I miss forums...When did the internet go so far off course?
>>739599748when average people learned you could make money off of it
>>739599748
Why would you post on 4chan and miss forums?It's like you are saying you miss reddit. Just go back there?
>>739599748>When did the internet go so far off course?social media, you already know this.
>atf
>>739599748Forums sucks (and still do) and I'm tired of pretending otherwise
>a million fucking banners>a ton of sparkling effects> (username) [rank]It had it's charms
>>739599748>I miss post count whoring and circlejerking
>>739599748pm'd you the fix ;)
Trump made the internet intolerable
>>739599748>When did the internet go so far off course?You already know the answer to this...
>>739600628It was already intolerable well before that.
>>739599748Social Media we've been over this. when Social Media companies turned into ad companies the sleek and futuristic internet full of homepages was over.Same shit happened to Youtube.Anyone remember how Aerisdies used to look? Or how about old IGN? or Gamespy? Literal perfection. The internet was SO much better when it was laid out like a newspaper instead of attempting to hide everything you would like to see because that forced you to engage with the ads.
>>739600141Because i could post swastikas in forums and not get instabanned
All forums/places like 4chan eventually get run over by groups who's sole purpose is to make everyone else on there miserable. Which is why we have dedicated bots for threads, people posting 24/7 about irrelevant /pol/ shit, etc.we must return to gamefaqs my brothers
>>739599748>>739600105The thing you have to remember: Homepages haven't gone away, they have just been drowned out by the billions of social media platforms running an SEO DDOS attack on the internet. They're still out there if you look.You can look at something like bearblog.dev and look through the blogs there and you'll see most of them are identical to what Geocities pages used to be in the old days: Random thoughts from people who just had to put what they were thinking into words along with esoteric knowledge on very obscure topics. Same thing with Neocities.
>>739599748Smartphones.
>>739602171>All forums/places like 4chan eventually get run over by groups who's sole purpose is to make everyone else on there miserable.And the best part is: eventually, these groups will become the moderators of these forums/places as well since no one else cares enough to make everyone's lives miserable except for them.Like 4chan
>>739602326honestly, it's a good thing I can't hear what the average normalfag thinks if I avoid every smartphone site like twitter. Their opinions suck and most of it boils down to their genitals or what they ate that day. They have no higher id
>>739602394Contrary to posting swastikas and seething about jews?
>>739602473Sure we have low quality posts too, but those are the low quality posts that keep the "today i smoked a bunch of crack" with a picture of spongebob posts out, which is 99% of the normalfag net. same goes for pictures of naked cartoons.
>every forum I visited had a +18 section in it>you had to ask for permission to enter so the staff and everyone posting there knew and were chill about it>now you just get labeled as a pervert by internet strangersit was a different time
>>739599748Steve Jobs marketed the device I'm using to shitpost in this thread
>>739602876Those still exist. Webrings on blogging sites or neocities have 18+ sections. It's just faggy social media that freaks out
the big websites paid google to feature them instead of the little websitesSo now whenever I google something I get ten reddit or facebook or wiki pages instead of a special forum dedicated to the thing I'm googling
>>739599748you posted this on a forum tho
>nekowebdotorgAverage "old internet" enthusiast
>>739599748Where's that angel from? I've seen her before.
>>739599748You already know who to blame.
>>739603907Looks like a generic anime girl to me
>site has a separate forum linked to it>the forum goes down, but the main site is still up decades later>cannot find a single mention on the entire internet of what led to the forum shutting down
>>739602473>4chan is /pol/fuck off tranny
I like All The Fallen, F95, cs.rin.ru and court-records
>>739611014and aaonline too
>>739599748iphone
>>739600381takes one to know one
>>739609014Looks like the goto background image for Angel with a Shotgun from the early YouTube era.I miss it
I don’t get how a shitty site like reddit got so big
>>739599748I never used forums that much, just went there to get info and then left.Generals on 4chan are much better, there's usually the latest info you need to know about the subject and some helpful links.
>>739602665>those are the low quality posts that keep the "today i smoked a bunch of crack" with a picture of spongebob posts outAnd invite "today I drank a bunch of beer" with a picture of a truck posts instead
I remember this one final fantasy forum that was the best place to download soundtracks for just about everything
>>739599748>mid 2000s was peak internetGrateful I got to experience it before it all turned to shit.
>>739612858I can't even imagine how blackpilling it must be to be late 2000s and literally not having known a time before phones
>>739613730wrf does that even mean
>>739599748FORUMS STILL EXIST YOU FUCKING FAGGOTT
>>739614408I only know of two and I don't use themWait, three. One of them is for porn.Wait, four. That one's for piracy.Yep, four's all I can think of.
>>739600628>>739601852Nah you could pretty effectively tie gamergate and Trump by extension to the death of forums.Gamergate killed forums by making moderators seem even more cancerous, and various exoduses led to people forming their own communities elsewhere, typically on reddit. Even 4chan experienced the same thing and lost as many users as it gained. A lot of boards still haven't recovered and never will (biggest one for that is /cgl/, which basically lost its entire community during 2014-15, but even a board like /a/ just completely changed from the first half of the 2010s to the second half, and is now basically dead). Makes sense that the only forums that still exist are ones filled with people who never subscribed to gamergate (ResetEra) or were old enough to tank much of it (RPGCodex, SA (yes, it's still active)).
