Well, based on /news/, it went down constantly, and had lolicon and such.

There was no such thing as Saturday, and we all waited for someone to show us a USB line.

I think I'm 04 or 05 but the years kind of blur into each other and I don't remember very well.

>>25166
I was never on it, but apparently
moot spammed it over SA, yelling BANNER CONTEST and got banned, then his isp told him that the loli board had to go down and shit.

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/v/ in 2004.
Probably one of the most glorious picture you will ever see.

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It was pretty much like it is now, but things were a lot more easy going.

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>tfw milhouse is still not a meme and it will never be

Just let it RIP. This version of "4chan" is a mockery of the old days.

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You don't have to even leave the site to find out everything

http://www.4chan.org/contests
http://www.4chan.org/contests/bannerwin
http://www.4chan.org/news?all
http://www.4chan.org/flash

Also

https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Main_Page
http://4chanarchive.org/
Other chans

Hope that helps.

>>25207

>All those tripfags
Looks like shit

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4chan was just as shitty as it was then as it is now, with PLENTY of meta discussion.

The only difference is that /v/ didn't have much of a problem discussing videogames, and posters used unfunny memeshit like lolcats and motivational posters instead unfunny memeshit like greentext and jimmy rustles.

Also, there used to be a bigger focus on anime.

It was a different time. I don't remember much from back then, but the discussions were actually decent. Hell, /b/ could be considered an "okay" board back then.

>>25247
People are discussing the topic at hand in a laid back fashion.

>>25207
Wow, /v/ being... nice.

>>25250
Oh god I loved that ad.

>>25247
Nobody had a real problem with tripfags then. They acted just like everyother member, except with an identity. Now, they act like total faggots.

This website has some great old archived threads, there's even the old front page.

http://archives.yotsubasociety.org/

Look for 4chan only, the other imageboards all suck.

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>>25230
The early years were glorious.
I wasn't here for the start year.

I came in around middle 04, and left for whatever reason until around the start of 2005 when YTMND and /gif/ were at war over citations.
I remember hating this "stupid fucking site" because my bookmarked threads were constantly being deleted.
Oh how silly I was.

2006 was fine. 2007 summer and onwards it went seriously downhill.
Then again in 2010 for some reason. What even happened in 2010? I know 2007 was the whole raiding bullshit and then Chanology bullshit, but I have no idea why 2010 was particularly shittier.
Pretty much all boards suffered in 2007 and those that never did eventually come 2010.

I miss those hilarious /b/ stickies.
And this sticky topped all of them. That sticky was fucking glorious. Pic related, y-you lightbulb faggot. THERE WAS STILL TIME!

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>>25247
Hate for tripfags didn't begin until 2007 when idiot /v/irgins like you kept bitching about Lance Jacks, Walter Joseph Kodaks, and Toxic Leicester baiting your dumb ass.

Unfortunately, we stopped using the phrase Lurk Moar.

The pivotal moment for me was when Caturday got hijacked by that icanhazcheeseburger fag. That was the beginning of the end.

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>>25156

It was much more chill and people used each board for its topic.

>>25310
I miss that, but I don't want to use ``moar'', because it makes me look like a new /b/tard, so I use ``lurk more'' instead.

>>25321
fake picture.

>>25321
That screenshot is a confirmed fake, the tripcodes don't make sense and you can tell the names and the trips both are subjects.

>>25321
>July

Wasn't 4chan made sometime in October or is this a shoop and I'm an idiot?

>>25298
2010 was shittier because Kimmo's spambot and the Java bullshit was worse than it ever was before that summer until moot put CAPTCHA in.

I think another pivotal moment was in 2006 when /b/ did the whole Habbo raid thing. It made the rest of the internet even more aware of Anonymous (I can't recall whether Scientology was later on or around the same time) and that was when you had a bunch of new people thinking /b/ was a personal army.

>>25349
habbo was before chanology

>>25310
Absolutely this. I remember coming to /b/ for the first time in 05-06 and would not post because I saw fuckers getting banned for saying dumbshit. I just sat there and watched how people acted and reacted so that I could fit in for a good 3+ months. Finally, I got the courage to post and have not stopped since.

If we could bring back that hostile atmosphere where if you posted something idiotic you would be ridiculed off the site, then this place would be better. It is now your duty to make sure anyone who is new lurks more and make them feel unwanted until they reach a satisfactory level of knowledge.

>>25344

>>25345

(edit: 4chan thinks this comment has no content?)

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>>25349
Chanology was 2008. Sure did a lot to popularize 4chan and bring it to the mainstream.

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I began posting on 4chan in 2005.

I will say the only proof you need as to why 4chan (or the internet as a whole, for that matter) was better back then, you could google a meme to try and figure out what it was and get 0 relevant results.

The only site that could really count as a source for memes was macrochan, and as an oldfag it's a giant trip down memory lane just to browse. (http://macrochan.org/tagTree.php)

Pic related, my favorite old meme.

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>>25370
I love that picture

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>>25299

Lanced Jack was summer 2009 wasn't he? It can't have been 5 years already.

I've been here since April 1st 2005 (April Furs Day, was glorious), and while it's true that things started to decline in '07, I consider summer of '09 to be the worst, as there was too much new and not enough old to contain it. Maybe I'm just lumping old Jack in there, because that summer just seemed like an enormous pile of shit to me.

In any case, old 4chan was just silly place where people went to talk about Chinese girl cartoons and vidya. Memes were largely kept to the site, and were a major part of every board they related to. The boards were a lot slower, but there was a lot more on-topic discussion. There were also these things called "jokes", which people would laugh at instead of yelling "TROLL" at everything remotely amusing or nonsensical. /v/ discussed video games, /a/ discussed shows older than 2 years ago, /co/ was actually one of the best boards, and the phrase "/a/ is like /b/ but with anime" would be taken as a positive statement.

>>25349
I came to 4chan because of the Habbo raids. Also, they happened in 2005, not 2006.

>>25388
They've happened every year since 2005. 2006 was just more famous because more people

>>25298

Like >>25370 says, it went downhill because memes and other aspects of internet culture were taken in by the normals and completely shat over.

>>25345

Yeah, it's fake. You can shove it in a nostalgia thread on /a/ though and tell who's actually been here a while and who's new.

>>25299
Oh fuck I remember Walter, I forgot how but his tripcode got leaked (it was "#ifucking) and I used to hop in his threads and impersonate him. Annoyed the fuck out of him for a while.

>>25399
Eh, you mean they "try" to happen every year. It's always a pitiful view of a few /b/tards trying to relive the glory days.

