When did you start browsing 4chan? You inevitably started with /b/, what was the journey that took you to /r9k/? Who here remembers ROBOT 9000 and mootblox, instead of oregano comments?
>>29277721
Early 07 here, I was the first wave of cancer during the golden age of chanology
"post-moot" but early enough in the year that I wasn't actually "post-moot"
>>29277721
>You inevitably started with /b/
I visited /b/ around 2009. Decided it was retarded so I left.
In 2011 I came back, went to /int/ and stuck around. Stopped going to /int/ when /pol/ got flags.
>>29277721
2010
>tfw eternal cancer
late 2014, I sincerely doubt there are many people from earlier than 2010 anymore
I had some exposure to this place during The Cesspool. I started coming here daily in Post-moot.
>>29277721
Late 2014 or early 2015.
>>29277721
>tfw barely newfag
I miss roody poos
>>29277721
at least i'm just a newfag
back then they would have called me 'gaiafag'
>>29277805
2008 here originalotini
Been here since 2005.
My life would be better if I had never visited this website.
First visit to 4chan was in 2006, didn't start browsing regularly until 07-08 though.
2008, and I still remember /r9k/'s first cuck thread
>SHE'S GOING TO FUCK A LOT OF DUDES
>>29277842
>there are people who unironically say "I'm not new, I've been here for a year"
>>29277871
>My life would be better if I had never visited this website.
this, i've been here so long that I can't socialize well with people who don't also browse 4chan. My core group of friends are either other channers, or at least accepting of how retarded i am.
i wish i could go back in time and tell my younger self that the lulz were not worth it at all.
Not ashamed to admit it was late 2013. I've almost been browsing for 3 years so I'm pretty integrated with board cultures. Where some of the history may be unknown to me, I know about significant shit, and /mu/ is still my home.
>>29277913
>there are people who pretend to be here since always
here since 2003 tbqh
>>29277721
This is actually my first day on r9k spare a couple of months ago when I came to ask if hitler did anything wrong.
I started with /b/ about a year ago. I frequent /x/, /his/ and /pol/. I still browse /b/ from time to time. I always expected /r9k/ to be full of a shit ton of autist but it's only got your normal amount of autist (for a 4chan board). I hate anime though, it's pretty cringey.
>>29277742
same.I was 11 then
I remember migrating over here from a shitty gaming forum after hearing how much the denizens hated this place.
'08
I actually started on /v/ and not /b/
I came on [r9k] in late 2013 I think I don't really remember when exactly. It was before the removal of the robot and Pepe becoming big.
I came here cuz I was going through all the boards I didn't go on at the time and I wondered what this was. Then I found people posting feels and stories and I haven't left since.
>>29277721
Probably 2012. Feels like forever, though. I'm 100% integrated with board culture so unless I tell someone nobody knows I'm a "newfag."
it went
>mlp
>v
>g
>b
>r9k
I still browse everything but g, usually
>>29277982i was only a few years older than that
i never actually posted until i was 18, though. never felt like i had anything meaningful to add. I just enjoyed the ride.
>>29277721
2004 here.
Lurked on /b/ for a long time. Started posting after a few years.
>tfw I was in the thread in pic related
Made a few nice accomplishments. The day before 2013 I posted a picture that had an awful drawing on it. It was a stick figure with pepe as the head, and text underneath that said "1998 was 3 hours ago tomorrow in 54 years".
The next day I hopped on /b/ to find a stickied new years thread from moot. He used my picture as the sticky. That means he was in my thread, lurking around, and saved the picture.
I'm strangely proud of that day.
>>29277805
07 here. You'd be surprised how many people can't grow out of this place
>>29278055
i don't mean in a grow out way, it's more like the number of people after 2010 eclipse the relatively small number of before
I arrived in 2006. I started on /wg/ and /mu/ and /v/, I think. Or were /wg/ and /mu/ only created later? I can't quite remember. I just remember I came here during the E3 when the PS3 was announced.
I was never a regular on /b/.
My first memories of 4chan are duckroll and >Zelda 8.8, so late 2006 I guess. A decade later and nothing has changed, I still have have the personality and life experience of an autistic 14 year old
>>29278177
>8.8 was in 2006
>8.8 was 10 years ago
please tell me you're just remembering things wrong
>mfw there are people who have never browsed 4chan with moot as admin
>>29278277
Yep. Newfags a plenty.
