/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.1650293]

Retro Internet. No Holds Barred. Unbridled discussion on all things old and internet. Angelfire, Geocities, AOL chat, old flash animations, porn games on Newgrounds, Limewire, IRC. EVERYTHING and more. Anything I've forgotten? Call me a faggot and correct me! And stop looking at my balls.

[Anonymous No.1650298]

Gamespy 3d rocket arena, llamas, leet speak, usenet, barrysworld!

[Anonymous No.1650330]

Based proto-Borat.

[Anonymous No.1650346]

>>1650330
Isn't he trying to sue Sasha Baron Cohen over that?

[Anonymous No.1650569]

Playing the shifterx server in tribes. 40/40 players, on a dialup modem.

placing in the top 5.

[Anonymous No.1650667]

>>1650293
>Anything I've forgotten?

Uhh CompuServe?

[Anonymous No.1650719]

>modem handshake
>people knew what baud was
>people knew the difference between kB and kb
>80 megabytes was an absurd amount of data
>Nutscrape Masturbator
>Inturdnet Exploder
>Slopera

I've been on and off the web since the mid-nineties. The first thing I downloaded... well, that'll be in the next post.

[Anonymous No.1650725]

>>1650719
http://www.mediafire.com/download/5i56sh385j5t4k8/crystal.zip

[Anonymous No.1650745]

>>1650725
A program in moon runes, and no matter whhich one of the two buttons I press, it is closed.

[Anonymous No.1650748]

>>1650745
It's a screen saver for Windows 3.

[Anonymous No.1650753]

>using LimeWire to pirate LimeWire Pro

[Anonymous No.1650768]

Legend of the Red Dragon

[Anonymous No.1650794]

>getting Dope Wars from people in the middle of class through IR wireless

[Anonymous No.1650805]

Does anyone else know what I'm talking about when I say ANTagonist on AOL? They had N64 and PS1 sections.

[Anonymous No.1650815]

>>1650805
>AOL
>Autistics, Old People, Losers

[Anonymous No.1650823]

Fuck napster. This is where it was at.

[Anonymous No.1650829]

anyone ever go on unichat back in the day? i used to just run around trolling in like 2000~. it was a little chatroom community with little anime-like sprites and you could run around a little series of rooms.

[Anonymous No.1650836]

>not simply browsing open college FTP directories

Shit, I still do that now.

[Anonymous No.1650850]

>>1650805

I remember the hell out of that place. They had some pretty great reviews of old games, and I remember them recommending the hell out of System Shock 2. Let's not forget the massive backlog of games they had made in Klik n' Play.

[Anonymous No.1650870]

>>1650823
Was audiogalaxy that place where you'd find the songs you wanted in the browser and then the program just automatically downloaded it whenever someone who had the file came online? Because that place gave me so much obscure shit I could never hope to find again.

[Anonymous No.1650882]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J57LQ1OrVfs daily dose

[Anonymous No.1650940]

>>1650870
Yep.As I recall it had an enormous catalog of artists and songs, showed similar stuff, had boards with legit users on bands/styles, let you choose bit rate. Dl'ing 1 song at a time wouldn't really roll today but that's about its only defect.

[Anonymous No.1650950]

>>1650753
>R@ygold

[Anonymous No.1650957]

>>1650940
I actually came into this thread to ask for the name of that particular program, because I'd forgotten it, so thanks. Shame there's never been anything as good as that for finding music ever since.

[Anonymous No.1650965]

All I can remember about internet in the 90s was what the media told me about it, since I was too poorfag to actually have it.

And according to the media it was this hive of virtual reality sex and instructions on how to make bombs.

[Anonymous No.1650971]

>>1650965
Don't forget that downloading roms was IIILLLEEEEEEGGGAAAAALLLLL and that you would get anthrax.
Oh, and that you would evenentually find the freaky guy who was a h4x0r and cappable of giving you anthrax by ussing his secret h4ax0r magic.

[Anonymous No.1650980]

>>1650971
>Don't forget that downloading roms was IIILLLEEEEEEGGGAAAAALLLLL


I found that out very shortly when i finally did get the internet. I was scared shitless by that propaganda and didn't actually try emulation until like '03.

[Anonymous No.1650984]

>>1650980
I actually followed the delete-after-24-hours rule for a while.

[Anonymous No.1650991]

[Anonymous No.1651087]

>>1650768

yesssss

[Delicious Flat Level !9Y.AGAi22w No.1651107]

[Anonymous No.1651116]

>>1650293

never look at a gypsy's balls.

[Anonymous No.1651124]

>>1650882
>vinesauce
>windows 98 destruction

Am I the only one who finds vinesauce to be extremely unfunny? Not surprising since it's essentially "/v/ culture: The YouTube Channel".

[Anonymous No.1651151]

>>1650991

My Neopets have been starving for almost 5000 days now

I'm sorry Shoryuu

[Anonymous No.1651165]

Getting your game info from Un-biased the GIA. Gaming Intelligence Agency, Watching hq videos of psx, saturn, n64, dreamcast, and early ps2 demo video's, did you see ridge racer 5 omg soo cool graphx! 11, from www.chv.net still have some chv, mpeg's on cd-r's.

[Anonymous No.1651203]

>>1650293
Anyone here RP in AOL chats? Rhy'din ring any bells? I was a lowly pre-teen/teen..def spent long nights typing out my characters actions in third person. There was a lot of pathetic "stabs you in the dick"-style whiteknights, but there was also a fair amount of chill, creative people. Finding them was a bitch though. Being in a full tavern (chatroom) was kind of an exercise in futility unless you knew people there. Which I never did. Had a couple cringeworthy private im rp sessions as well... It was tricky, given that activity on the phoneline would disconnect me and ruin cybersex.
Also, people fucking with chat sounds was awful. AOL chatrooms def summed up 90s culture, gave trolls endless platforms, and gave me a generally bad impression of people.

[Delicious Flat Level !9Y.AGAi22w No.1651246]

Prodigy > AOL

[Anonymous No.1651257]

>CTRL+F
>Usurper
>Tradewars
>No results found for either

It's like I'm the only one who played BBS DOOR games.

[Anonymous No.1651258]

>>1651124
No, I don't you are the only person in the world to hold that opinion.

[Anonymous No.1651276]

>>1651257
I'm old enough to have played them, but a life of poverty prevented it. All I've used a BBS for is downloading new firmware for my first 56k modem. Most of the old guard is still on USENET and other forums.

[Anonymous No.1652187]

>>1650719
>Ancient 4chan

[Anonymous No.1652217]

>>1651203
Muh nigga. I spent hours doing the Rhydin thing. //roll mutha fucka. It got really pathetic as time went on. Most red dragon inn chats turned into weeaboo cyber sex fantasy dungeons. Horrid stuff.

[Anonymous No.1652221]

>>1652217
::grabs her ass and kisses her passionately with deep tongue. His hand slowly makes it's way up her shirt as he begins to feel her hard nips::

::gasps::

[Anonymous No.1652291]

postan some doom

[Anonymous No.1652294]

>>1652291

[Anonymous No.1652298]

>>1652294

[Anonymous No.1652302]

>>1652298

[Anonymous No.1652304]

>>1652302

[Anonymous No.1652305]

>>1650971

>implying it's not okay to download ROMs if you delete them after 24 hours

Also, is SimGirls retro?

[Anonymous No.1652308]

>>1652304

[Anonymous No.1652313]

>>1652308

[Anonymous No.1652325]

>>1650719
Fuckin' A did 4chan seriously look like that?

[Anonymous No.1652328]

>>1652305
The blue haired girl was clearly the best girl. I only wanted to fuck her and i got that shitty slut second from right.

[Anonymous No.1652330]

Remember when you could have spaces and symbols in your username? A true loss.

[Anonymous No.1652343]

>>1652217
>Most red dragon inn chats turned into weeaboo cyber sex fantasy dungeons. Horrid stuff.


This happened about 1999/2000 and I must admit I was in to this pretty hard.

It's even /vr/ related because most of the cyber I was in involved bitches from JRPGs as characters.

[Anonymous No.1652353]

>>1652305
>SimGirls
Such an innocent time when Evangelion had just come out and was the anime du jour for derivative works.

[Anonymous No.1652378]

I miss Graal so much.

[Anonymous No.1652395]

>>1652325
It's fake.

[Anonymous No.1652405]

>>1652353
>rodney mullen
>shitty dbz amv's
>incoming nosebleed

i would waste 500 hours and i would waste 500 more.

[Anonymous No.1652407]

>>1652313
>>1652308
>>1652304
old internet was so bro

everybody is just a kid fucking around, with no goals or aspirations but lots of motivation. stuff was so new back then people were so excited to just be online so chatting online was almost always positive.

[Anonymous No.1652419]

>>1650719
>Japanimation

my sides

Also,I wish there was a sports board from the start. 4chan not having /sp/ during 18-1 was a horrible tragedy, never 4get

[Anonymous No.1652428]

>>1652308
>then I went cyberpunk

[Anonymous No.1652453]

Internet is supposed to be capitalized, as we regard it as a place name to distinguish it from generic networks.

That's all I came here to say.

[Anonymous No.1652483]

>>1650753
>tfw it's still around as Frostwire.

[Anonymous No.1652490]

>>1650971
>>1650980
This still happens, even here on /vr/.

I saw an anon just the other day asking if it was possible to put roms and emulators on his phone without viruses.

[Anonymous No.1652494]

>>1652353
>download DBZ episode
>it's 12 megabytes
>only reason you can even figure out what's going on on the screen is because you've seen the episode before

[Anonymous No.1652498]

>>1650725

Can anyone upload this thing in action on youtube?

http://youtu.be/GlM_TIg7i-8

[Anonymous No.1652507]

>>1651124
Well, I don't like the videos by this guy, Joel, but one of the others, whose name alludes me, like watching.

[Anonymous No.1652532]

>>1652305

>simgirls

I remember finding it somewhere around 2002. It was unfinished as fuck though. Only the slutty girls path was completable.

[Anonymous No.1652547]

>>1652343
>involved bitches from JRPGs as characters
I once got down with someone who was playing Nikki from Mana Khemia who is canonically DTF anyway.

