What was Sup Forums like before social media really took hold of the internet?

What was Sup Forums like before social media really took hold of the internet?

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Less reposted memes.
More OC.
No reddit
No 9 gag
Far less underage
More greentext
Less shitposting

Lots of anime, desuposting, Sup Forumstards and Sup Forums didn't exist also Sup Forums used to stay in their own board.
Have a merry christmas user.

>i really miss the elaborate greentexts

>Have a merry christmas user.
You too :)

more anime, more self deprecating humour, less political, a lot more specific board culture, a lot more transient but fully embraced jokes

someone taiwanese slut. i ripped it off Sup Forums years ago

you could post on a board and your OP would be off the front page in less than a second

we didn't even have 'the catalog' back then

dumbass sayings like 'comfy' and 'lewd' didn't exist yet. then again, it was cringey and everyone on Sup Forums sounded like an inbred hick. /prog/ was JEWS. dick ads were everywhere. like /soc/ but with even more dicks.

no one got banned for hating sjws and you could drop docs and have a modicum of internet activism. but it doesn't matter because it was all shit anyway.

>Far less underage

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Lots of demotivational posters.

check out /flash/, its a relic of this sites now gone culture.

Please. If anything Sup Forums is full of people who came here when they were underage years ago and now they're in their mid-twenties with a fucked up life

booth babes and kernel commits. nowadays it's "wut fone shood i by"

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Please, my life is only moderately fucked. Those that had a completely fucked up life tend to have a fairly high attrition rate to suicide.
Probably hundreds of people I've talked to here have killed themselves.

>tfw never used Sup Forums in its prime because it was a bit spooky
I still remember the first time I visited the site like it was yesterday, I was searching free porn as usual and in the search results was a link to a Sup Forums thread which I clicked because I was curious about the site, the first thing I saw was the pedo thread with a girl in bikini in the op, a gore thread right under this. I scrolled a bit and checked the other pages but it was really gross, there were too many dicks for my tastes.
This was probably 2005, maybe a year less/more I'm not sure, the next time I visited was some year later and I visited the front page, I tried clicking a link to a NSFW board and the spooky warning poped up, I left and never checked the site again till late 2011 when I was just getting started watching anime thanks to animesuki that a wow guild member recommended, there I found an ad to CR and well the full circle brought me to Sup Forums shortly after, so I'm technically newfag but I'm sure I have visited Sup Forums before 90% of its current userbase did, I only wish I wasn't suck a scaredy-cat kid, I really missed all the best of the internet.

>Probably hundreds of people I've talked to here have killed themselves.
I would say most of them. Sup Forums is by far the most autistic board, and the one most prone to suicide.

I was part of the underage wave of 2010 at 14 cause me and my friends thought it was super edgy with the gore and such. It's only got tamer but Sup Forums isn't
somewhere I frequent anymore.

I would say the heyday of the site was probably 2006-8 from what I hear from people. Built the foundations of internet culture basically.

I think the websites dying out now. There's no new influx of shitposters anymore although all my normie mates go to gif for their porn and that's increasingly common between people I know. They still think I'm edgy for visiting any other board kek.

I've been here 7 years, met the most fucked up crazy people I know such as the guy who's been shitposting the same thread for boxxy every day for years. Its a shadow of its former self but the site keeps its grip on me and nearly everyone.

It was the same shit.
Only fewer anons and even wackier memes.

>shitposting the same thread for boxxy every day for years
Talk about life achievements.

My favorite was the guy with his cum bottles where he posted a pic every christmas with a newly filled bottle of cum near the old ones.
Jizzmas will never be the same again.

Last time I saw it I think it was 2014 then he disappeared. I really miss old Sup Forums with their serial killers, autismo bottles and other retarded shit.

>Sup Forums
>the one most prone to suicide.
very unlikely. lgbt and r9k are prolly up there

Well, fags are by definition suicidal and fucked in the head, so of course /lgbt/ is. But they are not as influenced by the board itself like Sup Forums is.
Here you literally come in as a social, attractive normie mactoddler and leave as a dankpadfag, Sup Forumsentoofag, neckbearded, botnet-conscious and your social media accounts get deleted. Not to mention you find out you can't program anymore without those gay knee-length trapsocks.

why the fuck is this on Sup Forums?

ye definitely lgbt has the most suicide rates

>technological impact of the social media era on a website

Damn. You put it into words so perfectly. Kudos

better

People will tell you it's always been shit here, I suppose that's down to your own opinion. Before all the cancer I actually loved this site, nobody really calls out newfaggotry anymore because it's become so widespread and Sup Forums has become a board full of mediocre porn.

Please don't use the word prolly

Yeah, he's still a hospital janitor. 7(or more) years of his life, great guy just evidently not quite all there in the head
Tame nonetheless compared to some of the fucked up stuff I saw on Sup Forums at that time, I saw a gif of a dude literally fucking a tied up alligator pov among worse things that have genuinely scarred me to an extent. Of the light-hearted weird shit my favourite is the guy who jizzed on a cardboard box over time to the point where it was crusted and posted it. Dongcopter pirate was hilarious and made me practice dongcoptering for a while and got really good at it. To this day know it word for word too. Was a weird kid.