/retro/ - Y2K

Just being able to hold onto something, look at it, manipulate it in your hands is becoming a thing of the past. It's still possible, going for thrift or markets, or small time stores still gives that to you, but the whole rental aspect is sadly and truly dead.

>>477
This.
I miss more when owning your movies/music was the norm, before streaming took over. Sure you can still buy physical CDs/DVDs, but nowadays those get released less and less. Also you have shit like Bluray that will outright refuse to play on certain devices... On the bright side we can now rip music from streaming platforms so I guess that's the next best thing?

I have a Family Video near me that's going strong ever since Blockbuster went bust.

>>831
The one where I live went out of business recently. It's sad, but I was glad it was able to hang on for so long.

Some of my fondest early childhood memories include renting Super Nintendo games from a Family Video store.

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>>475 (OP) 
It's odd... on one hand, what we have now, especially if you consider the ease of piracy aswell, is essentially my childhood dream, and yet, now that I have it, I yearn for what I once had, at a time where I longed for what I have now... is the human being just impossible to please? Is it just nostalgia? I'm not sure, but perhaps I simply overestimated how good having infinite choices was, and the limitations made something like a single choice for a weekend feel like the most special thing, anyways I do miss them.

>>4814
>2012
ahem not retro :^)
My email account is from like 2002

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>>4816
Mine's from 98, Yahoo.

>>4814
I believe its from 2008, I forgot any older ones.

>>4816
I made my gmail acct when it was in beta, I'm guessing that was ~2004, off the top of my head?

>>4105
In my case, I got locked out of the account because I didn't give them my number.
Next time, I'll try to give them another throwaway email to confirm.

>>4132
Same. Fuck microsoft.

>>4814
Weeb and scanlation forums from '08, 09
They're dead but some are still online, I visit them occasionally like graveyards

>>4513
>driving a 23 year old car
What's wrong about this one. Cars from 90's and 00's are about the best ones, having just the right amount of electronics and tech while still being quite repairable.

I'm not sure. I will always like things that are old compared to the present moment because that's what shakes out of all the torrents of trash. In twenty years we will still be here pining for what we don't yet know was gold in 2025. I look up psytrance music that was made before I was born because all modern psytrance sounds exactly the same and surprisingly often has Rick and Morty voice samples, which I find obnoxious.

>>4651
I have never had the misfortune to encounter such samples. How do they even use it?

>>4670
How should I explain it to you? They're cringy voice clips of Rick talking and burping interspersed throughout the FL Studio default percussion presets. They've been in every non-Goa psytrance mix I've loaded up since 2020, so I just turn it off and see what 90's Israeli psy is worth listening to that I haven't heard already.

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>>4494 (OP) 
1. If you enjoy older things, that doesn't stop you from enjoying modern ones too, even if less.

2. A lot of times the older alternative is the cheapest, with things like emulation of retro video games, in this economy it's not a bad thing to prefer older things that are cheaper and/or you already own.

3. It's natural to prefer things we're already familiar with due to the sense of safety we get from it.

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>>4077
hi thar rHAd mai name is //\\TerboDworf//\\ and i am a dworf irl, tha tmens 'in real life" , normally i doun liek teh emoz but u seem cool do u wanan be frenz?/ :O
i like 2 b a snekky dowrf who stayz in teh dark  , so maybe im a little emo maiself :PPP

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On the topic of old funposting, I was troubleshooting some Windows issues several years ago and I found pic 2 on a Windows tech forum. Truth is stranger than fiction, it seems.

>>1956
jnco or die

>>2123
S&M jnco's

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I was a warez d00d, in the 90's. I started out on BBS's and got to hang out with some warez board sysops and one time I brought my PC to their house because that was the quickest way to upload files to them. Fun fact: my 14.4k modem could transfer a 1.44 MB floppy disk image in 15 minutes. But I was running DOS and so during that time the PC was unavailable for any other tasks. I also tried my hand at running a BBS, but it didn't last very long, because like I said DOS only did one thing at a time. That was before I found out about Desqview, which was basically a multi-tasking hack add-on for DOS. And by that time I was already on Internet, so didn't care about BBS anymore.
On the Internet, I of course did more warez, especially since now I was free of daily upload/download ratios. I spent lots of time on IRC and at one point joined a scene group that did warez releases and ANSi art. I don't want to say which, but it wasn't one of the bigger ones. People used to trade warez directly on IRC via /dcc or upload the files to some FTP sites. Most of the time the FTP site admins had no clue their FTP was being used to store warez. It was usually hidden in strange or invisible directory names with embedded control codes for obfuscation. We had lists (txt files) of the currently known FTP sites with the exact strings to type for accessing the files. Usually they lasted quite some time before the site admin caught on (probably from all the extra bandwidth usage). We also had lists of

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>>2068
> mallcore
Uh uhhuhuhh huh. I think he means like Winger or something. xD

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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.