[Anonymous No.1652559]

>>1652343
Ha. It got so out of control I legit remember someone rping as the child of two people rping as Tuxedo Mask and Sailor Moon. Actions were like ::coos:: and ::cries:: or ::huggles Usagi::. I remember I sorta tried to get into the cyber rping thing when I was like 13 (around '01, '02). I was Locke and this broad was Garnet. She wanted to send a pic of her actual self. I liked where this was going ;). Well, I got the pic and she was a hideous 300 lb ham planet 10 years my senior. I swore off it right then and there.

[Anonymous No.1652570]

>>1652217
>>1652221
::wipes sweat off brow:: I'm relieved to hear I'm not a humongous faggot. 8/10 people ended up rp'ing anime characters...I'll admit for a little while I did as well. Dark Schneider. I fucked with a lot of people, but without breaking character or the 4th wall...twas an art in itself.

[Anonymous No.1652573]

>>1651124
>bashes vinesauce
>posts jontron

get the fuck out
>>>/v/

[Anonymous No.1652574]

>>1652559
>It got so out of control

..it got so out of control that Arts & Entertainment ended up with chats like "Rhydin Rape Alley" and "Rhydin Anthro Mating Plains."

>>this broad was Garnet.

Hah, I did a Garnet once. Never saw a RL pic, though.

Probably best ones I collected were a Schala from CT, and a Miang from Xenogears.


Thank you 4chan for giving me a place where I can discuss something as utterly reprehensible as JRPG character cybersex.

From 14-15 years ago, even.

[Anonymous No.1652575]

>>1650293
Muds were the very best MMOs that have ever existed. Woo telnet!

[Anonymous No.1652580]

>>1652559
That moment when you finally share a pic (which is fucking hard, because, what the fuck is a scanner?) where pretty crushing, both sides.

I was on the opposite end, when I was like 13yo, I was chatting with this girl from another state, about my age, we were getting along pretty good, became "cyber couple" (pffffffft), and where all lovey dovey for each other, then I showed her my pic and she instantly turned around and started acting like we were just regular friends. I mean, I wasn't exactly older or a ham beast, guess I was just standard ugly, but it was a though lesson to learn at that age : women are shallow bitches.

[Anonymous No.1652594]

I remember discovering ICQ and thinking it was the most awesome thing ever, I got a little bit late on it though, because MSN Messenger started becoming a thing soon after, and I was all like "Man, fuck that MSN shit, it's so weird, I'm staying ICQ forever". Eventually all my friends stopped using ICQ, and all the new ones I made used MSN only, so I had to migrate.

Years later, I still use MSN, even though only 4 of my 100+ contacts are still active. Everyone else moved to Facebook which I refuse to use. It's ok though, those 4 are the loyal ones, and I don't make new friends anymore.

[Anonymous No.1652612]

>>1652574
I've yet to meet someone IRL that devoted their puberty to cultivating their lexicon in an attempt to get their character laid...Not sure how I feel about it.
I rolled 4d20s.
Thinking back on all the guild applications people sent me, serious as fuck..those were interesting times, man. As weird as chat rping was to outsiders, I still think it was (occasionally) one of the most creative outlets I had back then.
Fuck those bitches at the Suicide Cliff though. That was just emo before emo was a thing.

[Anonymous No.1652621]

>>1652612
>guild

I actually joined a guild based around cyber where you got promoted for sharing sex logs.

[Anonymous No.1652632]

>>1652621
Ahaha! Some guilds were actually pretty cool and dedicated. The really cool ones used private chats. They also had armor you could earn and purchase. Weapons too. Homestead websites entirely dedicated to said guild. I was a part of a Megaman X guild but I always seemed to suck and never under stood how to //roll effectively and what not.

[Anonymous No.1652635]

>>1651203
>>1652217
>>1652343

I ran an edgy dark elven sorceror who was deliberately backlashing against the Drizzt stereotype, armed with carefully-balanced spells that had significant costs and downsides to casting any of them.

I never got anywhere.

[Anonymous No.1652638]

>>1652580
Ouch. My family didn't have a scanner, thank god . It probably would have scarred my adolescent years.

[Anonymous No.1652652]

>>1652594
somewhere i still got an 12yo+ account for a forum with my icq-number. i havent been using that forum except for accessing that data for over 6 years and log on to icq every few years to trade friendly insults/catch up with very few people. i never used any social media after icq, probably those times were more than enough.

[Anonymous No.1652653]

>>1652632
>Homestead websites

Hah, more nostalgia right there, I made Homestead websites about many characters.

Also reminds me of the crisis circa 2002 where no free sites hosted images any more and there wasn't fucking anything to host pics.

Oh, and on this matter:
>Fuck those bitches at the Suicide Cliff though.

I did just that, as Rhydin Suicide Cliff was a hub for pickups.

[Anonymous No.1652675]

>>1652638
i remember visiting a friend around 2001 who told me he had met a person called something along the lines of "big junk". in hope of some ass - at least that's what he told me - he got a picture sent over, which he of course without any further commentary he had to show me.
and that, dear anons, is how for the first and quite possibly last time in my life i've seen a scan of an erection, balls on the plate, complete with cum dribbling and all.

[Anonymous No.1652676]

>>1652653
HahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhhahahahhhhhahahahahHhahahahhahahahah

Suicide Cliff. The feels. All those angst teen and preteen girls living out their fantasy of a white knight to save them from their own actions. Lawdy.

[Anonymous No.1652681]

>>1652675
That reminds me of back in '94 when AOL had scheduled chats, I started talking with this kid who was in the 6th grade from Texas. I myself was 6. He asked if I got boners and I didn't know what that meant, so I asked my older brother. He alerted my mom and I was banned from the internet for quite a while as a result.

[Anonymous No.1652683]

>>1652676
Guys too to a lesser extent, but they'd make their characters kill themselves and no one would bat an eye huehuehue

[Princess Sevenleaf !AnVbXjgZco No.1652690]

>>1652676
Probably too many girls who just saw Titanic and thought it was the most romantic thing ever.

Fuck any movie that tries to romanticize jumping into bed with any handsome socialite you just met ten minutes ago. That movie was the Twilight of its decade.

[Anonymous No.1652723]

When I was 12 and had a shitty Windows 98 computer with no antivirus, I once got hacked by this guy. I think I downloaded some fake crack or something, and at first it looked like nothing had happened to my computer, but apparently what it did was open a backdoor and put your computer on a list, which people using the corresponding hacking software could see, and they could connect to your computer and do all sorts of messed up stuff, like change the colors of the screen, open your CD-ROM tray, and display messages in a primitive looking internal chat, basically, a souped up sci-fi version of a standard remote control too. My particular predator was probably some bored edgy teenager, he didn't do anything bad in particular but he scared the shit out of me, specially when he started talking to me. I begged him to leave me alone, and eventually panicked and shut down the computer. I was able to locate the virus later, and removed it manually, which made me feel like a badass.

I also ran across several "hackers" in IRC (read: script kiddies that downloaded some popular exploit and learned how to use it) who could instantly blue screen you if you pissed them off, sometimes even taking your Windows installation with them.

Come to think of it, viruses back then were actually scary, we've come a long way in terms of vulnerability. These days the worst you get is porn popups, or that fake FBI warning, but it's not as bad as someone actually taking control over your computer or fucking you up in real time.

[Princess Sevenleaf !AnVbXjgZco No.1652739]

>>1652723
I had a friend in high school who had one of those rootkits installed on her computer, it was embedded in an image someone sent her over AIM. He took control of her webcam and said he'd format her hard drive if she didn't show him tits... scary. That's why I refuse to own a webcam.

[Anonymous No.1652824]

Anyone remember No$GB? the best GB emulator around for a while and also the only one that was paid (and fucking expensive, may I add)?

I once tried to download a cracked version, apparently it was a bad one, because copy protection kicked in. Next time I restarted my computer, I got a big, flashy ascii art moralfag message that said something along the lines : "YOU'RE STEALING FROM ME! WHAT WOULD YOUR MOM THINK IF SHE KNEW HER SON IS A THIEF?", then it forced you to tab the space bar like a 100 times to remove the message, and then you could start the computer like normal.

Sure scared me, I thought it was gonna wipe my computer or something. What an asshole, needless to say, I eventually found a working cracked version, so fuck you, emulator guy!

[Anonymous No.1652873]

>>1652621
>>1652632
>>1652635
>>1652653
>>1652676
>>1652683
Mein negers. As well thought out as some guilds/organizations were, I longed for global rules...a lot was understood, like how to execute an action, but things like diceroll weren't always used, or people would claim certain modifiers..special weapons/abilities. The whole thing begged for a governing body above guild-level. Pretty wild thinking about the amount of effort put into something less tangible than d&d

[Anonymous No.1652946]

>>1652739
Now that you mention it, the little chat thingy did show the guy's username, and it was something like "GrandpaXX", also the very first thing he said was "Are you a girl?", guess he was a bored old pervert after all, not a teenager.

[Anonymous No.1653054]

>>1652217
>Most red dragon inn chats turned into weeaboo cyber sex fantasy dungeons. Horrid stuff.

You just described half of /tg/.

[Anonymous No.1653069]

anyone remember some old shockwave or flash game that was like a castle you could explore and chat in and play simple games like connect 4, etc?

There were no avatars or anything, but you could chat, iirc.

[Anonymous No.1653092]

>>1652570
No, you were a humongous faggot, alright.

It's just a lot of other people were, too.

[Anonymous No.1653117]

>Feb. 1999
>Parents get me internet-capable computer for the first time
>They remind me constantly to not give people online ANY personal information, even if it's just my first name
>People I know online generally have to get to know someone before they even give out vague details like their first name or the state they're in

Fast-forward!

>May 2014
>Everybody (and my mom included) has a Facebook account, which includes full names, place of birth and current town (sometimes even down to the address), present phone numbers for work, home and cell phone, numerous current pictures of themselves, status updates of where they are at that very moment (complete with a map), the school they're currently going to, who their family is (and links to their pages), and all sorts of other imformation
>People gleefully share their Facebook URLs with each other, sometimes completely unsolicited

[Anonymous No.1653180]

>>1653117
Yeah, the Internet's gone down the shitter.

[Anonymous No.1653189]

>Cartoon Network games
>That one with the hotel where you could play as Courage and shit with the island resort or whatever
>those badges
>trading for those badges
>flaming over those fucking badges

>maplestory market

@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ WTB @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ ~TIME MACHINE~ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

[Anonymous No.1653201]

>>1653189
oh god, all of this.

