The early 2000s were a trippy/weird time that was like the last breath of the 20th century, and had a mysterious/cool feel that 2004-2009 just didn't have as much.
People often said "The 90s ended in 2004", since 2004 had a lot of changes that screamed "the 00s culture is here" and the late 90s influences were fully dead:
>Nick and Cartoon Network cancelled all the 90s shows >The re election of Bush >Approval ratings of Iraq began to dip >Movies like Team America began to come out that were disillusioned with the American Dream >People began to get over 9/11 and the "Bush is stupid" schtick began >The Rock retired and WWE begun transitioning to Cena and Batista >Emo overtaking nu metal >Crunk rap overtaking glam rap >Myspace getting popular >Web 2.0 coined >Friends finale >Laguna Beach started >Release of Nintendo DS >Broadband overtook dial up for the first time >Eminem fell off with Encore >Green Day changed their sound with American Idiot >Last full year of 6th gen gaming, before 360 came out next year >iPod became popular >TechTV murdered by G4
>before the internet seeped into every last crevasse of your life.
I graduated highschool in 2004. Sometimes I wax utter disbelief at how categorically different the world of 2004 is from the world of 2019.
James Foster
Fuck off zoomie. Sound like me a decade ago about the early ninties and how it was like the eighties. It's funny how nostalgia seems to be one of the most constant things
Ethan Diaz
If I could turn back time...
Evan Morales
>People began to get over 9/11 This has to be a joke. It’s been 18 years and Americans still can’t let it be history.
Jonathan Jenkins
>People born in 1992 are zoomers >Eventually everyone who was young once and has nostalgia for a time period will be met with “ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM”, by 16 year olds compensating for their smol dickies Yeah, sounds about right.
Colton Hughes
>2004-2009 just didn't have as much the good times ended in 2007
I never realized that I basically became aware of pop culture right around this time. I did have a little bit of exposure to early 2000s stuff. Mfw zoomer
This is all relative because now Zoomers post childhood nostalgia for the LATE 00s-Early 10s on social media and say 2007 was the best year ever, even though older people considered that the downfall into shit era at the time.
Well people have been complaining about Yea Forums's decline since 2007 with chanology and the exploding van. That being said it's kind of a continuous "just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, it did" situation on this site.
The era around the 2016 election was considered cancer yet it somehow got even worse in the 2018-2019 era with endless wojaks and "based/cringe" being used a lot more as sort of a "downvote".
You do realise that america online resulted in literally millions upon millions of internet users gaining access in like, 1993. Right? Most normies just use various social media sites and google now anyway. Probably think that's the entire internet...
Michael Hall
2000s as a whole was weird in general. Full of non-standard tech. Remember Blu-ray vs HD DVD? And in the end Streaming won.
Xavier Johnson
Yea Forums is dead as far as I'm concerned. It can't even keep up with It's own memes anymore.
Never see tits of gtfo being followed anymore Never see incest threads taken over by spiderman anymore And the white knights has become the majority
Easton Walker
>Most normies just use various social media sites and google now anyway. Probably think that's the entire internet... But now even this site has become homogenized to feel the same as Facebook or Reddit
Kevin Rivera
because of the mass reddit migration in the early 2010s, and at this point we have actual females showing up to unironically spew SJW shit
Owen Mitchell
Don't see how you can be bitter about the passing of time. No shit the zoomers are going to grow up and start using the internet. You did the same thing.
Owen Young
The internet is shrinking, and social media is growing. Most websites from the AOL era are completely gone now.
Brayden Evans
I'm pitiful than Zoomers are nostalgic for metaphorical shit stuck in a rotten toilet and missed out on everything good
Jace Allen
God all those old memes were so cringey Le Longcat is Long XD Uhh...DUCKROLL!!! DO U LEIK MUDKIPZ!!! BOXXXXXYY IS QUEEN!!! So fucking gay. This place is unironically funnier now that the memes are low effort and the racism has been turned up to 11
Elijah Taylor
>tfw born 1991 A-am I dead?
Samuel Nguyen
Cringe post.
Xavier Edwards
>zoomer hating historic memes Oof
Logan Ortiz
>graduated HS in 2004 Imagine still browsing Yea Forums at your age TOP KEK
Anthony Jones
Zoomer
Henry Perry
Not to sound spooky but I've seen several threads on x and pol talking about some sort of timeline shift in 2007.
Becoming politically motivated, no longer enjoying movies or vidya like you used to.
Like some sort of millennial 'coming of age'
Brody Foster
So many people have nostalgia for the old days but don't post pictures from the old days or act like this is the old days. Why? If you want things to be how they be just act like they be like that.
Christopher Edwards
If I was a zoomer how would I know some of those shitty memes off the cuff? Cope harder you cringey faggot. That shit was funny when I was a 16 year old.
Because you faggots trawl ED for your batch of simply eric memes to spew out, then write articles about how ED is a good boy that dindu nuffin', and isn't a cancer on par with KYM.
Cooper Parker
Word dude, keep glorifying all those extremely cringey memes I'm sure you are the 40 year old calling people 25+ zoomers in this thread. Very embarassing, at a certain point you aren't a cool gatekeeper anymore and are just a pathetic old man stuck on a site with people half your age.
Joseph Foster
>ED You think an 18-22 year old even knows what that is? You are overestimating zoomers to try to make a point about lame memes that have absolutely not stood up to the test of time.
