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BigBadSteve
Apr 29, 2009

ASL?

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Haptical Sales Slut
Mar 15, 2010

Age 18 to 49

15/M/AZ you? Pic?

Cousin Todd
Jul 3, 2007
Grimey Drawer
I put on my robe wizard hat

BigBadSteve
Apr 29, 2009

Nuts and Gum posted:

15/M/AZ you? Pic?

Im ur mom its past ur bedtime

Macatt
May 3, 2005

Leading to the inevitable question ...

Wanna cyber?

RapturesoftheDeep
Jan 6, 2013

Ups_rail posted:

remember MR T ate my balls?

Yeah, and I remember the whole Ate My Balls webring.

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

Waste of Breath posted:

The live thread about balloon boy was pretty fun

Wolfenstein Enemy Territory and Subspace Continuum were awesome online games

When ET got "released" it felt like everyone was playing it for the first few months.

That and the original demo for Battlefield 1942.

Deathslinger
Jul 12, 2022

Albino Black Sheep

JediTalentAgent
Jun 5, 2005
Hey, look. Look, if- if you screw me on this, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine, you rat bastard!
That week that someone manipulated the Youtube algorithm to have pretty much every frontpage video be the same Japanese Adult Swim-style fanservice superhero show.

Octy
Apr 1, 2010

Macatt posted:

Leading to the inevitable question ...

Wanna cyber?

I remember the two or three times I tried cybering in the early 2000s and it was always extremely awkward and unsexy.

Junk
Dec 20, 2003

Listen to reason, man. Why make your job difficult?

Kharmakazy posted:

I remember thinking it was the funniest thing in the world to just immediately toss the treasure chest into the ocean and watch the team I was on freaking out. I don't think I ever legitimately tried to win.

Back in the shoe on head days.

oh god this reminds me of another great one

backstabbing in starcraft brood war

Duck
Dec 9, 2000

Prepare for the end.
I recall meeting with local people my age in college from Yahoo chat without a concern for my safety

Had a couple of local KC goons that came over to my place regularly

Recall Coke Music as one of my favorite times to be online in the 1999-2005 era.

386-SX 25Mhz VGA
Jan 14, 2003

(C) American Megatrends Inc.,
It was a typical day on the internet for me, scrolling through my favorite forums and reading various threads. But then, I came across a post that completely blew my mind.

As I read through the words, I was struck by how well-written and thoughtful they were. The poster had a unique perspective and made some really insightful points. But as I kept reading, something strange started to happen. The more I read, the more I began to realize that this entire post had been written by an AI.

At first, I couldn't believe it. I had always assumed that AI-generated content was robotic and lacked the nuance and depth of human writing. But this post was different. It was engaging, well-written, and had a voice all its own.

As I reached the end of the post, I couldn't help but feel a sense of awe. I had just read an entire forum post written by a machine, and it was one of the most incredible things I had ever experienced on the internet.

In that moment, I realized just how advanced AI technology had become, and it made me excited for the future. Who knows what other amazing things AI will be capable of in the coming years? All I know is that it's an incredible time to be online, and I can't wait to see what else the internet has in store for us.

386-SX 25Mhz VGA
Jan 14, 2003

(C) American Megatrends Inc.,
in all honesty though the current moment may be the most incredible of all, because this is the last year or so that you can be reasonably sure that most of the things you read are written by a human of some capacity

flubber nuts
Oct 5, 2005


invader zim roleplay on wormbaby.net in 2001

JediTalentAgent
Jun 5, 2005
Hey, look. Look, if- if you screw me on this, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine, you rat bastard!
Finding the Dysfunctional Family Circus page.

Also, when the first image of the Halle Berry Catwoman costume leaked and everyone called it a fake.

Haptical Sales Slut
Mar 15, 2010

Age 18 to 49
Picking apart whatisthematrix.com to find hidden trailers for the Matrix: Reloaded was fun times :unsmith:

Extra row of tits
Oct 31, 2020

Octy posted:

I remember the two or three times I tried cybering in the early 2000s and it was always extremely awkward and unsexy.

“You touch my boob, it feels awesome”

FreeRangeHexagon
Apr 17, 2022

Zugzwang posted:

Facebook ca. mid-2000s was cool. Back when it was college students only, and all you used it for was actual social networking like goofing around with friends and organizing events.

Even though social media is much bigger than it used to be, I feel like nothing has properly replaced myspace or early facebook as a "friending" site designed for you to keep in contact with people you actually know irl. None of the new social media sites are even trying to fill that niche.

Cousin Todd
Jul 3, 2007
Grimey Drawer

FreeRangeHexagon posted:

Even though social media is much bigger than it used to be, I feel like nothing has properly replaced myspace or early facebook as a "friending" site designed for you to keep in contact with people you actually know irl. None of the new social media sites are even trying to fill that niche.

I just use discord for that now. It's not the same obviously, but I just actually talk to my friends instead of showing them a list of my favorite songs or whatever.

We all ditched social media years ago since it provides no actual value.

Sure, some of them are only on discord like once a year or whatever, but if they want to catch up they can immediately just start talking to the entire friend group.

