What was internet culture like back when the 6th gen consoles were still active? Were people posting gifs or short videos of their frags, or silly meme stuff like stick fights?

I wasn’t rly around then but Ive heard it was very toxic and friendly at the same time.

the 2000s was generally the edge era. It was a great time to be rebelious and shocking but it seems that cartoony games kinda got the short end of the stick as thats when people started to fully shit on them and say theyre for kids as everyone wanted the next FPS or Survival game.

Zoomer here. I was too young to experience early to mid 2000s internet culture, but sometimes I stumble on videos from that era: Linkin Park video game edits, anime AMVs, console war songs, Newgrounds leftovers, etc. Also, stuff like this:
https://youtu.be/wJvVWQ239wM?si=ujNSklKG39voeNvU

Shit must’ve been wild. Wish I’d been old enough to live through it.

>>11871301
Most pathetic post on this board right now.

>>11871180 (OP)
For halo 2 specifically people made silly videos, machinima, frag movies/montages, glitch videos/montages, speedruns, and other shit.

>>11871364
most of my Halo related stuff I viewed when I was around during that era was Randal Glass' Warthog Jump and Rooster Teeth's Red vs. Blue.

>>11871180 (OP)
STOP WITH THESE FUCKING THREADS
STOP WITH THE "WHAT WAS X LIKE" SLOPPA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

FUCK YOU AND KILL YOURSELF

>>11871180 (OP)
Everyone was on MySpace or forums.
>Were people posting gifs or short videos of their frags, or silly meme stuff like stick fights?
It was mostly for PC games. Consoles didn't really get in on it until the 7th gen.

You never opened gifs, everyone would see .gif and refuse to open it. Shit was scary back then. Not like scary new tech just jumpscares all the fucking time.

If you have to ask, you're too young.

>>11871180 (OP)
Millennial here

People were only just moving from dial up to DSL or cable internet, processing and storage for any amount of video was only for the most dedicated individual. Did play a shit ton of Halo 2, >>11871208 is kind of right but calling it "toxic" is something a fag would say. Before then it was LAN parties of Halo CE, but also CS, Q3A, etc.

Picrel was what I used most at first, then Trillian, that was for most of my friends, for cool l33t stuff like warez and cracks I used IRC with mIRC. Also did a long of song downloading and CD burning, usually using Limewire after Napster got fucked and used Nero to burn CDs.

>>11871219
>the 2000s was generally the edge era
It was dope.
>play Halo 2
>listen to Linkin Park
>watch Stone Cold on RAW
Not to mention really baggy pants for some reason. Chin strap beards, wallet chains, spiky bracelets, spiky hair, spiky belt, lots of spiky stuff. Hot Topic probably did their best then.

>>11871537
This, and you'd never survive the internet back then. Stop fucking asking us questions like we're your parents or some shit

>>11871350
Why?

>>11871180 (OP)
Back then, Halo was considered part of the casual gamer AAA regurgitation that /v/ continues to seethe about today. Yet in retrospect, Halo was fun, and continues to be fun (at least the OG trilogy, anyway.) We didn't know how good we had it, since there was more than one good game to play on whichever system you owned. Though I wonder how much of that feeling had to do with just being younger.

>>11871301
Truth is it isn't any better or worse. Emulation is a lot more stable and available now, even with the Nutendo crackdowns, so there's that silver lining.

>>11871571
this guy 2000'd. don't forget being outside all day because the internet slop cave wasn't a thing yet. renting movies and games at blockbuster. the mall. fast food was still cheap and delicious. movies were still good. myspace and AIM were pretty big. the edge of the 2000s was peak, of course it was going to pendulum back and turn fake and gay. we need a new edge era in the 2030s. most people just weren't on the internet because mobile wasn't a big deal, it was more likely they would be chatting, playing games, and waiting for more pirated content to finish downloading. people were on forums more, but email was for chain messages and other slop of the era.