[Anonymous No.1653217]

>>1653117
When we first got internet and discovered IRC, I was super excited about finding people from my area, you know, because I was too shy to actually talk in person. One day I found a channel with local people from my city, I met a guy and girl from my middle school, they were both 2 grades above me. I don't even remember what I said, but I gave them my real name and told them we go to the same school, long story short, next day the guy went to look for me in my classroom during break and threatened to kick my ass in front of my friends, while I was eating a popsicle which I dropped because I was scared. He ended up doing nothing and just left, but it was super awkward. I also have no idea what his deal was, guess he thought I was hitting on his girl and wanted to look cool in front of her or something

[Anonymous No.1653218]

Who remembers fight chat rooms? just kids verbally abusing each other over the Internet and threatening to kill each other. Every parody song on p2p being listed as Weird Al. Music videos and AMV's that turned out to be porn.

I used to be a regular on Totse too. And back in my thirteen year old 1337 script kiddy days thought Cult of the Dead Cow was the most awesome thing ever.

[Anonymous No.1653236]

>Stealing emoticons on MSN messenger.
>Sub7 and Amitis, opening your victims D drive and screen flipping.
>Blocking and unblocking people over and over on MSN messenger to piss them off.
>Now playing plugin on MSN messenger.
>MSN Messenger.

[Anonymous No.1653239]

The funny thing is that those Dating Sims on Newgrounds are still the best western made dating sims. I actually had fun playing those.

[Anonymous No.1653248]

I'm sure i played some love hina flash game where you can get laid.

Who remembers Tekzoned and stileproject? Can you remember back to a time you had never seen goatse before?

[Anonymous No.1653253]

"Currently listening to: "Tainted Love - The Ramones""

[Anonymous No.1653262]

I remember when Google didn't rule the fucking world and I had to use multiple search engines to find stuff because they would have varied results. Oh, Hotbot and Dogpile.

[Anonymous No.1653264]

>>1650805
I remember being part of the N64 fortress. We were such faggots back then. Jesus!

[Anonymous No.1653267]

Milk and Cereal.
Maddox being relevant and edgy.

[Anonymous No.1653278]

>>1653236

>spamming walls of emotions as fast as possible until their computer crashed

[Anonymous No.1653281]

>>1653262

I miss how people used to make websites, people would connect as networks through their sites and sharing links and banners. There was imagination and creativity involved in it. The Internet just had more soul back then, so much has changed.

[Anonymous No.1653285]

>>1653278
HOLY FUCK I forgot about that jesus I had some awesome times doing that to people hahaha

[Anonymous No.1653303]

>>1653281

It was the wild west of the internet. Now there's too many monopolies that overshadow absolutely everything.

[Anonymous No.1653305]

Didn't have access to the internet until around 2000. I used to go to this site called evildave.com until it went down. It had flash animations like celebrity abortion, giving Britney Spears a dirty sanchez, and tons of other funny shit. I got my giggles from other shock sites like fugly and steakandcheese too.

Actually, first thing i did when i got online was follow a friend's link to plasticman.org and watch all your base. I wasn't even at the computer for 5 minutes before getting exposed to memes.

Some of the things i remember from those days are the emails that circulated around, like that idiotic "bad american" rant that was falsely credited to George Carlin, chain letters, racist jokes, and anything else that you could cram into a 3-5 MB inbox.

[Anonymous No.1653320]

>you aint got the balls

[Anonymous No.1653330]

I have been posting in message boards since 1998.
The time around 9/11 and the American invasion of Iraq was awesome in the internet.

The biggest change was facebook, when normal people, even grandmothers, got into the internet.
Before that anonymous discussions using nicknames were the norm, nowadays people use their real names and look down on those who use nicknames.

[Anonymous No.1653334]

Ah, the days when rotten.com was the worst shit you could find on the net. Young and naive.

[Anonymous No.1653421]

>>1653262
Early Altavista search result:

"Did you mean, 'Entail'?"

[/spoiler]I was looking for this fucking awesome new thing, 'Hentai/.'[/spoiler]

[Anonymous No.1653423]

>>1653278
>Sending vibrations and sounds
Oh god.
It was the shit.

[Anonymous No.1653438]

>>1650957
Soulseek yo, essentially the same thing, small community with incredibly obscure shit in great quality

http://www.soulseekqt.net/news/node/1

[Anonymous No.1653536]

>>1653236
that motherfucker that had basically an emoticon per word so you have to guess what the fuck they're saying

[Anonymous No.1653618]

>>1653069
i think i know what you're talking about. you moved around the castle in first-person and the different rooms lead to different games, right?
there was one game my friend and i used to play all the time; you started off on this blank, black grid and summoned monsters to fight each other. each monster had a certain success rate to their summoning, but you could also create a hologram with all the properties of the original that would come out 100% of the time, but was vulnerable to a vaporizer or something that you both had

[Anonymous No.1653675]

Winnuking the opponent in Warcraft2/quake/whatever if you started losin

[Anonymous No.1653686]

>>1653218
>Totse
my nigga, my name on there was w33d. used to argue for days on the politics board.

[Anonymous No.1653690]

Did anyone else used to download shit from aol chatrooms from those bots?

[Anonymous No.1653718]

>>1652453
It gets SO fucking autistic in here sometimes...

[Anonymous No.1653719]

>>1653281
Yeah man, I remember when I first made my account at Xoom then uploaded my first webpage created on Notepad using HTML lessons from some magazine. It was hard work considering I was like 13, and felt so important about having the potential of thousands of people seeing what I put up there. Then blogs came about and any numbskull could have their own "webpage" without knowing shit about coding, then MySpace and Facebook essentially killed the idea of the "personal webpage", and Wikis made fansites for shows and videogames completely obsolete.

[Anonymous No.1653729]

I remember going to an old site called Mamamedia when I was a kid. That and looking up cheat codes was pretty much all I used the Internet for back in the 90s.

I didn't start participating in online communities until 2004 or so.

[Anonymous No.1653731]

>>1653718
>autistic

I take it you're not old enough to browse 4chan.

[Anonymous No.1653764]

>>1650805
>ANTagonist

hoooooly fuck I used to write FF7 fanfiction on one of the messageboards there

I was always glad it was gone forever

>>1651203
NO I DEFINITELY DID NOT HANG OUT AT THE RHYDIN ARENA AS CAPCOM CHARACTERS YOU CAN'T PROVE ANYTHING

[Anonymous No.1653769]

>>1652221
>>1652570
double colons on either side for poses holy shit it's been so long

I wonder how many other people there were like, 13, like I was

hell makes you wonder how many babbies are on 4chan right now along with us old fucks

[Anonymous No.1653916]

>>1651203
Never did Rhydin. I did the pokemon chats

[Anonymous No.1653921]

>>1653769
((Don't forget about mun bubbles ::winks::))

[Anonymous No.1653946]

>>1650346
It's kind of hard to claim that a Slavic foreigner who speaks broken English and is "accidentally" offensive is your original idea.

[Anonymous No.1653958]

Anyone remember Submachine?

[Anonymous No.1653972]

>>1653092
>This is still 4chan, bitch
alright alright, I get it.
>>1653769
I often feel I shouldn't still be here..
>>1653921
I was wondering if anyone remembered that. Who the fuck made these things standard?

[Anonymous No.1653983]

>>1653189
is maplestory retro now? that couldnt have been that long ago

[Anonymous No.1653987]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PffpCsDmZPI

[Anonymous No.1654445]

Does anyone remember how old homestead, geocity and angelfire websites used to be shared? There were genre specific webrings. I think that's what they were called anyway. You would join them to promote your amateur website. If you had a Zelda website, you'd join a Zelda or video game specific webring. It was also a great alternative to search engines at the time. Some of the websites were semi pro.

Also, gif websites. Lots of them. They all looked so pretty. I remember people would have snes gifs of Goku and Vegeta throwing energy beans and they were faced at eachother so it looked like they were fighting

[Anonymous No.1654446]

>>1653769
Do you remember how people would make their AIM profile as a backround to their character? Like, full description, down to weapons, armor and general dress. Girls would frequently Sailor Moon it up and make damn sure to mention right skirts and long legs.

[Anonymous No.1654449]

>>1654445
According to Wikipedia:

A webring (or web ring) is a collection of websites linked together in a circular structure, and usually organized around a specific theme, often educational or social.[1] They were popular in the 1990s and early 2000s, particularly among amateur websites.

[Anonymous No.1654450]

>>1654445
>energy beans

Harhar

[Anonymous No.1654459]

>>1652532
he went on and finished it 10 years later. It's not that great, though. The artwork is absolutely horrible and off-model sometimes and for some reason it comes of even more as a 13 year-old's power fantasy than before.

[Anonymous No.1654462]

>>1653054

You, sir, have inspired me. Let's see where this goes. I want to see if anyone bites. I've never been on /tg/ until 5 minutes ago. Le lel

[Anonymous No.1654465]

i mostly remember an adventure game which had an invisible man and some alien like maze. i think i've played on yahooligans. it's been 14 years since i've played and i can't find any related info about it.

i would be really grateful if anyone remembers it.

[Anonymous No.1654468]

>>1654465
Sounds a helluva lot like Heiankyo Alien. It was ported to every /vr/ console you can think of. It was probably ported and or ripped off for browser use. Hope this helps.

[Anonymous No.1654478]

I know I'm a fag but I genuinely miss the original myspace. I miss the gay little profile songs that told people who you were. I miss the original youtube when no one knew what they were doing and we didnt have all these click bait youtube "personalities" and ads everywhere. now with facebook and twitter everything just seems bland and filtered.

[Anonymous No.1654483]

>>1654478
Son, you'd best take that myspace shit elsewhere. This is a retro internet thread on a retro video game board. Just... Just giiiit out!

[Anonymous No.1654492]

>>1654483
Oh none of us had myspaces and none of us have facebook now right sorry

[Anonymous No.1654502]

>>1654492
Have you read this thread at all? The only time Facebook comes up is to show contrast between the internet circa '92-'99 to today.