Jayden Wilson
I really miss the period between 1997 and 2003. It was by no definition a perfect time, but I feel like there was more to enjoy than now.
Jose Morgan
NFS HP2
Luis Martin
Was this the last good song?
Wyatt Edwards
Oof
Camden Smith
I’m an actual female and I hate sjw shit. I don’t like Spider-Man incest stuff though, I want him to be gay because women are gross.
Dylan Parker
2004 was a Kino year
Nathan Bailey
classic mistake, those memes aren't cringe, the real cringe is that the internet overtook real life so much that you take memes seriously now instead of just viewing it as inherently nerd bullshit to begin with back then. in 2005 everybody knew memes were retarded, that was the point, in fact now they have become less ironic and more motive-driven despite this supposedly being the age of le ironic detachment.
the real cringe... is society
*rises up*
Samuel Edwards
If I could find a way
Aaron Long
How about dying with a friend?
Hunter Ross
I remember a post some user did on here about why 90s fashion/culture was so weird. Its because the 90s was the last decade of white youth culture, the weird fashion and music was its death rattle. From the 00s on this rap meme and wiggershit got catapulted to the mainstream, no one likes it. Hell, zoomers got cucked so hard that they got brainwashed into liking it but can never sing along for fear of being called a racist lol. Theres no more white punk music, its all low effort R&B by losers.
1991 best year to be born. All the 90s millenial cartoons before nick and cn got pozzed. Pre 9-11. 2000s music. Ended high school right when the smartphone started taking off. Mw2, halo, ps2, mgs...
Dominic Edwards
I swear that girl at 8 seconds is in every GGW commercial
Thomas Gomez
We grew up. It's as simple as that.
Ayden Walker
>white youth culture I have no fucking clue what white teenagers are into these days.
Every single piece of music I hear played from a public speaker is either some dopey love song, a nigger moaning to trap beats, or a hipster singing something about paranoia.
Adam Howard
>between 1997 and 2003 I would say 1993 to 2001. It was the era of peak optimism.
The Soviet Union had fallen, terrorism was a remote problem, there were no threats to the West, the ozone layer hole problem was quickly fixed by swift action from governments, democracy ruled in most of the world and books were written about how mankind had reached "the end of history", while technology offered the promise of an even better tomorrow.
Everything seemed to be going well. Even SJWs were fringe groups, considered a joke and openly mocked on TV.
Fuck all people that are nostalgic for a certain decade. Life was great from the 50’s up until early 2010’s. It’s all downhill from 2014. Now we are controlled by ultra-leftists, ugly spiteful feminists and angry vengeful colored people and it’s gonna get even worse. Just look at Great Britain it’s closer to becoming 1984 by George Orwell every year.
Zachary Garcia
Do you really not get that "based/cringe" is tongue in cheek?
Lincoln Sanchez
Makes me feel better. Thanks lover.
William Morales
American Idiot was a great album though, everyone liked it
Jason Campbell
>simple conversation starter about how the previous decade’s attitudes and norms were constantly changing >turns into “FUCK YOU, UR OLD!” and “FUCK YOU, UR YOUNG!” Never take off them rose-tinted monocles, Yea Forums. These threads get me every time.
David Bailey
>1984 by George Orwell >namedropping some gay book no one has ever heard of
Adam Cook
> >up until early 2010s Shut the fuck zoomer
Zachary White
zoomers love suicidal face-tatted junkies like XXXTentacion and Lil Peep. Post Malone was almost there but all he does is drink booze. Mumbly niggers on trap beats is a big one, Tekashi, some mexican, was big for a while. Honestly its all garbage, I have some respect for post malone because his backstory is like something a kid would think up. >master guitar hero >love music >make mixtape on soundcloud >need rap name >put own name in a rap name generator and run with it >hit it big
I don't know. I don't know why the guy keeps posting this image it's not that iconic either the band or the song. It's not as unquestionable as Papa Roach for the 90s there has to be some other band that works better as the embodiment of the era.
Joshua Sanders
People here using the same old "every generation thinks the next one will be the downfall" really aren't getting it. The 2000s saw a massive shift. The iphones, the rampant propaganda, online games taken to mainstream, and most importantly social media sites. 2008 is the year where it became obvious things were taking a turn.The Financial Crisis started. Remember how the world viewed America? Remember Greece and its debts? Remember Gadaffi? Things changed forever during that period. The early/mid 2000s were truly the last period where things were somewhat normal. >inb4 degeneracy in media always existed Yes, but not to this point. This is their endgame. It's their culmination of everything. >inb4 empires collapsed and rose They did because of incompetence and inabillity to control their subjects and territories. Now technology has advanced so far that they can wallow in their filth and still govern perfectly. - This is the defining moment, and the 2000s were important. Loking back on them fondly is normal. You should all be afraid of what's coming.
In my opinion the 2000's started with frosted tips and ended with music that had stomping and clapping
Jose Hughes
Zoomer faggot. 2006-2013 was already connected and Web 2.0 and didn't feel mysterious anymore
Cooper Nelson
>2004 >7th grade >friend comes over to spend the night on a Friday night >rent Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 from Blockbuster >get introduced to this song >drink Dr. Pepper and chat with Catholic school sluts on AIM >watch softcore porn on HBO Zone ch 306
good fuckin times, man
Joseph Cox
I was a bit too young to really remember how that was but video games went to shit during the last stage of the xbox 360 generation desu.
