. Economic crisis, Obama gets elected, liberals and their psycho conservative counterparts rear their heads. Games continue to get worse, the Flash community is now slowly dying.
>2009
Slightly better than 2008, but not by much. Video games are worse, traces of the social justice movement are now around, and we've now been at war for 8 years.
>2010-now
Somehow turns out to be even worse than 2008, and makes the 2000s look great by comparison. Less and less people with jobs. Even more war, which we've pissed away more than a trillion dollars for. Internet is garbage, video games are mostly garbage. Smartphones, memes and social media everywhere. The women are mindless sluts, the men are drooling idiots. Liberals are psychotic, conservatives are psychotic. Political horseshit everywhere, no privacy, mass surveillance, race relations worse than they've been in a long time, crumbling economy. The worst era in recent history.
>2020s (Prediction)
Even worse than the 2010s. Makes the 2010s look semi-okayish, the 2000s look awesome, and the 90s look like paradise. We will see things in this decade that are completely horrifying and unthinkable right now. Nothing can prepare us.
>>27338510
don't forget about livejasmin and myfreecams raids
and habbo hotel raids
OH AND RIP MITCH HEDBURG good night sweet prince
