Thread 719723485

>2000s video game forum
>someone has this avatar

For me it's the Paper Mario humping Peach gif. Literally every single vidya forum with animated avatars had at least one guy with this.

wind waker link pajamas link tired face

that one fuckin faggoty lookin dude looking at the camera from that one stage play or show or whatever but im so old i forgot the name

>never visited forums in the 2000s
>only remotely similar experience is torrent comment sections
>they haven't changed since the 2000s

that stickman unleashing a barrage of attacks on a door using a wide variety of weapons

I go with the edgy classics.

You mean this one?

>>719723485 (OP)
Bro you forgot your animated signature bar cycle animation.
Do you even have your paragraph long quote in there surrounded by tildes? We're making fun of SomethingAwful in the 3500 page long General thread that's half 2 dudes RPing an OC fight and got nuked to half its size for the Quake 3 flamewar, get in here bro.

Oh shit, teh banhammerz are here.

>>719723781
>actively use RARBG for years before it shut down
>check comments on one torrent
>someone with an albanian flag says that it doesn't work
>serbian flag immediately chimes in to say "does not work for albanians"
They don't make 'em like that anymore, now it's all just Indians.

>>719723990
kill me

>>719723823
nothing surpasses this

>>719724009
holy nostalgia

>>719723485 (OP)
tamers really does base his characters on the most random shit

>>719724616
Tamers is terrible. Stop polluting this wonderful site's image pool with his terrible pseudo-pseudo-ironic cartoons.

>>719723485 (OP)
i remember making a few shitty vidya versions of this old base

>>719723990
these bars were top comfy. Miss this feature

DO NOT necro. thread locked.

Thread locked because all of you can't behave yourselves and because I am gay.

>>719725298
>>719723849
I have fapped to these

>>719725590
I still see people try that shit on steam forums bitching about a thread getting a reply months or years after the last post. I go out of my way to shit talk those people in the same thread.

RINE ENDS HERE
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What was the last forum you participated in?

Hard Mode: Doesn't start with a K.

hey i no last post wuz 3 years ago
just askin if any1 found out how 2 fix errors with my game pm me fix thx :))

>>719723485 (OP)
god i want this thing on me right now

I recommend reading this forum's rules as it's clearly stated there to NOT necrobump. Locking.

>>719725857
yeah i ran into that problem a week ago, here's what i did to fix it

>>719725852
what does participating mean, casual glance or long commitment?

>>719725975
Why was this one exclusively used by that kind of total faggot?

>>719725852
SRK

>>719726039
>does anyone know how to fix this error?
>nvm I fixed it
How?
>no response

>>719726039
It's okay, I've got my trusty Photobucket account.

>>719725975
>post in an old topic about unsolved problem
>Necrobumping is against the forum rules. Locked.
>make a new topic about the problem
>This was already discussed, stop posting this garbage. Locked.

>>719724616
>>719724974
Feels really fucking weird being one of the original people who discovered Tamers like 10+ years ago only for him to become some popular cringe icon while trying to now act like it was all irony when it so obviously wasn't

>>719726039
Can you post the fix on megaupload?

>>719725852
I wouldn't say 'participate', because literally every single resident is a tiresome holier-than-thou shit.

>>719726039
this fucked up some MUGEN downloads and it still makes me mad

>>719726318
A curious game. The only winning move is not to play.

>>719726407
Last seen: 4 years ago

>>719725975
Excuse me mod, I don't get why you're so upset about this shit. If you didn't want responses, why wouldn't you have locked it beforehand?
I, and all the other denizens of this forum, are getting tired of your shit. Day after day we put up with your draconian measures to exert control over this site. ***Ohh waahhh you have to play by my rules or you get banned, I'm such a pussy-footed faggot who has 20,000 posts and farms karma in the random discussion boards, you must listen to me!***
Well here's a wake up call, shitlips: I'm done listening to you. If I want to make a post, I'm going to make it. You can't stop me. You can't stop anyone here. Ban me? I can make a new hotmail address in ten seconds. Your shitty outdated phpBulletin software can't hold a candle to my 1337 haxx0r skillz. So either grow the fuck up or you'll see what war REALLY is. Mark my words, I will bring hell and high water to this forum.

>>719726226
>nvm I fixed it
>PM'd you the fix ;)

>>719725590
What's the point of getting pissy about bumping old threads if the topic is relevant and there isn't a current thread

>>719725852
Some WoW forum about 15 years ago. Can't remember what it was called.

>>719726407
Check the link in the quoted post, it has mediafire link

>>719726517
The mind of a forum mod is beyond reason or comprehension to those under 400lbs.

>>719726445
God damn

>>719725852
I haven't used a standard forum since like 2010 but it was some super mario world hacking forum. One of the admins went on to work on the cutting room floor

>>719723485 (OP)
>someone has a manga panel profile pic
>can't tell if it's porn or not

>>719725852
Grand chase forms or ogplanet latale/lost saga. But the ffxiv forums is still alive but I don’t use it

>>719725852
i lurk mangadex and f95 forums to download stuff, and i used to participate on rpgcodex

>>719726570
Enemy Territory was so good.

(Thread locked, poster banned for 30 days)
Learn to use the search. We already had this thread.
Consider this your first warning.