>>11871653
>this guy 2000'd.
Takes one to know one

>Wake up
>Eat some B&E and blueberry muffins mom made
>Fuck around online with little to do
>Start some 700MB download for a game
>Translucent blue Vtech 5.8Ghz phone rings
>It's friendo, wants to hang out, has no plan, tell him to come over
>He arrives, DL is still going, say lets go see if friendo 2 is alive
>Walk to next friend's house, take a shortcut through a ditch
>See a possible path we hadn't gone, take that, get lost
>Eventually arrive at his house, play some vidya for a little
>Get bored, decide to continue walking with one more party member
>End up nearby Blockbuster, rent some new game
>Also rent some anime with neat box art that we hadn't seen
>Or just rent Akira, again
>Stop by Taco Bell on way home, fill up on tacos for a few bucks
>Go home, play vidya, watch anime
>Friends call to see if they can stay over, of course they can
>Mom orders pizza, go back over to playing Halo instead of whatever we rented
>Play until 2 in the morning
>Life is good
>Remember my download the next morning
>It stalled at 699MB, have to start over
>Restart, go outside again and meander

>>11871180 (OP)
Before YouTube, there were websites that allowed people download and share fragmovies, machinima, etc. The two I used most were DemoHQ.com and own3d.tv, but there was also Own-Age.com, FraggedNation, and Filefront. It's hard to really overestimate the scope of just how much gaming history has been lost when sites like that went down, not to mention all the random mods and maps people would make.
Speaking of which, the loss of Photobucket, ImageShack, and other early image-hosting sites that people relied on to put images on forums, or just keep digital records of their pics, has decimated much of the traces of what the early Internet was like.

I could go in-depth as to why, but take my word for it that people were immensely HAPPIER online relative to now as well. Yes, there was flaming, but it was different, and more laidback and fun for everyone involved. Hard to explain the nuances, it was just better.

>>11871724
>graduate high school
>work warehouse job in lumber yard
>don't earn much, but could at least blow what you had
>spend every weekend meeting with friends for lan parties
>Multiple TVs and computers in a garage converted into a living room.
>16 player Halo CE across four local xboxes, Guitar Hero, Smash Melee, SWAT 4, Final Fantasy 11, Dawn of War, and more
>People brought their own systems and PC's with games to show and share, was introduced to tons of great games as a result.
>All day, all night event. Could arrive early afternoon Friday, stay until noon Saturday.
>Friends would filter in as they finished their shifts at McDonald's, or where ever
>Night shifters would insist on going out for food at 2 a.m. when the only thing open was Denny's
>Fansubbed anime in the early morning hours
>sleep deprived and full of junk food, one by one we pass out
>Do it all again the following week

>>11871776
>the loss of Photobucket, ImageShack, and other early image-hosting sites that people relied on to put images on forums, or just keep digital records of their pics, has decimated much of the traces of what the early Internet was like.
>15 year old kids with random emails using public image sites for nudes of themselves and random girls they were fucking at the time. really makes you wonder why all that data just went poof, huh.
look, I know it's sad that history of this era is lost, but you have to admit there's a reason for it with how those sites were used by some of the users.

I'm the anon from before. I just came across this video from when the PS3 and Xbox 360 were at their peak: https://youtu.be/kvanJYOGlus?si=j1QpO5omHY4kE_RV
It really feels like people were super hyped for the next Halo game. I guess Combat Evolved was a huge hit and the sequel made everything better, so by the time Halo 3 was coming, expectations were incredibly high.

Pros had complinations on youtube

>>11871301
That stuff was the late 2000s, not early-mid.

>>11872091
Nigger I was in middle school downloading Linkin Park AMVs it was absolutely early-mid

I graduated in 2007 you think I was still like “oh yeah time fire up some linkin park”

>>11871180 (OP)
Halo is a pretty cool guy. He kills aleins and doesn't afraid of anything!

>>11871180 (OP)
it was fun

Halo was kinda dude bro always!

>>11871180 (OP)
It was mostly people talking about raising their flame shields.

>>11872091
>>11872120

Hybrid Theory was released in 2000 my dudes. People were downloading their MP3s all through 1999 to 2001.

>>11876370
Hybrid Theory right now is older than the 1st Ramones album was when Hybrid Theory came out. It's old enough that your dad might have been listening to it while building your 1st bicycle and you're still old enough to post here.

>>11871634
>Back then, Halo was considered part of the casual gamer AAA regurgitation
confirmed larping zoomer faggot who wasn't there.
absolutely nobody at the time gave a fuck about whatever was or wasn't AAA and Halo was seen as anything but casual.

>>11877087
>he thinks dad's were listening to Linkin Park
zoomer...

>>11877104
Yeah, no one in there early 20s was listening to Linkin Park in 2000, and if they had a kid then that kid wouldn't be in their 20s by now.

Image macros with impact text were big. Also, those pictures against a black backdrop with text underneath, like that one that says "Revolver Ocelot" over and over to parody the name card and subtitles, that shit is ancient.

