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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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>>5169
Same to you.
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The world has seen many empires rise and fall, and among them is one I find personally fascinating but little discussed: the American corporate empire of the late 20th century. While other empires conquered the world with guns and soldiers, corporations harnessed spirits of computer machinery to fight wars in cyberspace with Christmas catalogues as their propaganda posters. The bones of this empire have persisted into the current day as world-grasping monsters or corpses picked over by scavengers, but I wish to focus upon brighter, fuller days.

To a lot of people who grew up during this era or after it, "empire" probably doesn't feel like the right word. It just seemed natural for America to be leading the world economy and producing the best computers, movies, and bikini models. Partially I was just young and optimistic, but in hindsight that era definitely had the guts to fill the three-piece, eight-hundred-dollar, one-hundred-per-cent-cashmere suit it wore to the office.

And the office! Look at it!

The office was a place with its own culture, its own manners of dress and address. You were expected to look and act a certain way, to be formal but not too detached. Business casual suits and pencil skirts just make people look good, even the rank and file. There were phrases and customs that needed to be respected. For many people, the office was a second home - sometimes literally, depending on deadlines. It was a beautiful mixture of ruthless work and human friendsh
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>>5202 (OP) 
I completely get what you mean. These kinds of images from the aesthetics thread illustrate what come to mind for me, especially when paired with smooth-jazz-like background music. The "den5" image doesn't quite feel as upscale as what's in my head though. I picture a more minimal and classy-looking computer setup and darker walls, with maybe more simplified decorations. I'd also nix the file tray and pen holder and add a skyscraper view. And a green marble desk too. For whatever reason, my mind always jumps to green marble surfaces. I'm not bashing the way the guy made the image, but I think it looks too middle management for the subject at hand. It should look like the type of office you could picture a suave but potentially villainous CEO character sitting in in a sci-fi movie from decades ago. He could be poised confidently with his hands in a scholars' cradle position as the majordomo of his operation leads the protagonist into his den, or maybe he could be self-assuredly surveying the city outside his window in a moment of repose.
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Looks like none of the images in the catalog work. Let's get a fresh thread in here, focused on computers!

I don't have pictures at the moment to share, but I got lucky today and picked up a nice big beige computer case. I'm assembling a new personal computer from parts that I got deals on, found in the junk heap, or that I was given by friends.

So, I guess it's not really a /retro/ computer, but it will be in a /retro/ case, and I plan to get an adapter which will let me use a 3.5" floppy disk drive in there. The adapter plugs into the floppy pins, and presents a USB interface to the motherboard. That adapter is under $10 USD.

In fact, I've seen an adapter card that will do the same but for 5.25" floppy disk drives. So, when I have more money, I should be able to have not only a 3.5" FDD, but a 5.25" FDD in my system, running alongside new solid state drives, Blu-Ray disc drives, and of course a few regular hard drives. It should be pretty fun.

Again, no pictures yet but I will share with you guys when I can. For now I'll just post one from my collection.