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“To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.”
― Confucius

HOW DO I REMOVE THE HYPERCAM LOGO FROM MY VIDEO

>>719726181
Because only total faggots would be a mod for free

>>719726517
Depends on the game. If someone bumps a post about balance from five years ago in a still active game then it gets locked. If it's a game that hasn't received a patch in years then old threads typically stay open forever because it's still relevant.

Sometimes I still get thank yous in bug report threads where my suggestion still works five years later

>>719723485 (OP)
>someone has this avatar

>>719726327
based cringesovlkino enjoyer

>>719725852
I still try writing in those cringe free-form fantasy / sci-fi RP forum whenever a new one pops up and is mildly popular until it eventually dies

>>719723849
I thought these were the coolest thing in the world

>>719726734
>can't use search without 10 posts in the forum

Haaaaaaaïï guis ^,..,^

>>719725852
Cutstuff.net or the srb2 forum.

>>719726570
Ah good old xfire had like 10k hours of Mabinogi on it

>>719723485 (OP)
>>719723849
For me it's the rainbow color one

>>719723990
This guy fucks

>>719726570
>WoW
>ET
>BF2
>GW
So much SOVL in one picture
Truly we didn't know how good we had it

Epic!!!

________________________________
My specs: Pentium 4 500, 256Mb DDR, 256GB Maxtor HDD, Nvidia FX5200, Windows XP SP1

"Birds fly, plants die, and I'm still gaming."

>>719726315
photobucket turned into such unreal dogshit

Every time I see that red hair + eye anime avatar it's always paired with absolute garbage opinions.

>>719725852
nsider

>>719726570
Xfire came just a bit too soon.

>>719726657
>>someone has a manga panel profile pic
I used this face everywhere up until a year ago

Trying to remember the name of this Dreamcast hacking centric forum. It also hosted Dreamcast roms both official and stuff like Bleem games, and freeware and other ports like Beats of Rage games. I wanna say it had a tropical background when I was going there.

They taught me about using discjuggler and some other stuff to burn DC roms to CDs and I had a couple years of incredible fun after getting abused Dreamcast in 2012

>>719726871
try contributing then n00b

>>719725852
AZPK. It was a forum for parkour practitioners in Arizona (mostly Phoenix/Tempe) back in like 2006. Sadly it, along with all other forums, moved to Facebook in 2011.

>>719725852
Facepunch

>>719726039
>uploaded images of fix directly on forum
>click on thumbnail to get a closer look
>you must sign in or register to see this image
I fucking hated BBS or whatever that forum system was.

>>719726570
How come XFire faded into irrelevance while Discord just exploded?

>>719726570
Oh right, Xfire existed

>>719725852
facepunch

>>719726570
still so pissed i missed that 4 day window they gave you to download all your pics and videos before they nuked everything

>>719723485 (OP)
There is still a small slice of the internet that clings onto forums instead of switching over to Discord or Reddit. It's weird but they're still there, just as small background characters now.
I remember coming across a forum dedicated to LazyTown around the time people were spamming "We Are Number One" (so like 2016) and it was unusually active, like posts being made mere minutes ago. It was funny as fuck because I was reading posts made by people in their 30s complaining how they couldn't tie their shoes.

>>719726570
is there a way to make w10 look exactly like this ui wise? this is peak comfy

>>719727704
i feel like most forumgoers just started browsing 4chan instead and all the other social media consist of post-2007 internet users

>>719727745
https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/all/sort/popular/sortby/halloffame
You're bound to find something similar within the first few pages here

>>719727704
you made me remember I was there for the WANO livestream
that was incredible

I don't allow this kind of talk in my forum. Time for the banhammer to fall.

>Arguing with Christians is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter how good you are at chess, the pigeon will just shit all over the board and pretend it won.

>>719726445
To be entirely fair, if he hijacked a vehicle at 4 his parents aren't very responsible and doing something this stupid at the age of 4 and most likely causing some issues would leave some trauma.
Which then isn't helped by the fact that then said irresponsible parent tried to get them to drive a fucking truck with literally no prior driving experience and leftover trauma from childhood. Instead of actually getting him proper lessons or at the very least making him drive a normal car rather than a truck that will flatten anyone if he makes a fuck up.

Of course you're going to get a dysfunctional retard manchild if the parents are retarded too.

>friendliest guy in the forum
or
>annoying mod larping snitch

>>719728148
Ending should be "starts strutting around" it'd be funnier because birds strut and it still implies the same thing for the Christian part of the analogy

>

>>719728304
Fuck off. Permabanned.

>>719725852
Starmen.net

you knew you were in for a fun time when you saw a guy with this profile picture

>>719728592
UNBAN NOW
N O W W W W W W
UNFUCKINGBAN

>>719728374
This were the guys that thought blasting the USSR anthem over the mic was funny

>>719723823
didn't guts get gaped. how is that cool

>>719725852
Last one I actively posted in was the Wynncraft forums 11 years ago or something. Was the only way to buy/sell besides sitting around the main city posting in chat and get notified of server events. I remember being cringe

>>719728852
relatability is the most important part of writing a good character

>>719728852
yeah but he killed the guy afterwards

>>719723485 (OP)
I remember when AOL messenger first added gifs before I knew what gifs were as profile pics, this was one of the ones you could choose. My little kid brain was excited as hell about it

>>719723990
>pimped my sig out so hard with these banners and other shit that the mods kept giving me warnings for my sig being too long

>>719725852
I still post in Something Awful. Yes, I'm old. Yes, I did pay ten bucks to post on a forum at one point in my life.