>>29278016
i started a few raids back in the raiding days, but thats about it
2005 I found 4chan first time, but didn't understand the place because I was 16. Next time I found this 2007. Didn't like that much because of english and we had national active board back in the days. It lasted to 2010 and came back here/Krautchan
>>29278277
So who is this moot guy...?
>>29277721
this shit gets asked every day
but 04 back in /a/
those were the days
animu and cod all day everyday
Probably 2006 to 2007 initially. Just browsing.
Then migrated to 7chon, 711chon, some of the other Chan sites that were about. Browsed 420 for a bit.
Used these sort of sites intermittently.
Got into /r9k/ here seriously for the last few years.
If I think about the amount of time I have wasted on image boards in my life. it's crazy.
>2006
>realise been here for 10 years
help me
2015 ubermensch here. This website belongs to us now. Neoredditor ubermensch.
>>29278486
Same here pham... We'll never leave this place.
>>29277721
2008 or 2009 I think. I started with /b/ like everyone else. The place was actually quite fun back then and didn't have any trap/tranny porn and amateur request everywhere. At least that's what I remember of it.
>2010: /fit/, /v/
>2011: /fa/, /fit/
>2012: /r9k/, /fit/, /fa/
>2013: /a/, /fa/, /fit/
>2014: /pol/, /a/, /fa/, /ic/
>2015: /pol/, /a/, /fa/, /ic/, /r9k/
>2016: /pol/, /a/, /fa/, /r9k/
>>29277721
i came during the paris attacks, that and the fact that i have autism makes me honorary
>>29278521
>>2010: /fit/, /v/, /b/
>>2011: /fit/, /v/ ,/b/
>>2012: /r9k/, /fit/, /v/, /pol/
>>2013: /co/, /v/, /fit/, /pol/
>>2014: /pol/, /ic/, /asp/
>>2015: /pol/, /r9k/,
>>2016: /pol/, /r9k/
This ends here. There will be no 2017. Be willpower or suicide,
>>29278052
and i am proud for you man
>>29278579
I hope you're still lifting like I am. I'm also trying to get back to /ic/ and play less video games. Try to block /pol/ and /r9k/ and you'll feel true freedom. Keep going, don't give up!
2006 here. God damn I have really been here this fucking long?
>>29277721
I think it was back in 2011 when i started coming regularly, but I really can't remember. And I never went to /b/, it was always here and mu. Then lit and some others later.
Thanks for reminding me I've been poisoning my mind for 5 years
>>29277805
'08 bro. we're aroundmostly for the porn
Late 2007
I was watching some Halo 3 related stuff on newgrounds and saw someone say something about /v/
I don't really understand why people say things like "hurr durr i'll never leave this place help me xDDD". It just seems like the stereotypical thing to say if you want to convince people you've been here for longer than you have.
>>29279181
Or maybe that's actually how they feel? Not everyone is exactly like you.
used to be a a linkhunt for alluc (late 2006) (particularly anime). guys there would post memes so i asked them where they were getting these/what are they. RULES 1 and 2 - was their initial reply but eventually they told me about here. the forum died after a few years (and some drama).
used to post here before it's reboot so only natural i would again.
>>29279253
Let me guess, you came here in ~2012 and don't want people to know?
To be honest, I don't care either way. Just seems stupid to me, if you really didn't like it here you would leave.
>>29277721
I first visited in '03, but I left in 04.
I didn't come back until 2009 frankly.
2005-2006, introduced here by my big brother.
Weird to think how years go by, I only really realise how fast time has been going when I think about how long I've been to this site.
I didnt browse /r9k/ before it died, I only started after its revival.
/a/ and /jp/ were my boards, the ones I would be in 95% of the time. Good times those were.
>>29279288
breh, i was the first post in this thread, been here since 07.
>if you really didn't like it here you would leave.
just because I don't like it here doesn't mean anywhere else is better. I've been here for so long I can't fit in anywhere else, no other community appeals to me like this one does. It's just kind of funny how you assume that because you've never felt a certain way, no one else could. And anyone who does is just some fag trying to get attention. You're a narrow minded fool.
