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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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No.5067 
>>5053
>i think it's worth the hassle to see a small pond of shitposting as long as a couple anons swim through it and post their efforts
I've felt ambivalently about this in recent years. Alt boards like this one and boards dedicated to productive stuff like /agdg/ can have a fair amount of signal in all the noise, but more general boards like /v/ have used up whatever good juice they had from 2015-2020.

/tg/ has managed to be the exception to all this, being a board of not-as-productive-as-they-used-to-be anons that just keep to themselves and talk about things they like. Even being attached to the tumorous mass of /a/ hasn't affected them beyond a couple of yaoifags shitting things up.
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I miss video rental stores
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No.831 
I have a Family Video near me that's going strong ever since Blockbuster went bust.
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No.832 
>>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.
No.5135 
>>475 (OP) 
I don't. While I have fond memories of them, torrents are more convenient and free.
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No.5138 
>>5135
I wouldn't want to go back to rental stores, but it feels less meaningful to me to being able to get almost anything I'm after on the Internet.
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There is a lot of history to 2channel, the Japanese megaBBS from 1999-2014. It now continues as 5ch and a broken copy version, neither of which capture the spirit of the old site.
Ayashii world(or strange world) preceded 2ch on the net, as a type of BBS with many instances. The original strange world lasted from about 1995-1996(maybe it was just 1996 I don't remember). They overall went out of style when 2channel came along.

That said, there is still a lifetime of threads, flash, and more from these that is worth reading and watching, as well as some instances that are still alive.


I recommend visiting the english renditions of these sites, they tend to be very easy on hardware because they are just textboards:

English 2channel, originally started by 2ch users in 2003: http://world2ch.net/

English Ayashii Warudo, started by enthusiasts of Japanese BBS: https://fukuoka.x10.bz/bbs.php
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No.5059 
>>5058
Wha happen?
No.5065 
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No.5127 
fukuoka down
No.5132 
In general what do y’all think was the best 90’s-2000’s era site
No.5133 
2ch since there is so much stuff that has come from 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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No.4930 
>>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.
No.4931 
>>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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The artist behind Studio Tanuki who made Bunny Maloney (AKA Pinpin Le Lapin, AKA Lupin III if he were a horny French rabbit guy) has made a new website:
https://studiotanuki.com/

There was a pretty big resurgence in Bunny Maloney interest from some viral video essays a year and a half ago, so the creator has been trying to ride that wave. He's quite active on Twitter and Bluesky, mostly Twitter, and he's been trying to contact the networks to ask if they can take the hard drives with the lost episodes out of storage, or to otherwise confirm who actually owns the series and what can be done with it.
https://x.com/studio_tanuki_
https://bsky.app/profile/bunny-maloney.bsky.social

>wtf is bunny maloney
Animated show from the late 00s with a Frutiger Metro aesthetic. It was broadcast in a bunch of different languages but its lasting impression is the dichotomy of looking like a young kids' show but having humor and characters that would fit in a show for teens. There are a lot of dick and sex jokes, bodily fluid jokes, and references to surprisingly old anime. In the original PinPin Le Lapin Flash animation there's
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No.4982 
>>4976
Kinda similiar design to Groove Armada music video
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>>4982
Update: the creator was contacted by Mediatoon, who have the episodes in HD and will be uploading them to this YouTube channel in the coming months. There was actually a bit of confusion about this at first since they started uploading stuff without contacting him, but he's confirmed it's the real rights/media holders. Lost media coming back from the brink.

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=qnaP_7iHjkk
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Looks like none of the images in the catalog work. Let's get a fresh thread in here, focused on computers!

I don't have pictures at the moment to share, but I got lucky today and picked up a nice big beige computer case. I'm assembling a new personal computer from parts that I got deals on, found in the junk heap, or that I was given by friends.

So, I guess it's not really a /retro/ computer, but it will be in a /retro/ case, and I plan to get an adapter which will let me use a 3.5" floppy disk drive in there. The adapter plugs into the floppy pins, and presents a USB interface to the motherboard. That adapter is under $10 USD.

In fact, I've seen an adapter card that will do the same but for 5.25" floppy disk drives. So, when I have more money, I should be able to have not only a 3.5" FDD, but a 5.25" FDD in my system, running alongside new solid state drives, Blu-Ray disc drives, and of course a few regular hard drives. It should be pretty fun.

Again, no pictures yet but I will share with you guys when I can. For now I'll just post one from my collection.

