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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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>>4848
>It seems the entire webring got a boost in users.
that's not a good thing, look at 8moe /v/'s catalog now.

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just saying, id fuck a tank anytime. maybe a Sturmpanzerwagen A7V or a Soviet T-34

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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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Did you ever want to play an extremely limited version of Interactive Buddy with a gay furry dog twink vtuber while random Y2K electro music plays?

...no? What do you mean no?
https://coledingo.me/
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>>4911
The guy made more stuff. One of them the interactive version of a recent reaction image.
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How about the Silverstone FLP02? A modern computer case that is not the exact copy of any single 90s design, but I think it wouldn't look out of place in a lineup of workstations from that era. It doesn't come with triple 5.25" floppy drives though, those are just panels. Still, the bays are real, so you could put in actual old school drives. And it's an ATX case, therefore you could even mount genuine 90s hardware inside, not that it would be a sensible choice.
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>>4960
>200 yurobucks/220 bucks
That's a bit fucking expensive
>>4960
Looks cool, but it wouldn't match my black peripherals. I'm done with bigger cases too. If it wasn't for those problems, I would have definitely looked into this when I had my last computer built if it had been around.

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Retro /tech/.
 
PDAs, pagers, old mobile phones, mp3 players.  I miss them.  They were so less intrusive to privacy.
 
It sounds really weird, but I'd love it if I could somehow still have a pager as opposed to a cell phone.
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>>4952
Apple is a huge reason why the line from Frutiger Aero continued into (corporate) flat design. If they had kept things plastic bubble from 2007 onward then the modern tech landscape would look very different.
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>>4953
This has absolutely nothing to do with this thread nor this board.
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>>4954
>sage as a downvote
You can clearly see other anons replying to the topic, and the handful of replies it got were about what it deserves before something else is brought up. Sorry if that bothers you. This thread's been on this board for nearly six years with a two-and-a-half-line OP so appealing to the sanctity of its on-topicness is retarded.
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>>4955
>being on topic is retarded
What newfags and rapefugees who refuse to lurk think doesn't matter. This thread was created to discuss 90s and 2000s devices, period. A modern iPhone has nothing to do with it nor it belongs anywhere else on a board that's dedicated to the 90s and 2000s. What new aesthetic will come after the flat design, which isn't retro, is irrelevant. Now take your modern cancer and shove it up your ass.
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>>4957
>This thread was created to discuss 90s and 2000s devices, period.
I guess you'd better sperg out at the anons from five years ago who talked about Windows 10 and modern Linux distros at length, as well as their experiences distro hopping. At least a third of the thread is 2-3 anons comparing Linux distros and desktop environments, which is fine because they're talking about modern technology with the desire to make it /retro/.

Small boards like this get by on vibes, not rules, because we're a small circle of like-minded anons with similar interests. Life goes on, man. Just stop being so butthurt about meaningless shit and you'll be a lot happier.

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Anyone else here /retro/maxxing? I've realized there is no point in denying myself happiness and gigacoziness and I may as well go all in on my retro obsessions even if it's a bit weird. 

I could list a bunch of things I'm doing but I'll start with just a couple here

>film photography
I have never bought a digital camera and I have stopped being a NEET lately. I have a small comfy job so I have some money and I buy rolls of film on occasion and I carry a late '90s point and shoot camera with me almost everywhere I go. It's fun and super comfy. I also started developing black and white film myself, at home.

>computer
I have set up my windows machine to look like windows 98 (not completely accurate but I've changed over the icons and use a classic theme, etc. 

And on my linux machine I have set it up to look like some versions of UNIX from the late 80s to early 90s.

And for my browser I use Pale Moon and I have it set to look like Netscape.

>music
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>>4869
Yeah. I come here at least once every two days to skim for new posts. I had meant to continue posting some of the Y2K artists I gathered last year but the thread for new retro stuff kind of veered away from it.
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>>4876
no harm in posting anyway
>make a cool mixtape to play in my car's CD player
>my car's CD player dies
RIP 2007 Hyundai Elantra.
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>>4956
RIP... Try one of those Bluetooth to FM transmitters?
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>>4958
Or boombox in the 
back of the hotrod :D

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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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Could you enable anonymous posting on usenet if you had a server with a single user whose name and password are public knowledge (e.g. anon; anon)? I mean, I see no technical reason you cannot do it right now, but I am not familiar enough with the technology and culture to decide if it would be a good idea.
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>>168 (OP) 
Vrchat , webXR, fediverse
>>176
ipfs recently been hosting dynamic dApps chats, forums with Orbitdb
https://hashchan.network 
https://plebchan.eth.limo/#/
https://plebbit.com