What are you, 16? "Hey gaise, remember back in the day when we all had MySpace? That was so long ago, I was like 10. Thems the days bruhs"

My point is that MySpace is off topic. It's not retro interwebs. The general rule of this board is that discussion is about platforms created '99 and before. MySpace was like, what, 2004? See my point?

[Anonymous No.1654518]

>>1654502
Well let me get banned then or ignore my post

[Anonymous No.1654528]

>>1654518
I'd rather point out your ignorance.

[Anonymous No.1654529]

>>1654478
>>1654483
>>1654492
>>1654502
>>1654518
>>1654528
both of you are fags.

[Anonymous No.1654532]

who else used to get wallpapers from digitalblasphemy.com?

[Anonymous No.1654541]

>>1654529
But you, sir, are the biggest fag.

[Anonymous No.1654545]

>>1654468
naw man, it was an adventure game.
but thanks anyway.

[Anonymous No.1654547]

>>1654532
Fuck yeah dude. Then I'd play that frog in the blender game.

[Anonymous No.1654551]

>planetnamek.com
>my face when I was banned from the forum for asking for nude pics of someone

[Anonymous No.1654560]

>>1654551
>dragonmoonx.com

The rickroll of Arts & Entertainment chatrooms. It was frequently posted as a website for free downloads of Dragon Ball Z and Sailor Moon episodes.

>mfw Goku is plowing Sailor Moon in the ass and she's got a huge erect dick right on the front page as the first thing you see

[Anonymous No.1654561]

I for one don't miss my slow ass connection and the small amount I could download back in the 90's.

It was fairly cool at the time, though. I recall playing some browser game called Archmage that had pretty looking gothic imagery. I found internet more useful for finding homebrewed RPG supplement, low quality porn and playing Diablo on battlenet with my superior swedish broadband.

[Anonymous No.1654580]

>>1654529
It's because of people like you that we can't have nice things on 4chan.

[Anonymous No.1654593]

>>1654561
Internet taught me how great Sweden is.

Fården fan!

[Anonymous No.1654595]

>download steve irwin stingray death video from limewire
>it's a video of two girls pissing on each other outdoors

[Anonymous No.1654624]

>>1654595
I remember browsing porn on line wire and there was always this file that popped up in the search that was labeled "12 year old fucked by grandpa"

[Anonymous No.1654709]

>>1654624

[Anonymous No.1654712]

>>1654595
So, everything went better than expected?

[Anonymous No.1654715]

>>1650823
Muh nostalgia

[Anonymous No.1654853]

Does anyone remember that chat service where there was a bulletin board style area where people put up their avatar? Your avatar wasn't anything more than a picture. I remember you could move your avatar around and such. I remember seeing Zell as someone's avatar before FF8 was announced in US gaming press. That was the epitome of retro interwebs to me.

[Anonymous No.1654870]

>>1653675
>telling random people in chatrooms that you were a hacker
>getting called out on it
>Winnuke the guy who called you out
>"oh shit he really is a hacker"

Those were the days.

[Anonymous No.1655073]

>>1652723
Well malware these days tends to dig itself in deeper and hide better than in the old days. You might have something and not even know about it. Heck, it's quite possible your hardware is backdoored. All recent Intel CPUs have a remote admin tool (AMT) that can't be disabled at all, no matter what (short of destroying the CPU...) About the only way to avoid that is switch to another architecture, like ARM or MIPS, or use older hardware.

[Anonymous No.1655114]

>>1653281
>>1653719
I really like hand-crafted personal/amateur web pages, such as these two Lain fansites:
http://www.cjas.org/~leng/lain.htm
http://fauux.neocities.org/

Or these video game sites:
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/
http://it-he.org/
http://thief.nov.ru/azal/

Personal web pages died so hard that between the fall of Angelfire and Geocities and the creation of Neocities, there was no free hosting service for personal web pages that I can remember. People kept using Blogger and Wordpress, but those services are of course irredeemably shit for anything but their intended purpose, and not even necessarily good for that either. And yet here they still are, long after blogging has been replaced by "social media."

It's not that Wikis made fansites obsolete, it's maybe that there hasn't been a good way of making free fansites and that younger people today may even be unfamiliar with the concept.

I don't like how impersonal, corporate and transient the Web has become. By transient I mean there's a large focus on just dumping a whole lot of shit that's forgotten or becomes irrelevant within days or weeks, e.g. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, blog-style sites like Kotaku. Even the sites themselves can be transient, as people move on to the next big thing.

[Anonymous No.1655157]

>>1652824
I think iNES was shareware too. Anyone who was into emulation in the 90's might remember this:
http://fms.komkon.org/iNES/

[Anonymous No.1655162]

>>1655114
>http://www.cjas.org/~leng/lain.htm
>nice to see that this site is still up
>"For my latest thoughts and lain news, be sure to check out my blog"
>"Close the World, Open the nExt - Ryutaro Nakamura (1955 - 2013)"
man. i didnt know.

[Anonymous No.1655201]

Remember when he was the coolest guy ever?

[Anonymous No.1655224]

>>1653958
Yes, it was the bomb.

[Anonymous No.1655243]

>>1654561
I didn't have any problems with 28.8K speed for a long time. Used to set my Usenet client to download from alt.binaries.* all night long... And browsing the web wasn't bad either, because pages were lean and mean. Plus, you could browse most sites with Lynx or Mosaic, or even Netscape with images turned off. Then if you wanted to see a particular image, you'd just click on it, and it would load. Even sites desiged for IE didn't pose nearly as many problems as trying to get around modern javascript-infected modern websites that load dozens of stuff from third party sites, and all that the tracking stuff.

Heck, I even played tons of online Quake around 1996-97, on my little 28.8 modem. It was fine so long as you connected to a decent server so your ping was < 300 ms. And speaking of Quake, here's a mirror of one of my favorite websites:

https://www.quaddicted.com/webarchive/hosted.planetquake.gamespy.com/spq2/quake1/index.htm

Yeah, used to enjoy single-player Quake also. And used to play on LAN with friends. It was an amazing game at the time. Couldn't get enough of Quake...

[Anonymous No.1655247]

>>1655201
I've always thought he kinda sucked, to be honest.

[Anonymous No.1655253]

>>1655201
He's straightforward I'll give him that, but now he just seems bitchy.

[Anonymous No.1655256]

>>1655253
>now

He's always been like that.

[Anonymous No.1655297]

old godzilla was fucking around
tokyo city like a big playground
when suddenly batman jizzed from the shade
and hit godzilla with a bat cum spray

[Anonymous No.1655306]

>>1652723
IT Security has definitely made leaps and bounds from the old days where every port was open and an OS allowed kernel writing. Still have a long ways to go with things like ransomware or remote session hijacking.
DOS viruses were always interesting. A lot of them were just for fun, creating a dancing guy on screen or a monster eating your inputs. Although some of them got freaky when they were malicious. The turkey virus drew a turkey on the screen in bright colors; if someone had a 'dumb' monitor it would burn out the cathodes and render it junked. And then there was the CMOSdead virus which, after deleting the CMOS memory, would proceed to give the user a heart-attack http://youtu.be/2H1ltYUQO2I?t=1m4s
Viruses don't really announce themselves as they did back in the day.

Being a little limewire kiddy when I was younger, I got quite a bit of viruses. Worst one I got was when you opened up IE it opened 300 porn tabs. Hard to explain that to my parents...

[Anonymous No.1655350]

>>1655114
>Not ladyofthecake
>Being this pleb
www.ladyofthecake.com/diablo/

[Anonymous No.1655468]

>>1655114
>http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/
Nice to know people here visit this site. An article I wrote was just published there. Though I've never really thought of it in comparison to the old fansites.

[Anonymous No.1655632]

>>1651246
Fuck yeah. I remember the NOVA website was full of neat little articles on solar phenomenon and all dat MS-Paint artwork that looks like this shit.

[Anonymous No.1655657]

>>1650991
>most of the pages of Neopets have not changed at all in 14 years

[Anonymous No.1655670]

>>1650293
FAGGOT!
You forgot Cybertown

[Anonymous No.1655673]

>>1652594

One of my current best friends contacted be through ICQ back in 2001, due to common interests. I remember thinking MSN sucked because you couldn't look up people's interest and you needed their e-mail account to add them.
I also refused to use MSN (been using ICQ since 1999, when I got internet at home), but by 2001 I was forced to since almost everyone moved from ICQ to MSN by then.
Now that I think of it, I always hated MSN, I remember having a lot of trouble with it, especially the file transfer... but at the end of its lifetime, file transfer became irrelevant due to Megaupload, and being able to draw with the mouse was cool.
I used MSN up until 2012 when every single one of my contacts migrated definitely to Facebook/whatsapp/whatever.

I also used IRC a lot, and another of my best friends I met on IRC too.

The internet used to be interesting back in the day. I mean the kind of people you might come up with. Now it's just real life v2.

[Anonymous No.1655674]

>>1655201
I do.
His testacles were as large as basketballs.

[Anonymous No.1655679]

>>1650950
>Being a sick fuck and knowing what that is

[Anonymous No.1655686]

>>1651203
I met my wife roleplaying bloody roar over an aol chat

[Anonymous No.1655703]

Bonus.com was my favorite flash games site. Used to sneak on the school's computers to play it. They had like, 5 good games and the rest were reskins of the good games.

[Anonymous No.1655709]

>>1653618
That game sounds like a clone of Chaos: The Battle of Wizards by Julian Gollop for ZX Spectrum.

[Anonymous No.1655917]

>>1653686

I was Iskalla, your name sounds familiar. im still on zoklet.

[Anonymous No.1655920]

HELLO MY FUTURE GIRLFRIEND

[Anonymous No.1655927]

>>1655350
I never played Diablo, so how would I know about that site? And even if I did, I wasn't making a comprehensive list of game fansites, I just posted a few examples.

[Anonymous No.1656009]

>>1653438
this. it works so well, its kinda funny to see music sharing come full circle.

[Anonymous No.1656241]

>>1652407
Agreed.

Sometimes I miss the days when being nice, cordial and forgiving to strangers was the norm on the internet and people would often respect each others opinions when divergences arose instead of shit flinging;

Not to say flame wars and name calling didn't happen back then but it wasn't as frequent and gratuitous as they are now. Now that I think about it I guess it's one of the reasons I'm a lot less social on the internet today than I used to.

