Retro internet thread. Stories, homepages and old shame.

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Anonymous Sat Dec 21 18:58:05 2013 No.1288298 [DELETED]

Retro internet thread. Stories, homepages and old shame.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 21 19:29:42 2013 No.1288354 File: 48 KB, 400x400, crazy98.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >retro >dat OS

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 21 19:32:11 2013 No.1288359 >tfw you still remember your old ICQ number

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 21 19:49:41 2013 No.1288372 I don't remember this video game.

Anonymous Sat Dec 21 21:31:15 2013 No.1288504

>>1288298
>tfw I have no good stories of the old internet
>tfw I wonder if the current internet has anything similar and I'm just missing out.
>tfw I've not been in any communities but 4chan so I've no idea how to find one and get into it.

I still love reading other peoples memories though

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 21 21:33:05 2013 No.1288509 >>1288359 >tfw you still remember the basics of CQC

Anonymous Sat Dec 21 21:51:05 2013 No.1288557

OP's pic looks like my mom's browser window before I fixed it. It took me forever to finally get her to realise that Comcast was NOT AOL and she did not have to sign into her AOL email to use the internet.

Our first computer came from a children's education network. They refurbished old computers and sold them to lower income families at a highly discounted price. This was about September 2000. The computer we got was an office computer that was later used as a home computer. Well whoever cleaned out the files didn't do a good job. There was a porn dialer left on there. A picture popped up with a woman in see through underwear, log in info and price options for a subscription. Luckily no one in my house was a little kid. I thought it was hilarious but other families might not have been so amused.

My mom did call the place she got the computer from and unfortunately a lady who worked there donated the computer and her son had been using it. That must have been pretty embarrassing. They gave us instructions on how to delete it.

I'm not sure how those services worked. I think they connected you to a chat room where what was most likely a greasy fat guy in his mom's basement pretending to be a hot chick, would have e-sex with you. And maybe you could download crappy low-res pics. Very slowly. Because this was dialup in the year 2000.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 21 21:51:05 2013 No.1288558 Oh god did I lol at that img, op. Drove across the state to fix my mom's pc last month and her IE browser looked exactly like that.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 21 22:04:35 2013 No.1288589 >>1288298 I just want that damn Lobster Dinner

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 13:29:44 2013 No.1289750 >>1288557 >dialers it dialed a expensive premium number that made them profit but costed you a shitload (easily could go into thousands) no one even had to talk or provide any actual service

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 13:44:46 2013 No.1289769 One summer I went to a camp for a week and when I returned I found out my dad had been using my computer. Porn popups appeared every five seconds, desktop was full of random shortcuts and of course; toolbars, toolbars everywhere. >I didn't do anything.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 13:55:16 2013 No.1289780 File: 73 KB, 644x520, 88607353.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1288372 How about this shit?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 17:04:23 2013 No.1290074 File: 25 KB, 565x412, MobilesDisco1.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Do any of you guys remember Mobiles Disco, Lumisota, Hotelli Kultakala, or even Habbo Hotel, from between like 1999 - 2003ish?

Anonymous Sun Dec 22 17:47:30 2013 No.1290154

>>1288298
>going to computer lab to do shit for history
>whitehouse dot com

>netscape navigator

>people talking about Rotten in class

>showing a friend ShitCity

>Napster was free
>every parody song on Napster was labeled as being done by Weird Al
>EVERY parody song except an Eminem Parody of the song Stan. Don't remember the name of it, but it was done by Shiteman

>Kazaa/Sharebear
>Mostly downloaded porn from them
>computer ran slow as shit
>remember one porn I've been trying to find again
>girl in cowgirl boots getting fucked
>"Oh yeah, nice and slow"
>she has orgasm and gets loud
>miss that shit

>Newgrounds
>videogames/nuke/gamespot dot com

>this is an inside joke
>computer would run slow as shit
>dial up
>any time it would start to take long, I'd threaten to clip its 'Man Wires'
>the anatomical equivalent to a penis but on a computer
>shit would load
>that or hover the mouse over the 'internet connected' icon thinking it would go faster

>going to Yahoo chat
>not being bombarded by bots

>WWF chat room and people pretending to be wrestlers

>webtv

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 17:51:00 2013 No.1290162 >>1290154 >Newgrounds I still frequent that site.

Anonymous Sun Dec 22 18:00:48 2013 No.1290183
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>Compuserve

>free AOL cds that id use every 2 months for a few years

>Downloading music for free from mp3.com

>going on WWF sites to download the wrestlers intro songs

>gamewinners.com

>hot turkish mom gets banged george lucas parody weird al xxx

>newgrounds porn

>ebaumsworld

>dragging icons into your floppy disc thinking that was the whole file

>AOL chatrooms pretending to be old (15)

>being able to play and beat people in Starcraft

>blowing your load when you say your file downloading at 7 kbs

>downloading a buttload of demos from download.com at night as to not disturb the phone line

>netzero

>lotus smartsuite

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 18:21:17 2013 No.1290221 File: 164 KB, 672x504, Untitled.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I liked the adult games on newgrounds

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 18:23:17 2013 No.1290226 File: 164 KB, 672x504, simgirls.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Simgirls http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/50364

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 18:24:47 2013 No.1290232 ferryhalim.org/orisinal Still the comfiest fucking thing on the internet.

>>	Morzan (1907 9491 0934) (Krabb(...) Sun Dec 22 18:34:47 2013 No.1290261 any random flash portals like albinoblacksheep.com or stickdeath.com

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 18:45:34 2013 No.1290279 Pico's revenge ganguro girl the grow game I'm old

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 18:50:04 2013 No.1290303 downloading shit somehow out of aol chatrooms. trading pics and shit in same.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 19:16:23 2013 No.1290374 >>1290261 used to love stickdeath.com until 9/11 happened. Then, everything became racist.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 19:23:53 2013 No.1290393 File: 29 KB, 111x171, 1384643945156.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] These gifs are from the game Magical Drop 3. They were edited sprites. http://www.gaiaonline.com/profiles/momashi/3554632/

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 19:25:24 2013 No.1290396 File: 146 KB, 524x520, 5465474.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] http://youtu.be/LHEtbNMNvh8?t=1m4s

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 19:27:23 2013 No.1290401 >>1290374 I don't know what the fuck happened to that guy or if someone close got killed in 9/11. I like to think that he joined the military for all the wrong reasons and got killed.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 19:28:53 2013 No.1290405 the squashed bug zoo gopher using archie to find games to download; later met one of the primary implementors

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 19:43:54 2013 No.1290435 File: 10 KB, 646x817, 1336989502630.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >tfw having this on for ages and never getting tired of it http://www.weebls-stuff.com/songs/magical+trevor/

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 19:44:54 2013 No.1290436 >>1290074 >Habbo Hotel That was pretty decent until too many people had internet and shit it up. Did you guys ever take part in the Cartoon Network Orbit?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 19:48:24 2013 No.1290443 >>1290435 >http://www.weebls-stuff.com/songs/magical+trevor/ fuck you dude, i forgot about that song. It will be stuck in my head forever no

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 19:55:54 2013 No.1290459 >>1290074 Kultakala and Habbo were cool for a time. I don't feel like reminiscing about anything I did there, though.

script writer kibe Sun Dec 22 19:57:54 2013 No.1290464

http://web.archive.org/web/20001031170038/http://www.blackberrycreek.com/
I'm not sure how many of you recall a place by the name of Blackberry Creek, but I went there rather often. One of the things that really caught my attention was "Comics By Kids", something along the lines of Drunk Duck, but on a much smaller scale. I spent months getting good at mspaint so that I could submit something, but I never felt my work was that good enough, especially in the presence of stuff like Rapterz & Leapus

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 20:02:24 2013 No.1290473 >>1290436 Oh wow, was that the thing where you put stickers on wallpaper? I remember caring so much about my "rare" ones.

Anonymous Sun Dec 22 20:13:53 2013 No.1290486
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Discovering emulation was almost a magical moment for me back in 1998. Playing every SNES game I like was awesome, but the real kicker was the Neo Geo emulation. A console I always adored but never got because of its horrendous game prices. I almost pissed my pants out of sheer delight. I didn't sleep for 2 days straight because I was so absorbed in playing KoF96 and Metal Slug (on a keyboard).

The NeoRAGEx gui still gives me massive nostalgia.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 20:17:23 2013 No.1290495 File: 91 KB, 645x773, 1370000177857.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1290486 >tfw eurofag and finally playing chrono trigger for the first time

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 20:24:23 2013 No.1290508 >>1290486 oh man! I remember playing a Dungeons and Dragons beatemup on this online with a buddy. Shit was amazing! There was a really good soccer game on there too, wish i could remember it

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 20:24:53 2013 No.1290509 I met some super-hot Chinese Canadian girl on ICQ but it was way too far to meet IRL. I ran the premier Geocities website for Sailor Moon's Sailor Galaxia.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 20:27:23 2013 No.1290514 File: 84 KB, 497x399, lqfa.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Link's Quest for Ass

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 20:29:23 2013 No.1290519 No one has mentioned all the Dragonball Z AMVs set to Linkin Park or Korn. I remember downloading tons of them off Napster and Kazaa.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 20:36:13 2013 No.1290530 File: 129 KB, 474x427, tumblr_muotd4OUeW1swl13ro1_500.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1290519

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 20:37:44 2013 No.1290532 dragonmoonx.com

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 20:47:43 2013 No.1290542 >>1290232 http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal Fixed it there. I never played any of these games but I kind of like them, specially Windy Days.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 21:05:13 2013 No.1290567 File: 12 KB, 295x288, 1264726756266565.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1288298 >tfw still using Windows XP Feels good.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 21:21:43 2013 No.1290586 >Started using internet at high school in 2003 >Not really that retro >Checked out Rockstar.com for GTA 3 and Vice City >Played flash games like Skull Kid, cuz why not >Tried to get any information about the PS3

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 21:21:43 2013 No.1290587 >>1290567 Nothing special, a lot of people on /vr/ have an XP partition

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 21:42:13 2013 No.1290616 >>1290567 The other day I was reading in a statistic that 30% of windows user still run xp, and so do I. By far most had win7 and only a few % win8.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 21:47:43 2013 No.1290624 >>1290567 It's the best OS for emulation, so it's natural a lot of /vr/ users will use it.

Anonymous Sun Dec 22 21:48:13 2013 No.1290627

>>1289750
Ah. I see. Then that guy got ripped off then.

I never played many games on it. It was rather old and had a few issues but worked fine for internet and school purposes. I remember playing solitaire on it. There was a card set with Dracula's castle and the little bat would flap its wings. I called it Castlevania solitaire. I tried Mine Sweeper but I was terrible at it. It felt like one player Battleship and I just couldn't get the hang of it. I know some people are wild about Mine Sweeper but I just can't get into it. I didn't play any ROMs on that computer. I still had most of my old systems then.

My next computer was a floor model Compaq Presario from Sears. They were shutting down their electronics department and only selling appliances upstairs. So everything was on sale. It was the only way we could afford to get a new computer. It came with a really good Office Jet printer/scanner/copier combo that I wish I still had. It never failed me once. Meanwhile my latest one died just out of warranty.

That's the computer I got into emulation with. I also played Maple Story in beta phase. My God the hackers. But it was fun back then. I still go back from time to time to play as a later character I made and check things out. But I liked the game better when it was simpler. It went from way too grindy to EXP everywhere for doing practically nothing. And the community is terrible. The reason I started playing Maple was because a friend was playing the beta and it was one of the few games that would run nicely on that computer.

Beta days are halcyon days.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 21:49:13 2013 No.1290629 >>1290624 not only since a lot of old PC games wont run on 7. In my case Homeworld 2 and Empire Earth

>>	script writer kibe Sun Dec 22 21:56:43 2013 No.1290635 >>1290567 >>1290587 >>1290616 >>1290624 Shame that Microsoft is completely dropping support for it come next year

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 21:56:43 2013 No.1290636 File: 131 KB, 640x480, pbnav35info.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Not internet, but I don't know of any other threads where it would even be relevant.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 22:04:43 2013 No.1290646 >>1290635 I still use win 2k on my everyday laptop (a dell latitude c610) even if there is no support since 2010, never had any problems

Anonymous Sun Dec 22 22:05:44 2013 No.1290648
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>bonzibuddy
>geocities
>flashplayer.com
>albinoblacksheep
>newgrounds
>playing command and conquer/red alert online
>Elf Bowling
>ASL?
>that dial-up ringtone
>downloading hey macarena screensaver

>>	script writer kibe Sun Dec 22 22:10:03 2013 No.1290653 >watching Super Friends Budweiser "WUZZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" via Napster http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAHciHvtO8s

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 22:11:33 2013 No.1290656 >>1290627 I enjoyed Maplestory since the beta too and played it off-and-on throughout the years, but the Big Bang patch completely ruined it for me. I wonder if Nexon ruined Mabinogi too, haven't played it for years.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 22:13:34 2013 No.1290660 >>1290635 What does support exactly mean? That there is no new service pack coming out is known for a long time. New programs will not run on xp anymore?

>>	script writer kibe Sun Dec 22 22:19:03 2013 No.1290676 >>1290660 Basically it means if there's some kind of critical error that can be easily exploited by viruses/trojans/malware/etc, they won't take the time to fix it

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 22:21:33 2013 No.1290679 I can't watch my flash animations I did in high school due to being so cringe worthy. But Newgrounds in '00 was magical

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 22:55:33 2013 No.1290746 >>1290679 Link please? Or if they're files on your harddrive, upload to dropbox? This is a judgement free zone.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 23:09:34 2013 No.1290781 File: 216 KB, 1280x480, 1387771744290.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1290530 I miss that VHS effect. Here's my attempt at recreating it on photoshop.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 23:13:03 2013 No.1290789 File: 203 KB, 1280x480, 1387772027169.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1290781 okay maybe a bit too bright

Anonymous Sun Dec 22 23:15:34 2013 No.1290790
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>>1290781
maybe you mean analog video effect like in the crt filters?

what i miss is the color that old anime shows have , it is kind of different from new amines where the colors seem to have a waxy texture , like that feel when you use an HQ filter on an emulator

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 23:30:35 2013 No.1290807 >>1290790 The colors appeared muted because they were drawn on cels with paint. They didn't have access to 16.7 million colors like they do now with computers.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 23:49:08 2013 No.1290837 >>1290636 Jesus christ, that nostalgia

Anonymous Sun Dec 22 23:58:08 2013 No.1290859
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>>1290781
>>1290789
Why on earth would you want to relive the awful Nth generation Anime Labs fansub tape days? It'd be like playing a video game by daisy chaining a million RF cables together to relive your childhood.

