in b4 sperm song

2006? I wasn't into anime and assumed it was all Sailor Moon or DBZ.

Good ignorant times, man.

>>48640835
I never took the screencap, but have the template.

Power Misao get! When /a/ was so slow that 100K gets were actually celebrated.

God I wish I had captured more /a/ threads from 2005 and 2006 ;_;.

>>48640831
Oh...god....

>>48640835

Did any of you other '06 guys expect to still be here in '11?

I think I would have offed myself back then if I knew I would still be here 5 years later.

>>48640922

>>48640959
I didn't. I made myself some promise in 2007 that I'd kill myself if I still didn't have a girlfriend by 2008.

Now it's 2011 and I'm still forever alone. ;_;

>>48640959
The thing is, you guys are -still- around so I can still tolerate it. I still run into you guys for say a specific show and we have a grand time.

So that's why I keep coming back.

>>48640959
I figured that so long as I could get a good discussion with 3 or so people in the oncoming flood I knew would happen, it'd still be worth slinking around.

>>48640895
I remember when Giovanni almost won SaiGAR, good times.

That whole thing went to shit real quick, though.

>>48640959
I don't really care, I've accepted 4chan to be shit.

That and /tg/ and /jp/ still has old 4chan feel. So I didn't go mad.

>>48640959
i always knew i was here forever


>chan ieldri
fuck you captcha

I remember that thumbnail glitch

>>48640988
Ah ha...I remember making similar promises to myself about how I wanted my life to be by the time I turned 21.

I'm 23 now, oh well. I would never kill myself though, even being a foreveralone faggot is better than being dead. Besides, I want to live to see what technology is like in 2060.

To be fair I didn't even post back in the day. I think that less than the half of the browsers of /a/ actually post every day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6uJqtgBOZ4

;__________________________;

>>48641019
It went bad as soon as people treated it as a serious contender to things like Saimoe and wanted to keep it going after the first comp. It wasn't a bit of a lark to start board rivalry anymore.

/a/ in 2012

No more motivational posters. Seriously, they are dumb.

One day we'll find out this man was just Toren Smith messing around in his retirement.

>>48641094
I really do wish I could turn back time.

Also, as of now, do you guys wish 4chan died sometime during 2007 or something? I do, just so it wouldn't devolve into what we have now...

it's like I'm 16 all over again... goog times...

>>48641155

>>48641155
Oh... oh no... OH GOD NO

>>48641155
Moot did implement facebook for a short time.

>>48641214
Yeah, a little, just so it'd give us the incentive to start anew at some other place.

>>48641214
I'd figured it'd get like this around the time the site stopped dying every five seconds due to no money. I still hold that the periodic site deaths helped flush out a lot of the more common idiots, and kept everyone on their toes since they never knew how much longer the fun would last.

>>48640959
Oh man, you made realize that I had been to 4chan since 2004.

>>48641155
dont see it happening

>>48641214
>Also, as of now, do you guys wish 4chan died sometime during 2007 or something?

Now that you mention it, yeah, I kind of do.

I can't go anywhere related to anime, video games, or anything nerdy online without 13-year olds spamming memes.

>>48641259
That last year's April Fool's joke, right?

>>48641179
>/a/, you are the best anime platform on the information superhighway that is the interweb. Believe me, over the years I have probably posted on most of them web bulletin boards, certainly more than you, and this one is the best.

As much as I hated anime_expert, he was SO fucking right.

Sometimes I wonder, why the hell am I still here? But I just dont have anywhere else to go.

For 23 years and 11 months had I suffered them, the ignorant gaijin back home who sickened me with their microwaved culture and their materialism. The spindly losers in the anime club who cared only for anime and not a whit for the superior monoethnic culture to which it was endemic. Well no more. Fucking zettai no more. I touched down in the country I was certain I had lived all my previous lives, no doubt as a badass ronin samurai ninja or some shit. I had never been here, but I had returned.

