This was the front page of /v/ on Tuesday May 31, 2011.
This is what uncs miss?
cant imagine using this site without catalog
>>732103805Yep, that's definitely old 4chan. The people were actually funny instead of stupid, unfunny, and ethnic. One of them has already posted. The worst part is they all fucking hate themselves and still post anyway. If they didn't hate themselves, they'd be posting in the threads I got rid of.
>>732103962I've been here since 2011 and I have a pretty bad memory, but I'm pretty sure there was an external website that had a catalog view that I used.
>>732104012https://catalog.neet.tv/Maybe this one?
dragon age 2 sucked so hard
>>732104080YEAH that's the one.I think I also used this at school because it bypassed the school filter.
>>732103962>cant imagine using this site without catalogBelieve it or not, but nobody needed the catalog in the past. You can't even see who's inside a thread while on the catalog, but in 2026, it doesn't matter anymore. It could be one person who made every post and you wouldn't even know.
>>732104152>Believe it or not, but nobody needed the catalog in the pastSome of us didn't spend half our day in Star Craft 2 general or WoW, so we didn't appreciate the first 3 pages being nothing but generals, so yes, a catalog still very needed.
>>732103805Back when some people on the internet actually played video games
>>732103805How accurate did that Wii 2 prediction end up being about the hardware?
Fun fact, if you want to look at some old threads, here's a link.https://old.sage.moe/v/It's a rather spotty archive, but it's still good for a peak into the past.
>>732103882You have no idea
>>732104209>we didn't appreciate the first 3 pages being nothing but generalsWhat year are you even talking about?
I miss when we could just spam shitty threads with dubs instead of letting them fester
>>732104304The GPU is actually not that far off, the Wii U had what was equal to a 4650, which was actually not bad.The Wii U actually had 2GBs of ram, buti t doesn't matter because of the retarded OS Nintendo used that ate half of itThe storage was off, the Wii U had 8 and 32.People unironically thought it was going to use a Power 6, which was the Watson CPU. If you kids aren't in your mid to late 20s, Watson was a really impressive supercomputer that won at Jeopardy. Well, the Wii U used an off the shield PowerPC chip, which was total dogshit
>>732104472Nah, Moot took care of that.Dubsposting died like 10 years ago like that faggot wanted, so the culture of derailing off topic shit threads died with it.
INVISIBLE
What was the name of the /v/ archive after Foolz died?Remember when foolz used to spam this board like Discord does now?
>>732104745Also, remember when you manually had to archive threads?
>>732104443He doesn't know because he wasn't here.
>>732104443>>732104795I was, I'm >>732104012
May 31 is Clint Eastwood's birthday
>>732104795That's why I'm asking him. I don't remember what he's claiming happened. I remember being able to use the front page of a board, and it was fun times. The fun times ended when I had to browse from the catalog because I couldn't tell people on the site apart anymore.
>>732104924>>732104924The front page was notorious for being riddled with SC General, WoW General, and that one VN with the disabled chicks.You had to dig like 3 pages to get to anything that wasn't a general.That's entirely why /vg/ was made.
We never should have abandoned j-list
>>732105005Didn't j-list leave us?
>>732105068No, moot decided to end it
>>732104982Katawa Shoujo didn't even exist in 2011. There was no general. /vg/ was literally created because a handful of spergs couldn't handle that people were discussing videogames.
I miss the days when people could just have fun and like stuff without needing it to be buried in five layers of irony
>>732104982>that one VN with the disabled chicks.You mean Katawa Shoujo? I want to believe you, but you can't even remember something like that, so I'll have to doubt.
>>732105102What's moot?
Visible degeneration, devolution
>>732104982man just remember when a smash game was about to come out and rosterfaggotry got spammed harder than anythingnow 90% of /v/ is just pornbait
God I want to go back.4chan went to shit when we stopped getting j-list ads.
>>732105181The guy Epstein raped
>>732105181An Epstein victim.
cant imagine using this board without gacha threads
Heh...... now see this
>>732105238>God I want to go back.Why would you want to go back? Are you afraid of dying? I would never go back, and I'd rather go forward.