>mfw we will never see anything past episode 34 of DBZ in this glorious quality because nobody bought the fucking Blu Rays.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 00:06:38 2013 No.1290881 File: 46 KB, 500x313, GJHeif0.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1290859 >watching modern anime

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 00:09:38 2013 No.1290889 >>1290881 are those shopped?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 00:09:38 2013 No.1290890 >>1290881 >Not watching JoJo

Anonymous Mon Dec 23 00:17:08 2013 No.1290920

>>1290790
>slayers

I fucking loved that show. Granted I didn't watch much of it, but there's was something about it that I liked. Rina (at least that was her name in the Greek dub) had this behavior that I just fucking adored. She's like one of those people you'd hang out with and she'd act like the way she does, kinda guy-ish.

Anonymous Mon Dec 23 00:17:38 2013 No.1290918
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>>1290881
I don't know how I insinuated anything about watching modern anime in that post. The majority of shit I like is from the 80s and 90s and I can't even think of an anime that I watched that was made past 2001. I'm just saying I love Blu Ray releases of old anime that don't tamper with the film and leave all the grain intact.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 00:17:38 2013 No.1290919 >>1290279 ganguro girrrrl!`

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 00:20:08 2013 No.1290926 >>1290790 Was just going to say this >>1290807 All cartoons started to be colored digitally (read: on computers) in the late 90s.

Anonymous Mon Dec 23 00:22:38 2013 No.1290929

Surprised no one mentioned 2flashgames.com. Literally my first gateway into the Internet, I recall playing a Mario themed tower defense game and a Haloween Mario game with considerable gore in it. I then was directed from that game to VGMusic.com, where I fell in love with those cheesy MIDI renditions. Surprised it still exists, virtually unchanged, and they even have MIDIs of Wii U games currently.

Somehow I wandered my way onto Newgrounds, and boy that place was fucking fantastic.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 01:02:58 2013 No.1291007 File: 36 KB, 799x555, 90s 4ch.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Hey guys, remember when...

Anonymous Mon Dec 23 02:30:01 2013 No.1291113

>>1290530
Anyone remember those thousands of files that happened to have the same title as something you were looking for, but were suspiciously small?

My fellow Americans, I did not have sexual relations with that woman, but I did save a lot of money by buying cheap electronics at www.somewebsite.com

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 02:38:35 2013 No.1291118 I miss drum 'n bass / ambient-techno music that'd inevitably grace almost every video game coming out of Britain back then.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 02:49:05 2013 No.1291125 >>1291113 Yes. Yes I do remember those all too well.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 03:31:21 2013 No.1291158 >>1290154 >WWF chat room and people pretending to be wrestlers did you ever read the chatlog from the time vince mcmahon was answering questsions, and he had no idea how to use the computer at all?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 03:31:51 2013 No.1291157 >>1291113 Sounds like they didn't even try to hide their malware. >Look for Asian girls fucking >Filesize is in the kilobytes Into the trash it goes!

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 03:36:51 2013 No.1291160 >>1290646 what do you use the laptop for?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 03:45:51 2013 No.1291172 File: 337 KB, 800x600, antago2.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Here are some desktops of sub7 infected kids from the 90's

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 03:47:21 2013 No.1291175 File: 110 KB, 800x600, comedy2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 03:49:21 2013 No.1291176 File: 52 KB, 800x600, death1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 03:50:51 2013 No.1291178 File: 60 KB, 800x600, eiko2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 03:52:51 2013 No.1291181 File: 60 KB, 800x600, plunx9.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 03:54:21 2013 No.1291182 File: 75 KB, 800x600, seph9.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 03:56:21 2013 No.1291186 File: 79 KB, 800x600, segoku3.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 03:59:51 2013 No.1291191 >>1290519 Not Evangelion set to Chop Suey?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 04:00:51 2013 No.1291194 >>1290636 Holy crap, that thing came with Packard Bell computers in the mid 90's. I once had a packard bell 75MHz pentium, 8mb of ram and a whopping 14.4 modem

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 04:02:22 2013 No.1291197 >>1290473 Me too. My entire thing was just all Ed Edd n Eddy, and I paid some obscene amounts of whatever in-game currency they had to get the ones that I had missed from not playing early enough.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 04:02:51 2013 No.1291198 File: 59 KB, 800x600, shade1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 04:03:21 2013 No.1291201 >>1290508 the DnD is either Tower of Doom or Shadows over Mystara. As for the soccer, I dunno. Any more details?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 04:04:21 2013 No.1291202 File: 59 KB, 800x600, trunks1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 04:05:21 2013 No.1291205 >>1290624 I have an old 'gaming' computer (mid range in 2009) that runs XP, I plan to use it for future old PC gayman whenever I get to that point of my game backlog.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 04:08:21 2013 No.1291208 File: 53 KB, 800x600, vegeta4.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 04:10:51 2013 No.1291214 File: 76 KB, 800x600, x-mann4.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

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Anonymous Mon Dec 23 07:08:55 2013 No.1291413

>>1290436
>That was pretty decent until too many people had internet and shit it up.
>tfw I watched Habbo rot from the core, outwards for 10+ years.
>tfw I was powerless to do anything to stop it.
>>1290459
>I don't feel like reminiscing about anything I did there, though.
That sounds all kinds of shady, Anon.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 07:59:25 2013 No.1291454 >>1289769 I once completely deleted browser not knowing how to clear history oh the shame involved

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 08:02:55 2013 No.1291461 File: 45 KB, 720x500, goldfish.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Gonna' post some old screenshots from Mobiles Disco, and the beta version of Habbo hotel from 1999, and 2000.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 08:03:26 2013 No.1291462 File: 24 KB, 720x500, history_4.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1291461

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 08:05:25 2013 No.1291463 File: 39 KB, 722x525, kultakala_1.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1291462

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 08:06:25 2013 No.1291464 File: 34 KB, 643x381, idscreenlumisota.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1291463

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 08:07:25 2013 No.1291467 File: 10 KB, 648x489, lumisota1.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1291464

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 08:08:55 2013 No.1291468 File: 14 KB, 648x489, lumisota2.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1291467

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 08:09:55 2013 No.1291470 File: 38 KB, 640x480, lumisota3.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1291468

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 08:10:55 2013 No.1291471 File: 25 KB, 480x394, MobilesDisco2.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1291470 That's all I have laying around, minus some screenshots of people "scripting", from 2001 - 2004ish.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 12:31:54 2013 No.1291786 >>1290530 I really want to see those clips.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 19:49:18 2013 No.1292602 bumpin' for more old screencaps.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 20:02:50 2013 No.1292626 >>1291194 I had same computer. Came with Spiderman cartoon maker right?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 20:14:20 2013 No.1292645 http://www.anipike.com/

Anonymous Mon Dec 23 20:40:52 2013 No.1292701

>go one some old game site
>had tons of games like shitty bootleg mario flashes and stuff
>see a 18+ section
>go on it
>picture of naked ladies on clouds, music playing like it's heaven
>click on the enter button
>computer freezes
>with my young mind, i think that the computer is loading and leave it for a while
>watch cartoons, play vidya, eat food, and do other kid shit for a few hours
>soon hear my father shout
>see the computer still hasn't loaded the page, and it's just a picture of two naked ladies on clouds
>gets angry at me because i shouldn't be looking at this stuff at my age.

Anonymous Mon Dec 23 20:46:53 2013 No.1292717
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>>1290514

>there will never be a conclusion

He said himself he was halfway or something, and just gave up.

No one has tried to make an ending since.

I still remember finding pic related, must've been my first porn game.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 21:08:53 2013 No.1292768 File: 32 KB, 320x480, kite-liberator-poster1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1290519 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M-1f5WjUlg

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 21:35:56 2013 No.1292830 >Windows ME >CD with a shitload of themes >apply one called "I'm too sexy" >click on Start button >"I'mmmm too sexy!" >repeat forever http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39YUXIKrOFk

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 21:42:25 2013 No.1292842 >>1292717 which game is that pic from?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 22:08:28 2013 No.1292876 >>1292717 There's just something captivating about the old style of Flash cartoon style, such as using gradients to color.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 23:35:33 2013 No.1292984 File: 133 KB, 706x533, hotline.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Hotline

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 23:41:33 2013 No.1292996 File: 39 KB, 560x420, wtvplus560x420.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Tfw I used to have WebTV Holy fuck it was terrible, even with the keyboard

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 23:48:03 2013 No.1293018 >>1292996 I'm suddenly remembering browsing the web on my Dreamcast via dialup

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 23 23:52:03 2013 No.1293029 >>1292996 I'm suddenly remembering browsing the web on my Dreamcast via dialup I'd also play Chu Chu Rocket with complete random strangers.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 00:15:03 2013 No.1293096 >>1292842 Cooties Bar X-Ray Glasses.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 00:29:33 2013 No.1293128 >>1293096 Never, never look at a gypsy's balls.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 00:54:53 2013 No.1293153 File: 75 KB, 1366x768, zelda.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Anyone remember this from the early 2000s. http://joshspaulding.info/pop_zelda.html

Anonymous Tue Dec 24 01:06:39 2013 No.1293162

>spending 5 hours to download a 3 minute Cool Devices clip using iMesh
>searching the internet for shitty porn pictures with altavista
>visiting that weird name page that streamed heavily pixelated porn...all I remember is that url had no indication of it being porn related and it couldn't be found through search engines
>spending 200 dollars a month on internet to play Diablo

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 01:07:39 2013 No.1293164 File: 67 KB, 518x324, VGMusic.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] dem Mega Man remixes.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 01:09:10 2013 No.1293169 >>1293164 fuck. why did I spend so much of my youth listening to shit from there

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 01:21:11 2013 No.1293187 >>1291236 Unfortunately, it doesn't work as well as you'd hope. But this makes me think that /vr/ should have a Geocities-like motif to it. Not sure if 4chan would be able to handle that.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 01:25:10 2013 No.1293196 Did anyone else go to Pokemon Zeo when they were younger to make fake Pokemon cards? I still have my bonus Sneasel with Zeo pin somewhere.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 01:27:11 2013 No.1293197 File: 203 KB, 640x480, Grendle's cave.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >tfw playing this way back when on my WebTV

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 01:27:40 2013 No.1293198 >>1292626 >>1291194 >>1290636 Holy shit. Holy fucking shit.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 01:27:40 2013 No.1293201 >>1291461 >>1291462 >>1291463 >>1291471 jesus fucking christ tears are coming down. I lost so many friends after I quit habbo.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 02:16:58 2013 No.1293258 File: 72 KB, 510x387, valparty.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1293201

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 02:19:28 2013 No.1293262 >>1291172 Where did you get this from? Do you have more?

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 02:47:58 2013 No.1293308 >>1291172 >tfw I got Sub7'd in the early 2000's, and had a webcam >the hacker made me put on a camshow for him or he'd erase my hard drive

Anonymous Tue Dec 24 02:55:58 2013 No.1293320 [DELETED]

>>1292768
Fucking faggot mod deleted all my posts because he was asshurt over me saying Donkey Faggot Country is for faggots. I said I was surprised no one mentioned DBZ amvs from back then because I'm not an underage pussyhurt faggot like the Nintendo shill mod and actually remember them.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 02:57:28 2013 No.1293327 >>1288298 This thread made me curious. Word of advice: Never ever fucking google your email from when you were 13. I'm going to rot from shame.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 02:58:28 2013 No.1293329 >>1293320 gosh, are you going to whine on all the threads? why don't you call the cyber police?

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 02:59:28 2013 No.1293332 >>1288504 You are missing out. find some small community and just start freguenting there. small communities of reddit are a good starting point

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 03:05:32 2013 No.1293343 >>1293258 holy shit, the first time i'd ever stayed up past 5 am was on this thing

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 03:05:32 2013 No.1293345 File: 44 KB, 485x259, moderator.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1293332 You're so fucking retarded it's sad. Leddshit is NOTHING like pre-Y2K internet was. Fuck off back to leleddit faggot. >>1293329 See image faggot

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 03:09:33 2013 No.1293350 >>1293345 >>1293320 I have never seen one man child get so mad in so many different threads. Your real life must just be miserable if you are getting this mad at an internet mod.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 03:10:02 2013 No.1293356 >>1292626 And Journeyman Project Turbo! Weezer music video too.

Anonymous Tue Dec 24 03:11:32 2013 No.1293358 [DELETED]

>>1293350
Yep I'm also the guy who spammed Dreamcast threads in the face of faggot dictator nolife mods and fresh off the boat MARIO SO RETRO XD Reddit and youtube faggots like you. Stay pussyhurt, I've actually contributed to a positive change on this site while you sit around with your head up your ass and a reddit tab going right beside 4chan, faggot.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 03:12:03 2013 No.1293362 >>1293358 >I've actually contributed to a positive change on this site says the admitted shitposter

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 03:12:03 2013 No.1293363 >>1292626 I completely forgot about Spiderman cartoon maker... That was the shit

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 03:14:32 2013 No.1293368 >>1293358 >Making a change on the /vr/ board of 4chan. They'll be writing about you in the history books for sure, anon

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 03:14:32 2013 No.1293369 >>1293362 The only way to fight shitposting is with shitposting especially when the faggot mod has shown he will do nothing about it as long as they're shitting on anything other than Shitendo.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 03:15:03 2013 No.1293374 >>1293369 you aren't fighting anything you're just shitposting, plain and simple

Anonymous Tue Dec 24 03:17:33 2013 No.1293383 [DELETED]

>>1293374
That's what you faglords said about me spamming Dreamcast threads but it worked didn't it? Stay mad faggot I've been here for 8 years I know how this site works and has always been and no newfag reddit mods will change that. The users run 4chan and always have, we didn't even have a report post feature for the first 4 or 5 years.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 03:18:33 2013 No.1293385 >>1293358 7/10

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 03:21:04 2013 No.1293393 >>1293385 >rating posts Yeah welcome to what was funny and new in 2008, redditfaggot.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 03:21:34 2013 No.1293392 >>1293345 it's definitely different. it has it's own good traits. are you just mad since you have only browsed adviceanimals?

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 03:22:03 2013 No.1293395 >>1293392 It is absolutely nothing like the internet used to be and nothing ever will be again. You sound underage.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 03:25:03 2013 No.1293405 I didn't say it's the same. but you can still miss out even if it wasn't the same do you lack reading comprehension or are you just a retard

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 03:25:33 2013 No.1293403 >>1293393 oh god, shut up sperglord. reddit is like a new buzz word, if someone does something you dont like, is it automatically reddit?

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 03:27:33 2013 No.1293409 >>1293403 There is literally one guy shitposting in a bunch of /vr/ threads right now. Just ignore him. The kid will get tired eventually.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 03:27:33 2013 No.1293412 File: 480 KB, 544x472, pbell.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1291194 I still have the master cd for that same computer.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 03:30:33 2013 No.1293416 >>1293405 was for >>1293395

Anonymous Tue Dec 24 03:31:03 2013 No.1293421
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>making hundreds of fake accounts (thanks VISA 4017)
>spamming chat rooms with gotta take a shit brb
>WaReZ
>Phishing, and it actually worked lol
>TOSAdvisor enters room, everyone flees
>a/s/l check ..... everyone actually replies...entire chat spams with 18/m 15/f 19/m etc
>playing Neverwinter Nights (first online multiplayer game with any type of graphical interface if I'm not mistaken)
>stringing phone cord across kitchen and living room for dial up
>raging when sister uses phone and boots me off
>feel cool when we trash on Steve Case
>AOL finally cracks down
>fun'sover.gif

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Anonymous Tue Dec 24 03:34:21 2013 No.1293425

>>1293405
I've thought about using reddit a few times, but the discussion style seems weird to me.
From the few times I've visited, it seems more like posting an article or a link to the main subreddit, then people comment on what you posted, and people can comment on the comments. I prefer things streamed 4chan style when it comes to replying.

