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Remember when Kotaku used to be a chill otaku-oriented site (therefore its name) and it was trashing video games haters like Jack Thompson? Vetusomaru remembers.
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Gaiaonline before 2010ish especially before you could buy gold with real money. It used to be a cozy community but eventually became corrupt with greed and ban happy mods.
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There was an RPG based forum site I frequented way back in the early 2000's. I don't remember the name or anything but it had really cool features like unlockable swords and stuff you could display, all using sprite art. It just had a really cool vibe to it.
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For me it's Gamespy.com. I was always on that and had Gamespy Arcade installed too. Was the main site I used to check both in school then at home when we got dialup internet.
EdgeEmu too as it's the main ROM site I used to use back in the day when I used to emulate on our family PC.
EdgeEmu too as it's the main ROM site I used to use back in the day when I used to emulate on our family PC.
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Just took me back to being 12 again haha, I used this along with Lycos.It's still around but this old version of Ask.com was cool since it had Jeeves on it.
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Yeah Fileplanet was brilliant for Demos.
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Hbrowse and Pururin were great websites. Full of fun manga to read, and not one of them in Moon Runics.
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Plus again...that layout of old sites that I miss.
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Checando mis revistas de la infancia (Sobre una llamada BigBang, una revista educativa muy buena) no puedo evitar ponerme sad cada que aparece una pagina de publicidad de un sitio llamado Chikabum, de los tiempos donde la rueda era de piedra en la historia del celular y el Internet, en vez de escanear QRs o copypastear archivos, en esos tiempos mandabas un SMS (basicamente un telegrama) con una palabra a cierto numero, pagabas un precio y te mandaban ya fuera un Wallpaper, un juego o un Ringtone, en mi secundaria esos practicamente eran moneda, no se cuando dejo de aparecer la pagina, pero lo que hizo se quedara conmigo
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Old online guides/walkthroughs for games. I remember when I was super young, and my step dad was still in college for computer science, I'd hang in the computer lab and read through game guides for games I didn't even have.
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I KISS YOU
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NO ONE CAN HIDE FROM THE LIGHT
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I used to play Knight Online on the Malaysian server long time ago(2005-2007), and I still wish they would reopen the servers so I could log back into the character I spent two years creating (I've been waiting in hope for 18 years—sad story).The date when the servers will shut down is still written in black pencil on the wall of my room in our first home. 
I missed that site so much.I used to skip school and go play.Maybe because of this game, I became veterinarian instead of doctor. I don't know. 
After that, I played on American servers for years, but it wasn't the same.
I missed that site so much.I used to skip school and go play.Maybe because of this game, I became veterinarian instead of doctor. I don't know. After that, I played on American servers for years, but it wasn't the same.
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I didn't plan on writing such a long message, but if your attention span is shorter than three lines, then you should jump off this moving train right now, because I won't give you back the time you'll spend reading about my experience.
Shortly before the 21st century began a forum dedicated to a certain console was born.
This forum came into being before Wikis and decent machine translations and looking back it was truly epic.
Some users had translated information from Japanese that had never reached the West, which finally allowed people to understand things from a new point of view.
This new perspective made the knowledge accumulated in Latin characters up to that point seem like just the tip of a distorted pyramid, which had been buried in the desert for too long, but there were also in-depth analyses, curiosities, and impressions based on the personal experiences of hardcore gamers, so, what happened in the end?
The majority of the user base that kept the discussions alive wasn't really interested in the games they bought or who created them. Their sole interest was based on the economic ostentation of showing off and owning expensive limited-edition copies.
It's a bit like someone who buys a watch to exhibit their economic status, but once you talk to them you discover they can't actually read or write the numbers on the dial.
The founder of this portal thanks to his private work was part of this crowd.
Therefore as early as the mid-2000s, when the console's parent company ceased production of new titles, it triggered the first mass exodus.
For these people there were no more new toys to collect and show off, so almost all of them abandoned ship back then, however, the administrator decided to keep the scene alive, because the shop was connected to the forum had become the go-to place in the West for this console.
However, the forum was now set on a path towards an unstoppable sunset.
If the initial interest was focused solely on the economic ostentation of owning an expensive and limited object, then there was no way for that to be converted when the company decided to become more accessible and publish on new, widely available systems and even for the users who tried to focus solely on recovering a past they deemed more glorious, they eventually found themselves in a second-hand market where copies kept dwindling and prices kept rising, so, in the end that bubble burst too.