What have you guys been up to?
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So you can turn pretty much any computer capable of running MS-DOS into a serial console for *NIX. And I guess you could use FreeDOS instead of MS-DOS if you want more freedom.
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>>5196
Thanks that was neat.
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>>5196
Basically, everyone did this back in the day. The only difference is they had a modem connected to the serial port (or just an ISA card with the modem built-in) and then they used AT commands to configure modem settings and dial into a remote system (such as a BBS, or Unix ISP).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes_command_set
In fact, I kept using the same AT commands when I first installed Linux on my 486, because I had no SLIP or PPP account at my ISP. They only gave us plain old Unix shell accounts. So I would run Minicom and then proceed exactly as I did in DOS. That means then entire Linux TCP/IP stack wasn't used at all, because you don't get assigned an IP address when you just dial in like this. If the call completes successfully (remote end isn't busy and there's no hankshake errors) you just got dumped into a shell prompt at a terminal server, and from there you'd use telnet to connect to your assigned Unix host (where you had to login with username and password). If you wanted to transfer files to/from your PC, you had to use ZModem protocol, or else you could probably use Kermit but I never installed that because I was already familiar with the Telix style comms software. That's a unfortunate, because Kermit is much more capable, so I wish I'd tried it at least.
In fact, y
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No.5200 
>>5198
And how did the process of subscribing work? As in, did they mail you an instruction booklet alongside your username and password, and maybe a floppy with telix to make sure that you can log in?
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No.5201 
>>5200
I don't know how it worked for other people, but for me it went like this:
> Ordered parts over the phone to build a 486 PC to run Doom in 1994. I already had the 3-episode game on floppy disk (copied from someone else). They also copied the MSDOS 6 install disks for me.
> Received box of parts in the mail, put everything together, played a lot of Doom!
> Some month later bought a 14.4K modem from a local store. In the box was also a floppy disk with very basic comms software (not as nice as Telix, but enough to get started).
> Called some local BBS that I found the number for somewhere (probably in a magazine?) Anyway I don't remember which board it was exactly. But from here I quickly found numbers for many, many other local BBS, and wrote them down, and started calling them.
The way it works on BBS is you have to login with username/password. But if you don't have an account, you can create one and enter your personal infos like real name, address, phone number, and whatever username/password you want to use on that board. Then the sysop will review it and probably OK it, unless you're a known lamer (troublemaker). Then the next time you call the BBS, you'll find out if your account is active, or if you were denied.
I didn't get Internet access until later on, when
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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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No.5123 
>>5122
Forgot the link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GopherVR
No.5125 
AI generated web 1.0 wiki
https://grokipedia.com/
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Only Internet memories are vaguely watching my dad and brother use a BBS, and seeing others typing in real time in an actually instant messenger that doesn't exist anywhere anymore as far as I know, then timeskip from the mid-90's to early 00's and been active online since.
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>>5081
Why miss it when you can go to Marginalia and Wiby, or hell IRC and Gopher and BBS and Usenet, RIGHT NOW?
No.5199 
https://www.livinginternet.com/
I've only read the parts about usenet so far, but it seems to be a collection of neat little articles focusing on people and anecdotes.
https://www.livinginternet.com/u/ui_alt.htm

>From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid)
>Message-Id: <8804040154.AA01236@woodpecker.dec.com>
>Date: 3 Apr 1988 1754-PST (Sunday)
>To: backbone@purdue.edu, chiefdan@vax1.acs.udel.edu,
>mejac!hoptoad!gnu@decwrl.dec.com
>Subject: Re: soc.sex final results
>In-Reply-To: Gene Spafford / Sun, 03 Apr 88 18:22:36 EST.
><8804032322.AA15650@arthur.cs.purdue.edu>

>To end the suspense, I have just created alt.sex.
>That meant that the alt network now carried alt.sex and
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My grandfather introduced me to "All in the Family" the other day, and I started binge watching it out of a sense of...how edgy it was.  Like this is something that would not come out today.
Some time ago, I was reading some old Usenet posts and thought, "Holy cow, how did this not get banned/deleted?"  Post/users like that would just immediately get scrubbed now.
I recently saw "Freddie Got Fingered" and was kind of amazed that that was in theaters.

Was the 90s more tolerant than today?  Was everything really this edgy?  Or is this some sort of weird survival bias?  The only thing today that I can think of that comes anywhere close is Southpark, but I'm not sure that counts because Southpark came out in the 90s.
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No.5187 
>>5186
>I guess it's been out of usage for a very long time. Maybe it's time to bring it back? 
It fell out of favour to such a degree that a bunch youtubers had to save the source code:
https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=CUwR9xdEuZI
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No.5189 
>>5186
>>5187
Wow, these are really interesting. Thanks Anons!
No.5190 
>>4516 (OP) 
>All in the Family
>this is something that would not come out today
There were rumors of remake, but it seems that no studio wanted to go there
>>4525
>Archie Bunker was a character who was supposed to make the people he's patterned after look bad. It ended up backfiring when audiences end up liking him and identifying with him.
This. From what I've seen of All in the Family there is an aspect to it that is even common place in many contemporary Netflix shows and that is the moralizing. Even back then, the Archie Bunker character couldn't exist on television as some neutral character study about an otherwise unremarkable funny old guy who had his opinions, but wasn't going out of his way to hurt anyone and, as an unremarkable funny old guy, didn't have the power to oppress anyone, yet that character had to serve as the foil for how not to be and his worldview was often the butt of the jokes. Other shows produced by Norman Lear are similar in this respect in that on the surface they appear as superficial comedies, but they wouldn't have been broadcast if not for the ideology that they were espousing.
>Was the 90s more tolerant than today?
In some ways, yes, but as far as mainstream me
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No.5192 
>>5190
>insufferable aspect of so much mainstream media having to be these stealth ideological and moral allegories rather than just telling a straight story for the sake of it.
It would have all been more "sufferable" but for one basic fact: kikes did (and do) run everything in Hollyjew.

