zlacker

I remember my /b/tard days, in the mid 2000's. I drifted away from it many years ago, but I remember ir fondly.

4chan was horrible and excellent at the same time. A sea of garbage that was also full of gold.

Probably the only online community I ever enjoyed to be a part of. All else was shit.

>>surgic+(OP)
It was a good time for the internet, back then. I do miss those days. I've tried to visit 4chan a few times in the last decade, but the community is... different now.

>>bearmo+62
I had the same experience.

But I'm also much older now. I wondered if the community changed, or if I was the one that changed and can't appreciate it for what it is anymore. Maybe both I and the community changed in different directions.

I probably will never have an answer. But I still remember the old times there fondly.

In a sense, 4chan in the mid-2000's was probably my final experience with the old web, in a time before walled gardens, before social media trying to lock everyone in and tracking the shit out of everything to shove ads down the collective throat. A place still not neutered by contemporary political correctness and value systems. Full of extremely smart people and extremely dumb people in equal measure. It was maybe the ultimate form of the prior iteration of internet forums and irc chat rooms.

Nothing lasts forever, entropy dictates that on a long enough timeline all things become shit. Oh well.

>>surgic+y3
Mid 2000s - that was pre-Facebook. Did other social media companies draw folks away?