Nippon-sama, tadaima!

No sooner had I left the airport when I saw the woman of my dreams. She confirmed my every hope, my every ideal of this great land. The light coming in through the sakura backlit her like a full body halo. She was made of demure and soft spoken. Of bowing and bento.

Of Japan and perfect.

My heart started doki doki-ing all over the shop. And then she saw me! Spotted me in the crowd! Well, of course she did, I was like a head taller than the fucking hobbits they call men around here. I was in no state of mind to meet her gaze, and tried to look away but I was paralysed. She was just so ... prettyu ...

And just like that she started walking over. Her walk was just pure concentrated sex. If you poured a glass of it sex fumes would just rise right off the top. I loved the way the light danced unevenly over her pristine porcelain skin as she walked. The way she did more for me by showing just her shoulders than any American girls could by showing their entire gaping cleavage for all the world to SEE THIS YOU SHOULD TAKE NOTES, THIS IS WHAT SEXY IS YOU FUCKING WHORES -

おはようございます.

Oh shit, what did she say? She said something! To me! But I wasn't con –

>>48641214
No, /a/ is the only place I can talk about anime.

Everywhere else I have to respect other people and not call them out on being faggots.

>>48641307
Yeah, 4chan's "culture" has regrettably spread to every corner of the internet.

>>48641155
Haha.

>>48641341

おげんきですか?

OK, OK, I know this one. Where have I heard it before? Naruto 43? Oh god she's so hot –

わたしのなまえはかおりです.

Fuck, I couldn't find the right words. Was it oro? Was it dattebayo? Was it anata baka?!?

おなまえはなんですか.

You know what, it doesn't even matter! Her voice sounds as good as she looks. I don't need to say anything. I could do this forever. This is goddamn bliss.
"..."

She suddenly seemed apprehensive, like she was cautious of what she wanted to say next. Loveu loveu confession desu?!
"Yes, what is it?" I blurted out.
"OH HEY MAN YOU SPEAKING ENGLISH?"
"What?" What?
"OH YEAH YOU DOES HAY NICE I LIKE."
No. NO! This was not coming from her mouth. It couldn't be.
"OH HAY YOU FROM AMERICA I LIKE. SO COOL! FUCK!"
no no no no no no
"I LOVE ALL AMERICA MOVIE AND SERIE. OH HAY DO YOU WATCH FRIENDS YES. ROSS AND RACHEL. COOL!"
"Um ... pleasu speaku Japanesu."
"NO ENGLISH MUCH BETTER I LEARN MANY YEAR AND COLOUR HAIR TO LOOK LIKE HILLARY DUFF. SO CUTE! FUCK!"
"I CAN SPEAK JAPANESEU SO ONEGAI PLEASE SPEAK JAPANESE TO WATASHI!"
"MORE INTENSITY LOGER MOORE RIP MY STOCKINGS RIP MY STOCKINGS LOL"

>>48641214
The exact moment of going shit was >>3333333 for both /a/ and /b/.

>>48641339
I've thought more times than I can count, "I need to find somewhere else to post about this stuff", but I can't find anywhere. 4chan has permeated every inch of the internet when it comes to anime-related forums and imageboards.

>>48641294
Same here. I actually came here from a GameFAQs thread mentioning a flash game that had been uploaded. I didn't see /f/ though, so I instead browsed through every thread on /v/ looking for the thing. Then I jumped into a MGS thread.

I was also one of those kids who thought /d/ was the only pornographic board. Fun times.

>>48641339
>>48641385
I always want to try the iichan boards, but they're just too slow...

I only saved images from futaba not memes.
what was that namefag's name whose avatar was a penguin and posted quality images all the time?

>>48641339
Pretty much this.

Saaya Irie will be legal this november.

