I remember getting the 4chan frontpage when googling certain images and being mad that I couldn't find them when trying to browse the site, which was difficult to use for me at the time.

I think it was probably around 2005-2006 that I became a regular. I remember this because it was around that time that I got into anime more seriously and stuck around for Eureka 7 threads.

The whole site was basically an extension of /b/ with different topics though. Barely any coherent discussion taking place anywhere

>niggertits

P-P-P-POWERSAGE

I really liked /jp/ back in 2011.

>>29231
Are you me? I had the same exact problem.

Only it was with hentai

some underage kid crossdressed with cum on his face made a thread about how he "bitched up" because no one was home so he did that lay back on your shoulders thing and jerked off on himself.

I saved all the pictures, a 30+ year old man from sweden posted himself in a picture with the post "I want to lick your face". He had a rolled cigarette dangling from his mouth and had a compound bow hanging on his wall. I used that picture he posted for the longest time to catfish people, like calling people niggers, posting that pic and saying it was me etc. dumb shit.

was a long time ago.

>>29272
this was round 2008 time or so

I had been browsing ED since 0607 or so and after getting my feet wet on 4chan my first "raid" was on Pruane2Forever's "screw you porn addicts" so I vividly remember this time.


looked him up cause of this thread. he shut down his channel last spring it seems.

hyperactive dweeb, grew up to became a depressed loser.

reminds me of me. reminds me of a lot of me. too bad.

probably lemonparty

From the time when I actually started lurking it'd probably be stuff like SHOOP DA WHOOP, cockmongler etc.
I stumbled upon it much earlier but I didn't even know any english then so I didn't understand shit and eventually forgot about it.
I think I discovered it again when media started reporting on DOMESTIC TERRORISM and scientology shit. People say it's when it went to shit so I'll always feel like a permanewfag.
Left probably 2013, maybe even 12 for some smaller places that eventually withered and died or changed for worse. Haven't browsed much in last year or two and most of the sites I have bookmarked are gone or dying now.
Every couple of months I get this feeling that I want to go back but I don't really know any places anymore.
Do you browse any other imageboards? Do you still find it fun or is it just a habit?
I thought I was doing myself a favor when I quit, many people were saying the same when they were going but for me nothing really filled that void. It's not like I ever had a "life" to go back to.

A lot of the mid 2000's 4chanism already mentioned itt I came across when i'd spend most of my time on the old YouTube community. I was young so I believed most of the rumors that hinted 4chan being the most fucked up place on the internet. Didn't start browsing well into what most of you would consider it's comatose state.
>>29350
This is the only imageboard I browse. I've become so increasingly alienated with the internet as whole that i'm unsure as to what to do next. I think I might have found another clue as to why NEETs past the age of 25 that post are so rare. Someone on here has shared similar sentiments, hope he's doing alright...
http://tohno-chan.com/so/arch/res/9508.html

>>29350
>Do you browse any other imageboards? Do you still find it fun or is it just a habit?

8chan's /late/, /kind/ and /jp/, sushichan (sushigirl.us), sometimes uboachan's /ot/ and 76chan's /sp/. I still enjoy imageboards, I just don't enjoy 4chan.

>Every couple of months I get this feeling that I want to go back but I don't really know any places anymore.

Small imageboards pop up and disappear all the time, you just have to look around and keep exploring to find new places to enjoy!

>>29442
The guy who owns uboachan is the exact type of facebook kiddie trash who made you hate 4chan to begin with. Michael D. Reilly of San Jose, CA to be exact.

>>29447
I haven't had any issues with him. He took over sushichan after itamae disappeared so I talked to him a bit on /yakuza/ before the traffic picked back up and he was pretty friendly.

>>29447
he lives in sacramento now and is drug-addicted human garbage

>>29450
>is drug-addicted

everyone on the internet doesn't just find out you're a drug addict by accident. its just more of the same type of public posturing flaming assholes like that love to do. hows everyone know? did he post it to his instagram or something?

oh he hard now - respek

>>29453
it's all he and his butt buddies talk about on their irc. i heard he was using the site to arrange drug deals too. rozencrab never should have given him the sight, tsukihime was doing fine.

>>29456
committing crimes in public view is a really fantastic pose
in fact there is no other reason to commit crimes in public view
most criminals are more concerned with avoiding the penalties of getting caught than they are with how cool they look doing it.

Dick

>>29273
Jawsus isn't looking too bad honestly.

I first found out about 4chan in late 2011. I remember still posting when you had to post noko in the email field, niggers tounge my anus, the Heaven copypasta, the guy that posted all of his pissjars every year and that's what I remember from that era. I used to post on /b/, /f/ and /a/ most of the time, /f/ was definetely the best and most fun of the bunch. Sometime in late 2012 a guy made a thread about those "hidden" (lmao) boards that moot supposedly keeps from the public aka. world4ch. /f/ and world4ch used to have no captcha I recall.

Though world4ch was slow as shit and spammed to hell and back I have the most fond memories on there. /anime/ was a great board; loved the Amagami challenge threads. I think I even made the very last or one of the last threads on there and /vip/. /prog/ was always hilarious as shit and still is a good place to be at. I remember a bunch of shit from /lounge/ too, funny as hell. Ever since I've been more interested in textboards and spinoffs and less interested in /b/ and 4chan in general until I stopped to post only on /jp/ and its spinoffs and then drop 4chan completely and move on to 8jp (which is shit) and then 4taba (which is decent).