>>25370
Don't forget the Lurkmore wiki. That is still up.

http://www.lurkmore.com/wiki/Main_Page

Look how far it has fallen.

>>25370
It was that or YTMND's wiki since some of YTMND's content came from 4chan. At least YTMND users credited 4chan in their creations.

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hay guise remember me

>>25422
90% of 4chan probably doesn't even know what the fuck YTMND is, but that's a whole other conversation.

I found out 4chan when Something Awful, YTMND and 4chan was attacking eBaums with it's gigantic raid. It was quite glorious

Back in 2006 we just pretended to be idiots. 4chan damaged our brains and now we are real idiots. There are no newfags or summerfags or anything. Just oldfags whose mind has deteriorated.

>>25409
>>25370

These are goldmines.

>>25439
I miss those days sometimes. The eBaum cease and desist dramatic reading still cracks me up.

http://baumanletters.ytmnd.com/

>>25449
>4chan damaged our brains and now we are real idiots
Oh boy, I sure am relieved to find out that it's 4chan's fault, and not the years of chronic drinking, that has turned me stupid!

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>>25466
Oh my god.

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Early 4chan: when people would shut their mouths and let the smart/funny/talented people talk instead-- there often were epic photoshopping threads in /b/ that hung around for a day or more... because of no ohimustposton4chanconstantly4chaniscoolandhardcoreandimustpost constantlywhateverfuckingboringshiticanthinkofificantthinkofanythingi'lljustcopypastasomeepicthread.
...

Legendary events and memes happened regularly-- cockmongler, pedobear, meximoot, longcat, the spincock hack of MySpace, etc. Someone once said that "Gaia(?) is stupid people trying to be smart; /b/ is smart people being stupid".

I think it all went to shit when W.T.Snacks made /b/ into a big attention-whoring exercise... and "aww, gee, if a mod can do it, so can we!" attitude took over /b/ (and the other boards), and within a month or so, 4chan's imageboards became the fast-rotation spamfest we know of today.

>>25156

Well, if you consider <08 old, I started posting back in late '06, and it was the same old bullshit. Of course, it was /b/ I was posting on chiefly. Red leader reporting in, longcat and millhouse is not a meme threads daily, and when v for vendetta hit theatres everyone suddenly had a fucking political agenda. I remember some of the first convulsions of the LOIC program now used by every script kiddy in the developed world. There was some other imageboard that /b/ raided, (justicechan? something to that effect), where everyone posted a long-winded alliterative poem where most words began with the b sound, and whatever Atari Home Computer the site was hosted on must've exploded because it was never online again after that.

Also, there were a fuckton of javascript spambots. There were images circulating that had embedded js and instructed you to save them with the js extension. I actually remember receiving a ~2 week ban for posting in a "newfags can't" thread, but instead of posting a triforce you would post eval without terminating parenthesis, which would clobber the site's javascript.

Basically, stay away from /b/, I'm sure you already do, but don't even think about it. It's a shithole for the computer illiterate.

/b/ was much more browsable, I think it was 2006 when it started to get really shitty. Offtopic posts on the porn boards was unheard of. Things like meetups never happened. People almost never talked about their personal social situations because we knew 4chan was the last place to mention things like that, especially if you're looking for advice. In general it was nerdy discussion that included images, memes, and brutally honest critique.

>>25551
BAM TO BEHOLD, A PUBLIC BULLETIN BOARD, BUILT OF BOTH BRILLIANCE AND BARBARITY BY BASTARDS WITH BONERS. THIS BASTION, NO MERE BULWARK OF BOREDOM, IS A BRUTAL BARRAGE OF BLISTERING BULLSHIT, BARELY BENEVOLENT... BUT BEHIND THE BIGOTRY AND BOOBS, BEYOND THE BITTER BROADCASTS OF BRAGGING BUFFOONS: HERE BE THE BODY POLITIC. A BROTHERHOOD OF BLASPHEMY, BLESSED WITH MORE BALLS THAN BRAINS, BATTLING THE BLAND, THE BOGUS, THE BENIGN. BEDLAM? BRING IT ON. BUT I BABBLE... BETTER TO BE BRIEF. YOU MAY CALL ME /b/

It's based on V for Vendetta

>>25582
I haven't seen that copypasta in a long, long time.

----------------------------------------------------------------------
the mappo of /b/

my tired heart cries out
longing for a time long passed
god you guys are fags

----------------------------------------------------------------------
04/14/06(Fri)02:46:53 No.6730533

I'M A LITTLE /b/TARD
/b/ DOES ROCK
HERE IS MY GOATSE
HERE IS MY COCK
LOLI OR A LONGCAT
THERE'S NO SHAME
FAP FAP FAP
AND THEN I CAME

----------------------------------------------------------------------

...and for what it's worth mentioning now, I invented the phrase "/b/tard". January 14th, 4pm AU EST. Someone on Idlechan had invented "/b/astard", and the next day (when 4chan came back up after like it's 4th shutdown?), I figured "tard" worked better. I just started using it in /b/ and /a/, and it stuck.

>>25582

Memories, painful, painful memories. Another thing about /b/ circa '06 was everybody getting indignant about Paul Fetch, "leader of anonymoose," is that fag still around?

We, the Old Guard, are still here. We lie in our graves, mouldering things, unwashed flesh putrefying. Our fingertips, though, are shiny bone, polished white by countless nights typing, the constant clack-clack of our endless browsing the only sound now. Our dicks have long rotted off, for we are the dead. What you, the youth, find arousing, we once found arousing, but we have been playing this game far longer than you. The vile miracles it would take to rouse us to turgid. We Old Guard lie here, as we have lain for years. We watch as 4chan changes, because change is the way here. There was no one day that 4chan went from "good" to "shit". There are shifts, there are trends, but those are visible only with hindsight. Yes, it was different then, but the only people who know or care are what remains of that first shift of denizens of the asshole of the internet. Ask now what Cracky-chan means, and people will look blankly or, if they have done their research, say "a red nose and cat ears". Yes, to you, that is what she means. To those who were there, she sums up a certain aspect of /b/ of yore. We obsessed, we stalked, we enshrined, we found out where she lives, and even as we did it we were disgusted with ourselves. Even now, those who could not reconcile amusement and disgust hold vigil at shrines to their scarecrow maiden sky-queen; they broke and fell by the wayside, and we marched on until our feet wore grooves in the ground which opened below us and swallowed us up. Our number is not legion, but few. Ours is the past; yours is the present. The future belongs only to gibbering faggots.