In 2006 I think I was browsing some shitty FF forum, starting to get into anime. Didn't come to /a/ till just before the Endless Eight shitstorm, I remember people talking about it and starting to watch other stuff but didn't lurk properly till Spring watching Angel Beats, Working! and K-on S2 with anon ;_;

Remember that glorious downtime of DDoSed summer? That truly was the last high point for all of 4chan.

>>48640814
yeah, yeah, whatever whatever
wait
wait a second
>dislikes: classical music
UNFORGIVABLE

>>48641428
Okay, so you're a newfag, then.

Get out.

I came to 4chan while looking for CCS porn in late 2004. Somehow found /l/, but I thought rest of the board was actually strange. Still here after 6 years...

>>48641429
You mean the week the DNS was down in '08? Fucking glorious and a half.

We cried manly tears as the DNS slowly recovered.

Our original. Still the best.

In 2006 I still wasn't watching this.

>>48641477
Yeah, it was like stepping back 2-3 years in time.

>>48641477
I remember that, it was absolutely amazing.

It's a pity it will probably never happen again.

>>48641446

>>48641470
You know I tried to make a Warcraft thread in video game board back in 2004. I got flamed to the max by weeaboos.

Oh old ban page, how I miss thee

>>48641427

Oh god I'm so old.

>>48641477
>>48641503
>>48641514
I think that was the time I went to faff around on wakachan just like old times and nobody understood when I started duckrolling users. Fun times.

>>48641470

Did /l/ exist in late 2004? Maybe it closed down shortly afterwards.

Has it really been that long?

>>48640814

Guys, guys...

Guess who's the future of the Democratic Party?

>>48641542
Run for your KUNGA

Atleast ED kicked the bucket. Somewhat.

>>48641560
Yeah it was still there for a bit. I remember a brief period after where "gb2/not4chan/" was the response to any remotely loli thread.

>>48641560
I'm sure it did. My memory is fuzzy. I think 4chan also had a guro board as well. This was all before the new servers were put in place and the servers were highly unstable.

Man, remember 4chan with imageboard and there was no anonymous. All anonymous had tripcode with them.

>>48641600
Yeah, /g/ was originally the guro board. That got dropped pretty fast though.

I remember back in 2006 I tried to watch Pani Poni Dash. I never DID finish it...

>>48641554

Ah, duckroll. But then /v/ had to combine that with a pasty R&B singer from the 1980s to create one of the most successful memes of 4chan history.

2003-2005
>fuck, /b/ is awesome
2006
>/b/'s getting pretty shitty, time to check out /v/
2007
>/v/'s getting pretty shitty but it's like old /b/ so it's alright
2008
>/v/'s pretty shitty, time to check out /a/
2009
>/a/'s getting pretty shitty but hey, there's no way it could get as bad as it was last year
2010
>/a/'s pretty shitty but hey, there's no way it could get as bad as it was last year
2011
>time to just make the best of this now because it's only going to get even worse every single year

>>48641609
That post would have gotten dub spammed if it panneed today.

>>48641640
I don't think it was dropped fast though. I remember /g/uro and /l/oli being there in late 2004. Maybe I came in late 2003? It was so long ago, I don't remember.

>>48641666
You must be me.

>>48641653
Go watch it now.

>>48641427
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1841568575168680396#

>/l/
oh god.

I actually can't remember what made me go to 4chan /a/... I think it was Seed Destiny.

somebody have a pic of when /a/ was /b/ - anime/ random?

>>48641673
Yeah.

That feels quite bad, actually. It's like 4chan wouldn't like to try to be good anymore.

>>48641662
I was hanging around the night the first Rickroll was done. I didn't laugh until about an hour later when someone used it for a fake Einhander sequel announcement. It's still the only time I laughed.

>>48641673
>panned

Happened.

>>48641727
http://replay.web.archive.org/20031008225412/http://img.4chan.net/b/imgboard.htm

also, I disagree with so many anans saying /a/ got shitty. Threads on /a/ is still mostly about anime, which is more than you can say about /v/, where half the threads are not vidya. I really don't see the ratio of good to shitty threads all the different than it was in 2005.