>>719725852
rdrama

>>719726516
Never ever will I understand this. Why not just fucking post it in the FUCKING THREAD YOU COCKSUCKER aaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>719726558
Mediafire links still have the chance to work though. I've seen uploads from 2011 still function.

>>719729236
I liked rbrapbarn it was legit the funniest place on the internet.

>>719723485 (OP)
>early 2010s
>someone has a Homestuck troll avatar
Most insufferable fuckers around. I left the last forum I was ever active on over getting tired of those guys.

zOMG dis thread is teh epiczor XD

>>719729241
If you're starving for attention, doing this will only bring desperate people to your door. Shitheads like that probably like the feeling of being depended on or something.

>>719728648
Everything us "Uncs" are discussing in this thread pre-dates any sort of Troll/Rage face.

>>719725852
Gaia online forums

You guys think forums will ever make a comeback with the way Internet is shitting itself?

>>719729964
16 year olds are now larping as early 2000s internet users so probably

>>719723485 (OP)
Fun fact: this lil nigga's name is Myuri (the black version is a fan-made recolor)

>>719725852
souds like a joke BUT
e-hentai

>>719725852
Ultimate-guitar

>>719729964
No, forums died once social media came to be since people finally had an alternative where they didn't have to deal with power crazed admins.

Power crazed admins are what killed forums.

>>719730242
Did you upload any sick tabs

>>719724616
Clean Sweep sucked and Big Mac should be fucking Future Soarin

>>719725852
The last forum I engaged with at length, was probably the Endless Online Forums.

once upon a time I could recite this from memory

easiest GR15 ever in my career

>>719730420
I don't disagree but I actually like his faggy russian voice and edgy femboy gimmick

>>719725852
Not counting forums that were created "recently", Rangerboard. I think I stopped going there sometime in 2015 - 2016 (definitely before the murrican election)

>>719730643
It was either this or people using that South Park character maker for their profile picture.

I still regularly see this one to this day

>>719726570
is it really that hard to make comfy GUIs these days?

>>719730107
TDM SEXOOOOO

>>719724616
Clean Sweep sucked and Big Mac should be fucking Future Soarin

No pony so no ban, janny-wanny

>>719726517
It triggers the regulars when they see old posts using their deadname.

>>719725852
The yugioh dueling nexus forum back in like 2013 when I was cringe and underage.

>>719725852
waffles.fm
fuck I miss it
the first forum I used was runescapecommunity

>>719723485 (OP)
>>719723849
I used both. Also had an edgy avatar made on tektek.org
Wonder what happened to that site

"Friendship is Flawless" timeline mogs stallions so hard it's unreal

>>719723485 (OP)
Still have an old "Avatars" folder, oldest file is April 2006
This is still relevant right

Topical.

>>719729964
No
forums were a product of their time rather than something innately worthwhile
In this day and age it would take a lot of effort to host one outside of the jannying

>>719731345
lol, how long was the appeal process for that?

>>719731345
Grim.

>>719725852
Official Gothic 2 forums... Home...

Fuck, I'm old

>>719725698
You do realize that's a male, right?

>>719731453
And?

>>719730331
>Power crazed admins are what killed forums.
Social media is far far worse

>>719725852
Steam Discussions

>would used to hop on the computer right after getting home from school and argue with the faggot with the furry profile pic about inane nonsense
>I probably do the same now after getting home from work just without knowing it's the same fucking furry

A question to you fags:
do u liek mudkips XD

Come /v/ post you're custom signatures / banners

I've never owned or managed a forum before, but why would you enforce "no necroposting", "you must sign in to view this image/open this link", "you must make at least 10 posts to jerk off" or any other stupid shit that force user activity? Why would you want MORE worthless bandwidth?

>>719727867
Yes

>>719726570
This also had a really nice, lightweight, easy-to-use video recorder for sharing short little gameplay videos of cool moments. I miss it dearly.

>>719725852
>kongrega-
Uhh... Ok, I'm excluding porn ones too for hardmode...
>newgrounds
Forums? Yes.

>>719731895
I lieked mudkipz before it was a meme

>>719725852
F95 ;^)

>>719723990
in hindsight forum signatures were pretty retarded

one of my steam friends still uses this one

>>719724616
Worst character he's ever fucking made, and 60% of that is because of his horrible fake accent. God I hate this gay cat fag.

>>719725852
Pokecommunity. My last post was in 2004. Along with pe2k and serebii it was a good 5 years.

>>719731926
>"you must sign in to view this image/open this link"
For warez and user-hosted forums that get charged via bandwidth used.
>"you must make at least 10 posts to jerk off"
Spambots.
>"no necroposting"
Because mods are pathetic virgin lardbeasts with micropenises that only get erect from enforcing pointless rules nobody cares about.