That's probably worded strangely, but it bothers me.

Anonymous Tue Dec 24 03:35:50 2013 No.1293426
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>>1293409
I'll be honest it's really hard not to egg him on. I know that doesn't bring on any quality conversation, but someone who is either this mad or is putting this much effort into a troll is tough not to do something with.

To stay on topic
>You will never download 543456-ASIAN-SCHOOL-GIRL-HOTANAL_xXx(1)(1)(1).mp4 from kazaa ever again

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 03:37:20 2013 No.1293436 Anyone find internet conversations to be sort of awkward as compared to back then? It's like I have to use proper spelling and grammar to be treated seriously... even in online video games. No room to joke around anymore.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 03:49:50 2013 No.1293452 >>1293358 >pussyhurt From the very first time nigba made "butthurt" a common catchphrase on /v/ I'm surprised it took THIS LONG -- at LEAST 5 years now -- before I saw somebody alter it into "pussyhurt" considering this is 4chan and all.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 03:51:20 2013 No.1293454 >>1293452 Check the archives for /v/ and /vr/ I've been saying pussyhurt for a while now

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 03:52:50 2013 No.1293457 >>1293454 I waste at least 5 hours a day on 4chan. Maybe we just don't frequent the same types of threads.

Anonymous Tue Dec 24 04:35:36 2013 No.1293479
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First time I was on the internet was in 1995 in school. Netscape navigator seemed like the most popular browser at that time. On those first assignments I wrote in school I just copied text from the internet. My first homepage was about skateboarding. I made it around 1999 and it was absolutely horrible, hopefully its gone forever now.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 04:45:37 2013 No.1293485 Ebaumsworld, all day erry day. WE AM SPASE PEEPOLE

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 05:16:42 2013 No.1293515 File: 7 KB, 225x225, index.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >there are kids over 18 now that don't know what this is

Anonymous Tue Dec 24 05:23:11 2013 No.1293523
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>Elf Bowling
>Snowcraft
>Harry Pothead
>Kill Pokemon games
>being young enough to be entertained by fanfiction.net
>Those 20 competing search engines (AltaVista, HotBot, Lycos, etc)
>Fanpages and Shrines (I honestly miss these, it's impossible to find anything fun about a topic, it's all sterile company pages instead of SUPER YOSHI'S POKEMON ISLAND)
>Pic Related as well

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 05:26:41 2013 No.1293527 >>1293523 >shrines fuck, when did these stop being a thing?

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 05:38:42 2013 No.1293537 >>1293515 Sure they do! It's the save icon from Word, right?

Anonymous Tue Dec 24 06:55:17 2013 No.1293590

>>1293436
This. My best guess as to why this is happening is that back in the day the internet was a "place" you went to with a lot less people who more or less felt like it was a community, nowadays there are tons more people and the internet has been basically intertwined with real life.. This is the main reason I wish the internet was like it was years ago.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 07:24:47 2013 No.1293601 >>1291007 But that Motoko is from the 00's show, not the 90's movies.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 09:46:27 2013 No.1293732 File: 15 KB, 246x261, 18788459021.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1291216 >OK

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 11:08:32 2013 No.1293829 File: 15 KB, 174x186, dean malenko.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1293329 >>1293350 >>1293362 >>1293368 >>1293374 >>1293385 >>1293385 >>1293392 >>1293403 >>1293416 >>1293452 >people fucking replied to this shit

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 24 18:09:12 2013 No.1294423 IE IS EVIL

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 25 03:57:22 2013 No.1295073 >>1290226 i shit i remember this one. left chick ftw

Anonymous Wed Dec 25 04:53:22 2013 No.1295104
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>AOL 1.5 days
>AOL has games tab, has "clubs" you can join or something
>join a Final Fantasy one called "Ice Moogles of Narshe" or some shit like that
>have private chat room with them on Sundays
"Shit yeah, we're gonna talk about how awesome Final Fantasy is"
>nope.talk about nothing
>keep showing up
>4th visit, only me and 2 other people
>get invaded shortly after by some...other club or some shit, I dunno
>AOL style fighting
::dodge attack::
::fire ice blast::
there was some dice roll nonsense too but i forgot the command
>this goes on
"Ok...AAHH. You got me guys"
>leave
>come back to Ice Moogles tab thing to find out what happened a week later
So like...some guy orchestrated this "betrayal" because he thought it would be cool to have some opposing club fight his club and then talk shit about it on his club thing.

If this happened today the autism levels would be off the charts but that was just some weird stuff I was not expecting.

Anonymous Wed Dec 25 05:08:51 2013 No.1295113
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>>1295104
Even back in the 1.5/2.0 days people still had Sonic levels of weirdness
I remember hanging out in the "Sailor Moon" chatroom a lot because FOR WHATEVER REASON, it was the place to be.

A lot of people would argue about which "AOL profile" was "the true Sailor Moon/Ranma/whatever popular anime character" and that was your AOL street cred yo.
I'd even go to "Red Dragon Inn" and people would be;
::sits in rafters and watches everyone drink::
or people would be typing in dialects. "Thou hast taken a drink from a flask" type of stuff.

I think back and cringe really hard but then I see kids today do the same thing. So really the more things change the more they stay the same.

Anonymous Wed Dec 25 05:12:52 2013 No.1295115

>>1293327
My email at 13 was stop@hotmail.com
No joke
It eventually got overrun with so much spam (literally hundreds of emails a day) that I just said "fuck it" and left it be
Some time later I tried logging in and the password didn't even work anymore

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 25 05:35:21 2013 No.1295139 File: 91 KB, 800x576, Audiogalaxy.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I downloaded so much music from here when it was running, more than any other P2P or website since

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 25 05:39:21 2013 No.1295140 >>1295113 Is there anywhere like AOL chatrooms now. I'd love to just go somewhere and chat inanely. IRC seems dead.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 25 05:43:21 2013 No.1295147 >>1293829 >dean malenko.jpg i laughed

Anonymous Wed Dec 25 05:51:22 2013 No.1295152
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>>1295140
i think Yahoo still has chatrooms. Along with ICQ. I remember IRC being the answer to everyone who left AOL.

But everything is all forums and 'chat roulette/omeagle' now really.

I noticed in a lot of MMORPGs they will have "chat channels" you can join or invite people to. I always thought it was to mimc chatrooms of days gone by.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 25 06:11:51 2013 No.1295168 Obligatory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSRG0TqxLWc

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 25 20:32:58 2013 No.1296064 >>1295168 >you will never experience this creepy noise as you try to connect to the internet ever again

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 08:33:37 2013 No.1297064 File: 280 KB, 2048x1536, Never obsolete.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1296064 An USB modem or a phone close to the speaker can cause something similar to be heard. Also, bump.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 09:07:38 2013 No.1297092 >>1297064 >never obsolete!

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 09:16:08 2013 No.1297095 >>1293515 >tfw I have shit tons of floppy discs from when I was a kid >tfw I know there are a lot of old games, old programs, and old doodles I did >tfw I don't have access to a floppy drive

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 09:27:08 2013 No.1297103 >>1291007 >>1291007 Hey, have a taste of the old 4chan in the sjis text board. dis.4chan.org/sjis Check Art test topic, it's like a trip though time

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 09:39:56 2013 No.1297112 >>1293527 Sometime around when MySpace became a thing; early 00's, I think.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 10:16:58 2013 No.1297152 >>1293201 >I know that feel, Anon I used to work for the company that owns Habbo, and we were like a big family. When I quit my job, I missed so many people, users, and staff alike.

Anonymous Thu Dec 26 10:30:00 2013 No.1297163
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>>1296064
I discovered oneday that the noise was amplified for our benefit, just to let us know it was working, and all you had to do was go in the settings and mute it and you could still connect to dialup silently, shit blew my mind.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 10:35:30 2013 No.1297169 Are you a Nigerian Prince?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 10:37:00 2013 No.1297176 Something I once found on another "old internet" thread... http://youtu.be/hWq4DWfrpu8

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 10:37:30 2013 No.1297173 >>1291216 >are you sure i want to close this >are you really sure? >o rly? >i can go all day funny junk was a much different place in those times

Anonymous Thu Dec 26 10:42:00 2013 No.1297183
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I loved going to Newgrounds and praying that the video I had to wait 15 to 20 minutes for was going to be funny. Nothing worse than waiting and waiting and all you got was cheap scat humor or a half-arsed Friedberg and Seltzer parody.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 10:42:31 2013 No.1297182 >>1297092 implying you can't reliably browse the internet and perform most every day computer tasks (office, photoshop etc) on a celeron 600mhz computer today

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 10:45:30 2013 No.1297186 So what did you do with all those neat AOL cases you got from all that free AOL time that came in the mail? I put money and DBZ hentai I printed off in mine, then put them under my bed.

Anonymous Thu Dec 26 10:51:30 2013 No.1297197
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I remember playing this old, unpopular chat game called Unichat.
Shit had like 40 people playing it max and it was nothing but drama, but the maps were really fucking cool. They were even interconnected, so you could just wander around the world. Somebody even made a map editor that was a lot of fun to make maps with. I know I probably made at least 60 of them myself. Wish I could find it as well as the maps.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 10:54:00 2013 No.1297204 >>1297197 Fuck, I remember that thing; it was fun wandering around and getting lost in the maps. I kind of wish I could remember more about what it was like, though.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 10:56:30 2013 No.1297205 >>1297197 Oh shit the site's even still up, and the game's downloadable. http://www.unichat.com/index.html >COMING SOON NEW MODEL Pretty sure it has said that since the servers shut down eons ago.

Anonymous Thu Dec 26 11:00:16 2013 No.1297213
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>>1297204
There wasn't really much to the game other than chatting.
I remember you chose a character to play as, then join a chat room to chat with others. You had a few emoticons and even the ability to turn in to an animal based on what character you chose, but the feature served no real purpose.
Also, I remember you could punch, but there was no real purpose to it either since nobody had health .

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 11:05:46 2013 No.1297218 >>1297213 I remembered all the stuff you said, I'm just talking more about how some of the maps looked, and what some of the avatars were (which you posted). Seeing that it's website is still around is kind of surreal, really.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 11:29:16 2013 No.1297239 File: 31 KB, 601x494, AGsat.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1295139 OH GOD YES! I still have the satellite... Good times...

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 11:30:46 2013 No.1297241 >>1297205 Why don't we save this dead piece of shit, and use it for /vr/ discussion?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 11:54:19 2013 No.1297272 File: 57 KB, 449x378, internET_NO.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1297197 >>1297205 >interNET I also appreciate that the options are OK and NO Out of curiosity i'm trying to see if I can get to the maps.

Anonymous Thu Dec 26 15:28:30 2013 No.1297575
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Anyone on /vr/ who was interested in making games back in the day?
Pic related, RPG Toolkit.

My uncle introduced my cousins and I to it back when we were just kids.
I spent so many years, even while I was in middle and high school, at my computer making small little RPG games and posting them in the RPG toolkit game section/forums. So many comfy memories.

>>1293164
I spent so much time there listening to video game music. Since you brought it up I think i'm gonna go listen to some songs on there now for the hell of it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 15:36:30 2013 No.1297586 >>1292984 Fuck yeah dat piracy

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 15:37:00 2013 No.1297592 File: 94 KB, 692x554, foto_meridian59.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Get the fuck on my level, underage kiddies

Anonymous Thu Dec 26 21:21:03 2013 No.1298316
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>>1293327
It's ok, man. You've grown up and you aren't that dumb kid anymore. I did some stupid and embarrassing shit online at that age too. And chances are, the only one who cares is you.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 21:24:03 2013 No.1298323 >>1297092 If they kept the upgrade scheme running to the present day maybe it wouldn't be...? >>1297182 It's good enough to do those things, but that's still obsolete, because those things can be done on a smaller, cheaper, more reliable computer.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 21:29:05 2013 No.1298332 File: 58 KB, 636x450, mindmaze2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] i fucking loved encarta

Anonymous Thu Dec 26 21:34:06 2013 No.1298343

>>1293327
>>1298316

I used my email form 1999 (made it when I was 11) all the way up to 2011, and used it for all sorts of intensely embarrassing and autistic shit. All of it easily Googleable because I put my email address on EVERYTHING I did.

In 2011, I undertook The Great Purge and got an entirely new email.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 21:45:51 2013 No.1298360 >>1298343 Out of curiosity, did you put your name on it? For my autistic shit, I put only my first name, but man I really regret it. All I can do now is laugh at myself.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 22:17:51 2013 No.1298432 >>1290629 DOSBox fixes that problem, friend.

Anonymous Thu Dec 26 22:18:51 2013 No.1298436
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>>1290436
> Did you guys ever take part in the Cartoon Network Orbit?

I was Hong Draw Chugga5. Got kicked off for hording too many things - spent months abusing Winball for the fuck of it.

Not gonna lie, was an incredibly odd amount of fun. Classic CN.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 22:20:51 2013 No.1298438 >>1289780 my nigga. what mud is this?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 22:22:21 2013 No.1298443 We all change when you think about it. We’re all different people all through our lives. And that’s ok, that’s good, as long as you keep moving, as long as you remember all the people that you used to be.

Anonymous Thu Dec 26 22:26:21 2013 No.1298460

>>1298360
No, but I lived vicariously through an original character that had a very distinctive first and last name, and I put that on every single thing. I fell out of doing that by the time I was 16 in 2004, but I kept using that email address for everything up until I was fucking 23.

As best as I could, I wiped Google clean of all my old websites, submissions to other websites (usually awful fanfics), changed my email and removed all known connections to my current alias (which I've been using for a couple of years) to the old one. There's still stuff lingering around, but I've completely disconnected all of my current contact info and online aliases from it.

As far as I know of, anyways.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 22:26:22 2013 No.1298458 File: 26 KB, 300x403, 1388114767909.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1298443

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 22:27:21 2013 No.1298463 File: 6 KB, 300x303, ahhhh.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1290495 >tfw americunt and finally playing terranigma for the first time

Anonymous Thu Dec 26 22:36:21 2013 No.1298502
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>>1293164
>go on this site
>listen to some conversions
>some of them were by some guy called TeckWorks
>vividly remember his name
>suddenly remember VGMusic thanks to this post
>"hey, let me see if that guy is still around"
>google him
>he draws furry porn now
>weavile in particular
>occasionally still does music

I don't know about you, but that was fucking jarring as shit.

