Nothing you had on your computer mattered back then, the entire contents of your harddrive could be given to someone and none of it mattered. Nobody had anything of value. You'd just reinstall Windows and be right back where you started.
I don't know if I was just a moronic kid but my dad was reinstalling windows like every few months. It seemed like things constantly kept getting broken.
lmao i completely forgot about this >oh everything is fricked up and slow again time to just start over
haven’t had to do that in decades
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Want to know the best part? Since Windows 10, every feature update essentially do clean reinstall with migrated all settings and data. They actually give you same old treatment, only it's automatic. And how W10/11 sleeps rather than shut down? Updates ask you to restart precisely to avoid problems with PC running without restart for too long. All of this without normies even realising.
Yeah, and he was always really defensive about his camera, tripod, green screen, camera SD cards, his closet, and talking about his childhood. His harddrive was constantly getting replaced and formatted. He had to keep destroying them with an Acetylene torch and then burying them somewhere in the woods. Dear ol' Dad!
NTA but I remember my friend reinstalling Windows every month or something. He had nothing of value on his drive anyway, all games data he needed was on CDs and emulators (of Game Boy Color) were so small that we kept them on floppy disks. The times, man...
Basically this, in the 00s internet was a novelty not a necessity to have a normal life, so you literally had absolutely nothing of value on it besides save games and the random productivity software you used for work.
Snacks is arguably worse than every other relevant Ganker identity considering he became a coloured hair homosexual who disavows the site and contributed to that recent Ganker documentary.
you would understand that we were bunch of 16-23 yr olds shitposting on the internet. nowadays you share spaces with bunch of 30-40 yr old basement dwellers.
it truly was the best time
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
At least they're funnier. Gaping wojaks suddenly seem hilarious and inventive compared to this old internet cringeorama.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
You've got it backwards, the modern internet is heavily populated by children and teenagers that are afraid of having fun and content police out of second-hand embarrassment because they're too fricking self-conscious. The old internet was mostly inhabited by basement dwelling neckbeards.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
no i don't think so. if you were to say certain platforms then yes. like tiktok or roblox or whatever the frick kids use nowadays. everywhere else is boomer central. facebook, twatter, reddit
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>facebook
Granted >Twitter
Teenager central, some old fricks use it too but the most active users by FAR are teenagers >Reddit
Mixed bag of everyone
My point is that the early internet was mostly basement-dwelling neckbeards and teens and kids were extremely rare, now they're everywhere. Why else do you think people suddenly became so obsessive about being seen as "Cringe" right around the time smartphones really took off? Who has the most time to actually browse the internet all day?
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
newgrounds, aol messenger, geocities sites (look at me making a pokemon site! sign my guestbook pls), angelfire, flashgames,
literally top of my head. i dunno what the frick you browse back in the day but most of the internet were bunch of young people and not basement dwellers nerds as you describe
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
[...]
Hard disagree, a lot of the people that seem to flip their shit over using basic b***h reaction images that just so happen to come from anime are clearly teenagers.
You're both right and wrong at the same time. The issue is that there was a generational shift that coincided with smartphones becoming popular where teenagers became horrified at the idea of getting caught on camera doing silly stuff. That's why cringe culture and cringe videos simultaneously took off in the early 10s. They then became increasingly self-policing in their behaviors and that started to translate into anything silly in general. Gen Y teenagers didn't give a frick because there wasn't this constant fear of your stupid shit getting posted online and you becoming the laughing stock of your school, Gen Z teenagers became hyper self-aware about anything goofy and began to extend that into policing behaviors online as well. The issue IS mostly teenagers but it's also a different generation of teenagers, the previous teenagers weren't a problem because they gave no fricks.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
To add there's also basically no line between the internet and real life anymore, it's totally blurred. Gen Y would go online and saw it as a separate space where treating it as "srs bizness" was a joke in and of itself, for Gen Z the internet is an extension of their real lives so everything on it is just as serious as real life. So again, they see someone acting goofy online and that's just as bad to them as seeing someone acting goofy IRL.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>So again, they see someone acting goofy online and that's just as bad to them as seeing someone acting goofy IRL.
As an almost-zoomer who spends most of the time on the Internet between the job and the spare time I feel this. Between the cringe culture and persistence of Internet communication, allowing people to dig shit on you, you just can't relax.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
To add there's also basically no line between the internet and real life anymore, it's totally blurred. Gen Y would go online and saw it as a separate space where treating it as "srs bizness" was a joke in and of itself, for Gen Z the internet is an extension of their real lives so everything on it is just as serious as real life. So again, they see someone acting goofy online and that's just as bad to them as seeing someone acting goofy IRL.
Man being a zoomer sounds like it'd be fricking exhausting.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
To add there's also basically no line between the internet and real life anymore, it's totally blurred. Gen Y would go online and saw it as a separate space where treating it as "srs bizness" was a joke in and of itself, for Gen Z the internet is an extension of their real lives so everything on it is just as serious as real life. So again, they see someone acting goofy online and that's just as bad to them as seeing someone acting goofy IRL.
I have some sympathy for them tbh, it sounds like absolute hell to be growing up these days when literally everyone has a smartphone/camera with instant access to the internet at all times.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
This but also literal retired old normalgays shitting things up. Teens are the ones you see that panic at anyone having fun and old normalgays are the ones you see posting banal shit everywhere. Both have dragged the quality of general internet culture down dramatically in two different ways.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>the modern internet is heavily populated by children and teenagers
Just like the old internet.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
no i don't think so. if you were to say certain platforms then yes. like tiktok or roblox or whatever the frick kids use nowadays. everywhere else is boomer central. facebook, twatter, reddit
Hard disagree, a lot of the people that seem to flip their shit over using basic b***h reaction images that just so happen to come from anime are clearly teenagers.
>moetroony zoomer talking shit about good humor
Truly the eternal summer. I bet you love wojaks.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
You think the Polish guy who made the first wojack feels immense regret? I know I would.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
I mean, the guy who made pepe does and already voiced it.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
both of them were fine for a while, i wanna say up until 2015/16. Then the elections happened
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Why are you frickers so melodramatic over a MSpaint doodle? Did the creator of TROLLFACE show immense regret? No because who gives a shit. rage faces were just a fad and everyone cried how they were cancer, but now they’re all but forgotten. Wojak by himself is pretty much a retro meme these days, it’s morphed into basedjak and other jaks that dont even resemble the original wojak. Eventually those jaks will be forgotten to time too and looked fondly on like people laugh about rage faces now.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
tl;dr
Don't whinge at me, homosexual
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>trying to pretend Ganker wasn't an anime-aligned board from the moment it changed over from Gankerore
moron
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
/g/ore Black folk were just the worst of them
next you gonna tell me phoneposting was always a thing
>13+ replies to obvious bait
Really tells who's a real boomer and who's a faker
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
this. I'm fricking amazed. It's like a reverse bellcurve: for the bait to garner (You)s, it either has to be extremely blatant or top levels of social engineering . anything in between will be ignored
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
There's a lot of zoomers that didn't or barely lived certain cultures who larp so hard about missing them. It's so fake and reeks of inauthenticity, hell they don't resemble what they're supposed to be aping.
For example: vaporwave/80s aesthetic, 90s "retro", and recently Frutiger Aero or early 2000s.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Can you blame them? Imagine having to live your childhood after the millennium.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
i'm a '98 zoomer ("zillenial" is a homosexual term and i refuse to use it) who had unrestricted internet access since i was a little kid and i miss it BECAUSE i only barely lived it
i experienced the good times when i was too young to truly appreciate them and i grew up just in time to watch everything turn to shit
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
'95 millennial here, feel exactly the same. At least I got to experience a lot of the early 2000s stuff on my parents Windows 98 computer. I was posting on Ganker at 12 which probably wasn't good for me.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
I've been thinking that this is apart of why our generation is so nostalgic for things. We got to experience the tail end when we were too young to truly appreciate it and then it got ripped out in front of us right as we were getting older. I wonder if that leads to more nostalgic feelings.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
I'm '95 and our household was often low on funds, so our tech was always a few years behind. In addition to living in a developing country and having elderly parents, our childhood was pretty much 80s and 90s stuff despite growing up in the 00s.
We still used VHS and had CRT until recently, so its extremely annoying how wrong online videos mimicking such devices look. Also N64 and PS1 stuff don't seem so "nostalgic" when it's the only console you had for a very long time haha
Also this millenial/zoomer/zillenial/alpha and '×× year boundaries shit is just marketing and phony anthropology bullshit. The mentality part is correct, but the whole thing is not gospel or hard limits, it's more like blurred boundaries in between.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
You need to understand that some zoomers know they got the short end of the stick in some aspects. When i tal les about my nephew(13) about the shit we used to do in the ínternetand and irl he doesnt believe it. I showed him how to access folders and copy stuff using the command prompt and he looked at me like I was Hackerman.
Have you seen tik tok, it makes boomer humor look like the work of a lost ancient hypercivilization in comparison. I would expect the average ape to be ashamed of browsing that.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
I remember all the vines that didn't make it into the compilations.
>onions moron appears >I >JUST >FOUND >WATER >ON MARS >pans over to candy bar on table with same joke >ohmagaa, fart noise, 3 other meme sound effects play >video ends, but after a word from our sponsor
Yeah dude memes are so much better now. Throw a minecraft parkour course during the text part too for added spice.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>onions moron appears >sponsor >I >JUST >FOUND >WATER >sponsor >ON MARS >pans over to candy bar on table with same joke >ohmagaa, fart noise, 3 other meme sound effects play >sponsor >video ends, but after a word from our sponsor
Ft4u
Image made me laugh so I decided to go through my old unsorted folder for some nostalgia. Didn't expect to find the same image in there, apparently my sense of humor hasn't changed in decades.
Humor is a memetic technology. It advances with sustained growth. Before, the growth would be reset too quickly as jokes were forgotten, faded away, or died as their tellers did. But now everything is in a permanent state of living archive. "Boomer" internet memes were just 'sensible chuckle' type jokes that we've since moved on from as internet culture becomes more homogenized and wider and wider groups of people can be on the same page to appreciate increasingly esoteric meta-jokes.
We're witnessing an unprecedented evolution in what 'culture' even means and most people don't realize it.
the most tech literate boomers be like: >download random shit and run it
I get now why you are a win7 babyduck and hate everything made past 2006, you are literally too old to use computers
The people alive during the time of the OP are the most tech literate generation. The boomers older than them don't know shit about computers and neither do the zoomers after them.
I remember when I was 9 or 10 and absolutely destroyed the PC with a virus I downloaded. A super malicious virus too deleted everything replaced the screen with red put shortcuts to gay porn on the desktop
I was absolutely devastated for like 2 days before while trying to do anything I could I finally found out what the recovery on the startup page was for and was able to restore it.
Even though I lost everything, the computer was in pretty damn bad and corrupted shape before I got that particular virus as well so it was a welcome find.
After we got a new computer, when no one was home I'd drag that old computer out of the closet, plug it in, watch porn on it, and then use the recovery to factory reset it.
I somehow never got a legitimate terrible virus, and I downloaded tons of trash off kazaa limewire and napster
But one time I went over my grandmother's to look at her computer and it was fricking hysterically infested with shit. Pop ups at every mouse click, slow as molasses. You couldn't even view a webpage because so much unrelated shit was going on in the browser. She just went and bought a new computer instead of trying to fix it.