Welcome to gamespy
LAUNCHING GAME
>you will never play AVP2 multiplayer ever again

>>719725852
used to lurk the bodybuilding website forums

>>719725852
csrinru

>>719724009
Indians and mexicans, go check any torrent site or any emulator in google play store, those subhumans genuinely wonder why all these don't work on their toasters, it's infuriating to see a 12 yo spic kid fucking DEMANDING the dev to optimize their emulator so they can run some shitty DBZ game at 4k 60fps in his mom's $50 phone.

>>719725852
fuska.nu, swedish cheat code directory/gamefaqs ripoff

>>719725852
Gamingforce forums back in 2001/2.

>>719732286
>"no necroposting"
>Because mods are pathetic virgin lardbeasts with micropenises that only get erect from enforcing pointless rules nobody cares about.
I was a mod on a forum. It was because "the thread already served it's purpose" or "the discussion was finished".
But nobody cared, the mods didn't want to deal with that shit. So we set threads to autolock after 90 days of inactivity

>>719725852
simpcity, socialmediagirls and nobodyhome.

>>719725852
Simtropolis, regularly
Just grabbed some Seaport screenshots the other day

>>719726570
I wouldn't know about this without these threads, but it still manages to feel incredibly nostalgic for some reason. Material design and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

>>719732638
I've been a mod and left it completely unenforced because who gives a shit.
There's always just one guy who's a stickler for rules no matter how retarded they are.
>"jesus guys -_- how many times do I have to say it - NO OUTSIDE IMAGE LINKS. Thread locked because I don't feel like arguing about this again"
Shut up Dave nobody likes you even the other mods.

I miss when websites were designed with a desktop user in mind

>>719727373
>>719727649
why aren't you participating in the tranny knockoff knockout.chat?

>>719725672
kek

Also remember having that Pirate baby street fight signature with the guy kicking zombies. Good times

>>719732207
I loved this cat

>>719734604
It always bugged me how that version of Blue Danube is anonymous lost media

>>719725852
I can't remember the name, but I used to visit a forum where people made stick figure animations. That was more than 15 years ago, god damn.

>>719734796
StickPage mayhaps?

>>719731415
I didn't appeal, I just hopped IPs like as normal person. Who tf appeals?

>>719725852
Star Trek Online and Champions Online. It got shutdown this year and direct all communications to discord.

>>719723485 (OP)
Holy shit I had this in kongregate

Anyone here used to go to the Nintendo NSider Forums in the 2000s? Or NSider2?

>>719734979
Nah it wasn't StickPage. It was specifically for animations made with Pivot instead of Flash.

>>719723849
ah deviantart olive drab

>>719735245
I don't think anyone has ever gone to that site

i always, and still do, completely ignore people with 50cent bart simpson and related stuff

>>719725852
emuparadise

Is your home fire safe? :D

>>719723990
I loved these, they had top tier aesthetics and it even got me into making them because of how cool it was

>>719735227
I was always on Kongregate as a kid. It's sad seeing how the site is now.

>>719726570
>i still have it installed
You just never know when it may come back.

>>719723485 (OP)
just makes me think of tamers

>>719725852
Transformice forums!

>>719735245
I went to both, I actually still keep in contact with some of the people I met on NSider. NSider2 unfortunately fell to your usual mix of power tripping and whatever faggotry happens to a forum like that.

>EVERY SINGLE 2000s forum
>someone with the username "Zephyr"
I swear, that was the most common username. You'd find one in every forum.

>>719735760
It still exists?

>>719736097
Yes but it's a shell of its former self now. They got rid of the forums and chatrooms. Now it just looks like some mobile slop site.

>>719727579
In the case of Discord, being in the right place in the right time.
For Xfire, they got bought out and the company who bought them had no idea what to do with it.

Who else used the Roblox forums in the early 2010s?

>>719733907
toxic as fuck, i got banned for shit talking the ccp

>>719736243
Huh, I wonder why the whole internet is being shittified like this, Kongregate was a pretty cool and unique site, there's nothing like that anymore

>>719732006
I miss my Quake 4 shorts.

>>719725852
toribash

>>719725852
Jiggmin

>>719728185
t. cash crab

>>719736347
Looking at Wikipedia, Gamestop apparently sold in in 2017 to some swede conglomerate called Modern Times Group which apparently sold it to some company called Monumental last year.
I wonder how Greg is doing?

>>719725852
Doomworld

>>719723990
I miss them bros

>>719726848
freeform text RP... now those were the days...

>>719725852
Epicrhapsody
Ain't nobody left alive from that time.

>>719723990
>quiksilver
how is this brand doing? I dont see kids wearing it. I still have some shirts that I wear time ti time...

>>719725852
court-records
AA fangame gods assemble

>>719725852
when bungie.net was still related to halo, maybe in 07-08. They had a section called "the flood" where you can talk about anything other than halo. The motto was something like "if it doesn't fit anywhere else, it goes here". classic

>>719723849
>>719730107
>>719730817
>early 2000s
>man people have the same fucking avatar, this person is probably a deviantart weirdo
>now
>I want to fuck that thing
what happened to my brain bros

i pity zoomers who missed out the internet when it still was fun

>>719726570
>Garena, home
Also, 173k people playing Dota in 2008 on just 1 launcher. I missed these LAN cafe days

>>719725852
Elder Scrolls one on beth's main site. Idk, stopped using it back in 2010-2012.

