For me it was things like downloading NES ROMs one by one from sites, visiting DBZ fan pages and downloading shitty quality episodes/movies to watch using RealPlayer, using Dialpad to prank call people I knew
Getting on IRC for the very first time and being amazed at interacting with so many other geeks over the world.Organizing a meet-up with my EQ guild at the time was pretty wilds. My parents were extremely worried.
>>108336493soulseek chat rooms
>>108336493using one of these to connect.
Warcraft 3 and Day of Defeat clansRagnarok guild/b/Krautchan /int/
Japan time
Parents went on vacationI got drunk and discovered /f/Was a good night
>>108336493omegle
craigslist casual encounters
>>108336493Playing Xonotic multiplayer with chat and voice chat during 2020 was great.
being a /b/tard 18 years ago
>>108336996>2008 was 18 years agosheeeeiiiiit
>>108336493doing stuff that will never again exist, kids these days don't even know what was taken from them.
>>108336493Putting an swf into Myspace comments that would redirect the browser to meatspin
surf_ski_2 on cs1.6
>>108336493Ironically using gaia online for the puzzle games, random IRC channels full of interesting and retarded people
peak baneposting on /tv/ about 5 years ago. I had a hysterical laughing fit and had the plane scene repeating in my brain over and over to the point where I needed medical help.
>>108336996this
The PSP hacked firmware years
a chatroom that was on a some torrent site that was completely uncensored and free of interference. you could spam, run scripts, you could impersonate users, you could upload anything it made /b/ look tame. it was a total shitfest and hilariously funny.
>>108336493de_jeepathon2k with lowered gravityI've never laughed so hard in a CS game
>>108337016also some version of de_rats
showign my penis on chat roullette to shocked grannnies
>>108336690I wonder if those are still good. I still use soulseek to this day but I haven't checked those out since the 2000s.
>>108337016man surfing in 1.6 was the shit
Garys mod. Mountain Dew. til 3 am.
>>108337201how fat are you today ?
>>108336996I miss spouting memes like an idiot
>>108336980how many people have you murdered?
>>108336943
>>108337177there's this one schizoposter on #nicotine who has been doing the same bit for months. she's been posting daily about this biker gang of hackers? some dude also got doxxed on there for calling some other dude a jew. oh, and basic faggotry
>>108336493Playing WC3 Dota on Garena.
logging into various unsecured security cameras in Japanese supermarkets and offices and moving them around constantly
>>108336493HotOrNot and WouldYouHitThis back when I was in my late teens + early twenties. Met tons of weird girls through there (everyone got around the phone number prohibition by just typing it out in weird ways). Was amazing. Emo and scene girls loved that I was skinny and shaggy.
Watching E3 and playing drinking games with /v/ anons while watching the worst slop get announced on-stage and watching anime between conferences
>>108336493Pretty much same as you OPI still remember the first website I used to download roms fromhttps://web.archive.org/web/20000229150339/http://www.emux.com/
>>108337014Nobody took shit. You boomers sold our futures so you could live in luxury. If nothing else you still just stood by and watched everything go to shit without even trying to help. Everyone over the age of 25 is guilty, part of the problem
>>108341421>part of the problemnot my problem lmao. good luck in the drone wars kiddo.
>>108336493When I started downloading anime off torrents and I discovered the sad panda, life was never the same after that.
>>108341368It was great, like 1999-2001 so way before youtube existed or even most other places with any kind of videos so the ROMs of games I hadn't played as a kid had this mysterious/unknown quality since I couldn't even find footage.
When I discovered hentai in 6th grade.I think it was 1997 at the time.
>>108337262There's no way this guy doesn't have kids in his basement. The show was created to clear his name of suspicion.
>>108336826Flash was my original home board.Rest in pieces
>>108342357if it makes you feel better, look up what he got caught for
>>108341421>Blame boomersActually gen-x and late millennials did that. The Internet was much more wild; "Internet hate machine".
/b/, 2005, laughing till i almost died
>>108336493Team fortress 2
>>108336493>datamining thread
I've become too old to rememberfuck
>>108336493Trolling people on AOL Instant Messenger. Messaged random normies accusing them of the dumbest shit and would lead them on for a while until I got tired and delivered the same punchline of introducing them to my friend, "Block Man" before blocking them and moving on to the next person.
