Thoughts on the 2000s?
>>29211266
Rhythm games were dope.
I miss the Dance Dance Revolution arcade renaissance.
Grew up playing DDR in arcades with my bros. Great time.
>>29211266
It sucked. The music was worse. The internet stayed at home. The reccesion was terrible. And the aftermath of 9/11.
>>29211304
Fuck 9/11 and fuck Bush.
The 90s were such an awesome high and that cocksucker ruined everything with his bullshit false flag and sloppy war pretext.
>>29211324
That was the issue. The weapons companies weren't making money during the 90s
The early-mid 00s are the best years of my life but I think that's true for anyone whose preteen-early teen years are fun.
Pretty bad but not as bad as the 10s
Absolutely fucking loved the late 90's/early 2000's. The Western world has essentially died since then.
>music was fresh and innovative
>video games were fresh, innovative and booming
>movies were fresh and innovative
>technology was booming
>the internet was still an incredible unexplored island and still used at home by only a small minority
>no information overload, to get a movie you had to go to blockbuster and rent it, not knowing whether the movie would be good or bad, but it wouldn't matter because the restricted and harder choice made the whole experience from picking the movie to watching it at home fucking fantastic every time
>food choises weren't as god-awful as they are now
>>29211484
I agree 100%. There was an excellent balance between technology/real-life.
>>29211484
>having to go to block busters is a good thing
just your typical "back in my day. whipper snappers don't know shit" shit its much more convenient now
>food choises weren't as god-awful as they are now
?
no more 5 doller wacky packs at sonic? no more cinammines at burger king?
everything else seems good on your list
golden era of the internet
SA was still funny, Newgrounds...
downloading pron on kazaa and morpheus
animutations, old shitty geocities sites, portal of evil, steak and cheese, rotten.com, zombo.com,
fuck.... anybody remember The Friend Society? (formerly the fuck society)- Lots of funny edgy classic flash
'Somebody' who did the weird creepy flash stuff.
Xenon, best known screaming into a cheap microphone in all his flashes and starting the tom green barrel roll prank call meme.
DrunkMagiKoopa, famous animutation artist who went on to become famous twitter shitposter Dril/Wint
Sadly it is gone these days ;_;
>you will never experience 2003-2008 4chan
i wish i had found this place sooner
>>29211324
Bush was literally president from 89'-93' you stupid slut.
2010 is when everything went downhill
123 origninal
>>29211649
>let's see if he fall for the ol' pretending to be retarded trick
Zero out of 10 troll points.
>>29211266
Early 2000s were ok - actually because it was still the 90s in people's mind. 9/11 and mudslime shit made it a bit worse but not that much.
To me the real issue is the explosion of mainstream Internet since 2007. This shit literally killed social relationships and the way we see the world.
I enjoyed being a teenager during the early/mid 2000s tbqhfam. I'm glad I'm not a teen in the 2010s with all this facebook, netflix n chill, EDM, twerk, selfies, games of throne shit.
>>29211656
2007/2008
I personally blame Capeshit, smartphones, iphones, etc and social media.
>>29211590
>having to go to block busters is a good thing
I assume you like video games.
Do you know how if you play a video game with the cheat codes, it becomes a shit game?
The same thing applies to life.
Giving activities a bit of scarcity, ritual, and effort makes them a much better "game."
Going to Blockbuster and renting a movie was a much better game than Netflix.
>>29211753
I agree, I left Secondary School just as social media was kicking off big around 07/early 08 and I can't imagine how much more stressful it would be for teenagers now.
>>29211590
>just your typical "back in my day. whipper snappers don't know shit" shit its much more convenient now
Not at all. Having small choices makes life better. Let's say that some guy from the future visits you with a PlayStation 7. Would you, in that moment, be happier if the scenario played out whereby he gave you one game to play in which you have to solve a complete a task to receive it, or if it played out where he gave you 10,000 games, which he just gives you immediately?