Sometimes, I feel sorrow about realizing that the internet, no, the world I loved, no longer exist and likely will be, only remaining in pictures, videos and memories. It's hard to be positive about the future with this in mind.is it normal?
>>739615496You're 20
>>739615546Someone who is 20 now would not feel such sorrow, as they would have started internet around 2016-2017. which was different but not as drastically as the early-mid-late 2000s or even early 2010s internet
>>739615640Nah they would, because they spend all day on the internet and fantasizing about how they were born in the wrong generation.
>>739615496It's an understandable sorrow, but you shouldn't give up because of it. Even if things are getting worse, somewhere out there, there's still places that might not be the same, but still have their own life or are really meaningful to someone, and might be meaningful to you if you ever come across them. Even on /v/ there can be nice threads from time to time.
>>739615674What brings the most sorrow, having lived something you know will never happen again, or having lived after and realizing you will never experience it?To me, the first brings more sorrow. as you KNOW firsthand that it existed, you used it. it's not just something external.
>>739615496This is literally just growing up. Some adult in the world had the exact same thoughts when you were enjoying the mid 2000s as a teenager, just like some teenager is having the time of their lives right now.
>>739615496this is when you funnel that want into creating something you truly enjoy instead of succumbing to le sad and just giving up and being miserable
>>739615751I'm gonna be blunt, if you feel sorrow over losing forums, you weren't there. You weren't alive, you were the type of faggot who was jerking off the admins and had a 15 Star account with a dozen badges or whatever your site of choice had. Forums were, largely shit. They were often run by complete incompetents who couldn't handle having a community of even ten people, let alone fifty, let alone a hundred. Every other week there'd be a significant issue where someone raped the admin's shitty servers (typically running off their mom's desktop) by simply making a dozen accounts, or there'd be a spammer that wouldn't get dealt with for hours, and the discussion you were waiting for wasn't worth it. The discussion was honestly worse than it is here because here you're allowed to call an autistic derailing sperg a faggot, but if you did that on a forum they'd start calling the moderators down on you for the nono words. This whole fetish around forums is fucking dumb. Go give Lowtax's corpse tenbux if you want the forum experience, and even that is probably still better than what a lot of the forum experience actually was.
>>739615948I'm not just talking about that, I'm talking about internet and the world, if you say things are not worse now than it used to be and are not marginally worsening every years, I cannot understand you, are you the type of person who hate the past?
>>739616015I don't have rose tinted glasses for shitty internet talks. People talking on the internet has always been bad. For every singular good thread, there's months upon months of complete dogshit and that has always been true. To believe otherwise is to invent a past that didn't exist, and it's not "Nobody was ever happy", it's "The internet makes people miserable". That has always been true, people knew that decades ago because the internet disconnects you from the need to be nice and incentivizes being a miserable fuck, and it always has. That's why flamewars and trolling always existed too.
I miss forums, even with all the admin faggotry, favoritism and other stupid shit.It was more interesting seeing multiple communities with different inside jokes and ways of behaving, but then again, I’m so used to IBs by now that I can only see myself posting anonymously, with no record of my posts under the same name.
>>739599748Normies and third worlders ruined the internet. Its' all gone, anon
move on
>>739615376SA got rekt by the actual US State Department around the same time /b/ had the cp meltdown and moot gave the FBI a permanent admin account, 2006 or 7. Before NGO homos infiltrated internet spaces it was the government. An SS D&D mod got baited into Benghazi ffs. Gamergate was more widespread and in the open, but the same tactics were being run in a more covert, if not less effective way for a long time before then.
>>739615376>Gamergate killed forums by making moderators seem even more cancerous, and various exoduses led to people forming their own communities elsewhere, typically on reddit.That's like moving from the UK to North Korea to get more freedom of speech.>/cgl/Why did that one board suffer so much?
>>739613730Most of the stuff being referred to in this thread was still around up until the mid 2010s
>>739617179>An SS D&D mod got baited into Benghazi ffs.Baited? It was his job! If anything it's a sign of just how deeply the hypocritical SA crowd managed to infiltrate important institutions of our society.
>>739599748Pretty sure that GameFAQs is still alive.
What I miss the most is the chill attitude people had when engaging with each other. The stupid but earnest humor. People just doing awesome shit for the fun of it.Now it's all quiet hysteria and paranoia and everyone trying to win at life or form a cult or fight with shadows. Internet has become a horrible parody of real life, a sort of self-inflicted lucid dream where nothing really matters but people are determined to believe that it does.
>>739615376Gamergate derangement syndrome
>>739600628>dude drumpf"People" like you are the problem.
>>739618035The world just wasn't politically divided back then. I unironically didn't know what right and left wing meant until I was almost 30. Politics was just something old people talked about and we didn't pay any attention to
>>739612858I want a tech collapse...