Anonymous Thu Dec 26 22:39:21 2013 No.1298510
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>>1290881
Honestly it's not the focus on cute girls that everyone complains about these days that deters me away from modern anime, it's the super clean look everything has now. I don't know how to explain it but everything anime and even most modern cartoons just have this sterile flat look that is extremely unappealing to me.

Anonymous Thu Dec 26 22:43:39 2013 No.1298517 [DELETED]

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>>1298463
I have never known a feel as much as I have this one.
Such a great game. It's a shame that Zue's song haunts my dreams though because I was too much of a casual to know how to complete it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV_iYmk1Sn4

>>1298502
Holy shit.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 22:44:09 2013 No.1298519 >>1298510 I know exactly what you mean. There's some charm that exists for some older anime that has just been phased out.

Anonymous Thu Dec 26 22:45:10 2013 No.1298523
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>>1298463
I have never known a feel as much as I have this one.
Such a great game. It's a shame that Zue's song haunts my dreams though because I was too much of a casual to know how to complete it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnFQU29LHeM

>>1298502
Holy shit.

Anonymous Thu Dec 26 22:46:40 2013 No.1298527

>>1298517
I mean, furry porn, and Pokemon porn in particular, is really fucking common. It's just jarring that a memory you had from years ago being revived, just to be mangled. That's like reading about some forum user and finding out he killed himself.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 22:47:40 2013 No.1298535 >>1298527 God fucking forbid someone have their own interests

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 22:48:10 2013 No.1298541 >>1298535 I don't care about the person's interests, I just said it was jarring, especially since this was a guy that didn't have much up on VGMusic.

Anonymous Thu Dec 26 22:48:10 2013 No.1298545
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Does anyone else remember playing Worlds?Screnshot is from the last couple of years or so, when people were visiting it after it's dead. There are a bunch of regular users though. I need to get a PC so I can play this again and explore.

Anonymous Thu Dec 26 22:51:10 2013 No.1298561
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>be in high school
>be way into goth music
>have shitty stereotypical goth website with black background, red text, skulls and pentagrams everywhere, etc.
>website is called "Shades of Black"

Thank fucking GOD I never used my real name on that shit.

Anonymous Thu Dec 26 22:54:10 2013 No.1298568

>go to frends house
>he wants me to install some shit for him
>enter browser
>toolbars everywhere
>close browser
>proceed to yell at him fully autistic mode on how much of a retarded he was and that he shouldnt be allowed to ever touch a pc again forever.
we arent friends anymore!

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 22:58:40 2013 No.1298574 File: 16 KB, 200x200, 955851-g07896mwvaf.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Don't mind me

>>	Princess Sevenleaf !AnVbXjgZco Thu Dec 26 22:59:40 2013 No.1298579 >>1290781 >>1290789 >what the developers intended.jpg

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 23:02:41 2013 No.1298586 >>1298574 I don't know why I remember that game as clearly as I do

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 23:28:26 2013 No.1298621 File: 48 KB, 512x407, Sehnsucht_zwintscher.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I remember talking to my friends on AOL Instant Messenger about Gundam Wing and Phantasy Star Online. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii9LbUTmWPo

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 23:37:27 2013 No.1298650 This is not board culture here please fucking stop. The internet is not a retro game

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 23:39:28 2013 No.1298658 Report and ignore.

Anonymous Thu Dec 26 23:42:58 2013 No.1298668 [DELETED]

>>1298650
>>1298658
Yeah the janitors and mods for this board are fucking retards, they have no idea what they're doing just like when they stupidly enforced the Dreamcast rule banning everyone and trying to stifle discussion but leave shit like this or Wii game threads up, biased fucking dogshit eating cock suckers.

Anonymous Thu Dec 26 23:43:58 2013 No.1298674

>>1298527

>That's like reading about some forum user and finding out he killed himself.

I was doxxing myself the other day to check my digital footprint, and found out that apparently a forum user I barely used to know online killed himself. The forum was from an online game (not surprisingly). The guild I used to belong to used to mess with him... a lot (like erasing his online characters after guessing his password, telling everyone he hacked, etc.). Didn't take any part of it, but it made feel really awful when I found that out in the forum archives. Secretly hoping he didn't kill himself but I can't find more posts from him after that and he had real mental issues.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 23:50:57 2013 No.1298694 >>1298650 >>1298658 Yeah the janitor is a stupid cocksucker, it's laughable really.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 23:53:29 2013 No.1298702 File: 74 KB, 367x451, AH HAHAHA FAGGOT.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1298694 >this asspain hi pickcincy

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 23:56:28 2013 No.1298706 >>1298702 I'm not that guy but you really shouldn't antagonize him so much. You probably are the faggy janitor getting a good laugh out of this. But see >>1298674 do you want that to happen lel

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 23:56:28 2013 No.1298707 >>1298650 >>1298658 >>1298694 >thread has been here since saturday >Janitor has been here cleaning up a mess of posts today alone, no telling how many since saturday >thread still here Have fun with that report brah.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 23:57:58 2013 No.1298713 >>1298707 Gotta love that the janitor deleted posts in this thread calling them out on their shit yet this thread is still up.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 23:58:28 2013 No.1298714 >>1297592 Oh shit I remember my friends constantly playing this game. I was too much of a weeb to have any interest in it then, wouldn't mind trying it now.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 26 23:58:58 2013 No.1298716 http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm >this has been up since 96

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 27 00:01:28 2013 No.1298723 >>1298716 hahah its probably lost on some server somewhere in the warner bros studios and doesnt use up enough bandwidth so they dont bother deleting it, man what a blast from the past. That is sum retro internets right there

Anonymous Fri Dec 27 00:06:59 2013 No.1298735

>>1298716
It's like i'm looking at an old angelfire or geocities page.
But for some reason that reminded me... Does anyone remember the oficial Ocarina of Time site around release? I remember it had some kind of cool flash game where you played as link in a short little game where you run around Hyrule.

I tried looking for it but I can't find it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 27 00:14:58 2013 No.1298756 >>1297575 I was really interested in making games back in the day. I downloaded the 'educational only' version of Klik & Play and I messed around a ton with it, although I never made anything worthwhile.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 27 01:00:58 2013 No.1298884 >>1290486 I remember waking up on Saturdays only for download one rom on a cyber-cafe. Because the Dial-up wars. Fucking nostalgia,

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 27 01:35:04 2013 No.1298930 File: 58 KB, 1301x494, heckler.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I used to be a l33t AOL hacker. Thankfully that's all I could find of me from the past.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 27 01:40:04 2013 No.1298940 >>1290279 teletubby torture land

Anonymous Fri Dec 27 05:51:20 2013 No.1299237

>>1298650
It is retro related though. It has a large number of retro games not notable enough for their own threads. It gave access to early emulators. It enabled multiplayer, again, on games that weren't notable enough for their own threads.
and reading about the old internet and other peoples experiences just makes me happy because I wasn't able to experience it myself.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 27 07:00:25 2013 No.1299282 >>1298723 It gets better: they updated page after (?) DVD release, but fans complained, so they restored it back.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 27 07:07:53 2013 No.1299285 >>1290279 Assassin. >tfw I still have my original Newgrounds accounts from like 2000.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 27 07:51:25 2013 No.1299319 File: 1.35 MB, 300x199, rollout.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1298502 Whoops. Sorry about that. :< Have a rolling cat.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 27 08:02:25 2013 No.1299325 Gametalk was my 4chan before 4chan.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 27 08:29:26 2013 No.1299348 I used to use espn's website for impure googling, since it didn't save to google search history. AMA.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 27 16:17:47 2013 No.1299864 >>1299237 >responding to the bait HI/v/ patient detected

Anonymous Sat Dec 28 12:57:48 2013 No.1301204

Looking at long-dead forums makes me sad. Even imageboards and textboards abandoned in the mid-2000s.

Sometimes I just want to leave a message for the next explorer who comes, to say that while long dead, At least one other person was there.

I considered it once for an imageboard with just two pages of posts, but the script for posting was broken.

Not really /vr/, but I wanted to have it said.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 28 13:11:47 2013 No.1301220 Isn't this more of a /g/-oriented thread?

Anonymous Sat Dec 28 13:24:24 2013 No.1301247

>>1301220
/vr/ is better for this, i'd say, being focused on the 1990s. My last post (above yours) is admittedly better for the 2000s.http://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/image?c=03AHJ_Vut7GPuD3uzdrAuKN4Rn7W4ZpcTy4S6a1dR8lkrMY3kq8G9GbPS2GfpwYDsfcO_eIFVoMi6OiGSdS2T8bxqzbVg5XZXJlFgSKxck2flx9liGE4rq0-X17QHiqHhjNEbrk3G_Pqhi4tccGsvmZYrMKzLymMzFAviQ1jXFZClFZc9JM94jWG0

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 28 13:50:53 2013 No.1301293 >>1293164 >>1293164 Oh shit I loved that site!

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 28 13:51:53 2013 No.1301296 >>1297575 I remember that tool! Actually I tried to use it but I never understood how. I passed to game maker / rpg maker some time later

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 28 13:56:23 2013 No.1301305 >>1290436 I fucking loved Cartoon Network Orbit. I played with some upper classmen until it got shutdown.

>>	I ain't tripfagging !!jIVnZZY3Z6j Sat Dec 28 14:04:24 2013 No.1301316 >>1290514 oh hell yeah! Links Quest for Ass... good times

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 28 14:22:54 2013 No.1301347 >>1290790 80s anime style easily wins. I hate 00s shading and plainness.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 28 14:54:24 2013 No.1301392 >>1298510 Something to do with digital colouring?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 07:58:22 2013 No.1302852 >>1297575 I used to try and make shitty sprite MMOs with BEYOND, of course I never got very far

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 08:13:52 2013 No.1302863 >Trainer's Nightmare.txt >Pokemon fanfic from eight years ago I wanted to delete, but yet I hesitated. Other than that... Well, Pokemon Crater, Porygon's Big Show, IRC, not much else.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 08:51:25 2013 No.1302885 >>1290627 That Solitaire looks rad.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 08:51:25 2013 No.1302886 >>1290790 >Macross That's kinda cherrypicking. The show had awful lot moments of QUALITY.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 08:53:25 2013 No.1302889 >>1301204 I do the same thing, it almost makes me want to pretend to be an internet archeologist until I realize how dumb that sounds

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 09:29:27 2013 No.1302908 File: 2.33 MB, 1920x1036, shot0183.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1302886 The movie was gorgeous, though.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 09:41:25 2013 No.1302917 >that Megaman fanpage you set up went under with geocities thank you, Jesus

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 10:10:14 2013 No.1302941 File: 25 KB, 473x357, Leekspin_Pools_closed.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1290074 All I remember was the Pool being closed dur to AIDS!

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 10:11:44 2013 No.1302942 >>1293327 I just googled the email I used in my youth. like 4 results, all Chinese mailing-lists ofs oem sort. The fuck?

Anonymous Sun Dec 29 10:29:14 2013 No.1302959

>>1298674
A guy from an online community I used to be a part of in the laaaate 90's (And still to this day talk to people from. In fact I met the love of my life there!) was arrested for having CP.

The FBI called me up to ask me if I knew anything about him, I said "no", that was that. (I didn't learn his real life name or occupation until he was busted. So it wasn't a lie)

It's really weird, you think you know someone. Especially since they can shed their real name through a veil of faux anonymity... But still they surprise you.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 14:27:58 2013 No.1303272 >>1288298 This board is for retro Videogames not retro internet websites. Take this shit back to /v/ or better yet /b/ if you want to go off topic of the board

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 14:30:28 2013 No.1303275 Report and ignore.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 14:58:58 2013 No.1303317 File: 47 KB, 533x366, soulpic4.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] No love for Well of Souls yet?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 17:36:40 2013 No.1303583 File: 63 KB, 520x391, 1350098711647.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1291786 >>1290530 this CD belongs to me, I made that screenshot for giggles. Now I just need to find it.

Anonymous Sun Dec 29 19:04:10 2013 No.1303720
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There was a game "Time Tremors" that I tried downloading from cherry coke's official website long ago (or maybe it was a free mailed cdrom?)
Apparently you could enter codes from cherry coke bottlecaps for perks or X hours of gameplay or someshit.

To this day I have no idea what the gameplay was like. My shitty Compaq Presario kept crashing on one of the menus (I think due to its lack of true 3d accelleration). There's almost no information about the game online.

I spent so much time trying to get it to work and playing with the character creation menu, imagining what adventures I could have in cyberspace.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 19:12:40 2013 No.1303730 I remember I used to grab all of my roms from a final fantasy VI themed site called cult of kefka. I remember thinking about how cool it was because it played midis of ffvi music. oh god the html frames

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 19:25:16 2013 No.1303752 Remember to delete your roms within the next 24 hours, guys.

Anonymous Sun Dec 29 19:27:46 2013 No.1303753

>>1295140
>Is there anywhere like AOL chatrooms now. I'd love to just go somewhere and chat inanely. IRC seems dead.

Unfortunately not. Everyone just seems to use Facebook chat for whatever reason. The only community even close to IRC in terms of volume and subject matter would be Gaia online, but I'm not touching that again.

Facebook is ruining the internet. I can't stand it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 19:31:16 2013 No.1303757 >>1303753 >Facebook is ruining the internet. I can't stand it. No it isn't. AOL chatrooms were on the way out long before facebook.

Anonymous Sun Dec 29 19:38:33 2013 No.1303768
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>>1303757
>No it isn't. AOL chatrooms were on the way out long before facebook.

Yes, I know. I stopped using IRC around 2004 iirc. It's just so easy to group everything that's wrong with the internet with Facebook. People giving out personal information on the internet, when that clearly breaks the first fucking rule of the internet that everyone was taught in elementary school.

Or maybe I'm just a jaded asshole. It's probably the latter.

Anonymous Sun Dec 29 19:48:02 2013 No.1303782
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>>1290920
>She's like one of those people you'd hang out with and she'd act like the way she does, kinda guy-ish.

It's called a tomboy, Bob. Unfortunately, the endangered species of tomboy was mostly poached out by lesbians. There are few left in the wild.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 21:49:09 2013 No.1303990 >>1298561 oh my god I remember this

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 22:10:25 2013 No.1304039 >geocities in its entireity got deleted >I was the only one who was upset about this

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 22:14:25 2013 No.1304043 >>1304039 >geocities in its entireity got deleted >I was the only one who was upset about this You're not. I was upset too.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 22:18:25 2013 No.1304052 >>1304043 Yeah, I know, but most of the idiots reporting about it at the time were just like "lol 90s, good riddance", never mind that some 14 years of data and web history was to be wiped off the face of the planet.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 22:23:25 2013 No.1304062 File: 34 KB, 389x399, balls of feel.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >ctrl-F >No link for this You guys need to see this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWq4DWfrpu8

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 22:29:11 2013 No.1304073 File: 876 KB, 355x325, 1387686041712.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1298930 >Anything illegal

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 22:33:11 2013 No.1304083 >>1304062 somebody already posted that bro

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 22:35:27 2013 No.1304089 >>1304083 Fuck, I must have missed it. Which post?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 22:45:30 2013 No.1304103 >>1304089 >>1297176

>>	Princess Sevenleaf !AnVbXjgZco Sun Dec 29 22:52:28 2013 No.1304117 >>1290920 I thought Lina was adorable because you can tell she wants to be feminine, she just doesn't know how. I think that's something a lot of otaku girls can related to.