I used to come on here in 2012 but I stopped until recently. So I guess I'm now post moot.
I heard about r9k through a co worker
Looking back at my old image folders, its weird to see how the images and general humor changed over the years.
This image was saved in 2010, "ownworks" they were called if I remember right. Name coming from fate/stay night memes since it was incredibly popular at the time.
I guess these still are kind of funny, in some weird way.
Since 2005 or 06. I remember desu posting and when you could unironically post rage faces. Found this site when I was like 10 when I actually discovered this place. Tried quitting during the boxxy shit storm, and then during chanology, and then in 2010 or so when shit got really cancerous but no matter what I can't leave this place. Over the years I've realized that when 4chan goes down I don't have any other website to browse besides youtube and just wait for it to come back online
>>29277721
Summer of 2012 (<3)
Started with /b/, spilled into /fit/ and /pol/ because both were my interests
Not even sure how I discovered /r9k/, it was probably a tangent of when I became interested in the state of modern dating and it's detrimental effects.
>>29279413
I somehow miss the time when coolface and ragefaces were a thing. When they werent total cancer. All the rage threads were fun too.
The weird thing with 4chan is that there was a time around 2010 when I tried "quitting" too, only to realise that every other site on the wide web is worse. All the alternate chans tried hard, but died before they got any regulars, everyone just drifted back here no matter what. I dont like 4chan even today, but its the only tolerable site out there.
>>29278013
same oreginoa
>>29277721
>2013 Autumn
>came for /b/
>stayed for /x/
>>29279478
Normies can take ragefaces. Sure it was a simpler time but memes now are much funnier than the simple rage comic
>>29279539
/x/ is some comfy shit.
>>29279563
>/x/ is some comfy shit.
It is pretty quiet place.
>tfw saw paranormal board, fuck yeah
>expect some real genuine footage (video, photo, audio) of aliens, extraterrestial, ghosts (yay!), demons and all that stuff
>expect anons telling their true stories and encounters
>lurk for a month
>realise there's none of that and 90% of threads are about magic/k, succubus, "nope" threads (those are somewhat decent), religion, freemasons (lmao), illuminaty (cancer) and some other stuff
I started on /pol/ from ifunny in 2011. I had an edgy meme account and apparently your supposed to go to /pol/ when you get banned from 4chan. I got banned and went to pol. Is someone who joined in 2008 actually a newfag? Damn
2012 here
Gufth
>>29279630
Green text threads are the main reason I go there. Sometimes you get some legit spooky shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLxJS8k9pHs
Discovered this place in 2007 but left after a month because of my low level of English (not native speaker) and boredom, came back in 2010-2011 or so.
2015-2016 here.
>inevitably
>/b/
No
>>29277721
2008 here
Posting anonymously is just so much more fun than posting as a named person on a forum.
>downloading and never seeding
>devilish
>>29277805
I began lurking here in 2009, mostly just /b/ and /v/.
The biggest different between then and now is how moderated it has become. Mostly a good thing since actual CP threads were a common occurrence.
think you're all swell guys.
>newfags don't know about noko
>newfags don't know about clicking f5 to update
>newfags don't know about having to ctrl+f to see if someone responded to you
>newfags don't know how to pronounce sage
>>29277721
I don't remember exactly when I started, sometime around 2003 I think. The first big thing I remember was /btard drama over the Habbo raids.
I was a /btard for a long time but eventually it got too fast and hectic and I stopped bothering. I moved to my current phase which is meandering from board to board every few months. I remember Robot 9000 coming along but never really went there, it just seemed like another /b/.
I was also pretty active on the text boards before they got taken down. That place was cool. pic related, one of the first I saved from this site.
>>29279793
>sage will never be visible again
feels bad man
father's day is soon, what you guys doin?
2008
Came for the memes, stayed for the memes.
As a seasoned meme man I can tell you 4chan is absolute trash for memes. All the good memes come from other chans, youtube, instasync and other sites you fuccbois haven't even heard of.
Only good thing about 4chan are the niche boards no one goes to because they update half a year faster than the ones on 7 and 8 ch*n.
2010 mi familililia
Post the oldest image you have saved.
Pic related, although sadly I've wiped my hard drive once.