Robert Ward
You missed out on all the good stuff zoomer
Robert Flores
>mfw this is their most famous song and it's a cover
>The early/mid 2000s were truly the last period where things were somewhat normal. Nigger, 9/11 was the exact changing point. >happy go lucky 90s >no war, no major enemy >future looks bright >fun movies, hobbies and subcultures >9/11 happens >thrown into needless war >civil unrest surrounding whether 9/11 was an inside job as well as cost of war >no exit strategy >mass media and social media reflect this >tensions high I think you're right though, around 2008 was when we started heading into clown world with people getting depressed and letting silly shit take hold.
Ayden Lewis
Blu-ray was fucking retarded. It was like joining Rhapsody instead of iTunes.
Thomas Lewis
Zoomers were age 9-16 then. Besides that ad hominem, its undeniable that 06-13 was the peak of mob rule on the internet, where the anonymous masses were able to achieve the maximum cultural impact with the minimum amount of IRL social credibility. Effectively, whatever the hivemind wanted the hivemind got, and TPTB were taken along for the ride just like everyone else. If Yea Forums's 2 golden eras hold no special significance to you then what brings you here in the first place?
Leo Stewart
big, easy to read manual. it was the first computer experience for many people so they made a big effort to make tutorials and teach people how to use it.
now, the average consumer is not expected to learn anything with Windows. the install is retardedly automatic, and if you have a problem, just bing it.
9/11 was the beginning, but it gave birth to the "MURICA FUCK YEAH" sentiment which spread over media and fiction of the era. L O S T started airing in 2004. Things changed in 2001, but the nail in the coffin came in 2008. That was the true beginning of the end.
Carter Diaz
Dude I'm 25 now, its just that I don't remember much from my elementary school days aside from yugioh cards and playing pokemon on my gameboy advance.
Jordan Ortiz
Wait until you find out about the eternal September
Juan Clark
Imagine reminiscing on shitty tunes like Sum 41 lmao
Luis Nguyen
I don't hate it, I just hate people who act like those dumb memes were so much better than the irony memes we have today which are legitimately funnier. That's why nobody posts shit similar to memes from 2006, they have not aged well.
Ryder Walker
>the 2000s ended 23 years before it started No wonder people struggle to defend that shit decade. youtube.com/watch?v=-tJYN-eG1zk
Hunter Martin
see you in a decade, you little prick
Chase Jackson
Things went to shit in the 10's when industrialization caused extreme consumerism. The 60's and 70's had hope for genuine change in society, but then it came back in full force in the 80's and has been ever since
Jayden Martin
>in the 10's when industrialization caused extreme consumerism I believe you are confusing the fucking centuries here
Like two years ago I posted an EFG thread here where I did the whole “are you ready? Here we go thing” and declared that I was gonna get dubs and then actually got trips. It was genuinely a devine miracle of god and everyone loved it. People were saying how it felt like old Yea Forums and blessing EFG. Legit my best moment on this site.
Ian King
calm down bud
Juan Sanchez
ONLY NINETIES KIDS REMEMBER SHAKESPEARE!!!
Evan Young
Sum 41 went from happy to depressed after 9/11. Early 2000's was the greatest time in human history.
Yea Forums uneducated retards won't even know what you're referring to.
Chase Martin
the good times ended with the birth of Yea Forums.
prove me wrong, you can't.
Matthew Barnes
>implying that if you lived in 1913 you wouldn't save the archduke and convince the world to team up against the Serbian menace
Samuel Wilson
A lot of the old software came on bundles of floppy discs. The tree hating boxes stuck for a while even after cd's became the norm but they still had a lot of other stuff in them. Manuals especially were far more relevant to everything than they are now, and they were usually pretty hefty tomes on their own.
Ryan Turner
According to oldfags the golden age of Yea Forums was 2004-2006 and 2006-2013 ruined it due to the chanology influx
Connor Fisher
Maybe things will get good again and this is just a phase.
Asher Perez
>1913 PROTIP: 80% of the population was poorer than today's poor. Chances are that if you were born at that time, you are not gonna end up as the heir of the Guggeinheim family but as some poor farmer trying to make a living in the Dustbowl.
Enjoy your poverty, working in a field, trenchfoot, polio, etc.
I'd suggest you talk to your grandparents to see how it was like but then I realized you are probably some faggot zoomer with boomer grandparents who has no idea what he is talking about.
wonder if people who start browsing Yea Forums nowadays find themselves pining for "the good old days" that they missed out on
i started browsing here as early as 2009 and i remember that feeling of wishing i had an been an oldfag because the idea of oldfags/newfags was so ubiquitous, i can't imagine someone who started browsing in say, 2015, would have had a similar experience
Grayson Campbell
>terrorism was a remote problem >Everything seemed to be going well.
I used to bang this one that got thrown out of her house for making out with her sister when they were rolling on ex. she lived at my place for a year, I truly degraded her. the kinkiest thing I had her do, was some 50's housewife shit. cooking, cleaning, bringing me my slippers and paper. I think telling her to make me a martini is what broke her.
she had these rivers of tears pouring down her face. muh dick was DIAMONDS.
Cameron Sanchez
Make it a double.
Jose Perez
Is it really so surprising the zoomers and the nu-zoomers are reminiscing about the pop culture of their own youth? Every generation does that.
