How the internet anime community looked like in the 90s

OH my word user that's a pretty embarrassing take
How do you think that little rolly ball worked? It rolled around on your filthy desk, and all of the hair, skin, dirt, lint, and just everything in general that contacts your desk stuck to the rubber and would get trapped on the rollers.
> if they did they'd stop working.
Yep, which is why every three months you would have to open them and see all of that shit somehow tangled in a giant furball around the rollers like a spindle. and you had to rip it all off, yuck.

i fucking hated having to boil a new egg to replace it every day

Maybe you should have cleaned your desk more often.

arguing on bbs instead of twitter

even the most immaculate desk has little bits of hair and skin that your eyes can't see, but that little rubber ball will suck it up better than a vacuum can because it's physically touching it. It's nigh impossible to keep it perfectly clean unless you have it in a cleanroom and you wear a biosuit to use your computer.
it was worse for me because in the 90's my family owned a dog and that hair would migrate from other rooms onto my desk despite her never allowed in the computer room.

SOVL
BBS were great because you at least knew the person on the other side of the screen was paying money to shitpost and argue a thread for literal weeks.

and you could have actual fucking conversations that weren't limited to 240 characters or whatever the fuck

Was your anime fansite listed here, user?

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Based midi enjoyer.

>zoomer larping as a boomer
atleast ya got a (you) out of me

man I wish I was born in the 80s/90s

while it was an interesting time to grow up, i wouldn't want to go back to it. mostly because the internet was slow as shit.

how would you compare modern internet culture to how it is now? like through all the decades. I know SM basically killed the internet and is basically the worst thing about it

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i just want to point out wapchan actually runs a bbs accessable by telnet for some reason

Now any idiot has the internet. In the beginning you had to have a little money and knowledge to have it. It was a lot better.

well i was too young to use the internet in the 80's but in the 90's you knew pretty much anyone that was on a bbs or forum was adjacent to you in some sense because only "computer nerds" bothered with the internet enough to seek out communities. it wasn't on your phone, it wasn't at your fingertips, you had to put some effort in.

so even if you fucking hated the person on the other end you at least knew you weren't talking to some halfwit with a phone they think they have to replace once a year. there was some comfort in that.

early days of SM weren't so bad as it went through its "wild west" phase, places like myspace were fucking insane, you could turn the page into pretty much anything you wanted. nowadays everything is a walled garden experience where the most amount of customization you have is being able to change your pfp and two colors. all the anarchy and chaos is gone and that's what made it fun.

that was pretty much the 00's. watching SM slowly morph in to the festering tumor it is now. still lots of good memories, though.

based

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Are there any sites like anipike today?

I cleaned mine daily, otherwise I wouldn't hit anything when playing Counter-Strike.

kino
wish wapchan had just a bit more users. It's to be expected from a relatively new site though

shut up grammar nazi

>how would you compare modern internet culture to how it is now?
Not him but I don't think that things have changed significantly.

The internet in general has become more centralised, which is probably a facet of platform capitalism. In the past, people would use all sorts of different websites, follow blogs, participate in all sorts of different communities whereas nowadays there is only youtube, wikipedia, twitter, maybe a news site or two and optionally facebook or reddit, depending on how much of a boomer a person is. Having become more widely accessible through smartphones in particular, you find more dumb people on the internet than in the past, and maybe things were a little more 'innocent', in a sense of people being less cynical than they are now, but most communities were namefag communities and thus suffered from the same issues that websites like reddit suffer today. Circlejerking, mod worship, that passive aggressive attitude where people exchange thinly veiled insults without verbalising them explicitly to avoid getting banned, etc. The most fun I had on the internet was probably in the mid 00s when I discovered Yea Forums. But Yea Forums still is quite okay and I think it has changed much less than people often claim.

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Pixelated

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Not that I'm aware of. Anipike's existence was very much tied to a time when the anime internet fandoms were far less centralized and personal webpages were abundant.

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makes one wonder where he is right now.
Hopefully not dead

> and are proceeding with a straight translation.

Lmao. I wonder how mad they were when Captain Harlock and the Queen of 1000 Years aired.

Clean your fucking desk

Lots of physical media?

Found the zoomer, they got dirty as fuck and stopped working unless you cleaned them every other day.

Ditto.

Took me three days to download an RRK ending.
Too bad I can't store it in my diskette.
youtube.com/watch?v=JDxa1bADzk8

Behold, the progenitor.

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Looks clunky.

wapchan is one of the few imageboards that actually feels like there's a genuine effort to make a community in the style of the old internet instead of just being an edgier version of Yea Forums
also the radio station is kino

Is this still around?

>wapchan
About 3 posts a month.

it has been very slow lately (graphs show 3-5 posts per day), but there's a lot of effort being put into that place. its still a relatively new board without the kind of /pol/ shit that a lot of other boards run to attract users. better to stick with it than write it off as dead

tip to newfriends just search op text in archives and you can read the whole thread in advance i.e., these threads are always same

Usenet burgers are so retarded and tastelets. While the rest of the world was having fun, they were crying and whining.

Slow Internet was infinitely superior to modern Internet.

>frames
>web 1.0

thats web 1.3

this is pathetic
why would an underage pretend to be an expert on mouse balls and tell people who actually remember them they are wrong
why would you just go on the internet and tell lies?

>early days of SM weren't so bad as it went through its "wild west" phase, places like myspace were fucking insane, you could turn the page into pretty much anything you wanted. nowadays everything is a walled garden experience where the most amount of customization you have is being able to change your pfp and two colors. all the anarchy and chaos is gone and that's what made it fun.
Yeah, MySpace was so fun to tinker with. Geocities was great as well.

>mp3
I remember when downloading just a 4MB mp3 file took almost an hour

>geocities

>visit
off to a pretty good start

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And it was all worth the wait. Meanwhile now you can download entire albums in 5 seconds and how often do you listen to them? Same with movies, games and so on.

People on the internet back then had no grasp of internet like that, so I don't get the people complaining about how slow it was back then. There was no concept of a much faster internet, it was just considered normal back then. I remember joining game servers where the ping would be something ridiculous even if it was a server located nearby.

the way I remember it they sometimes needed to be cleaned but not usually. clean desk=clean mouse
any time I opened the trackball it was to play with it

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yeah, it was a big deal, plus dial-up internet was expensive. I remember staying at home missing my niece's birth, just because I was downloading a 14mb batch of Rurouni kenshin songs.

Did any of you ever make an anime webpage? I tried to make a ranma 1/2 fanpage with frontpage back in 1999, but I never managed to finish it

My problem is that I have never really had anything that I wanted to tell the world.