Sup Forums on April 4th 1998

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"Should I buy voodoo2?"

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Oh right, most of you weren't even born yet.

>puts on the Zelda theme MIDI and goes to IGN64 to check out Zelda64 news
Nice.

>IGN at 9:25
I didn't know they existed back then.

April 4th is my birthday, but '96 not '98

"12 Reasons why Zelda64 will be game of the year"
They knew.

>Early 1998

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>Unreal only a few weeks away from releasing
That nigger better have got that voodoo2

>irc
>the music
>the web sites
everything about this hit me harder than I thought it would

we can never go back...

>Anipike
>Web shrines
>GUESTBOOKS

It's like viewing the ruins of Ancient Rome

Time for a feel trip youtube.com/watch?v=WTKIgdfoHxM

do you guys member tying up the phone line for hours playing games on battlenet so nobody in the family could make calls?

i member

All the time spent here
thepokemontower.com/tpt.shtml
reading Ash and Misty Fanfiction.

All the time spent on planetnamek.com looking up DBZ stuff. Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan, I just don't know anymore.

post more old footage

>pokemon tower has a webring section
>none of the rings work
ashes in the wind

i stumbled on a bunch of fucked up Sonic the Hedgehog fanfiction while trying to look up cheat codes. I was too young to understand what fanfiction was, I just assumed it was all canon somehow. gave me a really fucked up image of sonic the hedgehog for years

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Vintage guide to the internet for kids

Fuck lads, what is it about Web 1.0 that makes it so comfy? I got really nostalgic comfy feels looking at the Geocities site.

That site got me into fanfics HARD, I went from pokemon fics to Eva fics and everything changed for me man.

Early 2000s internet was the golden agetbh

>internet is popular enough to find most of what you need and to have high bandwidth
>internet isn't so popular as to be completely regulated as an extension of real life like it is now
>normalfags haven't poisoned it with social media/networking bullshit yet
>people actually made websites for fun or duty rather than "how can I make the most money possible off this"
>rarely had to fill out captcha
>passwords could just be a simple word rather than a 20 character jumble of capital letters, numbers, special symbols, etc. that you will inevitably forget
>normalfags haven't brought their hostility and drama to everything yet
>internet jokes stayed on the internet
>websites were simple and easy to navigate rather than having to shuffle through 3 different menus of web 2.0 shit
>websites didn't want to take down as much of your info as possible to sell to the highest bidder
>people actually believed in anonymity rather than throwing up pictures of yourself and numbers for the world to see
>everything wasn't on politically correct lockdown mode
>trolling was more elaborate
>having a chat client minimized
>viral things seemed less forced
>people in general seemed happier, kind of like how poor rural villagers come off as more relaxed and at peace than busy big city types
then the normalfags attacked

Nostalgia?

not enough shitty old gifs

flashing "under construction signs", kooky characters, spinning skulls. post 'em if you got 'em

Websites not being bloated by Web2.0 bullshit like Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and Digg integration, bloated unnecessary HTML5 elements, and "personalized" ADs that may or may not give your computer a virus.

We'll look at the current age of the internet as an extension of the golden age once national/global regulations are in place.

Our governments are old white men who don't into internetz.

>knowing what canon means
>doesn't know fanfiction
How?

this is already changing

The main culprit seems to be social media sites. If you check out pic related you'll see that in the current era 50% of the internet uses the same 35 or so websites. Whereas years back people checked out specific topics or interests across thousands of different sites.

We're still presented with the idea of 'infinite possiblities' and 'information super highway' but reality is that most search topics all lead to the same places these days. Youtube, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Imgur, Sup Forums, etc.

It's strange to live in an era where most of the honest and normal discussion we used to have everywhere now happens in seemingly unrelated porn site comment sections.

