For how long have you been on this website? When did you come here, and if you remember, why...

For how long have you been on this website? When did you come here, and if you remember, why? Do you ever regret any of the decisions you've made regarding this website/board?

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I've been lurking since 2010, and posting since 2008. I no longer remember why.

Polish flag now, interesting.
Cue the shitshow: 3 years.
I came for the images (pic related)
Yes I regret a lot of decisions and spergouts, but water under the bridge and I move on, etc.
Your turn lad.

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2014
I don't remember, 9 months ago? I just happen to have clicked on International/Random
I wish I could have prevented myself from ever coming in this website

I think it was in 2015 or 2016, not sure exactly when I started posting actively.
I was getting too old for the Roblox forums and needed some place to go.
I don't know why but I always needed some sort of forum or imageboard that I can browse during downtime or when I'm bored to talk to nice people
was this user not always Polish or am I missing out on something with Jow Forumsflags?

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I remember him with Russian flag.

15-16 years
was mentioned on an offshoot flash animation forum off newgrounds (clock crew if anyone remembers)

heard it was badass

i wish i was kinder to people and managed to not buy into the culture of nihilism the early site promoted. i think i tried to fit in, making fun of mass shootings and shit. until that actually became me.

but i'd already seen a lot of bad things through torrenting which was an absolute free for all back then, like gore videos prefaced with 'faces of death'.

oh and as for this fucking board? i regret trying to know anyone personally. big fucking mistake.

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I don't think there's only one Jow Forums poster who starts threads with questions, lol

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also as for the direction of the website, i regret it became a full time political activism/depression/porn site. those things were always there but there was no blur between boards. crossboarding was actually a thing people were critical of. /jp/, /a/ and Jow Forums have been positive things for a lot of people though.

Visited 06, regular in 07
Ytmnd
No

Flags do not matter~
>15-16 years
Somehow, I highly doubt that.
I wonder how much people tend to lie when they are posting on a platform that allows them to have more anonimity than usual.

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>Somehow, I highly doubt that.
well idk what do you want to know about really early Jow Forums?

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we made fun of emos and goths a lot i guess?
cp was everywhere and a culturally acceptable way to get a thread deleted
i think people were less cynical actually somehow. EPIC FOR THE WIN wasn't "cringe" it was something people said.

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Is Jow Forums similar to old /b/ like some people say?

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There is when he posts Sheya’s Touhou art
Well then. I remember you as Doed with a Đ, made pulling up your posts in archives impossible even when I copied and pasted direct from the source.
You’re truly elusive and it’s bugging me.
Then again I’m not sure I want to do away with the mystery.

Inb4 I’ve got the wrong person.

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oh god no, no no no no no

What are the main differences?

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there were no distinct posters, people got bullied into maintaining anonymity and anonymity was almost a sacred concept

everyone was more of a cunt, however stupid bullshit like early Jow Forums memes might have actually taken off. like i said the website's more cynical?

also you'd see a lot more horrible shit in general (cp notwithstanding it was a pretty common daily occurance). i'd think the biggest difference is the users are different culturally now. there can never be an old /b/ because /b/ was a product of the culture at the time and the internet itself was obscure. most people wouldn't even use it let alone for forums so you were stuck with bored american college students mostly.

Tell us about your dearest memories.
That is true, I was testing a few things with the name. You might not have pasted the correct ones. Is there anything you would gain if I were to be less unknown to you?

That's actually fairly interesting
In what ways do you prefer Jow Forums to old /b/?

shit like embedded scripts in images would work. i remember for a while on /b/ there was a bot(?) spamming these colored squares asking you to change the file extention and run it, which made more colored squares. moot had a bitchfit.

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jumping the timeline a bit but browsing Jow Forums when zyzz was alive. he inspired so many people he was the coolest shit. imagine a famous male stripper who'd bother talking to you.

also when anontalk went down that felt like a huge accomplishment. they were scum. i remember downloading some shitty ddos program called low orbit ion cannon and joining in on it.

chanology also felt to me to be a huge deal it was like we were fighting an evil organisation even if it turned out we did absolutely nothing lol.

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No, archive hates names that don’t use English letters for some reason. Zalgo names don’t show up either.