>>11877120
I loved demotivational posters, and advice dog? Amd cool story bro. Remember when long cat was long ;n; am I old fag yet? Nyan nyan

>>11877131
people talk about rickroll but true oldfags remember duckroll

>>11877132
They don't think it be like it is but it do

>>11871301
>Zoomer here. I was too young to experience early to mid 2000s internet culture
ok you shouldn't be posting ITT then

We thought Halo was a pretty cool guy

i was an active member of the battleground: halo forum which was the halo site in the gamespy family of game community sites (before it became haloplanet like all the other sites). met a lot of people there, formed some clans, did a lot of matches. halo 2 releasing was right around the time where i started smoking weed. saturday night with my best friend in my basement high as fuck playing 2v2s on battle creek was pure bliss.
i miss it verily...

in 2007 I worked with a dude who claimed to be high up in a clan called KSI. he invited me to a halo 3 lobby one night, dudes with KSI gamertags all over, but instead of playing, these grown men bitched and gossiped for an hour then logged off.
at that moment I realized that gamer clans were for fags.

>>11877098
Halo was seen as a dumbed down console shooter for dudebros.

>>11877380
nobody was bitching about "dudebros" in 2002, zoomer.
quit pretending you were there. you will never, ever fool anyone who was.
shut the fuck up.

>>11877405
Yeah, no shit, because it didn't come out on PC until 2003. PC gamers didn't play it until 2003-2004 and didn't care/have an opinion until then.

>>11877412
>PC gamers were unaware of the entire gaming landscape outside of PC
just stop, zoomer faggot.
nobody was bitching about "dudebros" in 2003 either. or 2004.
you were not there and you'll never fool anybody.

>>11877415
there was that one photo of the dude with the like checkered brown ish hat and the jacket

>>11877453
yeah, and he had a name. it wasn't dudebro. and the type of dude he represented wasn't looked down on for playing halo. especially because that meme didn't even become popular until 2011.
you don't know any of this because you weren't there.

>>11877460
anon that’s the first post I’ve made in the entire thread I’m not the one your having an autistic fit against

>>11877526
>y-you're aut-
keep your ignorant mouth shut, zoomer.

>>11877380
trying too hard

>>11877380
>>11877412
>>11877453
>>11877526
i don't like throwing around the zoomer insult willy nilly but this is definitely 100% a zoomer. "dudebro" didn't even exist as a term until like the mid 2010s

>>11879223
I remember using it around 2009 at the earliest.

>>11871219
Whacked!, Kung Fu Chaos, Outlaw Sports, Mad Dash Racing, and other series existed

>>11872091
was going to post this

>>11871951
wasn't asked

>>11877380
wasn't the case in my nonwhite household

>>11871780
sometimes it makes you wonder what it was all for now that it's gone forever

>>11871618
a lot of you dudes are around 40 years old

>>11871180 (OP)
Basically yeah.

There was A LOT of console wars bullshit. More than during any other generation.

>>11871180 (OP)
Lots of Flash gaming. New grounds, Miniclip, etc. Youtube was mostly videos of compilations made through WMLP or something. Where they have text on a solid background lol

>>11871219
>the 2000s was generally the edge era. It was a great time to be rebelious
we kind of got fucked here because growing up during this time where this was normalized:
A: gave us a taste for things that would vanish
B:made it super hard to accept how lame things/people would be in the future
C:gave us the impression things would be fun forever if they are now

everything is as safe bland and non offensive as possible today. not just media (including games movies magazines commercials music etc) but just the entire culture of today is such apolar opposite of not doing anything that could even feasibly raise an eyebrow from someone. we basically live in bizarro land. a time traveler from the early 2000s would think people today are fucking weird.

>>11871301
the most important thing for you to understand is that nothing back then was labeled cringe. people might say something is gay or retarded but if you did something or made something it was genuine. people did not do things ironically. people were not overly self aware back then like they are today. its just a change that has permeating every aspect of our culture not just online but offline. you cant really be yourself today 100% if you know at all times everyone withing 50 feet of you has a HD recording device in your pocket if you do or say anything someone can think is "cringe" or "weird". i actually feel because of this like we live in a fucking dystopian future and even if you or I dont care our friends in person do so they are lame to be around and go places with so it effects everything.

