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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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>>4451
I didn't mean to completely abandon my banner for almost a month. Here's a version with no uri.
Would this font work?

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>>4461
Nice.

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Which ones are your favorites?

Pic related
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I've been rewatching Malcolm in the Middle over the last couple months and it's aged like wine. Not only is the whole vibe and aesthetic completely bang on for the late 90s/early 00s Y2K era, the cultural foundations of what good and bad were had yet to completely rot away. Malcolm is a gifted kid who hates his family but also wants to escape them because they act like idiots, his older brother Reese beats him up and wears too much hair gel, and his parents are both working shitty jobs just to make ends meet.

Francis, the oldest son who caused the most trouble, starts the series in military school, then hitchhikes to Alaska, then gets married to an Inuit woman, gets rich from a land buyout and drives down to somewhere in the desert and finds an eccentric German man who owns a dude ranch, gets hired as foreman with zero experience, and goes from being an immature whiny bitch ranting into a phone receiver to a man with a job who has real responsibilities. His character arc is incredible, funny, and genuine - and he's not even the main character.

I'm six seasons in now and there genuinely hasn't been a single bad episode, which is more than I can say for many other long-running series. One thing I'd forgotten about the show is how cartoony and out-of-left-field a lot of the jokes and story beats could be. You get a good mix of wordplay, visual gags, and dramatic irony in almost every episode.
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>>4612
The subtle background continuity for each of the characters had great payoffs in later seasons.
- Malcolm goes from middle school to high school to considering college and potentially getting into foreign exchange programs.
- Reese discovers he's an incredibly gifted cook, but has more fun beating up nerds so he squanders his potential.
- Dewey gets put into a class for emotionally stunted kids and turns to music in order to have some kind of emotional vent.
- Hal's company gets investigated for CEO embezzlement and everyone conspires to pin the blame on him, but because he's been such a bad employee over the years he physically couldn't have done what he's been accused of.

I think the only real exception to this is Lois getting pregnant and having another kid, although I suspect that was due to Jane Kaczmarek having a kid IRL.
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>>4613
The webms only have background music and sound effects, no speech... Are they supposed to be like that?
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>>4614
Must be a browser issue on your end. They played fine on my machine in MPV.net and the opera.webm is working on LibreWolf when I play it here. 

joke.mp4 and eggs.mp4 don't load for me, either inline or when viewing the source. Perhaps these webms will work.
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They're all playing for me now.

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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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>>4508
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebKCY4z0FGE  The artist's work continues. I encourage you to watch as well as listen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulH05Ha5rkU Any idea what the deal is with this "I Miss the Quiet" stuff?
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>>4593
I'm impressed, I didn't realize this is what EXE fans are doing these days.
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>>4600
Legitimate surprise how well the instrumentation the medium while the vocals combine the style with vaporwave and menace.
GildedGuy's got a new animation premiering on the 21st and there's a one-time multiplayer game carnival fair to go along with it.
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=QqbT0N_gNKw

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>These guys think they're bad because they walk slow...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRiH3jNE7OY
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I knew a bummder once who enveloped a briefcase up his arsehole only when he was "in his finding himself"-phase it's alroight it'll have spurned the OP, onto much bigger and brighter things you shiitin' mong bus wanker

>t. retro 1999
>discover Los Angeles: Critical Mass through YouTube suggestions like everyone else did
>love every track from it
>the guy who put it all together put out Critical Mass Vol. 2 late last year when he saw how popular it got
>it's not that good
i wouldn't call it a bad album, but it all feels really mediocre compared to the original. and i don't think that's my nostalgia speaking, i just don't think it's that special of an album especially compared to the masterpiece of CM1. what a shame.
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=7HZSuUagrwk
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Daily reminder that zoom zoom will never experiance good music being produced in the era of their life time.
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>>4589

Bruh, you don't know where to look

https://pressuredome.bandcamp.com/track/soo-2
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Found this Wallpaper/Screensaver thing while looking for a visualizer. Turns your entire screen into an animated background, incorporating your existing wallpaper.
If you're running Winamp, you can turn on the visualizer plugin to synchronize the animations with your music. Lots of little configurations to play around with.
The one big issue is that it also covers your icons, so you can't select anything on your desktop. The program was made back in 2002, so it was developed with Windows 98-XP in mind.
https://zmatrix.sourceforge.net/

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Merry Christmas. I'm an anon from 8chan, and we are organizing our inter-board Christmas event. This project aims to gather around anons from different imageboard and anonymous communities from all around internet during a weekend and celebrate Christmas together. The planned date is December 14 and 15 and it's going to be here [redacted] you can make your "embassy" thread talking about your IB, its history and local memes.