That effectively ensures that all the 'stories' line up *  according to the ((( script ))), and that anyone who gets out of line (cf. Mel Gibson) gets blackballed permanently. Thankfully Mel had staying power out of his own pockets and the fact he was incredibly-popular with audiences.

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*  Hollywood is highly "incestuous" (their term): everybody knows everybody. This both makes it hard to break into, and easy to be punitive towards anyone going against the ((( narrative ))) code.
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>>5187
Unfortunately I get errors with yt-dlp even after upgrading all my installed packages, so I can't watch their video. In fact the OS did upgrade the yt-dlp package to a newer version, but it's still "too old" for youtube's shenanigans. The yt-dlp program recommended me to use "pip" to install an entire second set of Python stuff, but I think that's not worth the hassle. And anyway this pretty much illustrates just how aggravating the modern internet has become. I still remember when video files were simply downloaded into your web browser's cache directory, and you could just copy it to another directory in your $HOME to save it. That was simple enough! But then they had to change it, make everything super-duper complicated and require obnoxious workarounds to extract the video and audio streams, and then run ffmpeg to recombine them into a container format like .webm or .mp4 or whatnot. When everything magically works, that still sucks because ffmpeg runs like molasses on ARM hardware. Video playback with ffplay is no problem, but video editing with ffmpeg takes ages! So I'm just going to save myself the headache and simply delete this youtube downloader nonsense. From now on, if I can't just grab a video file directly, I'm not going to bother at all.
And basically this is what I was getting at earlier. We used to host files on FTP servers, Gopher servers, and so on. That's still possible today, those pro
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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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No.5164 
>>5162
thank you for sharing this gem
No.5166 
I guess I never shared it here, but Pizza Tower spawned a ton of VHS-style retro animation when it released back in 2023. The Noise update the following year helped keep it going.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=7jbjeF0-kMA
No.5171 
>>4348
New Anna Logue dropped just in time for Christmas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFtaWTzPLP4
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Happy New Year
I'm that 1 anon who's been curating animation and art that excels in imitating older aesthetics since 2022. This year I've decidied to focus on my personal animation and life, so it'll be a while till my next post

Found an animator named Skarmuse, their art/animation evokes late 90s cg renders projected onto film like those cinemark promos with the cats. 
Some of the animation has anachronistic issues but the key idea is there thanks to coloring, rendering, and bitrate compression/filters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpX9c0BIG6g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms5f_vNbOyk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGosrHDwd2w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3uQv3p4cww
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owzOe4Bhc2U

I really enjoy this thread, its been super inspirational for my creative process, probably the best use of the 4chan format in my opinion
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No.5185 
>>5173
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Ge4KQjv4Q

Would you say Planetronika counts?

>>5171
Ten minutes of Anna. That was pretty good, and I'm glad the cast is being introduced.
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No.4537 
>>4536
Not sure if that's the guy but I was looking for him as well, I'll message him and see if it is.
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>>3186
>look up his site
>he's still at it
HE HAS A KITTY
No.4630 
>>4531
Wow, I see these wallpapers when I am unconscious. I always wondered where it was from.
No.4857 
is frutiger aero retro already?
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>>4857
Many people would say so. I don't think I would though.
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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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No.5094 
>>5063
I bought the Commodore 64x case for mitx. They're still offering it. I tried to shill (raise awareness) of it over the years. Sean who's one of the people involved with this even though Perifractic is the point man is a great guy.
>>5072
Maybe you should tell that to Leo on his forum for 'Commodore' OS.
>>5087
Spectrum was already brought back?
No.5095 
>>5093
Yeah, that's what I figured. I'm going to have to see what I can find.
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>>5063
https://archive.md/https://www.indieretronews.com/2025/10/the-a1200-full-size-full-keyboard-full.html
There is also an Amiga 1200 emulator now.
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No.5143 
>>5142
Neat! Thanks, Anon.
No.5175 
I just found this 90's site which is compatible with windows 3.1 , win95 and win98

https://lifeseven.com/1990s/
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I know this is gonna sound weird, but you ever feel a sense of nostalgia for hentai you enjoyed from back in the day?