>>108336493Regularly ERPing with a hag twice my age during my formative years.
>>108336493Runescape in '05WC3 dota + customsRagnarok/b/OG YouTube where you could find all kinds of clever fetish porn and all kinds of anime streamsTeamspeak 2Do what you must, I've already won.
If you know, you know.
>>108342640>In January 2019, Hansen was charged with larceny after a check bounced with a vendor who delivered promotional items. Hansen turned himself in to police in Connecticut on January 14, 2019, for allegedly bouncing checks for nearly $13,000 worth of promotional materials, according to Stamford Police. The charges were later dropped.hansen's dropshipping arc >In relation to a sting operation that occurred in October 2020, Hansen was supposed to appear and present evidence in a Shiawassee County courtroom in Michigan in July 2021. Hansen did not show up for court. A warrant was issued for his arrest in July 2021. Hansen later turned himself in, stating that his failure to appear in court was because of a misunderstanding, and the matter was resolved.wild to me that the court can make you appear in person and work for free or they'll throw you in jail
>>108336668This. I remember my first goatse.
>>108342790During my gap year after high school I put 2000 hours into TF2. I'd fuck around on mario_kart servers during the day. Then as people came home from school/work I'd switch to my main server. After midnight I'd chill in jump servers til 3 AM. I still keep in touch with some of the people I met that year.Even being a directionless neet loser was enjoyable when you were young.
>>108343822it would still be enjoyable when you're old if you didn't have to worry about things like earning money to provide shelter and food. one of these days technology will enable everyone to live like that without needing to worry.
>>108343720Friend and I did one of these and we got report d and immediately banned and disconnected for repeatedly saying Nigger.
>>108343838You could also call from a landline with a blocked number or Google Voice, that's what most people did.
>>108343834Lol no, the Jews are not going to keep goyim around.
>>108343834I already am at that point, neet again at 30 with my parents supporting me. If anything newer developments made internet much less enjoyable.
Scrolling through the Anime Web Turnpike back in the late 90s, looking for updates. I found so many webpages dedicated to weird series back then. Some of the stuff I discovered there I still love. It all felt so big and new and fun.
>>108336493I have fond memories of playing gunbound, playing early WoW, downloading stuff off the suprnova torrent tracker, and running my own torrent tracker.
> irc channel has a strict rule on paging> troll newcomers to page whole channel> eventually get a 30 day ban for getting people to page channel> seethepost on the forum about the admin who banned meGood times
/biz/ in late 2018 / Jan 2019 was the most fun I ever had on the internet. I couldn't even sleep I had so much fun reading threads of people making fortunes buying obvious scams on the internet. A close second was the early days of wii homebrew in the mid/late 2000s in my early teens where I got a new emulator or game for free every day and went through huge amounts of the Megadrive and Snes library.
When a streamer noticed one of my shitposts on his subreddit and talked about it on stream all serious. There are logs of it. It was fun
>>108343984That fat faggot Nicholas DeOrio read one of my comments on a subreddit on stream, then he replied to it a few times off stream, later deleting all his replies when I proved him wrong about some shit kek.
>>108341421facts t. 25
>>108337014Millenials got to experience just the very tail end of the good shit but are now in the same shitty boat as zoomies and alpha.
>>108344009Truly the peak of ur life, its never getting better after this. Mark my words.
>>108344026Oh I know, it's all been downhill for everyone and whatever comes after gen alpha will experience a new era of pure suffering.
>>108344031For me it was being called out on one of my drunken ramblings but this time it was taken seriously somehow?. But Joe has always been a loose cannon. But yea I was basically shitposting and was called out on it hard which was interesting. I dont think im wrong though.
>>108344049for contexthttps://youtu.be/o9YuUzffVr0?t=509
Vegeta insane
I found this webpage called “Welcome to M.A.U.L” that basically had you navigate some secret facility with anime stuff happening in it. All the art was ripped from other sources but the dialogue was original.I remember a locked door up top and a hot scene with a redhead in jeans masturbating as instructed by some guy watching her via camera.I lost the site and then Star Wars episode 1 came out and clogged search results and I never saw it again.What was behind that door?
