ITT: Ask an "oldfag" anything

ITT: Ask an "oldfag" anything

I have been on Sup Forums since around 2006 and stopped using Sup Forums around 2010, but moved to different boards.

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going to bump a few times to see if there's interest.

Wich boards have you moved to

How you feel about 8ch?

People always mention how this place was better back then. Can you explain why people would say that? Would you say that more people are blue pilled? What are your favorite boards today? thanks

Same. I started coming here late 2006, left (for the most part) in 2011. My question is, why does the internet suck now? And where can I go that doesn't suck? I barely recognize the modern Sup Forums

Spread out around most of them, some I don't visit anymore. Sup Forums, Sup Forums /d/, /f/, /k/ /i/ /s4s/ /adv/, /an/, /bant/ /ck/ /diy/ /his/,Sup Forums, /jp, Sup Forums, /tg/, wsg/ Most of the hobby boards are very good, and the slow boards typically have high quality posts
I don't go to 8 and I think the entire goobergat exodus thing was retarded. I've visited it once or twice and the only board I liked was /cuteboys/ because traps are cute and totally not gay.
It was a vastly different time because an entire different group of people were using the internet, a lot of people were teenagers and the content creation (OC) was everywhere. It's difficult to explain but imagine people unironically saying things like "epic 1337 haxorzz xD" and that was comedy. If you ever visit /bant/ or /s4s/ those boards are somewhat reminiscent of old Sup Forums. Boards addressed in another post

internet sucks now because it's extremely mainstream, most people use it every day, and the definition and concept of "meme" has changed.

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Tne word "Meme" has always been the same, cunt.

Strongly disagree. I feel like the word meme has changed over time and now means something along the lines of "Funny picture"

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Oh hell no

I'm talking about the word overall, not just it's use on Sup Forums. What makes you think that it hasn't changed?

it was better bc their was less money
Therefore less funds to monitor everything
So boards with more dark content stayed upp longer
but honestly fuck the oldfags their the ones who kept putting themselves on the news
which brought a lot of mainstream attention

>because traps are cute and totally not gay.
Fucking hot chicks is 100% straight.
Fucking hot dudes is 100% gay.
Only my dad cares these days. Get over it.

Anyone have questions?

I think you're right. There used to be a sense of comraderie and effort in the content that was produced. Raiding and having a giant community to look at fucked up shit and have in-jokes with was awesome. To it's credit, reddit had a tiny sliver of that at one point. But it's so milquetoast and PC that it makes me want to vomit. Oh well, at least I was around while Sup Forums was still good

>internet sucks now because it's extremely mainstream
It blew up in the 2000's year, over a decade ago. Are you a hack from a third world?
>most people use it every day,
yes many people in first world nations use amazon to order shit, shit they don't need, it is Profits!

and the definition and concept of "meme" has changed
>no you are stupid, a meme is still a meme.
you are stupid.
>you are stupid (just in case you need greentext for it to count)

How has the atmosphere of Sup Forums changed over the years? Are people stupider nowadays too?

Oldfag, what other board(s) is similar to Sup Forums?

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Who is that moot I heard about? An old meme?

Well there is 3chan but it has issues, or 2 chan which had Scientology, then 1 chan that had henti whatever the fuck is coming out of whatever the fuck that is, but ... Ok, I am slightly aroused.....

welcome to a brief history of chan.

I have actually never been to reddit. I tried to visit it one time to check it out when it got popular but it's layout is so confusing and ugly. I abandoned usernames and traditional forums when I got the taste of anonymity.
Internet has always been popular since the early 2000's but I'm talking about the explosion in usage attributed to facebook and other things like it.
I don't really visit Sup Forums anymore so I wouldn't know what to tell you but from what I can tell from the catalog, it's just porn dumps now rather than discussion, OC, and failed memes.
All of the boards on Sup Forums are Sup Forums, I don't understand your question.
This question scares me because I can't tell if it's ironic.

and before you say, no I did not number them for their titles, just for the kek. Let's see the trolls I hope.

I don't care about your funny fish. Now please answer my question regarding stupidy

Should we bring back Snacks?

Why didn't you go to 7chan like the rest of us?

what's the most memorable stunt were you around for?

are the memes youve seen art?

youtube.com/watch?v=KAExa9P7hME

Broom in my..?

Where the fuck is the OC then nowadays? Reddit's kind of better. They actually strive for good conversation and for you to imrpove yourself. Sup Forums's bunch of lazy. And pathetic pieces of shits

are you gay?

Why is Sup Forums so shitty and full of normie trash now?

>Reddit's kind of better
kys

I like a good debate.