>not secret smile
Shit taste

No, the average Sup Forumsirgin was not on IRC, much less the internet back then if he was born at all.
But who am I to talk, I haven't been on IRC in 17 years.

lol, i'm sure at the time i didn't actually know the word "canon" but i mean i didn't really understand that there was a difference between official Sega material, and weird shit some fan posts online about Sonic and Tails doing something I couldn't understand in bed

sonic fandom has always been exactly as weird as it is now

>Move in with mom and her new boyfriend
>He has an old computer that belonged to his son
>Discovered IRC for the first time when I found it installed
>There are a shitload of saved chatlogs
>It's all lewd conversations of the son talking to chicks in IRC channels.
I fapped for weeks til I read them all.

Probably how fast and unbloated it was. Is it just me who finds the internet a lot slower compared to early broadband? I know there's a lot of cookie exchange and extra background bullshit loaded now. But it seems like sites aren't nearly as efficient as they once were given how long it takes to load despite the jump in technology.

>never obsolete
That gave me hardcore feels right there

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Is it bad that Im still watching this?

>in 1998, this guy was on IRC listening to anime music
>19 years later, i'm doing the same

Nope, there's a certain appeal to stuff that was made before the world went to shit. Unpoisoned by the problems of modern days.

I think the thing I miss the most is how genuine everything was. Sure things were kinda shitty, but people seemed like they were having fun and were excited for what the future would bring.

Everything is too sad and ironic now. Just a bleak clusterfuck of nihilism and emoji. Like the whole internet became a depressing alcoholic clown.

>that feel when reading posts from really old forums about early video game gens and how people thought Nintendo wasn't going to last
>and reading old pro wrestling forums complaining about how guys like the Rock were holding good wrestlers like Dean Malenko back

>before the world went to shit
>unpoisoned by the problems of modern days

It only seemed that way because you were like 6 or 7

We've come full circle on how it used to be in the 70s with Russian aggression, terrorism, student riots, and the list goes on

Even got our own Vietnam War in shitty Iraq

At least there isn't an oil embargo

How many kids today do you think actually know what www stands for?

Why is it this game that reminds me of the late 90's/early 2000's so much

>that 7-11 video

>At least there isn't an oil embargo
There was certainly some kind of oil crisis going on in 2007-8(?), what with gasoline prices going as high as $4.00 per gallon, everyone was making a big stink about it.

Probably very few, but with some rope, a cattle prod, and the promise of candy if they get it right, I'm sure they could figure it out.

>Soon Unreal Tournament

Get on HEATnet fuckers and 1vs1 me.
>Liandri
>Instagib

I'm older than that senpai. At the end of this month I'll have been here 28 years. While my awareness and computer use kicked in around age 5 or 6 on windows 3.1.

Sure we had problems back then, but most of it wasn't felt by my generation. Probably the worst thing any of us witnissed was 9/11 and the iraq war. While the rest was spent enjoying everything the internet and video games had to offer.

The real problem now is that leisure activities were largely left alone back then, and people were happier for it. Now the government and businesses have intruded on the internet to a point that we can hardly enjoy it properly anymore.

I feel like ever since the invention of the internet, or rather the popularity of it, there hasn't really been anything so incredibly new ever since then. The entire world's slowed down and everything stagnated. I think 9/11 had a lot to do with the way America is nowadays, and that's when that truly was the end of all the radicool things the 90's had in truckloads.

>tfw there are kids playing RE7 who don't know what a VHS is

This. I miss the days of having a whole list of bookmarked sites to visit. Now, everything is all in one site and the specialty sites are sometimes bloated and full of ads. I feel like wikis come close to what the internet felt like back then. Just pages upon pages of information.

>1998 was 20 years ago
>people born in 1999 are old enough to post here

It is because people started tovent the truth on the internet. Gotta keep your slaves in check, right?

>Tfw there are kids that have never rented anything from Blockbuster before

Born in '95 here

It's a product of the times. The 90's was optimistic and colorful and it displayed in the internet and even on the clothing we wore. My mom dressed me in damn neon pink shorts and neon blue shirts, but today everything is subdued gray.