Having more choice devalues all the other choices. This is why rich people are never happy, why sluts are never happy, things with infinite stream like 4chan and facebook are never fulfilling, etc. Essentially, it wrecks everything.
>no more 5 doller wacky packs at sonic? no more cinammines at burger king?
What I mean is that people used to eat healthier around then and food choices were healthier. Now everything is low-fat, added-sugar, ready-made GMO garbage.
-Early 2000s were just like the late 90s
-2001/2004 was literally the golden era of the Internet
-2004/2007 was ok I guess
Then came 2008, the iPhone, the social networks, Internet went mainstream and the whole western world died. Back in the good ol days people would make fun of me for being a "geek", now they probably spend more time on Twitter than I do on 4chan.
Haven't even read the thread but I guarantee you some underage retard is gonna regurgitate the "good til 2007 when the normies got on the internet" may-may.
Let me tell you underage fags something. The normies were by and large online by 1999/2000, using it for all the same things the nerds were. The phones reached the very last of the turbo-pleb grandmas, true, but classic web was dead by 2000.
p. dope t b h senpai
>>29211931
> or if it played out where he gave you 10,000 games
I'd be happier with this
>Now everything is low-fat, added-sugar, ready-made GMO garbage
Oh, you're one of those retards. Explains everything.
>>29211292isthisorignalrnoughforyouniggER
>>29211993
Who the fuck is talking about Internet ? We're talking about the whole society, not Internet itself. I don't even remember how it was until like 2006. But I remember how people used to be until the late 2000s and I'm pretty much sure we can all agree that we (=the society) weren't as much insecure, passive-agressive and unsatisfied with life than today.
Is it because of Internet ? Is it because of something else ? I can't really tell, as I said I don't really remember early-2000s Internet.
>>29212028
>I'd be happier with this
>Oh, you're one of those retards. Explains everything.
You're stupid and you don't even realise it
>>29211622
nice dubs
Hitler Did Nothing Wrong
happy now?
>>29211970
>Then came 2008, the iPhone, the social networks, Internet went mainstream and the whole western world died. Back in the good ol days people would make fun of me for being a "geek", now they probably spend more time on Twitter than I do on 4chan.
See. This is what I hate about now, the internet was one of my last refuges for dealing with shit in the early 00s but they've taken that too and I enjoyed comics, manga, anime a fair bit and still do but I really hate the whole "nerd" stigma that normalfags label it. What's wrong with just enjoying them for what they are and not using such a ridiculous, annoying label? Seriously, fuck em, worst part is how they would've ridiculed me for mentioning I liked fantasy novels, comics, manga, anime in the early 00s but those are quite popular now.
>>29212066
upvote this if you identify with the MC from idiocracy
>>29211993
>classic web was dead by 2000.
Good joke. I'm 25 and I've been on the internet since I was about 10. The web had barely even picked up by that point. It was nothing much more than a few small websites without e-commerce or advertising, and things like AOL/Yahoo and their chatrooms dominated the internet around that time.
>>29212100
>now that my solitary hobbies are more popular they are no longer enjoyable even though nothing about how I experience them has changed
baby
>>29212147
Stop being a disingenuous cunt. The normie invasion of any hobby results in normalization and its destruction.
>>29212063
>who was talking about the internet
that faggot right above me
>>29212147
You perfectly understood what he's trying to say though. It's not about "if it's popular I can't enjoy it anymore", it's about how things tend to go to shit when they become popular.
>>29211970
The ultimate truth has been spoken.
>>29212158
Only the hobbies where you interacted with people. If a bunch of fags start doing it they ruin it by changing things.
However anime is just something you watch by yourself. Other people watching it doesn't change the VHS/DVD
>>29212212
New stuff in a hobby when it becomes popular becomes developed for the lowest common denominator, making it shit for non-normies
>>29212063
>I remember how people used to be until the late 2000s and I'm pretty much sure we can all agree that we (=the society) weren't as much insecure, passive-agressive and unsatisfied with life than today
This, but Internet has nothing to do with it. That's because of the financial crisis.