How has it changed? Are you asking how Sup Forums has changed or how people from the 1900's b have changed?

See? Nothing good here.

Because its a conservative hell-hole

I'm not OP, but I was around for the habbo hotel raids. Staying up until 4 in the morning following what was happening with those stupid fucking avatars was addicting.

>implying Sup Forums was ever good

back in the good ol days, the underage type P was always fun to watch. can't find it any more.

I was asking how Sup Forums has changed, not anything about the 1900s(I'm gonna blow my fucking brains out talking to this guy) Also, if you special oldfag pricks are so neat then make some OC right now

How do i fin a certain person on the Internet I only have First Name, Age, Place Where He lived.

I know which parties he likes/ liked to go to but it seems he is not even on Facebook.

What do?

I can't remember if I first got into Sup Forums just before he left or after he left, but to answer your question, yes. It would definitely make things significantly more interesting. If you weren't aware, Snacks has run an internet radio show for the past 11 years. Plays amazing music and I've found a lot of new artists through it.
Habbo raids (I wasn't in the first one I don't think) or any kind of videogame where Sup Forumstards would make a thread asking for Sup Forumslackup. the purple penguin thing on Sup Forums for club penguin was very similar. I really enjoyed the harmless trolling like that.
I don't understand this question
OC isn't there because you're not creating it or it's not good enough to survive the flood of shit threads
Sup Forums was made in 2003
I'm gay for bridget

Nah there's both Liberals and Conservatives on here. Also, fuck liberals.

Sup Forums was never good. .. nice dubs, I like them.

It's actually liberals, retards, and conservacucks who think they're in good company once they see the retards.

ever wonder why theres so many kik groups?

member giga pudding?

It was a little more wild and less contrived. We didn't have CAPTCHA or anything before THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST got spammed too hard by robots. So I guess it was interesting because everything was brand new. It was a little bit like fucking without a condom on. It's still the same shit but with a little less protection and everything is a little more reactive. It felt like there were only a few dozen of us (even when there were thousands) because everyone was constantly posting new things. I remember one guy got real fucked up when we convinced him that the whole board was pre-made and automated and there were just the two of us taking shifts replying to him, the only other human, to make it seem like it was all interactable instead of one big hoax.

Plus the porn was better.

Was it actually random back then?

name the meme or your a fucking liar

I must be beyond the reach of salvation. I still frequent Sup Forums the most since 06 but I do visit /diy/ /wg/ /s/ /hr/ and /gif/, the last 3 for quality porn obviously. I just got my wizard power last month too.

blowhole

Nope. It had different monthly themes, including holidays

You know what, no, I don't give a fuck to describe it. It was interesting, different and rather disturbing while at the same time awesome to know that this is reality is. I don't care to debate dates on fun websites or otherwise. You win the internet, nobody will care, but may your masturbation be incredible.

You can just say retards.

>THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST got spammed too hard by robots
>by robots
Cool starry bra.

Please ask more questions

CP wasn't as common as people would have you think. Yeah it was around, but not everywhere all the time.
No idea, try contacting his/her family or friends. Why would I know this?
I hate to come off as a snobby faggot but in my opinion, puddi puddi is newfag shit. Good god that was irritating though.
Yes.
Humoring this post, I created a bunch of OC for /s4s/ and got about 60 or so people to join in, very rarely I see people making threads about it. This is called "Snail'em" and you're supposed to draw a picture of a snail smiling as he is about to suck a cock. Rate or hate my OC

You know when a drum beat is speeding up? And the beats are getting closer together, the whole thing going faster and faster? Well eventually, it has to become one constant sound with no gap in between. If you showed up after that point, you wouldn't be able to tell there was ever separate beats in the first place. It would all be the same and something fundamental would be lost without anyone really noticing.

That's what happened. It's all just too fast, too many people, too many reposts. Back when I showed up, maybe 2007, you could fall asleep and wake up to the same thread. Now it's ten, maybe twenty minutes tops. There's no sense that anyone is a person or that you could have conversations with the same person more than once. Everything just sort of disappears and evaporates. No memes are created here anymore, just regurgitated.

I hope that explains it.

>libtards
>conservacucks
You guys don't get it - Sup Forums isn't left-wing, and it isn't right wing. Sup Forums is contrarian. We're all anonymous here, so its a place for liberals and conservatives to hang out, talk about stupid stuff, and laugh at funny pictures - togther.

Back during the Bush administration Sup Forums was liberal, hated by FOX news. Then Obama got elected and the site shifted to conservative. Now that Trump's elected, guess which way we're going to shift again. Sup Forums is the world's largest bastion of free speech, and to label it as either conservative or liberal would be a fallacy, and more than that, a tragedy.