>>719737578
At least you were normal once
I've had a crush one a __male TDM character since 2006 when I was 11

>>719729964
Not a chance in hell.
You have people hooked on Discord and you want them to use forums where you have to refresh the page to view new messages?

>>719725852
Animebytes 10 years ago

>>719725852
deadlock's official forums a few days ago
i'm guessing that counts

>>719737605
It's strange how despite having far less people, the internet felt bigger and more diverse.

>>719734497
>it's probably dead of old age now

>>719725852
A fucking Maplestory private server forum. xDreamerMS IIRC.

Oh and Wakfu's around 2012

>>719731903
fuck I have no idea what I'm looking at and I still feel the soul

>>719731903
I never made them myself I just gave e-BJs to people to make them for me

>you have lived long to see a good chunk of forums still be preserved one way or another even if some are shut down due to no one paying the bills
>you'll live long enough to see most if not all communities that migrated to discord be lost to time eventually because preservation there is nonexistent and difficult

>>719737996
The Internet now DOES have far less people. Most "people" you encounter are LLMs pretending to be people.

>>719732006
All of my Swat 4 videos lost to time... like tears in the rain.

>>719738121
i have fond memories of accidentally beating the shit out of one of my own team mates because they were wearing the dungeons hat

>>719725852
snahp like 5 minutes ago

>>719736627
Never went onto those forums but I loved Platform Racing 2
>>719736347
I think itch.io is the closest we have rn to that kind of experience, it has forums too.

>>719725852
Linux Mint user forums

>>719725852
mfgg

>>719738356
There are way more people online than in the past. It's just that they rarely participate outside of facebook or some other popular social media site.

>>719723990
I always wanted to learn how to make them.. Seems like a lost art now

>>719739695
I always thought people were just good a photoshop.
Turns out there were websites that generated them.

>>719739801
i used to make them myself, didnt know there were generators at the time

>>719725852
dead rising modding forums, at least it was until stypo had an absolute melty over not getting a remake copy and almost nuked the entire forums..

>>719725852
cs rin ru

>>719733907
because im not a fucking tranny lmao

>>719737242
Based. I still remember when the first ever magazine scans of Gyakuten Kenji surfaced and how excited I was.

>>719739695
The gloss is just a basic transparent white ellipsis that's been partially erased, the text was a basic pixel dafont font with Stroke Outline 1px, you're ready to rumble, I used to make a bunch. That gloss trick in particular was the bread and butter of everything of the time. If you're extra fancy you can add a little gradient bottom shader or a scanline texture and make it scroll, loved doing that.

>>719739801
Must've been much later on, the ellipsis and text position being different on most of them is just them being hand-made.

>>719729964
Not a chance. Facebook killed forums because it was an all in one thing, you no longer had to jump between various forums. Now Discord is basically the same thing except you don't have to sell as much of your data to jews.

>>719739801
Most people just learned the most basic of photoshop transparency and layering, dude. It isn't hard.

>>719725852
I still use MyFigureCollection's forums. But otherwise yeah, it's the one with a K.

>>719737996
>I agreed with the internet more therefore it was more diverse
You can find anything you want, more than before, it's just that you only come to this website and think the rest of it is reddit.
>yeah but it feels really shit now and I'm tired of Team A and Team B, now we're all using words that didn't exist 15 years ago
Oh, of course, can't disagree with that.

>>719725852
Some Megaman forum where people made NetNavi OCs.

>>719723990
Couldn't see shit on those bars back then, and they're even smaller now. Why'd anyone use this shit?

>>719725852
Facepunch before Gayry killed it
Knockout is a hard lefty troon den so I refuse to post there

>>719730107
Genuinely asking, does anyone happen to know where glasswind is now or if she's even active/posting art? I used to talk to her back in the day but completely lost contact with her around the time when she started drawing guro as 0meter/hemoglobox and now it looks like she's disappeared entirely...

>>719731345
HOLY FUCK, absolutely ASS BLASTED janny.
Truly bottom bothered.

>>719731446
Goddamnit I have a bunch of those comics saved somewhere and I can't find em

>>719740432
I find it funny that I made no mentions of those points and yet you went on assuming what my issues were.

>>719723485 (OP)
>make a 2mb animated gif of some final fantasy shit
>add it to signature
>forced everyone to download all 2mb on their dialup connections every time I posted
I was the cancer

be sure to thank your elders

>>719741391
where it all truly began...

>>719741391
I always appreciated the idea behind stuff like photoshop phridays
>last one was in 2021
damn... shit's really dying

A variation of pic related was my avatar on forums. (Without the russian text mind you.)
Which is quite ironic cause I was a goody two shoes Christian boy.

>>719737996
There was no concentrated zones that only showed you posts by people an algorithm decided is something you'll like, or gets a reaction out of you.
Everyone could freely post their stuff online and everyone could see it, if you use Twitter these days, you should understand how the algorithm is since you can very easily spend a day only looking at/participating in one thing, and now that account will only ever see that one thing.
That, and Indians are no better than bots.

>>719725852
RPG Codex, I post there regularly.
In fairness though it's still an active and busy site.

>>719741651
good shit

>>719741391
i remember being like five or six years old in 2002 wanting to be a part of it because my older brother was and he would always show me the cool stuff he found there. by the time i was old enough to post there it had all started going to hell although most would argue it went wrong many years prior. i'm probably better off for not really participating in SA.

