I was alone and had no money
Now I am alone and have some money
2000s thread, robots? What was life like for you in that era?
Isaac Russell
Anthony Reed
remember Imesh? kazaa? napster? direct connect? remember streamload? mIRC was where all the action was as far animu and mango was concerned, the fansubs wars,
I remember having my own lil server on my shitty dsl line sharing new anime eps kek, Remmember when Torrents first came into the scene? basically marked the end for fansubbing, online manga readers would do it for the manga channels.
I don't even know if fansubbing is still a thing
Nicholas Bennett
nothing much really maybe just some more forced social interaction with school and what not.. tho the internet seemed way more fun back then, now it's here to just pass the time
Matthew Butler
fuck dude, i totally forgot about fansubbed stuff. Shit, I watched Death note in a fansub before the official english came out in like 2006. fuck me dude ancient fucking history.
Carson Gomez
sucked because I had to live with an arrogant bum of a father
Nathan Garcia
Life was great in the mid-2000's, I was in middle school and going into high school. I lived in the suburbs with a lot of kids in the neighborhood to play with so on the weekends I would play outside until the sun went down. Can't think of a single weekend there wasn't at least one person to hang out with at any given time. Nights were spent with a combination of Halo 2 glitching lobbies with friends from school and grinding on runescape. Simpler times
Parker Brown
>What was life like for you in that era?
A lot of Diablo and age of empires 2. Ps2 was fucking ground breaking when it came out. Blew the dust off console gaming, which had become fucking boring. All RPGs moving to real time combat was a blessing. 3D GTA fucked the landscape up for a while. The era of free roam clones is over, for better or worse. It was still seen as weird for someone to not have internet then, just like it is now. Somehow DVDs looked fucking abhorrent when they first arrived. XP was a godsend. Those Macs with the plastic colours were cool. MP3 players were dogshit until the iPod got it right with the click wheel. iTunes was cancer. Winamp skins were cool. Pokemon was fucking everywhere and it was weird. I genuinely think it was bigger than the marvel stuff is now. Going to a HMV to buy meteora in the big city I drive three hours to get to is a feeling i dont think can be replicated nowadays since everything is much more readily available. This is a good thing, it was bloody annoying to drive half a day to get stuff. eBay was full of WEIRD SHIT. It was NOT the digital storefront it is now. Ironically Yas Forums was more "reddit like" in its humour, tone and maturity level. People went fucking BANANAS over the wii. That one shocked me quite a lot.
It was honestly a lot less different to now than you may think it was.
Nicholas Barnes
I remember reading an issue of Hot Tails online in the early 00s
and seeing hermaphrodites (futa) for the first time and having my mind blown.
So much classic cooming.
Hudson Richardson
The 2000s now feel like a completely different universe with a completely different set of rules.
William Rodriguez
straight shota was the bomb back then my man.