The 90's and 2000's had some good titles, and I'll include a lot of the 80's titles in this as well since most of them didn't get released in the West until the 90's or early 2000's.


IIRC, Legend of the Overfiend came out in 1987 in Japan but did not get a release in the West until 1993.


I think the first three parts of the Urotsukidoji OVA was the first hentai release in America ever.


Central Park Media took the different OVA installments of Urotsukidoji and edited them into four feature-length movies, the first of which got a limited theatrical release in the 90's.
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>>5 (OP) 
In a few ways I do, I'm fond of the stuff I grew up with, at the same time I feel it was bad for me to have access to so much stuff from such a young age with the internet and all, it made my brain less sensible to this stuff, to the point where when it was time to finally do it for real, I suffered from ED for months, even now I'm still not perfect, though I'm a lot better, and when I want to make sure I'll pull it off I just use some medication, which back then barely worked because my case was so bad, now it's a treat. Anyways, besides the ED, I feel like the constant need for more stimulus made me develop unrealistic expectations, and fetishes I don't feel proud off, but can't get rid off no matter how long I stay away from all kinds of pornography, I should've used it less.

It's a double edged sword for me.
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>bring up some good old fashioned hentai
>look over the pages robotically
>no longer horny
>imagine having a gf
>instantly very horny and very angry and very sad
Could just be me getting older, but when I was younger almost everything got me fired up really easily. It takes a lot more to titillate me these days.
No.4996 
I focus on AI these days with very carefully curated text erotica it can be great but only when I really manage to get immersed and don't end up writing stupid shit or the AI slopped everything up. I don't think I have changed much tbh, it's just that everything that's out there is so crappy. 70s and 80s porn and 00s early internet amateur kind of stuff was often pretty good and still is if you look at it now. If I open any regular pornsite nowadays I just get disgusted. The people are ugly and what they do is gross. I don't think it's me, either.
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No.4997 
>>4996
genAI porn is like having a bottomless pit in your brain. It's truly going to be the distinction between people who can control themselves and people who can only be led around by surges of brain chemicals.

Getting my mind back took years after I'd spent formative years training myself on "regular" porn. Having infinite media that looks 85% close to your mental image will do horrible things to the human mind.
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>Slut Girl
>Spunky Knight
>Cool Devices
>Bondage Fairies
>50 gorillion amateur illustrations of Goku & Sailor Moon
There were good times, to be sure.

>>4996
>If I open any regular pornsite nowadays I just get disgusted. The people are ugly and what they do is gross. I don't think it's me, either.
This. I can't stand 99.8% of 3D. Once in a VERY blue moon I'll look into some OF chick who's legitimately attractive, save a few pics, and move on. Won't even fap, just "oh, this one's cute."

Everything else either streams of gross white trash jerking off between shifts at Dollar General or plastic-looking "AI SLAVE TO FUCK SHE HAS TO DO IT CLICK HERE." The fact that neither has slowed down their relentless ads means that they're actually popular, there's some malign agenda behind them, or bith.
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Post cool /retro/ ads and TV commercials
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No.5098 
>>5097
Hearty lulz
No.5114 
Nokia used to run ads with some serious cuties on them. Wish I could find those wallpapers again, stupidly didn't name them.
No.5149 
>>2612
If you dig around, you can find the full video. There's other women in it and it's all topless nudity. It feels slightly pornographic (even though nothing explicit happens) but the real intention apparently was art. I got curious because I miss 00s "amateur" porn. That stuff today is just kinda gross imo.
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No.5160 
>>5149
You should share the link with the class, you teaser!
https://archive.org/details/howtohavecybersexontheinternet1996
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