What was the anime community on the internet like back in the 90s?
What was the anime community on the internet like back in the 90s?
Isaac Young
Brandon Ramirez
trips as an OP? this thread's gonna make it
Owen Gomez
Didn’t we just have thread with the exact same op? You already got your answer, why are you asking again?
Ryder Adams
>you can't make multiple threads with the same topic
Holy newfag, you have to go back.
Zachary Howard
It was awesome you could only see a few shows and VHS and laserdisc were super convenient and cheap and we used to call them oriental cartoons those were the days.
Xavier Bell
I wonder if we can find any newsgroups of the time discussing Evangelion.
Elijah Lee
flame wars
There are a bunch archived by Google, just look up the anipike list of groups on archive.org
Ayden Diaz
>Oriental cartoons
No one ever called it that you zoomer
Oliver Morales
Levi Foster
IRC was so much better than Discord...
Look at the genuine way of typing, nowadays anyone would embarrassed to just type "Hehe" and send it as a message.
Austin Wood
8:53
>Popular Series
>Dragonball
CHADgon CHADs won even in the past. Holy shit, we literally RULE this world.
Blake Myers
IRC servers still exist user...
Liam Sanchez
but not with the same people, they're probably discord-lite now
Isaiah Cook
Brit bros:
youtube.com
>Manga Entertainment were so dominant in the UK for anime that for 15 or so years normies kept calling anime, Manga
>It even popped up on University Challenged where Paxman corrected someone who did it
Fuck Funimation and fuck Sony for buying the brand and dissolving it. Without Manga Entertainment there wouldn't be a Ghost in the Shell movie (and in turn The Matrix).
Grayson Bennett
Yeah lol I always used to call it manga also they put dnb in everything the fist of the north star dvd set they put out was hype as fuck although I didn't realise their was more than the 36 eps till later I thought it just ended out the blue.
Noah Peterson
Evan Nelson
Do you even talk to people
Carter Ross
>IRC was so much better than Discord
We had the same power tripping channel moderators, so not by much. Thankfully they weren't as open about their pedophile tendencies, so they were more pleasant.
Josiah Sanchez
Daniel Rogers
fuck, meant to post this one
Luke Miller
How do you think the 90s anime community would've reacted if they knew the course the industry and the fandom would take?
Gavin Baker
>Kawaii is the latest fad, and it will fade into the background as the next fad hits in a couple of years
Zachary Johnson
They were exactly the same as today
Daniel Robinson
I surfed the internet in 1998 via Netscape Navigator. It was okay: funny chats, news sites.
Nathaniel Myers
Now I feel young.
Juan Gutierrez
I've seen this thread so many times I wonder how honest is OP about this question
Adam Thomas
Better.
Gabriel Fisher
Well, the more things change and all that...
Justin Roberts
Or other stuff airing at the time.
Hunter Johnson
>"Oldfag" used the word moeshit
Brandon Hernandez
What I'm getting is that change will always offend the oldest generation and we're on a treadmill of change and are merely on the trailing end of it as more and more of the older generation fall off every year.
Colton Clark
It's a tale as old as time itself.
Brody King
I'd hesitate to say much had even actually changed at all
Sharing videos/translations has become far easier thanks to the internet, so it's now similarly far easier to find all the mediocre shows that people might not have bothered distributing widely in the past, plus people tend to only remember the really good shit in the long term so might end up with a rose-tinted view on older stuff without even realizing
Cameron Bailey
>Ys
>Anime
Charles Brooks
Online has always been terrible. This real shit was meeting in the middle of a desert over some beers.
Jonathan Garcia
Chat groups with older people are still like that. Even on Discord. Just don't go to shitty 12yob& servers. If you were around long enough, you might have found IRC and other chat groups like this that came from here even. I'm a part of them, but I'm not posting links.
Small chat groups are much more geniune than places like Yea Forums.
Nathan Anderson
Every time this thread is posted, it's filled with the same screenshots.
I was lucky to have met one of these "oldtaku" (as they call themselves) and the stories he tells are great. Star Blazers rooms, the first cons, how anime fandom even started in the US.
I suggest you start looking places other than Yea Forums for connections like this.
Kevin Lopez
this, you're not gonna get any traction on Yea Forums if you keep making these bait posts
wapchan's been pretty good for this(though it's hard to tell how many of the posters there are actual oldies)
there's other fourms and irc servers scattered around, maybe go digging through google sometime
Xavier Powell
>@UsagiChan sets mode +m
@UsagiChan Kya ha ha
Nathan Clark
>keep distributing the tapes!
This thread is aging me every post I read
Blake Thomas
Searching for shitty images on turnpike, IRC and hotline. Praising your luck when you found someone who was giving away full episodes, even though they took up half your HDD. A lot of VHS sharing. And a ton of dub supremacists.
Only advantage back then was less elitism. People were happy with whatever they could find. And mostly had only the same 20-40 shows floating around. Compared to today where you have more anime in one season than the average westerner had access to in their entire library.
Jordan Nguyen
Were people still laughing at the awkward, excessive profanity in Manga Entertainment dubs?
Easton Gutierrez
Few people were buying their stuff. They were ripping it from rentals or getting fansubs from the Japanese release. Even back then, people could tell the 'official' subs were trash.
Eli Flores
>What was the anime community on the internet like back in the 90s?
Find out for yourself with the oldest living part of it: the SUNET mirror of the ancient Venice Anime FTP archive. Where else will you find a pic like this last modified in 1988? This is pre-WWW Internet, as old as it gets.
ftp.sunet.se
the rest of it: ftp.sunet.se
Ayden Walker
Guys talked about the shit that they imported themselves and shared them at conventions.
Ryan Gonzalez
> back in the 90s
Mahjong and tiddies.
Kayden Bailey
anime
Jace Miller
Jaxon Nguyen
Robert Ward
>People called gundam boring even in the 90s
Based
Hunter Young
Oh shit Wapchan shill is here. To advertise his site.
Parker Mitchell
There wasn't a community online, the community was with my friends. I ordered CD's yes Cd's from australia with anime on it, and I exchanged into australian dollards and mailed it on the post
A community online? well it was a community of sorts
Noah Reed
You can still access Usenet's rec.arts.anime and see old discussions
Brandon Walker
>he hasn't seen '92 Ys anime
GO FIGHT!
Adam Green
it was all about pokemon, digimon, doraemon and sailormon
Asher Nguyen
Maybe in the circles you ran in.
Asher Lopez
Some self-promoters have no shame whatsoever.
Brody Butler
I miss him so much.
Julian Russell
Robert Richardson
Is the JEWS not society. So so naive.
Jonathan Barnes
If you were in first grade, yeah.
Carson Flores
It kills me that we never knew what happened to him. Not a single way to help him.
Hudson Bennett
>user mentions site once
>HOLY SHIT ITS A SHILL
Julian Rivera
Everyone just called them cartoons, it was a better time.