/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>43123398
Little girls stabbed each other over forum beef.

WinMX ruled the P2P world. Japanese people sharing CP in the open.

>>43123398
It was literal walls of text or personal sites of little Japanese girls drawing Digimon yaoi. I swear that shit was everywhere back then, you couldn't avoid it if you got into the webrings rabbit hole.

red.room

>>43123841
Webrings!

https://mjenius.tripod.com/ring.html

5ch today wouldn't know anyways

honestly wish we could go back to those days

>>43123398
Personal sites such as Samurai damashii and Virtual net Idol Chiyu 12sai were very interesting.

80s in Japan pre-internet was awesome too

>>43123398
the way piracy worked was you'd connect to certain opennap servers via winmx, search for something, and then ask the person who has if they want to trade. users with fast connections would just let you download freely, but most users had shit internet so you'd often get downloads cancelled if you didn't have anything they wanted. file releases would get announced on relevant 2ch threads.

I served japanese stuff on IRC and this is how I and the other file sources got everything for distro.

>>43123820
>WinMX
What's that thing? Is it like Limewire but more autism?

Remember KiSS (Kisekae Set System)? I heard it was pretty big in the 2000's. Seemed to disappear pretty fast in the early 2010's though

>>43133511
it is sad to imagine how much great stuff is on people's long forgotten drives somewhere and not on the internet at all

>>43141503
damn forgot about this one

I liked the good old days when everyone online had their entire download folder shared to everyone automatically. So much to download then.

>>43123820
>Japanese people sharing CP in the open
CP was legal in Japan until like a few years ago

I wish I could get a delorean time machine and go back in time to better days

>>43141503
was this a web game?

>>43123841
loved the internet before google ruined it all

>>43123860
super cool

>>43123820
I don't know about Japan, but in Poland 25 years ago we had obligatory computer classes at my University. First thing that men did was entering so-called "Altavista" and searching for perverted stuff like zoo or CP for shit and giggles. It was publicly accessible everywhere,

We showed it to women in our group to tease them - and it wasn't pseudo-CP like some "artistic" photos, but literal child fucking - and they were like "eeeewww gross". And that's all.

I don't even want to imagine what would happen today.

>>43166950
What changed?

outrage culture overtook everything, anyone outraged about anything got attention, that is why politics are so bipolar now, there is never calm and cool, just freaking out amplified on any topic

>>43166950
They would report them to the police and they'd be put in prison for a draconian amount of time like 20 years or something. Can you imagine that? 1/4 of a human lifespan for a video?

>>43123820
>>43141470
Fun fact, Tixati, quite a popular torrent client, is made and is still developed by the same dude who made WinMX. I wonder what else he's made, sounds like a based guy.

Gay

>>43141470
>Is it like Limewire but more autism?
Yes, it has a trading feature. Most Japanese users never open their shares unless they want something from you or you make friends with them.

>>43149678
Possession was legal but it doesn't look like distribution was prosecuted much, probably as much as downloading pirate movies in the west. There are so many people who consumed CP in Japan it's not even funny.

>>43144350
There are too many files indexed on keydb.telegrip.info I want and will never get to download them because the network is almost dead

>>43181824
:(

>>43174618
this still is one of the greatest games of all time, but need an old school tv to play it properly

>>43183386
wonder what year this even is?

did the BBS scene ever get big in Japan?

>>43123560
I don't believe you.

>>43200493
I'd like a link to that too desu

I miss the old internet so fucking much

>>43200493
>>43201454
Are you both fucking retarded? You do know why Nevada killed Satomi right?

>>43201500
Do you think they even know who Nevada is?

she looks hot but that makes her even more dangerous desu

>>43201515
I thought everyone did.

>>43201570
can you translate?

>>43206052
"Please to not kill any loli, loli."

>>43206452
what does she do with the box cutter?

>>43149678
okay but why was it?
Like to my knowledge, selling it was/still is illegal
Doing that shit to a kid was/is illegal

So, why was owning and viewing it legal?

>>43174894
Fopnu, DarkMX, super simple server.

He would be based if he made it all open source.

>>43206072
*any more loli, loli.

>>43207698
Don't want to start a discussion on pizza but you can see making it as clearly harming a child while watching it or saving it on your pc doesn't harm anyone. It has no difference if 1 person or 1000 saw the video.

>>43207698
Because having a video on a compact disk was/is harmless.

90s sucked

>>43208472
bad take

>>43208472
I would gladly go back if it were possible

>>43123398
was vagina censored in porn back in the 90s?

>>43219428
Porn itself was not legal until the 60s, really. Pubes were censored until the 90s. You can thank the white pigs.

>>43161243
It's a dress up doll engine. Iunno what's special about it, it's not like dressing up things became unpopular or something.

>>43207698
The thing that was banned more recently was nude photobooks, something that's still legal in the west.

>>43227054
really?! I hadn't heard, that is so extremely depressing.... you mean if a hot gravure AV star like Yua Mikami, for example, wanted to do a nude photobook, the Japanese government has said no? Why photobooks when movies are ok?

lol

>>43228942
he means photobooks with underages

the 90s would have been so cool to be in Japan in

>>43123398
Most Japanese people didn't own PCs, they accessed the internet through their phones

And not smartphones, but hyper-advanced flip phones that only existed in Japan. They could text, email, had TV tuners, and could browse the old internet long before western phones could

As a result most websites looked like ass because they were designed to be browsed on flipphones

Anyway, here's a famous movie and TV series that was based off of a 2chan thread from like 2003

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Densha_Otoko

>>43123398
I found a bunch of archived geocities pages, in the "Tokyo" section. Although there's a lot of weeb pages made by westerners

https://geocities.restorativland.org/Tokyo/

pure soul

>>43239198
https://geocities.restorativland.org/Tokyo/2707/

https://geocities.restorativland.org/Tokyo/2736/

https://geocities.restorativland.org/Tokyo/2875/mc.html

Back then if you wanted to be a narcissist online you had to at least put some work into making a webpage

>>43239225
https://geocities.restorativland.org/Tokyo/2912/

I wonder how they're doing now...

>>43239246
it is crazy how fast things advance in the last 20 years, we take what we have today for granted already but thinking back even 2005 which feels like just yesterday almost with how time flies by, and there weren't even iPhones yet then, it is weird to think

>>43239225
>https://geocities.restorativland.org/Tokyo/2707/
weird how kanji and hiragana in these fonts has different character weight

>>43239225
For some reason seeing these made me sad

>>43208472
It kinda sucked if you were into anime since seasonals were basically 50+ of mostly bullshit filler and not much choice. Video games were a different story though. Arguably the peak of JRPGs.

>>43242450
anime has changed a lot over the decades

>>43201470
Same here.

>>43141503
Man, I miss them. Same as those strip games.

>>43207782
Fopnu is full of glowies.

http://abehiroshi.la.coocan.jp/

>>43248173
I want to try

remember rob pongi?

>>43173837
>>43207815
Sleep with one eye open, creep

>>43248173
do you remember any names of the games?

>>43196615
fuck, i miss arcades

>>43239198
I also like to find archived old websites.
Most of the time its simply my hunt for rare MUGEN characters, its quite a interesting rabbit hole.

>>43255400
me too, best place to hang out all evening for hours back in the day