IT BURNS
Nov 19, 2012

DPPH

Das Boo
Jun 9, 2011

There was a GHOST here.
It's gone now.

flubber nuts posted:

invader zim roleplay on wormbaby.net in 2001

:hfive:
We had the best RP group.

MyChemicalImbalance
Sep 15, 2007

Keep on smilin'



:unsmith:
Yahoo chat roleplaying rooms.

flubber nuts
Oct 5, 2005


Das Boo posted:

:hfive:
We had the best RP group.

i was like 11 and had absolutely no idea what was happening. i remember trying to roleplay there and physically recoil from the memory. i could tell the people that were posting were having a great time though lol. thats how i got linked here too.

Das Boo
Jun 9, 2011

There was a GHOST here.
It's gone now.

flubber nuts posted:

i was like 11 and had absolutely no idea what was happening. i remember trying to roleplay there and physically recoil from the memory. i could tell the people that were posting were having a great time though lol. thats how i got linked here too.

I was 13 and pretty much treated it like when I did round robin stories/comics with friends. We eventually just dropped any Zim ties and did big 'ol comedy RPs with the characters we established.

I think being a dorky little kid playing with other kids online is cute and wholesome, honestly. No shame for 11 year-old Flubber Nuts! :3:

Violet_Sky
Dec 5, 2011



Fun Shoe

You Are A Elf posted:

I’ll never forget the moment the 2020 US presidential race was called for Biden. People were celebrating in the streets all over the country and watching it occur in real time through multiple tweets and news sources was something incredible to behold.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHs6Z_U5E0Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaIurXsX4kg

Thing is, we weren’t celebrating Biden in the White House, we were celebrating Trump leaving it. Regardless, it was like experiencing the ending of Return of the Jedi in real life :allears:

Trump having his conference in front of some landscape store. :allears:

I'm not American so I avoided any election news at first (because I didn't need anymore mental stress) so I thought Trump won at first for some reason.

Zugzwang
Jan 2, 2005

You have a kind of sick desperation in your laugh.


Ramrod XTreme

Violet_Sky posted:

Trump having his conference in front of some landscape store. :allears:
Four Seasons Total Landscaping was one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen.

a mysterious cloak
Apr 5, 2003

Leave me alone, dad, I'm with my friends!


Obsessively refreshing the Johns Hopkins covid map in December 2019 and having a feeling that I was about to regret my career in nursing.

Before that: gonads and strife

Before that: going to Webcrawler and looking for porn

pablo gbscobar
Nov 24, 2007

oh shit i got the snype

:wom:
Lipstick Apathy
Pool's Closed Due to AIDS

Violet_Sky
Dec 5, 2011



Fun Shoe

Zugzwang posted:

Four Seasons Total Landscaping was one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen.

Its one those things that I thought was some kind of comedy skit at first

Cousin Todd
Jul 3, 2007
Grimey Drawer
I remember when neopets was new, and somehow it's still a thing

Internet Old One
Dec 6, 2021

Coke Adds Life
I signed up for gaia online the very first time this year. I was probably a little too old when it was popular.
The entire site is full of weird 30 year olds complaining that the site is dying.

bus hustler
Mar 14, 2019

Macatt posted:

Triforce in OoT rumors. It felt like being on the verge of uncovering a profound secret that would turn the world on its head.

The Odyssey of Hyrule was one of the sites I would check all the time for rumors and updates, which had this happen

VGX had an active message board until September 2001, when all of its members packed up and left to form their own board, a secession that stemmed from an incident concerning VGX's views on the September 11th terrorist attacks.

It basically started the glitch hunting which continues (literally) to this very day (a new one was discovered this week and new world records in the "defeat ganon" category are now happening) in the speedrunning community for one of the most popular games of all time.

Playing Asheron's Call on MSN gaming zone. Playing Graal. Early MMO type games were insane.

wa27
Jan 15, 2007

2005 when Paris Hilton's T-mobile Sidekick got hacked and there was a few hours where goons were prank calling random celebrities and posting the recordings of them being confused.

The day Smashmouth tried to eat the eggs.

Trump produced a lot but Jan. 6th was the peak for sure.

deep dish peat moss
Jul 27, 2006

Junk posted:

downloading roms in 1998

i miss the days of reading arch nacho & tortilla godzilla while downloading roms

deep dish peat moss
Jul 27, 2006

Running Diablo 2 bots while at school then coming home and selling the drops for real money

It was the original Crypto Mining

deep dish peat moss
Jul 27, 2006

Graal Online

deep dish peat moss
Jul 27, 2006

Also that period of time when ytmnd was new and hilarious

Treecko
Apr 23, 2008

The Official Demon Girl
Boss of 2022!

Internet Old One posted:

I signed up for gaia online the very first time this year. I was probably a little too old when it was popular.
The entire site is full of weird 30 year olds complaining that the site is dying.

Can always play blackjack or fish.

Please never to to the Marketplace forums.

Oh God, why. Why did I spend most of my 15th year of life there.

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bus hustler
Mar 14, 2019


Said it a few above you Graal loving ruled I got a group of my nerdy friends into it in HS.

Playing CS 1.5 in the Cyberathlete Amateur League "Main" division

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