[Anonymous No.1656410]

Mobiles Disco was the shit in 1999 - 2002 when it finally closed. I miss that site so much, I owe a hell of a lot to it as it actually ultimately led to me getting my first real job.

Hotelli Kultakala, now known as Habbo Hotel was fucking awesome as well.

[Anonymous No.1656417]

>>1656410
I'll dump a screencap of the other half of the room. Anyone else here still kick around Newgrounds by the way? I've been around that joint since 2000, and I still visit daily.

I have a few BETA/ALPHA screenshots of Hotelli Kultakala, MChat, and Habbo from like 1999 if anyone wants those, just ask.

[Anonymous No.1656425]

Anyone remember these fuckers? I have a couple still saved.

[Anonymous No.1656429]

>>1656425

[Anonymous No.1656430]

>>1656429
That's all I got in respect to these, would love some more if anyone has any to share.

[Anonymous No.1656593]

>>1655468
Nigga hg101 is without a shadow of a doubt my favourite site. What article did you write?

[Anonymous No.1656604]

>>1653117

I still don't have a Facebook. I met a girl in a pub a week or so ago and she wanted to exchange FBs. When I told her I didn't have one she looked at me like I said I'd never eaten ice cream or something, but then we exchanged numbers and it was all good. I refuse to engage in "social networking".

[Anonymous No.1656624]

>>1650330
Why is Nicholas Cage brown?

[Anonymous No.1656701]

>>1656604
Pff, everyone has Facebook. Why fight it?

I mostly use it too see what artists I like have planned instead of jumping between several sites/blogs.

If anything I want to avoid being a ludite.

[Anonymous No.1656709]

>>1651203

Ah yes, how could I forget that, along with my brand of faggotry that was Ghaleon Exdeath. Or some shit like that, with the rather bullshit ability to practically copy any ability he saw. I'd like to think I've gotten somewhat better at RPing, at the very least, learning to lose with some grace.

And now that I have shown my shame, I shall show /tg/'s as well, for I am feeling like being an asshole.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/4264012/

[Anonymous No.1656716]

>>1656701
I had a Facebook since about 2009 and just recently deleted it. I see your point and shared your opinion for a good many years. It's hard to point my finger on exactly why I decided to get rid of Facebook, but it caused me a great deal of social anxiety.

[Anonymous No.1656741]

>>1656716
Mine's lain fallow with no updates since I made the thing. I just don't care to post personal information on the web for people to see, but when I was interviewing for work, people would look at me like I was a serial killer if I said I didn't have one.

[Anonymous No.1656756]

>>1656741
I talk to friends on Facebook when they post stuff but I don't really make any posts of my own. If people want to talk to me they know how to contact me.

The anxiety is only in your own head unless you act it out by being very awkward.

[Anonymous No.1656781]

Man, you guys are old. The old days of the internet for me were like 2003 and onwards, although I spent a lot of time before then playing games like AvP2 instead of browsing because I was antisocial.

[Anonymous No.1656817]

>>1650719

But 4chan never looked like that. Stop trying to pretend to be cool.

[Anonymous No.1656827]

I've never had a Facebook. I saw how Myspace quickly decayed into a cesspit of egocentrism and petty squabbles and couldn't see Facebook being any different.
Unless one were to count instant messenger stuff, save a Livejournal way back when, I've never had any social media accounts. Ever. Many of my better friends have lately started to tell me that they've deleted their FBs altogether because they're 'tired of the drama.' A few have started to go through social isolation because nearly all of their friends have FB and no one calls anyone anymore and people get invited out via Tweet, FB update and other social media outlets.
Me? I mostly associate with work colleagues and my neighbours, so no need for FB to keep up my social life.

[Anonymous No.1656853]

>>1656593
I'm not one do shamelessly plug my stuff (though I did mention it in the first place) but it was the series about Zeddas & it's long lost sequels.

[Anonymous No.1656873]

>>1656817
Jesus christ, what is your problem.

>>1656701
Facebook is concentrated egofaggotry, which is what makes most web forums unbearable hell. Self-aggrandizement all day long, astroturfing, drama wars, SJW bullshit.

The web is basically Detroit. It was once a good place for people with talent, skill, and initiative to show their stuff, to run businesses, or to make good times for everyone. There was a shit element to it, which has grown larger and larger to the present day, encompassing the whole.

God, imagine what will happen when something else becomes the 4chan, to 4chan's Gaia Online.

[Anonymous No.1656892]

>>1656756
I don't think I articulated myself properly. I'll give you an example. I once posted on a female friends facebook about a time we had hung out. My girlfriend sees this post and wigs out even though the event took place 5 years prior. This is just the easiest to explain instance.

The anxiety is neither just in my head nor is it real by me awkwardly acting it out. Keep in mind you're talking to another adult. Your unsolicited tidbit came of as quite condescending, as if you were giving advice to a younger cousin or something.

[Anonymous No.1656896]

>>1656892
So you're just a man who appreciates his privacy, and the ability to exist in his present state without the baggage of the past being hauled out on day one in any new relationship. You have no place in the twenty-first century! Why don't you go live in a cabin in the woods and read books about spies, while smoking a pipe and drinking bourbon!

Wait, shit, that sounds like a good idea.

[Anonymous No.1656905]

>>1656873
>Facebook is concentrated egofaggotry, which is what makes most web forums unbearable hell. Self-aggrandizement all day long, astroturfing, drama wars, SJW bullshit.

I have learnt from 4chan how to avoid drama and spot people who wants to start shit out of boredom. We are not really much better when it comes to being nice considerate people.

The only nice communities are the small ones where we get to know people and understand how to deal with their feelings. All large communities tends forget the individual behind the post because we can only focus on so much at once.

/vr/ is a nice board because we talk about the things we like as people rather than just backing up the opinions we have in common. If /vr/ would expand with 200% more users the board would have a distinct drop in quality because the topics becomes more important than the people we talk to.

[Anonymous No.1656907]

>>1656896
You hit the nail on the head. I miss the AIM days.

[Anonymous No.1656909]

>>1656892
I'm sorry if I came across as acting condescending. I have been talking to angsty /v/irgins and their feels for an hour and I guess I was still in the same gear.

[Anonymous No.1656912]

>>1656905
For some reason, my mind jumped to the drop in quality Quiznos experienced when they had expanded. In '99 I'd raid their free samples at my local mall. Now, you could hardly pay me to take that garbage.

[Anonymous No.1656914]

>>1656896
Not the guy you're replying to but you are both right.

A Facebook is often seen by employers as an example of your social skills. If you don't have one (and by extention don't let them see the one you have) it's a red flag and often a deal breaker.

On the flip side Facebook doesn't really do anything other than let people contact you which seems kind of silly in an era of everyone over. 10 having a cell phone. Then you have the extra baggage of nothing ever being truly deleted on Facebook. That spelling bee kid, despite being very young, will have that video follow him for a long time.

I don't have a Facebook if only because my social circle revolves around work and my kids. I wouldn't deter them away from it, but I will let them know the power of 'permanent' records.

[Anonymous No.1656916]

>>1656909
It's Saul Goodman

[Anonymous No.1656924]

>>1656916
Ah, I have not watched that far into Breaking Bad.

[Anonymous No.1656930]

>>1656924
>It's Saul Goodman
>It's all goodman
>It's all good, man.

THE CODE IS CRACKED

[Anonymous No.1656939]

>>1653189
Oh god I remember that.

Also playing free Runescape in Varrock
>Selling runes
>Selling runes
>Selling runes
>Selling runes
>Selling runes
>Selling runes

[Anonymous No.1656953]

My earliest internet memory is watching those Sonic Vs Mario flashes on Newgrounds circa 2003. Before that it was basically Runescape and Cartoon Network flash games from about 2001 onwards.

[Anonymous No.1656969]

>>1656930
>>1656924
>>1656916
He's gotten his own spin-off series that takes place prior to the events of BB. It's to debut this November. In the meantime, you can watch him as a fairly inept though well-meaning police-deputy-turned-interrim-chief on FX's Fargo (which is a wholly fantastic programme).

[Anonymous No.1656970]

>>1656939
>runescape

Oh my god i remember my old account. I have it written somewhere

[Anonymous No.1656972]

>>1650991
http://youtu.be/QJdwTZsMPEA
Nostalgia bomb incoming

[Anonymous No.1657023]

>>1656701
I've been online since 1995, and a few years earlier I was on BBS. I saw the social networking sites wax and wane, and never had any real interest in them. Some friends had accounts on livejournal, but even though I used to read their stuff, I didn't feel like I had anything worth talking about in public. I was more into email and IRC, or even talk/ytalk, you know, the old Unix talk program:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_%28software%29

I mean, hell I started out with a SunOS shell account on dialup, before the days of PPP or even SLIP. Doing stuff in the Unix shell was normal back then for anyone who expected to use the Internet. If nothing else, they knew how to manage their own home directory, and run stuff like Pine (for mail/news) and Lynx, maybe even ircII and some MUD clients.

So anyway, I also posted on Usenet, but eventually I discovered that an organization called Deja News was archiving all the posts which I thought were only transient in nature. So I basically stopped posting with my real name at that point. I just don't feel comfortable having all my shit archived for perpetuity.

The only exception I made was to create a LinkedIn account a few years ago, in the hopes it would help me get a job. But in truth, that was a mistake, and I should probably just delete it. I never bothered to update it anyway. And I get tons of spam from there all the time, about people I don't know updating their profile (like I even care...)

And at this point it's clear we're living in a global surveillance society, so I'm never going to put any more personal stuff online. Heck, I don't even post anywhere now except 4chan other places that allow anonymous posting (without having to register an account). About the only exception might be telnet BBS or MUD or other low-profile stuff, where there is only a small community that's not easily spied upon and all interaction publicly archived, etc.

[Anonymous No.1657032]

I want to go back. I want to relive the past.
I crave the 90s era of computing. I strive for the 90s video game scene. I want to relive nights in IRC talking to strangers and laughing my ass off. I want to surf an internet not towered over by mega corporations advertising their shitty products. I want people to make a new website, not a new facebook account.

Oh lordy, I want to go back.

[Anonymous No.1657041]

>>1657023
Could you recommend any anonymous chat sites outside of 4chan?

[Anonymous No.1657059]

>>1657041
This.

