The humor of communities, the habits and attitudes of people, the creations of the past were the byproduct of their surrounding social and cultural environments, their availabilities and unavailabilities, their freedoms and their restrictions. Whether a reference to an occurance or a shared injoke between specific individual persons, these are things which could only have happened then and there. Nostalgia is the melancholic sentiment towards a presence no longer there.
Current attempted "revivals" are nothing short of simulations, imitations. The people doing them are old people incapable of/refusing to adapt to the present as well as new people disappointed by their contemporary surrounding environment. They seek solace within a romanticized ideal taking the shape of a past, a modern creation crafted from selected elements of the past. An animated corpse threaded out of deceased flesh but devoid of the spirit of its individual elements. Decontextualized formalized surface level aesthetic, a creation that exists as a reflection of a community rejecting the present and having no hopes for the future, itself the byproduct of an environment incapable of producing something to make these individuals feel genki again.
It doesn't matter how many desus you add to your post while complaining about zoomers and wojaks, you will never be the genuine article ever or again. The genuine article can only be at home in its genuine natural habitat.
Do you understand?
TL;DR
If the 'good old days' were full of edgy poseurs posting things like "Fuck off and an hero zoomer" I'd rather not return to them anyway.
OP is a faggot TL;DR
You don't know what things were like because you're a little bitch who is too young to remember this shit and you shouldn't be here GTFO.
z0mg the server b0rk!!1
>>6
Actually I'm the person you were calling a "40 year old fat bald neckbeard guy" a couple months ago. Your gaydar needs a tune-up, it's not pointing you towards the succulent young zoomers you clearly lust for.
That said, if you ever match me on Grindr, feel free to slide into my DMs. I'm curious how fake your pics are.
>>4 No, you forgot all the fucking weeb slang and "desu" shit. Good ol' days my ass.
Manchildren and obnoxious teens have and will continue to make the world spin around in foaming spasms.
The only good thing about zoomers is that they are hot and sexy other than that they are annoying and ruin internet culture.
>>13
Obviously you need to get in on the ones Petras Grazulis is in.
Nostalgia kills you from within. Instead of trying to return to an idealized past that never actually existed outside your mind, how about rejecting memes and "board culture" altogether?
what is the modern day equivalent of a textboard such as this? is it really discord? no, the aspect of anonymity is far too integral
is the solution to continue hanging around seemingly vacant imageboards using nothing but meta speak? perhaps, but i can still die a happy man
the world ended in 2012
Should've posted this shit on 4chan.
>how many desus
Eat shit.
I fucking hate all that damn idiotic lingo.
>he genuine article can only be at home in its genuine natural habitat.
I'm always genuine, unlike the people that started the ironic movement and that now keep whining about the garbage they can't control anymore.
>>18
Isn't the 4-ch textboard already modern because it hasn't been replaced by anything?
>>1
Blah blah blah, things can't be like they were in the past because of x y and z. Well it is a good thing for those who want to that we have the internet and technology which allows us to view discussions from years and decades ago. If those people want to enjoy old things they can, but I guess they can't actively be a part of that historic moment or culture or feeling.
>4chan
4chan or "4channel" now requires JavaScript to be enabled to be able to see anything at all, as seen here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20211002142730/https://search.jpope.org/proxy/?mortyurl=https%3A%2F%2Fboards.4channel.org%2Fwsr%2Fcatalog#s=computer
This is absurdly stupid, considering that the web design concept is a somewhat minimalist bulletin board system. Or maybe that was the web design philosophy to begin with. Or maybe that is just a relic of the past. Now gookmoot's web design philosophy is probably all about selling user data and pushing out video advertisements which show penis in vagina.
I think I remember using 4chan back in 2012 or 2013 or 2014 and if you wanted to see new posts in a thread you would have to press F5. Now everyone uses AJAX or whatever to load new posts in the webpage.
>>22
I like pictures, but sometimes they are a bit much for me.
I think most of us miss the 'lifeness'of the internet, when the internet felt alive and full of creative minds...nowadays people mostly use one provider that offers multiple services
Good shit is still out there, you just need to stop being a normie and look deeper. This is one of those places.
>>26
Is this place a "good" place because of the state of everything else or despite it?
>>27
it's the only good gaijin textboard left that i know of
>>28
Post Office seems pretty decent from the brief periods of time I've lurking there. 4-ch is definitely the last one with any predictable level of activity and quality content though, to be sure.
>4chan or "4channel" now requires JavaScript to be enabled to be able to see anything at all
Just the catalog, everything else works fine (I don't know of their new captcha though). But I do agree it's stupid.
>>32
captchas kill chans. 4-ch's bearable, but anything more time consuming, and it stops people from posting as much
its funny because I could go to the archives right now and find a verbatim copy of this post dating back to 2004 and lower
>>33 That's a good thing, the kind of people who don't post because they're put off by a captcha are the kind of people with worthless opinions I have no interest in reading
4chan was always shit. That's why the early spinoffs (like this one) existed. Maymays were always considered cancer here, there were no good ones. Nowadays this site is populated by lots of /g/fags hopping on creamy's txt list, that dont have any creative writing skills or humanity, so they just shit out meme word salads until that lazy asshole ssz deletes their shitposts.
>creamy's txt list
Never heard of it. I assume it's a list of English text boards. Almost like an overchan. But who the fuck is creamy?
most people who browse modern day image boards will not even stick around on these older text/image boards.
sure you have those people who go the extra mile and come on here and leave some shitpost, but even then theyll eventually leave.
i know some people have even tried creating "actual" bbs as a way to gate keep and "keep the retards out" but i find this stupid because you dont get a variety of posters, gets posted on a few popular sites and then eventually dies and fades away like every other bbs failure you see spammed around.
there is actual oldern telnet bbs active with some of them releasing their code for others to set up, but i see no point when not many people even know how to open a command prompt or even know what telnet is. those days are over.