So many good shows in 2006.

Soukou no Strain wasn't one of them, but I remember being amused at how ridiculously doomed anyone who showed interest in Sara was.

Fall for this girl and you'd better take out life insurance.

>>48640959
i just feel this kinda lonely feeling since there probably aren't many mates back from 06 left here
was pretty amazing how the boards grew and changed though, considering what its original purpose was
i came for rozen maiden and photoshops back when entire sites dedicated to "funny pictures" were not yet in existence, and got much, much more

hmm when did 4chan switch from frames?


late 2006?

I remember frames still being more easy to navigate the site w/o the extensions

>>48641874
No, I think that was in early 08 or late 07 with the home page change.

>>48641874
no, it was definitely after 2006. I know because I was a regular by the time they got rid of it, and that can't have been before 2007.

>>48641874
I think that was much later.

>>48641874
I don't remember when exactly, but all I remember is moot telling us to use bookmarks. I used the footer and header links instead and still do.

I still use frames. I get so lost without them.

Holy shit guys, did you watch this?!

>>48641953
More like Azumanga Hell.

>>48641803
That just means it isn't as shitty as /v/, which isn't saying much.

>>48640959
No, but only because it didn't seem particularly likely that the site would still be around now, having seen it go down and back up so often, and then the seeming inevitability of it dying from lack of money.

If I'd known the site would still be around, then I'm sure I would have expected to still be here, because in early 2006 I knew I was enough of a pariah that my time would be unlikely to switch away from anime, and in late 2006 I had just failed my prestigious degree in the final year, so that was like loser status confirmed and it would either be /a/ or death by now.

>>48642015
no, I'm saying /a/ hasn't really changed all that much other than rate of posting since 2005. If you think /a/ is shit now, then /a/ was shit in 2005 as well.

best round card ever!

>2006 is when I came to 4chan
oh shit
Didn't really come to /a/ much though, mostly stuck to /b/ and /v/. At least back then, there was still /a/-related content.

Now it's 100% normalfagville.

Well, you can go to oneechan now to run away from the newfags/summerfags

>>48642184
>normalfags
Holy fuck, they are the absolute, absolute worst of /a/.

>>48642300

You guys have made me sad now, i miss old 4chan

>>48642337

Seriously where did all the veteran posters
go? did they just migrate somewhere? an hero? got a job?

>>48642353
most shot thru to /jp/ when /a/ got too 'retarded' for them

>>48642353
They're still around, I think. They just keep to themselves for the most part, and post in various threads.

/a/ isn't COMPLETE shit, it's just about 25% shit. Although, anime itself hasn't been too great lately, so that can be blamed on the lack of board quality, as well.

I'm glad generals are being done away with, though. They really weren't in the spirit of 4chan.

>>48642382

>implying /jp/ is not all the newfag scum who spammed /a/ with touhou.

>>48642410

I guess but with ongoing series i felt it made sense to have a general but only now and again

Am i the only one who hates people spamming series they dont like? i mean im not a newfag but im not exactly a veteran poster either when it comes to /a/ is that how it worked back then? were you just not allowed to discuss certain series?

>>48642431
>using the greentext implying
>newfag scum
>greentext
>greentext
You're one to talk.

>>48642431
Then there were the Indonesians who spammed /a/ with Kamen Rider never realizing /m/'s been having them way longer.

If you think about it the people who arrived here due to the foxnews hackers on steroids shit can be considered oldfags now or sometime soon.

>>48642382
/jp/ was yesterday's newfags who spammed /a/ with touhou and VN's, when it really didn't belong here.

>>48642449
>Am i the only one who hates people spamming series they dont like?
of course not, that shit's retarded no matter what

Also, it's not so much that certain series can't be discussed, it's when people just don't shut the fuck up about a series that's already pretty much over. Especially mindless slice of life/moe entertainment, because there's nothing TO discuss. No, I don't care about a movie or translation project. It's not JoJo's where the main source content has large chunks poorly translated/scanned. Even then, JoJo threads aren't spammed every damn day.