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>Looking up old games I used to play
>Get hit by nostalgia so fucking hard

I...just got shivers looking at this image while simultaneously feeling like someone punched me in the fucking chest. Holy....fuck........I need to go cry. I just turned 30 last month and ALL of that is my childhood. All of it.

It is honestly terrifying how quicker time goes by as you grow older.

>When you can remember waiting for the pilot of a show and watching the counter count down

1|= |_| (4|\| |234|) 7|-|15 |_| _||_|57 607 |>\/\/|\||)

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If you dont want to die everyday, you are scum in my book.

fucking hell

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I honestly hate all the Sup Forums meme garbage happening right now calling everything a 'redpill' after the matrix scene. But I do support the cause of letting people know the truth.

Every so often I make a thread to talk about the state of the internet and all of the social media that's been ruining it. Now I see some of my images circulating on their own, so I feel a little vindicated. It doesn't change how bad things are in the present though. I certainly don't think changes in government will kick big business out of the internet either.

It's depressing to think I can't really do anything about it. And there's nowhere left to have good discussions with others who feel the same way. Sometimes I just get lucky with these threads.

Oh fuck...
This hit me harder than I thought.

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>FlyFF is 12 years old

There is hope user.
People are revolting more and more, they are tired of the abuse of mega corps and the fucking shitty governments.
Maybe something big is about to happen in a few years.

"nig nig nig nig nig nig niggg!"

It's nice to see traditional animation done without symbols?

>all those early day hentai/porn sites
>geocities/angelfire fansites
>MSN Gaming Zone
>having 4+ different IMs (Y!, ICQ, AIM, MSN, etc)

I would love either a fascist or libertarian society.
Those two groups are the ones with all the guns, so one would win out.

minus the question mark, I dont know why I typed that.

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>Stick Stickly
That hit me hard

'member aerisdies.com?
It's still up.

buff plz

I wish there were more recorded videos like this

I had that Lego Island game and it didn't fucking work.
I got it from Staples.
>Trying to remember an old PC game that was for kids, probably a Tonka game, where you spray painted a speedboat
>Can't for the life of me remember or find it

That feel when I've played or was at least aware of just about every MMO from that era. I didn't spend more than a couple of weeks on seperate attempts on Flyff. It was fairly grindy even by my childhood standards. I actually spent longer on Atlantica and Sword of the new world than that. I never even got my broomstick :(

I used to frequent mpogd.com and regularly checked through the game list A-Z looking for new stuff to play.

>that feel when remember sitting at the top of the arena out behind Saint Morning and watching people fight
>and sitting with high level friends in that one low level area in Flaris with all the Bangs and watching low level people run around

WoW was the pinnacle of 2000s internet era

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>wanting to play online games meant having to hear this every day

>get home from school
>youtube.com/watch?v=uUbOayWUQ_c

I really don't see what can be done short of someone with some brilliant moral fortitude inventing a way to filter out every site even the slightest bit related to businesses. Creating a sub category of the internet exempt from the usual bullshit.

>Race to log in before the dragon passes

>4:30
>Im learning Japanese

19 years on. Did he make it Sup Forumsros ?

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I think the extinction ending actually gave me PTSD

buff plz

Most likely playing Final Fantasy 7 with friends.

That shit gave almost gave me a seizure from the overdose of suddenly unexpected nostalgia. Holy fuck.

I always wondered why the sounds had to play locally when I used dial up. Like couldnt it just mute it on my end while data was exchanged? some kind of dial up silencer?

Also the slower version of the final 2 sections is really cool. Final bit is what I imagine thousands of websites to sound like together in a crowd.

DSL still make those funny noises, it's just not produced audibly on your computer

I need a Sup Forums version of this. Listening to Veruca Salt or Nine Inch Nails always takes me straight back to hanging out in my room after school.

I fixed this image for you, enjoy the fruits of my autism

>I'll never have those experiences of playing TBC and then WotLK throughout high school with friends from school again

it hurts to live

C O M F Y

The racial and ethnic divide in America seems to finally have almost completely subsided. Things can only get better from here.

no i don't want to be reminded of my terrible taste in music back then