>>29212212
>However anime is just something you watch by yourself. Other people watching it doesn't change the VHS/DVD
I'm sorry but have you kept up with the medium lately? Everything is fucking trapped in a game world now and it's worse than ever.
>>29212247
>but Internet has nothing to do with it.
False. Modern-day internet and the way it's largely designed for consumerism has led to things like Netflix whereby entertainment is largely abused; social media, which became embedded into smartphones, again abusing entertainment, but even more shit-tier entertainment than ever.
It's creating a society with the attention-span of a brick wall. This makes people more stupid and less happy.
>>29212158
Everytime I read that image I'm reminded that some people actually believe it.
Nerds (hipsters?) are just bitter that normies share their hobby, and they're too exclusive to have fun with normie scum.
>>29212145
my argument is that people say the normies didn't get to the internet until 2007/08
People who think the internet didn't go mainstream until then are so fucking delusional
Listen, in the late 90s/early 2000s lots of junior high kids were using neopets, myspace(social media), AOL messenger, NORMIES were using these things
By the year 2000 HALF of US homes had internet access. Not some small minority. HALF.
And so many normie teens were using it.
2008 episode of Peep Show made a joke where one character says 'this internet thing is gonna be big' and the other says 'we'll see'
The joke there is that it's been big for so long. It's like if I said 'mcdonalds is gonna be big'
Those characters were the stupid ones in that situation, but it supposed to be funny because no one who wasn't living under a rock really exists, or so you'd think.
But then there are actually a few raging autists who insist it didn't become big until 2007
I don't know why people have some strong emotional attachment to this idea but it needs to stop because it is so irrefutably false
>>29212231
Ok fair enough
If the hobby is is anime or a video game, sure they producers might change it somewhat to appeal to too many different types
But if it's something you do on your own then you can still do it the way you and your small circle of friend(s) want to.
Just because fags you never interact with are doing it wrong doesn't mean you can't do it the right way.
>>29212335
>le internet overuse mess with dopamine shit and make people unhappy meme
What's next, masturbation is making people unhappy ? Back to your shitty subreddit pls
>>29212480
>hobby
>anime and video games
Neither of those are hobbies.
>>29212158
If those original people are gonna 'leave the table' so to speak then they can just pick things up again, how it was originally before they had to change it to accommodate outsiders
There's no need to let it die if you just go back to that small group
Sure there will now be people out there doing it wrong but if you don't interact with them then who gives a fuck.
>>29212397
Normie culture was confined to places like myspace/MSN up til ~2007 though. Now they're everywhere all over the internet. And as some other anon said ITT, when the target demographic becomes normies, content quality plummets. A comfy non-normie community now no longer really exists.
>>29212542
But then the original guys won't be cool or special for doing it XDDD
I feel like in reality, most of the founders would have gotten bored of the game, or fine that other people want to play it, and it's just the minority the minority that that pissed off.
>>29212541
yeah I almost put the word 'hobby' in quotes there
My point stands.
If your hobby isn't some expensively developed video game or tv show, then nothing about how you experience has to change as long as you're not interacting with some of the new people who are into it
If it's still the same group of friends you can still do it however you like even if there are now normies doing it differently, it doesn't matter as long as you don't interact with them.
>>29211439
>I think that's true for anyone whose preteen-early teen years are fun.
The best years of my life are 1996-2000 and early 2001. I turned 13 in February 2001, so I guess you're right.
>>29212592
>why do you care lmao, just enjoy being assfucked
You are 100% retarded. As a guy said when idiots start flocking to something quality drops, but more importantly
If you like X and a bunch of retards you don't like say they like X not because they really like or understand X but to get credit and quirky points, wouldn't you be a little pissed? You got robbed of your shit there, because retards don't want to mind their own business and invade something that IS YOUR business.