I hope to see you there. If you have any other questions please make me know, I'll be more than grateful to answer.
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USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST Fuck that place just go to >>>/christmas/

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Does anyone want to do this? I'm ambivalent about interboard events.

>history
We're a bunch of 30-50-year-old guys who remember when the world used to be better and the internet used to have cool stuff on it. We used to be hosted on anon.cafe but came here when that place decided to shut down.

>memes
Anything you have kicking around in your reaction image folder from 20+ years ago should do it.
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Mods are asslickers
That Christmas board is stolen from the original organizers and is being run in bad faith. Original organizers are on 8moe.
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>>4607
>is being run in bad faith
>says the markchan shill from a literal honeypot 
That's cute. Now fuck off.
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>>4608
The guy is not wrong. I hosted the /christmas/ event back on 2022, I moved it to 8moe last year because it would get more visibility there and it would be easier to set things in motion among other reasons. The current owner of trashchan's /christmas/ is just one guy who took over the board last minute and later moved it here, which is not wrong, that's totally fine by me, what I do think it's not okay is that he pretends his board is the only legitimate continuation and steering shit to any other alternatives and the same time, pretending I'm the one taking over a project last minute when in reality it's the other way around. Therefore it's run in bad faith.
That being said, I don't have any personal grudges against that guy, I'm just making things clear.
>>4606
It's fine, the point of the event is to set aside our differences for a couple of hours and have fun, imageboard communities trend to be too hermetic IMO, therefore I think it's a great idea to set something like this in the spirit of Christmas, just for a couple of hours every year, that doesn't sound like a lot, does it?

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A thread for artwork and content of anthropomorphic animals characters (or "furries") from the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Sources are encouraged.

Resources:
https://yerf.metafur.org/
http://us.vclart.net/vcl/
https://confurence.com/
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>>4594
LET'S DO THE TIME WARP AGAIN!
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I don't have time to go into too much detail, but Atlyss released a few weeks ago into Early Access on Steam. It's a one man dev project making a game taking a lot of cues from 6th gen game aesthetics, MMO worlds, and kemono/anime aesthetics with solo offline and multiplayer online play. The character creator is really robust and you have five playable races (dog people, kobolds, bird people, rat people, and midna imps) with a lot of customization including boob, ass, and even belly sliders. There are jiggle physics where you'd expect, but they go beyond simple fetish fuel since your characters' ears and tails will actually be affected by the armor and items you equip. Also, there's a /taunt emote where your character slaps their ass.

The dev is a NSFW artist who initially started the project as your typical furry ERP vaporware, but he shifted to a suggestive-but-SFW style partway through development. It seems to have worked out for him. My only real problem with the game is how literal it is about MMO style world and quest design, for although it can be a lot of fun to explore these vast empty worlds filled with cartoony enemies, the questing leaves a lot to be desired. I'm a former WoW addict and I can say confidently this game reminds me of the numbing brain fuzz I felt while I played WoW.

>accept quest from quest giver in hub area
>teleport to dungeon
>get gear checked and die
>try dungeon on lower difficulty
>goal: collect 10 skeleton bones, kill 5 ghosts, acquire 15 mushrooms
>reality: 8 skeleton bones, 4 ghosts killed, 13 mushrooms
>run dungeon again, getting different layout
>finally finish quest and turn it in
>immediately presented with the same quest again; flavor text is "well, those undead are quite a nuisance, aren't they? seems you may have to clear them out some more..."
>desire to play game deflates

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>>4601
Your link was busted, fuzzball.
That aside, making into a straight game was probably a better idea. Balancing the porn with gameplay is a rough task, and honestly far from necessary.
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>>4604
So use a different invidious instance like inv.nadeko.net or something, or use yt-dlp to download the video. I don't post direct links to YouTube. Fuck YouTube.

>balancing the porn with gameplay
Yeah, by having gameplay first in the same way that old (actual) games did, the dev clearly demonstrates that he wants people to take it seriously instead of just being a pandering porn game. Furries making porn games have a tendency to make things hypersexual but not titillating, and Atlyss accomplishes the opposite by being incredibly horny but not explicit.

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>ITT: Vidya of the 90's and 2000's


Keep it limited to the scope of this board, so basically Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Generation consoles only for now. 


For those who don't know what consoles are part of which generation, here's a quick rundown of the time frame we're talking about...