What have you guys been up to?
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No.5101 
>>5100
Thank you for your service, Anon. Yandex often works better for me than jewgle.
No.5102 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iASMolEGr9k
No.5113 
>>4368
I'm the opposite: I haven't had a single desktop icon in years. I have no idea what my current wallpaper is. I never minimize anything, just switch between all of them fullscreen. I used to have a second monitor but it died after 11 years of service.
No.5115 
>>5100
Sadly I've been resorting more and more to DeepSeek for basic information. Traditional search engines are still fine for memes and wallpapers though, but nothing useful. Weeks ago I had to ask it "where are websites for the following businesses in [mycity]?"
No.5130 
>Commodore 64 -related : >>5063
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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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>opherVR is an enhanced Internet Gopher client that includes a 3D visualization tool for viewing resource collections as 3D scenes. It explored how people outside of formal research laboratories could use spatial metaphors to access information.[1] The 3D view was intended to be similar to 3D games of the time, like Spectre.[2] The authors were interested in how this spatial representation could address the "lost in hyperspace" feeling that people using conventional Gopher clients sometimes experienced.
Most of the links are dead, but it would be interesting to see if you can make it work today.
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No.5123 
>>5122
Forgot the link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GopherVR
No.5125 
AI generated web 1.0 wiki
https://grokipedia.com/
No.5128
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Only Internet memories are vaguely watching my dad and brother use a BBS, and seeing others typing in real time in an actually instant messenger that doesn't exist anywhere anymore as far as I know, then timeskip from the mid-90's to early 00's and been active online since.
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>>5081
Why miss it when you can go to Marginalia and Wiby, or hell IRC and Gopher and BBS and Usenet, RIGHT 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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No.5091 
>>5089
mostly yes, its not really comparable to ray tracing, thats always going to be the slowest way to render
with cpus if you had to do something tedious like add 1 to 1000 32bit pixels then with mmx, which has 128bit registers, you can do 4 pixels at a time so its 4x faster than using 64bit registers, but with avx you have 256bit registers so you can 8 at a time, with avx512 you have 512bit registers so you can do 16x pixels at once, so obviously youd think more is better, since obviously if you can do more data then its faster but it gets complicated because a cpu is still a physical machine so passing electricity on gigantic 512bit registers is going to create way more heat than registers that are 1/4 its size, so while you can do more data you actually still slow the cpu down since it will thermal throttle and it does that preemptively because its guaranteed to go volcano mode when using those instructions, the instance you use a single 256bit or 512bit register the cpu immediately downclocks, i think the penalty is 20% 50% respectively but thats a small price to pay when you can process 8x-16x the amount of data, however if the programmer is stupid and only does a single avx instruction and isnt really using these for bulk data processing then you trigger the downclock penalty and effectively slowed the cpu down for nothing, and your normal instructions are running at 1/4 the speed now for a while, so nor
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taco bell has a y2k ad out
it's bad
like really fucking bad
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No.5110 
>>5109
One of the nicer things about never intentionally watching ((( TV ))) is not having to see such goyslop.
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No.5116 
>>5109
>>5110
I don't know how anyone can bear to watch TV or streaming services with ads anymore. I can't stand the commercials.
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No.5118 
>>5116
Some people literally ignore them while playing some slop on their phones. I can't stand them either. Its also always the same stuff I am not interested on streaming services. Especially youtube.
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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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No.5021 
>>5020
I guess they just book a big space and then people come in and set up tables and booths with displays.

Unfortunately, it's full of weirdos and unshowered people. They're not 100% of the attendees, but a significant portion. I guess in hindsight it's stupid to expect anything else, but somehow in my mind I expected Computer Chronicles sort of people and not smelly discord people.

Nevertheless, it was still fun. I got some magazines and a couple bits of hardware as well.
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>>801
Do you have a personal favorite tracker? I should have asked that before. I'm also curious to hear more about your thoughts on the early FL Studio versions and how they compare to the later ones. I first started using the program in the late 2000s, and FL Studio 11 is probably the version I feel most comfortable with.
>>4972
After mulling it over for a few months after I made this post, I ended up chickening out and buying a Hapax instead. After using it a little bit, I feel like it was absolutely the right decision. I'm still in the beginning stages of digging into it, but it's been really easy to learn so far. What scared me off about the Cirklon was not only the added cost, but the fact that it seemed like it would be a hassle for chord-based music and take a lot of willpower to learn. Maybe the Cirklon's aux events have more depth than what the Hapax can do, but the Hapax still makes it really easy to create evolving patterns. One of the first things I did when I got it was to create a simple line on one channel and copy it over to another channel with a slightly lower elasticity setting to create a phasing effect like in Steve Reich's music.

On the negative side, I think it's going to take some fiddling to get old MIDI files I created imported due to the pattern length limitations. I haven't been able to get USB MIDI to work and have had
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One day it would be cool to be 100% analog. Or at best no digitech beyond the 80's, so an IBM running MS-DOS as a private BBS and usenet and IRC server would be okay. Kinda wondering if it'd be cool to get a satellite only GPS if I ever decide to go nature night walks or haunted urbex with an old camera that doesn't have any kind of wireless connection.
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No.5112 
>>5111
Oh yeah, for nearly 15 years now I've had hooked up to my past three computers these 80's style boombox speakers that sound mighty fine to me especially when I crank the bass. I don't care to hear any fancy new audio than this, especially since I picked these up from goodwill for maybe $20. No $600 surround sound for me, especially if it's backdoored and needs "updates" to its touchscreen OS.
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No.5117 
>>5112
You can have pretty much the same experience with a big, phat dumb stereo system. They are still being made. And they are still expensive as shit. Thank God for AKG clones.
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Post cool /retro/ ads and TV commercials
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>>5037
>>5038
>>5043
CATCH THE WAVE
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No.5071 
>>5070
Funny. I don't think they ever solved that did they?
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No.5098 
>>5097
Hearty lulz
No.5114 
Nokia used to run ads with some serious cuties on them. Wish I could find those wallpapers again, stupidly didn't name them.
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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 heard the around the world WUBWUBWUBWUB remix at the gym again today and now i'm mad
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No.5013 
>>5012
I argue all remixes are terrible. I work with a guy that's too cheap to pay for a streaming service or buy albums but won't pirate, so he'll download remixes and covers as a loophole. I've heard enough butchered music to cement my opinion.
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>>4281
>>5012
>>5013
Never underestimate the power of a good remix. Ignore all the modern trash and listen to these.
No.5099
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Do old internet remixes count?
No.5107 
>>4933
>>4934
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