/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9041082
>it was a better time in general
Some things were better, others sucked and we didn't know better. Going into stores to buy video game magazines, local multiplayer at your friend's house, going to the arcades, visiting weird japanese websites on a 56K connection, masturbating to Sailor Moon gifs, arguing about Nintendo consoles on forums. Things were just more localized and "slower", there wasn't so much irony and "avoidance of cringe" in everything people did, everything felt more genuine.

Social media and the iPhone pretty much ruined the internet forever with the flood of unwashed masses, it destroyed forums, smaller community websites, fansites etc. However, I think this was inevitable, the internet was always meant to become a worldwide spanning network connecting every human. We need to be grateful to have experienced a time where dedicated (now called autistic) people put in the work to make unique things about stuff they were passionate about.