>>29277721
2012 when I was a sophomore in high school. First board I started with was /a/ and I eventually migrated to /m/. I came to /r9k/ around a year ago and just lurked for a few months. I did start posting though after seeing a thread asking why the lurkers never posted or commented on anything here.
>would you stop?
>>29277721
Started occasional visiting in 2009, went full /pol/ in 2014.
>>29279894
ive been through a few computers in my time here
>twenty one year olds
>>29279793
>newfags don't know about life before the catalog
>>29279687
Greentext stories are the main icing on the cake on /x/ I'd say. But since I'm uneducated retard, I prefer watching, looking at, instead of reading. So I was expecting huge amount of videos, unfortunately that wasn't the case. Long greentexts are being filtered out of my field of view, only read if it's short enough or has a lot replies.
>rub a dub dub
>>29279894
This one's dated 11/10/2006 but I spent a year or two just browsing the porn boards before moving to /b/ so I probably showed up late 2004 or so.
Why am I still here? Because I have nothing better to do with my life.
>>29280057
>300x497
>114KB
Was it common in 2006?
>>29280025
that sleep deprivation experiment one was interesting
>>29277721
2011 here
og
2012, came here to post autistic shit about myself, realized it was way better than Reddit, and stayed. R9k was actually my first board, I had tons of OC I wanted to share.
>>29280107
You weren't really supposed to open the images for these kinds of threads. There wasn't any of the 'expand image within thread' functionality so if you wanted to open an image you had to do it in a separate window. File sizes were tiny because it was assumed you'd just be looking at the thumbnail unless it was a thread specifically for larger images.
>>29280115
Huh? Never heard of it. Or maybe don't recognize it. My favourite nope stories that are based on roads and vehicles. Anyway, I don't visit /x/ anymore, only /r9k/. Maybe will come back in the near future to see if something interesting is up.
>>29280242
Oh okay, thanks for info.
Came in 09. 4chan saved my life
When I was 18. Around the time The Dark Knight came out. I posted off and on in /tv/. Took a gander at /r9k/ once but it seemed like normie social shit. Maybe I judged it too quickly. Anyways, now I alternate /r9k/ and /tv/. Never gave a fuck about /b/. Too fast, too shit.
>>29277721
2009. 7 years, and this place has rotted by the day. I'm too old for what 4chan has become, but there's nowhere else to go. Only /r9k/ still occasionally reminds me why I came here.
>>29278277
Frequent, visible moderation was a lot more fun than the shit we get these days.
>>29277721
>You inevitably started with /b/
No I started on /m/ because Gundam00 was airing at the time and it was a place to get spoilers. Never actually been on /b/ for a regular amount of time.
The thing that annoys me the most about MUH OLDFAG comments are that people say r9k didn't have soggy knees before. Like bitch please, you gonna only highlight the parts that suit your deluded narrative that this place was full of love and rainbows? Shes gonna fuck a lotta dudes, some tripfags, and plenty of people on /other boards/ would tell you to go back to r9k when you were being overtly sexist.
I came here on March12, 2016
>>29280288
How so? How did 4chan save your life?
>jewpiter
>a gas planet
a couple months before moot left, but i didnt get here from cancergate because im not some manchild who plays video games
i didnt start out with /b/ i started out on /pol/
>>29277721
/b/ in 2007
/a/ in 2010 onward after rediscovering my love of Chinese little girl's cartoons
/r9k/ occasionally in the last year or so but you guys have outlooks on life far too negative for me to tolderate every day, especially in terms of blaming women for all your woes in life.
Also I recall shutting down a ton of butthurt autists in /q/ before moot realized what a fucking mistake that was.
Pic related is the from oldest memorable thread I recall being there for on /a/, back when geistmod was still around. Even still have the OP pic he used to make that sticky.
>>29280598
But how will you fit in if you don't understand these classic dank memes?
I was introduced to /b/ by my ex in 2012 (inb4 REE)
Spent 2 years lurking and posting only there then found /g/ which got too repetitive.
I clicked on /r9k/ one day out of boredom and cringed from how pathetic this place was.
I kept coming back out of curiosity and eventually it became the only board I visit. I'm pretty much a full robot now (NEET, shut in, drug addict, general and social anxiety/paranoia) but somehow this place seems less pathetic than it was, probably from the influx of cyborgs/normies.