>>732105421The present is cancer in almost every way, shape, and form, I want to go the fuck back.
hope you guys are ready for the fake alien attacks that are gonna be the new mass shooting trend to keep a trauma loop going
>>732105068J-List left because no one on 4chan bought their overpriced shit.
>>732105486fake aliens to conceal actual demons walking on this earth you mean
>>732105391>>732105414Hah, jokes on you, I have no nostalgia for early youtube because my 8nternet was too shit for streaming video!
>>732105528The entire reason there is a ram shortage is because the demons are breaking containment. The sigils we have created to trap them in silicon have failed.
>>732105478It's cancer because you're here, and you can't even answer a question. You can talk to one of the shitskin NPCs who entered because I filtered everything else. Fun times await, my friend. You're not my friend. I don't know who any of you are. I spend hours every day setting up filters and it causes the sub-humans to post in all threads.
>>732105391>>732105414I miss this shit so much.......
>>732105528they're not concealed to me, I see them all the time.
y'all wouldn't understand what we had back then, screenshots don't do it justice
I was on /g/
>>732105637haha I only got tricked once retard
>>732103805>pol threadSo it's a lie that le heckin election tourism made /v/ shit?
>>732105705>/v/ nostalgia thread>tourist has to shit it upgod i hate you faggots so goddamn much=
>>732105569>filtersCoward
>>732105569Go away Epstein, I don't care about this shit, the present is cancer.
>>732105495You don't want top spend $48 on Futabu?
I miss Bobby Kotick
>>732105569d.o.ta 2 is putrid dogshit and you need to adopt a trip asap snownigger
>>732105761Like most nostalgia trips, the memories are wildly inaccurate.
>>732103805Beautiful. There were no Twitter screenshotsAnd keep in mind, 2011 is after Reddit found /v/
>>732105927Remember to Reddit vs 4chan Tribes Ascend match?Remember when 9gag launched a DDOS attack on 4chan?Remember 9gag?
>>732105912>>732105950which one was the year of the >implying wars?
>>732105950What was this again?I know it was a Kickstarter from like a famous game dev and it was a temp asset, but /v/ shat all over it because it looked like shit.Also, it's funny how a lot of this stuff still shows up to this day. I do miss Russelled Jimmies though
>>732103805why were uncs reddit spacing
>>732104152ehhh nah, I've been here 19 years and the catalog is probably the single best site feature introduced in that time frame.
>>732106112fucking Broken Agenever 5get
>>732106090>implying came from /sp/ and it was 2011
>>732103805>pre 2016 4chan
>>732105997>4chan's 10th anniversary was almost 13 years ago
>>732104982Yep, and it was a good move. I spent a long time in the Mass Effect generals at the time, and while they were fun it choked the board out.
>2011-2026 is the same time gap as 1996-2011
>>732106148I always like these /v/ stickmen, they looked cute.
>>732106173
Remember, if you were born in 1996, you can't post on 4chan.
>>732106170>>732106173
>>732106170what a fucking downgrade...
>>732105129Holy shit it's funschizo
>>732105705/v/ was always blue /b/. and sometimes just regular /b/
>>732106185>>732106173
>>732105129fun is cringe
>>732105478While I don't disagree, I also don't miss the ubiquitous rageface bullshit or anything from or about plebbit and it's stupid culture war with this mongolian underwater basket-weaving board.
>>732106173i feel like we've plateaued thothere's been a much bigger leap in tech, culture between 1996-2011 but 2011-2026 feels like its stagnated
>>732103805Starcraft 2 when it came out was a great game. We really didn't know how good we had it.
>>732106265>mfw this still works
ow ow ow ow how did I not see that coming
>>732106391Do the Chinese and Koreans still play Starcraft?Cause if they don't. no one is
>>732106319Closest thing was high guard or whatever it was its name literally losing 90% of its player base in less than a day, and even then there were some angry fags.