Anonymous Sun Dec 29 23:13:00 2013 No.1304153
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>>1288359
Don't install the ICQ client, though. It's full of Russian spyware now that Mirabilis is dead.

>>1291007
I made that based on the "multiple versions of the Internet" comment. I forget what board this thread was from, I just transcribed every post and set all of the images to 256 (web safe) mode.

>>1293327
I thankfully didn't do anything retarded when I was much younger, other than snap at retarded kids giving stupid tech advice, like REFORMAT UR COMPIE for issues that had nothing to do with software.

>>1297163
How about when you learned init strings for your modem? Or didn't you? I remember when v90 came out, and I had to download a firmware update from a BBS using TelNet. Holy balls.

I've got TEN YEARS of IRC chat logs saved, and I used to LIVE on IRC.

Alas, I will never reveal who I was way back when, or even who I am now. The whole SECRET IDENTITY thing on the internet was ingrained in me from the first time I went to anime.com and downloaded crystal.zip

Look up the Homepage of the Oldternet sometime.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 23:19:30 2013 No.1304161 I still remember when not everyone knew about wikipedia. The people I showed it to during highschool thought I was some kind of magnificent genius for finding it

Anonymous Sun Dec 29 23:20:30 2013 No.1304167
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>>1298463
>>1298523
>tfw we may never know what happened to Quintet

Seriously, no one seems to know what actually happened to them. The company appears to still exist, technically, they just stopped making games under their own name and shadow develop.

Anonymous Sun Dec 29 23:21:31 2013 No.1304169

>>1304161
Shit, I remember when there was FUCK ALL for research sites on the web. You had to home some autistic dork make a homepage about the subject you were interested in, and hope that Lycos indexed it.

If you had Usenet access, then you were a bit luckier.

>alt.bin.pics.erotica.anime represent

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 23:23:00 2013 No.1304174 >>1304169 I didn't have to experience that since I didn't even get a computer until 2002 so all my assignments were done using books from the local library. Haven't even got a library card now.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 23:28:30 2013 No.1304185 >>1304174 I bought my first computer in October of 1998. All of my web experience before then was at less-poor friends' houses. All of my Visual Basic projects and Qbasic projects after that looked like basic web pages, hahaha.

Anonymous Sun Dec 29 23:46:22 2013 No.1304216

>>1303768
I don't think you are jaded.

I steadily started losing interest in the internet as the real world crept up online. I don't feel at home here as I did years ago. I just see it as the second iteration of the television in its current state.

What happens to someone like me when they loses their home? I lived there my entire life, I don't know anything else.

Anonymous Sun Dec 29 23:53:50 2013 No.1304229

>>1303768
>People giving out personal information on the internet, when that clearly breaks the first fucking rule of the internet that everyone was taught in elementary school.

I find it kinda hilarious that you are now considered a weirdo if you don't go on the internet and share all your personal info for the world to see today. I always get strange looks from people when they ask if I use facebook and tell them no.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 23:57:20 2013 No.1304247 >>1304229 You do realize you can use facebook without giving out personal information, right?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 00:00:50 2013 No.1304258 File: 14 KB, 215x184, 1350728107878.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1304247 Yes I know you can do that you silly goose. I just don't use that stuff because I don't really have a need for it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 00:11:20 2013 No.1304282 File: 92 KB, 119x106, 1383786114360.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1293523 >elf bowling Oh my god, me and my sis played hours on that one game Thanks Anon

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 00:27:50 2013 No.1304313 File: 23 KB, 500x477, 1388381242306.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1304073

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 00:31:50 2013 No.1304318 >>1293523 >>1304282 It's crazy that Elf Bowling moved onto being some big shovelware series shoved onto every platform in existence for grandmas to buy their kids as a last minute gift for Christmas.

Anonymous Mon Dec 30 00:42:50 2013 No.1304345
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Season's Greetings.

God damn I played this way, way too much when I was in fifth grade.

Sometimes our teacher, if we were doing well, would let us stay in during recess and play games on the computer (pre-approved, of course), like Oregon/Yukon Trail and Snowball Fight.

I was always on the Elder Scrolls forums when I was a teenager (I still go, but not NEARLY as often. I've got something around 20,000 posts or so on there). Anybody remember the Elder Scrolls Tan forum background? I miss that old look. I hadn't been on there long enough to remember the old orange look.

http://web.archive.org/web/20050205050927/http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 00:48:20 2013 No.1304347 >>1304345 >>1293523 here, that's the game I was talking about I called Snowcraft. All this time I thought that was it's actual name! I need to see if I can find this again for old time's sake now.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 00:58:55 2013 No.1304373 >>1304347 It is called Snowcraft. I said "Season's Greetings" because that's what you see when Snowcraft first starts.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 01:18:55 2013 No.1304406 File: 453 KB, 639x480, vhs.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1290781 >>1290789 1.Add noise 2.Separate luma and chroma 3.blur luma 5px horizontally, 0px vertically 4.blur chroma 20px horizontally, 5px vertically 5.merge layers, sharpen

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 01:19:54 2013 No.1304409 >>1304406 Now put in the wobbly part at the bottom

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 01:25:11 2013 No.1304428 File: 453 KB, 639x480, wobbly.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1304409 liek dis?

Anonymous Mon Dec 30 01:31:41 2013 No.1304448

I was in junior high school until 2004, I remember very clearly in our keyboarding class my friend Adam and I would get done early and play the flash bowling game on Candystand.com.

At the time, they just came out with the creamy hard-candy lifesavers, Creamsavers. The bowling balls there were the raspberry, strawberry, orange, and chocolate. He would always choose the chocolate ball.

The game would let you choose a 3-character nickname, and he always chose POO.

Therefor we called the game Poo Bowling, due to chocolate bowling ball and of course POO being his name.

Fucking awesome times.

Anonymous Mon Dec 30 03:58:17 2013 No.1304706
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>>1304229
>I find it kinda hilarious that you are now considered a weirdo if you don't go on the internet and share all your personal info for the world to see today. I always get strange looks from people when they ask if I use facebook and tell them no.

I think it stems from this cultural delusion that anyone can be an internet celebrity. That also stems from the idea that anyone can be a millionaire. Clearly they cannot. I don't think John Steinbeck is a fantastic author or anything, but he has this quote: “[Americans] see themselves....as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” and I think that rings true today. Americans see themselves as temporarily undiscovered celebrities.

2006 was the year that started it all with Time Magazine publishing a ton of articles about Facebook and Youtube. They even made Time's person of the year "you" IIRC. What a load of crock.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 04:17:47 2013 No.1304734 >>1298545 I still play worlds, I just use it as a chat client for friends both from real life and that I've met through the game

Anonymous Mon Dec 30 04:22:18 2013 No.1304736

>>1304229

I live in a rural town so the idea of facebook makes me so frustrated because I have avoided falling into the trap of smelling someone's farts before they do. By that I mean in small towns everyone thinks everything else's lives is their business. Facebook just exacerbates it. Now I imagine this type of thinking even worse in more densely populated areas.

>>1304734
>>1298545

I want to get into Worlds again but I lost my username with all the bookmarks to the older places like the easter egg links, and I don't have Windows anymore. :/

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 04:55:17 2013 No.1304759 >>1303768 I was also taught in Elementary school that I would not be carrying a calculator with me everywhere I go. Elementary-school a shit. (We didn't even HAVE internet back then. Commodore 64 was new and exciting!)

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 05:53:08 2013 No.1304803 I wish geocities still existed just so I could go back and see the website I made in the late 90's

I ain't tripfagging !!jIVnZZY3Z6j Mon Dec 30 06:38:38 2013 No.1304842

>>1304229
yeah, I get the "weirdo" look since I don't have a facebook. actually, I remember reading an article online where, apparently if you don't have a facebook, it's because you're dangerous, have something to hide, or are like, a sociopath. I find that more weird.

Anonymous Mon Dec 30 08:32:46 2013 No.1304904
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>>1304803
I had limited foresight and saved SOME of my early web work, partly because I had hedged my bets and made mirrors of my early sites on Fortunecity and Tripod. I have some of the art I made back then, but it'll never see the light of the webternets again.

>>1304842
Hah. I collect guns, hate the concept of Facebook in its entirety, and I have an engineering degree (that is admittedly useless in the US now). You can easily imagine what people think of me.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 08:38:46 2013 No.1304908 >>1288298 >16384 KB OK I'll never see that boot message again.

Anonymous Mon Dec 30 10:44:51 2013 No.1304993

>>1303753
I thought facebook was more for communicating with people you already know in the real world, than for meeting new people online.

That said, I don't really understand facebook, and a large part of me simply doesn't want to. What I know of it paints it in a horrible light.

Anonymous Mon Dec 30 10:55:55 2013 No.1305001

>>1304993
I originally joined Facebook in hopes of communicating, but no one ever wanted to chat or send messages there. I was supposed to acknowledge their pointless status updates and be quiet. I was merely one more set piece on their list of trophies some mistake as friends. I wanted none of that.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 12:03:25 2013 No.1305062 >>1303753 4chan is more social than facebook.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 12:39:28 2013 No.1305083 >>1305001 no offence but this sounds really euphoric facebook is fine imo i just use it to chat to people and see what they are up to, i dont see anything wrong with it

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 12:39:58 2013 No.1305086 >>1301347 I'm actually the opposite. I like how crisp 00 anime looks

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 12:42:45 2013 No.1305093 File: 77 KB, 600x433, fuq.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1305083 >euphoric The /v/ word redefinition project marches on.

Anonymous Mon Dec 30 12:52:45 2013 No.1305098

>>1304803
There is large archive of most geocities sites on PB somewhere.
Also, on topic of old internet: I was fascinated by all those computer manuals and teach-yourself books long before having my own computer. For some reason many of them included smiles, because "That's how they speak in the Internet!". Abreviations too. N-teen years forward, and sole surviviors are "lol", "iirc", "afk" and "rofl[mao[wtfbbq]]". "Imo" is dying/dead, because >opinions.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 12:53:46 2013 No.1305101 >>1304908 "You can now safely turn your power off."

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 13:02:45 2013 No.1305107 >>1304803 Check out archive.org and geocities.ws (https://www.google.com/search?q=geocities+archive 4chan think it's spam)

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 13:04:45 2013 No.1305108 File: 81 KB, 1366x768, davidwonnglitches.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This shit blew my mind back when I was 10.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 13:07:45 2013 No.1305112 File: 81 KB, 1366x768, davidwonnglitches.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This shit blew my mind back when I was 10-11. Even today it's pretty interesting to read.

Anonymous Mon Dec 30 13:56:17 2013 No.1305191
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>download WinNuke
>go on chat rooms where you could see IPs
>talk shit
>tell people I'm a hacker when they get mad
>suddenly they vanish from the chat room
>OH SHIT, HE IS A HACKER

Anonymous Mon Dec 30 14:00:47 2013 No.1305195

>>1303317
Holy shit I remember this. There was another online game I remember playing, though I gave it up shortly after because it was boring. The players were extremely friendly though. It's gotta be nice to have your own comfy corner of the internet where you can bullshit with the same people every day. IRC just isn't the same.

Just checked and the game is actually still live, with a whopping 2 players currently online. http://www.ogreisland.com/

Anonymous Mon Dec 30 14:06:47 2013 No.1305205

What, if any, MUDs did you guys play?

The only one I ever played regularly was called Nightmare LPMud. Most of the related websites don't exist anymore, but I found this one that's still up....

http://www.gweep.ca/~edmonds/mud/nightmare/

His page is optimized for Lynx.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 14:08:47 2013 No.1305206 >>1304842 I didn't have a facebook account until my job demanded it, which is also why I had to use my real info.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 14:30:06 2013 No.1305236 File: 42 KB, 495x373, onebyone.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	script writer kibe Mon Dec 30 17:35:28 2013 No.1305524 File: 67 KB, 341x500, 61bAXlTxYOL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1304153 >that book Well, there's another thing I'll end up buying for shits and giggles along with "Talking to Children About Nuclear War"

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 17:39:58 2013 No.1305531 >>1305524 That fucking flower.

>>	script writer kibe Mon Dec 30 18:10:28 2013 No.1305578 >>1305531 The weird thing is that it was written in 1984 and not in the 50's when Nuclear War was a much more prevalent threat in the culture. Which isn't to say the 80's didn't have that as well

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 18:15:33 2013 No.1305587 >>1292984 >>1297586 I've been looking for the name of this program for FUCKING MONTHS THANK YOU SO MUCH

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 18:36:32 2013 No.1305626 File: 41 KB, 315x310, 1371699057988.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1305236 >Radskull You got me, man.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 18:55:03 2013 No.1305673 >>1295115 Lel I always pity whoever has fuckyou@hotmail.com as their email Every single shitty signup thing is sent to that

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 19:05:33 2013 No.1305689 File: 33 KB, 100x80, 1388448327782.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] It's not a website until you've got a rotating wireframe skull and crossbones.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 19:07:32 2013 No.1305696 >>1305689 dancingbaby.gif

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 19:10:02 2013 No.1305703 >>1305696 I see your dancing baby and raise you a few hundred dancing hamsters

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 19:13:02 2013 No.1305712 File: 65 KB, 126x159, th_L.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 19:15:32 2013 No.1305713 And the fire.gif. Never forget the fire.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 19:16:02 2013 No.1305715 File: 150 KB, 400x500, 362588933.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1305713 And I forgot it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 19:19:32 2013 No.1305720 File: 17 KB, 96x96, hgerH.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 19:26:32 2013 No.1305729 File: 30 KB, 160x168, skelett-0028.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1305720 >>1305715 >>1305712 >>1305689 Plebs

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 19:32:02 2013 No.1305746 File: 117 KB, 300x273, tumblr_lz3za98H401r7niey.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1305729

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 20:16:02 2013 No.1305805 >>1305729 I have an old forum account for a TFC clan back in 2003 where I use that as my avatar sometimes I read through those posts and cringe hard at my young self

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 20:51:32 2013 No.1305858 File: 5 KB, 626x551, 1384886262540.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1290154 >>any time it would start to take long, I'd threaten to clip its 'Man Wires'

Anonymous Mon Dec 30 20:53:02 2013 No.1305861
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>>1295113
I feel bad for kids today. All their retarded shit is gonna stay on the internet forever thanks to archivers and shit being all over the place. At least with us most of the embarrassing shit we did was usually on sites or chatrooms that have been long dead with no way to access them.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 21:14:55 2013 No.1305897 >>1297592 I've played this before back in the day

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 21:17:25 2013 No.1305905 >>1290162 are you 12?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 22:24:51 2013 No.1306101 >>1299319 Sorry about what? If that's you, then you should make up for it by drawing JonTron holding hands with Blaze.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 22:36:22 2013 No.1306135 >>1305905 Say what you want about Newgrounds. I still feel that its a pretty good time killer. (at least it's still where most flash games start.) I'm an old dog and it's hard to learn new tricks.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 23:16:32 2013 No.1306218 >>1295113 I used to hang around and post on an Evangelion discussion board on AOL when I was 12-13...I was "well known" as a sort of butt monkey around there because I was annoying and retarded.