>>11871364
yeah i like the needler song video for halo 2 on youtube. good time capsule. people made stuff like that for fun. now that would be some patreon subscriber content from some douchebag.

>>11871380
ever hear of madda cheeb?

>>11871405
myspace was great. the guy earlier who brought up stuff like newgrounds or anime/videogame music videos is relevant here because so many myspace pages were like that entire "vibe" or mood but distilled and harnessed into a fucking webpage. it was a ton of fun. and it was a good filter to help you find interesting people to talk to. if their page was unique you knew they had a good chance of being someone interesting to talk to. i still have some friends today i met from back then and they had pretty cool pages they made.

>>11871571
>dial up to cable
yeah for us this was 2004 i believe. that was AMAZING. the very first time i used it, the webpage loaded so fast i was convinced it was a glitch and the page didnt load and that i must have somehow had it saved somehow in my browser. thats how mind blowing it was to move to high speed internet. and truthfully we never needed to move past that. You could load a web page in a second or two. and you could load a flash video or a flash game in seconds almost instantly. if it wasnt for normies streaming shitty netflix crap we never would have needed more and i wonder if even that required changing anything. we didnt need to download a game because we could just go to the fucking store and get a physical copy. EB games and GAMESTOP actually had great selections. you literally had everything you needed already.

>AIM
amazing and probably my favorite way to talk to people. i still remember customizing my font every other week. would get on this right when i got home while i played videogames. would coordinate through AIM to meet people IRL and hangout. even made friends with strangers in there once in a while from the weird ass chat rooms. back then it was a novelty just to talk to a real human. just like how in 2004 when XBOX LIVE came out EVERYONE used a mic in EVERY match. and unlike today no one was reporting people for cussing or trash talk. it was great. people were super social.

>>11871571
>Hot Topic probably did their best then
yeah that store was amazing fun in the early 2000s. introduced me to a lot of good rock music. my dad and i would go there once in a while and they always had cool shit there. the store looked fucking awesome. halo 2 was huge back then and he would surprise me with the halo 2 joyride figures they had. would buy himself crap from family guy/invader zim/nightmare before christmas. we actually had fun going there.

The entire store actually looked really cool with an industrial vibe. there wasnt anything else like it. and it sucked ass when they pvioted hard around 2008 or so and marketed to a more "diverse" audience which was mainly pop and rap and slowly phased out more metal and rock every year. today its essentially a funkopop anime store. back then my friends and i even had those stupid tripp pants for a year in highschool. was a great time and you could look as deviantart as you wanted because no one was going to turn you into a meme or a social media post so you could look however you wanted to. half my friend group wore that shit. just an amazing time to do whatever you wanted and very easy to find a cool subculture group to do shit with.

>lots of spiky shit
yes i even had a gf back then with spiked snakebites and it looked great but it fucking hurt sometimes when we kissed. forgot all about that.

>>11871634
honestly dude EVERY console during the ps2 gamecube and xbox generation had good games. I fanboyed for the xbox super hard personally. I had a gamecube first and was amazed by it compared to the n64 and ps1. it was a great machine. but i knew i was missing out on the adult titles on the xbox and ps2 and because of halo 1 blowing my mind i got the xbox and never looked back. between the gamecube and the xbox there were more games then i could realistically play. because i didnt have a ps2 i just fanboyed for the xbox. but later when i got the ps2 i realized it had an amazing library and realized every single console that gen was kino. it may be the only generation of its kind with 3 consoles that all were worth owning. we DIDNT know how good we had it. and because things were that good i know personally i made the foolish assumption things would only get better later. imagine my surprise. we went from the ps1 to the ps2 and we went from the n64 to the gamecube. that felt like the moon landing and like whatever happened with video games next would be like going to mars and then living in space after that. now we just have the switch the xbone and the PSwhatever.

>>11871653
>just weren't on the internet because mobile wasn't a big deal
in 2010 30% of people didnt even have internet at all period let alone mobile internet. i always have the chart on standby because there are so many conversations here they necessitate having it. I think there was a tipping point where it just got into the hands of too many people who shouldnt have it/werent ready for it. but thats a different topic entirely. yes me and my friends went out constantly during the 2000s. and as i said earlier it was more fun because you and your group could go out and have fun/goof off/ live your life in the now because not every person had a smartphone to record you with while you and your friends were being retarded being happy. its a big reason why bar culture and party culture and concert culture has changed and many dont participate in it any longer.