>>732103805It was shit but it was still far better than today.No twitter, tiktok or e-celeb threads to be seen.>>732103962We had a catalog back then, newfag.https://catalog.neet.tv
I wonder what /v/ used to look like before dubs got removed
>>732103805genuinely depressing how astroturfed this board is, there's literally no place to talk about video games any more>>732106331>implying 50%+ of the posts here aren't from or about plebbitare you being serious anon?
>>732106285I love these big recommendation charts.
>>732104080I used this up until like last year when it stopped letting you search entire threads instead of just the OP
>>732104209The catalog and archives are what created the generals. They didn't exist before people tried to enforce order onto the ephemeral chaos that was 4chan as it was meant to be.
>>732106521Oh it's far worse now, yes. However, it was more obvious back then, and stuck out, and so was easier to ignore.
>>732103805>politics, tranny obsession, and PC vegansAchievement Unlocked: The More Things Change...
olduncs are so cringe
>>732103882What you dont get from this screenshot is that the overall quality of ports was much higher back then than today. 4Chan really has been going downhill since 2014 when a ton of retards from reddit started coming over due to the fappening and gamgergate.
>>732106648>ai slop
>>732103805>Newfags are nostalgic for 2011.
>>732106521>picrel is still trueFUCK
>>732106735Forget 2011, at this point things have gotten so bad that I'm nostalgic for 2017.
>>732103805Where's the "cultural" porn spam I keep hearing about?
I miss the Internet before everyone needed clout with watermarks (disregarding ebaum'sworld) or monetizing everything. People make the lowest effort meme or reupload a video and need their names plastered on it 10 times now
I remember when E3 used to come around and people would make threads and show off their pillow forts
>>732106642yeah now it's the other way around where threads about video games stick out and the culture war threads are easier to ignore but unfortunately culture war threads are 90% of this board
>>732105705Notice that that was one thread out of dozens, there was a shitload more agreement, no screeching about da joos, and it wasn't swarmed by 80 IQ Mexicans who think spamming the most is winning an argument.
be the change you want to see /v/erminnow checkem
>>732103805Honestly not that different
>>732104982It's a good thing too, now /v/ has no generals and only new threads.
>>732106858You're dreaming of an internet before 3rd worlders got on it and before black people got Obamaphones which let them get connected to the internet.
>>732106895anon, I...
>not using tomorrow
>>732103805sheen used to have no cooldown?
>>732105478Now you know how your grandparents feel.
>>732106882That's because the world had less politics back then.
>>732106871Somewhat heretical, but I'd personally like to see the randomized IDs from other boards here so as to make the shilling and shitposting easier to spot and filter.Out all these fabricated discussions held 90% by one poster in threads.
>>732106942i-its overi couldn't get the digits to save /v/
>>732106112it was Double Fine's game that was like 3.3 million dollars and looked like a shitty flash game.
>>732107145Yes, that's it.
>>732105836>gay pornNo thanks. >>732105973>remember when [a bunch of stuff from before your time]Very telling.
for me its infinite scrolling
>>732105950>>732105912>>732105976heres 2025
>>732105997You could make a better version of this for 2025 with AI.
>DUBSPOSTING BANNEDFAGGOT FUCKING TOTAL NIGGER MODSJUST LIKE BANEPOSTING BANNED ON /TV/
>>732107226In 10 years, you will look back on these days with reverence and longing.
>>732107093I'd like it too, but it will never happen because it would cut down on PPM metrics since a good 50% of modern 4chan is people samefagging in threads pretending to be multiple people because they're autistic, and they wouldn't be able to spam as quickly if they had to swap IPs after every post so people wouldn't notice their immense, autistic samefagging.
>>732106169Explain why this isn't achievable in real life.
For me, it's the catalog sorted by activity so I never have to see a slow thread in my life.
>>732107249i will not. i. want. /f/. back.
>>732107226The last couple of years must have been so shit that I haven't even got anything for 2021-2024.
>Bible Games is 20 years old this year
its just lost its fun like when you had the entire board spamming >implying implicationsor >mfwthere is no more hivemind.The dead horse we use to beat has been ground into dust and now we just talk about videogames. Its awful and i hate it.