I mean, Imagine if Code Geass had a "General" thread every damn day where it's 80% imagedumping. Every single day. And when the last thread hits the image limit or bump limit, a new one is made in its place. So it's ALWAYS on the front page. That's basically why mods hate generals.

>>48642410
>Although, anime itself hasn't been too great lately

If I were to guess, I'd say you got here in 2009, so I'm not sure what you're doing in a 2006 thread.

Most people love the current anime when they get into it, no matter the year or season, and get slowly jaded over time as the novelty wears off and think that anime is getting worse. You can usually tell how long someone's been into anime because they think that 200X anime was great, but 200X+1 anime was terrible. Actual veterans at this point are the ones who have long got over that phase without quitting. The fact that you think that anime hasn't been great lately implies that you've only just been getting into the jaded phase as of maybe as much as a year ago.

Summerfag here. came in 4chan around summer of 2007. i wish i was 1 year earlier.

i came here in 2008

i feel so newfaggish, but at least i'm not a weeaboo anymore or e-scum (or i may be in some other aspects).

>>48642475

>ad hominem

>>48642728
Nah, 2006 anime wasn't too great either, actually (I came here around 2006, although I didn't browse /a/ much and admittedly was kind've a newfag to anime in general). It's had its ups and downs, and recently it's been kinda down. That's just how anime goes, and I'm not saying it'll never get better again. It's just in a down phase right now.

Though, this recent season is actually looking to be really good, for once, actually. Last season was disappointing.

The anime industry never changed to cater to their "consumers" since the 80s.the western world doesn't count

Just saying.

>>48642353
I can't speak for everyone, but I have found better, slower boards to post in, and even then I mostly stick to IRC.
I still post on /a/ from time to time because it's so damn fast, it's very convenient when you want to discuss an episode that just aired.

>>48642919
The problem is that the things it's recently been catering to are pretty much exclusive to Japan. At least with the mecha fad, there were still plenty of westerners that could enjoy it. A lot of people who aren't full on weeaboos can and do enjoy various Gundam series (mostly Mobile Suit Gundam and Gundam Wing, probably due to it being on Toonami)

But you don't see any of the popular anime of today being shown here in the west. I think that was also the reason of Toonami falling (Along with adult swim's anime section), there just wasn't much that could appeal to us at all.

I'm hoping the moe fad eventually dies out, like how the mecha fad did.

Unfortunately that took like 10-20 years ;_;

>>48642933
>irc
That's the reason I keep coming back to 4chan. I simply don't want to post in other sites when you have to get into their social cliques and circlejerk each other.

>>48643097
Same here. That's why I never liked forums, people will judge you by stupid post counts and not by what you are saying.

>>48643062

>recently been catering to are pretty much exclusive to Japan
they buy their anime and marchendise
>But you don't see any of the popular anime of today being shown here in the west.
kids watch a lot of anime these days, just like we used to back then.
Back then we watched shows like gundam, doraemon or robotech as a kid.
now our next generations watch shows like naruto or one piece.

anime never changed.

>>48643225
>they buy their anime and marchendise
>marchendise
Anyways, yeah, that's part of the problem, but plenty of westerners would too if they just marketed some shit towards us. But they don't. This is what pisses me off about Japan, they seriously don't get how to market outside their existing demographics.

Also, Naruto and One Piece aren't nearly as popular around America anymore since Toonami died. Yeah, there's people who still watch it, but that's because they already got hooked when Toonami aired it. I don't think there's very many new fans of it anymore.

Now because a primary source of anime for the west is gone, Japan basically doesn't bother trying at all. Feels bad, man.

That's not to say NO ONE does, but they're exceptions. Nothing is defined by its exceptions.