Take this 4chan, you new posters. We found it and made it ours. So many times it has been changed that it matters not what you do to it.

>>25721
We must change and change until Change is our master, for nothing neither god nor mortal can hold that which has no form. Change is the constant that cannot be changed.

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Have fun from a picture from the past

Well, I started browsing 4chan on early 2008, and I had more or less an idea of the culture and how hostile the community was, and YTMND started its inevitable decline. I can remember /b/ hasn't changed nothing since, and its always been literally the shithole of the internet. Fuck, even moot wrote on his earlier news that /b/ had been only created to contain the shitposters. Oh well. How much has 4chan changed on the last 4 years: ISHYGDDT, >implying, desu and trollface and a lot of reaction faces are now looked down by the community, hipsters saying lel instead of lol, its amazing.

>>25156


ttonfed artemas,

>>25781
The years of death-with-dreams have dulled my mind.
I had forgotten much of what has passed.
Yet I know this.

After all my years, should I ever see a beast like a cat with a great golden mane, before my mind knows what is happening, my mouth will scream
>OH JESUS CHRIST
>IT'S A LION
>GET IN THE FUCKING CAR

What saddens me, what truly saddens me is this.
Nowadays, it's sterilized. Google "Jesus christ it's a lion"
The first results are Know Your Meme and Cheezburgr, cancerous content-farms churning out commercials, capitalizing on copypasta, not creativity. They take, the photograph, they catalogue and snapshot and document, or try to. Note how often, they cannot explain the origins correctly because the origins don't matter. It's a changing culture. The origin may have been capped if it was, by the metric of the day, win. Terms enter common use and leave it. It matters not how or why, just that they do.

>>25798
>trollface

coolface

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My favorite image from times past. So many memes swept under the rug. So many EFGs, it made me want to gouge my eyes out. So much fucking cancer.

I miss every second of it.

>>25894

Wait, that was 09? Damn. I thought it was older. Let me dig for another...

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I don't really consider this "old," but I started going to /b/ and /v/ in early 2007.

/b/ had its occasional share of laughs, though by the time I arrived the place was already going downhill fast. The insult of the month was "gaiafag," and Slowpoke was my favorite meme. I stopped going in 2008, because even by then it had changed a lot. /b/ was a pretty different place back then. Every other thread had to do with a meme and it seemed EVERYONE was trying to make their own meme. There wasn't nearly as much porn on /b/, and when there was it was mostly either hentai or some really disgusting fetish, posted for shock value. Raids were common back then, though 99% of them were "personal army" type stuff, there was occasionally some asshole that really deserved it. The admins started really cracking down on raids some time in 2007/2008, though. One thing that was common on /b/ back then that I really miss is drawhore threads. Someone would draw a character and have them interact with anonymous, perhaps through some story. Nowadays, /b/'s too hostile to that sort of thing and moves too fast for drawhores to do their thing. My favorites were Boxdog, Chain-Chomp-Chan, and the real EFG.

cont.

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>>25905

Here is a decent picture. Not too old though. I will cease to spam the thread any longer, but know that it was the best worst place ever.

I remember coming on the site around.. musta been late '05 leading into '06. I remember 5 mil on /b/ fairly clearly, and that was in february 2006 according to sources. It's been interesting, to say the least, to see this community grow and influence the internet as a whole. Fascinating stuff, gents. Though I of course pine for the old days blinded by nostalgia, things WERE more easygoing back then, weren't they? People seem more uptight on the boards now then back then. Ah, well.

On the subject of gets, 1mil on /a/ was still so fucking glorious.

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>>25922

(fucking flood detection, jesus)

I liked /v/ a lot more than /b/. /v/ was a very different place, too. People hadn't thought of using greentext as anything but quotes back then, so there were no greentext stories or >implying or anything like that. /v/ had its own set of memes and, with a few exceptions, it got really indignant if you used a /b/ meme. Weegee, God Hand comics, idort, and, my favorite, Robotnik comics were among the most popular. /v/ had a lot more console war jerkery going on back then. The terms "xbot" "nintendrone" and "sonyfag" got thrown around so much that they eventually blacklisted the terms and you'd still get banned for them if you posted them nowadays. I'd say roughly 1/4 to 1/3 of all threads in /v/ had to do with /v/ memes and console wars.

Back then, the "casual vs. hardcore" debate still existed, and this may be hard to believe, but /v/ fell soundly on the "casual" side. This is because the debate was usually framed in terms of Super Smash Bros, whose "hardcore" players were the worst kind of anti-fun people imaginable.

cont

>>25922

OH MAN GAIAFAGS.

Shit. Memories man.

4chan before 07 was not famous, it was just another place on the internet. Thats what people who came later don't get.

If something was popular on 4chan it didn't matter. It was like any other forum except that it was anonymous and the userbase consisted of people who spent a large portion of their time on the net, a much rarer thing then.

4chan had the feel of SA and YTMND etc but more free, yet a tightknit community. But it was also a great place for sharing of things, 4chan links were regularly posted on many ircs. /gif/ /h/ and so on were quite popular.

Infact IMO other than anonymity its main draw was that it was a great place to share stuff and discuss it.

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HAY GUISE, REMEMBER WHEN WE COULD UPLOAD BMP FILES?
AND HOW IT TOOK MOOT LIKE 2 YEARS TO FIX THE THUMBNAILER?

...and hidden Goaste.

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>>25966

The defining characteristic of /v/ was considered to be rage, and as such, /v/ would rage at every single little thing. The board had a lot of its own subcommunities, of course. There were almost constantly threads about Animal Crossing, for instance. The most insular community were the pokefags, since of course /vp/ didn't exist then. TF2 was really popular after it came out to the point where /v/ even ate up sexual drawfaggotry and writefaggotry about the characters. There was a big backlash against the it. The highlight of /v/ was Japan Time. There was nothing quite like staying up til 4 AM all the time in the vain attempt to get new info about Super Smash Bros Brawl. Sakurai was an incredible troll, and no matter what the news was it was always great fun. Oh, and the comics. /v/ produced a shitton of MS Paint comics which proved to be hilarious.

I miss 2007 /v/ a lot. I'm probably nostalgiafagging here, but it was probably the most fun I had on the internet over such an extended period of time.

I had a whole folder of splengrebur sqqqpuns. Maybe I still have it, on some old HD or flashdrive. Maybe it's gone forever.

>>26005
>you will never stay up until 4am to watch /v/ flip their shit over the latest update being "Options Menu" or "Jumping"
>that day when Sonic was announced

It really wasn't as great as you imagine. Things tend to be glorified with nostalgia and time.

