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Duckbox posted:Nah, a lot of us spent our early internet years on a bunch of lovely niche/fan boards dedicated to talking about how cool Warcraft 3 was going to be or playing some browser game or whatever and didn't get immersed in to broader "internet culture" until later. There's a lot of nostalgia for the dial-up and early broadband era and it was fun, but people tend to forget how atomized it was back in the days where "searching the web" basically meant going to Yahoo/aol/etc and trying to find the two things on the list that weren't some guy's lovely angelfire page. This post made me think of web rings for the first time in nearly 20 years. Such a quaint concept now, but they were really helpful back then.
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RumbleFish posted:This post made me think of web rings for the first time in nearly 20 years. Such a quaint concept now, but they were really helpful back then. i remember the pokemon ones would be like 1 decent site and 20-30 kids who made their first geocities site, with a few rumor mills sprinkled in. i miss the pokemon factory, which used to make fake pokemon (but labeled them all as fake it was just for fun) and people would steal their art and claim they were leaked gold/silver pokemon
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my gamefaqs account used to be created in 2000 but then the server time got bumped up a few hours and now it says 2001 i'm really upset about that
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fisting by many posted:my gamefaqs account used to be created in 2000 but then the server time got bumped up a few hours and now it says 2001 DEAR
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Sounds like a thrilling NYE.
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I can't get enough of are Dan
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having to post every single day in order to be someone whose posts are worth reading was an idea way ahead of its time
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I was regular gameFAQs user/gamer kid turned into an edgy LUE tween that gravitated toward the spinoff forums. It was not a time I look fondly back on, though I am grateful I didn't shake out into some 4chan troll. There are worse things than you goons. Didn't gamefaqs have some level or tier system that required you to be active daily to get titles that people used to measure epeen?
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onemanlan posted:I was regular gameFAQs user/gamer kid turned into an edgy LUE tween that gravitated toward the spinoff forums. It was not a time I look fondly back on, though I am grateful I didn't shake out into some 4chan troll. There are worse things than you goons. yeah which sucked if you weren't a dweeb since you could get banned for almost anything (posting memes was "disruptive posting" and caught a 2 day probe IIRC)
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onemanlan posted:I was regular gameFAQs user/gamer kid turned into an edgy LUE tween that gravitated toward the spinoff forums. It was not a time I look fondly back on, though I am grateful I didn't shake out into some 4chan troll. There are worse things than you goons. yes every day (can't remember if it was the server time zone or what) you could earn one "karma" by posting that day at specific levels of karma you would level up. at the higher levels there was a new "social" forum you could read and post in with each rank it resulted in exactly the kind of dumb elitism you are imagining. i recall at one point someone was given moderator privileges who wasn't of the highest rank that then existed, and loving uproar ensured because they could then read and post in the associated social forum (moderators being at a higher rank than normally attainable).
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You didn't have to post every day, just have one active post.
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:You didn't have to post every day, just have one active post. I thought it was you just had to log in. If it's active thread lol, because I have like 10 posts one just happened to be a pinned yugioh card forum that no one posts in (apparently I'm elite status).
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i posted in LUE exactly once and got made fun of bc my gamefaqs name was a weed joke
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Caganer posted:yeah which sucked if you weren't a dweeb since you could get banned for almost anything the mario riding yoshi ascii was an automatic ban lmao
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Milo and POTUS posted:the mario riding yoshi ascii was an automatic ban lmao yeah apparently genesplicer modded gamefaqs as well
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All the moderator-related stuff was  SUPER TOP SECRET
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magikid posted:All the moderator-related stuff was cronogamer once leaked a bunch he works for the state department now lmfao
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Inescapable Duck posted:I do like that the GameFAQs format has remained the same, no gimmicky slow ad-infested multi-page guides or having to trawl a spoiler-filled wiki, but simple text files designed to be navigated by the search function and easily printed. Truly this is technology of old. I wonder if it's what looking in the library of Alexandria was like.