>>719740316
For me it's getting news about the fan translation of GK2

>>719741932
scene will never not be hot

Any fun places to lurk in TODAY?

>>719741932
probably a grandma by now

>>719725852
Metanet (pre-ninjarobotyeti)

>>719742056
there's a handful of smaller chans, discord servers, and forums still around.

but they're more husks than anything else these days.

What's the state of RPG codex now?
Haven't been there in a decade, don't even think I have that email anymore.
They sure were fucking obnoxious back then. I assume the reddit overlap is 99%?

>>719725298
>tfw used one of these as my deviantart avatar as a lad

People still use those even in 2025

>>719737996
Man I remember the 2009 steam sales like it was yesterday. Everyone bought Killing Floor 1 and the game felt so alive.
I checked the steamcharts and found data for that year. 1500 players average at best...
Same shit with TF2, arguably the most popular game on steam at the time. 12k players average.

>>719742374
Yes because I'm too lazy to change my steam avatar

>>719725852
Mortal Online forums. The off-topic section there was basically /b/ but safe for work (so /v/ kinda), it was great.

>>719725852
luelinks

>>719742486
I was too young and stupid to figure out webrings. very effective gatekeeping.

>>719742470
based desu

>>719742486
I remember binge watching every single episode of DB, DBZ, and DBGT on Megavideo. That place was a haven for pirated stuff.

>>719725852
gamefaqs probably

>>719742793
I used to watch D Gray Man, Naruto and One Piece there.
>subtitles had special effects and colors matching the character's attack
It was, as the kids put it today, peak.

>>719742590
I remember when that first started and one of my buddies kept saying 4chan was done
lol

>>719727245
>I wanna say it had a tropical background when I was going there.
I want to say Emuparadise, but considering it's a Dreamcast hacking forum, it certainly can't be that.

>>719728852
yes Donovan gave him the bbc and he probably came

>>719725852
unironically the official pokémon forums
they fucking suck btw

IN YOUR HEEEEEAAAD
IN YOUR HEEEERAAAAAAAD
ZOOOMBIE ZOOOMBIE ZOOOOOBIEEE-E-E!!!

>>719735943
in all likelihood it was the same guy using the same username with the same password on 90% of those accounts

>>719743986
there really was no hope for chris
>clueless boomer parents
>autism
>nobody in his life gave a fuck about getting him under control
of course its not like he isn't blameless for a few certain things he did. the worst autist is one who uses it as an excuse because others allowed him to his whole life.

>>719727704
Forums are still useful when you have actual coders around who can use webhooks to do some wizardry with game servers and so on.

MODDSSSSS

SOMEBODY IS DISCUSSING PIRACY IN THIS THREAD

>>719725852
The one where this Chad hangs out.

>>719723485 (OP)
I remember when 40 felt so old than. Arguing about BG2 with those losers. I want to go back.

>>719744545
facebook?

ENTER THE INSUFFERABLE FAGGIT (that's me)

>>719741391
I remember /v/ shittalking SA for going to the dogs during the fucking MW3 release.
>That was 14 years ago
GRIM.

>>719726570
my friend would use his router standby during rainbow six 3 clan matches for easy wins and would convince the gamebattles mods the other team was lying. we were such little bastards.

>>719745165
DEVILISH.

>>719725852
graalians. also shocked no one said smogon

>>719741391
Probably still have my account there, but havent browsed or posted since 2011 or something

>>719725852
I still use e-hentai and fag95

>>719740490
That sounds badass

>>719723990
>he didn't make his own forum sigs

>>719731903
posted here >>719745843
and here's another one. was like 12-13 when I made em

>>719727579
Xfire fell out because it was bought by russians and used to spread malware
if it had been managed properly it probably would have evolved into something we'd still be using today

>free group voice chat programmed with built in on the fly livestreaming, tracking your gametime for games not on steam
it truly was ahead of its time but, the owners obviously didn't want to care for it and rake in the billions they'd probably have earned by now and the scammers that bought it afterwards were, well, scammers, so everyone uninstalled it immediately and moved on

>>719738935
>all these clips of our prepubescent voices shouting ON THE GROUND NIGGER then getting startled and shot dead by that last npc hidden in the corner
ehhhhh

>>719741932
I swear I can hear techno remix music

>>719737605
>>719737996
>>719738356
>>719739635
>>719740432
>>719741279
>>719741742
>>719742441
hmmmmmmmmm....... I wonder whyy

>>719745794
Yeah, there were some rules to make sure no one made overpowered OCs, and I believe there was an Undernet part of the place for shitposting.

>The forum I used for engaging in embarrassing teenage roleplay is still up
>The roleplay subforum is still there, it hasn't been used in decades so all my posts are on page 1
>My username can easily be traced back to my old email, and my real name
Thank goodness the game has been dead for 20 years.

>>719741391
>I was only 5 years old when this site started
Man how time flies.

>Played this basic HTML vampire game in 2004
>You got a certain number of moves per day
>Could move along a grid that functioned as city blocks
>Had to try to drink blood from NPCs and other vampires in order to level up while keeping the other vampires from drinking yours
I wonder what happened to that site. I wish I could remember the name of it. All I really remember is the name I went with and it having a dark color scheme.

