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Wanna watch some /retro/ TV? Check out https://www.my00stv.com/

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Alright, this is meant to be a successor to /y2k/ on the old 8chan, however I have expanded it to include both the 1990's and the 2000's and NSFW content is allowed, provided it's actually related to the purpose of this board and doesn't violate any of the site's core rules.
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>>4627
And a belated happy new year!

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Retro /tech/.
 
PDAs, pagers, old mobile phones, mp3 players.  I miss them.  They were so less intrusive to privacy.
 
It sounds really weird, but I'd love it if I could somehow still have a pager as opposed to a cell phone.
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Can you still get parallel and serial cards for newer computers?
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Cool early-2000s tech conference showcase compilation
https://youtube.com/shorts/4klgLVD9lgk?si=ld5KBTYoSu7VdxJV
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>>4677
Yes, many old machines are still used in various factories, so there is still a demand for them. Although, it is an other question if you can buy them in your local computer store, because they most likely stopped carrying them a decade or two ago, so you'd have to order online. Or just use USB adapters.
Watch this too 

https://youtu.be/znPJZK1lwaY

Here
>A Videodisc You Can Record On - Sony's CRVdisc
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=ooiRZxtPx_Qgi
And even if you are not interested in any of that, you should still check out the Venturer rides:
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=A4ttoWK4yX8
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=O33vKqK3YdU
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https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=jcQ2hI4VAQQ
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=cdaVnKGGp18

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Has any of you, Zoomers born in 1997, seen twin towers or witnessed 9/11, even if you were 3 or 4 back then?
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>>3405
>The internet has always had its own speech patterns and common phrases, the difference now is that the main population driving language evolution has become normalfags who view the internet differently (in a more casual way) to those who were around in less user friendly more technically oriented times.
Yeah, back then a lot more of it felt like in-jokes that were relegated to certain sites or parts of the Internet other than the basic Interweb speak most people could understand. Nowadays it's a relative handful of big sites influencing online language. I will say that even a lot of older memes didn't age that well either, but at the same time I feel like people could communicate better without stuffing their writing to the gills with a bunch of unfunny rhetorical cliches. Am I really supposed to be amused by "Sir, this is a Wendy's" after seeing it for the thousandth time?

Also, I just learned a few minutes ago that Mike Matinee just released a video where he mentions just the phenomenon I'm bellyaching about.
>The whole lolcow community is anons LARPing about how normal and not lulzworthy they are right?
They actually seem to be more self-aware about their autism than they used to be; I'll give them that. The old lolcow imageboards were a lot more fun and less faggy though, even if they were arguably more spergy.
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>>3405
>The whole lolcow community is anons LARPing about how normal and not lulzworthy they are right?
I haven't visited the site in a long time, and while it is filled with 'anons', it was infamous for the goon atmosphere that it had, especially with the hatred of all things anime.
>>3408
Am I really supposed to be amused by "Sir, this is a Wendy's" after seeing it for the thousandth time?
I feel like this is a huge problem because nobody ever wants to articulate themselves anymore. All they want to do is use the same smug snide comment for the one millionth time in a row and get their upboats so that they can feel socially validated for being an obnoxious retard. I understand why people on the internet are getting more and more hostile and combatative as the years go on. This kind of environment where nobody wants to truly talk to one another and instead use dumb one-liners only festers that kind of climate.
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>>2564 (OP) 
>seen twin towers or witnessed 9/11, even if you were 3 or 4 back then?
1996 here, so I was in kindergarten.
I don't remember much of that day beyond school ending early and me going back home to play some Crash Team Racing or Tomb Raider, blissfully unaware of the events that happened. My parents might have been in the living room watching the news, but at that time news and politics just seemed like boring old people activities, so I didn't bother investigating.
My parents nor my school never told us what happened, and I only found out a year or two later.
>>3303
This board is specifically designed with millennials and Zillennials in mind. It’s 1990s/2000s nostalgia, I.e. those ideally born between 1985 to 2001 are welcomed here to express their reminiscing about their younger years during those two decades. 

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>>3403
I don't see how someone using that phrase makes them a bot any more than saying some other online colloquialism like "n00b" or "normalfag" makes someone a bot, nor do I see how one could deduce that anon watches YouTube kids just from their comment alone. That's quite a reach and blindly talking down to them in that fashion doesn't help anyone. Anon is an old fart to enjoy himself like the rest of us here, not to be shat on. All this started just because someone politely wished to claim that they don't jive with the Zoomer label and wish to be referred to as "Zillennial", then the thread devolved into whatever this shitshow is.