>>371 
we had local city wide wan ethernet 20 years ago. not much anymore.
>>4237
kewl
>>168 (OP) 
yup
>>4746
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I see problem of bubbles.
Like boards/chans/webring bubbles, that are hard to escape.

thoughts:
- try non-web, p2p protocols. (dApps today is pretty wild west). Nothing scary about blockchain, or holochain. Just review the source and compile it locally.
- I'm not interested in yet another entertainment brainrot web page. I want to see project management systems where communities collaborate, create, work together. 

ah, https://radicle.xyz/ btw
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>>4943
I don't know anything about stuff like this, but Plebbit and Plebchan look interesting. How do they plan on dealing with illegal content, exactly? If it's a peer-to-peer system, wouldn't that that be a legal liability for users if unscrupulous characters decided to shit a board up with cheese pizza or whatever? I know people have mentioned that being a problem with torrent-style frameworks for imageboards and such in the past.

I can't say I'm a fan of the name either. Reddit will always be Plebbit to me.
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>>4945
Never mind. From what I've just read, their way of getting around that is that they don't actually host images themselves.

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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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>>4935
Can you upgrade the albums somewhere if the internet history destroyer archive.org doesn't allow it?
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>>4936
>upgrade
Upload obviously. This is what happens if I'm upgrading a system on a different window while writing a post...
>>4936
>Can you upload the albums somewhere
How about Catbox?
https://catbox.moe
The website has been reliable for years, the only downside is that it randomizes file names. But that shouldn't be much of an issue if the songs are properly tagged.
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>>4938
>randomizes file names
Or just zip them up
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I was rewatching the famous Chun Li vs Vega scene from the Street Fighter 2 Animated Movie, and with all the censorship gone ("you witch" vs "you bitch") I was able to appreciate it fully. The original Japanese audio makes the scene into a more traditional martial arts fight scene where Chun and Vega fight while soft music plays, but I think the English dub is superior for using the track Ultra by KMFDM. I finally got around to exploring their music more and I've really been enjoying it; they have this odd but appealing mix of heavy industrial beats and vocals that makes me feels like I'm listening to instruments made of out of factory equipment that smells like diesel.

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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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>>4605
Apparently the Atlyss developer accidentally set off a minor shitstorm when some jokes he made about reducing character proportions got leaked out of context. He was actually removing/adjusting the character body sliders to improve on them in future updates, but he said something offhandedly and mentioned gooners, and the Steam forums got mad for about a day.

He'd posted a long message on Discord, then copied that to his Twitter (https://xcancel.com/kis_soft) but maybe he deleted it. He seems like a shut-in who just wants to make stuff and put it out there.

>>4916
The gay furry rat art being sold at auction was already posted years ago: >>1103
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>>4923
>gooners get mad about being called gooners 
lol
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>>3282
>Do you know of any good reading on the subject?
If you want some good material on early science fiction, QuQu did a pretty quick dive into the subject on "what happened" (With sources to other material that go into far more detail): https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=WZ3pbxp3QKU
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>>4924
Hey, they aren't gooners, they're shortstack appreciators and men of culture.

>>4925
>blue furry avatar talking at camera
Hmm.
>from a tiny channel with 2K subs whose last video was 7 years ago
Okay, it's probably legit then.
>>4925
I think I saw that even before I even made that post, but thanks anyway for posting it. I couldn't remember what the video was called.

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Which ones are your favorites?

Pic related
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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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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. 

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They're all playing for me now.
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Just saw the Double Dragon film, and it was unironically a very etertaining movie. Yes, it was silly and extremely stupid, but it also had something "earnest" about it inronically enough. Much more so than all of the recent productions that try to "replicate" that cheesiness of 90's sci-fi and fantasy films.

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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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>>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.
My mom watches this sometimes and she told me that they put a disclaimer before the reruns claiming that the show doesn't represent the views of the network airing it because of how "outdated" it is despite being edgy when it was airing.
>>4516 (OP) 
As others have already pointed out, Archie Bunker's character was written as satire, much like Homer Simpson.  That is to say that media provides prescriptive rather than descriptive depictions of society.

It's a relatively small group of people who decide what to prescribe as "real", so I wouldn't put any stock in the fact that such-and-such used to be considered kosher.
Well OP, people weren't such political correct pussies back then. This is how they could laugh at someone like Archie Bunker. Now that commies have politicized everything, you can't do anything but either propaganda or something like the Care Bears.
There was some of this, sure, but the bulk of daytime TV was squeaky clean, especially the stuff on network TV over the rabbit ears. After hours (8 or 9ish) this stuff came on, especially if you had cable TV.

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