>>719746246
I'm lucky I never used my real name and swapped usernames around 16-17yo
There's way too much cringe linked to my old one

>>719725852
fuwanovel because talestune's mobile library is almost entirely lost media now, meaning that the 2 people who want to play the harvest december sequels and kyoutsuuki are shit out of luck i'm one of those two btw

I miss 2k so fucking much it's unreal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTsaS1Tm-Ic

>my livejournal is still up with every post still public
>don't have access to the e-mail i signed up for it to do password recovery and private everything

>>719740905
I hope you eventually find your old internet friend again, anon.

>>719746771
you could always send a dmca

I feel like I regained some humanity after seeing these posts and old images. my last forum post was in 2008.

>>719729236
tranny

>>719725852
The Escapist Forums
Actually the reason I even came to 4chan in the first place is because I got banned from The Escapist like 15 years ago and decided to see what /v/ was like, been stuck here ever since.

Haven't been back to that site since, but I'd assume it's a ghost town ever since Yahtzee left since he was carrying that place on his back.

>>719725852
whats the one that starts with k? kongregate?

>>719725852
Facepunch. But I quit going there by like 2008. I have no idea what Knockout is that people keep mentioning. Before that I was in the YTMND forums a lot.

nintenbaby growing up, it wasn't forums for me but i grew up with flipnote. i still miss you dewenglish, wherever the hell you are, even if the chances are you trooned out and went full furfag

>>719747164
the helldump sequel

>>719723485 (OP)
I didn't use to fear furfags

I was one of the autists who hung around in deviantArt's Sonic chat rooms when I was in high school.

>>719725852
Test Your Might. MK9 got me into fighting game tournaments and it was the best resource for all around competitive fuckery. I just logged in the other day but I haven't posted in well over a year, mostly because I think newer MK games are kind of shit.

*backseat moderates*

>>719747061
neat pic
I found my old screenshots from TBC on a harddrive I found in the attic. pretty neat, I thought they were lost forever

>>719747061
>>719747594
I wish I had saved my images from various games on my hard drive. I was so naive to think that they would stay on those old photo hosting sites forever.

>>719747524
Based.

>>719747690
photobucket started holding them hostage lmao

>>719747594
Why are you guys in a raid?

>>719747594
>>719748064
Nevermind, I see you're trying to take down Vagash at level 1.

>>719747690
You don't know what you have until it's gone ;)
>>719748064
I made a new character on a random server and there were a bunch of other level ones there who invited me to come kill Vagash with them. I don't why but it was really funny timing

>>719735245
>>719735880
I used both in the early/mid 2000s like maybe 2004ish to 2006. I would play this random dude's (NFreak) browser game and hang out in the chatbox at his website with a bunch of other randoms until I eventually fell outta contact.

>>719747594
>>719747690
I have few screenshots from way back, but of course the most important ones are lost. not to speak of video clips. earliest were recorded with a digi-/handcam on my TV playing consoles, which I then put on the family PC to watch and edit. even when I got my own PC recording videos was such a hassle lol. performance issues and the tiny HDDs could only hold so many clips at once. fun times.

Does anyone remember that weird summer thing nintendo used to do for their online forums? I'm really drawing a blank but I recall it had a theme every year and it was kinda neat, despite being nothing more than glorified chatrooms with a few special events here and there.

>>719748254
Camp Hyrule is the name you are looking for.

>>719725756
DING DONG BANNU

I miss this site

>>719725852
Steam powered user forums

>>719748305
Ah yes that's the one. I'm surprised how well documented it is.

>>719748195
I was about to say
>DKDKDK
but apparently it's norwegian. ravencrest?

>>719748658
I'm >>719748203 and remember participating during two of them, mostly weekly themed chatrooms and I hung out in the Trivia chat. I remember some kid named MaroZelda had the same bday as me.

>>719748461
How? Even in it's heyday it was
>instant cocks
on every video connection or
>32 M ASL?
on every text connection

>>719748461
>owner bought me a key for GW: Nightfall like 15 years ago on /r9k/
Cool dude, wish I could contact him to thank him again.

>>719748720
>ravencrest?
ehem, maaybe

>>719725852
Agora Road

>>719725852
smwcentral
it's still fairly active, but the community is mostly transexuals and Brazilians now which make the experience less than cool.
The cool Korean and Norwegian romhackers are long gone.

>>719730643
anyone who used these profile pictures had double digit IQ.

>>719725852
The Imperium.
EVE Online Goonswarm forum. Yes, they still use animated avatars, they still use signatures, and they still use custom banners.

Did anyone else use Xat?
I was way too young to be on there, and I am surprised that I managed to not get digitally diddled. Many, many Pokemon GTS and Club Penguin related chats were hosted on here.
I distinctly remember being a little shit and trying to hang around the emo girls that had Sonic OCs on there who were much older than me.

>>719749250
I dont know if I was correct at first but translator just railroaded me into norwegian immediately

>ehem, maaybe
lol, I knew it. instantly when I saw that "ae."