Anonymous Mon Dec 30 23:18:33 2013 No.1306225

I used to post on MFGG (Mario Fan Games Galaxy) and was pretty much a celebrity there. I had over 20,000 posts. It was pretty dope.

Community split in half a while back for some reason and it pretty much fell apart. Not sure who's decision that was, but it was fucking stupid. I left long before that though.

Anonymous Mon Dec 30 23:23:33 2013 No.1306234

I was one of the first twenty members of Gaia Online, only because I knew Lanzer, L0cke, Jen Chan, Chun, Corey Lewis, Eisu, Clay, StopHim, Dallas Ragon, Prometheus, Nosebleed, and a bunch of the other old guard from the old Fan Artist Headquarters. Registration fucked up, and I had to re-register.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 23:38:02 2013 No.1306260 File: 10 KB, 299x200, SomethingWasMissing.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1304428 Now we're getting somewhere

Anonymous Mon Dec 30 23:50:02 2013 No.1306275 [DELETED]

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>>1298502
>teckwords draws furry porn

Apparently, from his DeviantArt description.

>So, when I was about 7 years old, I was exposed to a video game called Super Mario Bros. 3. I played it almost religiously and found myself collecting a lot of Mario toys. There was a time that I would go through the TV Guides and magazines around the house and started drawing raccoon ears, tails, and leaves all over the photos of the people inside. Boy, deeprooted interests and influences come from the weirdest places, huh?

>Super Mario 3 is probably my favorite game ever, since it pretty much sparked my influence in art. [...] Plus I thought the raccoon thing was pretty cool. As a result, I've specialized in this form of art where you draw an animal with human-like qualities, or "Anthropomorphism", if you will. It's a pretty traditional style of Anthro, unlike this "modern" form that's been floating around, which seem to look a lot more human than animal.

>tfw Nintendo was singlehandedly responsible for furries

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 23:52:03 2013 No.1306278 >>1306275 >furries is teh devil lol! I want /v/ to leave.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 23:53:32 2013 No.1306280 >>1306275 >one guy starts drawing furry porn because of Nintendo >Nintendo is responsible for furry porn It's cartoons that make 'em more often than not.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 23:54:33 2013 No.1306282 >>1306278 no furries are not welcome here that is why furfag shit is banned from every board

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 23:56:02 2013 No.1306284 >>1306278 It's just a spin on how it was perceived that Sega was the one that was responsible with Sonic. >>1306280 Considering that Nintendo also owns Pokemon and Animal Crossing, I'm not surprised. Poor Sega was pinned this blame this whole time.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 31 00:03:02 2013 No.1306291 >>1306282 No, it's because moot has to impress the cool kids from SA watching him from a time machine from 2004.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 31 00:05:02 2013 No.1306294 File: 53 KB, 590x265, Gabe-Newell-3.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1306291 >moot has to impress the cool kids from SA >the cool kids from SA >cool kids >SA

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 31 00:06:02 2013 No.1306295 Report and ignore.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 31 00:06:02 2013 No.1306296 File: 9 KB, 259x194, 24929293593scfhsd.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/15376

Anonymous Tue Dec 31 00:08:02 2013 No.1306302

>>1306291
Fun fact: A thread here on /vr/ went into autosage just because the OP used "furry" in his post. The sad part? He was specifically asking for games with anthropomorphic animals with humans and specifically said that he was NOT asking for furfag shit.

Furry drama has been dead and buried for a while now.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 31 00:09:02 2013 No.1306303 >>1306302 stop posting

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 31 00:10:02 2013 No.1306305 >>1306303 for what purpose

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 31 00:16:00 2013 No.1306318 >>1306296 Shit, that takes me back.

Anonymous Tue Dec 31 00:24:31 2013 No.1306332

>>1306302
Yeah, there was pretty much nothing to post other than mascot platformers though, it would have died anyway. I suggested seeking out a homebrew community but they didn't respond.
This is honestly one of the last boards that I go to anymore and when it's already getting cannibalised by /v/ it's sad to see things like that happen.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 31 00:26:30 2013 No.1306339 >>1306332 One of the first few threads on /vr/ were dubs threads.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 31 00:29:00 2013 No.1306347 >>1306282 >banned from every board >pokeporn threads on /b/ never get deleted Whatever you say, Anon.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 31 00:33:00 2013 No.1306354 >>1306347 /b/ is anything goes though that should be a given

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 31 00:44:01 2013 No.1306365 File: 577 KB, 1000x750, 1383029462464.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1290183 aka the dark ages

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 31 00:54:00 2013 No.1306374 >>1298502 So is the guy who made Madness. And a good quarter the people in the romhacking/translation/emulation community (double for SEGA.) Why's that a problem? I mean this kind of reaction is pretty relevant to this thread, but what's the big deal?

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 31 00:55:00 2013 No.1306376 >>1290393 >Gaia Online I thought that shit was dead or something.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 31 00:57:00 2013 No.1306380 >>1290183 >gamewinners.com God I fucking hated that site. It had an amazing list of game but like half the codes were complete bullshit.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 31 00:57:30 2013 No.1306378 >>1306376 It's a benign tumor.

Anonymous Tue Dec 31 01:06:31 2013 No.1306392
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>Be young lad
>A bit too naïve while we're at it
>Make friends through the internet, oh man those were awkward days
>Some of them ask me to play this shit
>Accept
>After a while, find it boring because no adventure or something interesting, was using it to be with friends mostly
>Years later come to realize what kind of sick shit this is
I regret I've ever done this.

Anonymous Tue Dec 31 02:53:41 2013 No.1306556
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>>1306392
I don't know if anyone will read this or if I'm posting in a dead thread. Either way this is something I've never told anyone.

>Be sandnigger.
>a little more than 2 decades ago our country was hit by the American freedom train, I was born shortly before that.
>My homecountry goes to shit, but whatever. I never experienced anything else so I thought this is how things.

I'm saying this because I want you to realize how hard it was for us to live. My father who is a very well educated man worked his ass off for close to nothing, he took any over time and tried to save some money. Anyway to continue on.

>One day father comes back with a gift.
>"I got you something good, anon. This is yours"
>shows me a PC, this was the first PC I had ever seen. He had his friend install a lot of games on it.
>"Anon, this is yours. I want you to do whatever you want with it. You can even destroy it. In return I want you to learn from it and enjoy it."
>Didn't have many friends if any back then so I spent most of the time after school on this PC.
>Remember spending a lot of time playing Mortal Combat, Supapblex and a platformer.
>One day I go with my father to his PC friend, the guy who installed all the games on our PC.
>He shows me MDK.
>Mind blown, unlike anything we had on our PC.
>Let's me play it but eventually we leave and I longed to play it again.
>Memorise the name MDK so I may buy it once we get a better computer.

>American freedom train hit the country too hard, so we decided to migrate to Europe.
>After a lot of hardships we get to europe and settle down.
>Mom buys a PC.
>Eventually learn to pirate and install MDK.
>mfw I play it after years and years of waiting.

Sorry this became a mess to read, I'm tired and haven't slept in a while.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 31 02:58:40 2013 No.1306561 >>1306392 You should ask for a refund for socially interacting

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 31 03:00:40 2013 No.1306564 >>1306392 Socially interacting with people with different interests is terrible, you should ask for a refund

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 31 03:03:41 2013 No.1306565 >>1306556 octaviaclapping.gif Good story, anon. Growing up poor is a shitty start, but it makes the taste of having some extra coins in your pocket that much sweeter.

Anonymous Tue Dec 31 03:09:10 2013 No.1306572

>>1306565
Yeah, it's weird how good something tastes after waiting for so long. To this day I don't know where MDK is a good game or not, I loved it, but that may be because technology wise it was so far ahead of anything I had ever played.

Either way I do not intent on finding out wether the general public viewed it as a good game or not. For me it means a lot and that is enough.

Anonymous Tue Dec 31 03:42:58 2013 No.1306615
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>>1306556
I totally feel ya. I read all of it and you reminded me of certain things that I thought where long forgotten.

I skipped one and half generations of gaming consoles because my family was having problems with money at that time.

I spent most of my middle school/high school days playing with an old playstation console with a disc that had tons of NES roms saved in it.

>I remember those lazy afternoons playing Kirby's Adventure.
>Trying to figure out what the fuck to do in all those fun japanese games.
>Playing all those crazy mods of famous games (Super Mario Bros 2 - Christmas edition, SMB with Zelda characters, SMB - everysinglelevelhasunderwatermechanics edition, etc).
>Playing co-op games like Contra, Chip 'n Dale and TMNT with friends and having a blast.

I remember playing that very same disc all day long after we moved out of my hometown, I had no friends and nothing better to do.

Over time, my family became more stable and we could afford a new console along with some games, and since then everything changed.

Damn... that disc was so precious to me, but I had totally forgotten about it until now.

I am feeling anon.
I am feeling good things.

Anonymous Tue Dec 31 03:58:28 2013 No.1306643

>>1306615
Thanks for sharing your story as well, anon. I feel you.

>I remember playing that very same disc all day long after we moved out of my hometown, I had no friends and nothing better to do.

This hit me so hard. I suppose I was born to be a social outcast because even back in my homecountry I didn't really do anything else than play countless hours on my PC. My parents were ok with it as they thought it would get me into technology from a young age.

Fuck, I'm starting to ramble on, sorry. Anyway I treasured that PC and those games like you treasured your CD and PS.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 31 04:01:28 2013 No.1306646 >>1305861 Main lesson here is "don't use your real name on the internet". I did a lot of retarded shit 10+ years ago that's still archived, but it's not traceable to me so I give no fucks.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 31 04:28:15 2013 No.1306667 File: 128 KB, 700x400, 1c248eb48e53.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1306376 I literally went back to Gaia Online for shits and giggles last year. They have Madoka shit and everything now.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 31 04:49:45 2013 No.1306687 >>1306667 >literally Please stay there.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 31 08:56:17 2013 No.1306889 >>1306392 >furry boogeyman bullshit intensifies

Anonymous Tue Dec 31 11:20:36 2013 No.1307082

>>1306392
my older sister found out one of her friends played this and made me make an account to stalk them around it whilst we were both sat there laughing

her friend was role playing and i was genuinely 12 and what is this, i had no idea what the fuck was going on but it was funny

weird place.

Anonymous Tue Dec 31 11:49:54 2013 No.1307117
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>stumble on this thread from the front page
>never been on /vr/ before
>still visiting the same IRC channel almost daily that I've been visiting for the past ten years, but it's nothing like it was
>looks like I'm not the only one

Thanks for the feels.

Anonymous Tue Dec 31 12:07:53 2013 No.1307137
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>>1305093

That's weird. The post you're replying to is gone, so I can't see how it was used here, but someone misused "euphoric" in an /x/ thread last.

Who are you, mysterious euphoria-redefiner (and did the exorcism work)?

Anonymous Tue Dec 31 12:58:11 2013 No.1307201

>>1307137
It was someone saying something about something being euphoric, not realizing that the state of being euphoric is a pleasant sensation, not something an inanimate object or concept can be.

Like "this car is euphoric" or some retarded shit. Classic "dumbass learns a new word and uses it wrong at every opportunity".

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 31 13:03:11 2013 No.1307207 >>1305578 Most every modern generation has had some threat of nuclear war, just not as prevalent as it were in the 50s. North Korea bitched to us all year about it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 31 13:22:42 2013 No.1307238 Does anyone remember from 2002-2004ish when people made websites that talked about "real ki" and gave instructions on how to do a kamehameha irl?

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 31 13:44:41 2013 No.1307261 >>1307238 I remember that it was for delusional children who thought that screaming was a martial art. They still exist. God damn Youtube for giving them an audience. Remember Mister T vs.? The "Ate My Balls" webring?

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 31 13:46:41 2013 No.1307262 >>1307261 I was 13 years old at the time and sort of a big deal on a few forums dedicated to it. It's my secret shame.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 31 15:27:29 2013 No.1307420 >>1306572 I rather liked the sequel to it.

Anonymous Tue Dec 31 15:36:59 2013 No.1307441 [DELETED]

>>1306687

Does anyone understand the autistic hate for "literally"? Ain't and y'all aren't greentexted every single time they're used regardless of use. I really want to figure out why literally has become the scourge of the internet. Did some eceleb make a joke and now even the biggest morons call it out?

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 31 15:40:30 2013 No.1307450 >>1307441 >uses the word autistic >calls other people morons LOL LOL THE FUCKING IRONY AHHAHAHAH

Anonymous Tue Dec 31 15:41:30 2013 No.1307451 [DELETED]

>>1307441
Using multisyllabic words incorrectly on the internet goes past ignorant, balls deep into FUCKING STUPID.

You don't say LITERALLY unless you NEED to, to convey exactly what you are saying.

Correct:
>Joe laughed so hard, he literally shit himself!

Incorrect:
>Like, I literally hate her guts!

Yes, Suzette's guts are worthy of hatred, the very equal of Hitler's guts.

Anonymous Tue Dec 31 15:52:05 2013 No.1307474

>>1307451
>You don't say LITERALLY unless you NEED to, to convey exactly what you are saying.
That's just pedantic, the whole thing against people using "literally" too often is. People can and have used "literally" for exaggeration for ages now. It's a bit irritating, yes, and it confuses the ultimate meaning of their post, but there are better ways to convey that to them than flying into a spitting rage everytime somebody uses it like that.

Anonymous Tue Dec 31 16:04:04 2013 No.1307503 [DELETED]

>>1307474
>People can and have used "literally" for exaggeration for ages now.

Mmmm... no; no, they haven't. Only until recently have people used literally to mean it's opposite [the very definition of double-think].

Can it be used for exaggeration? Yes; but, that doesn't make it any less stupid to incorrectly use something.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 31 16:09:21 2013 No.1307516 literally no one gives a fuck

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 31 16:12:21 2013 No.1307525 >>1306564 Nah, it wasn't even that. I just found no fun on playing that shit. And only way after I stopped having any contact with those people is when I realized what kind of shit this was.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 31 16:13:51 2013 No.1307530 >>1307516 no one literally gives a fuck

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 31 16:14:51 2013 No.1307536 >>1307525 boo hoo people have different sexual interests than me

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 31 16:15:21 2013 No.1307542 >>1307536 Boo hoo I have opinions about furries being sick shit

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 31 16:17:21 2013 No.1307547 >>1307261 >Remember Mister T vs.? >The "Ate My Balls" webring? Better yet, there's a ROM hack of Willow called "Mr. T Ate My Balls". http://www.i-mockery.com/romhacks/mr-t-ate-my-balls/

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 31 16:22:51 2013 No.1307559 >>1307542 Me too, we have so much in common! Haha, us 4channers, right?