>>732107250>I'M PRETENDING TO BE MAD ABOUT OLD THING! REMEMBER BEING MAD ABOUT OLD THING?So fucking cringe. The only real shit decision was removing the IP count.
>>732107402STFU REDDITOR NPCWHY EVEN REPLY TO ME IF YOU DONT MATTER STUPID BETA INVISIBLE KEKYOU SUCK DICK RETARDIM A GOD AND ASCENDED EARTH YOU FUCKING NIGGER BY MEMESFUCK YOU NIGGER KEK FAGGOT PUSSY
why was the unique poster count removed anyways?
>>732106624>smash rosterfagging old school edition
>>732107491The Jews.
>>732105976Monster Girl Quest should be more prominent. It was huge in 2011.Whoever put that image together was clearly biased.
>>732106506Man this picture always cracks me up. Have a classic.
>>732107491Gookmoot got rid of it because it would reveal how little activity occurs on the website
>>732107269No I won't. I fucking hated 2015. The last year I have fond memories of from this shithole is 2011.
>>732106319Yep. Even obvious lighthearted shitposts get dogged on by super serious culture warriors.
>>732103805Such an innocent place I could fucking cry.
>>732107516i have never looked at this picture and not burst out laughing at "Quads"
splitting /v/ was a retarded decision.the catalog exists.filters exist./vg/ is just a breeding grounds for attention whores and the other boards are dead.delete these offshoots and make /v/ bigger. bring vidya back to /v/.
>>732106858>monetizing everythingThis is why you don't see OC anymore. If something takes off and the creator is anonymous, shit outta luck trying to cash in on it. If something goes viral and someone watermarks it or the creator of said sensation makes themselves known, they can cash out on it and there people even here who are ready to jump at the moment of striking something the second it gains traction.On a side note, In the case of the grinch leak and cacomallow leak, there was legitimate risk of Nintendo suing the former while the latter never surfaced. The Smashified faggot is the one example of a guy I wish never got to grow big. His trash renders/drawings plagued K. Rool for years.
https://old.sage.moe/
>>732107602>/vg/ is just a breeding grounds for attention whores and the other boards are dead./vg/ became unusable as more 3rd worlders joined the internet and if /vg/ didn't exist, this board would be unusable.From what I've heard, they've been begging the mods to move the mobile shit to /vmg/ but they won't.
>>732107270Exactly. It's a sadly growing tactic used to generate controversy and thus views/clicks, since everything drowns in a sea of noise these days. The manufactured outrage is all so tiresome. Thankfully with garbage like the Highguard situation, people are becoming more wary of the tactic but you still see that shit pushed here.
>>732107602It's amazing how fast /vm/ burned itself out.
>>732106871Moot tried to save us by banning gg discussion and all you faggots cried about it. Now the shoe is on the other foot and you're still crying despite getting exactly what you wanted.
>>732107226>the revive icon on VinceKek
>>732105569Shut up you insufferable nigger
>>732107730moot was a retarded stooge who backtracked on deleting /new/ for canv.as funding from epstein. trying to get niGGers to fuck off was too little too late
>>732106882>Still pretending it isn't the jewsThey could be eating your mothers heart and you would still defend them, you useless golem
>>732106895An actual 5, nice
>>732107597Would you say it makes you laugh ... every time?
>>732107516
FUCK NPCS
>>732107827Canvas was in 2014, you retard and Moot hated gamergate for person reasons, his friends were involved. Stop learning 4chan history from Twitter, you faggot
>>732107093>>732107270>>732107684>you know who does 4chan right? reddit. we should be more like them.Jesus fucking Christ.
>>732107491See >>732107517
THE OLDER TIMES WERE BETTER. YOU COULD REMEMBER EVERY MEME THAT HAPPENED AND EACH ONE WAS ITS ONE THING AND A BIG DEALALL I REMEMBER FROM 2025 IS STEVEPOSTING
>>732107226Looks a lot more soulful than it felt to live through it.
>>732107930You can tell this anon is an election tourist.