[Anonymous No.1657060]

>>1657032
You can't go back. Non of us can.

[Anonymous No.1657061]

>>1657041
I like lainchan, but it's still small.

[Anonymous No.1657063]

>>1657032
I have a literal decade of IRC logs. It's weird as shit reading through some of the older ones.

Most of the people who I used to shoot the shit with in IRC have moved to a Google+ hangout, so it's basically the same.

[Anonymous No.1657069]

>>1656417
>Anyone else here still kick around Newgrounds by the way?


I HEAVILY used NG from about 02-04.

I loved people's shitty but funny homebrew animations, just regular amateur people making the most out of a regular person's time and resources. I sat there all day voting on Portal submissions and even saving some awful but genius ones before they got blammed. I even did a couple videos of my own, fuck Flash was Macromedia back then and not Adobe.

I quit NG, though- when things got too professional. Pretty videos made by pros seeking attention (or outright stolen from) from random countries in Korea and Spain or whatever dominating the site wasn't the Newgrounds I loved.

By the time Youtube was around I could get my dose of shit again.

I still have my NG account, though. Even checked on it recently, I think I still had somev oting rank left.

[Anonymous No.1657083]

>>1657032
I don't want to go back to that stage in my life. I was stupid and to shy to talk to anyone.

[Anonymous No.1657084]

>>1657069
Are you me!?
Seriously, old newgrounds was great, then it just became a mess of hero worship, shit and adverts. basicly it was modern day youtube.

[Anonymous No.1657086]

Anybody remember those AOL chat hack progs? Like AOHell and AOIce, etc?

[Anonymous No.1657096]

>>1657086
An older brother of a friend of mine made an AOL hack called 'Hang a Nigga on a Tree mod'. all I remember was it 'booting' people from chat.

Yeah, the internet had a little edgy racism even before 4chan.

[Anonymous No.1657106]

>>1657069

Newgrounds was good before Fulp became a filthy jew and started to lick indie developers' balls.
They even removed "turd of the week". It marked the end of "shitty but funny animation" era on NG.

[Anonymous No.1657112]

>>1657069
I found Newgrounds after playing Pico's School on some offline compilation of early little flash games I got off from a disc that came with a gaming magazine or something. Early Newgrounds was really the shit. The Pico games, the crappy but hilarious sprite movies, the shitty amateurish Meet n' Fucks and dating sims that still were the hottest thing ever for my horny teenage self, the simple but entertaining games, the Clocks and their hilarious spam movies...I spent ungodly lots of hours playing and watching all that shit, blamming and approving, frequenting the BBS (I even learned about the early 4chan there, I think) and even done some simple sprite animations in Flash myself. Yes it was all simple and amateurish and if I saw all those movies and games now I wouldn't give them a second thought but back then it was all so addicting, and being however a small part of it was great. Not to mention that many games were original and unique in their ways. Now things that would pass for 5/5 GOAT back them would get blammed immediately, and the front page is full of samey LOL SO EPIC AND RANDOM FUNNY FACE shorts by local Flash celebs and cloned indie platformers. It's become as sterile as the rest of the internet.

[Anonymous No.1657117]

I wish beige PC cases made a comeback.

[Anonymous No.1657118]

>>1653769
Started browsing 4chan at 12 in the beginning of 7th grade.

I just turned 18 a few days ago.

Never got banned for being underage.

[Anonymous No.1657129]

>>1657117
Buy black case
Paint beige
Tah-durrr

[Anonymous No.1657142]

>>1657129
You know, I just might.

[Anonymous No.1657145]

The thing that I don't care for is how functionality (specifically the UI) for programs and websites have somehow steadily gotten worse over time. I only started noticing it in 2007. A lot of it has to do with things "streamlining" in order to LOOK simpler to appease the people like the Mac look, but it's almost always turns in to a case of sacrificing function for aesthetics.

I hate to be one of the "LIKE DIS POST IF YOU WANT THEM TO BRING BACK DA OLD YOUTUBE" crowd, but YouTube is probably the most prevalent example for what I'm talking about. Hiding options under more menus and buttons, culling down description and tag boxes in order to cut down the amount of text on-screen, and so on. But almost every program and website has been hit by this in some way.

[Anonymous No.1657150]

>>1657145
People bitched that Windows XP had a Fisher Price interface. Now everything is Playskool at best.

UI is a lost art. The systems I use at work are a mess. The simplified ones are nearly impossible to use, since they eschewed menus, you have to click through fifty fucking screens that take a goddamn hour to load and display. The old systems that are still menu-driven are ABSURD. Ten menu headers, each having fucking NOTHING to do with the items contained in each one.

PROFILE
Nail clippers
Apple pie
Bone marrow
Vertical stabilizer controls
Fire control system dongle
Minwax makes wood beautiful
Bacon cheeseburger
House martin
Sedimentary rock

[Anonymous No.1657152]

>>1657112

Newgrounds used to be the shit, man. I was like 11 when a friend linked to the the Assassin series and I started frequenting that site regularly after that.

Unfortunately it had beastality ad banners, hentai ad banners, etc. My dad went through my history and thought I was looking at horse porn.

That said, I hope Newgrounds slowly withers and dies. There's the occasional gem from time to time, especially Stamper's stuff, but god damn has it ever gone to shit.

The Anita Beat Em Up being taken down was the last straw for me. Haven't been back since then.

[Anonymous No.1657162]

ITT: Nostalgia goggles

[Anonymous No.1657167]

>>1657162
>I never experienced anything that people are talking about, so it was nothing like what they were saying!

[Anonymous No.1657168]

>>1657118
Oh god are you me? turned eighteen in March here. fuck man I was hear at twelve.

I was one of those fags that streamed kung pow 24/7, and later synchtube'd cyber seduction and cyberbully in like 2011

[Anonymous No.1657171]

>>1657168
here*

sorry, stupid fucking Swype

[Anonymous No.1657175]

>>1657152
I used to be part of the newgrounds defense force who tried to downvote/blam those stupid fucking pineapple clock flashes that regularly got spammed
They were the cancer of newgrounds, before the cancer finally took over.

[Anonymous No.1657178]

>Limewire
>all those viruses
Yet it was totally fucking worth it. I still have some mp3s and stuff from back in the days.

[Anonymous No.1657182]

>>1657175

And later, you became a 4chan janitor so you can still do it for free.

Some Strawberry Clock flashes were a laugh riot, but it did spawn way too many imitators fast. The fad went and passed and it would have still done so without any wannabe moderation.

[Anonymous No.1657184]

>>1657041
>>1657059
Seconded. Please help me, I just want to be able to talk to people without giving them my fucking social security number like the good old days.

[Anonymous No.1657190]

>>1657184
irc still lives, if wanna do that

Hell, I still do chat RP like the AOL stuff referred to earlier in the thread

Only now it's just a few dozen of us instead of hundreds

[Anonymous No.1657193]

>>1657190
I feel uncomfortable with IRC now because it feels like everybody has settled into their own years upon years long cliques and I'd be an outsider
It's not like the old days when everybody was a newfag

[Anonymous No.1657194]

>>1657178
>I still have some mp3s and stuff from back in the days.

Same. I used Kazaa for a long time too after Napster went down.

Songs are so much easier to get now thanks to YouTube, but there's some stuff I scored from Kazaa and Limewire that was just sort of lost to the ages, so I ended up uploading them.

[Anonymous No.1657196]

>>1653983
It's not /vr/ retro, but it came out 11 year ago.

[Anonymous No.1657197]

>>1654449
I still don't get what the fuck a webring is. Looks like it's nothing in particular, just a buzzword for cross-promotion they used to do before SEO whoring was a thing.

[Anonymous No.1657198]

>>1656425
>>1656429
>>1656430

>these animations were on every clickbait porn banner in existence
>this is the most Magical Drop 3 will ever be known for

Imagine if you were a concept artist for a company, and were part of the 'dream staff' to make the company's final game before closing shop. The game was a bomb, and no one knew of it's existence until some perverts found it. I'd be pretty pissed, and then depressed.

[Anonymous No.1657208]

>>1654502
>My point is that MySpace is off topic. It's not retro interwebs.
To be honest, almost nothing that is being discussed is retro interwebs.

[Anonymous No.1657212]

>>1654532
>720x450
Iz dat sum widescreen.

[Anonymous No.1657215]

>>1657190
>>1657184
Related to this: Are there any good chanels for a /vr/ and /lit/ lurker?
I just wish there was some kind of general directory or chanel or stuff. I've never really enjoyed IRC because I never find chanels that interest me.

[Anonymous No.1657216]

>>1657215
why don't we make our own

[Anonymous No.1657223]

>>1657215
>>1657216
Fund it. Where should we start?

[Anonymous No.1657225]

>>1657223
Esper, Rizon, or Undernet, take your pick

[Anonymous No.1657226]

>>1657216
>>1657223
#Retrofags? #Ye_old_chanel?

[Anonymous No.1657229]

>>1657226
#Retrofags seems perfectly fine although you run the risk of some uppity-ass admin K-lining you because he doesn't like your use of the word fag

[Anonymous No.1657230]

>>1657193
I sort of agree with this.
Most of the IRCs I've joined these days are just huge circle jerks.
But you do get the few how at least say hello to you.

[Anonymous No.1657232]

>>1651203
Every time a website gives me the option of typing in where i'm from, I put Rhydin.
Thats also what I've named all of my computers the past decade and a half.

I grew up in the Red Dragon Inn and elsewhere, playing a crazed but charming portal hopper who was just there to observe and drink coffee and hit on every female character he saw.

I fucked everything from demons to zombies.
I wish I'd saved my chat logs.

[Anonymous No.1657240]

>>1657145
Everything is dumbed down because of the casual tablet and Facebook crowd. There's more people who would rather just click a button and do something rather than use the full extent of whatever application they're using. The simplified Apple look is really big right now.

The old Windows movie maker wasn't a sophisticated program to begin with, but holy fuck it beats the pants off of the current version

[Anonymous No.1657241]

>>1657193
You can become a regular in a matter of weeks in any decent community. Just participate and contribute when you can, and lurk when you cannot. At least, the IRC "clique" I still hang out with is open like that. All good people with various skills, across the world, but mainly in Western Europe and the US, with a few outliers in urban Japan.

Anyway!