>new edge era
maybe we are on the cusp of one with zoomers realizing that maybe our current world is fucked

>>11871724
>>11871724

>average day

let me try

>go to bed at 4 am because i was playing halo 2/on newgrounds all night listening to disturbed/static x/linkin park/ some emo band
>get 3 hours of sleep
>wake up 20 minutes before im supposed to leave for school
> get ready in 5 minutes/grab skateboard
>get to school
>talk to my friends about runescape and ZOMBIES
>listen to linkinpark during PE on metallic green ipod with black and white screen with hoody on
>hang out with friends at lunch
>grab mountain dew for caffeine
>older friends show me cool bands
>occasionally skip class to see other friends at second lunch
>fuck around in art class with photoshop making halo themed projects when i can
>skateboard home
>turn on AIM
>play xbox live
>talk to halo friends over voice chat while IRL friends on AIM
>plan with friends on Aim where we hang out this weekend
>another weekend with the boys most likely playing runescape/resident evil 4/deadrising/ninja gaiden/mgs2 drinking mountain dew or AMP energy or FULL THROTTLE
>sun is down now
>look at new starwars prequel collectables online on primitive toy websites/ rebelscum
>AOTC and ROTS clone ware hype
>also playing Republic commando and KOTOR on XBOX
>fuck i love starwars it just gets better every year how do they do it itll be even better somehow later im sure i just know it
>play newgrounds flash games late into the night
>lay in bed listening to ipod
>imagine cool elaborate halo themed flash animations i can make with the right music
>maybe next year i can get into the animation class like Josh from English class
>next time i see him ill bring the ninja stars again so we can practice
>fall asleep at like 2 am

>>11871180 (OP)
>Were people posting gifs or short videos of their frags, or silly meme stuff like stick fights?
Mostly short videos, there were a few sites vying for the video hosting space that YouTube occupies today. If anyone ITT remembers, Google used to have Google Videos before they canned it and bought YouTube. Animated .gifs as the internet knows them today were split between SomethingAwful, 4chan, and YTMND, then spread to independent forums. Invisionfree used to host a lot of free PHP-based forums that were foundational for a lot of small PC game clans, and a lot of 2000s history there got wiped when they were bought by a larger company that vaporized almost every small forum.

Demotivational posters are surprisingly a great snapshot of what culture was like. It was nerds being genuine and seeking a place to belong, and everyone had their own little section to be in: IRC, XFire, PHP forums, AIM chat with IRL friends, Steam group chats, the list goes on. Even this place was WAY different in terms of how people posted. It's sad because I don't think anywhere but private chats (Discord, Steam, anyone still hosting IRC, etc.) have any sense of community these days.

>>11871776
Never thought I'd read the names Photobucket and Filefront again.

>>11880907
>the most important thing for you to understand is that nothing back then was labeled cringe.
This is way bigger than people want to give it credit for. There was plenty of content that was lame and occasionally deserved ridicule (nostalgiafags don't want to admit this but i.e., most AMVs) but "cringe" as an adjective has only given way to massive social shaming versus someone going "faggot" in a comment section.

>>11881126
>This is way bigger than people want to give it credit for.
yeah i feel bad for zoomers honestly because from my frame of reference externally viewing the social ecosystem they were more or less born into they arent even living in anything resembling real life much of the time. the people they interact with n a regular basis and the content that they consume is all effected by this and its sad because at no other time in history did people probably worry so much about how they appeared to other people except maybe during extreme facism or witchunts or something. people basically get double teamed by being cringe or labeled a weirdo on one end or being labeled a bigot etc on the other end so very few people have honest straight up conversations interactions the way they would in the past. not just with friends but also strangers. not approaching that as a political argument i think both parties have their flaws and good sides just saying today everyone walks on egg shells about everything in general no matter where you come from.

>>11871780
amazing times... i had that for two years or so before our family moved. never got that back unfortunately. made lots and lots of acquaintances but never found that group again i meshed with where i could want to chill with them every week like that. i still remember those days fondly.

did you ever have to deal with the unbearably hot summer nights because of the multiple consoles being on? kek i remember laying on the floor at 4am to hot to sleep contemplating if i should walk home lmao.

those phones for typing were absurdly based we really never needed more than that.the only thing a smartphone does that is useful is maps. would have been more than happy if we had a seperate device that just was for that and didnt have every single person with a smartphone.