>pudding
It's puddi.

lucky guest but this one is harder newfag

>Sup Forums is contrarian
No, Sup Forums is just retarded.

>Sup Forums is the world's largest bastion of free speech
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Oldfag here, also came at the end of '06 and left around 2010.

yes, mainstream killed it. alcoves don't exist anymore, and if they do they don't stay that way for long.

I agree with this. Meme was a confusing term for me when I came back to Sup Forums because it didn't mean what it used to mean (meme).

Yes and no. The "monitoring" is more legal now, less "shitposting" focused. The recent public bans of dumb nigger cuck posting have helped, but aren't doing the job. Moot got out of the sinking ship, gookmoot is ill equipped to patch it up. simple as that.

>traps are cute and totally not gay
>traps not gay
>traps gay
>gay
everyone's a little gay, just admit it and stop denying. these trap threads are cancer though. reddit has won by turning even the oldfags slightly gay.

Snacks wouldn't come back here even if he was paid. Times are different.
I agree that Sup Forums is full of normie trash, and I feel the influx came about when the "hackers" and "anonymous" were attributed to Sup Forums. The second it hit the news, the board went to shit.


Sup Forums's evolution went from awkward and weird (and full of seapea) (the good o'le days) to caustic (the teenage years of Sup Forums), to fucking autistic (the decline) to what it is now - wwyd, cuck'd by niggers, pics you souldn't, and about 20 other types of threads that just repeat. Sup Forums was the best when half the people on it were kissless virgins. those same people eventually banged girls, grew up, became less awkward, and Sup Forums evolved into this shithole. the true Sup Forumstards that stayed virginfags probs went to tor, until the feds busted them. now they're all homeless on the 'net.

it's a sad state.

~forgotten

Finally a real answer

>Sup Forums is the world's largest bastion of free speech
>same cancer reposted hour after hour, day after day after day, for over a decade

Do you remember times when everybody starts making their own blogs and they posting here links to just clicks ads? Did you make your own?

1. Do you ever visit Sup Forums? What's your opinion on free software/thinkpads/other g memes?

2. How underage were you when you first came to Sup Forums?

3. Do you ever regret your time here?

I'll ask more questons as I think of them.

I thought that way before you brought it up so don't say I don't get it, nig nog.
Love you.

>room.

Hello my true-oldfag.

It is faster now, but it wasn't as slow as you describe it back then, even pre 2007. You're right in that the only posts now with staying power are celeb threads. OC doesn't have a chance

Cheers.

Another "Oldfag" checking in, been lurking since around 2007. I used to be a newfag but guess I'm not anymore. Maybe Sup Forums was a bit more active with memes. Like longcat, cockmongler, EpicFailGuy, You Just Lost The Game, portal memes caturday was a thing, people would C-C-COMBO BREAKER you. There were lots of sex stories threads that were pretty decent. This was before /r9k/ was introduced and split off a lot of people. I think Sup Forums became quieter after that. Now there's a lot more porn threads. 4chanarchive still worked, shame they lost all their data and don't exist anymore.

And people talked differently too, like using the word GET 0WND and "this is the cancer that is killing Sup Forums" came up a ton. Triforce used to actually work back then. It just felt different. Not sure how to put it.

anyway, decent thread OP, i'll be lurking

How fucked has this board gotten since you last used it actively?

~forgotten oldfag here

you're 100% right. I used to see the same people in threads all the time, and I loved it - felt like I knew "oh yah, that guy" and some regulars that'd show up in good threads. Gentleman threads of discussion were the fucking best.

Now? the only regulars I see are in loli threads, but they seldom talk to each other - it's more just picture exchange. The "known" anonymous is gone. The "oh yah, that guy, but iono who that guy is, but that guy!" is gone

well put.

Okay. 2 oldfags. Is there a big deal to any of this?

Dude, I am on board for snailing 'em! This is the kind of dumb shit I remember and loved. I think the best part about a meme back then is that it specifically defied explanation.

It's always been fucked.

ITT people being lead blind.

Jesus WILL lead you to the truth, ALL YOU NEED TO DO! - is find a Pentecostal church near you! There they can absolve your poor choices, there they can absolve your debts, there they can absolve your sins! THEY CAN MAKE YOU WHOLE AGAIN AS THE LORD WANTED YOU!!

Please, don't regard this message, I don't want your money, I don't.

I want you to have the night of your life, then I want you to wake up and scream Jesus, I want you to choose to stop being born a faggot, I want you to stop being a shitposting overlord of nothing and say JESUS!!!!!