I remember when the World Wide Webternetz was starting out, with its HYPERLINKS and HYPERTEXT. My QBASIC and VisualBasic work UI designs started looking like basic websites in the 1.0 era. Fun fun fun. Mostly gray backgrounds, divider bars, square image icons with bold text next to them.

If more people would make Oldternet pages and such, that would be nice.... but I don't know how long my gracious host will keep his site up, on which my subdomain runs...

[Anonymous No.1657243]

>>1656905
Except the individual behind the post is exactly the fucking problem. Stay on topic, your name and your past are fucking irrelevant. If you want to sign your name under something, write an article.

Your understanding of the problem is ass-backwards.

[Anonymous No.1657247]

>>1657241
>You can become a regular in a matter of weeks in any decent community. Just participate and contribute when you can, and lurk when you cannot. At least, the IRC "clique" I still hang out with is open like that. All good people with various skills, across the world, but mainly in Western Europe and the US, with a few outliers in urban Japan.
I wouldn't be wanting anonymous chat if I didn't have social anxiety and wasn't afraid of feeling like an outsider Anon

[Anonymous No.1657249]

>>1657032
Sounds like you've finally gotten old as fuck.

[Anonymous No.1657250]

>>1657229
Just call it #retrogames or something similar.

[Anonymous No.1657251]

>>1657197
Search engines weren't as powerful then as they are now, and sites and people were more isolated from each other (now information spreads everywhere super fast). That's why webrings were used.

[Anonymous No.1657259]

>>1657247
So just spend a few weeks lurking. You'll catch on in no time, unless it's a LURK FOREVER channel full of obscure in-jokes. But that's not a community.

You know, working at a call center is FUCKING HELL, but it cures social anxiety issues FAST.

[Anonymous No.1657260]

>>1657251
As a user, though, I was always confused why the fuck was I constantly invited to join one.

[Anonymous No.1657263]

>>1657226
>>1657229
>>1657250
#retrogames sounds like a good name

[Anonymous No.1657268]

>>1656914
>No Facebook, no job

Why are all modern companies staffed entirely by shallow teenage girls?

[Anonymous No.1657269]

>>1657259
Tell me about it. Incidentially, I started getting into BBS and the like due to them being the only thing I could access through my work pc.

[Anonymous No.1657272]

>>1657263
Then let's do it

[Anonymous No.1657275]

>>1657263
>>1657263
I'd say #retrovidya, and on Rizon

[Anonymous No.1657276]

I remember my mom would get so pissed off every time she saw me on the computer.
She'd always find some shit for me to do, any little chore or whatever to get me outside or away from the keyboard.
>Go outside! Stay off that damn computer and make some friends!
She'd get even angrier when I tried to tell her that all my friends were online.
They were the people I loved talking to. The ones who wouldn't pick on me or judge me. (Even if they did, hey fuck it, it was just the internet)

I got into so much trouble growing up, sneaking on the computer at night when I was 'grounded' from it, and chatting away till 3-4 in the morning, even though I had to be up for school in just a few hours.

Good times

[Anonymous No.1657286]

>>1657268
Actually, not having a Facebook page is a sign of being antisocial. It means you don't absolutely, mindlessly crave contact, which can be seen as a problem when you're being interviewed for "people jobs."

I mean, they don't check if you've got Facebook when they hire you as an Oxford professor. Real estate agents, all sorts of salesmen, managers, interviewers - those are the jobs that are not your thing if you don't want to constantly, tiressly reach out to friends and strangers, and THAT'S why they won't hire you without a social media presence.

[Anonymous No.1657296]

>>1657276
>tfw I used the internet to supplant my need for IRL friends and social contact entirely growing up
>tfw the internet is fucking terrible now, most of my friends are gone, my IRL social skills are absolute shit but even though I hate the internet my personal identity and use of my time is so closely intertwined with it I can never, ever leave

[Anonymous No.1657301]

>>1657286
It feels so awkward when my coworkers start talking about something funny that was said or happened on facebook, and they're always asking me what did I think etc.. and I have to keep reminding them that I don't have one.

They always look at me like i've grown an extra head or some shit.
Its annoying as fuck.
I'd rather not let everyone know 'exactly' what i'm doing or where i'm going or where I live.
I don't feel 'antisocial', I just like keeping my private shit to myself.

[Anonymous No.1657303]

>>1657198
I actually learn of the game before discovered that The World character was famous for her bouncing tits.

[Anonymous No.1657316]

>>1657301
I just tell people this, and they never give me any shit about it ever again.

"All Facebook is for, is bitching about what someone on Facebook said, about what someone else on Facebook said. I don't have that kind of bullshit drama in my life, and I don't need it. I have real friends."

But in the rare case that they push it, I pull the old "get off of the internet and make real friends, computer nerd" shit out and they get so buttflustered they cannot cope.

THE SHOE IS ON THE OTHER FOOT!

[Anonymous No.1657317]

>>1657275
Created. irc.rizon.net #Retrovidya

[Anonymous No.1657321]

>>1657276
Yeah, I remember when my stepdad at the time would put the computer on defrag as soon as he was done using it, just to have an excuse to tell me not to get on it. Then as soon as the defrag finished, he'd hop right back on. I never tried disobeying him because he was very intimidating.

Once he left, I was allowed to get on the computer more often, but I almost never got a chance to get online because every single time I asked, mom just so happened to be waiting for a friend to call her. Even though she would often get online herself before the supposed phone call, I was too stupid to notice that I was just being lied to. I never tried sneaking onto the computer in the middle of the night because I had to get up every morning at like 4:00.

I didn't really get to experience the glory of the Internet until 03 or 04, but by then, most of the stuff talked about in this thread seemed like it was already on the decline.

[Anonymous No.1657324]

>>1657167
I sort of wish I could have experienced this phenomenon. When I was a kid, we didn't have internet anywhere but at my dad's office, where I could sometimes browse the pokemon TCG website. After my mom finished her master's I stopped going to the office, so I didn't touch the internet again until I got my first computer in 2004. I did see the occasional flash then, but not very many. I remember only a few series, from people like Legendary Frog and Super Flash Bros.

[Anonymous No.1657327]

>>1657301
>>1657316
Girls at various points in time have literally made Facebook pages for me to use. God knows what exactly was going through their heads as they did that, but one after another they make me Facebook pages. I actually have a bunch floating out there in my name, all registered with passwords I don't know, for emails I don't own.

It's true. Not having a Facebook page paints you in a very weird light, because absolutely everyone has one, why the fuck don't you? EVERYONE has one, so you should, too. No, you don't get it, EVERY-ONE has a page. Please understand. EVERY FROCKIN' ONE. Etc etc.

[Anonymous No.1657330]

>>1656873
>sjw

you are not old enough to use this site

[Anonymous No.1657335]

>>1657198
>mfw when I had a folder of 'fairy bounce' pictures once

[Anonymous No.1657340]

>>1657198
His fault for choosing titty-bounce cartoon drawings as his profession.

[Anonymous No.1657341]

>>1657330
Different guy, but "social justice" is one of the most annoying things to ever happen to the internet.

I'm 26 and have been using the internet since the mid-90s.

[Anonymous No.1657345]

>>1657198
I imagine it's not really a big deal to him, provided he even knows.

[Anonymous No.1657346]

>>1657335
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2JTopC/knowyourmeme.com/memes/fairy-bounce-gif-animationmagical-drop-3-worlds-sprites/photos/trending/

Found that on google, it almost seems like there are more now. To be honest, I'm surprised there isn't an MLP one.

[Anonymous No.1657347]

>>1653946

I'm pretty sure the "I kiss you" guy was Turkish, actually. And Borat was only pseudo-Slavic because Sasha Baron Cohen cannot into geography and thought Kazakhstan was in Eastern Europe or something for some reason.

[Anonymous No.1657350]

>>1657341
How is it annoying? I've literally never encountered it outside of 4chan. It must be a string of entirely isolated incidents that insecure people pool together and bich about, scaring each other to death in an increasing act of hysteria.

I learned what "sjw", privilege, cis and other words mean from 4chan. I've never in my life encountered them before 2012, and I've seen then perhaps 2 or 3 times mentioned elsewhere, and almost always it was directly related to 4chan or reddit anyway.

Your sjw shit is a spook you've invented yourself. There are crazy people on twitter and elsewhere, but they arne't nearly as prevalent as you seem to think they are. On the contrary, they're about as infrequent as diaperchu-grade personage appearances.

[Anonymous No.1657353]

>>1657347
>Sasha Baron Cohen cannot into geography and thought Kazakhstan was in Eastern Europe or something for some reason.

How do you figure?

[Anonymous No.1657354]

My best memories of the internet are from like, '96-01', summer vacations from school. There was nothing like being on the computer in a room with AC on a hot summer night . It just seemed like the internet had literally endless interesting destinations. That's hardly the case these days. Although I wonder if having 24/7 access to high speed internet via a smart phone has taken away some of the novelty in general.

[Anonymous No.1657357]

>>1657347
Borat looks neither slavic nor Kazakh anyway. Kazakhi are asian, slavs are white, and borat seems semitic to me.

[Anonymous No.1657358]

>>1657350
>I've literally never encountered it outside of 4chan.
You just don't know what to look for. For example, just today I saw on the news that Google was concerned about its lack of "diversity" and vowed to do better. I also saw on Slashdot an article complaining about misogyny in nerd culture or something. That's SJW. It's pretty much inescapable today. It's also taught in colleges and universities.

[Anonymous No.1657359]

>>1657350
It's pretty prevalent, especially with its effect on the entertainment industry.

[Anonymous No.1657360]

>>1657327
See if you can issue a takedown request? I know the merchants don't care, but it's worth a shot.

>>1657330
That's like, your opinion, dude.

>>1657341
Yes, people who have nothing in their lives but drama, looking for any minor cause to champion with endless screeching. Everything HAS to be a conspiracy engineered to destroy them, personally. SJWs never champion the causes of those who need help. The poor. The illiterate. Illegal immigrants looking to become legal. Battered women (and men) afraid to do anything about their wretched situations. Cultures with "honor killings".

Nope, scream about Nintendo not catering to transgendered furries. It's like a Jack Chick tract, only depressing.

>>1657350
Sir, they are the overly-vocal minority. Pretty much every political bitchfest article even tangentially referencing video games or technology in general is about their antics.