To be honest, at that level of understanding you won't be able to fix something like that on your own. I dunno about now but back then even if someone tried they'd just end up downloading more and more "registry cleaners" and other shit advertised to clean up and speed up the computer that would never do anything and would just add one more program to take up memory and startup time in the background.
Not to mention it doesn't solve the problem in the first place of grandma not clicking every ad she comes across.
my mom filled up half the screen with toolbars that she would download with candy crush type games and would blame RuneScape for the computer lagging and try (unsuccessfully) gaslighting everyone in the family to think it was a virus
>After we got a new computer, when no one was home I'd drag that old computer out of the closet, plug it in, watch porn on it, and then use the recovery to factory reset it.
based
man, the family computer always had a virus at all times. I remember once the entire desktop, taskbar etc were gone. You'd just boot into your wallpaper and you couldn't do anything. Thankfully firefox starts up automatically when you boot the pc so we used it like that for a couple of years i think. Sucked that we couldn't play games but oh well, my dad was done with having to format the pc every month (shit costed money since we didn't know how to do it). But atleast it taught me how to be safe online, how to avoid obvious malware and how to install an OS and how computers worked in general
It's literally the opposite now. Windows won't open harmful shit anymore and no one makes fun viruses anymore. Now all the malware is either for filling your browser with ads or making your pc another node on the botnet.
>no argument
Try again, and I can guarantee I'm very much older than you and participated in far more internet shenanigans than you will ever have in your entire worthless life. Being a complete moron isn't a trait to be proud of.
>seething zoomoids
You will never be alive during the golden age of the internet. Hold this regret for the rest of your lives.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
The golden age of the internet wasn't the scriptkiddie era you're thinking of.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Are you a BBS grandpa?
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Call me a zoomer, hitler, snacks or nancy but settle on one and stop flipflopping.
This, even way way back during the usenet days it was ethical to not share harmful files and be vigilant with whatever you were going to download.
[...] >seething zoomoids
You will never be alive during the golden age of the internet. Hold this regret for the rest of your lives.
>preemptively told moron my age >continues with generational dividing language
Never got the generation hate, zoomers or gen alpha or whatever. But I will attest to the moronation that happens to every individual regardless of the era you were born in. Also either work harder with your attempt at trolling or unironically have a nice day.
>no argument
Try again, and I can guarantee I'm very much older than you and participated in far more internet shenanigans than you will ever have in your entire worthless life. Being a complete moron isn't a trait to be proud of.
In my house we had my big bro PC which he used for work.. Squeaky clean. Only legit games and strict download policy.
And then there it was.. "La Innombrable"..The one I was allowed to use. Built from the leftovers of the good PC when it got upgraded. Every nasty shit you can think of we RAN it. If cyber AIDS exists it was this pc incarnate. Nowadays viruses are only profit focused. Malware, phishing, filencorruption or ransomware. I saw some Dos viruses that did thencoolest shit like matriz style charácter cascade playing songs with the alarm beeps. One that the only thing that did was disabling a random letter from the keyboard Every other Day. It was cool af
No, I'll die on that hill. I've always hated those rage face reddit comics and I've always hated the pepe and wojack shit for a lot of the same reasons, too.
you'd send an instant message with a character string that crashed the client, or multiple messages in rapid succession that would cause them to get disconnected
IIRC punters kicked people offline and booters kicked them out of chat rooms. Or maybe it was vice versa.
AOL private chat rooms were a lot of fun back then. Public chat rooms were basically premade chats you could find in a directory and they would, without fail, be full of people spamming "a/s/l?" and suspicious links. They were mostly full of normalgays and some kind of predators.
But if you clicked on Private Chat, it'd open up a prompt and you could type anything in. If a chat with that name existed, it'd send you to it; if it didn't, it'd make it for you. So they were instanced chat rooms, designed for people who wanted a semi-secure place to hang out. However, for geeky kids, they would obviously all put in the same things: dragonball, pokemon, sailormoon, etc., and so these places became populated 24/7 and communities formed there.
People could run simple programs that used the chat prompt. If you were a c**t, you could use flooders, booters, punters; if you were just a little c**ty, you might manipulate your text to be rainbow-colored or something obnoxious like that. Something innocuous, but a little silly, were the music players. So if you had this program open, you could type "/play nookie" in chat, and chat would receive >~*~* SSJSephiroth82 is now listening to "Nookie" by Limp Bizkit *~*~
or something and it would actually cause your media player to play the audio file. For yourself, of course. It's not like the chat could hear it. So really, you were just announcing to everyone what you were listening to. It was cool, 'cause you felt like a hacker or something controlling your media player from the chat prompt, but it was also obnoxious because, c'mon, no one cares.
The best progz were text-based fighting games like ChUB. ChUB had so many characters that people would troll the chat by typing the character list command, causing a flood of text for like five minutes.
Final Fantasy, Digimon and Gundam names were everywhere. I knew like 8 Clouds, 8 Sephiroths, 4 Zidanes, 4 Tais, 3 Soras, 2 Duos. It became hard to keep track of who's who.
>peak of Runescape (now known as OSRS) >everyone in school played it >friend convinces me to play it >tells me to make a dude with long white hair and no beard >"uh why?" >"because it's cool, okay?" >meet up with my other classmates >they all have the same look
So yeah, if you ever saw a bunch of discount Sephirots running around in runescape, that's why
Final Fantasy, Digimon and Gundam names were everywhere. I knew like 8 Clouds, 8 Sephiroths, 4 Zidanes, 4 Tais, 3 Soras, 2 Duos. It became hard to keep track of who's who.
It's funny looking back and remembering how utterly ubiquitous FFVII was online, like if you used the internet regularly you were just constantly exposed to it.
As an oldgay, I never liked it. It was not a meme because it did not apply to specific situations and was basically being adapted to absolutely everything regardless of context or similarity, just like "rage comics" that redditgays had bastardized to uselessness. It was made to spread like a virus, not to be a funny yet situational humour.
That's right, wojakgays are the Ganker, though I should probably say reddit at this point, equivalent of ponygays.
>So if you had this program open, you could type "/play nookie" in chat, and chat would receive >>~*~* SSJSephiroth82 is now listening to "Nookie" by Limp Bizkit *~*~ >or something and it would actually cause your media player to play the audio file. For yourself, of course. It's not like the chat could hear it.
people were doing this well into the 00's on IRC, and doing it to show off their playlist
I never used IRC (except for fansubs in 2005) so I never really learned much about that culture, but I believe it. I described battlers to my IT friend once and he told me it sounded like something you could do on IRC. I wanted to get into programming as a kid because I wanted to bring AOL battlers to JavaScript chat rooms, but then I dropped out of life.
It was a massive piece of shit but I made so many friends in aol chat rooms, a few that are still my friends 20 years later. There's nothing really like that today. Making your aol profile look cool was also kino
I went to chat rooms for 6 years, played online games for 10 years, and have been posting on forums like this for 20 years and I have zero friends. Maybe I'm just unlikable, but I've also always embraced anonymity.
I racked up a not insignificant phone bill playing hours and hours of Air Warrior on AOL at my Aunt's place one Summer. Shit was cash, 30 years ago we had flight sims with 300 players on three sides with a huge persistent map where you could take over areas and have multiple people on the same aircraft and now we just have gay lobby grinders with a dozen players.
>internet drama now
e celeb cancer and trying to cancel some celebrity for a 9 year old tweet >internet drama then
some b***h in florida arguing with some fricker in montana on a dog breeding forum for years until it escalated to her driving to his home and shootnig him
Someone on my old childhood gaming forum grew up to try to shoot up a mall. The cops picked up on it and showed up. One of the accomplices ACKed right then and there. She got life. Was a supremely annoying attention prostitute who pretended to like Gothic because the name sounded edgy and it was from Germany. But I do get some joy out of knowing she's wasting away in a cell. So thanks to her for that.
I think so. I didn't know she had a Youtube. I knew her as SnoopyFemme
I only know her because she has uploaded the only gameplay of Neverend on YouTube and I wanted to dig deeper
Eventually I found the encyclopedia dramatica page about her
Only a few more years until she gets out, I wonder if she ends up being a lolcow or just disappear
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
She loved attention and it doesn't seem like she's changed. She actually had an encyclopedia dramatica page before she ever did anything btw. They deleted it because she wasn't notable. I remember her posting it and complaining about it, but it was very likely she made it herself.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
She loved attention and it doesn't seem like she's changed. She actually had an encyclopedia dramatica page before she ever did anything btw. They deleted it because she wasn't notable. I remember her posting it and complaining about it, but it was very likely she made it herself.
Actually I realized it's probably archived, and it was https://web.archive.org/web/20070701182037/http://encyclopediadramatica.com/snoopyfemme
It stayed up longer than I thought. Also, it's not that interesting but since you're interested in her I thought I'd tell you it's there.
>some b***h in florida arguing with some fricker in montana on a dog breeding forum for years until it escalated to her driving to his home and shootnig him
SOVL
Nah, internet browsers and windows in general were way less secure. Simply browsing random websites would get all sorts of garbage installed on your PC without you knowing
I don't think so. In 2001-2004, I went to chat rooms and the average age was 17 and everyone liked anime and roleplayed and I was super popular with the girls and we'd fool around and stuff. Then I went to forums and MMOs in 2004-2010 and the atmosphere was a lot different: the average age was 24, roleplaying was looked down on, guys would brag about picking chicks up at the club, they'd send girls dick pics, most girls had boyfriends/husbands or had serious mental health issues, people were sharing phone numbers and meeting up irl to frick, suddenly people didn't like me because I was prudish and nerdy. I didn't create that environment, I have no idea where it came from.
I missed the days of overly customized siggies and avatars
>Majority of Fourms in the past had Customizable User Signatures >Nowadays there are none
I'm sad Gankerros
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>spend 3 minutes making your own shitty signature in Paint >use it for a few months then change it for something better >couple years go by >trying to access a porn site but it isn't working >check the forums for any news about it >immediately see a dude using your shitty signature from years ago
A very complicated feel.
>newbies believe the internet didn't begin until whichever 2010/2020+ year they arrived on Ganker
it's so tiresome, that is, outright denial of any history and engaging in full psychotic behavior being the 'meta' of most human interaction
shit I played Jedi Knight there all the time. Did lots of Battleground:Jedi with sabers only, and also this modded version of the game that I think was called Build Mod. It was the first time I ever played a video game where you just built stuff, like an old predecessor to games like Garry's Mod or Minecraft. Basically you would load into one of the JK multiplayer levels, but you had god mode and all the guns would spawn objects when you fired them, so you could run around shooting your blaster or conc rifle to spawn platforms and walkways and shit and people would just make bases together.
>internet was srs bsns >if you posted porn you got banned >if you posted too much you got banned for spam >if you posted a funny picture outside of the funny picture board you got banned
Millenial net was better than boomer net and I don't care how you incels cope.
>yeah bro just go dig through our IRC logs, all the info is on there!
How the frick did we even get there in 2000 fricking 20s
IRCs because people were impatient about waiting for replies on a forum post. Discord is an outgrowth of that
To be fair, a significant portion of the internet is reliant on random autistic morons maintaining servers and sites as passion projects, there's very little in the way of actual hard backups. That's the nature of digital information.
What I really find interesting is who's hosting this stuff? Is someone still actively paying for a domain without realizing it? Is it running off some forgotten basement server?
I dunno. I played stick of truth the other week and wanted to rewatch south park. allsp.ch has an ad for a guitar learning website in front of every episode. Like are they still getting revenue from that and paying their domain host? Who knows?