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 31 16:23:22 2013 No.1307561 FUCKING BONZI BUDDY FUCK

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 31 16:32:52 2013 No.1307581 lol @ the crypto-furries in this thread who can't help but reply to any perceived slight against their dogwank fantasies.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 31 16:36:23 2013 No.1307584 Report and ignore shitposters.

Anonymous Tue Dec 31 16:53:23 2013 No.1307602

>>1307547
>>1307261

Holy shit, I used to look at Mr. T Vs. comics all the fucking time, up through like 2004. I came around a little too late for the "ate my balls" thing, though I still saw the aftermath of it. Man, good times.

All those fools getting thrown hella far, all those hella fast vans, all that still using the word "hella".

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 31 16:54:53 2013 No.1307605 >>1292717 You have looked at my balls, for that you must die

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 31 17:11:53 2013 No.1307618 >>1293436 I've noticed the same thing.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 31 17:37:43 2013 No.1307645 http://sess.net/ Anyone remember this? > dat matrix fighting game > dat fighting game with 2 characters and 6 moves on each with tons of arenas I can't remember the name of > dat Megaman

Anonymous Tue Dec 31 18:03:14 2013 No.1307669

>>1290636
Didn't have that one, but I do remember flashy interactive screens for mundane programs.

Had a demo cd, think it was PCGamer (or PCGames) that you would be in a alley way and go down some hidden elevator (you had to connect the wires to active it by clicking on them) that took you to this underground lobby where you can play the demos, watch trailers, etc.

Completely useless, but fun. I miss those.

Anonymous Tue Dec 31 18:07:14 2013 No.1307671

>>1290920
>tfw when you never get to live in your anime medieval village with qt3.14 tomboy sorceress.

It may be rose tinted glasses, but early anime is more enjoyable to me then the stuff out now (though there are good things out, just gets drowned by the moe bait and slice of life dramas)

they seem to be more fun, big explosions, silly cheesy jokes, ridiculously scantily clad charcters.

Anonymous Tue Dec 31 19:54:25 2013 No.1307837
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>>1307451

The spread of the misuse of the word "literally" kinda proves we're all just mindless biological units resampling data from one another on the digital hivemind

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 1 00:34:06 2014 No.1308271 >>1297163 HACK THE PLANET

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 1 00:39:35 2014 No.1308276 >>1304153 I used to have an HTML by Example book I used to read when I was bored. It was from 1996, so you can already imagine how dated it was.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 1 00:41:06 2014 No.1308281 >>1308276 One more thing, the book itself was named "HTML By Example." I forgot who wrote it though. I remember finding a web eBook version of it and nostalgia flowed through me.

Anonymous Wed Jan 1 00:47:37 2014 No.1308289
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>>1291172
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>>1291216

Oh man, those old desktops..

I think i'm gonna cry.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 1 00:49:35 2014 No.1308294 File: 77 KB, 768x591, yahelite.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] YahElite MOTHERFUCKERS

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 1 12:41:23 2014 No.1309069 >>1293327 I just did it. I found this. http://marioman19.tripod.com/index.html Dear god I was a little faggot.

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Anonymous Thu Jan 2 00:02:02 2014 No.1310460
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I remember I had a geocities site called "Majin Vegeta's DBZ RPG" one of probably thousands of sites with that exact same name and concept. I made this picture just now as a kind of mock-up but it's the level of quality we're talking about.

At one point we had like a dozen or so members half of whom were inactive or "grounded from the computer" at any given time and it was like a full time job running the place keeping track of power levels, where the dragonballs were, coming up with super original storylines like "Frieza is back from the dead again" and "battling" in AIM.

I remember that me and a friend I knew in real life started it because we were already members of an existing rpg but all the good characters were taken and we wanted to be Vegeta and Gohan like Henry VIII breaking with Rome. Of course I went mad with power as 12 year olds are prone to do.

I think I tried to resurrect it as recently as 2005 but by then I had discovered beer and girls so I just couldn't get as excited by it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 2 00:04:03 2014 No.1310464 great thread. as a 30-something I have such huge nostalgia about mid-late 90s internet. was a magical place for a semi-introverted teenager.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 2 00:04:32 2014 No.1310463 >>1309069 It has a nice layout I'll give it that.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 2 10:05:01 2014 No.1311093 >>1309069 We've all started some sort of fansite on Geocities or Tripod. I wish I could still find the half-dozen or so websites I made back in the mid to late 90s. Oh god, the faggotry/douchebaggery.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 2 10:46:02 2014 No.1311136 File: 104 KB, 628x471, ogreisland.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Can't believe that this shit is still up.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 2 10:57:33 2014 No.1311150 >>1310460 I remember lurking these fucking sites probably trying to find some related DBZ info at the time like irrelevant power levels. Fucking ridiculous how weeaboo fanfic it is.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 2 11:17:35 2014 No.1311175 File: 499 KB, 350x198, 1362781943913.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1306556 >Mortal Combat you fucking liar, you wouldn't spell it like that if it was truly a part of your childhood

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 2 12:18:34 2014 No.1311263 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj3RpKX_ioA

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 2 13:53:57 2014 No.1311424 File: 4 KB, 320x200, SMALL0.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1310460 Fuck man, there were a million of these.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 2 18:12:54 2014 No.1311991 >>1306392 I downloaded this game thinking it was a free MMO or something. I spent a lot of time asking people where I got to fight monsters and shit. Since everyone was RPing, I kept getting in-character responses that only made me more confused.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 2 18:17:54 2014 No.1312002 >>1311991 The screenshot says there's an area for chat, that should probably have been the spawn point instead.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 2 18:21:24 2014 No.1312009 >>1312002 It didn't matter since everyone thought I was trying to RP as an adventurer or something.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 2 18:36:54 2014 No.1312031 >>1312009 Well shit, that must have been awkward. When were you going on this? I used it from around 2004-2006 and I got help almost immediately. Most people just used it as a glorified chatroom.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 2 19:17:54 2014 No.1312076 File: 32 KB, 743x447, hampster_dance.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] There were a lot of spinoffs, though the only ones I can remember are pikachudance and tittydance

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 2 19:25:54 2014 No.1312097 File: 223 KB, 220x200, baby.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Cutiepie69: Wanna cyber? Cutiepie69:A/S/L

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 2 20:07:47 2014 No.1312193 >>1312076 HOW COULD YOU FORGET THE GONTERMAN DANCE? http://www.oocities.org/gontermania/ HE IS THE ONE NAMED DAVID G!

>>	script writer kibe Thu Jan 2 20:43:49 2014 No.1312250 >>1310460 When I was in 6th grade, Zoids was huge. This kid had a pen and paper Zoids RPG going where you would buy Zoids and individual weapon parts. He gave up on it about a day later though I think

>>	PEEL Thu Jan 2 22:26:27 2014 No.1312453 >>1312250 Dude, pen and paper RPGs were the shit in middle school. A buddy of mine and I spent months on one, but never finished it, because that always ends up being the fate of those. I have fond memories of it, though.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 2 23:23:44 2014 No.1312559 File: 253 KB, 491x497, 1388723016742.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Hey guys, do you remember this song? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNOP2t9FObw

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 2 23:26:14 2014 No.1312563 >>1312559 ASSASSIN

Anonymous Fri Jan 3 00:36:10 2014 No.1312682

>>1311175
This reminds me of a time in elementary school when the our class' girls wrote random stuff on the blackboard and tried to put the blame on boys. They were busted because they also wrote "Mortal Combat" on it and all the boys pointed out the spelling mistake.

Anonymous Fri Jan 3 02:12:51 2014 No.1312886

>>1297575

RPG Maker is still very well known today, even the older ones, but I used to use RPG Maker 2000 a lot before RPG Maker 2003 even came out. It was a lot of fun back then. There are still RM communities today, but nothing like the communities of old. Most of the games that were popular back then are now forgotten.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 3 02:17:21 2014 No.1312895 >>1309069 What is it with autists and Sonic?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 3 02:17:21 2014 No.1312896 A classic. http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/chipndale

Anonymous Fri Jan 3 02:18:51 2014 No.1312897

>>1310460

Kinda reminds me of this message board I used to go on. It was called Super Smash RPG and, when you joined, you picked a character (not limited to the Super Smash Bros. roster; the admin had like 200 characters you were allowed to choose), you were assigned stats, and then you went 'battled' other members on a "battlefield" subforum.

I mostly went there for the community though. I was there from age 8 to maybe like 11 when it died. A few years ago I looked at some of the posts I made there and holy fuck it was cringeworthy.

Anonymous Fri Jan 3 02:34:51 2014 No.1312927

Do good message boards still exist? I kinda miss going on them.

4chan is obviously a lot faster than any message board, and probably better because it's anonymous and not just a big circle jerk, but message boards/forums were a big part of growing up for me and sometimes I miss them.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 3 04:34:29 2014 No.1313160 File: 236 KB, 640x830, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Heaven's Gate website is still up...what the fuck

Anonymous Fri Jan 3 05:11:29 2014 No.1313221

>>1312897

I have printed out in an old box of stuff the first and only RP fight I ever did on an old Sonic forum when I was 10, where I was an OC Donut Steel Tails and it was a WWF wrestling match.

Jesus Christ is it fucking painful. Though it's nice to be able to look back and realize I'll never be that bad again.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 3 05:34:35 2014 No.1313247 >>1312927 I used to post all the time over on the IMDB message boards back around the mid 2000's. Now I've pretty much stuck with 4chan since '09.

Anonymous Fri Jan 3 05:58:05 2014 No.1313273
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I have a disc laying somewhere around my house that my friend's dad made, and it's filled with online games from the early 2000s. I'll have to try and find it.

Don't worry, I'll report back with screenshots if I do.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 3 06:16:35 2014 No.1313294 >>1311175 I didn't know a word of English back then and only understood what game it was when I migrated. I used to refer to it as "game with Sonya". Supaplex is a game I called "Kahruba" after Kahraba meaning electricity in arabic.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 3 08:31:56 2014 No.1313404 >>1312895 >>>/v/ >>1313160 I think either a former member of the cult or an enthusiast for cults is keeping it up. Nevertheless it's fucking creepy.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 3 12:45:09 2014 No.1313653 File: 339 KB, 821x589, 1388771148188.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Not necessarily retro, but from like 2001, always loved CN's website pre ~05/06ish

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 3 13:22:28 2014 No.1313701 >>1292717 >dat dude with the dick

>>	script writer kibe Fri Jan 3 13:47:44 2014 No.1313747 >>1312886 Steam actually has quite a few of the RPG Maker games. http://store.steampowered.com/search/?snr=1_4_4__12&term=RPG+Maker VX Ace is ridiculously expensive though

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 4 09:37:36 2014 No.1315792 pump

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 4 10:51:55 2014 No.1315880 >>1295152 Yahoo turned there chat rooms off last year I think. Many rednecks and porn bots were sad.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 4 10:53:25 2014 No.1315882 >>1298545 I've heard Worlds is a virtual graveyard/museum now.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 4 13:22:03 2014 No.1316161 >>1288298 bump 4 2mra morning

Anonymous Sat Jan 4 14:02:34 2014 No.1316256
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>>1306556
I think we're from the same country. Good thing you moved because it's a shithole now. My first PC (I still have its tower, but different components, second upgrade, both were necessary) had Stronghold: Crusader, RA2, IGI, Wolfenstein Return, MDK2, and some racing game with drifting for points and weapons I can't remember its name, each in a different point. My precious game I longed for was C&C Generals, and my first game on a PC was Dune 2000. Idyllic, but I can only say they were good (before the big family moved, scattered and some tortured and slaughtered) days. I'll try and move to the north since it's totally different from what it was, and from what is.

Hope you're living well, you may have to live it for the two of us.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 4 16:16:58 2014 No.1316552 >>1290486 Christ I wish I knew about emulation when I was a kid.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 4 21:04:31 2014 No.1317130 >>1315882 There are occasional threads on /v/ where people post some screenshots of it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 5 01:00:44 2014 No.1317612 >>1297197 god I've been trying to remember the name of this for years. does it still work?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 5 01:30:16 2014 No.1317649 File: 10 KB, 300x226, webtv1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1288298 My introduction to the internet, back '97, was with this thing. And it's a time I'd like to forget. The horror, the horror.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 5 13:53:59 2014 No.1317721 >>1317649 My grandma had that. Gotta love that like half the websites on the internet didn't even work properly on that thing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-sVbegqvxg

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script writer kibe Sun Jan 5 15:56:01 2014 No.1317943
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>>1317832
>personally I think Nintendo is a piece of right-wing garbage akin to the IBM PC

You think that's bad? Try looking up some Usenet groups centered around wrestling from the 1990's. They thought Austin would never make it

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Anonymous Sun Jan 5 16:53:48 2014 No.1318058

>>1290074
I still wish there were virtual pixel chat rooms like habbo hotel around. Habbo was actually kind of fun for awhile until it became really popular and primarily focused on an audience of 12 and under. I remember my little brother followed suit and got into Coke Music for awhile, it looked like it was a little more fun though.
I suppose habbo became fun again later on when /b/ discovered it and started closing pools.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 5 17:05:18 2014 No.1318078 Anyone else remember the Odyssey of Hyrule? So much mystery before the wonders of romhacking and gameshark...

>>	8-Ball Sun Jan 5 17:11:18 2014 No.1318091 File: 18 KB, 260x203, 1246052120171.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] > be 14 > dial-up connection > use internet explorer > no firewall > no antivirus > browse porn sites all the time > got a dialer I still have nightmares about that

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 5 17:29:18 2014 No.1318113 >>1309069 >http://marioman19.tripod.com/index.html Did you post on GameFAQs at all? Random Insanity?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 5 17:32:48 2014 No.1318117 >>1312453 Same here. We tried making a Final Fantasy one, but it never came to fruition. Nobody was invested in it except me.

>>	script writer kibe Sun Jan 5 17:45:53 2014 No.1318125 >>1318091 I only got a virus once and that was from some pop-up advert for an asian porn site. But yeah with Adblock and No-script, I almost don't even really need anti-virus protection

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 5 19:23:12 2014 No.1318302 >>1318058 Habbo went downhill once they merged all the hotels together into one hotel per language.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 5 19:44:42 2014 No.1318335 Any Frenchfags here remember the minitel? Closest thing I got to the Internet until about 2002

Anonymous Mon Jan 6 00:23:31 2014 No.1318891
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10 or 12 years ago, i used to browse sites like Action Flash, Newgrounds and Tx Mafia, i still remember most of the games and animations i used to play back then

> Frank's Adventure 1 & 2
> Hentai Simgirl
> Bad Facial Hair Day
> Son of Peach
> Super Mario Reloaded
> Rise of the mushroom kingdom
> Street Fighter vs Mortal Combat
> MGS3: Crab Battle

and many more, i don't know if any of those sites are still around, probably only Newgrounds still exists, if it does, i'm sure it is overloaded with MLP stuff

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 6 00:26:01 2014 No.1318901 File: 28 KB, 500x262, many feels.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1318891 >Rise of the Mushroom Kingdom Goddamnit anon, now feels are coming out of my past and slapping me across the face.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 6 00:33:33 2014 No.1318925 >>1318901

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 6 00:37:03 2014 No.1318941 File: 44 KB, 500x461, 1294725610333.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1318901 Good to see i'm not the only one that moment when Mario died, that music...