[Anonymous No.1657361]

I want /v/ to leave

[Anonymous No.1657363]

>>1657359
>It's pretty prevalent, especially with its effect on the entertainment industry.
What effect? Last time I looked, women were getting full frontal nudity shots and got raped on-screen in mainstream TV series.

[Anonymous No.1657365]

>>1657363
Don't respond to them any further. /v/irgins can't be reasoned with under any circumstances. Just report them and leave them to wallow in their delusions

[Anonymous No.1657368]

>>1657354
>Although I wonder if having 24/7 access to high speed internet via a smart phone has taken away some of the novelty in general.

It's more that everything has been compiled in to big homogenized websites. While it IS nice to have things gathered together in to hubs, it takes away a lot of the personality that there used to be in websites.

[Anonymous No.1657370]

>>1657358
>You just don't know what to look for.
That's the point. If you don't look for it, it's not there. It only seems so prevalent for people who can't stop looking for more isolated incidents. Then they find some batshit person on twitter and crap their pants in terror, fearing that one of these days they're about to get forcefully transsexualized or something.

>>1657360
>Sir, they are the overly-vocal minority.
Anti-sjw are an even more vocal minority, and they're the ones who seem much more annoying for me. I browse my internet and all is fine, then I go to /v/ and there's a crazy-ass "freebleeding" thread about an insane bitch who went skating pantsless while menstruating, and everyone in the thread is absolutely terrified.

[Anonymous No.1657372]

>>1657359
some feminist bitching about armored bikinis on her obscure tumblr in the deep shithole of the internet is not an effect

an effect has to be tangible and so far I know of exactly zero instances of "SJWs" actually affecting any game, movie etc

SJWs are just a super epic /v/ and /pol/ maymay invented and blown way out of proportion so that they could bitch about things now that furries and bronies are irrelevant and are in reality about as many and influential as yoshi diaper vore fetishists

[Anonymous No.1657374]

>>1657363
>What effect?
This poster summed it up pretty well: >>1657358

Political correctness is larger than its EVER been thanks to "social justice." There will always be full-frontal and racy scenes in some entertainment, but the impact is still felt in other places.

[Anonymous No.1657378]

>>1657368
I know exactly what you mean. Remember webrings? It always seemed like there was so much to explore.

[Anonymous No.1657379]

>>1657374
>Political correctness is larger than its EVER been thanks to "social justice."
Entertainment is more objectifyingly sexualized than it has ever been, period. If anything, your spook of political correctness (are you a /pol/ visitor or something?) is having an opposite effect.

[Anonymous No.1657380]

>>1657370
>If you don't look for it, it's not there.
Well you could say that about anything. Like landmines.

>It only seems so prevalent for people who can't stop looking for more isolated incidents.
They aren't isolated incidents. At all.

>Then they find some batshit person on twitter and crap their pants in terror, fearing that one of these days they're about to get forcefully transsexualized or something.
It's not just Twitter. As I said, this shit is taught in educational institutions. It's on mainstream media. It shapes corporate and government policy. It's everywhere.

[Anonymous No.1657381]

REPORT AND IGNORE

[Anonymous No.1657384]

>>1657380
>Well you could say that about anything. Like landmines.
Exactly, though obviously you didn't mean it this way. Bitching about sjw is like bitching about land mines. There are none. Someone somewhere got their leg blown off? I haven't even heard about it, it's illogical to worry aboutt hem, because there are not many landmines buried out there at fucking all.

[Anonymous No.1657386]

>>1657350

Well how else are they going to convince themselves of the sinister nigger-feminazi-liberal-faggot-(insert other people they don't like) conspiracy to oppress the poor beleaguered white man on the Internet? The /v/irgin and /b/tard types need to feed their persecution complex somehow or else they might start to feel bad about their reprehensible views. And what better way than by pretending that everyone who doesn't share the views on race/gender/sexuality/class/etc. of an 18th Century robber baron is a filthy SJW out to "get" them?

[Anonymous No.1657387]

>>1657384
Just report them. They can't be reasoned with and they're obviously infected with HI/v/ and /pol/io anyway.

[Anonymous No.1657391]

>>1657380
>It's not just Twitter. As I said, this shit is taught in educational institutions. It's on mainstream media. It shapes corporate and government policy. It's everywhere.
Ha ha, oh dear!

[Anonymous No.1657394]

>>1657379
There's more than just one side to entertainment. There will always be a part of it that goes for gratuitous nudity because it will always sell to some people. Now THAT can never be touched by SJW because it's just too big.

>(are you a /pol/ visitor or something?)
That's cute.

[Anonymous No.1657396]

>>1657394
Mainstream, though. I was talking about mainstream when I wrote
>Entertainment is more objectifyingly sexualized than it has ever been, period.

[Anonymous No.1657398]

>ctrl+f [deleted]
>no results

Fucking disgusting. Do your jobs, mods.

[Anonymous No.1657401]

>>1657384
A landmine doesn't cease to exist just because you don't see it or because you want to believe it isn't there. It's there regardless of your perception of or opinion on it. The universe doesn't revolve around you.

>>1657387
What does this have to do with /pol/?

>>1657391
I'm just stating facts. I already said that Google wants to hire more women and minorities to fill a self-imposed diversity quota. That's an example of SJW shaping corporate policy.

[Anonymous No.1657402]

>>1657368
One thing that sort of bothers me about having everything on centralized websites is that you have to play by their rules and you can only use the features they offer.

[Anonymous No.1657403]

>>1657380
>As I said, this shit is taught in educational institutions. It's on mainstream media. It shapes corporate and government policy. It's everywhere.

[Anonymous No.1657404]

>>1657360
>tfw I'm transgender and I just want SJWs to stop drawing attention to me so I can be a normal member of society
time to commit suikoden

[Anonymous No.1657405]

>>1657387
>cannot rationally respond because you're wrong
>v-v-v-/v/ and p-p-p-/pol/

Since you're going down that route, run on back to Tumblr and post about something being sexist and racist. Which gender pronouns do you prefer?

[Anonymous No.1657407]

Reminder: Shitposters and those who reply to them will be treated as one and the same.

[Anonymous No.1657409]

>>1657403
Again, just stating facts.

[Anonymous No.1657410]

>>1657398
>>1657381

[Anonymous No.1657413]

>>1657404
>commit suikoden
Okay, I chuckled. Good show.

[Anonymous No.1657416]

>>1657401
>A landmine doesn't cease to exist just because you don't see it
There aren't any in your country. That's my point. For fuck's sake, there are no land mines. There is not a powerful, opinion-defining "sj" movement. There only are insane bitches /v/irgins dig out of internet shitholes and make niche-popular.

For example, I only know Sarkesian because of /v/. I've never seen her mentioned anywhere fucking else without /v/ and reddit also being mentioned in the same fucking sentence. If /vr/ was a thing, I would still be int he dark about who she is. But SOME people act like she's the panimportant archenemy that needs to be taken down or the new dark age will begin or something.

[Anonymous No.1657419]

Well, another good thread is killed thanks to butthurt /v/irgins who can't take an opinion remotely different from their own.

[Anonymous No.1657423]

Please don't let the /pol/acks kill the best thread on the board right now

[Anonymous No.1657425]

>>1657401
>I already said that Google wants to hire more women and minorities to fill a self-imposed diversity quota.
Google is adventicing it's brands for free, that's what it's doing. You idiot. And you're helping it advertice. Wht's Google have to do with this discussion? Nothing. But you ahve brought the name up, and now we're talking about Google. Google is a search engine. Please upgrade your Google Profile to a Google+ account.

[Anonymous No.1657430]

>>1657423
Yeah, this is pretty much a confirmed /v/ or /pol/ raid.

[Anonymous No.1657440]

>>1657386

Well /v/irgins and /pol/sters more than /v/irgins and /b/tards, actually. But otherwise yeah, that.

[Anonymous No.1657443]

>>1657430
It's not a raid. It's just like in real life. You speak about the stuff you enjoy with a bunh of people, then bam, the guy who enjoys the same types of beer is also a KKK member, and the guy who likes exactly the same video games as you is a sex offender who is convinced that the age of consent should be lowered to 3.

One of the supposed /pol/acks might have posted bouncing animations up int he thread, and some of the /v/irgins might have been among the people reminiscing about webrings.

[Anonymous No.1657445]

>>1657419
It's... the other way around. Someone got upset at someone using "SJW" in a less-than-shining context and now they're mad and throwing around "BAW GO BACK TO /v/ AND /pol/."

For all the talk about posters making up a political correctness boogeyman, there sure are a lot of people crying about a /v/ and /pol/ scare right now...

For the record, I use neither one.

[Anonymous No.1657446]

>>1657416
>There aren't any in your country.
Do you actually think I'm talking about literal land mines? I'm using them as an analogy to illustrate a point.

>There is not a powerful, opinion-defining "sj" movement.
Just because you can't or won't see it doesn't make it so.

>>1657423
>>1657430
Do you know what actually started this? This post: >>1657350

Yeah.

>>1657425
Google wants to hire more women and minorities to meet a self-imposed diversity quota (and isn't by any means the only company to do so). That's an example of SJW influencing corporate policy. What is it about this that you are not understanding?

[Anonymous No.1657448]

>>1657446
>Do you actually think I'm talking about literal land mines? I'm using them as an analogy to illustrate a point.
Yes.

So

am

I.

Are we clear, friend?

[Anonymous No.1657454]

>>1657446
>Do you know what actually started this? This post: >>1657350(You)
No, it was >>1656873 and >>1657341 .

[Anonymous No.1657462]

>>1657448
The only point you're making is that you're in denial or don't pay any attention to what's going on around you.

>>1657454
Blatantly false.

[Anonymous No.1657464]

>>1657446
if you're talking about politics you are a /pol/ack and must go and I don't care what side you take now fuck off

[Anonymous No.1657469]

>>1652325
No. It always looked almost exactly like it does now, sans the features like reporting, extensions et al.

[Anonymous No.1657472]

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[Anonymous No.1657473]

>>1657464
I've briefly visited /pol/ once or twice. You seem to know a lot more about it than I do.

[Anonymous No.1657480]

>>1657462
>People who started talking about sjw in this thread were the ones who started talking about sjw in this thread.
>Blatantly false.
Please.