The point is you remember the culture that you grew up during as the 'good stuff' and the stuff that comes after as crap. There's something special about growing up, every piece of culture seems special and significant later, even if it's merely a derivative vestige of a better, more essential work.
There's that image of the book written in the 70s by some ancient boomer. The title is something like "Everything created After 1970 SUCKS!" It gets posted here sometimes but I can't remember wtf its called. Some user help me out, so I'm not >that 27 year old boomer who rambles about old Yea Forums posts. Please.
she was a blubbering mess, complete with snot and slobber rolling down her face, body wracked with sobs.
I did say, "don't make me tell you twice little lady, if you know what's good for you". then swatted her ass. she went back to her parents, and begged them to take her back. her father was all pissed because I was fucking his slut daughter, and somehow got her to follow orders for a year. controlling her was so satisfying on a primal level.
this is when the iPhone 3g came out, and I had video of her sucking my cock. I kept playing the videos with sound as she moved out. I know her father heard it, because she was moaning and calling me daddy.
she honestly wasnt too good in bed till about month 8. then she got the hip gyration down and would grind nonstop.
Jordan Cooper
new thing is brown faggots and shitty video games. Stop pretending certain old things weren't superior.
Robert Martin
God damn the boxxy shit was so fucking retarded. Like literally at least half of all the threads on Yea Forums were about that stupid cunt at any given time. The only good thing to come out of it is that she turned into a fat ugly liberal LOL
Asher Rodriguez
the other half were anontalk spam
Nicholas Johnson
>>Release of Nintendo DS wat, the DS came out in 2002
Anthony Young
And people in these threads pretend like things were soo much better and then call me a newfag when I say otherwise
Luis Torres
Actually, very late 04 for Americans, early 05 for the rest of the world. Even then, I associate the console with the more sterilised look of the lite model from 06.
Angel Perry
>People often said "The 90s ended in 2004"
Absolutely no one says this and you keep posting this dumb fuck cringe thread every single day and it generates zero lulz every single time. You're clearly some fucking 30-something janny since this off topic thread is spammed every day and allowed to fester. We get it you're sad because you're old and fat and all your former friends are married with kids and 6 digit careers while you still live in an apartment and struggle to make 40k a year.
Clean your fucking life up and stop living in the past you ginormous faggot.
Evan Phillips
lfmao have sex buttblasted zoomer
Nathan Campbell
early 00s were amazing. busted so many teenage nuts to britney spears/christina/avril etc
Brandon Edwards
we filtered it out. it was always something popping then.
Juan Walker
Only thing worth missing from back then were raids. That's it.
Carter Clark
those were fun as fuck.
Ian Lee
>It was the era of peak optimism. Can confirm. That's why they had to detonate those two shit buildings on TV. Scared everyone into acting like we were under attack, and no one has felt good about it since.
Dominic Johnson
Boxxy was in 2009. Yea Forums was already dead by then due to the Gaiafag cancer. In fact, Boxxy was originally a Gaia meme.
When people talk about the good days of Yea Forums they mean 2004-2006 not that cancerous shit.
no one is talking about "kids these days" they're talking about what life was like back in the 2000s
maybe if your brain wasn't fried from websites with tripple digit character counts you would have the reading comprehension to recognise this
Jose Davis
'05fag here
boxxy is when i started to think Yea Forums was going to shit.
ill never forget Yea Forumsday though. i remember on that day i went for a bike ride taken aback by it, contemplating the future of my online refuge.
i dont think ive been to Yea Forums since 2014 now aside from a minute browse every 8 months
Nathan Hall
This. I told y'all dawgs to listen. This is what happens when the outside nigger be outnumbering the inside nigger and the outside nigger become the inside nigger, y'all understand? Folks ain't all the same and y'all can't just switchem in and out. Assimilation don't work yo. If it did, y'all dark skin niggers be wearing the shirt and tie with a 9-5 like the white man. Not wearing dem orange jumpsuits with a 25-life like the stereotype that y'all live up to says. Check it, dawgs, Reddit destroying Yea Forums(nel) is no different to the mass (((refugee))) immigration. People aren't interchangeable and because they aren't you can't implant a whole different breed of one persons where a different persons already exists and just expect them to live exactly like the people already there with the same values and culture, it's one of the big pitfalls of Communism - that's why they try to reinvent what values are, what culture is, what religion is or is not etc.
Jeremiah Cruz
Fags were around the whole time, they were just kept in check for the most part (that's why it was the first term of address). People that yearn for the old memes probably say pupper and doggo in real life, and otherwise use baby talk on the internet. Reddit existed before reddit, which is interesting to see in retrospect. And a few of them are going to be left over here even from the old days, on the rare occasion they were actually here for it. They're the people that will be saying some bizarre shit about baneposting being about unity or some ridiculous garbage in a decade.
Michael Taylor
the shit that actually killed anime and attracted a ton of normalfags to Yea Forums. poor touhoufags had it the worst as they suffer persecution from these radical Gainax extremists. 2007 was such a shit year even for anime
The world stopped being enjoyable after 9/11 only zoomers disagree
Nolan Evans
I check in on it every now and then out of morbid curiosity to see just how bad it is. These days it's just a porn board.