>>732107359I miss abib
>>732107930You must have misread, none of those posts say anything about reddit.
>>732107930It's disappointing. Newfags always pretend a lack of anonymity would improve and fix everything.
>>732103805>/v/ actually hosting and playing vidya togetherthis can't be real
>>732108065That still happens all the time.
>>732107491Shitposters don't want you to remember that they would trash every thread with>367 replies>81 IPsposts and continue using that to derail discussion.
>>732108058What is your idea of "anonymity?"
>>7321079308moe does it and it just werks
> the All Points Bulletin guybased
>>732108110Not newfag shit like post IDs.
>>732107507Faggot nigger, YOU are the one with a bias. Plenty of things happened, not everything was about MGQ.
>>732108163That doesn't answer my question.
>>732103805>15 years agoTerrariaBateman checkingSC2LeagueKotickMountain Blademost of this front page is still relevantshit has moved so slowly someone timewarped from 2011 to today might be able to grasp whats going on in maybe half of the threads
>>732108094I'm sitting in a /v/ lobby right now been waiting for it to fill for the last 20 minutes.
What a time to have been alive!
>>732107993>>732108052>>732108134Just say you want 4chan to require an account to sign in.
The day the first puppets were created....
>>732108401Answer my question>>732108110
>>732108401No, just be more like better imageboards
>>732107923sorry to say this anon but you are not the main character of 4chan.that would be LancedJack
>>732108401
>>732105121>/vg/ was literally created because a handful of spergs couldn't handle that people were discussing videogames>/vg/ discussing videogamesThe generals would often go off-topic, it was shit back then, it's shit now.
>>732107993>2016+ newfag nigger accusing anybody else of being new to the websiteLOL
>>732103805Notice how their isn't a single pointlessly hostile post in any of those threads? Notice how this one has one as the first post like every other thread on /v/? All of the meaningless bait being spammed wasn't always here zoomers. There was a time where we enjoyed eachothers company here and I will never forget what you normalfag invaders took from me.
>>732107226>SWITCH 2 LE BAD
>>732108526Holy fuck, this is blast from the pastHow that Obama picture is still accurate with Biden/Kamala's run in 2024
>>732108578>Notice how their isn't a single pointlessly hostile post in any of those threads?Oh anon, believe me, 4chan was plenty pointlessly hostile in 2011, it was just less schizo and annoying about it, it was "you're a retard, fuck you for having shit taste" hostility as opposed to "I'm literally being paid to stir shit here, so I'm going to spend the next 3 months spamming worthless, pointless shit in every thread I'm instructed to spam in!"I would take the tripfags of old over modern annoying anonymous schizo retards any day of the week, at least I could fucking filter the tripfag retards with 4chan+ back then.
>>732108273alright random selection>DQ>nostalgia>Nioh that's new>castlevania>Civilization>Dark Souls and its legacythat was brand new in 2011, but i guess people were already keyed into Demon Souls>"WoW killers" dying>Fire Emblem>fucking Alistair at the bottom rightI guess a timewarped /v/irgin would appreciate... Deadlock?? The rise of gacha games????
>>732108508The farthest you should push anonymity is IP count, anything more is too much.
>>732108526>they thought we'd have TES 6HAH
>>732108693gdi
>>732108716That still does not answer my question.What is YOUR idea of anonymity, what do YOU believe anonymity should entail, and why?Personally, I'm fine so long as I don't need to make an account and the site isn't doing shit like scanning my open ports or trying to fingerprint my browser session.
>>732108658It's nice of you to out yourself as a fucking tourist.
>>732108860I've been here since 2011, stupid.
how much longer do we have left, given the recent news?
>using the site since 07>last year and this year have finally been the two years that made me stop posting and browsing by a large marginevery thread is designed to make you mad at either sales, twitter screencaps, obviously baiting people, gay people, or something else.for people who have only been here since 2016 onwards maybe it feels familiar, but it's just a far cry from what life used to be like. remember when /v/ beat reddit at tribes? remember how fun that was? now look at the fucking catalog.