>>3404
To be honest I personally don't care what lingo or terminology is being used. Whatever you can say to get the point across, as long as everyone understands what we are talking about. I see plenty of people here using certain phrases that the average person has no clue what it means. Even "lol" is not everyday speak in real life. 
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I ended up going down a 9/11 rabbit hole recently, and it put me in a pretty bad state of mind. I saw someone making an offhand mention of the allegedly lost "lol superman" gore video, and that piqued my morbid curiosity. I considered myself pretty jaded about the attacks due to memories of all the maudlin imagery and cheap virtue signaling that was everywhere right after 9/11 (and that helped justify America playing world policeman and getting even more people killed), but I didn’t really know the grisly specifics of what happened. I remember people jumping to their deaths, but I never thought much about it. I'd never considered what became of the jumpers' bodies when they hit the ground, that people in the vicinity were in danger of being killed by falling bodies (intact or not) and rubble, that the whole area was strewn with body parts, or that emergency personnel might come across victims of the attacks whose lower bodies had been turned to mush but still weren't completely dead. I ended up coming across some footage where you could hear bodies thumping as they hit the ground and an old /x/ thread that had been archived and included some pretty graphic images. Part of me is glad that these things have been brought to my attention, but another part feels like I would have been better off not knowing the gruesome details.

I posted earlier in the threads about not caring at all about 9/11, so it’s kind of weird that I developed a bit of an interest in it decades later. I 
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So, what are some of your favorite memories of the old internet?


Can be websites, memes, events or any other aspect of the days of Web 1.0 and 1.5


For a quick reference, here's what I would define as Web 1.0 and Web 1.5


>Web 1.0: Usenet, Geocities and Angelfire, AOL (1991-2001)
>Web 1.5: Early YouTube, ED, 4chan in its "wild west" days, MySpace, YTMND, Newgrounds and the peak years of dA and Fanfiction.net (2001-2008)


You also had cross-generation stuff like GameFAQs and IMDB which are still around today, although sadly IMDB's infamous message boards are gone
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>>3976
AAANNNNDD its dead
https://www.ironhands.com/necro.htm
https://www.geocities.ws/mockier/frames.html
Greetings from /tg/.
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>>4822
The first link doesn't open, while the second redirects me to a porn website.
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>>4823
I don't know what your problem is, but the links work fine for me.
>>4822
https://archive.is/YzVuJ
Interesting, second one worked on my phone, first one didn't so I used the archive.

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You realize that you're an internet oldfag when: 

>You've been registered at old sites and forums with old local emails you don't use anymore and probably they don't even exist.
>You have saved images at BMP. format
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oh yeah, still at it babyyyyy
Question: what are the oldest accounts that you have created and still use on a regular basis? Mine's an account on an image board (yes, fucking really) that I created in 2012.
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>>4814
>2012
ahem not retro :^)
My email account is from like 2002
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>>4814
>>4816
Mine's from 98, Yahoo.
>>4814
I believe its from 2008, I forgot any older ones.

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Let's have a new thread without a tonne of broken images.  Have there been any new forms of /retro/ media (could be movies, games, anime, websites, etc.) that wanted to look old and actually succeeded?

There's an artist called BlueTheBone who makes "retro"-styled animations, cheesecake, and porn.  Like any modern hack, he overdoses on visual clutter and uses filters that don't actually resemble the time period he's trying to emulate - but despite that, I think his style is consistently decent.  If he relied less on computers and filters, then I think he'd be a much better artist, but that goes without saying for most contemporary artists.

The really weird things happen when he tries to make modern character designs and media look old, like pic 2.  It isn't exactly wrong, but there is something perplexing about viewing characters and series that were developed specifically with modern aesthetics in mind.
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>>4783
That was fun, but I'll echo it feeling like a fusion of cartoon eras (especially the way Clare is a ballbuster). Hope he can get more out without sacrificing quality.
>>4466
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnCvazVHHwU
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Yo nigga, Halloween and Punkracker are go. Looks and sounds great.
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This animator's style is a throwback to 90's WB stuff like Animaniacs. I haven't watched their 6 minute short yet but this stuff is really good
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>>4808
These capture the 90s style perfectly, the only giveaway is the clean "digital" look but even that is easily masked by the VHS artifacts (2nd video).
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>>4705
These audio tracks reminded me of this
https://x.com/TaskControllers/status/1772950602009510288
Found a great FL Studio Setup that converts audio into compressed in a way that sounds like XBox Live.
Did some of my own audio where I pitched up my voice and then put it through the "Xboxify" setup & it really started sounding like a mid 2000s youtube vid
The download link is in the comments of the tweet
The download has everything, but you may need kerovee and dblue crusher if you don't already

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Alright, I decided to expand the scope of this board a little more and include a containment thread for 80's nostalgia.

I mainly created this board to serve as both a successor to the old /y2k/ board, which was my favorite board on 8chan, and also expand the scope to include 90's nostalgia too, but after checking on this board, I noticed someone mentioning 80's nostalgia and I decided I would do something about it.

I personally don't care that much for 80's pop culture aside from the music and some of the old edgy anime, but 80's nostalgia did become a thing in the 2000's and I can see why others like the whole 80's style, so I'll allow it as long as it's mainly kept to this thread.
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>>4413
I love Duran Duran!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbFAUFTMtLE
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>>4420
I had no idea that they did Rio, let alone that they liked Nagel's art.
>>401
I would've tried to live in that. Maybe I am deranged, but looks quite appealing to my senses.
>>4412
Vietnamese nail salon art?
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>>4809
It looks kinda fancy or glammed up (even if dated) - I can see how the ladies dug that stuff. I kinda enjoyed the haircut experience for the same reason - never had enough coverage for pompadours and such but big crazy hair always sounded cool to me.

