Thread 82091666

>ywn be 20 years old in 2005

To any old anons, what was 2005 like for you? I was a barely sentient 7 year old

I thought the 30 year old virgin was an endearingly relatable movie. Sure as shit, it happened to me.

>>82091666 (OP)
>14 in 2005
>summer sleepovers with Halo 2 and ice cream
>going out to the park in the dead of night with the lads for mischief
>registering forum accounts
>playing vanilla WoW
>sharing ancient internet memes
>watching homestar runner and albino blacksheep
>playing old doom wads and emulating ROMs
>registered a steam account to play HL2
My grades were pretty mediocre that year and set me up for a life of failure. I was on the gifted track before WoW. It was a pivotal year of my life. Really the end of the best years of my life.

>>82091666 (OP)
>smartphone technology in its infancy. back then a mobile phone was really just that. a mobile communication device, not an all in one device for any app you can think of
>pc gaming barely taking off
>2005 video game graphics. no fidelity skin pores for you
>barely accessible internet. you wanted it, you went to a cafe (japan still does this but only because it's a way of socialising for a country of introverted nerds)
>youtube in its infancy, not the monolithical entertainment giant it is today. back then it really was just randos vlogging
>social media in its infancy (This was a good thing)
>online gaming barely supported. couch co-op was the norm
>no smart tvs. no recording shows for you so you can fast forward ads
>no netflix either
>barely any online shopping. Amazon was still a small retailer back then
>by extention no online fastfood but at least fastfood back then was cheap (and actually fast. nowadays they take as long to do your order as a proper restuarant)
>RnB was still around(this is a good thing)
>Metal was not as around(this is bad thing)
>cartoons were goated
>movie CGI was still being combined with practical effects (this is a good thing)
>anime was...around. ig
>women werent simoutanously turbo whores and also chadsexuals. they were just turbo whores

all in all, 2005 mostly sucked for technology. neetdom wasnt nearly as prevalent because staying at home wasnt as fun and rewarding

>>82091873
>2005 mostly sucked for technology
Are you joking? HL2 just came out. The internet was in full swing. Anyone could pirate flash and start making animations in an hour. You could literally download anything and nobody cared, normies didn't know wtf the internet was.

Get on grokster and dl a 5 gig file of every top 10 song from 1932 to present. Who cares? DL the entire Death Note series, who's going to stop you? Every SNES, Genesis, and arcade game? Go for it, Vimm's lair was right there and wide open.

NO PHONE POSTERS. That alone is incredible.

>neetdom wasnt nearly as prevalent because staying at home wasnt as fun and rewarding
Yeah for the average person. For a channer, that was paradise. Heaven on Earth.

i was 20 in 2010
aka a big nothingburger

>>82091873
You could argue pc gaming was in heyday, at least the games I played were. Wow was in it's prime and still in vanilla.

>>82092003
A fellow '90 fag, sup.

>>82091873
>no smartphones
This is a good thing. The fact that everyone has a smartphone nowadays means that the internet is full of normalfags and not nerds. The internet was a lot better when it was mostly just nerds.
>barely accessible internet.
Idk, my parents had it in the house and we used it all the time. At its worst, it was just slow.
>no recording shows or netflix
Torrenting was a thing and it worked/still works just fine.
>barely any online shopping
I'll give you this one.
>online fast food
I usually go in person and it's fine. Delivery apps are a huge scam and a waste of money.

>>82091957
>>HL2 just came out
>one good game came out so the absolute stone age levels of technology and comfort (in comparion to what we have today) was worth it.
this is dumb. regardless of phone posters it's objectively better nowadays. technology has only been improving. and tf do you mean dl songs? bitch i have spotify. i remember dl'ing songs and unless it was normie shit like pop, you were lucky if ANY obscure music you like could be downloading. dont cite the deep magic to me witch, i was there ripping audio from youtube videos and we didnt have youtube in 2005.

>>82091957
> who's going to stop you?
Internet speed is going to stop you, and unreliable rapidshare/megaupload part links, and no concentrated places for this like the private torrent sites we have now.

No phone posters is the only good part, you at best programmed ringtones on your nokia 1100 or downloaded that low quality gameloft game

Morrowind was the best Elder Scrolls

>>82092861
tpb was around then, I remember using it. I know it wasn't private but a ton of ISPs never gave a shit back then like mine did.