Old internet was made of text with flavor 16*16 minipictures in. If the website is bundled with or was copied along something more recent at any point in the hosting chain you wouldn't even notice the added weight. Google alone is currently moving through more raw data every day than a year of late 90s internet traffic. >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_traffic#Global_Internet_traffic
Some things were better, some things were worse. If only there was a way to combine the best feature of the past with the best features of the present, but sadly that's impossible with our limited modern technology
>netscape
now that's a name I haven't heard in ages. >the image slowly gaining quality from a pixel mess as it gets loaded
frick
I still remember browsing through "messenger communities" webpages as a teen and downloading a .avi file containing kingdom hearts final mix 1 new cutscenes including deep dive from a random msn group before youtube existed, on like 2003 or something and having my mind blown.
Just take me the FRICK BACK JESUS CHRIST ALMIGHTY
i miss the old information/progress bar that actually told you how much of the page was loaded and all the kilobyte/rate information etc
it barely tells you anything now
thats modern program design thanks to fricking smart phones and tablets. huge buttons and wasted space while hiding basic information in menus. everything used to be up front
I...I...it's beautiful anon. It puts me back in those days. The jank, the slowness, the memories of sites at that time.
IIRC punters kicked people offline and booters kicked them out of chat rooms. Or maybe it was vice versa.
AOL private chat rooms were a lot of fun back then. Public chat rooms were basically premade chats you could find in a directory and they would, without fail, be full of people spamming "a/s/l?" and suspicious links. They were mostly full of normalgays and some kind of predators.
But if you clicked on Private Chat, it'd open up a prompt and you could type anything in. If a chat with that name existed, it'd send you to it; if it didn't, it'd make it for you. So they were instanced chat rooms, designed for people who wanted a semi-secure place to hang out. However, for geeky kids, they would obviously all put in the same things: dragonball, pokemon, sailormoon, etc., and so these places became populated 24/7 and communities formed there.
People could run simple programs that used the chat prompt. If you were a c**t, you could use flooders, booters, punters; if you were just a little c**ty, you might manipulate your text to be rainbow-colored or something obnoxious like that. Something innocuous, but a little silly, were the music players. So if you had this program open, you could type "/play nookie" in chat, and chat would receive >~*~* SSJSephiroth82 is now listening to "Nookie" by Limp Bizkit *~*~
or something and it would actually cause your media player to play the audio file. For yourself, of course. It's not like the chat could hear it. So really, you were just announcing to everyone what you were listening to. It was cool, 'cause you felt like a hacker or something controlling your media player from the chat prompt, but it was also obnoxious because, c'mon, no one cares.
The best progz were text-based fighting games like ChUB. ChUB had so many characters that people would troll the chat by typing the character list command, causing a flood of text for like five minutes.
God, ChUB. I had forgotten what it was called but goddamn did I devote far more time to that than I ever should have. I'm so glad I'm not the only truly old homosexual still lurking here
I found a memory stick yesterday that had a bunch of aim chatlogs from my internet girlfriend in 2004. we actually got married in 2012 and divorced 3 years ago. This is from 09-02-2004 lol
i can never be in a relationship because i'm too straightforward. I can never talk like that and hearing or seeing people talk like that when i know how they talk normally is ear grating. Some dude was couch surfing at our house and he slept in the couch in my room, i'd hear him talking like that to his girlfriend before bed and in the morning and it's so annoying
according to my friends, i come off as cold in general despite being an alright guy. I put actions over words but strangers don't think like that (and rightfully so)
downloading shit was a legitimate hassle. speeds were abysmal and you weren't always guaranteed that what you were downloading was even actually what it was supposed to be . I remember spending 4 hours downloading a shit quality music video.
>S04E05_The_Simpsons_Treehouse_of_Horror_III (actually I_want_it_that_way.mov) >Linkin Park - In the End.mp3.exe >Cowboy_Bebop.zip (somehow 5 MB)
Those were the days
Okay, 2006 wasn't that new internet. I was like 14 and STILL knew not to click those shit. Frick, I miss gamespot forums I used to hangout in. Big Foot conspiracy theory in GTA started there.
What, I thought the cupholder joke was a prank on zoomers who supposedly are too young to even remember cd-drives. But this is 2006. Were they already kinda becoming obsolete enough back then that people joked about their uselessness or something? I certainly don't remember it that way but maybe they were.
the 2000s internet was teenagers playing with their dad's pc. it's criminal that these autistic flunkies are feeling nostalgic over tbh tbh spam and uwus and mudkips nowadays
Those were the last days of the internet before it was completely flooded by normalgays (You).
UseNet forums and BBSs don't count you fricking Black person. Nice try. But you will never be apart of my generation.
Pre-1997 the Internet was a secret club for adult turbo nerds. If you didn't look like Gaben, you didn't use the Internet.
1997-2003 was the era of peak uwu :3 *glomps u* as the Internet was overrun by nerdy/weeby high schoolers.
2004-2011 was a transition period where more normalgay-adjacent people joined the Internet and they were typically college-aged. This was primetime for meme sites like Ganker.
In my class basically everyone had Internet access at home by 2001 and used MSN (and it wasnt like the class was just full of nerds, the stacies and the chads were the same).
>Pre-1997 the Internet was a secret club for adult turbo nerds. If you didn't look like Gaben, you didn't use the Internet.
1993 is when the internet was officially ruined by normies as AOL got hooked up to the rest of the internet. However since it wasn't quite so clear at the time what you could do on the internet besides shitposting on Usenet and setting up your own webpage so the damage was minimal.
It would take until 2008 with the introduction of the iPhone 3G that the vast majority of human population would actually get online.
Having an email address in 1994 was reserved only for businesses and unix neckbears. In 2004 an email address was something you probably had but checked only every other month on a public computer at the library. By 2014 you were a social outcast if you didn't have an email address constantly within reach on your phone. Today you're locked out from the vast majority of internet and services provided via the internet if you don't have an email address.
Anons say that but early Ganker was extremely hostile to weebs and teens. It's so weird seeing 24/7 Naruto threads on Ganker, because when I think of Ganker and Naruto, I think of muddy dicks.
That's why "lurk moar" was a thing. You didn't randomly post whatever came to your stupid teenage head because people would tell you to frick off. I'd argue it was full of old turbo nerds AND dumb moron kids, but the latter learned to behave themselves and act like the old turbo nerds.
Maybe that's true in general, but it wasn't true for me personally. 2000 I was playing text-based fighting games, 2001-2003 I was ERPing with weebs and reading ABS, 2004-2006 was when FFXI still felt alive. After that, meme culture might've improved, we got the Orange Box and YouTube, but everything else died.
Maybe that's true in general, but it wasn't true for me personally. 2000 I was playing text-based fighting games, 2001-2003 I was ERPing with weebs and reading ABS, 2004-2006 was when FFXI still felt alive. After that, meme culture might've improved, we got the Orange Box and YouTube, but everything else died.
I also forgot all the Flash websites like Newgrounds and HomestarRunner. What was so great about the late 2000s that trumps Pico and Strong Bad?
That's true because memeing that kind of stuff was a thing in 2004-2001; those types of people were bullied for it. Before that, they were the Internet. In the late 90s and early 00s, chat rooms and message boards were mostly a bunch of teenagers or guys in their early 20s roleplaying as anime characters, having RP fights and cyber sex. That stuff became more sanitized as normalgays filled up the Internet and came to be associated more with sites like dA.
CDs became obsolete when thumb drives reached 1gb at a not NASA tier price. Dunno when that was but considering snoy had to shit out the UMD for the PSP and their own shitty overpriced not even 1GB not-SDs in 2005 I imagine it was not obsolete yet.
China and India should be cut off from the internet and have their own internet. Chinese and Indians shouldn't be allowed to own anything that can connect to the normal internet and instead is coded in their own language and connects to other computers that only run on their fricked up code.
Social media sites are rapidly becoming some sort of experimentation ground for Indians to spam AI bots and images on, there's like entire networks of bot accounts on Facebook run by Indians that all just post AI generated images of cakes
>2.5b people without internet
This surprises me more. I expected at least 90% of the world to be online by now.
I don't really consider myself terminally online but I can't imagine life without.
Things with the mass popular culture started going to hell around 2011 or even before, and it was closely tied to Youtube and a few other popular websites. Youtube started those viral marketing campaigns like Kony2012, the Skyrim trailer was pushed by algorithms, the rise of moronic internet celebrities like pewdiepie. 9GAG being tied to Facebook, the masses taking over memes as shown here:
I remember when as a kid it would blow my mind that I could just google images of turtles. Like holy shit, look at these turtles, don't even need to watch tv for this, I can just google images of animals I'm interestes in.
Now we have everything at the tip of our fingers and somehow it feels worse.
Might not even have been google at all. I just remember printing pictures of turtles because holy shit. Don't even need to go to the zoo. Just fricking take me back
>going to spend the night at a friend's house after school >we wanted to watch shrek or harry potter so he downloaded each of them from five different torrents while we were at school >when we come back, literally all the movies were just porn >one of them being a porn parody of harry Potter
Shit was hilarious.
Probably around 2005-2008. I remember finding about it on the world of warcraft forums but I frankly don't remember if that was during vanilla wow or later.
late 2004 or 2005. I think I found out about Ganker because of Sexy Beach 2's translation mentioning it. Friend pirated it while we were in middle school.
>found old ipod >it is definitely a time capsule of shit from 20 years ago >plug it into my pc to access the files >what's that smell >look at it >the ipod's battery swelled up to three times its size >yank it off and throw it into the laundry bin >it deflates after a few hours but now I'm scared of using it again
This is God's sign that you should mod it. The battery probably already pushed the back case off, so you just need to unplug the old one and put a new one in. Might as well upgrade the storage and install a custom firmware too. They also make bluetooth adapters so you can use wireless headphones.
>Then >Most shit was done for fun with no monetary compensation in mind (literally doing it for free/fun) >Now >Eternal grift and internet is super serious business anon!
What went wrong?
How nostalgia makes old forums look >pic related
How they actually were >e-peen mods on power trips >cancer forum personalities who demanded attention and actually got it >nooOOOOOOoooo you can't just necro a thread!!! nooooo!!!! >cancer hyper-specific rules >message count jerk-off system that's even worse than the shit reddit does >dm'd you the fix 🙂
You're in luck. Everything was never wojaks. You just have a distorted memory and fixated on them like the rest of your kind because it was the hip new troll meme at the time you arrived and you wanted to fit in.
I'm browsing through the catalogue and front page right now and all I see is shit. It's like internet culture died in 2012 and has been stagnating on the unfunny memes of back then for more than a decade now.
You really forgetting about the time a few years ago when the OC of the board was nothing but sad guy wojaks, consolejaks anal voring each other, and soijaks?
Come on it wasn't that long ago
>make nothing >see others making something >complain about others making something instead of making something of your own
The truth of the matter is that the true oldgays left and made something of themselves in the real world and the failed normalgays stayed.
It was great until you ran into the terminally online poster that had the 4 megabyte 400 pixel tall image. Then 80% of your browsing experience was waiting for it to load so your browser stopped jumping everywhere, and then scrolling past it as fast as you could every time the guy posted a 1 sentence rebuttable.
There was some anime forum I once visited, where the admins didn't set signature image size limits. Some dumbass put an entire Megami poster scan into his signature.