But it was much better than it is now

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>the old /b/ day

the day when the shitload of old /b/ content went to shitter because of /b/ folder removal craze and after all it ruined /b/ even more

someone should dump macrochan and make a nice old reactionimage/macro torrent

I miss EFG and his shenanigans.


There are no good drawfags anymore...

No mention of Fox News, party van, cons , curtains and other shenanigans so far, interesting.

Personally, i don't remember much besides the obvious stuff, but i remember i was like >>25366 at the beginning, it took me months to make a single post in /co/.../co/ was so fucking good back in the day...

>>26005
07 /v/ was the best thing this site ever made. /v/ was still great in 08 but then everything kinda went to shit.

Also I'm not so sure what the casual-hardcore debate is but /v/ hated tourneyfags. They did so for a long time atleast till 09-10, I would be greatly surprised if they don't now. And most /v/irgins played both heavily involving games and fun, party games. Shit like Dwarf fortress and minecraft are famous because of /v/.

>>25156
> there was no greentext yet, "epin", rickrolling, raids, anonymoose is legion, and all that.
uh, all that was here four years ago.

I am always surprised how many people took the exact same route to get to 4chan that I did. Seems like YTMND's rats fleeing the shit all showed up here at about the same time. Have you guys gone back there recently? It's pretty depressing. Fourest and Kassius and Mik3m are still there, still posting things that no one will see.

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Another important part of 4chan's history is the 'war' with 5chan-- a porn-ad running competitor imageboard, which worked constantly at trying to shut 4chan down (reporting to Paypal about 4chan being an adult site, etc.) so that it could scam up all the ad-monies from running the biggest imageboard site. I think in the end, the guy running it discovered that adult site advertising networks /aren't/ very honest and he never got the money his business model depended on.

Something from this was the increased hatred of Furries on 4chan-- because it had a /fur/ board, and all the furfags were siding with the cocksucker on 5chan.

>>26127

Maybe I'm misremembering, but "hardcore" was often used interchangeably with "tourneyfag"

>>25438
I knew what YTMND was long before I found 4chan.

>>25781

This shit is what ruined 4chan. I hate post 2006 /b/ 'secret club' shit.

/b/ was better when it was used for random discussion by members of other boards who knew to keep on-topic in their respective boards.

Now idiots treat it like a mutually exclusive culture of it's own.

/b/ should be shaped by the rest of 4chan, not shape the rest of 4chan.

>>25551
Pretty much the same as /b/ was in 2008 by your description.

>>25894
i still have that set of images, good times

>>26136
The reason why I got to 4chan in late 2008 was... well, the notoriety. I was an impressionable 16-year old GameFAQs user back then who thought "memes" were this cool thing and that "4chan" was the place where all these cool memes such as rickrolling came from. I thought it'd be a place of harmless fun.

Boy, was visiting 4chan truly an eye-opener. And to this day, I don't regret visiting it for one bit.

>>26160
I think /b/ should have extreme/heavy moderation and public banning. And moot should experiment with it like he did with IDs.

Being able to upload imagerars, hiding things in them.

Things of old that are not even hinted at in modern parlancs.

USB lines. Harbls, and the bobbaing thereof. Saying grinman to troll people. WAHA. Become an hero. Speedycat. Hell, people hardly remember Longcat, and certainly don't remember what it meant to us. Remember what we did to subeta for stealing it? Back on track: Candlejack. Everyone being gay for br

>>26160
/b/ is about as exclusive as the BK Club. And I find it funny when people would take rules 1 and 2 seriously, as if they don't know that it came from Fight Club.

>>25366
I miss 30 post image zooms on a single typo that ended up in space or some alternate reality

A master was always out and I was never rex enough for tech support.

habbo was my favorite moment here.

sorry i ruined 4chan, guys.

>>25366
Mods can help bring it back by actually banning shitposters there. It's hard with the massive amount of users nowadays, but it should still be done.

SovietRussia: more awesome than the entire 4chan admin team combined.

You are now realizing that if you've been here since before March 2008 you've been here for over half the life of 4chan

>>26138
I thought 5chan was created when moot shut down 4chan in 2004

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Oh exploitable

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>>26249
haha no

This thread being active shows me one thing, /q/ has no mods

YTMND was way more famous than 4chan till 05/06 atleast. In a way it was the 4chan of its time. I remember watching Azumanga Daioh because so many of the gifs I found there were hilarious.

>>26275
Why? This is perfect /q/ material

>>26206

Yeah, same here, but I started coming in 2007 when I had broadband installed at home.
I remember it being funny before, but not OMG SO AWESOME, just often. Now there's a lot of stupid threads on /b/ but once in a while you can get into a meaningful conversation or laugh (or rage).
Maybe when memes became mainstrem it took the "fun" out of the chan, but I'm not sure.
Beside, nostalgia always makes you think the past was better. I wonder if that shitty "50 GET" pic of 4chan from 2003 is true.

>>26291
There's no talk about how improving the current state of 4chan, just a lot of nostalgia.

You could say that this is about "getting things to be as they used to" to some extent, but that would mean that we would end with the exact same shit, wouldn't?

>>26293
It's not, the timestamp is from before 4chan was created, and moot also said it's not like a week ago in that Q&A.

this whole thread is full of reddit
>BACK IN 06 EVEN THO I REALLY STARTED POSTING A COUPLE A MONTHS AGO

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Fun fact: this thread is actually very much like the discussions in /b/ in 2004.

I discovered 4chan in 2005. 2005-2006 were probably the last golden years of /b/. Yes, there was a time when its userbase was less than 1/10 the size of /v/. It was like a club of nerdy friends, hanging out in a tree house, sharing inside jokes and porn magazines. Most people were taking tech classes in high school, or engineering/math classes in college. It truly was a kingdom of nerds. Sometimes, we would pretend to be stupid. But nobody was actually stupid.

At this time, 4chan was so obscure that I didn't' know anyone in real life who had went there. Then in one tech class, right after the Over 9000 video sparked its own meme, someone drew Vegeta on the whiteboard with a word bubble saying "It's over 9000!" Back then, nobody would rage if they saw a bit of 4chan in the real world; they were exasperated, and filled with joy knowing that someone out there also was part of that little haven.

My, how far this place has fallen.

>>26331
I assume you know that phrase about pretending to be idiots by now.

>>26331

Yep, I'd say the big difference is this:

Old (2003-2006) 4chan - Intelligent people pretending to be stupid.