>>11871776
>but take my word for it that people were immensely HAPPIER online relative to now
yeah i distinctly remember having an amazing time online from like 2001 using dial up occasionally, through 2004 getting broadband, and through 2006 or so thinking it was the best thing ever. and distinctly thinking if the average person had access to something so fun, that everyone would be happier and people in general would just have improved lives if everyone used it. imagine how i feel today because i honestly believe humanity was not ready for the internet period seeing how people have changed.

im not sure what happened, i think that a critical threshold got met where so many people were online, that it changed the internet. and as more people joined the internet, this new version of the internet negatively effected the people who joined. and from there is snowballed year after year and got worse in a circular manner. im sure plenty of people here can understand my thought process with this.

>>11871951
>>11871951
halo 3 hype was something that you either were there for or you werent i dont think there will ever be anything else like it again. halo 2 hype was also something well documented. but halo 2 was such a massive event that i remember growing up literally having the thought
>man i hope i dont die before halo 3 comes out i need to know how the trilogy ends
it was really that big of a deal for those of us who were in HS or whatever during the peak of the halo series.

>>11877104
linkin park was insanely popular, at a christmas family get together thing there was a 40 something year old dude (this was like 2004 or 2005) who was a cop who said he listened to them when he worked out. (he asked what i was listening to on my ipod) blew my mind because i assumed up until then it was just music for edgy young people. cool guy.

>>11877131
remember bachelor frog?
>>11877218
kek i had a similar experience being asked to play on a team for different game. you either had cool people who wanted to stay out of it or people who were giant drama queens.

>>11877380
my uncle was pretty heavy into PC games and even he liked halo 1 on PC for multiplayer. i have no clue what FPS games people were playing whileshitting on halo but i assume it was something like quake 3 arena or one of the earliest versions of counter strike. Halo CS and Q3 are all such radically different games its retarded to compare them its better to just accept them as their own playstyles. they are all good games and each have their own stupid bullshit. i played some of all of them and found halo the most fun then quake 3 and then counterstrike.

I remember being on 4chan for the early ps3 info. People were clowning on this controller so much

>Were people posting gifs or short videos of their frags, or silly meme stuff like stick fights?
being able to record your own gaming was pretty uncommon, so personal frag videos / gifs weren't really a thing.
But people that COULD record their gaming and could edit it got a lot of undue respect on forums. Making yourself look good with well-edited montages made people believe you were a god lol.
A big difference between back then and now is how everything is well understood. Gaming has become so much more scientific. Back then it was like medieval times where you could just convincingly claim to be a genius medicine man with nothing to back it up. Perfect examples would be all the fake gaming rumors or going further back, stuff like Todd Rogers.

>>11877380
It's crazy to me that people are disagreeing with this. Maybe because they were on mainstream parts of the internet while I was on 4chan for that era. It was absolutely shat on around here.

>>11883335
people on here shit on everything that doesnt mean anything. most of the guys complaining about halo were probably bitter pc nerds already in their 20s and 30 in the early 2000s. (cant imagine being jaded during the best years of gaming) those guys must be giga miserable today.

>>11883312
id like to try that it actually looks like it would be more comfortable in the hand then the ps2 controller despite looking like a fucking boomerang.

It was practically a different world. Politics and social issues didn't infest every facet of every fucking corner of the internet for one. Trannies were something you never fucking thought about either, they were called Tsansvestites back then too, and just thought of as weird people you got a quick laugh at and moved on from. Some people were edgy, but at the same time, people weren't hyper-offended at everything. People would call things "gay" or "retarded" and call you a fag outside of 4chan. Nigger was only a bit taboo depending on where you were, not this monolithic no-no word outside of 4chan.

But on the video games side of things, I wasn't a multiplayer kind of guy so most of my experience was looking at online blogs or guides at the time. You can still find many of them these days. If I had to make one criticism is that if you played anything obscure, if the guide or something had misinformation, it was likely parroted everywhere and wasn't easily quashed. That was kind of annoying. It's something you had to check yourself, see the thing didn't work as they described, and figure out if you fucked up or the guide fucked up. But at the same time, they tended to go into autistic detail about things, which was kind of nice. I do prefer having videos these days of everything. Sure, YouTube existed during the 6th gen, but you couldn't find EVERYTHING on it like you can these days.

>>11883090
>im not sure what happened, i think that a critical threshold got met where so many people were online, that it changed the internet.

You know EXACTLY what happened to the internet.