>signature >abstract photoshop renders plastered on gradient backgrounds >tons of bloom and blending effects >advent children render + cringekino quote >bonus points for using linkin park lyrics somewhere
we haven't recovered since moving from here
Not gonna lie, I think this only happened because of the influx of people that started using the internet. All the internet does is elevate your knowledge/consciousness of the world and in the process making you jaded.
Sometimes I look back and think about how I missed out on so many games, then I remember that I spent many years playing free shit like this and Runescape, up until we finally got a Steam account in 2006/7
One of my earliest memories from browsing this shithole is trying to download a Pokémon White ROM from /rs/ and it turning out to be Cory in the House DS
>dad installs limewire >starts going on about how we will never need to pay for music or movies ever again >"here son, I'll show you!" >opens file he spent the whole day downloading >jamesbond.exe >computer gets so fricked we had to buy a new one
I'll never forget the day that Megaupload was taken from us, that day was the official death of old internet, it was on terminal stages at that point but that event just confirmed it.
>used a client called Morpheus back in the day for P2P sharing >music and child porn galore >remember sitting around with my friend one day as a teenager and we thought typing in 'special olympics' would be hilarious >discover that Stephen Lynch song >download it >we fall around laughing at it so much we can't fricking breathe for half an hour
Just take me back lads
Kazaa, Morpheus and Limewire were all essentially the same program with different names. It was funny watching adults rag on Napster, completely oblivious to all these other clients. IIRC Bearshare was the shadiest.
Today morning my parents had a call. The girl you know as "Cracky-chan' wanted to kill herself and is in hospital now. She will die in one or two days.
FRICK YOU ALL for this I knew her FOR REAL over years. I was never so sad in my life before. Guys do you not realise that this is for real? Thats not fun in the realtity a REAL person DIE because of Ganker.
I hope so all Ganker buttholes burn in hell for ever. Thank you Ganker for killing one of my friends. I think this will bring consequences to Ganker.
"People" who have never experienced old net are worthless >Their opinions
Hold no merit >Creativity
Dead >Woes
What do I care for your suffering? >Presence
Dust in the wind
please americans, do not talk like a anime character.
this not how normal people talk.
it is a little embarrassing too watch
because she doesnt understand she is fool.
but i would also like to frick this girl,
at full force in her vegana, mouth, and ass.
>FTPs had upload quotas before you could download anything >It was expected that you'd upload a game or something so you'd have enough "credit" to download something in return, and as a way to "pay" the FTP host for using his bandwidth >Find the largest file on my PC >Rename it [populargame].exe >Upload that instead
Thinking back the old internet was a lot more trustful than nowadays.
I didn't know what the frick or how fast the connection is but damn do i feel jealous when people get to experience high speeds when plebs was only rocking 56k to like 1.5mbps back in the day
>fricking loved "subliminal message"-type videos on early youtube as a kid >actually feared screamers like they were satan incarnate >these videos were absolutely fricking ripe for screamers
I miss it all, lads.
holy frick my friends older brother who worked on pcs back on the day was telling me about this exact post back in 06. he then drive me home while blasting one winged angel (advent children)
>mfw H.266(lol)/AV1 may be enough to bring an anime episode to 50MB but actually watchable
I wish I had something else than my tower than can decode it tho. Never tested my tablet now that I think of it.
>2003 >download maxpayne.exe from emule >the game actually starts >no voice lines, music and sound effects are there >none of the scripted sequences start >eventually get stuck somewhere in the first metro level >quit the game >windows bluescreens >reboot >desktop background is now an add for some antivirus software
>you could just download random EXEs off websites back then and all they were were stupid little "blend the turtle" or "torture the hamster" digital time wasters
I miss it
i'm happy it happened and i got to live it, but i'm not happy that i'm left with whatever this homosexual shit now is, and how the sacred only gets more and more tarnished
how is it possible that we strayed so far from something that was so close to perfect?
>PANIC
God, I miss the early days of the internet.
zoomers will never understand the kino it was to just download random shit and run it. Nowadays if you do that you get your life ruined.
Nothing you had on your computer mattered back then, the entire contents of your harddrive could be given to someone and none of it mattered. Nobody had anything of value. You'd just reinstall Windows and be right back where you started.
I don't know if I was just a moronic kid but my dad was reinstalling windows like every few months. It seemed like things constantly kept getting broken.
maybe it was or maybe he was just a dumb old man who got in the habit of just reinstalling windows whenever something didn't seem right.
It was unironically faster than trying to figure out what the frick went wrong.
lmao i completely forgot about this
>oh everything is fricked up and slow again time to just start over
haven’t had to do that in decades
Want to know the best part? Since Windows 10, every feature update essentially do clean reinstall with migrated all settings and data. They actually give you same old treatment, only it's automatic. And how W10/11 sleeps rather than shut down? Updates ask you to restart precisely to avoid problems with PC running without restart for too long. All of this without normies even realising.
I still reinstall windows at least twice a year because my computer starts getting slow for some reason.
That's the right way to use Windows
it literally did. It took until Vista/7 that the pc does automatic maintenance. Zoomers don't even know what defrag is
Yeah, and he was always really defensive about his camera, tripod, green screen, camera SD cards, his closet, and talking about his childhood. His harddrive was constantly getting replaced and formatted. He had to keep destroying them with an Acetylene torch and then burying them somewhere in the woods. Dear ol' Dad!
NTA but I remember my friend reinstalling Windows every month or something. He had nothing of value on his drive anyway, all games data he needed was on CDs and emulators (of Game Boy Color) were so small that we kept them on floppy disks. The times, man...
I remember people posting public FTPs of his hard discs where the wallpaper folder of Windows XP was the most interesting thing
Basically this, in the 00s internet was a novelty not a necessity to have a normal life, so you literally had absolutely nothing of value on it besides save games and the random productivity software you used for work.
>Ganker: Down for MySQL Errors
>Newgrounds: Down for PHP issues
>FARK: Down to admin being high on pills.
Oh yeah. It's 2006 time.
I wanna go back
Zoomers will never know what it was like to get banned for liking regular milk.
I drink regular milk everyday
BRING BACK SNACKS
Snacks is arguably worse than every other relevant Ganker identity considering he became a coloured hair homosexual who disavows the site and contributed to that recent Ganker documentary.
god this boomer humour is fricking painful
Good, suffer, suffer more, learn to love the pain young zoomlet.
why doesn't /b/ do interesting things anymore?
Why don't we make /b/ do something interesting?
/b/ died
Because /b/ is filled with porn-addicted homosexuals and it's no longer a 2chan-style /b/.
Please do not post blank images while making gay posts, zoomer.
you need Ganker gold to view that image
>humour
Post teeth
That's just the weak part of you dying.
You are stronger now.
you would understand that we were bunch of 16-23 yr olds shitposting on the internet. nowadays you share spaces with bunch of 30-40 yr old basement dwellers.
it truly was the best time
At least they're funnier. Gaping wojaks suddenly seem hilarious and inventive compared to this old internet cringeorama.
You've got it backwards, the modern internet is heavily populated by children and teenagers that are afraid of having fun and content police out of second-hand embarrassment because they're too fricking self-conscious. The old internet was mostly inhabited by basement dwelling neckbeards.
no i don't think so. if you were to say certain platforms then yes. like tiktok or roblox or whatever the frick kids use nowadays. everywhere else is boomer central. facebook, twatter, reddit
>facebook
Granted
>Twitter
Teenager central, some old fricks use it too but the most active users by FAR are teenagers
>Reddit
Mixed bag of everyone
My point is that the early internet was mostly basement-dwelling neckbeards and teens and kids were extremely rare, now they're everywhere. Why else do you think people suddenly became so obsessive about being seen as "Cringe" right around the time smartphones really took off? Who has the most time to actually browse the internet all day?
newgrounds, aol messenger, geocities sites (look at me making a pokemon site! sign my guestbook pls), angelfire, flashgames,
literally top of my head. i dunno what the frick you browse back in the day but most of the internet were bunch of young people and not basement dwellers nerds as you describe
You're both right and wrong at the same time. The issue is that there was a generational shift that coincided with smartphones becoming popular where teenagers became horrified at the idea of getting caught on camera doing silly stuff. That's why cringe culture and cringe videos simultaneously took off in the early 10s. They then became increasingly self-policing in their behaviors and that started to translate into anything silly in general. Gen Y teenagers didn't give a frick because there wasn't this constant fear of your stupid shit getting posted online and you becoming the laughing stock of your school, Gen Z teenagers became hyper self-aware about anything goofy and began to extend that into policing behaviors online as well. The issue IS mostly teenagers but it's also a different generation of teenagers, the previous teenagers weren't a problem because they gave no fricks.
To add there's also basically no line between the internet and real life anymore, it's totally blurred. Gen Y would go online and saw it as a separate space where treating it as "srs bizness" was a joke in and of itself, for Gen Z the internet is an extension of their real lives so everything on it is just as serious as real life. So again, they see someone acting goofy online and that's just as bad to them as seeing someone acting goofy IRL.
>So again, they see someone acting goofy online and that's just as bad to them as seeing someone acting goofy IRL.
As an almost-zoomer who spends most of the time on the Internet between the job and the spare time I feel this. Between the cringe culture and persistence of Internet communication, allowing people to dig shit on you, you just can't relax.
Man being a zoomer sounds like it'd be fricking exhausting.
I have some sympathy for them tbh, it sounds like absolute hell to be growing up these days when literally everyone has a smartphone/camera with instant access to the internet at all times.
This but also literal retired old normalgays shitting things up. Teens are the ones you see that panic at anyone having fun and old normalgays are the ones you see posting banal shit everywhere. Both have dragged the quality of general internet culture down dramatically in two different ways.
>the modern internet is heavily populated by children and teenagers
Just like the old internet.
Hard disagree, a lot of the people that seem to flip their shit over using basic b***h reaction images that just so happen to come from anime are clearly teenagers.
>UMM WHERE ARE 3 LAYERS OF IRONY HELLO? IS HIT BASED OR CRINGE? I CANT UNDERSTAND HEEELP
boomer website
>tranime poster is a moronic zoomer
many such cases
ban all zoom zooms
off yourself, zoomer
>moetroony zoomer talking shit about good humor
Truly the eternal summer. I bet you love wojaks.
You think the Polish guy who made the first wojack feels immense regret? I know I would.
I mean, the guy who made pepe does and already voiced it.
both of them were fine for a while, i wanna say up until 2015/16. Then the elections happened
Why are you frickers so melodramatic over a MSpaint doodle? Did the creator of TROLLFACE show immense regret? No because who gives a shit. rage faces were just a fad and everyone cried how they were cancer, but now they’re all but forgotten. Wojak by himself is pretty much a retro meme these days, it’s morphed into basedjak and other jaks that dont even resemble the original wojak. Eventually those jaks will be forgotten to time too and looked fondly on like people laugh about rage faces now.
tl;dr
Don't whinge at me, homosexual
>trying to pretend Ganker wasn't an anime-aligned board from the moment it changed over from Gankerore
moron
/g/ore Black folk were just the worst of them
next you gonna tell me phoneposting was always a thing
boomer humor, said the gen-z tumor
>13+ replies to obvious bait
Really tells who's a real boomer and who's a faker
this. I'm fricking amazed. It's like a reverse bellcurve: for the bait to garner (You)s, it either has to be extremely blatant or top levels of social engineering . anything in between will be ignored
There's a lot of zoomers that didn't or barely lived certain cultures who larp so hard about missing them. It's so fake and reeks of inauthenticity, hell they don't resemble what they're supposed to be aping.