New (2007-) 4chan - Stupid people pretending to be intelligent.

Anyone remember the 'leet hacker' threads on /b/ once all the ANONYMOUSSS shit was kicking off? It was embarassing, those kids had to help each other install ubuntu.

I don't think I can ever believe that the FBI are competent because it was pretty clear nobody on 4chan at it's 'edgiest' was even in the slightest threat to anybody.

I started regularly browsing 4chan (/v/) in 07. (I think I visited /b/ like twice in 05. It was too much for my innocent mind). Yeah, as others have said, it was way more mellow. Yeah, there were shitty arguments over pointless shit, and console wars, but /v/ generally got along well, bonded over beloved games/series, produced funny OC and memes, helped each other emulate/pirate, etc. But it seems like all of a sudden things went sour. Everything started to become about being more hardcore than anyone else, tripfags became progressively, intentionally shittier, people started to greentext, moralfags got up in arms about piratefags, console war faggotry escalated, a lack of new /v/ sourced OC, etc.

I started browsing other boards (mainly /sp/ and /mu/, but a few others) in late 08/early 09, but by summer 2010, I had officially dropped /v/ completely (thought that's also partially because a disaster led to all my games perishing).

Also, people tend to forget the beast that was "prove me wrong". ">implying" only exists because "prove me wrong" was wordfiltered. Ending your post with "prove me wrong" was the ultimate weapon in a troll's arsenal.

>>26351
Yeah, and I think there was a meme, or a small motto or something even back in 2006 or so describing /b/ as a place where intelligent people go to act like idiots.

>>26306
/q/ isn't necessarily improvement discussion, its just 4chan discussion.

>>26385
point taken

>>26138
This is actually how I found 4chan. I followed some trail of porn to 5chan, and kinda stumbled my way here from there.

>>26382
Yeah, sadly I came here later, and found that not only was /b/ bad, and only had a few good threads once in a while, but the other boards were going downhill, too. I still manage to have fun here, though.

>>26382
They way I learned it was '4chan is smart people pretending to be dumb, SA is dumb people pretending to be smart.'

Not so much anymore, I guess.

>>26370
>console war faggotry escalated

I dunno, I disagree with you about this. Everything else you said is true, but I'm pretty sure console wars were at their worst in 2007 and gradually disappeared over the next few years.

>>26466
Yeah, I thought 06-07 was the console faggotry bullshit that just made 4chan look stupid

I rarely see it mentioned, but do others recall a time where the color of your hat mattered on 4chan?

Blackhats, whitehats, grayhats, and the discussions between the three, as well as some instructions for the skiddies that would either help them or make matters worse for them.

It was how long those discussions lasted that made me start visiting to begin with, though I had left because of the porn (Was in the military, and CP + Beast was everywhere).

>>25339
>>25344

Thank goodness I'm not the only one that remembers that that was a fake.

>>25551

Do you remember the "This is red" one? I might have it archived somewhere.

>>25409
I am an active editor on that one. Great that somebody remembers that one. A true gem and goldmine. Much more detailed than ED will ever be.

This board is gold guys.

>>26501
>I rarely see it mentioned, but do others recall a time where the color of your hat mattered on 4chan?
>Blackhats, whitehats, grayhats

Nobody on 4chan was a hacker, it was all just wannabe kids.

Fuck off back to /b/

>>26466
My post was correct.

[spoiler]Prove me wrong.[/spoiler]

But seriously, I dunno man. It seemed like the "PS3 has no gaems", "Wii = waggle and shovelware", "360 = RROD" shit seemed to increase as time went on. Not to mention, "(insert company here) WON E3!!"

>>26533

There were. I was here for the discussions.

>>25892

I asked our Beloved Leader about the adoption of memes into the mainstream, and he said it was inevitable. Which doesn't make it less horrible ;__;
I think 9fag is the ultimate bastardization of memes. They're so unfunny it's painful and cringe-worthy.

>>26501
>"This is red"

Doesn't ring a bell.

>>26619

Two colors, one wasn't what it was defined as being (other was blue, I believe). You were supposed to adjust the color, rename it as .js and run it to upload it.

"This website is dirty, let's clean it up with soap", anyone remember that spam?

>>26644
Oh shit. I do.

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>>26644
This post brought to you by Dial Soap.

>>26597

Me too, the discussions were noobish at best. Nobody had any skills and if you quizzed them about actual security nobody had any idea about anything. Don't fool yourself, the 'Anonymous' group on Rizon etc. got owned to hard hell back in 2007

>>26676

Well, it was then that I had realized that I was a skiddie, and many of the discussions were over my head, and I had to learn what I was doing.

Fell out of it all, though.

>>26665
never thought i would smile seeing that

>>26721
Neither would I. We are around, just not on /b/ anymore. Anyone who is worth giving a shit about has left /b/. Thats reality. And I think rightfully so.

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>>26644
This post is dirty

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>>26747

I don't know if it is that everyone has left, or that the visits are infrequent. I've seen some that I have known have been around for awhile on /b/.

I've been coming here since 2003, but it wasn't until around 2005 that I stopped fapping to /h/ and looked at other boards.

My only complaint is while 4chan has become the ENTIRE backbone of internet meme culture, most of us never capitalized on the money that's being made.

I COULD'VE THOUGHT OF LOLCATS, GODDAMIT

FUCK

>>26765
Of course I was generalising things. There may be some that havent left. Sorry about that.

Since I'm not so much of an oldfag as I'd like to be, I have read a lot about the early days. Google is a very helpful friend, and through google I came across a very very interesting website that you might be interested it. I never bothered to share it with /b/ as they are just idiots who pretended to be oldfags after reading up (if at all), but I have the feeling that you are worth my knowledge.

One is shii's wiki. Some of you might know shii from 2004 or so, I don't know when he left 4chan. But he was one of the innovators of the anonymous-concept. Here's his personal wiki:
>http://shii.org/knows/Everything_Shii_Knows

Something else you might find important. When Snacks was fired, moot did it via IM. Snacks leaked the logs to a friend who released them as mootles himself stated in the latest Q&A thread. So they are authentic I suppose.
>http://ohinternet.com/Moot/IM_logs

I'm 25 and have been browsing 4chan since I was underage.

Anyone else starting to feel *really* old at this point?

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I miss old 4chan so much

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Op, I came in at the very end of 04 and then left/forgot about the site till like mid 05. That's around when I started using it more. There was danger that 4chan would die again and everyone started banding together to keep it alive. Moot was taking donations and it created this really great sense of community. People were taking requests in exchange for donations to 4chan. Even the camwhores got in on it. I remember seeing some people donate pretty outrageous amounts too. I think seeing all that was probably why I decided to stay at that point.