>>29212592
I'd like you to explain any example of normies taking over a hobby and changing it.
>>29212545
>it was confined there, now they're everywhere
A lot of people who use the web now still mostly just use it for faceberg or nigger or tumblr
And true forums have become more popular but if you care you can find a new forum that isn't infested with fags.
Yes there are plenty of websites that give information, and plenty of annoying political websites but all you have to do is ignore them and find a place that hasn't been infested with too many people and you'll be fine
BTW Dating websites were a big thing back in the late 90s early 2000s
Full grown normie adults were using them.
>>29212658
When 'idiots' flock to your hobby there's no need to change your ways and do it the way they do it
You an still just keep doing things with your friend(s) just the same
Who cares if some roastie is earning le quirky points, especially if you never interact with her or see her
>I was robbed
You sound like some whiny nigger
Just because other people out there are now riffing on the original doesn't mean you can't continue to do things the way you like them
Other people doing it wrong doesn't have to change the way you do it
>>29212668
Not a hobby but A Song of Ice and Fire, the fanbase was completely different in the early 00s and Comiccon too. Combining it with TV shows was one of the worst ideas they could've done.
>>29212778
>When 'idiots' flock to your hobby there's no need to change your ways and do it the way they do it
>'idiots'
eheheh
>Who cares if some roastie is earning le quirky points, especially if you never interact with her or see her
It is MY hobby, not HER hobby. The roastie wasn't welcome. She was supposed to do her roastie stuff and I do my stuff. She intruded - intruding without being invited is WRONG.
Also, part of having a hobby is the community associated with the hobby.
But yes you are correct, the only hobbies left are the ones where you have to be the only one to know about them and employ them.
Awesome.
>>29212980
she didn't intrude if she didn't force her way into your circle.
she just picked up the hobby and started doding it differently with her friends
nothing about you or your circle has to change just because somewhere out there some attention whore is doing a bastardized version of your hobby
>>29213028
you're repeating same stuff over and over again
read these again>>29212980>>29212658
>>29213122
i already refuted those you autist
looks like we're not gonna change each others minds
>>29211266
They weren't that great but they were a lot better than now.
>Smartphones and social media permanently screwing up people's relationships
>Rampant debt in the trillions, wasted on pointless wars, bailouts for big business and handjobs for bankers
>Politics far more of a mess than it was in the 90s and 00s, forced everywhere on the Internet now, you're either a SJW liberal idiot or an edgy "alt-right" idiot
>"Education" almost worthless, young people have no jobs, no money and no future
>Normalization of sexual promiscuity, crossdressing/genital mutilation, and throwaway relationships
>Awful race relations and forced multiculturalism (i.e. less white people)
>Internet went from being a niche for hobbyists to an extension of real life and the largest surveillance/datamining tool ever, worse than anything Orwell dreamed of
>Countless psy-ops and other dark conspiratorial things we can only imagine that continue to occur, hidden from a public drugged up on antidepressants, pornography and fast food
The 2010s are the worst decade in modern history, and the 2020s will get worse.
>>29213247
>>Rampant debt in the trillions, wasted on pointless wars, bailouts for big business and handjobs for bankers
>>Normalization of sexual promiscuity, crossdressing/genital mutilation, and throwaway relationships
>>Awful race relations and forced multiculturalism (i.e. less white people)
>>Internet went from being a niche for hobbyists to an extension of real life and the largest surveillance/datamining tool ever, worse than anything Orwell dreamed of
>>Countless psy-ops and other dark conspiratorial things we can only imagine that continue to occur, hidden from a public drugged up on antidepressants, pornography and fast food
These all existed in the 00s, just to a slightly lesser extent
>>29213339
True. But not nearly as rampant as it is now. All of this started to come to the forefront at the tail-end of the decade, around 2008 or 2009.
>>29213247
>Edward Snowden leaked what conspiracy theorists have been trying to prove for decades
>No one has done anything with it
Fuck.
>>29212908
I've never heard of it, so it must not be too normie.