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 6 00:39:32 2014 No.1318946 File: 17 KB, 285x300, lecry.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1318901 >tfw the guy behind it is dead

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 6 00:41:32 2014 No.1318949 File: 58 KB, 645x773, 1364355254613.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1318941 And the moment when he came back to life

WKZworks Mon Jan 6 01:04:49 2014 No.1318995

Newgrounds is still very much alive and well. Frank's Adventure now has 4 installments (maybe 5; can't remember.

Speaking of which, I'm trying to find a flash. It's about teleporting monsters or aliens...can't remember it's name. It's about a guy in his kitchen listening to a radio report about those creatures causing trouble for police and military...something about an invasion. Anyway, it concludes with a jump-scare ending where one of the creatures busts through the guy's window and chomps him while he's minding his own business. Anyone remember this flash? I'm trying to find it but there's so much shit on Newgrounds now that it's hard to locate.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 6 01:30:05 2014 No.1319057 >>1318901 I'm like 90% sure that was a weird MIDI cover of "My Heart Will Go On" by Celine Dion. Haven't watched it in a while, but DAMN I feel you.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 6 01:41:05 2014 No.1319084 >>1319057 >I'm like 90% sure that was a weird MIDI cover of "My Heart Will Go On" It totally was

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 6 01:44:35 2014 No.1319090 >>1319084 "Ms. Dion, your music truly inspires me. There was a Newgrounds Flash animation in the early 2000s that used a MIDI cover of your song that brought me to tears every time I heard it..."

>>	hai guise Anonymous Mon Jan 6 05:01:16 2014 No.1319349 File: 11 KB, 200x150, 2515.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 6 06:16:43 2014 No.1319421 >>1306392 >Persephone >Assphone Finnish is great.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 6 07:24:57 2014 No.1319504 >>1318995 It's "Taken" by the guy who did the Brackenwood animations. http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/taken/ His "3:33 am" was also somewhat similar. http://bitey.com/2006/10/333am/ (Warning: both videos end in a rather screamer-like fashion)

Anonymous Mon Jan 6 08:40:15 2014 No.1319579
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>tfw the promosite is down
>tfw I'll never go back in time and have the chance to save that flash with silly minigames and Wario stuff

>tfw no more WAAAAAARIIIIIIIIIIIIIIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, WARIOOOOOOO, WARIO WARIO WARIOWARIOWARIO WARIOOOOOOO~ when clicking on his statue on the fountain

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 6 09:15:45 2014 No.1319608 >>1290636 This. This was my life. I have mentioned it to various people and no one ever knows what I was talking about. >mfw i thought that was the actual computer interface, and not a windows 95 program

>>	script writer kibe Mon Jan 6 10:11:15 2014 No.1319673 >these two flash movies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIeOULX79VA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rYDh_2K9Bo

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 6 10:24:16 2014 No.1319683 File: 60 KB, 400x600, 1325940496123.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >tfw I had a website on Geocities >tfw using hotbot.com >tfw altavista.com >tfw .ring.sites

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 6 13:15:45 2014 No.1319948 >>1292717 oh shit i remember looking at the old woman aaaaaaahah good times

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 6 13:22:33 2014 No.1319961 >>1306556 oh shit unexpected feels shots fired

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 6 13:27:33 2014 No.1319972 >>1313653 Sidenote here can we gang up and hunt down all the little fuckheads who actually won the Cartoon Network Sweepstakes? Little assholes sittin up there on their mountains of candy...

Anonymous Mon Jan 6 13:54:33 2014 No.1320020

Ah, old yahoo stuff... I'm part of the reason they couldn't have nice things. I had a PSX ISO site up on geocities, mirrored across 30 accounts. I used yahoo briefcase to store all of the games. The only problem with yahoo briefcase is they only allowed 30mb to be stored per account. These awesome german dudes came up with a program (BCUP) that would automatically create yahoo accounts, upload your files to briefcase, then create a small file containing encrypted account data for said accounts. You'd download the tiny file then use their other program (BCDOWN) to download whatever was in the briefcases. By the end of it I had well over several hundred thousand yahoo accounts and got IP banned several times.

There was another briefcase download program called yahoosauger, but it didn't get too much attention.

Anonymous Mon Jan 6 14:09:20 2014 No.1320041

>>1290396
FACT: NEWGROUNDS WAS FUNNY WHEN WE WERE ALL 12 LIVING IN THE SUBURBS LISTENING TO LINKIN PARK WATCHING DRAGONBALL Z DRINKING PEPSI WHILE PLAYING HALO CO-OP ON THE EASIEST SETTING DURING WHICH WE CONSUMED DORITOS AND LOOKED AT PAINTBALL GUNS ON EBAY IN INTERNET EXPLORER CONNECTED THROUGH AOL ON A 56K MODEM BEFORE HOPPING INTO OUR BALDING FATHERS' LATEST MIDLIFE-CRISIS-IMPULSE-SPONSORED JAPANESE-BUILT SUV TO HEAD TO THE MALL AND GET MORE SKATEBOARDING SHOES AND THIRD-RATE IRREGULAR LEVIS AND MOUNTAIN BIKE PARTS BEFORE HEADING HOME, VOTING DEMOCRAT AND MASTURBATING TO THE LATEST SEARS CATALOG WHILE HUFFING PAINT IN YOUR GARAGE BEFORE TALKING TO PEDOPHILES ON AIM PRETENDING TO BE WHATEVER CAMWHORE THEY'RE RANTING ABOUT ON MYSPACE WITH A MATRIX QUOTE/ANIME CHARACTER NAME/TRIPLE SIX-ASTERISK-PARENTHESES-SURROUNDED SCREENNAME BEFORE HEADING TO YOUR SUPPOSED "GOOD SCHOOL" IN THE MORNING TO BUY MORE POT TO SMOKE DURING YOUR COUNTER-STRIKE LAN PARTY WITH JIMMY AND THE REST OF HIS FRIENDS TAKING RITALIN AND ADDERALL AND PROZAC EIGHT TIMES A DAY BEFORE TAKING A CASUAL PASS AT LOCAL, STATE OR NATIONAL GOVERNMENTAL FIGURES, LEGISLATURE, OR STRUCTURE TO APPEAR EDGY AND INTELLIGENT IN FRONT OF YOUR BUDWEISER-SNEAKING, LIMP-WRISTED, NEAR-TO-COLUMBINE SOCIOPATHIC "DEEP" FRIENDS WHO PLAY THE VICTIM WHEN THEY START LOSING ARGUMENTS SIX DAYS BEFORE THEIR BOTCHED SUICIDE ATTEMPT SIMPLY BECAUSE SCHOOL TRAMP NUMBER TWELVE WOULDN'T GO UNDER THE BLEACHERS WITH THEM TO LET THEM GET TO SECOND BASE BEFORE THEIR THIRTEENTH BIRTHDAY.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 6 14:37:20 2014 No.1320090 >>1320041 >playing halo on anything except legendary at age 12

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 6 15:13:53 2014 No.1320175 >>1320041 greatest copypasta of all time

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 6 15:16:23 2014 No.1320184 >>1320041 great linguini also kid in story sounds like a typical californian douchebag, didnt know there were so many people that lived like that.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 6 17:05:58 2014 No.1320423 >>1319972 I remember back in ~2002 they had a gigantic Gundam giveaway. I called that fucking number on every phone in the house and I still lost

>>	WKZworks Mon Jan 6 22:08:15 2014 No.1321145 >>1319504 Kick Ass! Thanks!

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 6 22:51:15 2014 No.1321239 >>1293412 Dude, post a img file

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 6 23:33:23 2014 No.1321372 >>1293515 BS

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 6 23:39:22 2014 No.1321391 >>1293479 was it on geocities?

Anonymous Mon Jan 6 23:47:21 2014 No.1321416
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>>1290859
Level sets were pretty godlike, shame they didn't have the original episode titles or credits, or they would have been a must-buy for me. When the Levels were announced I actually considered selling my Dragon Boxes because I was blown away.

Even though the timing of the release was REALLY bad (like a month after DBox 7 came out?), I don't think it was lack of sales that made them cancel it, I think it was because their film restoration process was too much for them to afford.

Now we have the Orange Bricks in 1080p coming out. Lucky us.

Anonymous Tue Jan 7 00:38:02 2014 No.1321568

>One day almost 13 years ago I just decided to fill a VHS tape with me using the internet. I've edited out a lot of even more boring bits of this video, you're not missing much. I've uploaded this to show to friends, but it'd be cool if more people find something they enjoy here.
>0:00 I visit #3dfx on IRC
>4:17 I show off my old Geocities website
>5:18 I check http://bluesnews.com for the latest gaming news
>3:57 browsing the anime web turnpike
>5:42 more #3dfx on IRC
>9:07 I go to IGN64.com looking up news on the upcoming Zelda64

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWq4DWfrpu8

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 7 02:24:03 2014 No.1321815 >>1321568 >wow 13 years ago, some legit old school shit >realize 2001 was 13 years ago wow i feel old. cool vid nonetheless. i thought everyone disabled that silly mIRC popup when you connect a server though. /join nigga

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 7 02:41:33 2014 No.1321851 oh it's actually from 1998? that's almost 16 years ago dude.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 7 03:28:33 2014 No.1321961 >>1319673 That mario twins... I seriously could almost recite the whole thing as I watched. I fucking showed this to everybody. Too bad its not the full vid.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 7 09:40:26 2014 No.1322350 >>1321568 Noice. I approve of your selection of Netscape Navigator as well. Alas, I had no means of recording anything from my computer back in 1998, or I'd probably have done it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 7 10:33:45 2014 No.1322382 >>1291461 I wish I could have been on the Finnish retro internet Even though I'm not Finnish

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 7 13:56:36 2014 No.1322620 >>1319673 >not using albinoblacksheep for maximum retro http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/papasmurf http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/mario and my personal favorite http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/workit

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 8 13:40:53 2014 No.1325012 File: 18 KB, 62x106, 1306503894166.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Bump.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 8 17:06:27 2014 No.1325464 >>1290279 ganguro girl was my only interaction with a 'female' as a teen

Anonymous Wed Jan 8 17:08:27 2014 No.1325470

>>1313653
>be 9
>play the lonely little courage the cowardly dog adventure game
>have to order a can opener to open dog food in the game
>my young mind was afraid pressing yes would send a can opener to my house
>ask dad to look at it
>he gets mad and tells me to never go to one of those game websites again

>be 11
Beat the courage game and tell dad that we were both kind of stupid about the can opener
>he doesn't give a shit as always
>win a Titan Tower in some sweepstakes sort of deal my mom entered me in
>dad thinks I ordered it from the courage game
>beats the shit out of me and throws the Titan tower away
>grounded from internet for months even after my mom explained that I won it

>get abandoned at age 16
>dad died when I turned 18

Life can get a bit stress.

Anonymous Wed Jan 8 17:12:56 2014 No.1325479

I can't even remember my first computer. I have vague memories of being like one and my brothers had like 3 apple 2s set up in a row while playing Olympics games and some roguelike. First time I connected to the Internet was 1996 or 1997. I used to browse AOL kids and they had an awesome ftp style section filled with games and demos for shit like Duke nukem and rise of the triad. Other than that I used to just go to pokemon.com and once sent out an email to "everyone" asking them to send me emails.

Anonymous Wed Jan 8 17:16:56 2014 No.1325486

>>1325479
Oh and when I was 11 I used to go into lesion chat rooms and exchange lesion pictures through email with other "lesbians" although I'm pretty sure they were just honey teen dudes too. Tried to do it again a couple of years later and they said I should be ashamed of myself for acting so slutty. Those were probably actual lesbians.

Oh and I used to do a anime re in a chat room and got banned when I called some dude named king Bob a faggot for shutting up the rp. In retrospect that man probably laughed his sides to heaven.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 8 17:31:02 2014 No.1325542 >>1291182 Man, I miss these wallpapers made with gifs more than anything.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 8 17:43:33 2014 No.1325560 >>1290486 Holy shit that emulator UI. I had to use it instead of Winkawaks in order to play Metal Slug 3.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 8 17:47:33 2014 No.1325571 >>1306556 I feel bad for the American soldiers that did not get to kill your lame family. /edge

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 8 17:54:03 2014 No.1325582 >>1317943 until "Austin 3:16 says I just whipped your ass" he wasn't going to

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 8 17:55:33 2014 No.1325584 >>1311093 i had a fansite for Mystical Ninja lol

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 8 17:56:03 2014 No.1325587 >>1297575 see >>1319147

Anonymous Wed Jan 8 18:25:25 2014 No.1325665
File: 39 KB, 633x330, mmjb61full.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>1295139
>>1297239
I downloaded like 200 songs from this and played them in this baby, now I don't even listen music in the computer, never got used to itunes or windows player or whatever

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 8 21:06:09 2014 No.1325968 I'm not gonna read through an entire 500+ replied thread so can someone tell me if the web browser for Dreamcast & Saturn has been discussed yet?

Anonymous Wed Jan 8 21:37:10 2014 No.1326015

>>1325968
I don't recall. They work to this day, but only barely. Still, anyone who's not a retard can make websites for the Saturn and DC. Just use HTML 1.0, and use static GIFs, probably 89a.

I need to get a netlink, I guess.

If I knew the browser ID to flag....

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 9 01:00:53 2014 No.1326573 File: 37 KB, 219x174, 1386050753639.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1321568 >3dfx Instant nostalgia boner.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 9 14:53:53 2014 No.1327428 >>1290154 >remember one porn I've been trying to find again Psst http://jemtube.com/screaming-woman-has-aggressive-orgasm-during-sex-219217.html

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 9 19:05:36 2014 No.1328025 I used to play Materia Magica back in the day. I have touched in since 2003. Fuck I stopped playing shortly after I was able to do the first multi-class.

Anonymous Fri Jan 10 00:18:03 2014 No.1328609

>>1321416

You probably could sell Dragon Box vol 2 by itself to pay for a whole set of Blu rays

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B002Y0KR7A/sr=/qid=/ref=olp_tab_used?ie=UTF8&colid=&coliid=&condition=used&me=&qid=&seller=&sr=

Note: that $75 used one is the lowest price I've seen for it since 2011. Then go take a look at the new prices...

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