For example: vaporwave/80s aesthetic, 90s "retro", and recently Frutiger Aero or early 2000s.
Can you blame them? Imagine having to live your childhood after the millennium.
i'm a '98 zoomer ("zillenial" is a homosexual term and i refuse to use it) who had unrestricted internet access since i was a little kid and i miss it BECAUSE i only barely lived it
i experienced the good times when i was too young to truly appreciate them and i grew up just in time to watch everything turn to shit
'95 millennial here, feel exactly the same. At least I got to experience a lot of the early 2000s stuff on my parents Windows 98 computer. I was posting on Ganker at 12 which probably wasn't good for me.
I've been thinking that this is apart of why our generation is so nostalgic for things. We got to experience the tail end when we were too young to truly appreciate it and then it got ripped out in front of us right as we were getting older. I wonder if that leads to more nostalgic feelings.
I'm '95 and our household was often low on funds, so our tech was always a few years behind. In addition to living in a developing country and having elderly parents, our childhood was pretty much 80s and 90s stuff despite growing up in the 00s.
We still used VHS and had CRT until recently, so its extremely annoying how wrong online videos mimicking such devices look. Also N64 and PS1 stuff don't seem so "nostalgic" when it's the only console you had for a very long time haha
Also this millenial/zoomer/zillenial/alpha and '×× year boundaries shit is just marketing and phony anthropology bullshit. The mentality part is correct, but the whole thing is not gospel or hard limits, it's more like blurred boundaries in between.
You need to understand that some zoomers know they got the short end of the stick in some aspects. When i tal les about my nephew(13) about the shit we used to do in the ínternetand and irl he doesnt believe it. I showed him how to access folders and copy stuff using the command prompt and he looked at me like I was Hackerman.
>anons losing their minds over this post
always the "oldgays" that pride themselves on it
Have you seen tik tok, it makes boomer humor look like the work of a lost ancient hypercivilization in comparison. I would expect the average ape to be ashamed of browsing that.
I remember all the vines that didn't make it into the compilations.
>no (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
Come the frick on, Ganker mods / janitors...
they don't care
tsmt i want to see the funny letters mods please do this
trannies are zoomers now or are trying to groom ayoomers so it won't happen.
Come on mods I didn't stop gooning for this shit just ban the guy already
I wish you morons were the ones getting it for replying to stupid posts.
>onions moron appears
>I
>JUST
>FOUND
>WATER
>ON MARS
>pans over to candy bar on table with same joke
>ohmagaa, fart noise, 3 other meme sound effects play
>video ends, but after a word from our sponsor
Yeah dude memes are so much better now. Throw a minecraft parkour course during the text part too for added spice.
>onions moron appears
>sponsor
>I
>JUST
>FOUND
>WATER
>sponsor
>ON MARS
>pans over to candy bar on table with same joke
>ohmagaa, fart noise, 3 other meme sound effects play
>sponsor
>video ends, but after a word from our sponsor
Ft4u
u mad bro
not funny i was laughing at jokes like this when i was in middle school max
this has to be wax nostalgia. Even back in the day this stuff was eye-rolling bad. Where's surprised nigra?
>MySQL
SOUL
my mains were
stile project forum
fark
newgrounds
individual message boards for every interest
Image made me laugh so I decided to go through my old unsorted folder for some nostalgia. Didn't expect to find the same image in there, apparently my sense of humor hasn't changed in decades.
boomers meme are so fricking garbage. How are these the people always complaining about zoomer memes when their own meme were just as garbage
Humor is a memetic technology. It advances with sustained growth. Before, the growth would be reset too quickly as jokes were forgotten, faded away, or died as their tellers did. But now everything is in a permanent state of living archive. "Boomer" internet memes were just 'sensible chuckle' type jokes that we've since moved on from as internet culture becomes more homogenized and wider and wider groups of people can be on the same page to appreciate increasingly esoteric meta-jokes.
We're witnessing an unprecedented evolution in what 'culture' even means and most people don't realize it.
Don't make me unload my motivationals.
YWNBAW freak
Demotivationals are a shit format but the worst demotivational still 50x better than the best zoomer meme.
Don't you have some laundry detergent to be eating?
>detergent
QRD下さい
the most tech literate boomers be like:
>download random shit and run it
I get now why you are a win7 babyduck and hate everything made past 2006, you are literally too old to use computers
The people alive during the time of the OP are the most tech literate generation. The boomers older than them don't know shit about computers and neither do the zoomers after them.
>babyduck
troonspeak, stop raping children
>these morons are larping as oldgays
Grim.
I remember when I was 9 or 10 and absolutely destroyed the PC with a virus I downloaded. A super malicious virus too deleted everything replaced the screen with red put shortcuts to gay porn on the desktop
I was absolutely devastated for like 2 days before while trying to do anything I could I finally found out what the recovery on the startup page was for and was able to restore it.
Even though I lost everything, the computer was in pretty damn bad and corrupted shape before I got that particular virus as well so it was a welcome find.
After we got a new computer, when no one was home I'd drag that old computer out of the closet, plug it in, watch porn on it, and then use the recovery to factory reset it.
I somehow never got a legitimate terrible virus, and I downloaded tons of trash off kazaa limewire and napster
But one time I went over my grandmother's to look at her computer and it was fricking hysterically infested with shit. Pop ups at every mouse click, slow as molasses. You couldn't even view a webpage because so much unrelated shit was going on in the browser. She just went and bought a new computer instead of trying to fix it.
To be honest, at that level of understanding you won't be able to fix something like that on your own. I dunno about now but back then even if someone tried they'd just end up downloading more and more "registry cleaners" and other shit advertised to clean up and speed up the computer that would never do anything and would just add one more program to take up memory and startup time in the background.
Not to mention it doesn't solve the problem in the first place of grandma not clicking every ad she comes across.
my mom filled up half the screen with toolbars that she would download with candy crush type games and would blame RuneScape for the computer lagging and try (unsuccessfully) gaslighting everyone in the family to think it was a virus
>After we got a new computer, when no one was home I'd drag that old computer out of the closet, plug it in, watch porn on it, and then use the recovery to factory reset it.
based
Life ruination IS old internet, moron-o
man, the family computer always had a virus at all times. I remember once the entire desktop, taskbar etc were gone. You'd just boot into your wallpaper and you couldn't do anything. Thankfully firefox starts up automatically when you boot the pc so we used it like that for a couple of years i think. Sucked that we couldn't play games but oh well, my dad was done with having to format the pc every month (shit costed money since we didn't know how to do it). But atleast it taught me how to be safe online, how to avoid obvious malware and how to install an OS and how computers worked in general
If you weren't careful you would end up with 100 toolbars and an endless snake of popup windows to porn sites.
It's literally the opposite now. Windows won't open harmful shit anymore and no one makes fun viruses anymore. Now all the malware is either for filling your browser with ads or making your pc another node on the botnet.
skiddies today only ever do crypto miners
there's also programs to steal login credentials but everyone uses 2FA anyway
>it's okay to be careless during said era because i was young, ignorant and don't know any better
That's how moronic you sound.
>t.wasn't alive back then
you clearly weren't if you were moronic enough to think that opening up random shit you downloaded was common
>seething zoomoids
You will never be alive during the golden age of the internet. Hold this regret for the rest of your lives.
The golden age of the internet wasn't the scriptkiddie era you're thinking of.
Are you a BBS grandpa?
Call me a zoomer, hitler, snacks or nancy but settle on one and stop flipflopping.
This, even way way back during the usenet days it was ethical to not share harmful files and be vigilant with whatever you were going to download.
>preemptively told moron my age
>continues with generational dividing language
Never got the generation hate, zoomers or gen alpha or whatever. But I will attest to the moronation that happens to every individual regardless of the era you were born in. Also either work harder with your attempt at trolling or unironically have a nice day.
>no argument
Try again, and I can guarantee I'm very much older than you and participated in far more internet shenanigans than you will ever have in your entire worthless life. Being a complete moron isn't a trait to be proud of.
In my house we had my big bro PC which he used for work.. Squeaky clean. Only legit games and strict download policy.
And then there it was.. "La Innombrable"..The one I was allowed to use. Built from the leftovers of the good PC when it got upgraded. Every nasty shit you can think of we RAN it. If cyber AIDS exists it was this pc incarnate. Nowadays viruses are only profit focused. Malware, phishing, filencorruption or ransomware. I saw some Dos viruses that did thencoolest shit like matriz style charácter cascade playing songs with the alarm beeps. One that the only thing that did was disabling a random letter from the keyboard Every other Day. It was cool af
>One that the only thing that did was disabling a random letter from the keyboard Every other Day
Fricking kek. Viruses used to have SOUL
>One that the only thing that did was disabling a random letter from the keyboard Every other Day
kek
Lostboy.exe was a real fun time on Ganker
Moot even put up an announcement here calling everyone a moron
No, ragecomics were never good.
your mom was never good last night
No, I'll die on that hill. I've always hated those rage face reddit comics and I've always hated the pepe and wojack shit for a lot of the same reasons, too.
No, that was the case back then, too. You were just moronic AND lucky.
You didn't experience Stealth_Boot.C or Win32/CIH.
>2006
>early days of the internet
Those were the last days of the internet before it was completely flooded by normalgays (You).
UseNet forums and BBSs don't count you fricking Black person. Nice try. But you will never be apart of my generation.
>2006
>Early
>2006
>early days
new gay
>Internet was 37 years old
>Early days
Whatever you think of Eternal September, would you really count the years before it as "the internet"? It was 12 years old if even that.
I don't count anything after the WWW was invented as the internet.
How's the WiFi at the retirement home?
Imagine using wireless anything.
i quite like my tv remote and my imitation tv remote usb to control the fricking volume on these shitty movies
>God, I miss the early days of the internet
Same
Peeminists ruin everything
soul
>lostboy.exe
just downloaded it what am I in fo
Good riddance.
>that joy of discovery you'd feel clicking through webrings
I missed the days of overly customized siggies and avatars
>can't fit more than two one sentence comments on the screen because of all the signatures and headers
Nah, it was crap.
please let me go back
whoever is running this simulation. i’m genuinely asking.
just edit the file that takes me back.
Me too please.
Take me with you guys, this shit's totally fricking fricked big time man
Why should I care about a tripgay?
Me too
>downloading random .exes on the internet
ah the world before 90% of things were a crypto miner
Still wasn't a good idea back then
i miss aol
SOUL
you can still use aol. sadly.
whats punt
you'd send an instant message with a character string that crashed the client, or multiple messages in rapid succession that would cause them to get disconnected
IIRC punters kicked people offline and booters kicked them out of chat rooms. Or maybe it was vice versa.
AOL private chat rooms were a lot of fun back then. Public chat rooms were basically premade chats you could find in a directory and they would, without fail, be full of people spamming "a/s/l?" and suspicious links. They were mostly full of normalgays and some kind of predators.
But if you clicked on Private Chat, it'd open up a prompt and you could type anything in. If a chat with that name existed, it'd send you to it; if it didn't, it'd make it for you. So they were instanced chat rooms, designed for people who wanted a semi-secure place to hang out. However, for geeky kids, they would obviously all put in the same things: dragonball, pokemon, sailormoon, etc., and so these places became populated 24/7 and communities formed there.