>>732108686It is orders of magnitudes worse now though. And I was also there posting plenty in 2011 so I'm aware of all of it. I played TF2 and tribes ascend with anons that year and had a lot of fun. The type of poster is so different now. You're right schizos are a problem but its more than that its like just a whole different type of person even if you ignore the schizos. Just thinking about the percentage of bad faith posts now compared to then it's crazy how bad its gotten.
>>732109075All of 4chan has been completely inundated in culture war shit and based on recent events, it was almost assuredly deliberate.Anons don't know how to turn that shit off anymore, probably because some of them were raised on this shit and because some of them are legitimate paid agents who stir up shit because it's their job.
>>732108832Not playing your purity test game, tourist.
>a bunch of eternal summerfags lament the board being shit upFuck you, YOU faggots ruined this place back in 07 kill yourself
>>732108917If a woman tried talking to me about video games I would see it as a vapid excuse for attention and if she showed interest in me I would assume it was a joke or just a phase. I'm immune to bitches.
>>732105836>no ballsI've never even watched it for free
>>732109210Great, even when completely anonymous you still can't be honest with me, so I'll just assume the worst intentions and assume that your idea of anonymity is "I get to samefag and pretend to be multiple people to keep my shitty culture war threads active so more people post in them and shit up the board even more."
>>732103805>GraphicsDamn
>>732109075>>732109082>>732109180It has always been a hate machine.
>>732107335good air turns into bad air, so you'll have to keep replacing the air pockets
>>732109075>remember when /v/ beat reddit at tribes?I like how when newfags talk about how le great old /v/ was, THIS is literally like the only thing they've got. Like in over 20 years, all you have is "we beat reddit at a video game one time."
>>732109305A hate machine is different from a culture war machine.
>>732109305You will never be an oldfag.
>>7321088822011 was another era of tourists too and to pretend otherwise is trying to pretend old faggotry that you and me sure as fuck don't qualify, but I don't pretend the current trends aren't an even faster degradation of the site.
>>732109369Not with reductive reasoning, it isn't.
>>732109364i'm not here to explain all of the big and small things that made /v/ great. i'm sorry you weren't there to experience it yourself, but that's not my problem.
>make post>upset the wrong newfag>have your entire life history and skin color and body physiology magically morphed and changed like a dev console character creation hackAnd these filthy newfags will argue outright cartoonish lies for HOURS and HOURS and outright shit up the fucking website nonstop.
>>732109305You're arguing with eternal newfags, hell the first reply in your post is to a faggot that literally started using the place at the start of the eternal summer.
>>732103805>APB threadIt really never lived up to its potential.
>>732108526Crazy 4chan was gov site all along and moot confirmed faggot and a troon
>>732108882Oh wow, 2011.
>>732109812Man, I miss playing APB with /v/. I wish the whole game could have been the chaos districts, but the game was already ruined by hackers as it was, so I'm sure that would have made things a thousand times worse.
>>732109984we may have spent all day busting ram raiders together. good times bro
As a diehard and lifelong phoneposter, the real shit is I used to be able to save my place in a thread by clicking the 'No.' and refreshing the page by clicking Enter on the address bar to reload the page at that post (another side effect is reloading like this reloads all opened images, if you open images in another tab after opening them in the thread the other tab version is still the 'm.jpg' version even if you use Refresh in the thread) but ever since like a couple years ago doing that just bounces me back to whichever 'No.' I clicked last without refreshing the page. Phonechads will know what I mean. This shit is annoying because closing the internet browser and reopening it brings me back to the OP and loads as many posts as are currently in the thread, so basically I have to find where I left off instead of it only having as many posts as it did when I left.
>>732109531My favorite is>make post>upset the wrong newfag>he claims you are the lead dev of the game being discussed
>>732103805>No jaks>No frogs>No tranniesWow what a bunch of reddit bullshit.
>>732107226felt good to have a hand in making that one, hopefully I'm still proud 10yrs later
>>732107226>>732107359>R.I.P. /f/ in both 2020 and 2025