4chan was different a lot back then but it was also very much the same. Probably the biggest changes in 4chan culture came around 06 when raiding became more and more common. Not raiding how we think of it now either with loic and whatnot. They generally started off kind of benign. With posts like.

>This admin at this christian board posted this retarded post about some bullshit and he's banning everyone that posts anything disagreeing with him. I wasn't even mean or anything I just asked such and such and got banned.

Continued in next post, but with the flooding detection on this board, it will probably be a couple minutes.

pic related, my favorite '06 raid picture courtesy of another anon.

>>26227
You.

I like you.

I miss old memes, man, I haven't seen a happy negro in ages. I wish I still had a thumb sandwich too, but I already made both of mine.

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>>27081

Then it would take off like a normal board with a lot of "who cares" and "why are you browsing retarded websites anyways" until other anons would try it and be like "whoa I got banned too for nothing". Eventually it would pick up and it would become a pissing contest over who could get banned in the most outrageous way. The site would start getting tons of new registrations and all the posts by the new users would be completely retarded or offensive. The ones that weren't often times did it to sneak it up on them when their guard was down. Generally a raid ended with the site owner locking registration, banning tons of people, deleting/disabling whole boards or parts of their site, or doing other hilarious shit. Throughout the 06 time period though it became more and more common and people would up the game by doing sql injections and other shit to hack the site itself. At times users would use huge coordinated attacks planned days ahead of time to cripple the website. An example was the use of huge.png during the Subeta War when we all fought to defend the great glory of our sacred Longcat. When it hit the point nonstop raids every day and the use of DDOS started becoming widespread the mods decided to ban it all and /b/day happened.

>>26923

This guy's name is Andy Stubbings. It was basically a webcam at some guy's office desk that was viewable to all due to network admin incompetence. We would watch him daily. His hopes, dreams, etc.. also waha.

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Anybody remembers the get?

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>>26005
was the god hand craze really five years ago??

jesus christ I've been here for like seven years. I feel like I should be paying e-rent

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>>27084
Such a shame.

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4chan used to be nicer

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>>27084

I lost all of my 04-05 /b/ pictures in a hard drive failure so this is the closest thing I can give you.

>>27155
>>27217
Fuck, I love you guys. I think I still got all my old shit backed up somewhere... I should go through it one of these days and nostalgia hard.

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Not much is left of the old

>>25798
>3. But the /b/ image board is full of it!
>If you bother to read the rules, you'll see /b/ is meant to be nothing short of a retard bin for now. It will be changed within the week. The site has existed for only two days now guys, sorry if I can't put up forty boards at once.
https://www.4chan.org/news?all#6

Oh man.

I have a few from 2006, but I can't post the linksys support pranks D:

>>25156
4chan was great back then. Threads stayed for weeks. Even /b/ had threads that got an enormous amount of replies after the bump limit was reached but you could actually go to page 15. open a thread and have an active discussion for an hour or two before it got bumped off. People used existing threads instead of posting a new one when they had something to say. Even on goddamn /b/.

You could talk about a show on /a/ and say "time to hit the bus for school, I'll send you that link when I get home" and you found the thread on page 4, gave the guy the fucking link and then he'd reply the next day because fucking timezones messing with everyone.

The only thing I recall disliking with 4chan back in '03-'06 were the countless EVA threads on /a/ because they were always terrible, much like how the entire board is now. But hey, at least there was only one or two threads on a subject and people posted in those until they got bumped off.

I miss the slower pace, now everything zooms by so fast everyone has to be jacked up on cocaine to keep up with the front page.

>>27323
Thats why I like this board. Its very chilled with people who work constructively and know what they're talking about. This board is the greatest thing moot has done in quite a while.

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I have some stuff dated 03-04 but this is the oldest file I have with a 4chan filename. 7/23/2005

memories

>>27323
Eva all the time, because teh rei is the best. Then haruhi aired and VIRAL MARKETING, but even that was just a precursor to the moe-gar wars of 2007...

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Been browsing /b/ between 05 and 07. It was always shit. Pic very fucking related. Looking back on it I'm absolutely astounded I managed to spend almost two years there but I was a kid with too much free time so yeah.

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moot forever

Why can't I post pics??? It says Flood Detected all the time, regardless of the image.

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I came to 4chan in 2007, after the events at Virginia Tech institute. People were posting "Vtech just kicked in!" on youtube news reels (and maybe newspaper comment sites), so I googled that, ended up on Lurkmore, then ED, spent a ton of time looking through all that shit, found it hilarious as all fuck, and then ended up on /b/.

As I now understand it, this was /b/ pretty far along in becoming far worse than it used to be. There were demotivator threads everywhere. The dial soap posted above still makes me rage to this day, but I don't recall there being any rhyme or reason to it. I didn't really post a lot, just lurked and laughed.

A year later I graduated high school and went to college. I stopped going to /b/ late 2009. There wasn't anything there for me anymore. I started going to other boards, found out that they have a lot of good things to say about their respective topics. They still do, if you can filter the shit.

Now I'm two quarters short of a BS in Math. Where go from here? I don't know, but I certainly don't want to see another slide in quality like what happened in 2005/6, even though I wasn't there. I don't have to be, I can imagine. I don't think it will happen, however. As long as there are websites that are a lot more appealing to shitposters and memespammers, they won't end up here.

>>27443
You can, moot just added longer wait times in between posts here

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Alright...I will try that again.

I came here once in 2005 or 2006. First thing I saw was a loli thread and said "oh it's that kind of board" and didn't come back for a long time. Then sometime in 2007 I was vlogger on Youtube and a few of my viewers ask me if I was a /b/tard (by which I thought they meant am I a pedophile, because I thought 4chan was a pedo board), and I ended up checking out the site again out of curiosity.

So what can I say about pre-2007 4chan? loli.

>>27323
>page 15
Newfag spotted.

>>27574
/b/'s page total changed a lot, you should know that if you fling that insult around.

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>>27446
The thing that I realize about 4chan is that it's not really a secret club, but by God, is it a club.

It's a club of giant nerds. Fitness geeks who go to scientific journals for their sauce, cosplay perfectionists who make sure every single detail is perfect, artists far beyond that of your average deviantart kiddie (although some of the d/ic/ks do have DAs), anime and manga nerds who have already watched whatever it is you're talking about and have formed an opinion about it...