>>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 

>>4413
I love Duran Duran!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbFAUFTMtLE

>>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?

>>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.

>>4685
I watched Planetes, but it was years ago. About the only things I remember now are the opening scene of the disaster caused by the orbiting bolt, and the fact the 12yo girl was as big as a fullgrown woman.

>>4685
What all's good about it?

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>>4690
The Lunarian girl, yeah. It was nice to see a series that had science fiction concepts like people living on the moon and added details like the health problems a human would face growing up and going through puberty at a fraction of Earth gravity.

>>4692
The number one thing I can say about both the anime and the manga is that they are absolutely gorgeous. The manga was published in 1999, so stylistically it combines the 90s grit with the more human proportions and style that became prevalent in the 00s. Visually, the manga is a beautiful blend of highly detailled mechanical stuff and endearing human characters with incredible detail put into the backgrounds and set dressing. The anime is also very detailled given that it aired in 2003-04, around the time that anime began to lose its way and rely too much on digital shortcuts.

The anime is also incredibly sound on a technical level, which is especially impressive since so much of the series takes place in zero-gravity, low-G, and normal-G environments, the characters often require a fundamentally different approach to how they're animated. It'd be really easy to have a lot of bland, slideshow shots of them sliding across stiff backgrounds, but whenever the characters aren't in normal-G environments they actually move like it. The sound design underscores this too: the 

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>>4700
Some examples of the anime addressing how astronauts actually move around in zero-G environments.

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I've filmed a little bit of original XBOX gameplay for an unrelated project, hope it fits the aesthetic.

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New York City March 17 2000
Video from St. Patrick's Day March 17, 2000
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0WEgeQ814w

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Concorde's Take-off over the Neighbourhood
Video from user Maguirerichardson, Heathrow UK, 2003

By now a famous video showing a small glimpse of bri'ish everyday life in big city suburbs, many of the video's visual cues are pure early-00's.

>>4489
Jesus fuck imagine living there

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cosplay in Japan 1999
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50RjM376Gzo

ManlyBadassHero routinely brings out indie horror titles big and small which draw from those days. 

There's even a HOI4  mod called Twilight of the Anthropocene which old msn-style news pages to get across events. Think there was another one in development with similar ideas of presentation.

So it's happening. Any other finds you can see?

>>2221 (OP) 
A "generation" (I hate this whole concept but it can be useful) is generally considered to last 25 years, thus I bet on the resurgence (and bastaridzation) of Y2K on the year 2025

>>2225
>The 80s will keep getting milked for generations to come, even kids nowadays are nostalgiafagging over the decade, believe it or not.

Sadly, this.

The 1980's are the new 1950's. 

From the early 1970's up until around 2010 or so, the 1950's/early 1960's was the go-to "retro" era for stereotypical normie nostalgia-fagging and now the 1980's is being treated the same way

>>2242
Do you seriously not remember what visual kei was? Bands like psycho le cemu and malice mizer?

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>you lived long enough to see a throwback rave for the Y2K generation
Anyone live in/near Ohio?

https://bsky.app/profile/desktopgeneration.com/post/3lewphbvtvk2h

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>>342 (OP) 
Interesting, thanks for sharing. I wonder how secure/private will this be?

>>344
I could see myself using this just to see Winks again.

>>344
I use escargot, even if it's just to keep it opening automatically with windows (msn is very light) and the icon in the taskbar. I tested with friends and works pretty fine, but have some major issues: offline messages don't work and, if I'm right, messages aren't saved in the history.

Post your screennames dudes. We could start a /retro/ chatroom later
VibriVibRibbon

>>349
BillSaysHi
I've never used AIM before, was mostly an MSN dude...

>>344
>Anyone know if there's one for classic ICQ?
Since it's been years from the last post in this thread, I'll second this question. ICQ was the one everyone used around my place. I wonder if anyone works on it, but since I can't find anything mysefl, I guess the answer is no.