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:You didn't have to post every day, just have one active post. I don't know if it changed at some point but when I had an account (2001 or so) it definitely was you had to post once a day to get karma for that day. You would get people making posts that were just "posting for karma lol" and sometimes they would be penalised for it because it was against the rules
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Hammerite posted:I don't know if it changed at some point but when I had an account (2001 or so) it definitely was you had to post once a day to get karma for that day. You would get people making posts that were just "posting for karma lol" and sometimes they would be penalised for it because it was against the rules that's part of why people had secret boards, the rules were relaxed and they'd make stupid games to have an excuse to post
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Caganer posted:i remember the pokemon ones would be like 1 decent site and 20-30 kids who made their first geocities site, with a few rumor mills sprinkled in. Holy moly that takes me back. I remember using "yahooligans" in fourth or fifth grade and going to all the lovely Pokemon geocities. I remember one had a long rant about how Pokemon was great, but digimon was a plague on the anime world ("anime," what's that?) I believe it was signed "Officer Jenny." Anyway, I printed it out and showed it to my mom and she landed what were, in retrospect, some pretty sick burns and that was my first experience with nerd elitism and also getting made fun of for nerd elitism.
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precision posted:i posted in LUE exactly once and got made fun of bc my gamefaqs name was a weed joke
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I mostly hung out on the Contests board, because it had a cooler, older crowd. Which meant it was half people posting real elaborate long-form opinions about which tertiary Ace Attorney characters were most well-rounded and realistic, and a bunch of redpillers who were idolized for being sexhavers. The internet hasn't really changed at all.
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I as well still have a gamefaqs account but only use it to find out how to do [thing] in old games. It's kind of amazing how it's still a thing, and still (mostly) text based. Next you know someone ITT will tell me that videogame MIDI site is still around
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I migrated here from GameFAQS Im still a white noise shitposter
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:I migrated here from GameFAQS 
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super sweet best pal posted:That's not the WTC, that's Nakatomi Plaza. Never forget.
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I fondly remember But honestly, I remember joining some small offshoot forum after that. It was really small community but was cool until eventually it got bought out by some lovely game website and phased out of existence. Error 404, I think the forum was called? But yeah, it was mostly looking at pics of that big ol' cuban booty.
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:I mostly hung out on the Contests board, because it had a cooler, older crowd. Which meant it was half people posting real elaborate long-form opinions about which tertiary Ace Attorney characters were most well-rounded and realistic, and a bunch of redpillers who were idolized for being sexhavers. The internet hasn't really changed at all.
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Word up. I think it's still the same 20 people running that forum.
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The votes are in and for the 14th year in a row the forums have determined that Goku would beat Cloud, Sonic, Megaman, Oddjob, and Kerrigan in a fight. See you next year!
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HJB posted:Remember Sashanan, but also don't because the photos might still exist. i remember this dude was A Big Deal on the diablo 2 forums back in the day gently caress im getting old
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Yestermoment posted:I fondly remember
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Docahedron posted:I as well still have a gamefaqs account but only use it to find out how to do [thing] in old games. I would still listen to some good midi stuff right now Is this the place to bwhip out my 3000 karma account and pwn all you noobs also my 100 video game reviews I wrote when I was 13
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Ding ding ding, this was the one. The site survived at another url after getting bought out, lol. I won a PSP in a stupid contest the original buying out site did, which was cool. The game site (GameDaily) wanted to acquire an established community because they figured nobody would want to sign up for a dead empty forum. But then they never really did anything with it and I am not sure a single person registered to talk about video games  IIRC they paid $3,000 for the forums. Not bad for an invision board gamefaqs spinoff.
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Toonzone Forums were the poo poo for Adult Swim discussion
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fisting by many posted:The game site (GameDaily) wanted to acquire an established community because they figured nobody would want to sign up for a dead empty forum. But then they never really did anything with it and I am not sure a single person registered to talk about video games Yeah lol, they tried a bit but they instituted unpopular rules like no nws. They gave me a psp for getting their lovely website linked on slashdot. Everyone called them buttdaily and made buttdaily sigs and they gave up.
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I can't login to my account because I dunno my password and the reset email address no longer exists. gently caress. I just wanted to see what LUE looks like now.
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