this is a /g/ archive from 20 years ago, 2004https://museum.heyuri.net/4chan2004/imgboard__3.htmthoughts?
>>100196699technologoy has come so far, yet, looking at the archives, it's almost as if we have lost some of its original sovl... thanks for posting this anon it's important for us to stable humble and remember where we came from.
>>100196699So that's why we use the letter g huh
>all those trip usersWhat a bunch of newfags
>>100196699/g/uro was removed around the same time as /l/oli.They were replaced with normalfag crap.
>>1001969594chan had direct links to gurochan and not4chan so users looking for that content knew where to go. I remember because when I was a newfag back in 2006 I clicked on them.
>>100196930You would be surprised, tripfags were a big part of early 4chan history since all users came from forums. Users adapted to posting anonymously later on
>>100196988And then those died. I wonder why m00t never did that with /pol/.
>>100196988>4chan had direct links to gurochan and not4chanOh really?>>100197012gurochan is still alive, but it changed hands like 10 times
>>100196928>m...my cp4chuds had become civilized normalshits that nothing in this place worth looking at. Fucking glowies everywhere.
>>100197035>no cp so nothing worth looking atleave then, fuck off
>>100196699stay away from altchans you goddamn pedo
>>100197098stay away from non-corporate internet you goddamn freak
>tranime imageboard
>>100197098pedos see anything to do with "free speech" and think>is this for me?then they ruin it for everyone
>>100197148yes, welcome to 4chan!
>>100197150That's nazis though
>implying there's only the choice between CP spam and christian chastityI sure hate the discourse on the modern interwebs.
>>100197229xX_BasedNazi1488_Xx doesnt put illegal images in my cache for the feds to recover>>100197233liar, 2 of those are (Me)
>>100197244>muh fedsno one cares about your cp stash you schizo
What was the internet like in 2004? I wasn't even born then
>>100197035>>100197300samefaggot
>>100197311Mostly guro. People weren't really sure what else to use it for at that point.
>>100197311browse some internet archives and see for yourself
>>100197315>>100197315samefag (it's the same post)
>>100197311>just admitted to being 16enjoy your underageb&
>>100197403he's 20
/l/ is archived too btw
>>100196751only high iq middle class white men and college age japanese otakus posted 20 years ago. now we have sirs, changs, kangs, banditos, SEA MONKE, women, and worst of all: normies.
>>100197012moot DID axe pol, and it caused a massive exodus from 4chan to alt-chans, so he had to bring pol, r9k, and the other cut boards back so glowies didnt have to watch multiple sites.
>>100197441nigga WHAT?!>>100197311As a zoomer with unfettered access to the internet during the early 2000's, I mostly remember Flash games, porn, mods (not explicitly 4chan) either being REALLY lax, or power-tripping faggots; pop-up ads, adware/malware that would rape your system after trying to get a game for free but being too retarded to do it properly, and those chain-letter-type messages. >>100197826Who?
>>100196699i forgot how sick old memes use to be
>>100197859it was a different time. in 2004 the chan community was more about just discussing niche anime stuff so it was fine to cross link to other sites. A popular internet mechanic for sharing websites at the time was 'web rings' in which groups of websites linked each other like a kind of referal system. In this manner, you could find other people's websites without using a search engine or even knowing the address. The early internet was high trust, and pretty friendly for the most part. But by the time the 2010s rolled around, other chans were viewed as competition so no more cross linking. M00t stupidly thought he could axe some of the more active boards because their content wasnt 'advertiser friendly' but it had the opposite effect and almost killed the site. Popular Alt chans from that time period were word filtered and anons would get banned for linking to them.
>>100196699lol
>>100197863Yeah, that's cause you either had to use Paint, Photoshop, or Gimp (idk how ubiquitous the latter was back then). Nowadays zoomers just use whatever capabilities the photo app on their phone has to make "edits", or use TikTok. There's a bunch of shitty videos with aggravating tts voices narrating, highlighted captions, and useless faggots pointing to shit in the corner. Some of them would make shitty drawings on Paint back then, but they were pretty stupid and pretty low effort, usually just some caricature of a negroloid.
>>100197935uhm, that's problematic.
>>100197927Mein nigga, I know what web rings are lole; they're still used on shit like Neocities. How do we heal 4chan and the internet as a whole. Seems like normalfags segregating themselves within TikTok is the perfect opportunity to take back what's rightfully hikineet's. There's no way for normalfags to get outraged at something when they can't find it on TikTok. Me personally, I think that in order for chans/imageboards to get another (proper) chance, there needs to be tonnes of them active and in circulation. It has to be moderated by older zoomers. That way it isn't held back by oldfaggotry. Board culture won't be lost since there are a few zoomers who have practically been raised alongside 4chan. Of course, those types inparticular will be a little more perturbed than their peers, and will have a slightly (edgy) idea of what 4chan was/is. On the other had there are the moralfags who's only exposure to 4chan is greentexts reposted elsewhere. In the middle will be the centrist. There'd need to be a close-to-equal amount of each to facilitate interaction between the three types. Also, any IPs outside the US (VPNs included) would be banned, no exceptions, especially not for the Commonwealth--maybe if they brushed their teeth. >>100197950Luggage Lad?
>>100197950Can you talk about 'SH' please, Mister?
holy shit
>>100198179I think it's SA, first users of 4chan came from ADTRW
>>100198179>>100198224https://wiki.bibanon.org/4chan/History#2003
Wow. When looking through archives, the furthest back I've gone is 2008.
I can only imagine jannies were my unknown enemy even back then.
>>100198264Thanks mate
>>100198307Enjoy this thread from 2006
>>100198264Amazing that moot just had borderline cp and torrenting boards just on the website. And then he get hired at Google.
