Old online communities you were once a member of that no longer exist

1. 2019-10-28 at 12:49 AM UTC

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   Japan-Is-Eternal Naturally Camouflaged
   Just read sophie's thread and it reminded me of the early 00s up to 2005, that was such a magnificent time.
   It truly is a shame how BBS style forums have died out, how that "Spencer's Gifts" feeling of the internet has gone away and how sterile everything is now.
   Besides TOTSE I used to visit tons of hentai forums, one of which is where I was originally introduced to 4chan, 4chan back then was a completely different website than it is now and was such an interesting place though full of complete assholes, bemanistyle was another forum I would frequent (I was huge into Stepmania).
   It was an incredible time, you could find so many sites with hundreds of thousands of members and thousands of frequent posters, each site had its own culture and feeling.
   All I wanna do is look at a glowing fuzzy CRT monitor and see the dozens of users with Japanese usernames and anime J-culture avatars talking about Final Fantasy X and the newest PS2 games ;_; .....
   Now days everyone's psyche has been so affected by modernity and the passing of time they no longer have the psychological mindset of the mid 00s anymore, I try my hardest to hold on to it myself.
   Maybe once I'm more versed in programming I'll start a website that brings back the early 00s feeling.
2. 2019-10-28 at 12:51 AM UTC

   #2
   Erekshun Naturally Camouflaged
   How old are you? I remember the mid to late 90's Yahoo had the best chat rooms until the bots ruined it.
3. 2019-10-28 at 12:55 AM UTC

   #3
   Japan-Is-Eternal Naturally Camouflaged

   Originally posted by Erekshun How old are you? I remember the mid to late 90's Yahoo had the best chat rooms until the bots ruined it.

   
   Oh fuck yeah Yahoo chat was the shit, I spent SO MUCH time in various chatrooms booting people and trolling.
   I'm 28 but I turn 29 in December, my glory days of the net were when I was 11 - 14.
4. 2019-10-28 at 12:55 AM UTC

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   AngryIVer African Astronaut [my jade controlled morrigan]
   Totse, obviously.
   
   I'm real stubborn when it comes to communities and didn't go to a big smattering. I was part of the Myspace generation back when it was still primarily teenagers, watched it turn into awkward adults, then watched the migration to Facebook. I had random accounts places like Newgrounds and such, but mostly it was Totse.
5. 2019-10-28 at 12:59 AM UTC

   #5
   Erekshun Naturally Camouflaged
   Whether you want to believe it or not, DH was a complete shitshow once they quit moderating it. I joined in 2011 and it shutdown in 2017 I believe. Total anything goes. I really think psycologists were studying human behavior.
6. 2019-10-28 at 1:01 AM UTC

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   AngryIVer African Astronaut [my jade controlled morrigan]

   Originally posted by Erekshun Whether you want to believe it or not, DH was a complete shitshow once they quit moderating it. I joined in 2011 and it shutdown in 2017 I believe. Total anything goes. I really think psycologists were studying human behavior.

   
   How does one just quit moderating a site? Surely somebody had to have given a shit.
7. 2019-10-28 at 1:04 AM UTC

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   Erekshun Naturally Camouflaged

   Originally posted by AngryIVer How does one just quit moderating a site? Surely somebody had to have given a shit.

   
   My only guess is they had advertisement contracts and couldn't just shut it down, my guess is moderators cost money and they just didn't want to pay that. Ask around, DH was a &totse type of place.
8. 2019-10-28 at 1:17 AM UTC

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   AngryIVer African Astronaut [my jade controlled morrigan]

   Originally posted by Erekshun My only guess is they had advertisement contracts and couldn't just shut it down, my guess is moderators cost money and they just didn't want to pay that. Ask around, DH was a &totse type of place.

   
   Totse had moderators though. I don't think any sites pay for mods. It's a voluntary thing.