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>ITT: Vidya of the 90's and 2000's


Keep it limited to the scope of this board, so basically Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Generation consoles only for now. 


For those who don't know what consoles are part of which generation, here's a quick rundown of the time frame we're talking about...


>Fourth Generation: SNES, Sega Genesis/Sega CD
>Fifth Generation: PS1, N64, Sega Saturn
>Sixth Generation: Dreamcast, PS2, Gamecube, OG Xbox


Discussion of games from the Seventh Generation consoles (PS3/Wii/Xbox 360) is allowed as well, but I'd like the thread to mainly focus on the 4th-6th console genererations since the 7th Gen era carried over into the 2010's and a lot of the games from that era onward obviously have far more in common with modern gaming than stuff from the 16-bit consoles or the PS1 and PS2 eras.
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>>4584
360s are dirt cheap, you can buy one and mod it yourself or just get one that's RGH'd already
>>4425
>Could the equally cult-tier and forgotten Haunting Ground be one of them?
Now I played that too, I' not quite sure if Eternal Darkness had any influence on Haunting Ground. It was quite an interesting game, with its own unique mechanics and ideas, but I fail to see any parallels with Eternal Darkness.
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Wapanese vidya, you say?
>>4641
Haven't played that one, just found its music and gameplay vids interesting. As for the connection, I just wondered if it took some influence from being made in the /retro/ timeframe, but it's much more likely to have taken from the Resident Evils. 

How did you like it?
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>>4765
Interesting is the word to describe it. This is definitely a game to try, as it has original mechanics and ideas that you cannot really experience anywhere else. The dog, of course, is the primary one. You gotta run an hide and stuff, and yet you have a bodyguard which can potentially help you in a critical situation.
The plot is kinda cool, despite being japanese-style weird... and yet, overall, I'd say something is lacking. Maybe it's a bit too drawn out... not sure. I'd just say that it is worth trying it, but if it won't click - don't prerss yourself to the finish (or search for "early escape" ending in the web and get that one, so you will technically complete the game, heh).
Overall, compared to Eternal Darkness, I'd say Eternal Darkness was way more solid.

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Anyone else here /retro/maxxing? I've realized there is no point in denying myself happiness and gigacoziness and I may as well go all in on my retro obsessions even if it's a bit weird. 

I could list a bunch of things I'm doing but I'll start with just a couple here

>film photography
I have never bought a digital camera and I have stopped being a NEET lately. I have a small comfy job so I have some money and I buy rolls of film on occasion and I carry a late '90s point and shoot camera with me almost everywhere I go. It's fun and super comfy. I also started developing black and white film myself, at home.

>computer
I have set up my windows machine to look like windows 98 (not completely accurate but I've changed over the icons and use a classic theme, etc. 

And on my linux machine I have set it up to look like some versions of UNIX from the late 80s to early 90s.

And for my browser I use Pale Moon and I have it set to look like Netscape.

>music
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>>4747
Agora Road? Yes, used to post there more but it's been pretty crowded as of late. Also the demographic seems to have shifted the last couple of years by about 10 years: it's not 20 and 30 year olds as it used to be, it's 15-25 year olds that are there for the aesthetic. I'm not dunking on it, I was into forums at 13, but the tone is way off as the posters were like 5 when vaporwave was in full swing and not even sperm when the retro stuff they profess to enjoy existed. Again, not dunking, it's great they enjoy it, but I feel like the old guy with kids zooming around the room. 
Also bots... some of the members were playing with AI last year and it looks like the models have gotten better. Feels like a handful of honest posts with AI regurgitating the schizo ramblings with the exact same tone but no new insight lately.
>>4748
Similar feeling. I just chat with the old computer nerds at work for my retro fix. They enjoy talking about 1990's tech as much as I do. 

I don't really have an interest in the "Terraria everything" push; nothing for me there. 

Won't that be crazy? Slab phones and apps as retro though.
I have nowhere else to talk about this so I'll post it here

I went to the zoo recently, no phone, just my camera, with some friends, and it was pretty good. It kind of felt like the good old days if that makes any sense
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>>4800
Glad you enjoyed it anon, are you gonna share some photos with us?
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>>4802
Maybe later if I remember.

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What is your favorite operating system? Do you prefer MS-DOS, Windows 3.1, 95, or something else? FreeDOS? Some flavor of Linux?
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Made a new theme on my computer to look a bit like windows 2000. I have been bored with solid color backgrounds so I made this one with some pc98 art I found.
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And here is the wallpaper I made if anyone wants it
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>>4798
Very nice. I'm guessing this is Windows 7?
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>>4801
Yes. And the icons are Windows 2000 icons I found online.
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>>4799
Looking good.

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