I remember "Xbox hueg" was the original "PS3 nogaems."

i miss those days

>>11884239

>>11871219
It wasn't actually edgy. If anything it was the era everyone started calling shit edgy cause they cant simply enjoy cool shit and be confident about it. You gotta call it edgy so you let others know "youre above it all heh".

That kind of faggotry calling everything edgy was restricted to nerds and women.

>>11871180 (OP)
Gifs, personalized websites, non mainstream content. Coca cola had a chatroom / avatar website. It was random like that. Chat rooms were social hangouts.

>>11883553
No we don't because that image says nothing.
Literally no from Euro or U.S. experienced those countries on the internet by the end. They're basically filtered into a "language firewall" for the most part and the most you'd see were Russian servers or hackers on very rare old game servers and shit (or steam for CS once valved stopped caring about 1.6 and source or updating completely broken exploits - allowing russian servers to become 'more' mainstream, but since most people weren't playing those anymore it was visible but still not common of an experience.)

>>11885110
>They're basically filtered into a "language firewall" for the most part and the most you'd see

Not that anon but you can't be serious. You don't think Indians can't speak rudimentary English or use Google translate? The only one with a literal firewall is China. But most citizens use a VPN and bypass it entirely.

>>11885289
NTA, and I agree with you Indian point.
>The only one with a literal firewall is China. But most citizens use a VPN and bypass it entirely.
Luckily for us, the Chinese, even ones who get passed the firewall, tend to self-filter themselves in Chinese apps like WeChat. Because their own stuff is supposed to be behind the firewall, comprehensive services are offered to them that they typically just prefer to self-segregate. I wish Indians had something like this.

>>11883112
BLAST IT WITH PISS

>>11877218
Oh, those were a part of gaming.

>Be a Jedi Academy player
>Hang out on clan server belonging to {OR}
>"Order of the Ravens"
>Show up often enough that they start calling me a freeloader as a joke
>Decide to join, skipping a few ranks due to the pseudo-RP that was going on with the clan hierarchy
>{HM}s (High Masters) usually have access to server moderation tools
>Not me, though, due to my rank skipping thanks to practically being a member
>Some people hated {OR} but a lot of the time they wouldn't hate me
>There's a clan split, {OR} members are banned because Jin Roh (lead, and yes he was obviously a fan) was center of some disagreement, I'm guessing relating to server costs?
>Mindlessly join the captured server one day because I have it bookmarked
>Welcomed rather than kicked, lead of the new faction even says he'd make me a mod
>I respectfully decline, it feels rude to betray friends
>{OR} does get another server eventually
>Then Jin Roh decides one day the clan is just over

Nobody could cope with the yellow cheese.

forums, blogs, RSS and forums signatures everywhere.

>>11885110
>>11885289
>>11885447
>>11883553
>>11883090

Different countries seem to have different cultural attitudes.

The USA likes to invent things and share it with the world. Inviting everyone to join. Hard working but a very naive.

The Chinese are very competitive with the West. They have will blatantly copy whatever software or games the USA or Europe makes. Then make their own version and claim it's superior. But they do not innovate. Just copy (like they do with bootlegging hardware and games).

Japan is somewhat isolationist and slow to change. They prefer to do their own thing away from others. They don't like being forced to change. They are still using fax machines in 2025.

India...doesn't seem to have much pride or cultural ambition. They seem overly focused on going to other countries in the West and not staying the India. This includes both real life and the internet. Indians just want to be with other Westerns. I don't really know why. They are like the opposite of the Chinese. No cultural pride and more focused on how far they can spread. If you look at Google, they were obsessed with joining it and he companies demographics went from mostly Westerners to like 60% Indian. Even the CEO is Indian now. I guess because India doesn't have much software companies or their economy isn't good. The tone of the internet had definitely changed now that 800 million Indians have joined in the last 12 years. I can't really think of any notable games Indians have made though. I don't know what's going on there.

>>11871180 (OP)
I visited a cool website that had guides on how to steal from department stores with out getting caught. And how to severely inconvenience your local municipalities.
To say it was less gay than this image board is an understatement.

>>11877218
>>11886564
had similar experiences on republic commando of all games

>>11887268
>The USA likes to invent things and share it with the world. Inviting everyone to join. Hard working but a very naive.

hahahahahahahahaha...
you actually believe that shit don't you?

>>11887519
US invented the internet buddy

>>11887519
LMAO you believe the opposite? What a retard.