Or, at least, that's what I want it to be. By its anonymous posts-stand-on-their-own-virtue nature, it will attract enthusiasts and amateurs. 4chan shouldn't be entry-level discussion. We could, perhaps, be slightly more tolerant of those who want to go beyond that, but the level of discussion should be such that if someone lurks for 3 months, posts nothing, looks up things he or she does not understand, then they will break out of their entry level mold and become one of the enthusiasts as well.

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uh oh

>>27777
WHY IS THIS SO FAMILIAR

>>27708
>4chan shouldn't be entry-level discussion.

People should stop replying to recommendation threads on /a/ or tech support on /g/. But somehow people can't resist.

>>27904
Yep, it's a user problem. It takes two to tango, so anyone replying to what they consider shitposts are themselves shitposting.

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WHEN I WAS

>>27976
THE BEST spam ever

>>27940
I wouldn't call them shitposts and the posters definitely don't intend to be shit but it's something that will never end.

>>27904
>>27940
I always help people on /g/, well not always but to some extent i do...just as when people get in and ask for recommendation about linux diestros.

Yes, /g/ is not tech support i know, but i like to think that from doing that, maybe we will get more people interested on technology and will go deeper than just vidya gaems...kinda stupid, but is better than thinking "fuck those niggers shitting our board!"

>>27995
I agree here. I'd go that extra mile and always help a newfag out on any board. It can't do bad things.

>>27904

Recommendation threads on /a/ are fine, the problem comes when a board decides it has some kind of 'approved list' of recommendations, that's the real cancer because it creates a community with very insular tastes, just like /a/.

>>27995
But why would /g/ want more users new to technology when they can go to any other website. If anything we'd want more people already proficient.

>>28016
>It can't do bad things.

They will make threads instead of lurk. And not find solutions for themselves.

>>28060
This. What happened to "lurk moar"? I learned by reading, trying and not by asking.

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>>25647
>, I invented the phrase "/b/tard"

>trying to claim credit on an anonymous website

you just don't get what it's all about do you?

The early 4chan was full of smart people acting retarded.
The middle-aged 4chan was full of smart people being smart.
The late 4chan was full of retarded people acting smart.
And the future 4chan? Well, take a goddamn guess.

God, I always wanted to say that. This is just my personal observation though, because all theoe years I spent on 4chan kinda seem like three months at most. Time knows no mercy.

>>28051
That way of thinking works both ways, "why a proficient user would be on /g/ if there are more professional websites?"

It comes with the board, it isn't a secret club by no means and anyone can post there, add to that how popular is increment that with the explosion of popularity since 15 years ago with anything that has a screen and well...we gotta live with that.

>>28060
>>28076
I am not talking about educating people, but helping them, there's always people asking for a second opinion on their builds for example, and a lot of people interested in linux but never try it because of the lack of support and motivation or they just don't know were to begin.

Sure we could go further and be like old /jp/, just ignoring anything that is not exactly technology...but look what happened to them now.

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Could someone tell me what exactly lanced jack did? He seems to be some trolling god, but how exactly did he go about pissing people off?

>>28146
Just by being an avatar tripfag and acting extremely dumb. But /v/ way overreacted. Just him making 1 post would derail a thread in hatred.

>>28146
he annoyed people on /v/, that's all

probably it got bigger because a lot of people jumped on the hate wagon...you know, instead of not giving the tripfag attention, they did the exact opposite.

personally, i remember toxic jester and the tourist being way more of a pain in the ass than lanced jack

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>>28146
He was retarded. 'nuff said.

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>a long time ago, in a land far far away
>pic related
I have some more images from /g/ but I can't vouch their authenticity.

Surprise none of you Autists found this:
http://tanasinn.info/wiki/Complete_History_of_4chan

>>28224
I did. I just didnt mention it to make people lurk more. Its in my bookmarks for an eternity.

>>28224
>ytmnd
I can't believe it's still alive.

>>26275
>>26291
>>26306
>>26385


>/q/ is a place where the 4chan community can discuss the site amongst themselves and with moderators

>>28224
>that ugly browser
>those ugly fonts
>those random bookmarks instead of staple Facebook

Not sure where I'm going with this but it's nice.

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I wish my previous hard drives didn't crash. I might have stuff from 2003 even, though 2005 is the earliest I know absolutely I was on.

Sucks, this might be the earliest image I have.

>>28224
Superior - http://www.yswiki.org/wiki/The_Complete_History_of_4chan

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The day /co/ pierced the heavens.

>>28288
see
>>26415

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Does /b/ still have baww threads or is that distant past? Haven't been to /b/ in ages.

>>28293
I couldn't sign up for facebook I wasn't in college. Not like I'd want to anyways, it was for fags and still is.

>>28337
Every. Fucking. Day.

>>28337
It has motivation threads, baww threads and anti-baww threads (a little different from the first ones).
Cancer, fail and AIDS are rampant.

>>28320
I like that Yotsuba Society board/archive/wiki.

What do you guys even mean "not so great" back then. What do you mean by "great"? 4chan was never great, bad or better -- 4chan is just 4chan. It's a strange community, filled with people of varied interests and a culture of some kind for each board which changes gradually with the trends and its users.

>>28373
Sadly the site is in hibernation. The staff members are still available. Just that only about 10 give a damn about the chanverse.

If you want REALLY early history, go to http://world2ch.org

LOTS of interesting stuff from people who have been on 4chan since day zero.

>>28438
The ratio of users and shitposting has been out of control since a few years ago, that's all.

>>28146
>lanced
>candle

OH SHIT his trip was candlejac

>>28191
Why is that a facebook pic

>>28450
>>28320
Also this
http://wakaba.c3.cx/soc/

>>28532
cancer

>>28337
They were cancer in the distant past and they're horrible still.

Great thanks guys. Good to see that I'm not the only one who actually wants to lurk.

>>28438
I guess people tend to glorify the past days as something truly magnificent and forgetting that there's this thing called nostalgia.

But yeah the site is worse now.

>>25892
>OH JESUS CHRIST
>IT'S A LION
>GET IN THE FUCKING CAR
I saw lioncash the other day. It made my whole day oddly satisfying.

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>>28450

>There's something that I've been meaning to say for awhile and I hate to admit it: Moot flat out owned me. He owned the whole world2ch crew. Owned with a capital zero. That's all. A sixteen year-old brat changed the whole Internet and sped along w2ch towards its well-deserved early death. For instance, I suggested he choose a tripcode and he chose "faggot." Like I said, he fucking owned me. He's a clever little bastard or at least he was...