Another peculiar feature of this forum was the average age of its user base; in fact, there were almost no children, women, rules and the moderation was practically absent, telling its users to 'grow a thicker skin', but they would get triggered like sheep on fire whenever a troll decided to lash out at them and only then would they say that 'certain users were unacceptable people' and that they would 'definitely take action'.
When the forum's immune system was actually working, there was no real need to dictate strict rules, because it ran on self-management, but after the exodus the forum became immunosuppressed like an AIDS patient.
In the end the faction of users who had never been interested in the console, its company, or video games in general, grew in number and caused the place to degenerate into oblivion.
They did this through gratuitous verbal violence, written only to cause harm, knowing they would face no consequences from the pre-existing group; by making the same tired jokes older than their dead relatives; by derailing even the most promising discussions and by using manipulation based on childish, conformist projection.
In conclusion, they drove away even the most sincere and stubborn content creators, who had survived until then and who had given so much to the world.
When I checked last year the place still existed, but now it's just an ugly stereotyped parody, which isn't even truly funny to them anymore and it has no hope for the future (despite having updated its graphic theme).
Today all that remains are the memories of a time that ceased to exist many years ago and I have already saved a good part of them for myself, but it would become almost a second unpaid job if I were to push myself to consult the entire 25-year-old archive, just to see if there's anything interesting left to save.
This forum came into being before Wikis and decent machine translations and looking back it was truly epic.
Some users had translated information from Japanese that had never reached the West, which finally allowed people to understand things from a new point of view.
This new perspective made the knowledge accumulated in Latin characters up to that point seem like just the tip of a distorted pyramid, which had been buried in the desert for too long, but there were also in-depth analyses, curiosities, and impressions based on the personal experiences of hardcore gamers, so, what happened in the end?
The majority of the user base that kept the discussions alive wasn't really interested in the games they bought or who created them. Their sole interest was based on the economic ostentation of showing off and owning expensive limited-edition copies.
It's a bit like someone who buys a watch to exhibit their economic status, but once you talk to them you discover they can't actually read or write the numbers on the dial.
The founder of this portal thanks to his private work was part of this crowd.
Therefore as early as the mid-2000s, when the console's parent company ceased production of new titles, it triggered the first mass exodus.
For these people there were no more new toys to collect and show off, so almost all of them abandoned ship back then, however, the administrator decided to keep the scene alive, because the shop was connected to the forum had become the go-to place in the West for this console.
However, the forum was now set on a path towards an unstoppable sunset.
If the initial interest was focused solely on the economic ostentation of owning an expensive and limited object, then there was no way for that to be converted when the company decided to become more accessible and publish on new, widely available systems and even for the users who tried to focus solely on recovering a past they deemed more glorious, they eventually found themselves in a second-hand market where copies kept dwindling and prices kept rising, so, in the end that bubble burst too.
Another peculiar feature of this forum was the average age of its user base; in fact, there were almost no children, women, rules and the moderation was practically absent, telling its users to 'grow a thicker skin', but they would get triggered like sheep on fire whenever a troll decided to lash out at them and only then would they say that 'certain users were unacceptable people' and that they would 'definitely take action'.
When the forum's immune system was actually working, there was no real need to dictate strict rules, because it ran on self-management, but after the exodus the forum became immunosuppressed like an AIDS patient.
In the end the faction of users who had never been interested in the console, its company, or video games in general, grew in number and caused the place to degenerate into oblivion.
They did this through gratuitous verbal violence, written only to cause harm, knowing they would face no consequences from the pre-existing group; by making the same tired jokes older than their dead relatives; by derailing even the most promising discussions and by using manipulation based on childish, conformist projection.
In conclusion, they drove away even the most sincere and stubborn content creators, who had survived until then and who had given so much to the world.
When I checked last year the place still existed, but now it's just an ugly stereotyped parody, which isn't even truly funny to them anymore and it has no hope for the future (despite having updated its graphic theme).
Today all that remains are the memories of a time that ceased to exist many years ago and I have already saved a good part of them for myself, but it would become almost a second unpaid job if I were to push myself to consult the entire 25-year-old archive, just to see if there's anything interesting left to save.
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Holy Shit
radiosonicnet something like that music streaming
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Miniclip when it was flash games and could play multiplayer pool
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