>>11883553
The jeet meme is getting out of hand. Pajeets are not the reason for the ongoing enshittification of the internet. In fact it's the other way around. You see pajeets everywhere because the internet has been monopolized to the point where pretty much nothing exists outside of like a dozen websites, so they come where everyone else is. If the internet was more compartmentalized like it was in the 2000s, most of them would stay in their designated corner.

>>11888431
>The jeet meme is getting out of hand.

Tech companies are firing people by the tens of thousands while applying for the same amount of H1B visas. If anything, the meme is nowhere near aggressive enough.

>>11871180 (OP)
it was dominated by people who actually loved games and weren't egomaniac socialites. it was awesome. tons of eccentric banter, many great people and psychos alike.

>>11888471
This. Every single time I call somewhere important. Or somewhere important calls me it's always a fucking indian and I can't understand a fucking thing they say. I just hang up on them.
The scammers that call are always indian. So if I can't understand what an indian is saying over the phone I'll be damned if I'm going to exchange any information with them.

>>11871180 (OP)
Video forms were not short. Rather they were a little more long for using Windows movie Maker. Blue background with white text followed by a lens flare to some super plays of the game. Songs from Linkin Park, Evanescence, or this would a company the gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qetW6R9Jxs4

>>11871180 (OP)
>What was internet culture like back when the 6th gen consoles were still active?
Lot larger and more fragmented. Which was a good thing. Forums were everywhere with their own dominion and community and shitposting was far less prevalent. Oh and a lack of turd world helped tremendously. It was also uncommon to see people over the age of 30 post. Yes, they were obviously around, especially for MMO forums, but your average videogame forum was usually made out of teenagers because they were children when the internet was being popularized in the 90s. So lot more normal level headed individuals and less mentally ill middle aged men, especially since rules were enforced for civility.

>>11877380
This

>>11883335
That's because over the course of 18 years, /v/ has been invaded by the rot that existed on gamefaqs, gaia online, newgrounds, neogaf, and of course reddit.

>>11891896
/v/ always having to posture and LARP has done more damage to the board than good, exporting that to other sites on the board has been poison to discussion but it's safe to say these contrarians never have anything interesting to say.

>>11891930
Anon, you have to remember that in 2006, the 360 was still relatively new, Halo 3 was a year away, meanwhile the OG Xbox was a success mostly in just the US and only sold around 20m+ units. So you had to have owned an Xbox back then - or had a copy of CE on PC, which didn't favor well compared to the major FPS games at the time - and then convince a board that was made out of a great deal of PC gamers why Halo was somehow special.
And /v/ didn't start a downward spiral until around 09-2010. The only reason moot created /vr/ is because of the state /v/ was in in 2013.

Internet culture has always been garbage.

>>11891949
>didn't favor well compared to the major FPS games at the time
It was well liked, easily influenced posers swarmed around its popularity to posture that their taste is elite. It was shallow and non-genuine then, and it's the same today.

>>11871180 (OP)
>What was internet culture like
Faggy, pretentious, and annoying

>>11891974
Oh yeah the elite taste of introducing watered down mechanics like regeneration and 2 weapon limits.

>>11891989
Try reading the post again until you understand it my Penny Arcade fan friend.

>>11891885
>It was also uncommon to see people over the age of 30 post.
Lmao. You seriously believe that? Kid I was around for that time. I guarantee there were plenty of 30+ year olds on the internet. We just generally avoided mentioning our ages because it wasn't relevantto the discussion. You only BELIEVE everyone was a teen (or young adult) because you yourself were a teen. So you thought everyone else was just like you.

>>11891989
>beta males spew spite at the top guys
pathetic

>>11891989
>they think halo invented teabagging
they're bigger posers than i thought

>>11871724
>Stop by Taco Bell on way home, fill up on tacos for a few bucks
I miss this. Food was so cheap back then that I would just buy it for my friends because they never had any money and I wouldn't even ask them to pay it back because it was nothing. I probably spent like $80 on my buddy over three years. Now a fucking big mac meal is $15 here.

>>11893017
Yup. I miss those days. Not sure if it will ever happen again due to inflation.

The USA needs to stop printing so much money, and stop going to war. If the USA spent like 5 to 10 years just paying down debt and not over-spending cash, then it would help a lot.

If that happened, then Maybe we can bring back the McDonald's and Taco Bell dollar menu.

>>11893034
The dollar menu prices were actually pretty good before 2020/2021 fucked everything up.

>>11884239
loved this meme