Christian Wilson
>The only good thing to come out of it is that she turned into a fat ugly liberal LOL
this part is horrible
like imagine if you hooked up with boxxy in 2009 and started dating, you would feel like an absolute king, like you've fully "made it" in life, then a few years later she would turn into a flabby milquetoast liberal
i used to think 30 year olds on the internet were losers when i was 9 years old
now i'm 26. don't think i'll be off the computer any time soon, but i use it a lot less than i did
Ethan Long
Very well put
Jose Hall
The internet seems alot smaller than it did. Like you run into the same immature people on every site.
Gabriel Cook
2007 was objectively the beginning of shit world though. September 2001 was the end of the good times but it wasn't until 2007 that it all collapsed in on itself. Social media finally exploded with Facebook and YouTube, corporations finally cottoned onto the fact that the internet wasn't a fad or a bubble and began to shit it up and sterilize the web, cell phones with cameras were finally widespread which absoutely devastated social interactions, SJWism began in earnest with President Nigger announcing his run, the housing crisis was beginning to rumble in the US and prices for everything skyrocketed overnight all over the world and have never fallen (It cost 800 bucks for a good two bedroom apartment when I entered univeristy in 2007. By 2010 the same apartment cost 1200 and nowadays is close to 1600), and for the losers who care about It video games became plagued with DLC and became Eternal Beta releases, billion dollar capeshit was being born, music was just autotuned nigger rap and bubblegum divas, etc etc. A lot of world changing shit came to a head or was born in 2007, that's why its common referenced as the year the world became truly shit with no redeeming qualities. It's not just a youth thing either.
Aaron White
Yea Forums going from *the* edgy teen culture powerhouse of the western world to a below average pornsite is the best case for banning porn i can think of
Michael Baker
i liked it more when Yea Forums felt like an underground clubhouse for funny weirdos which no one ever spoke of irl
>Social media finally exploded with Facebook and YouTube, corporations finally cottoned onto the fact that the internet wasn't a fad or a bubble and began to shit it up and sterilize the web, cell phones with cameras were finally widespread which absoutely devastated social interactions More needs to be written about this. The internet, cellphones and social media have completely warped social relations, but it seems like nobody cares enough to speak up or try to stop it.
Fans before 1985 did not like Green day going emo and political. Fans born after 1985 were more accepting of this though.
Caleb Howard
Christ people born after 1989 are retarded. You have no place on this thread. You're just nostalgic for being 12. "Muh video games and cartoons". Fuck you. I grew up when you actually had to phone people to talk, or go to their houses. Maybe your buddy had a N64 but it was funner to wander out into the city and see what was happening and it didn't take a 40 minute debate to get people away from their screens to go do something. Without cell phones everyone was friendlier and more into what was happening around them. Girls would actually sit there and watch you skateboard instead of just staring at a screen. Movies were still fun and surprising and theatres were still classy enough to not sell nachos and fucking hotdogs and pail sized drinks. There was WAY less fat people, and very few fat young people. And way more whites. You could actually sneak out and go to parties-your parents knew but everyone had fun pretending you were just going to Mark's to "study", parents couldn't spy on you.
Fuck zoomers and younger millenials, you didn't even experince the last few years of living like a real human being, so what are you complaining about.
t. 1985
Jeremiah Williams
ah another member, welcome to the club. this feeling will never go away.
Ethan Scott
Sorry user, it’s unironically a decent amount of both of those things.
Jace Wright
astonishingly little has been written about how the form of the internet has effected people's lives
a few days ago i saw a thread on twitter in a similar line of thinking to this; much like how smartphones have warped social relations, clickbait has done a similar thing to politics and radicalisation. clickbait started out literally as clickbait (i.e. profit driven) but morphed into something people earnestly believed in, what started out as corporations trying to make a quick buck off a new medium morphed into the default politics of our time
>had to phone people to talk Do you know how much of a luxury hat would’ve been in my time, you spoiled fucking baby? You didn’t even have entertainment, just drivel spilling out of the tele vision.
This is very cringe, but I remembered this song from a game my little brother used to play back then, most early 2000s sounding shit I’ve ever heard, takes me right back
Samuel Flores
Virtually every generation says "X was the last good year"
Kayden Taylor
i can live with that
Tyler Sullivan
and now the politicos are desperately trying to brute force a solution to this shit by cracking down on naughty free speech
the cold war victory lap ended in 2001 and then the early 2000's began 2001-2007 (post 9/11 era) after that there was no follow up conflict like the Iraq War and you have the recession 2008-2012 and we are feeling the ill effects (civil unrest 2013-????) now of what should be a post recession recovery which is odd
Blake Hernandez
thanks muh nigga
William Gray
true
Cameron Cooper
Phones ruined everything, writing letters was so much better.
Michael Morgan
>life gets faster as you get older
I used to frown at the idea of this but it's true. Everything after 2012 feels like a blur. What happened in the past year? I have no idea.
Cherish your adolescence anons. Life will only get faster and more confusing from here on out.
I agree that one of the worst things to ever happen was twitter.
It's like a platform that breeds dogshit with it's structure. So many ruined careers and harassment, and so many people abusing it to make one sentence fuck yous before blocking everyone that looks at them wrong. Literally one of the worst things to happen to media and Yea Forums. Especially Yea Forums since usually, all the boards I'm interested in, have twitter drama killing ontopic threads.