I think I lost interest in /b/ when I became a opi addict which kills your sex drive so all the porn was just annoying to see.
>>29278177
it probably seems that way but if you actually interacted with your 14 year old self you probably wouldn't get along with him
2008
started with /b/, obviously.
came to /r9k/ soewere in 2009 to look for advice on how to get a gf, still never had a gf
>>29277721
Started browsing off and on in 2011, Didnt start posting until 2013.
>>29278521
>>29279086
i actually came in through /pol/ and never went to /b/
heard that it was a child porn board and stayed away
>>29277721
Technically an originalfag, because I first visited 4chan from the ADTRW announcement, but I think of myself more as an oldfag because I didn't start posting regularly until 2004.
>>29277721
>hirofag
Kek.
http://www.strawpoll.me/10485736
>>29279410
I fucking love these and wish they were still a popular reply.
Rarely I'll visit /b/ in the vain hopes of seeing something reminiscent of its glory days but it's nothing but porn and retarded shit like banana or spiderman spam.
>>29280258
He's probably talking about the Russian Sleep Experiment copypasta. Ted the Caver is also required reading.
>>29277721
Where are my originalfags at :DD?
God I love memes.
>>29280705
Sounds like a girl I worked with who would browse 4chan at work.
Never revealed my powerlevel. Would have loved to have fucked her :(
>>29279181
ive only been here since 2014 and i really wish i could leave this place
i did it once for two months and my life was a lot better
but you get away from it long enough and you can't quite remember why you wanna stay away but remember the funniest things from here (and not reminding yourself of most of the shit n here)
i do plan to leave though.
>le you're here forever see you tomroow XD
it can be done. i've hit the point where i hate this site more than i ever have in the past.
this is my last day
>>29280830
With a name like that I'd make it my goal in life to work for NASA or a private space development company. Anything less is just disappointing your parents or the judge that approved the name change.
>>29277721
i started in 2010. i've known about 4chan (and b) for a few years before that, but i never visited until 10
surprisingly i have never been on b. i started off on /mu/, then kind of drifted here (and on /v/, /vr/ and /vp/) after
Anyone else came from Encyclopedia Dramatica? In 2009 I entered "lolcats" into google and somehow ended up on that site. Then it was all downhill.
>>29280853
Literally all you know about her is that she uses 4chan haha, I think she stopped coming here anyway because she had body image issues and hated seeing porn.
She actually is really hot though.. but pretty fucked up with anger issues.
>>29280242
i remember the first time i clicked on an image thinking it would open in a new tab as usual, then it just expanded and i flipped out.
>>29280830
i remember something like that
>someone posts a picture of their creditcard and cocaine saying
>"an expensive way to start the day, but i love it
>"getting your credit card stolen?"
2015
I looked at some 4chan news, that they hacked something again, kek.
I always thought this board was for pedos and anomalous fags, but after i checked it out just for once i got stuck, and it seems like i am here forever now.
>>29278358
hallo bernd
>>29280952
I meant that it is you that sounds like the girl lol.
Funnily enough though she had anger issues too. Vegetarian girl with daddy issues also.
>>29280678
everything ive seen of old 4chan looks stupid
someone told me those rage comics started here
thats all i needed to know
seems like this site has grown up since then ( yes i know what i said)
all the screencaps ive seen of old 4chan reminds me of everything i hate about reddit and 9gag (which is everything )
i miss photoshoping random stuff
Am i the only one who cant understand what the picture of that rabbit at the end is meant to be? Am I just retarded
>>29280401
its like how people think /pol/ wasn't racist until some 'stormweenies' invented racism and brought it to /pol/ in raids
even though 4chan was racist before /pol/
and /pol/ is ten times more obnoxious and racist than stormfront
>>29281335
kek-a-doodle-do
>original desu
2009
It went /b/ --> [s4s] --> /mu/ and r9k for britfeel
First discovered it in 2008, but didn't start actively browsing until 2009 and posting around 2010.
I started at /b/, then went to /v/ for a little bit, then /new/ and /r9k/. When they got axed I went to the place that may not be named, and came back here around 2012 when /r9k/ and /pol/ were created again, but browsed /fit/ continuously since I left /b/ and /v/ too.