>>82092861
>Internet speed is going to stop you
i know this will sound insane but i MISS the wait.
it's not like i have the fastest internet now, but with a reasonably-seeded torrent i can do that 'download in sequential order' thing and just watch it, right away.

700mb aXXo rips? it's like i had to PLAN IN ADVANCE before watching a film, maybe even download stuff overnight. and before that, it was albums (or even just individual songs) on KaZaA. i used to listen to fucking MIDI files.

>>82091666 (OP)
meeting girls on myspace and MSN chat rooms

buying funny pills from urban youths outside of subway stations without worrying about fentanyl

being mallgothmaxxed and going to metal bars and goth dance clubs

meeting local nerds via newgrounds' message board

going to video stores every weekend

people being a lot more open to public nudity and sex in public

almost no indians

system of a down and green day playing in the top 10 on the radio

Playing lineage 2 and getting into gang shit

>>82091666 (OP)
The year itself was sort of a 'flashpoint' for me.
>had a falling out with my extended 'family' I had known since I was about 9
>sent to my biological dad for the summer in Las Vegas, but came back after only 3 weeks; we weren't compatible at all, and it was my mom's idea anyway
>I managed to get out of the AFJROTC when the 2005-2006 academic year began
>it was the last year I'd have a gf (only lasted two weeks in October)
>it became more and more apparent that I wasn't straight, but I couldn't fully admit it to myself
>parents started letting me wear more anime shirts instead of just flame shirts to school
I'm 36 now.

>666
I'm not answering SATAN.

>>82092914
I remember the first thing I downloaded was that meme numa numa song. I don't remember clearly if I had adsl on 2005, might have gotten it a year later lol.

>>82091692
I saw it and my first thought was this guys life is awesome but then I was wait, this is not supposed to be the message.

>>82091666 (OP)
Technology was really fire but in general with 2008 coming up so not good financially, housing stacks to jack up starting here and you have all that turmoil with 9/11. I think you had to be gen-x to really take advantage of it. It was a decade that you couldn't really grow up, I feel 10 years behind.

>>82091873
Gaming sucked, mainly remember King Kong the game of the movie as it was called.
GTA 4 and xbox live arcade were super cool though.
Barrier of entry to go online so you had to at least understand how to get tcp/ip working right. Small guys like Maddox could really compete.
That cyber stuff was super cool but the financial side was crumbling while we were distracted.

>>82092023
Wow ruined pc gaming for a time, its all everyone cared about and made it acceptable to charge $15 a month to play a game.

>>82091666 (OP)
It was cool. I played WoW and DotA on Warcraft 3. Lots of counter strike, staying up all night in the summer with my friends on ventrilo playing games. Discovered 4chan /b/ and YTMND. I used to be in a funny troll channel on efnet mIRC.

>>82091873
>>Metal was not as around(this is bad thing)
That's pretty stupid, death metal and black metal were still barely out of their formative generations and many huge names toured regularly. In a few years metalocalypse would premier on adult swim. Metal was way bigger in 2005 than it is now.

>>82091666 (OP)
I'm 20 years old in 2025. Is that bad

>>82093417
>I saw it and my first thought was this guys life is awesome but then I was wait, this is not supposed to be the message.
Steve Carell in that movie lifemogs the shit out of me

>>82091666 (OP)
I turned 19 in 2005. My dad died 13 days later. It was awful. I'd passed my second year of college that summer and I still had some hope of somehow being a normie who could succeed. It was the beginning of my two decades of NEETdom. Never knew at that time that I was just too autist to ever make it out there, dealing with normies all the time. I was under threat from a local gang of brothers, so I was basically a hermit from 2004-09.
Naturally, the Second Depression of 2008-Onwards permafucked me for ever finding autist-friendly work. Did finally work for a year in the mid-10s (while dealing with my mother's sudden death), but it confirmed I was not cut out for it.
Still, 2005 felt like a comfier time, before 2008 fucked everything into this perma-misery. Gaming seemed much freer and accessible, I had a lot of PS2 games. No fucking online sub needed and no overpriced games, or waiting over a decade for a sequel. The internet was fresher, chatrooms everywhere, no fuck apps to start the incel boom yet; though I never did escape inceldom (apart from escortceling from 2008-17). Though I wish I could go back to the 90s.