>>719746186
>make an obvious hyperbolic joke towards an anon
>he gets it. a hearty kek is had
>another anon who is clearly an ESL takes it literally and tries to start an argument

>>719723990
these bars were so great

>>719725852
some shitty games forum

>>719723656
yep

>>719725852
haven and hearth forums

>>719746186
i miss when the internet was downstream from japanese memes and the best of 4chan, now it's just downstream from the worst of it

>>719725852
ElysianFields and neets.net and DocumentingReality.
Back in the day I used Animal Crossing Community and BellTreeForums.

>>719723656
Still have it on my backup drive of a backup drive of a backup drive. Saved from 2006 or something.

I'm looking for a gif that was in EVERY FORUM back in the day.
It was a bald CGI guy with a wicked smile who was hammering the camera. The colors were only black white and blue.
I think it was from a foreign music video

>>719727704
Do you remember the name of this forum?

I wish these ID verification laws targeted smartphones not the entirety of the internet. Because it's not the desktop that's the problem with society, it's the smartphone in literally everyone's pocket.

>>719746186
Indians are fucking annoying on everything else, but you never, and I mean NEVER see them in an online game. They either don't play multiplayer on PC or they stick to Asian servers.
Russians and Brazilians will purposely go out of their way to join an English-speaking lobby and get pissy when nobody understands them or wants to play with them. If someone one here has the fucking gall to go
>ummmmmmmmm acshually russians and brazillians r total bros
you can safely assume it's either one of the two.

>>719747841
Yes but it turned me into a regular furry, instead of a gay one.

>>719750219
add any group south of the equator

>>719750219
You see plenty of jeets on mobile games, if you play them at all, trust me. They're too poor to afford a console or decent PC setup. Normally their parents are too strict and want them to primarily focus on schoolwork or work in general, so they just get them a phone and some shitty craptop. Hence why you only see jeets on mobile games, when it comes to online games.
But you're right, they're a plague on literally everything else.
>>719750285
Australia and NZ, too?

>>719750219
There was a good reason why "BR???? HUE HUE HUE HUE HUE" was a thing for the longest time.
I wonder if people still remember that or if that has fallen out of favor.

>>719742287
that image was proven fake and morons still falls for it, old internet was full of these edits.

>>719750240
>a regular furry, instead of a gay one.
huh what

>>719750338
australia, yes
kiwis are cool though

>>719750489
wait what who thought it was real

>>719723485 (OP)
>>719723849

>>719750601
as an Australian, I think we're fine. I've never had an issue with any other Aussies and the general consensus online is that Aussies make good teammates online, from what I can see.
but yeah Kiwis are probably better. they're a lot chiller generally.

>>719729964
>I need [thing] to be mainstream again to use them again
You're annoying and embarrassing. Kiwifarm is an old school forum and very active, for fuck' sack. Also,àmost non-generalist forums were very slow in the 2000's. You are now just too accustomed to instant gratification.

>>719750650
you have no idea, even tv shows used that pic.

>>719750492
tsmt
the majority of furries are bisexual

>>719723990
I remember the first time I saw an animated forum sig, it blew my mind, it was the coolest shit I've ever seen in the internet by that point besides porn

>used to post on Sega's official forums around 2010
>there was middle eastern user who was friends with everyone
>his wife joins and posts a lot
>around a week-ish later he makes a thread about how she died in a car accident
>everyone is sad and posting their condolences
>some time later he makes a thread confessing that she wasn't real and that it was him under a different account

>>719725672
oh its that nigga from cs.rin.ru I hate that guy like you wouldn't believe

>>719725852
reddit

>>719750338
I wouldn't lament the loss of Australia because 80% of the time it's a fucking bug. NZ would be a sad causality though.

>>719750743
>àmost

>>719751107
I don't know what games you're playing but typically I run into White Aussies with obvious native accents. never ran into a chink or abo on an online game.

>>719750743
>Kiwifarm is an old school forum and very active
Have you considered going back? Josh hates this place, so I think that would be treason for people like you.

>>719730761
I think I used this one for my MSN messenger profile pic
speaking of which
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40wFaixZr8Q

>>719747232
>it wasn't forums for me but i grew up with flipnote.
Same. For me, it was Darkrose40. No clue what she's doing now, but I know this was before the troon epidemic so she is a biofem.

Was Darker than Black really that popular? I remember seeing so many fucking people using this specific picture as their avatar.

>>719731903
I made so many of those, but I don't have them anymore. They were really mediocre and tacky, just like your picture, but people liked them and used some for themselves. Maybe I can find something in the wayback machine.

>>719751497
for a moment. season 2 killed it though.

>>719725852
Spacebattles, mostly just lurking...And I still do, mostly because vsbw troons have taken over.

When did it all change guys?

>>719751497
CHINESE
ELECTRIC
BATMAN

>>719751653
when everyone got put on here with each other and the powers that be began to understand the potential of the tool being used

>>719751783
some guy with that name ran a Trackmania server for a long time, way before I learned what DtB was lol

>>719726939
oh haii ur avvie remided me of a funnie song
_-:{{ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjyHE3XomTE }}>:-_
teh leerikz R werd / -_- \ so i rave out im my room when every1 is out \.^_^ ./

>>719751653
2011 was when I got the sinking feeling that something very wrong was happening

>>719736169
I really should not have been posting on there when I was 11 years old

>>719751653
it depends. There were certain parts of the Internet that were still mentally in the 2000s until like 2014.