>Fourth Generation: SNES, Sega Genesis/Sega CD
>Fifth Generation: PS1, N64, Sega Saturn
>Sixth Generation: Dreamcast, PS2, Gamecube, OG Xbox


Discussion of games from the Seventh Generation consoles (PS3/Wii/Xbox 360) is allowed as well, but I'd like the thread to mainly focus on the 4th-6th console genererations since the 7th Gen era carried over into the 2010's and a lot of the games from that era onward obviously have far more in common with modern gaming than stuff from the 16-bit consoles or the PS1 and PS2 eras.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIUIGlD5Qog

This guy gets it.
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>>4561
>take the Y2K vibe and make it cool again: Older Brother Core™
Interesting point. The notion of having more visual stuff to intrude on the natural landscapes is generally something people dislike, but from playing Halo 1 for the first time last year I can definitely see what he's going for. Making something photorealistic and naturally beautiful can be worthwhile but if you don't have an underlying artistic vision then it'll all fall flat. I've seen literally hundreds of games (out of the thousands that have doubtless been made) with generic, stock UE lighting and foliage and other accessory details.

Obviously a mainstream AAA corp like 343 Halo Studios is incapable of channelling the nerd energy of white guys working on Pentiums in the late 90s, but it'd be fun to see them try.
Update:

My xbox 360's gpu has finally died.

Time to probably sell the controllers and the games.

Was fun for how long it lasted.
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>>4584
Or just buy a new one and swap the hard drive, they are cheap
>>4584
360s are dirt cheap, you can buy one and mod it yourself or just get one that's RGH'd already

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I want to go back. When browsing the Web felt like going on an adventure.

What substitutes for "Wild West" these days? All I can think of are Tor, Zeronet, and the vast array of imageboards. Discord can feel pretty wild too sometimes, that is if you can find the right servers.

Post what you know, please.
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Maybe w10.site is good too?
>>168 (OP) 
just consume media from the time duude.
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>>4488
watching old animu and stuff is good and all but it is not enough to bring back the time and i'm not a stoner
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>>168 (OP) 
Surfing what google doesn't catalog. Either through marginalia that has been mentioned here or through weby.me .

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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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>>4539
Bold to assume that degree of sex-positivity will be permitted in public debauchery.
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>>4545
Yeah, ahead of its time
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Yes. We actually live in really prude times now and people don't seem to be aware of it. The 80s and 90s were sexually a lot more open. The pearl clutching started in the late 90s and accelerated in the 00s.
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>>4516 (OP) 
Browsing Negrogrounds and what the fuck happened? Since when it was fine to accept the crayon eating tards at Deviantart with open arms? Both sites were the opposite of each other and now they're the same shit?

>>4548
You forced faggotry onto others, they'll snap, it's an endless cycle of the weak destroying shit and future generations will redo their shit until hey get burned out.
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>>4581
Newgrounds was losing relevance after the death of flash, so when Deviantart and Tumblr went to shit NG pivoted to being the "alternative" art website. Come to think of it NG was always full of degenerates so I'm not too worried about them, I would only worry about the censorship culture that permeated DA/Tumblr seeping into NG.

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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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One of my issues with Neocities is that they don't allow uploading ZIP archives. I fully understand and respect that decision, but it's still annoying having to upload my archives elsewhere. So far I've been uploading my files to Catbox, which is fast and dependable but randomizes file names. I also mirror everything on the Internet Archive, which is slow and unstable. Neither website is ideal...

So I went through the Neocities docs and made an interesting discovery: the website allows EPUB documents. This is interesting because the EPUB format is a subset of the ZIP format, which means EPUB documents are valid ZIP archives. So if I could repackage my ZIP archives as valid EPUB documents then I can upload them directly to Neocities... The only downside is the file extension; visitors will have to manually rename all archives they download. Thankfully there's a fix for that:
https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_a_download.asp
With some HTML magic I can create a download link that auto-renames the downloaded file to anything I want, as long as both the link and file are from the same origin. Problem solved!
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>>4540
>they don't allow uploading ZIP archives. I fully understand and respect that decision
>if I could repackage my ZIP archives as valid EPUB documents then I can upload them directly to Neocities
;^) Good find anon, with IA's growing troubles this is a great option to have. I wonder if they actually check mimetypes at all?
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>>4541
>I wonder if they actually check mimetypes at all?
I was curious about this as well so I checked the source, and the answer is yes:
  def self.valid_file_type?(uploaded_file)
    mime_type = Magic.guess_file_mime_type uploaded_file[:tempfile].path
    extname = File.extname uploaded_file[:filename]

    # Possibly needed logic for .dotfiles
    #if extname == ''
    #  extname = uploaded_file[:filename]
    #end

    return false unless valid_file_mime_type_and_ext?(mime_type, extname)
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https://fusionanomaly.net/
Maybe it can fit there.
>>255
Nah. It went to hell instead of losing to the likes of Lowtax. Its a lame listicle site now. Looks like Funnyjunk won.

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