Stop shilling this gay site.
The internet was around in 2004? Really?
>>100197859>mods (not explicitly 4chan) either being REALLY lax, or power-tripping faggotsHeh, some things never change I guess.
>>100201131I doubt anyone in their HR knew anything in depth about 4chan
>>100197012because the entire point of the desperate changes moot made around that time was to stop the glowniggers from stealing his site and he knew they demanded nobody there move on to a seperate one, of course 8chucks happened anyway so they came down on him like a hammer.
>>100197244>xX_BasedNazi1488_Xx doesnt put illegal images in my cache for the feds to recoverthe feds obviously use those names to do exactly that. It's the people with names like chinochanismywife and xxx_totalkonlove_xxx that end up being the most based right wing and also anti cp.
>>100202802haha yeah a coincidence...
>>100197803/thread
>>100196699https://museum.heyuri.net/4chan2004/imgboard__5.htmuuoohh
>>100198264It was surprising to learn that /l/ and /a/ were "twins", both getting added on the same day.
>>100197859>chain-letter-type messages I completely forgot about those kek
>>100196699huh, i completely forgot about the old /g/
I got hecking trolled
>>100197927>web ringsI was on the Internet prior to 2004, and never heard the term "web ring" until a year ago. While I know they existed, I would in no way classify them as "popular at the time".>viewed as competition so no more cross linkingNot a chan-specific policy, this was commonly enforced across the web. Going to forum X and talking about forum Y was often going to get you in trouble.>>100201053>people having a conversation on a particular topic>nowadays any one of those casual posts would stand out as "effortposting"the #1 change to 4channel right there, most posts now are either totally vapid or are meme spam on the level of YouTube "omg whos watching in April 2024??? like this comment if u hav good taste too!!"
>>100196930
>>100206479homu gaming
>>100196699too much reddit spacing back then, what is wrong with people?
>>100196699>clicked on itfucking god damn it
>>100207063reddit didn't exist in 2004
>>100196751Technology has been stagnant for over a decade. The difference between 2004 and 2014 was insane. The difference between 1994 and 2004 was even greater. The difference between 2014 and 2024 is marginal at best.
>>100209486the most significant change from 2014 to 2024 wasn't the internet or the technology itself, but rather the demographics of who is connecting to it. And I mean that in all senses: age, nation, device type, intelligence, etc.
>>100196699>blocks tornot opening your honeypot
>>100209535>blocks tor so must be a honeypotuse vpn retard
>>100209586>VpnHoneypot.
>>100207470Nobody cares
>>100196699>https://museum.heyuri.net/4chan2004/imgboard__3.htmgod this is amazing
>(((heyuri.net)))>>100196997>earlygo check desuarchive.org/g in 2012, it was still extremely popular
>>100197935>>100201053Show these to idiots to whine about "reddit spacing"
>>100202936Do you think he really had to deal with them?
>>100210288his uncle was directly involved in the silver stream media chimp out. his last act was to demand id from all of his mods or expunge them, then shortly after he sold the site and the rule was repealed and those (((mods))) came back.I don't doubt moot is comped but answer me honestly. do you think someone like moot would enjoy having his uncle come in and kvetch until he's forced to hand over his entire website to glowniggers all over his uncle being unable to take /v/ emberassing him in stride? all this could have been avoided if not for the retards at silver stream medias chinese isekai levels of choleric behavior.
>>100210246>not this
>>100210246
>>100206434i was on the internet prior to 2004 and web rings came up all the time
>>100196699>Cloudflare honeypotI ain't clicking that shit nigga!
>>100212609>Glowie pedo link attracts idiots like flies to a shit smeared flytrapDon't click that shit niggas!
>>100212680Like I give a fuck, any government agents come to my house and I'll send them a one way express ticket to Hell.
>>100212609>>1002126804chan is already a glowie pedo link honeypot
>>100212680are they flying overseas to find me? that wold be funny
>>100197803yep yep. ive seen zoomer normalfags reminiscence about the 2010s on here. if this shithole is still around in a decade, just damn how its going to be.
>>100197244Point and laugh guys, this dumbass doesn't clear his cache between browsing sessions
>>100210246that isnt reddit spacing
>>100196699>this is a /g/ archive from 20 years ago, 2004>https://museum.heyuri.net/4chan2004/imgboard__3.htm>thoughts?what a bunch of crap. awful stuff
Damn, look at old /b/. Nowadays it's just porn. Sure, most of the other boards were porn boards back then, but at least /b/ was usable.
>>100212609you realize 4chan uses cloudflare too, right?
>>100196751Society as a whole has lost our innocence due to being exposed to more and more information via the web. Having an innocence gives daily life magic and soul. But the extremely fast rates of learning something, then debunking, truth disappeared and we got used to it. We cope by just not taking anything to heart and trained ourselves to just view everything as raw material objects because investing any sort of heart or faith into it will just be spoiled by either reading something online that proves you wrong or sharing your thoughts online and getting 50 people to rip it apart in minutes. There’s no point in holding an opinion on anything let alone create, be inspired, enjoy the simple things, or do literally anything at all. There’s no truth anymore yet infinite facts. It’s paralyzing.
>>100216185>There's no truth anymoreThis, it's demoralizing. I don't know what to believe anymore. There's always someone saying something and another person claiming bullshit and saying the opposite. And that is for any subject, be it nutrition, fitness, science, technology or anything else. How can I form an opinion in this environment?
>>100216185>>100216272>t. demoralized
>>100216312got any tips?
>>100196930Total Goon Death didn't happen until FORCED_ANON.