>Moot was incredibly civil and terribly mature about w2ch's dumbfuckery. He handled the very first drama with class and style (using "faggot", aside).


We love you, moot.

>>28693
Elaborate?

>>28753
http://world2ch.org/wiki/doku.php?id=moot

>>28532
Eh? I got it from one of the archives. After many hard disk failures I effectively lost 90% of my 4chan related images, so I searched the net for most of the lost data. I never had bacefook so I wouldn't know if the screencap was taken from it.

>April 1 - As an April Fools' Day prank, moot posts pictures of a man in a graduation uniform shortly after getting his diploma from Stanford University, and posts another picture of the man on April 4, this time showing him next to a statue in Mexico. moot claimed that the man in the photographs was him, and that his name was Robert Bopkins, and this was believed by most of 4chan for a long while until moot appeared in the flesh at the 2005 Otakon Panel, revealing himself to have a teenage-like un-nerdy appearance which surprised many /b/tards.

anyone have this pic?

>>28865
Hehe, that's actually in the very news posts of 4chan.

https://www.4chan.org/news?all

Scroll all the way down and you'll see pics of the alleged meximoot.

September 8, 2004

>Three new boards are added: /k/ (Weapons), /o/ (Auto), and /sm/ (Shota/Male). Jibaku (4chan mod) announces that /b/ is severely lacking in quality and asks users to contribute better.

proof /b/ was never good

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It's weird how /v/ seems so much worse now than it's ever been. It's always been a bastion of rage and hate, but it just seems like it's spiralled out of control lately. Like >>26466 suggested, the PSP vs DS wars in 05/06 were way worse and way more numerous than 3DS vs Vita threads are now, but the 3DS vs Vita threads bother me way more. Part of it is me just maturing and growing tired of shit flinging, but I do think the other part is that the current /v/ userbase has no finesse in their rage.
>>26140
It's funny how much the mentality has changed since then. There are so many posts now talking about how shitty Brawl plays compared to Melee, whereas posts enjoying Brawl seem rarer. The userbase changes, though. It makes me dread what might happen if Smash Wii U/3DS have Japan Time. They'll just be spammed to hell or told to go to /vg/, but man... Japan Time was /v/ at it's finest. The amount of comics and other hilarious OC it spawned was amazing. I'll never find the rest of these images.

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I secretly wish moot sees this thread and takes his time to talk about some good old trends from the old chan since he was here from day one. And talk about what memes got here from Something Awful. How SA influenced 4chan will forever be a mystery to me.

Like those DVD bonuses where the creators talk about interesting bits of trivia and shit.

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I've been on /a/ since 2005 and let me show you a very distinct change in /a/.

In 2005, there was a very popular CG image from "December Where There are no Angels" that was frequently posted along with the text "What's it like to hold a girl? ;_;" (Pic related)

Fast forward to 2010 and now everyone is posting pictures of Adachi and saying bitches and whores.

Also, a very vocal minority hates "moeshit" which makes no sense.

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>>29082
Wait, I thought it was the other way around. Or was that /v/?

>>29082
Man I've forgotten about that. I never went on /a/ much but it leaked through to the other boards fairly frequently. Of course now that's the type of thing on /v/ half the time.

It's always really weird when you see a meme you forgot and it brings back memories. I was never big into meme culture, so most old ones I've pretty well forgotten except /v/'s Ondore and the series of zooming in screenshots they'd do when someone made a typo.

>>28254
http://chickfila.ytmnd.com/
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1)Boards kept on topic and were meme free.
2)/b/ had actual discussion of shit sometimes, mostly stuff that didn't fit into other boards.

That's my memory of 2005 at least. Somewhere around early 2007 4chan became known as some super secret clubhouse where all da epic memes and raids originated, so people started flooding in. /b/ became endless spam to create new memes/raids and it quickly spilled over into all the other boards. You look at /v/ or /x/ now and it's almost painful how much shitposting/trolling/memes have taken over.

Oh and OP, just so you know advice dog was always shitty cancer. It was pretty much the turning point when memes stopped being occasional references or something that was joked about and then forgotten and started being a simplified, mass produced, and overused pile of unfunny.

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I'll admit I came on 4chan in late 2008/early 2009. From that time period, I was on /b/ and I saw a lot of "lurk moar"(which needs to be posted more today). The quality was pretty shit though. I probably posted once in that time period because I was afraid of looking retarded. I took a break until very late 2010. The quality at that time was fucking atrocious, so I moved onto /fit/ and /o/. Both boards, while slow, provided quality content that I enjoyed, so I stayed on them for a year. Late 2011 was kind of boring to me (Specifically after Mr. Olympia 2011 where Phil Heath became huge), so I moved onto /r9k/ and /diy/ when they were created. I absolutely loved /diy/, and I couldn't form a proper opinion on /r9k/. It's probably has the most polarizing effect of any board considering the misogyny being rampant, but there was a great deal of quality I found. My home right now is /v/, and it's complete shit. I don't know where to broswe, but that's my two cents on it. I know I didn't come from the early days, but I wanted to at least contribute to the thread.

>>29260

Yeah, I guess that was the breaking point.

Do you remember memegenerator? I was there when the site was first made, in like 2009, I think, and only had the likes of Advice Dog, Courage Wolf and Depression Dog. At the time, since I was a newfag, I thought the idea of such a site was pretty ballin, but after I had a good ammount time to see how the site grew, and grew, it was starting to feel... off and commercialized, obviously.

As moot said, memes becoming mainstream was inevitable. 2008 obviously attracted the majority of 4chan's current userbase due to its notoriety(chanology, raids, memes)and now it's bigger than ever, and is now a household name.

Just saying how it's some amazing evolution going on here. However, I don't think 4chan growing is a bad thing at all. It's a very natural part of any site and we should simply find other ways of staying relevant, influential and epic(that word is so cheesy and overused, but it fits this context) while still maintaining that alternative, game-changing quality content that made 4chan so compelling in the first place. And I know we shall.

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All I know is after eight years, I couldn't leave this site if I wanted to. It has a control over me.

Am I the only one who is butthurt by the misinterpretation of the concept of memes by 4chan?

Memes are about idea, thoughts and concept whose survival can be compared to organisms, not about image macros and in-jokes.

Advice dog is not a meme. Reporting does nothing is.

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How did the very first users of 4chan get here? Were they personal friends of moot?

>>29545
Mostly Something Awful posters. Other 4chan users got there gradually by word of mouth or, later on, from YTMND.

>>29545
He posted it on SA