People could run simple programs that used the chat prompt. If you were a c**t, you could use flooders, booters, punters; if you were just a little c**ty, you might manipulate your text to be rainbow-colored or something obnoxious like that. Something innocuous, but a little silly, were the music players. So if you had this program open, you could type "/play nookie" in chat, and chat would receive
>~*~* SSJSephiroth82 is now listening to "Nookie" by Limp Bizkit *~*~
or something and it would actually cause your media player to play the audio file. For yourself, of course. It's not like the chat could hear it. So really, you were just announcing to everyone what you were listening to. It was cool, 'cause you felt like a hacker or something controlling your media player from the chat prompt, but it was also obnoxious because, c'mon, no one cares.
The best progz were text-based fighting games like ChUB. ChUB had so many characters that people would troll the chat by typing the character list command, causing a flood of text for like five minutes.
kek sephiroth usernames were so common in my friend group
Final Fantasy, Digimon and Gundam names were everywhere. I knew like 8 Clouds, 8 Sephiroths, 4 Zidanes, 4 Tais, 3 Soras, 2 Duos. It became hard to keep track of who's who.
>peak of Runescape (now known as OSRS)
>everyone in school played it
>friend convinces me to play it
>tells me to make a dude with long white hair and no beard
>"uh why?"
>"because it's cool, okay?"
>meet up with my other classmates
>they all have the same look
So yeah, if you ever saw a bunch of discount Sephirots running around in runescape, that's why
It's funny looking back and remembering how utterly ubiquitous FFVII was online, like if you used the internet regularly you were just constantly exposed to it.
As an oldgay, I never liked it. It was not a meme because it did not apply to specific situations and was basically being adapted to absolutely everything regardless of context or similarity, just like "rage comics" that redditgays had bastardized to uselessness. It was made to spread like a virus, not to be a funny yet situational humour.
That's right, wojakgays are the Ganker, though I should probably say reddit at this point, equivalent of ponygays.
meant for
>So if you had this program open, you could type "/play nookie" in chat, and chat would receive
>>~*~* SSJSephiroth82 is now listening to "Nookie" by Limp Bizkit *~*~
>or something and it would actually cause your media player to play the audio file. For yourself, of course. It's not like the chat could hear it.
people were doing this well into the 00's on IRC, and doing it to show off their playlist
I never used IRC (except for fansubs in 2005) so I never really learned much about that culture, but I believe it. I described battlers to my IT friend once and he told me it sounded like something you could do on IRC. I wanted to get into programming as a kid because I wanted to bring AOL battlers to JavaScript chat rooms, but then I dropped out of life.
I miss the free frisbees too.
damn, that joke is old enough to drink
Said no one who ever used it, ever.
It was a massive piece of shit but I made so many friends in aol chat rooms, a few that are still my friends 20 years later. There's nothing really like that today. Making your aol profile look cool was also kino
>Sex: Yes please ;^)
I went to chat rooms for 6 years, played online games for 10 years, and have been posting on forums like this for 20 years and I have zero friends. Maybe I'm just unlikable, but I've also always embraced anonymity.
i'll be your friend
I racked up a not insignificant phone bill playing hours and hours of Air Warrior on AOL at my Aunt's place one Summer. Shit was cash, 30 years ago we had flight sims with 300 players on three sides with a huge persistent map where you could take over areas and have multiple people on the same aircraft and now we just have gay lobby grinders with a dozen players.
Before annoying influencers and culture war nonsense
>internet drama now
e celeb cancer and trying to cancel some celebrity for a 9 year old tweet
>internet drama then
some b***h in florida arguing with some fricker in montana on a dog breeding forum for years until it escalated to her driving to his home and shootnig him
A lot of crazy shit still happens now but 90% of modern "drama" is some literal who has an opinion
Someone on my old childhood gaming forum grew up to try to shoot up a mall. The cops picked up on it and showed up. One of the accomplices ACKed right then and there. She got life. Was a supremely annoying attention prostitute who pretended to like Gothic because the name sounded edgy and it was from Germany. But I do get some joy out of knowing she's wasting away in a cell. So thanks to her for that.
You're probably not here anymore, but are you talking about this chick?
https://youtube.com/@LetDutyGuideMe?si=Tk46bSo2jwkmYhRf
googled her
I need those breasts in my face
ZAMN
Ikr
She is my jailfu
I only know her because she has uploaded the only gameplay of Neverend on YouTube and I wanted to dig deeper
Eventually I found the encyclopedia dramatica page about her
Only a few more years until she gets out, I wonder if she ends up being a lolcow or just disappear
She loved attention and it doesn't seem like she's changed. She actually had an encyclopedia dramatica page before she ever did anything btw. They deleted it because she wasn't notable. I remember her posting it and complaining about it, but it was very likely she made it herself.
Actually I realized it's probably archived, and it was https://web.archive.org/web/20070701182037/http://encyclopediadramatica.com/snoopyfemme
It stayed up longer than I thought. Also, it's not that interesting but since you're interested in her I thought I'd tell you it's there.
I think so. I didn't know she had a Youtube. I knew her as SnoopyFemme
>some b***h in florida arguing with some fricker in montana on a dog breeding forum for years until it escalated to her driving to his home and shootnig him
SOVL
Money really ruins everything
>shootnig
there was a website that did this in the early 2000s. must have been some really sketchy programming to make that work through the browser.
Nah, internet browsers and windows in general were way less secure. Simply browsing random websites would get all sorts of garbage installed on your PC without you knowing
You pine for a better time yet did not create a better future. Don't call it a grave, it's the future you chose.
I can't control morons nor how they raise their stupid children.
nice way of saying you never created anything and just consumed
There's at least 1 meme I made over a decade ago that I still see being posted around, so I don't so.
>supposedly made one meme over a decade ago
nice life
don't have a lot to complain
What do you want us to do? 2008 was out of our hands and by 2012 when occupy wall street "died" its all over
I don't think so. In 2001-2004, I went to chat rooms and the average age was 17 and everyone liked anime and roleplayed and I was super popular with the girls and we'd fool around and stuff. Then I went to forums and MMOs in 2004-2010 and the atmosphere was a lot different: the average age was 24, roleplaying was looked down on, guys would brag about picking chicks up at the club, they'd send girls dick pics, most girls had boyfriends/husbands or had serious mental health issues, people were sharing phone numbers and meeting up irl to frick, suddenly people didn't like me because I was prudish and nerdy. I didn't create that environment, I have no idea where it came from.
>spend 3 minutes making your own shitty signature in Paint
>use it for a few months then change it for something better
>couple years go by
>trying to access a porn site but it isn't working
>check the forums for any news about it
>immediately see a dude using your shitty signature from years ago
A very complicated feel.
b***h please what choosing power do you think these people have?
>go to some sketchy website
>dial-up sounds
>porn pop-ups everywhere
>newbies believe the internet didn't begin until whichever 2010/2020+ year they arrived on Ganker
it's so tiresome, that is, outright denial of any history and engaging in full psychotic behavior being the 'meta' of most human interaction
can't really blame them when 90's internet was so fricking archaic
>90s internet is considered archaic
00s is considered archaic. Nobody uses forums anymore. We're losing information in real time by having so many groups being on discord.
>yeah bro just go dig through our IRC logs, all the info is on there!
How the frick did we even get there in 2000 fricking 20s
https://www.spacejam.com/1996/
http://web.archive.org/web/19971211090850/http://www.anipike.com/
https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/msn-gaming-zone-1999
LOOK AT IT
You may not like it, but this is what peak frontend looks like. I'm saying this completely unironically.
Beautiful.
They are never killing the space jam website at this point, are they?
And thank god for that. The slam is eternal.
I miss those homies like you wouldn't believe.
I JUST WANT TO PLAY MECHWARRIOR 3 ON MSN GAMING ZONE, DAMNIT. TAKE ME BACK.
Dedicated servers? That's no longer allowed
>load mech with missiles and no heat sinks
>fire everything at once, mech explodes and leaves a big crater
i dunno why that was so funny to me
shit I played Jedi Knight there all the time. Did lots of Battleground:Jedi with sabers only, and also this modded version of the game that I think was called Build Mod. It was the first time I ever played a video game where you just built stuff, like an old predecessor to games like Garry's Mod or Minecraft. Basically you would load into one of the JK multiplayer levels, but you had god mode and all the guns would spawn objects when you fired them, so you could run around shooting your blaster or conc rifle to spawn platforms and walkways and shit and people would just make bases together.
>internet was srs bsns
>if you posted porn you got banned
>if you posted too much you got banned for spam
>if you posted a funny picture outside of the funny picture board you got banned
Millenial net was better than boomer net and I don't care how you incels cope.
>anyone could shit out a website and throw it on geocities in a single afternoon
90s net was peak
>oh noez I can't make offtopic shitposts!
IRCs because people were impatient about waiting for replies on a forum post. Discord is an outgrowth of that
To be fair, a significant portion of the internet is reliant on random autistic morons maintaining servers and sites as passion projects, there's very little in the way of actual hard backups. That's the nature of digital information.
>having fun is offtopic
...except when you destroyed the economy enjoy your pension XD
I've been exploring ancient websites lately. Shit is cash. http://travelassist.com/mag/mag_home.html
What I really find interesting is who's hosting this stuff? Is someone still actively paying for a domain without realizing it? Is it running off some forgotten basement server?
I dunno. I played stick of truth the other week and wanted to rewatch south park. allsp.ch has an ad for a guitar learning website in front of every episode. Like are they still getting revenue from that and paying their domain host? Who knows?
Old internet was made of text with flavor 16*16 minipictures in. If the website is bundled with or was copied along something more recent at any point in the hosting chain you wouldn't even notice the added weight. Google alone is currently moving through more raw data every day than a year of late 90s internet traffic.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_traffic#Global_Internet_traffic
I want to go back, but at the same time I don't
Some things were better, some things were worse. If only there was a way to combine the best feature of the past with the best features of the present, but sadly that's impossible with our limited modern technology
>netscape
now that's a name I haven't heard in ages.
>the image slowly gaining quality from a pixel mess as it gets loaded
frick
I still remember browsing through "messenger communities" webpages as a teen and downloading a .avi file containing kingdom hearts final mix 1 new cutscenes including deep dive from a random msn group before youtube existed, on like 2003 or something and having my mind blown.
Just take me the FRICK BACK JESUS CHRIST ALMIGHTY
i miss the old information/progress bar that actually told you how much of the page was loaded and all the kilobyte/rate information etc
it barely tells you anything now
thats modern program design thanks to fricking smart phones and tablets. huge buttons and wasted space while hiding basic information in menus. everything used to be up front
Holy shit the loading bar on the bottom left just unlocked a core memory.
Speeds like this were why people fricking HATED ads
I...I...it's beautiful anon. It puts me back in those days. The jank, the slowness, the memories of sites at that time.
God, ChUB. I had forgotten what it was called but goddamn did I devote far more time to that than I ever should have. I'm so glad I'm not the only truly old homosexual still lurking here
i made that .webm
still got the original video with the audio
I found a memory stick yesterday that had a bunch of aim chatlogs from my internet girlfriend in 2004. we actually got married in 2012 and divorced 3 years ago. This is from 09-02-2004 lol
what the frick
Weird I have the same logs
i miss AIM and wish I used it more often near its end and actually got in contact with whoever i used to talk to
big ol rip to MSN too
i can never be in a relationship because i'm too straightforward. I can never talk like that and hearing or seeing people talk like that when i know how they talk normally is ear grating. Some dude was couch surfing at our house and he slept in the couch in my room, i'd hear him talking like that to his girlfriend before bed and in the morning and it's so annoying
you know there's girls that hate that kind of couples talk too right? just gotta find one
according to my friends, i come off as cold in general despite being an alright guy. I put actions over words but strangers don't think like that (and rightfully so)
I have the same for MSN. Divorced in 2020. We had amazing chemistry, but enough stress and mental illness ends anything
It really whips the llama's ass.