>>739599748>remembering the days when livestreaming video games was a "hey lets all watch our internet friends play video games and chat" thing>now it's a platform for would-be e-celebs to seek attentionI miss making a bunch of internet friends from all over the place. It feels like that was the thing these corpo rats want to kill the most. Genuine connections with other people.
>>739599748>When did the internet go so far off course?2008. Iphone allowed easy access for normal people and browns.
>>739615814Room temp IQ post. 30s, 40s, 50s and on could still enjoy the world that age instead of being deep in nostalgia and sorrow. Nowadays literally all ages are missing how things were 20y ago.
>>739612858>duuude everyone was laughing and having fun before phonesNo the nerds were still bullied, nothing changed
>>739618035You need a sense of disconnect from the rest of the world to engage in real play. The more the internet became integrated in real life (As well as increasing normalfagification) the more it became serious business to people. Smartphones meant you were never more than seconds away from it, and the way the internet has become increasing centralized hasn't helped
>>739615814The fact that both zoomers and millenials and gen xers agree that everything went to shit mid 2010s tells me otherwise. Of course people are nostalgic about their youth but what happened in mid 2010 has nothing to do with that
>>739618562Always some midwit on a dunning kruger false peak running to bring up IQ. That guy is a midwit with some wisdom. You are a midwit with none and a big mouth.
>Bans you for """necro-posting""" in a 2 day old thread
>>739612858>one day a solar flare will fry every single electronic device and we'll retvrn to this... for a while
>>739599748>I miss forums...>tfw all the bodybuildings forums of the 2000 are gonefeels bad wouldn't be on 4chin without them
>>739617812No, a professional with a job like that would have known what's up when the gunfire started. He was posting about "this is their culture it's just how they celebrate they love us!" right up to the last moments. State molded that guy and dumped him as expendable bait full well knowing he was out of his element.
>>739618786>Always some midwit on a dunning kruger false peak running to bring up IQ.It's not a show of dunning-Kruger just because anon is calling someone a retard, retard. Did you just learn about the phrase and couldn't wait to put it in a post? >That guy is a midwit with some wisdomThat guy's argument is nothing more than a lazy platitude of 'Nothing is ever different', hardly wisdom
>>739617602People into earnestly investing time in their hobby and meeting likeminded individuals stopped coming to 4chan over a decade ago.And also people that have sex.
>everyone misses forums>no one ever tries to start oneI'm just saying...
>>73959974 idk but i miss the too desu
>>739615814Not the same at all. Adults in the 00's were like "oh boy I miss my youth, but I love my kids, and DVDs are so cool!"No one is happy about anything now. The world is a shitheap.
>>739599748When poor people gained access.This is the only correct answer, I was there, I saw it happen in real time.
>>739619658>We miss the old internet! We should remake it!>Goes on to create literal copies of Twitter and Reddit on LemmyThe fuck is the point?
>>739617602>Why did that one board suffer so much?The one and only reason to cosplay is for attention. Why attention whore on a website filled with older autistic nobodies, when you can attention whore on Twitter, Reddit, OnlyFans and get even more attention and potentially make money?Also, the novelty of cosplay culture fizzled out. Otaku culture (and it's counterpart, weeaboo culture) are dead. Animanga are for normalfags now. They are just another tool for the well-adjusted to socialize and acquire sex.
>>739618794LolMost threads would go on for months and years
>>739618972>first time I ever learned about (((them))) was through a misc thread about pedowood around 2012WEWLAD
>>739599748They got replaced by social media. Instead of having 50 different xX_Sephiroth_Xx accounts you had a twitter with your real name and friends.
>>739600408They certainly had problems but they were significantly better than the alternatives we've adopted. So much information about games has been lost in the discord era.
>>739599748I just remember a time I would go to multiple websites. Now I go to 2.
>>739612858Anons being nostalgic for this is proof this place has been infested by normalfags and people who weren't born when the video was filmed.
>>739612858https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYbe-35_BaA
>>739625567No, I was there. I'd go back.
I miss being able to just google "x forum" and being able to instantly find a community full of people invested in that hobby, no matter how niche it was. Music sharing, torrenting, instruments, all vidya genres, emulation, tech, anime, etc. Being able to access to all their previous discussion with search filters that actually worked instantly surpassed having to deal with the one or two rogue power-hungry moderators per year.Nowadays every community has reduced into a half-dead reddit sub no one really uses, or a hidden discord where no one really cares to engages with their main topic. Most of my Discord experience consist of joining with a question, and their only chat being so fast and full of off-topic posting that if your post doesn't get read in the half a second it's still on screen, you just get ignored, and if you keep pushing it you'll probably end up with one of the regulars muting you.And holy fuck, don't even get me started on Discord search function, I want to fucking murder the retard who designed that shit.
>>739613730early 2000sright in the optimal blackpill zone where they could develop memories when things were still decent, had to grow up watching it all fall apart without being able to truly enjoy how things were, and then when they hit adulthood they were pretty much told to enter the nightmare hell zone like nothing's wrong.
>>739599748Nobody wants discussion. They want their echo chambers and hugboxes. People are getting dumber (more european) over time, and desire environments that coddle them.
>>739599748January 20, 2009 12:00 Eastern Time
>>739623037This post is written by someone who has never been to a convention