>>29281448
>s4s
cancerfag confirmed
Unironically started browsing in 2013.
>tfw I am the cancer that put the final bullet in the mangled corpse that is 4chan
2009 - omg 4chunz so randumb le /b/ le porn mems troll face etc
2010 - get depressed start browsing /r9k/, /v/
2011/2013 - move out of /r9k/, lurk /ic/, /v/
2013/current - /fit/, /mu/, /fa/
>2008
IM NOT A NEWFAGGY IVE BEEN HERE FOR 8 YEARSSSSS
>>29277721
>Early 2012 here
I found 4chan pretty late, not because I'm too young or anything but because growing up back in the oldfag years I never had access to a computer in my room, before that the family computer was in the living room I couldn't really browse stuff like this in front of them. I didn't get my own computer until about 2009, even though I did know about 4chan I never felt the need to come here because using the internet to talk to other people never interested me at the time. I mostly wanted a computer for porn, vidya and anime.
I just got bored one day and decided to come here, and now I can't stop my first board was /a/ and it is still my home board. I didn't post a lot when I first came I lurked first and ended up growing accustomed to board culture. Despite being a newfag though I've never really been called out on it, and I think this is the first time I'm actually admitting it on here.
The Supreme Gentleman introduced me
>>29281669
but ur a namefaggot. that's much worse
>>29277721
2010 here
fucking hell time has went quick, fuck you all.
r9k was always cancer but at least we supported eachother, no we just call eachother cancer and virgins.
I blame the fapenning to adding more newfags who are trying to integrate but cause cancer.
2006. I should kill myself for spending a decade of my life online every day all day.
2008: Edgelord 8th grader mudkipz xD
Started browsing /mu/ and /tv/ in like 2010
Came to /r9k/ in 2011
Same shit since then. I hardly post since about 2009 though. Three times a week at the most
Late 2014 here. I actually was exposed to (seven)chan a month earlier by accident. I heard about 4chan by a friend and I looked it up. I pressed 7 instead of 4 by mistake and I still saw a suggestion so I clicked it. It was weird when I decided to visit 4chan because I saw how cancerous 4chan /b/ was. I felt out of place for a newfag.
2012 here
Started on /k/ and /fit/ but after 2 years i somehow found myself here
>>29277721
Fondest 4chan memories?
Anyone remember the Jessi Slaughter ordeal? When /b/ switched to SFW and overly friendly for an entire day, and even the mods were in on it?
>2008
>I'm 21 years old
My entire adolescence was tarnished
>>29277721
2009
Or I guess technically 2008, I went over to a friend from high school's house and he showed me /b/ and we used to browse whenever I would go over there. I didn't start lurking consistently on my own until I got my own PC in 09 though so that's when I consider my "real" browsing to have started
I found /r9k/ after hearing from other boards that it was "the greentext story board" and I thought it sounded cool.
>>29283123
The CWC saga was a pretty wild ride but the best times I've ever had on 4chan was hanging out on /pol/ during the Zimmerman trial. It was a magical time.
>>29277721
2009, I was 17 and used /b/ then a year later I kind of made /vp/ /co/ and /tv/ my home boards. I've since added /r9k/ /int/ and /g/
>>29283123
/sp/ winning big brother
just pre-2013 /sp/ in general actually, the board used to be absolutely god tier and it was even still decent up til late 2014. shame it's dead now.
>>29277953
>Non-ironically /pol
>Still browses /b/ so at most your 18
>HURR DURR anime is for autists and little girls
You're the worse kind of poster, I'd tell you to fuck off to Reddit but you're even too shitty for that shit hole
>>29283616
>doesn't browse /pol/
>cant differentiate between 'your' and 'you're'
>watches anime
>thinks there's any difference between /r9k/ and reddit in the year 2016
Anon, I have bad news for you...
>>29277805
Lurking since 2008. You're here forever.
>>29283533
DAN AND IAN FOUND A WAY
>Been here for over 8 years
>Eternally a newfag
>>29277805
2006 here
once you're on 4chan you're here for life
have fun bro
>>29278358
>krautchan
quick reminder that Ylilauta is objectively superior, and if you don't think so, you need to politely go kill yourself
