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Anonymous Where the fuck did you all go? 2025/07/22(Tue) 21:51:56 GMT No. 16733 File:
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To the very few true oldfags/originalfags - not larpers - that were there in the ACTUAL old internet and not the transvestite version of it "y2k" by fags and general retards, do you use any community or else to fall back to, or do you stick to closed friends group? Or did everyone fucking killed themselves post-2015, moved on, became a weird hybrid of normalfagism, made a family/left the internet? Is there no one that remembers all of it that's still online? So that I know if i'm posting into the void with vids, but it seems no one received the signal whatsoever. Most boards die off, so do forums, so i'm asking here. Though I have little expectations.
Anonymous 2025/07/23(Wed) 20:05:28 GMT No. 16735 File:
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There is no "place everyone went to". The traffic is on social media. People grew up and are now on Faceberg, if at all. Young people only know social media. No one cares about chanboards, email, websites, usenet, or IRC anymore but a few people remembering the old days.
Your choices:
1. Talk to yourself
2. Join them
3. Get new hobby/go outside
Dead Internet is real.
Anonymous 2025/07/24(Thu) 07:04:28 GMT No. 16737 File:
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>>16733
Having talked to an originalfag recently, it's obvious that 4chan is just a website people go on; being on there for twenty years doesn't change that. I met the guy on there and we arranged to talk IRL from a thread on /cgl/, but 4chan itself didn't really come up. The guy obviously has other things to do and got into game development and generating AI images for fun.
The hyperfocus on treating 4chan as a temple seems to be a product of FOMA on the part of people that haven't settled into their own place on the Internet or have yet to stop treating the Internet as a large part of their lives. These people think that being on the Internet a long time would have magically made them happier despite the reality that 4chan and every other website was just that: a website where you could post what you wanted to in a format that you liked. >>16735 is presupposing that the only reason to use anything but social media websites (which includes email for some strange reason) is for nostalgia purposes only, which is wrong. I still use anonymous imageboards because I like that manner of interacting with people.
But back to the "originalfag": I never asked him about how it was being on 4chan in the early days because it would've made me look like a doe-eyed Web enthusiast. We acknowledged that the site got worse from when we respectively started using it and discussed other, more interesting things instead. He remembers all the stuff he used to use, but he uses other things too nowadays. If it's your perogative to use only imageboards, forums, IRC, and email because you like them, then have fun using the Internet the way YOU want to. You don't have to listen to anyone else here; that's the beauty of it.
Anonymous 2025/07/24(Thu) 09:08:10 GMT No. 16738 File:
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>>16735
Thanks for replying, you're not wrong about what you say, though I don't necessarily subscribe to the literal idea that 99.9% of the Internet is bot-generated activity. People's behavior are influenced by algorithms certainly, and there are a significant percentage of bot activity - though more like 50%, not 99% as would imply the theory - but the people on nu-internet act as non-playable characters to begin with since it became a commodity for the masses, going from niche nerd space to enshitification by a new majority, so why would there be any need for such expenditure and processing power when they already do the same job? People becoming dumber is real. Add the shit ton of laws that would censor most authentic people for saying what they actually think, the takedowns of 'problematic' places, forums and board dying off naturally, you get a recipe for a (mostly) sanitized environment, albeit not entirely artificial in essence, in my opinion. Though with 'advancements' in so-called 'AI' it may become a real theory at some point, yes.
>>16737
Beautiful post to be honest. Surprised some of the old guard still uses 4chan even long after it became reddit 2.0, but it makes sense some may not dwell too much on how it used to be and simply state 'it got worse' and then talk of something else. I respect that. Though for the life of me, I don't think I can give up on the golden age remotely. Some may say it is an idealized way of looking back at the past, that not all was that good, I hear you, but I disagree, and even if, i'd take the chaotic part of it any day to the ultra-safe and ultra-sterile new net.
Still, thanks to both of you for giving more information, much appreciated.
Anonymous 2025/07/24(Thu) 16:59:49 GMT No. 16739 File:
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>>16738
>Beautiful post to be honest
Thanks for saying that, because I'm reading it now and I'm looking at all the typos and odd sentences. What the fuck is FOMA? A mixture of FEMA and FOMO? Horrifying.
>Some may say it is an idealized way of looking back at the past, that not all was that good, I hear you, but I disagree, and even if, i'd take the chaotic part of it any day to the ultra-safe and ultra-sterile new net
And it's great to have a vision of the Internet you like in mind. The problem lies in dwelling on that vision of a far off IP address instead of creating your niche, organically finding people you jive with, and being happy with what you've created. It may not look like it but the web is still a huge place and there are a million places to stake your creative ground. Doing something meaningful on small websites means the world to everyone who uses them.
Anonymous 2025/07/28(Mon) 07:49:33 GMT No. 16766 the internet can actually still be quite fun if you have a life, places like this or shitty TTT servers on gmod became more fun after I had a real life to tend to
Anonymous 2025/07/31(Thu) 19:35:49 GMT No. 16773 File:
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2004 oldfag here
we're still around, many of us still on 4chins, we can spot each other easily and filter out the newfag/bot dross and still have a fun time
i was there and took part in most of the shit you now watch on internet history youtube channels, it was a fun time, ive never felt as empowered as i did back then and probably never will again, the power we had over the rest of the internet was real
still have my 4chan folder, filled with shitty memes no-one remembers, dating all the way back to 2004
Anonymous 2025/07/31(Thu) 22:01:50 GMT No. 16774 >>16773
>still have my 4chan folder, filled with shitty memes no-one remembers, dating all the way back to 2004
Fucking how? My hard drives die every three years taking all their shit with them.
Anonymous 2025/08/01(Fri) 13:02:27 GMT No. 16775 >>16774
ive always bought western digital drives, with the slowest RPM available
also, drives intended for datacenters are a safe bet too
having several drives is a must, so the moment you hear that familiar grinding/ticking noise that indicates your drives is dying (and ive only had 2 die over the last 25 years) you can quickly move your files to another drive
Anonymous 2025/08/01(Fri) 13:04:19 GMT No. 16776 File:
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>>16775
also, keep backups
Anonymous 2025/08/01(Fri) 15:12:37 GMT No. 16777 >>16775
>slowest RPM available
ah, interesting. I've never thought to get those.
>>16776
>also, keep backups
They were the backups
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To the very few true oldfags/originalfags - not larpers - that were there in the ACTUAL old internet and not the transvestite version of it "y2k" by fags and general retards, do you use any community or else to fall back to, or do you stick to closed friends group? Or did everyone fucking killed themselves post-2015, moved on, became a weird hybrid of normalfagism, made a family/left the internet? Is there no one that remembers all of it that's still online? So that I know if i'm posting into the void with vids, but it seems no one received the signal whatsoever. Most boards die off, so do forums, so i'm asking here. Though I have little expectations.