I had so many based skins
>at one point winamp had streaming services even video
>one channel had hentai
>words worth, cool devices, la blue girl, and some yuri hentai
Why does it feel like i'm the only soul on the planet who knew about this?
Who the frick would stream hentai?
i dunno because they could? i didn't see any incentives like ads
downloading shit was a legitimate hassle. speeds were abysmal and you weren't always guaranteed that what you were downloading was even actually what it was supposed to be . I remember spending 4 hours downloading a shit quality music video.
Sounds like someone downloaded XxX_DragonMooN-X.rmvb.exe on limewire.
>S04E05_The_Simpsons_Treehouse_of_Horror_III (actually I_want_it_that_way.mov)
>Linkin Park - In the End.mp3.exe
>Cowboy_Bebop.zip (somehow 5 MB)
Those were the days
I still do.
I wonder who would make yuri hentai in those years. It's still considered niche nowadays.
>used to be more prevalent than yaoi
>now yuri is less common than yaoi
WHERE DID WE GO WRONG?
Yuri abandoned hentai to save anime and then conquer the world.
I still use winamp though...
there is no better player
Soulseek + Winamp combo with the legacy Last.fm scrobbler for stats is the best way to listen to music.
i stopped using it when it went to bundleware hell
Discovering the "Broadcast" videos and finding ones that were streaming Hentai 24/7 was mindblowing
Okay, 2006 wasn't that new internet. I was like 14 and STILL knew not to click those shit. Frick, I miss gamespot forums I used to hangout in. Big Foot conspiracy theory in GTA started there.
What, I thought the cupholder joke was a prank on zoomers who supposedly are too young to even remember cd-drives. But this is 2006. Were they already kinda becoming obsolete enough back then that people joked about their uselessness or something? I certainly don't remember it that way but maybe they were.
????
what the heck man it's just a joke not a social commentary on the obsoletion of the CD rom drive
the 2000s internet was teenagers playing with their dad's pc. it's criminal that these autistic flunkies are feeling nostalgic over tbh tbh spam and uwus and mudkips nowadays
Dude, I had someone do this to me in like 1998.
Pre-1997 the Internet was a secret club for adult turbo nerds. If you didn't look like Gaben, you didn't use the Internet.
1997-2003 was the era of peak uwu :3 *glomps u* as the Internet was overrun by nerdy/weeby high schoolers.
2004-2011 was a transition period where more normalgay-adjacent people joined the Internet and they were typically college-aged. This was primetime for meme sites like Ganker.
2012+ the end
In my class basically everyone had Internet access at home by 2001 and used MSN (and it wasnt like the class was just full of nerds, the stacies and the chads were the same).
I remember in 2003 even the popular girls at school would talk about the internet. I was in middle school so they were talking about Neopets and MSN.
>Pre-1997 the Internet was a secret club for adult turbo nerds. If you didn't look like Gaben, you didn't use the Internet.
1993 is when the internet was officially ruined by normies as AOL got hooked up to the rest of the internet. However since it wasn't quite so clear at the time what you could do on the internet besides shitposting on Usenet and setting up your own webpage so the damage was minimal.
It would take until 2008 with the introduction of the iPhone 3G that the vast majority of human population would actually get online.
Having an email address in 1994 was reserved only for businesses and unix neckbears. In 2004 an email address was something you probably had but checked only every other month on a public computer at the library. By 2014 you were a social outcast if you didn't have an email address constantly within reach on your phone. Today you're locked out from the vast majority of internet and services provided via the internet if you don't have an email address.
>overrun by nerdy/weeby high schoolers
Take me back.
Anons say that but early Ganker was extremely hostile to weebs and teens. It's so weird seeing 24/7 Naruto threads on Ganker, because when I think of Ganker and Naruto, I think of muddy dicks.
That's why "lurk moar" was a thing. You didn't randomly post whatever came to your stupid teenage head because people would tell you to frick off. I'd argue it was full of old turbo nerds AND dumb moron kids, but the latter learned to behave themselves and act like the old turbo nerds.
Late 2000s to early 2010s internet >>> early 2000s internet that people pretentiously pretend to enjoy
Maybe that's true in general, but it wasn't true for me personally. 2000 I was playing text-based fighting games, 2001-2003 I was ERPing with weebs and reading ABS, 2004-2006 was when FFXI still felt alive. After that, meme culture might've improved, we got the Orange Box and YouTube, but everything else died.
2008-2011 was the beginning of the end of old internet culture and the beginning of smartphone morons invading the internet. so no.
I also forgot all the Flash websites like Newgrounds and HomestarRunner. What was so great about the late 2000s that trumps Pico and Strong Bad?
"Uwu glomps u" was 2004-2011
That's true because memeing that kind of stuff was a thing in 2004-2001; those types of people were bullied for it. Before that, they were the Internet. In the late 90s and early 00s, chat rooms and message boards were mostly a bunch of teenagers or guys in their early 20s roleplaying as anime characters, having RP fights and cyber sex. That stuff became more sanitized as normalgays filled up the Internet and came to be associated more with sites like dA.
I've seen old IT posts claiming straightfaced they dealt with people in their company complaining their cupholder was broken and I believed them.
CDs became obsolete when thumb drives reached 1gb at a not NASA tier price. Dunno when that was but considering snoy had to shit out the UMD for the PSP and their own shitty overpriced not even 1GB not-SDs in 2005 I imagine it was not obsolete yet.
>why's the internet so shit now
Germany really is the soul of the world isn't it.
Its the highest concentration of furries.
oppenheimer was right we should've nuked germany
That was 6 years ago. Imagine how shit'd and chink'd it is now
China and India should be cut off from the internet and have their own internet. Chinese and Indians shouldn't be allowed to own anything that can connect to the normal internet and instead is coded in their own language and connects to other computers that only run on their fricked up code.
I don't mind chinks online but ban Indians. Everything they contribute is shit.
nuke all of BRICS
Social media sites are rapidly becoming some sort of experimentation ground for Indians to spam AI bots and images on, there's like entire networks of bot accounts on Facebook run by Indians that all just post AI generated images of cakes
Everything turned to shit once people realized they could use the internet to make money
>97-07
My HEROES
>it was the street shitter all along
I'm so tired of these vermin
All of you need to leave so I can get my comfy internet back.
>2.5b people without internet
This surprises me more. I expected at least 90% of the world to be online by now.
I don't really consider myself terminally online but I can't imagine life without.
2016 really was the final nail in the coffin for the handful of spaces that had managed to hold out, huh?
>2016 brought the zoomie trumpies
>2024 will bring the alphie trumpies
Please hold containment board walls.
Things with the mass popular culture started going to hell around 2011 or even before, and it was closely tied to Youtube and a few other popular websites. Youtube started those viral marketing campaigns like Kony2012, the Skyrim trailer was pushed by algorithms, the rise of moronic internet celebrities like pewdiepie. 9GAG being tied to Facebook, the masses taking over memes as shown here:
The whole internet culture homogenized.
Thankfully. I met my third world fiance through the internet.
No wonder chatrooms died after 07
Now that I think about it, Indians and the Chinese could've easily destroyed the old Internet with their sheer numbers and bots.
How did you get trannies out of a 3DPD image?
The Great Firewall is really a blessing, and the poos just stick to the most mainstream social networks.
hue
India won sirs
The most underwhelming get in the long and storied history of this shitpile.
I've been taking typing tests and every time they make me copy a letter that starts "Dear Sirs" I start giggling because of you homos.
Everyone's talking about the jeets and chinks but the US going from 20% to 90% is worse, normalgays are what ruined the internet.
This. The chinks are a non issue and the poos are held in tiktok jail.
>Post in a week old thread, not even a month
>NERCOBUMP LOCKED AND BANNED
nobody fricking cares about your hateboner for wojaks and frogs you autistic newbies
Stop getting offended
implying that i'm offended is pretty rude and i hope you stop
>downloading ideepthroat videos from Kazaa
take me back bros
>try to download new movie that just released
>it's cheese
I liked all the Weird Al songs that were very clearly not Weird Al, some moron just thought Weird Al was synonymous with parody.
And now they're rugpulling social media sights by killing user connectivity.
That's terror.
Terror built into the system
i want to see what the chart is like now because i fricking assure you it's 100 times worse
>cd rom tray
>cup holder
heh
>tfw my pc has a vertical cdrom tray
What do?
back in my day we just called him the feels guy
I remember when as a kid it would blow my mind that I could just google images of turtles. Like holy shit, look at these turtles, don't even need to watch tv for this, I can just google images of animals I'm interestes in.
Now we have everything at the tip of our fingers and somehow it feels worse.
I wish. The internet is getting scrubbed and filled with trash at the same time.
Might not even have been google at all. I just remember printing pictures of turtles because holy shit. Don't even need to go to the zoo. Just fricking take me back
I did this with lightsabers once on google images back in like 2008 and would just scroll page after page of the images
>ITT: Zoomies and election tourists larp as oldgays
If you’ve never been handed a personal ban from Snacks, you don’t belong here.
snacks is a literal troony now so who cares
If you weren't banned by a newbie you're a newbie is an interesting hill.
>supposed "oldgay" doesn't know what LARP means
You're not fooling anyone, zoomie.
I'm not larping as a newbie, I've been here since 2016
what if i have a ban from moot
How do you know you got banned by moot? I had a ban repealed by moot and I know that because he posted about it on /q/.
>going to spend the night at a friend's house after school
>we wanted to watch shrek or harry potter so he downloaded each of them from five different torrents while we were at school
>when we come back, literally all the movies were just porn
>one of them being a porn parody of harry Potter
Shit was hilarious.
>based dad tells me to come check this out
>shows me rotten.com
>has no idea i check it out weekly
>Old net
>Doxxing over the pettiest shit
>Now
>99% of the population has publicly available information about themselves
LOL
Not me.
2020
2016
2014
2012
2008/7
2003/4
Choose your character fellow Gankerners.
>2012
>not 2011
zoom zoom zoom
They never use 2011. It's always one of those dates when they want to falseflag or pretend they're something they're not.
Probably around 2005-2008. I remember finding about it on the world of warcraft forums but I frankly don't remember if that was during vanilla wow or later.
2001/2 would be best for cyber sex, but since that isn't an option, I'll go with 2003/4: less cybering, but I also get early FFXI.
Pretty much this. Cybering in the old internet was something else.
From 07/08 to 2020 depending on the board
late 2004 or 2005. I think I found out about Ganker because of Sexy Beach 2's translation mentioning it. Friend pirated it while we were in middle school.
Late 04, early 05. Not sure. I got here via GameFAQs forums.
>found old ipod
>it is definitely a time capsule of shit from 20 years ago
>plug it into my pc to access the files
>what's that smell
>look at it
>the ipod's battery swelled up to three times its size
>yank it off and throw it into the laundry bin
>it deflates after a few hours but now I'm scared of using it again
This is God's sign that you should mod it. The battery probably already pushed the back case off, so you just need to unplug the old one and put a new one in. Might as well upgrade the storage and install a custom firmware too. They also make bluetooth adapters so you can use wireless headphones.
>throw it into the laundry bin
u wanna fricking die?