Well a satisfied curiosity and updates to my mental archive of posters would be gained but the loss of mystery makes the former not worth it. It’s more fun to wrack my brain trying to figure out who you are than actually knowing.

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there used to be these gmask threads too

i didn't really understand how they worked but its a scrambled image thing to hide an image (guess what it usually was)

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It’s interesting how user culture took over when 2003 /b/ had tripfags everywhere... literally everywhere...
web.archive.org/web/20031008225412/http://img.Jow Forums.net/b/imgboard.htm

2017 looking for epic maymays then i got stuck into this shithole i dont really regret it tho unless im eventually am going to need to goto the filtered censored web to advertise myself for employment

yeah i missed that year desu only goons knew about the site at that point apparently

also i'm not sure i even do i guess things change but at least this isn't a board explicitly about anything so you're never sure what you find

complete thread derail my bad i just got nostalgic

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M8 the board is literally dead right now, it ain’t you.
Keep going.

you were still on-topic desu nothing to worry about

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Don't feel bad, it isn't derailing anyway. Do go on if you feel like posting about it.

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ahh there was a huge drama once for people who wanted a dedicated /vn/ board that went for weeks because visual novels on /a/ "weren't anime" but they didn't want to talk to /jp/ because there was a huge autism war rivalry between /a/ and /jp/ at one point.

there isn't a /vn/ board right now so you know what mootikins had to say about that. damn pity though.

Jow Forums wasn't always the utter fucking shithole it was either, the idea of using the robot (the guy from xkcd made?) was to actually filter out repetitive replies. so on inception it was 'classy /b/' and it was actually really highbrow. its interesting because i lost interest, came back a year later because i liked /x/ more at the time and Jow Forums was all blog posts, that sucked so i fucked off and one day i came back and they all wanted to kill themselves. i've actually never seen anything like it. moot deleted Jow Forums at one point to make Jow Forums in an attempt to help those losers, but then they spilled literally everywhere and shat up everything. moot eventually had to bring it back.

moot tried so fucking hard you know lol
this is also the reason that deleting Jow Forums would be the dumbest fucking mistake anyone could ever make. they're not going to go away they'll probably all be here.

The first time I cam here was probably by mistake.
I vaguely remember stumbling onto it and not knowing what the fuck I was looking at.

Later when I heard about project chanolgy,
I started coming full time. So basically 08 or 09.
I stayed around bc it was literally fun,
and full of other losers whose shitposting was often times of a golden standard.

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It’s funny that Jow Forums exists at all. Check this link, very bottom
web.archive.org/web/20031122004728/http://Jow Forums.net/
>Edit for the world2ch crew: Don't worry, there is no plan to put up several inactive sports and political forums. This will be largely image and comedy based, we have no intention of partaking in intelligent discussions concerning foreign affairs. By sister-site, I mean focusing primarily on certain likable aspects of 2chan, not just a mirror. Your territory is safe.

>I only say this after I politely asked people not to post stupid stuff on these boards, and to take any problems or concerns directly to me in the form of e-mail.

>we have no intention of partaking in intelligent discussions concerning foreign affairs.
Oh moot if only you knew

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just one last other random thing i remember that's completely different before i go sleep

there used to only be 1 'Jow Forums archive', and to have a thread archived it needed 10 votes so lots of people had to like a thread enough to archive it. checking that was awesome because it filtered all of the shit if you wanted to see some decent threads for once. that was so much better than all the scrapers we have now that's actually something i sincerely miss.

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kek everything's pretty much been a disaster for the site really hasn't it? imagine if that's all it ever was. its okay i still love it for some retarded reason

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Oh so that’s what the “archive nao” requests (which I legit forgot until I saw your post and it clicked) were that I saw in some screencaps from ye olden days.
Same, I’ll never give it up even if I wanted to.

Sometime late 2009. I was going out with a girl, and she would regularly send me pictures in instant messenger that she would get from /b/. When I finally asked her where she was getting them all from, she linked me to a thread that auto played Rick Astley, and I've been shitposting ever since.

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Yeah, but that archive and the mirrors that followed pretty much all died, so few of those threads actually got saved in the end.

I wish i could purge bant from my mind but head trauma isnt helping and im forgetting more important things

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