>>29211931
>Now everything is low-fat, added-sugar, ready-made GMO garbage
Fucking hell the food hasn't changed at all in 20 years. If anything that's one thing that hasn't changed.
>you weren't old enough to own guns/didn't have a dad that was really into guns at the time
>girls will never wear baggy cargo shorts ever again
>you will never live in a US when 9/11 never happenedpost what song that comes into your head when you think of the early 00's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DysCelDXTjk
>>29214090
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96MiYk9VYvc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVTXPUF4Oz4
Weird how In The End is actually more relevant now than it was in 2000.It's also pretty fucked up that it's been 16 years since Hybrid Theory.
>mfw arcades are still going strong in the uk
>mfw my favourite arcade by the beach is still popular
>mfw nothing has changed
>NOTHING
>the old world trade center wallpaper in the entrance is still up, pre-9/11 posters and shit that were put up in the 90's are still there
>games put in during 1999 are still there holding on
>2000s and 1990s music being played all the time with a 70's bar upstairs
>BOWLINGO
>remember one time i met the owners of this arcade and asked them why nothing has changed, they replied with "people love it the way it is".
It's all themed to New York and it's beautiful, definitely a nostalgia trip.
http://www.boardwalkhouseoffun.com/
>>29214214
Sounds fun desu senpai
Bumping
this is giving me some serious feels
>>29214090
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gfgUUZj24Y
>>29214214
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5Za8HggalYoriginalenuffcommentfortheisraelimodz
>>29211931
anyone who thinks GMOs are actually bad is a retard do you just prefer pesticides to built in defenses or do you just buy organic for $5 extra?
>>29214863
Do they pay you?
Born 1997
>My old sega genesis sure is magical!
>Sonic!
>N64 is awesome!
>Support our troops, defeat the terrorists!
>I love the gamecube!
>I love the xbox
>Finally, my own 360!
>4chan!
>memes XD
>Wow, so much culture in the world!
>Youtube!
>Why is everything so terrible it seems
>I miss the gamecube
>Highschool sucks, I should kill my self
>The internet is the only friends I need
>Why is the government so corrupt...
>Holy shit it's super duper corrupt
>Oh my god it's a NWO
>IT WAS ALL A DREAM
>>29214886
no so I can't afford the ugly overpriced organic apples
>>29214911
fine but its not like those gmos are gonna decide not to harm you just because you're poor
poor people can and do get cancer
just because we live in a messed up society where it costs 600 gorillion dollars for one round of chemo doesn't mean the cancer decides to back off
There is never a consensus in these threads. However, if you read the following you'll quickly understand why the web today is shit: https://medium.com/swlh/how-technology-hijacks-peoples-minds-from-a-magician-and-google-s-design-ethicist-56d62ef5edf3#.tnagkfyea
>>29215875
>There is never a consensus in these threads
Wat ? Everybody is ok with the fact that the society became shit during the mid-2000s, mostly because of financial crisis and Internet / smartphones everywhere.
>>29211266
bumping this thread
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>>29215875
Fascinating read, friendo
>>29211266
It was one of the shittiest decades so far people on this board just love it so much because childhood
>>29211324
90s were also shit
With exception of ecstasy raves and grunge
>>29213247
All of these things existed in the 00s, and with exception to smart phones + social media they existed in the 90s as well
>>29211266
I wasted them posting on message boards and jerking off, when I should've been living my life.
If you liked the 2000s or 90s you are a nostalgiafag. America was good from:
1950-1965
80s
Any other time periods were shit.
>>29217501
Seems like we agree then. easy access to Internet and current social networks are literally the reason why the 2010s are total shit.
>>29217388
>>29217629
I'm 34 now, I wasn't a child during the 2000s. It wasn't that great but it was better than the 2010s for sure.
I feel like everything since 2008 is a dream I'm waiting to wake up from. Everything is so surreal now, but in another way everything before felt surreal as well.