>>108344152>What was behind that door?Your only chance to ever find out is to take DMT. I know of several memes from ~2010 that are officially lost media, which should tell you something about your chances of actually finding the thing.
>>108336493beastforum.comIt's insane to believe that zoo porn was just out there on the open internet and nobody cared. The site eventually shut down because of lack of funding, not because someone forced it to close.I spent hours and hours on xtube, that shit was amazing. Sure, I can find better porn on JustForFans now and I'm okay with paying for it, but back then I was a horny teenager. It was like peak youtube except it's porn.There were also the forums on Eunuch Archive and you could go down the rabbit hole of guys multilating their junk. All of those posts are gone, and even if they were around, I'm sure links are dead.Honestly, I'm a simple man. I respond best to sexual stimuli, novelty, and shock. Oh, also the first time I started browsing furry art.
>>108336493trolling mecklenburg servers on the specialists mod was fun
stumbleupon around like 2010 maybe i dunno? also this whole time i discovered some weird url sniffing my home network. Decided to go to it, turned out it was a botnet control panel (family members pc was infected). found the botnet software and got in with the default password. Considered somehow informing infected people they should install malwarebytes or something but then instead took over the botnet and used it to close some kids minecraft every time he opened it while streaming the mic and camera for reaction. later installed bitcoin miners on all the bots and gained like 10 euros worth of bitcoin (probably could have been worth 10k if i kept it). This also led me to the btc-e trollbox, which is what suddenly came to mind thinking of fun on the internet. That early bitcoin vibe was fun. This was like right before snowden revelations when you needed to be a real schizo to be a stallman fan.
>>108336493running a video game clan and being part of a giant teamspeak community for a public server
>>108336493phpbb and vbulletin forums in the 00's. 4chan was dogshit in comparison
>>108345166>I spent hours and hours on xtube, that shit was amazing. Sure, I can find better porn on JustForFans now and I'm okay with paying for it, but back then I was a horny teenager. It was like peak youtube except it's porn.Remember when Bing video search crawled all the porn video sites?
>>108345336>Remember when Bing video search crawled all the porn video sites?Vaguely yes.
>>108345354What I was younger and more porn-brained, I would goon for hours to Bing video and image searches.
>>108336493I remember using a program to force my friends to call each other and I was able to listen in.. I can't remember the program or many specifics.. I think it was through phone but maybe something like Skype, but I'm pretty sure it was just through regular phone. It would ring them both at the same time
>>108336493brazillian scat porn
>>108345560What makes Brazilian scat porn special compared to non-Brazilian scat porn?
>>108336493When you were between the ages on 10-19, it is always that timeframe.Nothing wrong with that either.
>>108345645Brazilians resemble monkeys, and also sound like monkeysits a thing
>>108346412I never heard of this. That's a fetish? I guess I shouldn't be surprised!
Being 11 and playing mmoI didn't know about min -maxing yet, those world felt so big, full of adventure, peoples to talk and play with
>>108336493Just using and exploring the wild west internet of the early 2010s. Interacting with all kinds of shitheads, freaks and even women (I haven't encountered a girl in the wild online in years, sheesh). It was exciting, it was boundless, it was mysterious, at times even scary, it was RAW, it was fun. We truly have been turned into pacified goycattle and have essentially handed the internet over to corpos, glowies and advertoosers. It's crazy.
>>108336493finding and jerking it to loli hentai
>>108347808wtf? pedobear is into lolis, that isn't shotacat...
>>108347916>shotacatThe what?
>>108347923hownew r u
>>108347932I've been online forever, but I've never heard of the shotacat, wtf.
>>108347932>forced memes
Playing neopets
newgrounds and flash in general were peak internet
>>108336668>Getting on IRC for the very first time and being amazed at interacting with so many other geeks over the world.You can still chat with geeks on IRC.
>>108347957>>108347941You should educate yourselves. Clearly, being around "forever" is also not "knowing everything".It was a /b/ meme along with pedobear, but that one only liked loli, hence why shotacat liked...well, shotas.