Okay but I was born in ‘91 and still experienced all of this
Parker King
Seethe more 35 year old anime convention attending virgin. COCKMONGLER XDDDD hahaha so funny!!! Dude fucking epic memes bro! Ummm foul bachelor frog thread anybody???
Brandon Howard
>>i liked it more when Yea Forums felt like an underground clubhouse for funny weirdos which no one ever spoke of irl
Fuck. So true. I don't know what it was about Yea Forums from that time (well I have a few theories), in the early mid 2000s but the board quality was so much higher than it is now. It felt like you were talking with a gathering of real oddball but intelligent people. A board culture that wouldn't hesitate to either grow, or to destroy, anything, if they found the right conduit. I can't find a way to describe it that doesn't sound stupid or cringey. That meme about Yea Forums being "intelligent people pretending to be retarded" actually felt like it was somewhat true then. The posters felt like they actually lurked for a while before posting, you got a sense of them being well versed in the boards culture. If you posted some stupid shit you would get dunked on hard. You would be too embarrassed to even come back.
Now it really is simply a porn board and a floodgate for all the normies who think Yea Forums is just Yea Forums, and are too stupid to realize Yea Forums is not Yea Forums. Yea Forums moves so fast now that it's become far more impersonal and transient. Nothing can make a lasting impression on the board culture anymore, the sheer number of new posts and new threads means it's like shouting into a infinite void.
twitter and tumblr were both heavily influenced by something awful, which is the true culprit of of shit tier modern internet culture
Jace Thompson
That's not exactly a meme. Know how everything felt much bigger when you were a kid? Well that's because it literally was because you were only like 3 feet tall. Same thing with time. Smaller people feel time slower due to a faster resting metabolic rate.
Owen Williams
I graduated high school in 2011; I started in 2007, the year the iPhone came out. I literally do not know what adult life was like before smartphones, social media, etc. because I never experienced it. And even I am shocked by how different the world is now. Not just in the sense that I've gone from a college freshman to a 9-to-5 professional manager but I barely even recognize my hometown anymore. I remember when smartphones were still a tool to more conveniently do the things you would have done otherwise, and social media was a novelty distraction. Now it seems like people devote their time specifically to using social media whenever and wherever they can. I don't think in 2011 you would see groups of people sitting together at restaurants all staring silently at their phones.
Josiah Ortiz
>butthurt zoomer babies He's right. You'll never get it because you don't realize how much society has changed since the 1990s.
Landline to cellphone was a much more of sudden change in social relations than letter to phone. Only rich people had phones, they gradually spread to the wider population over the course of 50 years.
Smartphones appeared overnight in little more than 4 years. The iPhone came out in 2007 and by 2011 pretty much everyone had a smartphone.
Landon Ross
Damn! I wish I was a cooldude in my mind 30s browsing Yea Forums like You!
Brayden Kelly
It was in 2004 that animax started airing in my country.it was in 2004 that I accidentally summoned a tsunami. It was in 2004 that my closest mate in town left for some other country. It was in 2004 that Dad started a business. It was in 2004 that someone younger than me was born in my maternal family. The list is endless. Best thing was the internet of 2004
Grayson Fisher
>Hits reply without even reading the entire post or addressing the point Imagine being this butthurt
Zachary Anderson
Late 92 baby here. Did all that +letters. They existed simultaneously in our world until mobile phones came along
Easton Perez
Green Day has always and will always fucking suck.
Jonathan Rodriguez
Somethingawful had fucking white privilege threads in like 2005 or some shit
>ywn hang out at your friend's house playing DDR while wearing Tripp pants and listening to early Dragonforce albums
I miss the 2000s
Ryan Ward
Oldfag here, 2007 was my 'last' summer of highschool. My college girlfriend came home with me - she was nerdy in highschool and never experienced things. We went home after my parents divorced and my younger (and cooler) brother had just graduated. We spent the entire summer 'illegally' drinking with those kids, having house parties and drinking in the woods. The best part was fucking her in the backseat of my Dad's car... though he was on vacation with his new girlfriend so he let us use his car while away.
>I have no fucking clue what white teenagers are into these days. My little brother is about to start high school and here's his favorite "artist": youtube.com/watch?v=k0X1ZBS-GUc
I can't even imagine being allowed to listen to something like this when I was his age.
Ayden Richardson
What about ebaumsworld, demonoid, etc.? Anyone remember the Habbo Hotel Raid or 2000s Gaia Online and their "movie theater" streaming chats?
Hunter Sullivan
The 90's were weird because it was the first time mainstream culture in the US wasn't almost entirely white. Most of the best selling albums in the 90's were rap and r&b .
Jaxon Jackson
What were the 60s?
Aiden Diaz
I remember all the wiggers back then with pants hanging at the thighs and gang-speak being in.
Juan Miller
The Beach Boys, The Monkees, The Doors.
Charles Jackson
Spotted the gaiafag Gb2gaia, fag
Nathaniel Allen
What was worse was the faggots 'in' to the grateful dead and jimmy buffet.
Lucas Garcia
Mo Town, Jimmy Hendrix, Ray Charles.
Dominic Murphy
So what was the last good era to be a kid in here?
They were all just sort of buffer sites like reddit is now. I think the early iterations of places like somethingawful benefited from having the sorts of people that would have posted here if they could. Once anonymity was figured out it was impossible to want to go back to their ridiculous circle jerks.
Luke Fisher
The early 60s, you blithering mental patient! Look at all that immature and childish media! You really liked 20% of that?
