|
As a wide eyed thirteen year old boy, I bit the bullet whilst staying with my brother over the summer to finally register my account on the SomethingAwful.com forums. My first post was a thread proclaiming how much better the UK is than the US (Christ...), with most replies consisting of insults and counter-facts. Typical of General Bullshit at the time. It was the start of twenty years posting on these awful, wonderful forums. Sometime in 2001, I foolishly posted my school picture, accidentally resulting in my adolescent chops becoming a proto-meme on the forums. Pretty much every Photoshop thread for a year or two would have at least one effort containing my face. My dad LOVED it, with me printing out the best ones for him to look at and have a good laugh. The pinnacle was probably some random Dallas goon meet, where a goon went to use the bathroom to find a cut out of my face left on the toilet seat. Being told that was definitely weird. Another peak was the use of the image for the Un Lapin flash animation. I got in touch with the guy who made it, enquiring as to where he got my school photo from, to be told he found it randomly searching around the internet. 2004 was a weird time. I've seen far too many people come and go, users who were favourites before falling from grace and being banned, admins break the forums, countless off-sites build up and then become idle. Users like Jeddite, jre, Al, Rainbow Blight, Icequeen, Euronymous, artfag et al. I've seen two goons get engaged upon meeting for the first time. I've seen a goon sell a fake Mac p-p-p-powerbook to a scammer and the thread burst as it went live. I've seen the site's found and webmaster banished, rightfully, for heinous crimes against women. I'm quite proud of only eating two probations, one of which was for not standing up for myself in FYAD. No bans, no toxxes. How very beige. I do love these forums, and spend most of my time wasting my life in D&D, C-Spam, PYF and the football/soccer and wrestling forums. I was worried we would lose them recently and though it would have been impossible to argue against it, it would have been sad to lose so much time, effort and history to one person's horribleness. I hope we can all move on to a brave new era. These forums have DEFINITELY changed. The community element remains but has altered. I remember in the early days there were more forum 'superstars', for better or for worse. Now, there are well known names, but threads are more isolated, it's less of a chat room and more of a forum. The whitewashing of our past in terms of cancelled words and terminology makes sense, and weve all matured over twenty years, yet you can't help these forums may not be as spontaneous as they were in those days. You can never go back home again, I suppose. Thanks for reading my rant, and ask me anything about the past twenty years!
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2020 11:50
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 26, 2024 18:33 |
|
|
Stiff upper lip, pip pip.
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2020 11:56
|
|
|
Congrats on wasting your life
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2020 12:15
|
|
|
Is there cake?
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2020 12:33
|
|
|
Yes, but I’ll have to throw it really hard to land wherever you are.
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2020 12:36
|
|
|
whoa thats a lot of text [56K Warning] tag next time pal
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2020 12:41
|
|
|
Forgot to add [ph] too. Apologies.
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2020 12:46
|
|
|
Thanks.
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2020 12:49
|
|
|
Congratulations on wasting 20 years of your life here!
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2020 12:51
|
|
|
britishbornandbread posted:You can never go back home again, I suppose. The past is a foreign nation. Thanks for the fun photoshop subject!
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2020 12:52
|
|
|
Lol you forgot to use a tag
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2020 12:52
|
|
|
Sid Vicious posted:Lol you forgot to use a tag I swear I did! Oh well. Shows how often I start threads these days.
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2020 13:01
|
|
|
grats op. here's to 20 more years of infrequent posts
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2020 13:05
|
|
|
bbb, the ur-goon, the legend himself
|
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2020 13:11
|
|
|
Just imagine being proud of being probed only twice in 2 decades smdh
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2020 13:11
|
|
|
Forgot to mention that in the summer of 2005 I attended Euro GoonCon. It was a nice weekend in Amsterdam aged eighteen. Luckily I have the ability to just talk to anyone about anything and not shy away from strangers, but there were some lost looking souls at the BBQ in the park that evening.
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2020 13:17
|
|
|
I vote OP gets an anniversary probe
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2020 13:20
|
|
|
Dell_Zincht posted:I vote OP gets an anniversary probe And I just want to bbe a moderator. We don’t always get what we want.
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2020 13:22
|
|
|
Idk that's a bit too cruel I don't expect SA to be around in 2040
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2020 13:23
|
|
|
im sorry
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2020 13:27
|
|
|
i signed up on my 14th birthday on my first acct and now im actually very well adjusted ,
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2020 13:27
|
|
|
Maka posted:whoa thats a lot of text [56K Warning] tag next time pal LOL Edit: oh poo poo I'm about to catch my first ban for no content posting Smugworth fucked around with this message at 13:30 on Jul 8, 2020 |
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2020 13:28
|
|
|
Literal Nazi Furry posted:i signed up on my 14th birthday on my first acct and now im actually very well adjusted , Excellent username and post combo.
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2020 13:28
|
|
|
Dell_Zincht posted:I vote OP gets an anniversary probe Send this thread on a tour and let every mod give the OP an anniversary sixer.
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2020 13:30
|
|
|
Congrats! As another old timer, literally, in several ways (I've always been one of the oldest people on the forums haha), it was great reading your story. Looks like you grew into a pretty princess!
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2020 13:43
|
|
|
goddammit no
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2020 13:45
|
|
|
congrats from another old timer
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2020 13:46
|
|
|
Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:grats op. here's to 20 more years of infrequent posts Lurkers have feelings too.
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2020 13:48
|
|
|
Oh, for reference:
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2020 13:49
|
|
|
britishbornandbread posted:And I just want to bbe a moderator. We don’t always get what we want. Heavily supporting the probation idea.
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2020 14:00
|
|
|
I've never registered
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2020 14:01
|
|
|
e: goodolences Don't Ask fucked around with this message at 14:34 on Jul 8, 2020 |
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2020 14:20
|
|
|
congrats, old man. favorite sa saga?
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2020 14:23
|
|
|
nice rap sheet lol
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2020 14:23
|
|
|
My Face When posted:congrats, old man. When the renegade admins created loads of sub forums that were private and created a giant hole in the coding of the place. radium-esque levels. This place has its faults but in the mid-00s it was exceptionally cliquey in a manner that you don’t see on such giant international message boards now fifteen years later. I seem to recall known reprobate Al was involved in some way, but the exact details have been lost in the sands of time. The aforementioned Pele and Oddjob marriage proposal thread cemented this forum’s place as the best forum on the net. Just pure shock and horror when the realisation two strangers had met at an airport after chatting on SA and agreed to marry.
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2020 14:31
|
|
|
Goongratulations fellow internet message board user!
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2020 14:40
|
|
|
Congrats on the countless awful choices you have made throughout your life, OP.
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2020 14:41
|
|
|
britishbornandbread posted:When the renegade admins created loads of sub forums that were private and created a giant hole in the coding of the place. radium-esque levels. This place has its faults but in the mid-00s it was exceptionally cliquey in a manner that you dont see on such giant international message boards now fifteen years later. I seem to recall known reprobate Al was involved in some way, but the exact details have been lost in the sands of time. There are amazing. thank you for your service.
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2020 14:44
|
|
|
gently caress you, OP. You didn't see me posting no 20 year anniversary thread. Also, tl;dr. Congrats
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2020 14:46
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 26, 2024 18:33 |
|
|
You're still wrong about the UK you fuckin sperglord I'm originally an 04 so I don't have quite as much wear on the tires as you, and you and I don't seem to have crossed paths much, but it's nice to see some of the long timers sticking it out. Cheers, op.
|
|
#
?
Jul 8, 2020 14:47
|
|