Nowadays I have an on-off relationship with imageboards, sometimes I post on a handfull of boards and sites and sometimes I post nowhere. I don't know how it's with you guys, considering that most of you seem to have been involved with imageboards for more than a decade now. For me it's "only" been half a decade. I remember 2011-late 2013 fondly, though you guys probably consider the time utter shit. I guess I was younger then too.

Sorry for the CV, I thought this thread was a good oppurtunity for me to recap on those last 5 years. To think I was 14 back then lol

>>29933
You're still young enough to make it. Run while you still can.

The board, /z/. I think I may have had a chance at a normal life had I not started browsing 4chan at such a young age.

Epic Fail Guy threads were hilarious.
Not sure if it's actually the oldest thing I remember, but he's one of my favorite memes from the pre-Chanology era.

>>30098
sounds about right

>>24146
peep the frog
and that feel
epic memes, simply epic

>>30104
I've never been able to forget this one. In fact, I was thinking about it a couple of days ago.

>>30099
why was the post I replied to get deleted? it was a perfectly valid reply.

can we please keep the meme frog off of tc? it's only used by normalfags/failed normalfags.

>>30110
While I agree it's an eyesore, within the context of this thread it seems harmless.

I didn't go on 4chan until pretty late in the sites existence, but I think it was kind of a strange case where 4chan didn't really impact my life because I never had "a life" at any point in my childhood or late teens. I've been sitting inside alone since day one, I can't ever leave imageboards because I don't know anything else.

I still like /out/ and /toy/. /ck/ is pretty funny sometimes but makes me too hungry to browse.

oh and I'm a 2007 newfag shoop da whoop

4chan just turned 18. How time flies....

>>38825
Everything that once had some relevance in my life happened, more or less, 20 years ago. Like if the period between 1998-2004 concentrated all.

>Funnily enough, there were few 2D purists back then and most otaku were interested in 3D.

From personal experience, in the west at least, serious 2d purism and waifuism wasn't widespread until at least 2010.

This thread getting bumped was bizarre, it's odd/a bit amusing how much worse things have gotten, but I am also glad that a lot of the imageboard world no longer cares or perhaps realizes that it is futile to complain about it anymore.

RIP Rich "Lowtax" Kyanka? Is this rumor true?

>>38932
I assume so based on https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3984488

>>38933
Schmorky did it

moot's next.

I haven't given a shit about SA in nearly 15 years and by all accounts he was a shitty guy, but I still felt a little sad about the news, especially after hearing it was a suicide. I thought his stuff was funny when I was a kid new to the internet, and my life wouldn't have been the same without him.

/a/ getting raided by some swiss peado's
I want to say in 09?

Milhouse is not a meme (is a meme).

4chan(nel) is up...

>>24146
Waha~

>quite open with the fact that he was a pedophile (standards were different back then I think)
>Being a pedophile is cool to all of the edgy kids these days, isn't it?
>Im actually happy with pro-pedo sentiment on internet forums. I know legit 'pedophiles' IRL who I know from anime cons and clubs etc.

Pretty surreal reading this now. 8 years can make quite a difference. Most pepe spamming, self-proclaimed "free speech advocates" can't so much as tolerate loli.

>>40198
I think the internet no longer being really, truly edgy is its greatest loss in recent times. What's the point of an internet where not even posters on imageboards can handle anything at anytime anymore?

I was introduced to it in about 2009, or so I think. I don't think I started browsing it regularly until 2010, though.

I honestly think my earliest memory was /v/ exposing me to Nier's OST. My whole idea of music was like, pop music, jazz music, pop music from the previous few decades, and Classical and so, upon hearing Nier's OST, I remember the revelation that music could even sound like this.
/v/ also exposed me to "Cliffs" by Aphex Twin, which I think was another early experience. Again, I had never heard of Aphex Twin, I had never listened to "IDM" either, so the atmosphere in this "music" just blew me away. Turns out songs don't have to be 3-minutes and catchy.

I have faint memories of browsing /b/ and /v/ before a catalog existed and there was no captcha. Must've been around 2006, I remember the site going down regularly. Remember "MOOT ARCHIVE THIS THREAD" because there were no archives. External catalogs started appearing some years later but they were unwieldy most of the time. It was a wild west, a hot spurting volcano of original content where only the spiciest, most spammed memes managed to survive.

We've lost so much.

>>40198
I feel like that's a reaction to prude (complete LARP), conservative, unironic fecesbook boomer, /pol/wheenie tourists invading all the boards on 4chan with their mind virus. The stats don't lie, there's been a huge influx of new people since 2016. 4chan at its core is about being a contrarian, whatever is mainstream or popular with a certain group will make 4chan hate it or start liking the opposite of it.

Since /pol/fags try to LARP as prude christians people will spam things that will get a raise out of them like transsexuals, fembois, lolicon etc but it only serves to further increase the amount of shitposting and shitflinging instead of ameliorating discussion quality.

>>40281
>4chan at its core is about being a contrarian
Which is why it was always garbage.
>people will spam things that will get a raise out of them like transsexuals, fembois, lolicon etc
I like lolis all on their own. There's nothing ironic about it.

>>40282
>I like lolis all on their own. There's nothing ironic about it.
For most otaku that's normal and part of the culture, but for people outside of the culture they just use loli as a tool to push their ideologies. It's all very annoying. Yet lolicon has been a thing since the 80s at least and these people didn't care nor did they even know it existed.