>The stuff made for kids these past fifty (50) years is too childish! Are you really, really old or just trolling?
Ryder Edwards
>singular they ???? Did I miss this class in first grade english?
Julian Myers
Honestly, Dazed and Confused era seems comfy as shit.
Evan Rodriguez
NOOOOOO! YOU’RE MEANT TO HATE NEW THINGS JUST LIKE ME! HERETIC! HERETIC!
Nathaniel Cook
lol
Lincoln Allen
They played Dragonforce at my high school senior dance, at the local anime convention, there was a guy at my school who had Dragonforce on repeat on a boom box he carried with him through the school hallways
They were everywhere. Now here I am over ten years later watching Herman Li stream for extra whoring money on twitch
Nathaniel Jackson
>be born in 1993 >older brother born in 1991 >enjoy high speed internet access starting in 2000 >fuck around with all sorts of fun games, learn about random shit, bulletin boards, play multiplayer games with friends, watch Newgrounds cartoons and discover music on filesharing sites >occasionally come across pictures of naked people cuddling. Only 8 years old and get feeling that it's not something I should be looking at so I just don't look at it. >early 2002 >mom thinks we are spending too much time on computer >puts timer on computer for one month as a warning. Only get hour of computer every day >wait it out, spend a lot of time watching TV, really get introduced to anime, spend a lot of time fucking around with pellet gun and fishing in backyard lake, riding scooters and inline skates. My friend down the street actually had unlimited computer but some timer on his tv, while I had unlimited tv, so we'd exchange. >month passes, timer is gone and we heed warning.
Cont. >everything is fine >March 30, 2003 >parents are really mad at my brother >mom suddenly says that my brother looked at sites with bad language and now the timer is back indefinitely. >doesn't make sense, we were allowed to hear bad language as long as we didn't use it. >cry like crazy >at least we still have internet >6 months pass >parents REALLY angry at brother >now no internet access. >despair >no more Call of Duty UO >All my friends at school plan stuff over AIM. I can't do that. Get left out. >don't know about latest early memes >only get to hear the music on the radio >end up going to my friend's house for way too long, friend starts to get tired of me being over. >spend summers watching daytime TV. >bored out of my mind >friend occasionally gets into arguments with me because I stay over too much. >cant do school projects well because I don't have time to research and type things, and if I ask for more time or internet access from my mom, she will demand A level effort instead of B or C level. >2005 >learn my brother was looking at porn >got caught because he went to a site that installed spyware >this causes me to have a weird attitude about sex that persists to this day >tell him to just use his imagination like I do >mom gets job, so we are left home alone during summer >friend learns about a keylogger >upload from flash drive >it works >tell my brother that he should only look at porn when parents are gone, and to cover his tracks. >three weeks later my brother is caught mid fap >parents change password >finally get internet in spring of 2007. >missed out on early Yea Forums, MySpace, NewGrounds >in late 2005 got put on ritalin and prozac. >couldn't use internet to find out that that shit was bad news >still have sexual dysfunction from taking Prozac during puberty. >also get anxious before having sex >didnt lose virginity until 25.
Tldr i only got glimpses of the internet between 2003 and 2007 and it fucked me up.
Gabriel Morales
>the iPhone and (((social media))) were a mistake.
Jose Ross
Was the food better? We're people as obsessed with race politics? Where did you grow up? Have things changes there for the better or worse? I'm a 26 year old zoomie btw
Aaron Jones
And now the shills have arrived and this work safe board is basically the front page of reddit. Where do we go from here, brother?
Thomas Garcia
food was ok i guess. hasn't changed much really. race issues between black and white where a thing but not as bad as now. back then most the white kids listened to grunge nirvana greenday etc and then the black kids where listening to 2pac and biggie.
things have gotten worse. overall. the world was a much simpler place back then. i think the lack of human interaction is what is fucking us up. we are social creatures and aren't mean to live our lives communication with each other by proxy through some handheld souless medium.
Were people more optimistic or happier back then? I was in third grade when 9/11 happened so all I've ever known was political hysteria and ironic nihilism.
Colton Bailey
the boondocks would never be able to air now days
Adrian Thomas
Those things didn't happen in the nineties and I was asking more anecdotaly than anything.
Brody Hughes
Thought you were asking about the 2000s. The 90s, you say?
>Were people more optimistic or happier back then? yes both. 9/11 changed things but it actually was only a part of the change that made the world stop being like the 90s. once the 2000s came it brought tech innovations like broadband and that allowed the web to handle larger communities at faster speeds also computers became more commonplace where in the 90s only the rich kid on the block had a computer.
Nathaniel Bennett
TV was never good especially in America
Alexander White
How did things change after Columbine?
Caleb Foster
Broadband Internet was a godsend back then. It must've sucked living in a rural area when it was first introduced.
More like 1912. In 1913 the Federal Reserve Act passed enslaving the country to foreign bankers and their puppet Woodrow Wilson was sworn in as President. Had the Federal Reserve Act been crushed and Taft reelected, 20th century history would have taken a completely different turn for the better.
Camden Jones
Several schools banned trenchcoats
Asher Sanchez
The ironic nihilism was still there but so ridiculous there's no doubting it's sincerity. People actually dressed up like Matrix characters because they thought it was cool for a while (but only a portion of the turbonerds). Weebs were also way different back then, it's actually been amazing to see the internet wipe the ken-sama going to master the katana type almost out of existence. It has to hide itself in levels of irony now. There was a more direct conduit in melodrama that people related to.