06-10 4chan
>>108348060nigger nobody used shotacat. /b/ was pedobear and chris hansen all over
>>108348121it absolutely was used you newfag, it just wasn't mainstream
>>108348130>y-yeah well I posted it once t-t-therefor youre wrong!!nobody cares about your niche memes. if it wasnt mainstream it didnt exist. looks like you didn't pay attention to the rules of the internet back in the days
>>108348007Same. And I had such a blast playing Half-Life 2 Deathmatch circa 2006-2008.Also ashamedly I must admit that around that time a lot of hot girls at my school didn't know/care to set their social media photos to private and it was amazing and exhilarating to find those and masturbate. It was such an outlet. Not proud of it though, I wish I had an other outlet in stead and developed my feelings for girls in more social ways.Finding media / culture I couldn't ever have found without the net was a continuous source of joy and I still try to do it but feel like it is much more difficult. It used to be almost superhuman to be good with computers. Adblocker plus dorking on Google made you a guy on a jetski among the fish who used internet explorer 6 (80% of the net users at the time.)Dead internet made me sad and now it's actually a relief that AI is a thing and rapidly exposing everything on the net as infested with bots and unreliable info and slop.
>>108348157You're just upset that you got proven wrong, and are now goalpost shifting.
Shotacat sounds cute though. What does he look like?
2013 Tinder living next to the art college campusWhat a time to be alive
>>108347808>the wild west internet of the early 2010s>early 2010s>wild westlate 00s early 10s is when the shittening started. I was young then too but I remember that being the time that all the big platforms started gaining major traction.
>>108348203
>>108348254Well, I'm not talking about the "major" platforms, because I wasn't on them. This problem is everywhere now. But hell, even twitter was way more lax on rules and less dystopian with its user policing back then if we talk major platforms. Facebook was always shit though, for as long as I can remember.
>>108348273I've seen it, but I guess I didn't know what it was called.
>>108348387You do now!
>>108348273hey I remember him!
>>108348415Shotacat!!
>>108348187no u
>>108348452a compelling argument. unfortunately, you're gay
>>108348060it's ok fellow oldfag, i remember shotacat. they only know of old memes that have continued to be reposted in recent times
>>108348613I haven't seen anyone post pedobear in over a decade.
Gunz
>>108336493/pol/ during the zimmerman trial.
>>108349178holy shit that was a good time
>>108348613glad im not alone in this place
>>108348613I never forgot puddi for some reason. Maybe it's because that song just kept on going for weeks and it burned in memory.
>>108349648Super Waha and Puddi Puddi are locked into my brain for an eternity
>>108336700>Krautchan /int/this.wonder what happened to all the Bernds that didnt migrate to Das Kohlhahn...
>>108339038and playing shouts/sounds over there
Best fun I had was around 2004 2006 when I used to pose as a young girl in those only text chats to then set dates between those pedos>>108345166>Eunuch Archive>goneThere is an archive
MySpace/AIM in 05-06Early Youtube 06-094Chan 09-2012 US electionHow Musk buying Twitter unfolded was pretty funny, all the seething blue checks losing their snowflake status was a good one.
>>108347808The wild west was pre-2010 and specifically before smartphones
>>108337137Fuck yeah, me too. I forgot about the map, crapped my pants back in 2002.
>>108336493Repeatedly killing a scrub on his own gotcha map in gta5 by repeatedly landing a cargobob on him while he was trying to run into his hiding spot where he put all of the guns. I don't know how I did it through the tears.
>>108336493usenet was better than www
Any niche social platform before ~2010 where people didnt have their real faces as avatars.Battlefield 2's releaseMinecraft betaDagobah flash galleryDrawball battles between imageboardsCs:go in ~2016
I searched for "legos" on google in a public library and got an image result of a minifigure using the Lego jackhammer on another minifigures butt. I thought it was funny so I clicked it and it brought me to a full on Swedish porn website. I left the site open on the computer and straight up walked away
>>108336493>using Dialpad to prank call people I knew Holy shit that just unlocked a memory for me. Back in the days when flash was popular, Ebaumsworld used to have soundboards with hundreds of sound bytes from different movies / TV shows / what have you. My brother used to ring up local pizza places as Stewie Griffin and a few other characters just to piss off random wagies. It sounds retarded now but shit was glorious when I was like 10.