>Then
>Most shit was done for fun with no monetary compensation in mind (literally doing it for free/fun)
>Now
>Eternal grift and internet is super serious business anon!
What went wrong?
your memory
You know ~~*what*~~ already
Why cabitalism of course 😀
How nostalgia makes old forums look
>pic related
How they actually were
>e-peen mods on power trips
>cancer forum personalities who demanded attention and actually got it
>nooOOOOOOoooo you can't just necro a thread!!! nooooo!!!!
>cancer hyper-specific rules
>message count jerk-off system that's even worse than the shit reddit does
>dm'd you the fix 🙂
Was Dr. Strangelove the Joker profile pic before the Joker profile pic became a thing with TDK? So many people had him.
That's actually fricking hilarious
I just miss when everything wasn't just wojaks
7 years of soijak
I wonder what the alphas will bring to the proverbial table.
You're in luck. Everything was never wojaks. You just have a distorted memory and fixated on them like the rest of your kind because it was the hip new troll meme at the time you arrived and you wanted to fit in.
How silly of me. I forgot the Twitter screen caps. :]
Have you tried getting better taste in threads or a brain that can follow a timeline :v
I'm browsing through the catalogue and front page right now and all I see is shit. It's like internet culture died in 2012 and has been stagnating on the unfunny memes of back then for more than a decade now.
>2012
2010, for both internet and vidya
You really forgetting about the time a few years ago when the OC of the board was nothing but sad guy wojaks, consolejaks anal voring each other, and soijaks?
Come on it wasn't that long ago
>make nothing
>see others making something
>complain about others making something instead of making something of your own
The truth of the matter is that the true oldgays left and made something of themselves in the real world and the failed normalgays stayed.
True, I never made anything other than half-assed Angelfire pages.
>image
fuuuck
I remember how genuinely painful it was, when the word started getting abused around 2009-2011. Painful as in real physical pain.
OLD GODZILLA WAS FRICKING AROUND
>It's RP forum episode
>[insert anime it's based on]
>Character sheets and all that
>Certain parts of the forum are locked behind login
/play reason
Remember when they used to drill kids that the number one rule is to NEVER, EVER reveal your real identity on the internet?
Good times.
>Majority of Fourms in the past had Customizable User Signatures
>Nowadays there are none
I'm sad Gankerros
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This post was made with the power of EPIC MINECRAFT DIAMONDS!
There were some forums that were based enough to let users to hide everyone's signatures. That option ruined most other ones for me.
It was great until you ran into the terminally online poster that had the 4 megabyte 400 pixel tall image. Then 80% of your browsing experience was waiting for it to load so your browser stopped jumping everywhere, and then scrolling past it as fast as you could every time the guy posted a 1 sentence rebuttable.
There was some anime forum I once visited, where the admins didn't set signature image size limits. Some dumbass put an entire Megami poster scan into his signature.
>signature
>abstract photoshop renders plastered on gradient backgrounds
>tons of bloom and blending effects
>advent children render + cringekino quote
>bonus points for using linkin park lyrics somewhere
we haven't recovered since moving from here
Stanry Roo kirred it
anyone remember comic chat, vchat?
>~2012 4chink
>People STILL unironically used :), xD, :3 etc here
At least that cancer died
for the epic win!
2012 Ganker was already in the endless summergays phase.
Everyone I speak to online from back then still uses smileys like that when we talk on Whatsapp n shit.
>2012
>2012
>2012
Maybe the mayans where right
Maybe the world did end in 2012, its just an unending nightmare ever since
People assumed a physical death but it spiritual death instead
They absolutely were.
glad I’m not the only one that noticed a complete shift after 2012
Today I will remind them.
Not gonna lie, I think this only happened because of the influx of people that started using the internet. All the internet does is elevate your knowledge/consciousness of the world and in the process making you jaded.
Notice it starts going back up after everyone starts getting smartphones in '07.
I remember playing this in high school, it made me racist against viets
Sometimes I look back and think about how I missed out on so many games, then I remember that I spent many years playing free shit like this and Runescape, up until we finally got a Steam account in 2006/7
>/rs/ dying
>chanarchive dying
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
One of my earliest memories from browsing this shithole is trying to download a Pokémon White ROM from /rs/ and it turning out to be Cory in the House DS
Some things never die
Over 1 GB of dolphin porn is the last I remember being a part of.
>dad installs limewire
>starts going on about how we will never need to pay for music or movies ever again
>"here son, I'll show you!"
>opens file he spent the whole day downloading
>jamesbond.exe
>computer gets so fricked we had to buy a new one
Haha imagine if tbh or b4k dies
Meh, they have the physical database someone will inherit it.
>all those stickams of questionable age on /rs/
It was a different time
some of us never recovered
This looks like the beggining of some rancid hentai
>post "when you see it, you'll shit bricks" image
>there's nothing particularly noteworthy about the image to see
For me it was .gifs
Damn how many years has it been since I LOST THE GAME
bros…
>he didn't use megaupload
ngmi
I'll never forget the day that Megaupload was taken from us, that day was the official death of old internet, it was on terminal stages at that point but that event just confirmed it.
>used a client called Morpheus back in the day for P2P sharing
>music and child porn galore
>remember sitting around with my friend one day as a teenager and we thought typing in 'special olympics' would be hilarious
>discover that Stephen Lynch song
>download it
>we fall around laughing at it so much we can't fricking breathe for half an hour
Just take me back lads
There's shit you could post here back then without any repercussion that will give you an instant permaban if posted today.
>used ares to find music
>don't understand how torrents work
>get scared when trying to play music still downloading and it sounded choppy
/b/ still exists? The frick do they do in 2024?
No I am not checking myself
>The frick do they do in 2024?
It's just porn spam and dogshit drawthreads full of namegay drama.
>dogshit drawthreads full of namegay drama
That's ALL drawthreads
>porn
Of the Cheese Pizza variety?
Only in the ai thread. The rest of /b/ is roastie worship and blacked spam.
>/b/ still exists? The frick do they do in 2024?
Same fate as /LULZ/, plagued with porn addicts and women.
A dumping ground for jannies to redirect offtopic threads to when anons are having too much fun.
Kazaa, Morpheus and Limewire were all essentially the same program with different names. It was funny watching adults rag on Napster, completely oblivious to all these other clients. IIRC Bearshare was the shadiest.
BRING BACK THE TEXT BOARDS
I miss Meximoot
I found this funny guy Ganker, I call him Grinman
(you)
Thank you Ganker.
Today morning my parents had a call. The girl you know as "Cracky-chan' wanted to kill herself and is in hospital now. She will die in one or two days.
FRICK YOU ALL for this I knew her FOR REAL over years. I was never so sad in my life before. Guys do you not realise that this is for real? Thats not fun in the realtity a REAL person DIE because of Ganker.
I hope so all Ganker buttholes burn in hell for ever. Thank you Ganker for killing one of my friends. I think this will bring consequences to Ganker.
This is my wish.
no problem you're welcome sir
You now remember HL2world and Flamehaus.
>Devs shoving 32bit shit down our throats
>Cause Black personcattle refused to upgrade to 64bit
Fun times
iphone and facebook flooded the internet with morons and npcs
"People" who have never experienced old net are worthless
>Their opinions
Hold no merit
>Creativity
Dead
>Woes
What do I care for your suffering?
>Presence
Dust in the wind
Entire gen Z suffers from GOTIS
I miss her
please americans, do not talk like a anime character.
this not how normal people talk.
it is a little embarrassing too watch
because she doesnt understand she is fool.
but i would also like to frick this girl,
at full force in her vegana, mouth, and ass.
is that applemilk
>FTPs had upload quotas before you could download anything
>It was expected that you'd upload a game or something so you'd have enough "credit" to download something in return, and as a way to "pay" the FTP host for using his bandwidth
>Find the largest file on my PC
>Rename it [populargame].exe
>Upload that instead
Thinking back the old internet was a lot more trustful than nowadays.
>Not just going for the old reliable zip.exe
>mfw i did this with some shitty university assignment last year on scribd
>fricking israelites
>T1
>T2
>T3
I didn't know what the frick or how fast the connection is but damn do i feel jealous when people get to experience high speeds when plebs was only rocking 56k to like 1.5mbps back in the day
>fricking loved "subliminal message"-type videos on early youtube as a kid
>actually feared screamers like they were satan incarnate
>these videos were absolutely fricking ripe for screamers
I miss it all, lads.
I fricking hated both screamers and shit like
which most of the time would end up being screamers in picture format but now I miss both of those things
holy frick my friends older brother who worked on pcs back on the day was telling me about this exact post back in 06. he then drive me home while blasting one winged angel (advent children)
too many boomers and millennials in here
soul
>images inverting their thumbnails was fixed
>can't even scream about moot anymore.
It wasn't fixed just became 1000x harder when moot changed from second unix timestamps to millisecond unix timestamps.
You will never download dodgy copys of doom3 and cscz from limewire while watching AMV hells in 480p again
Hi
Frick you and all you created
>find video you've been looking for for ages
>.rm
frick sakes
oh goddamn I had forgotten about the .rm trash garbage
also don't forget the quicktime movie shit
holy fricking pozz
>watching 45mb .rm dbz/gt episodes in such low quality i had to pause to make out the subs
>mfw H.266(lol)/AV1 may be enough to bring an anime episode to 50MB but actually watchable
I wish I had something else than my tower than can decode it tho. Never tested my tablet now that I think of it.
>2003
>download maxpayne.exe from emule
>the game actually starts
>no voice lines, music and sound effects are there
>none of the scripted sequences start
>eventually get stuck somewhere in the first metro level
>quit the game
>windows bluescreens
>reboot
>desktop background is now an add for some antivirus software
Do you guys remember that cartoon rat video or that hippo dancing to thong song? Old internet stuff like AOL... good times...
Danger. Do NOT open.
I'm kind of glad ign boards seems to have been purged because all my underage cringe went with it.
I don't know how I enjoyed being on a zelda board for years, but somehow it just hit.
I remember being proud as frick when I made a successful troll NYC cardstand thread that reached bump limit
Dear God I want to go back I'll do whatever it takes just please, let me experience it just once again
Albinoblacksheep
i got my first screamer from there
TEEN GIRL SQUAD
for n]me it was joecartoon
>you could just download random EXEs off websites back then and all they were were stupid little "blend the turtle" or "torture the hamster" digital time wasters
I miss it
I miss my mom.
Man, I remember when this was new. Also, did that 14-year old just try to frick two college guys?
>you can never go back
frick this gay earth, things only get worse with each passing year
don't be sad because it's gone, be happy that it happened
i'm happy it happened and i got to live it, but i'm not happy that i'm left with whatever this homosexual shit now is, and how the sacred only gets more and more tarnished
how is it possible that we strayed so far from something that was so close to perfect?
I miss the /z/ board
fricking pussy asiaticmoot
/5/ was a good one, too.
I actually downloaded some "ram" when I was a kid. No idea what it actually was. Probably some kind of virus.
At worst yes, a virus
At best it just tinkered with your page file.
https://downloadmoreram.com/
this used to be the funniest shit of all time
peak humor
>this used to be the funniest shit of all time
o rly?
>bash still isn't back
at least we have rinkworks
>Norton
>Price For homosexualry
that and "that's racist" were one of the first 3 i got from /b/
Neogaf is better than Ganker. Not even kidding.
I never had a PC growing up so me and my friends had to look up porn on the Wii browser
Did you use the wiimote condom as intended?