I hope that you do overcome, I hope that you do become more, but none the less, I WILL PRAY to the One True Lord of KEK that you do succumb and that I get to bathe your face in the acids of the Earth while I ...

Maybe I'm an idiot but there's no way all that shit was getting posted non-stop without some sort of script running it and auto-commenting. Unless Sup Forums was really that jam-packed with retards. Which, I guess, is not out of the question.

Are you talking about that warez or lockerz shit? I don't remember what it was called but no I didn't.
I don't have that much interest in technology outside of the internet so I rarely go to Sup Forums. If I go, it tends to be for tech support stuff or "Is anyone having the same problem as me" kind of things. Sorry! I like some of the Sup Forums memes though, and I will probably be using GNU/Linux for my next OS.

I was 16 when I first visited Sup Forums and I legitimately don't remember how I ended up here. I am 27 now.

I think constant use of Sup Forums over the years has definitely shaped my attitude on a lot of things in real life, and to some degree my personality and behavior as a whole. I don't think I would trade that for the world though. My advice is to take a break from this website from time to time and go outside.
This is somewhat addressed in another post.
I had a folder of over 200 different snail'ems people drew for me on my laptop and then it died. Do me a favor and draw one real quick?

Also to that broom in my room user, I don't remember that shit and if I do I completely forgot about it. Sorry my dude.

Oldfag, do you miss the moot all over the boards days

Unsure of what you mean specifically by this. If you are talking about when he posted publicly with his tripcode/capcode, then no simply because every thread would turn into asking him questions. If you are referring to public bans all over the place then yes absolutely.

I'm not OP but I'll indulge as an oldfag. I'm also the fella posting multiple paragraph responses. All my replies look the same, with the double-enter between thoughts. So, if you see me out there replying to some shit, say hey or whatever.

1. I don't go to any board that doles out advice of any sort. /fit/, /k/, etc. all just have idiots pretending to know more than they do and idiots pretending to know less than they do. Neither is productive or fun for me. Sometimes I'll go post if I really, really need an answer to something but I'm usually better off googling it.

2. Well I was born in '92 and I was in middle school when I found /d/. Came to Sup Forums maybe a year after that so 2007? 14 years old?

3. Oh yes. Those formative years in this lion's den were a shit show. I really fucked myself over by jumping down this rabbit hole. My girlfriend is a teacher and I hear about her trouble students that were just like me. I wish I could reach in and pull them out. Things like Sup Forums are a beast that you need to mature before you can tame.

Please do ask more questions. I really wish someone would write a book about these old experiences. It's so hard to explain but the internet really was different a decade ago. It's just not like it was and there's no specific thing to pinpoint. It's just different, that's all.

Oldfag, have you ever served as a mod, janitor or indentured server

Finally, threads finally dying

Please keep asking questions

I used to want to janitor way back when but my emails were never replied to. For anybody who is insane enough to want to mod/janitor, it helps if you are a regular in the IRC. No idea if it's even up still.
Not yet it's not.

No.3.. That really made me think. So I should quit while I'm ahead? I was stupid thinking this place was worth it.

We're the same age, and we were on Sup Forums during the same period of time. Do you think there is any chance we see another place on the internet like that? Was it really even that good, or just as much about being 15 and seeing all these things most people would never see or even want to? It's depressing to think about.

I don't think there will ever be another place like Sup Forums (excluding other chans) and I definitely don't think there will be a place that changed/shaped the internet as a whole like Sup Forums. I'd say it's a little of both. Sup Forums was and still is to a degree good but there's a large part that came from being young.

Oldfag, what if I would tell you that the admin for Sup Forums is Japanese or Asian, not sure which is which

I feel the same way. Something ineffable about that time period, just the perfect alignment of social outcasts finding each other in the ether and growing up together. Even while it was going on people were complaining Sup Forums was bad, but it really apexed then.

Favorite meme?

Anything, my dude.

Dude, there are a million better hobbies. Personally, I stopped coming to Sup Forums because I was too busy doing theater. Vidya was also in the way but not too much since they sometimes went hand in hand. I'd say you shouldn't be here more than once a week. That's what I'm doing right now. Just passing the time on a night I can't sleep.

~forgotten here

that definition of fucked has changed greatly over time though

Yes, seeing that red "moot" made me feel like I was experiencing awesomeness in a thread and seeing red ban text made me want to "be in the screencap!"

everyone posts that way, come up w/ a handle
It truly was different, and it's so sad that it has become "mainstream" like everything else that is of the masses. It really is a different 'net, and I miss the old one so much

I remember being a newfag because I thought those newfangled You Laugh You Lose threads were funny. I also just didn't really get the appeal of the cock mongler.