Jason Morgan
>Supporting corrupt Howie instead of honorable Wilson
Fucking christ the anti-Wilson propagandists are out in droves these days
Joshua Wright
The shift in Music was signaling that long before it happened. MM became famous for a reason. The whole Alpha male Beta male war has been raging for a long time now. It's just that in Colorado on that day things finally came to a head. Must has been well beyond the typical school bully bs to push those kids over the edge like that. Anyway. To address your question. You could feel the change in the air. Like a milestone had been passed. Like "Wow. this is where we are now" But the 90s where almost over at that point so that even was really just a precursor to what awaited us in the 2000s and beyond.
Ryan Morales
Excellent post.
There have actually been some good articles in The Atlantic of all places on this sort of topic. The most recent one is titled "The Sex Recession", which is much better than you probably expect it to be. I'll try to dig up a few of the other ones, but yeah, the internet's impact on social relations has been a disaster beyond what most people can reckon.
Not really at all. Everyone blamed school bullying (and still do) so there was a push for "self-esteem" movements and the start of the introduction of "zero tolerance" polices in schools. This paved the way for poz to seep into the modern education system. Bullying probably had nothing to do with Columbine, one kid was a straight up psychopath who often bullied other students himself, and the other was just a gullible edgelord follower.
Samuel Watson
Based
Jeremiah Brooks
>this played at my 2000 graduation youtube.com/watch?v=xat1GVnl8-k Now I am 36, married, making 6 figures, and yet when I come home from date night with the wife... I end up on Yea Forums.
They were also drugged up or at least Eric was. It was just a perfect storm of nihilistic edgelords with a hatred of existence that managed to find each other and pull it off.
I guess. I did, but then again I see people I went to HS who look old and haggard. I get mistaken for mid-20s all the time. Got gray starting to show up in my beard, tho.
Ryder Richardson
yea iirc it was something like that. my hair was kinda long. neck length. and i parted it in the front. i had an undercut. if anyone remember what that even looks like.
Benjamin Taylor
>mfw somebody on the internet actually knows how to use an apostrophe
I got those, my barber called it the 'skater cut'. Much better, tbqh.
Christopher Hughes
WIDF plz. Wilson is in the top 3 worst US Presidents behind FDR and LBJ. Wilson is in top 3 worst US Presidents behind FDR and LBJ.
>Be Wilson >Only win due to Teddy Roosevelt being tricked into running to split the Republican vote >Literally run your entire campaign on not involving the US in European Wars >Enter WWI anyway using false flag telegram >This sets the US up for further foreign entanglements that continue to this day >Institute draft, killing 116 thousand Americans >Sign Federal Reserve Act >Get put on money for being such a good goy >Form blue print for the League of Nations that eventually became the UN. >Go senile in last days of office and have wife make major decisions
Reminder no US involvement means WWI ends in a stalemate between Germany and Britain, and a working peace treaty would be signed. No monarchies being toppled means no fascists or communists take power. No WWII. At least Wilson regretted getting the US involved in European politics.
Brayden Watson
you're here forever
Carter Walker
he also inadvertently made Ho Chi Minh a commie by ghosting him at the peace conferences after WW1, iirc
Connor Davis
I know. I was being facetious. He completely sold the U.S.out.
>>The re election of Bush >>Approval ratings of Iraq began to dip >>Movies like Team America began to come out that were disillusioned with the American Dream >>People began to get over 9/11 and the "Bush is stupid" schtick began None of this was as important as you Gen X burnouts make it out to be.
Nathan Rivera
Basically long hair on top, but buzzed or shaved on the sides and back like the girl in The Crow? From the images I looked up it seemed to be a unisex haircut.
>watch softcore porn on HBO Zone ch 306 iktf idk if it was called hbo zone but those 300+ cable channels with softcore porn, particularly on the "on demand" channels, were my jam
Gavin Jackson
yea that looks similar. it was a popular haircut back then. girls didn't wear it though from what i remember.
Christopher Gonzalez
>this faggot chink pretending that political witch hunts are new and unique to a post-internet society
Blake Gray
>nothing will be that cheap again >now 7/11 are all indians or angry fat black women
>Becoming politically motivated, no longer enjoying movies or vidya like you used to. Not that surprising, that was the year smartphones became widely available and social media started to take off. To zoomers, especially late zoomers, they don't really remember the world before these things outside of their own lives, so there's no way for them to be nostalgic about what came before.
Connor Garcia
I remember going to the WTC on a school trip months before they came down. I drank an esspresso as it was our 'senior trip'.
William King
I was a senior when the Presidential elections were coming up in 2000. Shit was definitely bad, I remember stating that Bush was a shifty piece of shit.
John Sullivan
It's kinda debatable and you're on the border but if you graduated high school in 2000 that technically makes you a, sorry to say....
FIRST MILLENNIAL
Julian Brooks
we were too high on our pride and happiness. thats why 9/11 happened. the pendulum always swings.
something nuts like that may happen again years from now
Ryder Myers
Yep. My second year of college opened up on Tuesday, September 11 2001.
A kid in my class had to leave to head to the city to help with the cleanup as he was active military. He later died in Iraq a few years later.
