Title: I miss 2002-2003 internet.
Post by: NintendrCkolc on October 05, 2014, 12:12:38 AM
Post by: NintendrCkolc on October 05, 2014, 12:12:38 AM
Back when forums were exciting places to go and ASCII signatures were cool as fuck. When newgrounds mattered and we were super active. Everyone had AIM. Diablo 2 and Warcraft 3 were the best games ever. BB10 didn't exist. Just that feeling I had every time I got on my computer, I miss that.
Title: I miss 2002-2003 internet.
Post by: RobClock on October 05, 2014, 09:25:11 AM
Post by: RobClock on October 05, 2014, 09:25:11 AM
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Title: I miss 2002-2003 internet.
Post by: BilliardBall10 on October 05, 2014, 07:00:58 PM
Post by: BilliardBall10 on October 05, 2014, 07:00:58 PM
Quote from: Nintendoclock;1976892BB10 didn't exist.well, i WAS lurking the cc forums on 2003, because i discovered the clock-movies in newgrounds on 2003.
so tough luck, buddy! ;)
Quote from: Nintendoclock;1976892Back when forums were exciting places to go and . When newgrounds mattered and we were super active. I miss that.thats true tho. i miss those days.
Title: I miss 2002-2003 internet.
Post by: Deodorant on October 05, 2014, 07:51:53 PM
Post by: Deodorant on October 05, 2014, 07:51:53 PM
I was 5 in 2003
Title: I miss 2002-2003 internet.
Post by: BilliardBall10 on October 06, 2014, 11:08:57 AM
Post by: BilliardBall10 on October 06, 2014, 11:08:57 AM
Quote from: Deodorant;1976923I was 5 in 2003
deodorant!
where have you been?
you should post more....
Title: I miss 2002-2003 internet.
Post by: Smegheadclock on October 07, 2014, 01:27:57 AM
Post by: Smegheadclock on October 07, 2014, 01:27:57 AM
Quote from: Deodorant;1976923I was 5 in 2003
Stop stealing my youth!
I think I got my first PC back in 2003. I think I was still on ebaumsworld back then.
Title: I miss 2002-2003 internet.
Post by: Clocktopus on October 07, 2014, 02:20:29 AM
Post by: Clocktopus on October 07, 2014, 02:20:29 AM
Yeah I was addicted to the internet as a kid, it used to be so much fun and there were so many fun gaming websites and shit, each mouse click was more exciting then the next for me. The internet just seemed so much more exciting back then. I do miss that feeling I got going on the computer as an innocent kid discovering new things. The days felt so much longer back then too. Sigh.
Title: I miss 2002-2003 internet.
Post by: Clocktopus on October 07, 2014, 02:26:10 AM
Post by: Clocktopus on October 07, 2014, 02:26:10 AM
I'm sad.
Title: I miss 2002-2003 internet.
Post by: Topcatyo on October 07, 2014, 12:18:00 PM
Post by: Topcatyo on October 07, 2014, 12:18:00 PM
Yeah those times were pretty tops. I wonder what I would have missed about those times if I spent it going to parties or hanging out with people.
Oh well fuck'em
Oh well fuck'em
Title: I miss 2002-2003 internet.
Post by: BilliardBall10 on October 07, 2014, 06:03:46 PM
Post by: BilliardBall10 on October 07, 2014, 06:03:46 PM
no regrets.
Title: I miss 2002-2003 internet.
Post by: GreyClock on October 08, 2014, 05:09:29 AM
Post by: GreyClock on October 08, 2014, 05:09:29 AM
How about late nineties internet? You would go with a bunch of kids to a friend's house whose parents had the only internet connection in town and you would look at 3d South Park characters and a single pixelated thumbnail-sized photograph of a woman in a bikini and you would download trainers for video games that turned out to be undeletable trash instead. Then you'd go outside and beat mounds of mud with sticks in the warm summer sun and your mother was still alive. Late nineties internet was great.
Title: I miss 2002-2003 internet.
Post by: AstronautClock on October 08, 2014, 01:02:27 PM
Post by: AstronautClock on October 08, 2014, 01:02:27 PM
yeah man taking 2 hours to install diablo 2
Title: I miss 2002-2003 internet.
Post by: FLOUNDERMAN_CLOCK on October 08, 2014, 04:47:57 PM
Post by: FLOUNDERMAN_CLOCK on October 08, 2014, 04:47:57 PM
I remember the good old days when it took three hours to download a single 300x250 bmp image of Misty getting fucked by Staryu. Truly 1999 was the pinnacle of internet culture.
(https://clockcrew.net/talk/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FddeiBuP.gif&hash=54a1d280b24154f52c90cc66614c58e02468e7ed)
(https://clockcrew.net/talk/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FddeiBuP.gif&hash=54a1d280b24154f52c90cc66614c58e02468e7ed)
Title: I miss 2002-2003 internet.
Post by: BilliardBall10 on October 08, 2014, 05:10:09 PM
Post by: BilliardBall10 on October 08, 2014, 05:10:09 PM
i also liked 2000 for having NG with the motto (and the rebelious feeling) : ''the problems of the future, today!''
it had the telebubbies, the pico game, (that never had a sequel), the assasin games, the crazy animations....
i mean it was crazy in there. and back then, people did way more celebrity parodies.
nowadays, noone does a solid celeb parody.
(or they are very few, if they do any!)
and then on 2003, i discovered the clock crew, which was basically the best thing ever imo. (not butt-licking, the void, the clock wars(by FU clock) and lord of the clocks was what made me to want to animate flash....
(and radiotube's OTB on 2006, back when i officially became a NG member instead of a lurker.)
also back in 2000, a simple 30 megabytes file (full of sexy models), could take 3 hours to download.
oh man. such an irony.
now 30 megs are nothing.
it had the telebubbies, the pico game, (that never had a sequel), the assasin games, the crazy animations....
i mean it was crazy in there. and back then, people did way more celebrity parodies.
nowadays, noone does a solid celeb parody.
(or they are very few, if they do any!)
and then on 2003, i discovered the clock crew, which was basically the best thing ever imo. (not butt-licking, the void, the clock wars(by FU clock) and lord of the clocks was what made me to want to animate flash....
(and radiotube's OTB on 2006, back when i officially became a NG member instead of a lurker.)
also back in 2000, a simple 30 megabytes file (full of sexy models), could take 3 hours to download.
oh man. such an irony.
now 30 megs are nothing.
Title: I miss 2002-2003 internet.
Post by: NintendrCkolc on October 08, 2014, 05:33:55 PM
Post by: NintendrCkolc on October 08, 2014, 05:33:55 PM
Windows 98 was awesome too btw. That OS will always hold a special place in my heart. The software and PC games at the time really felt interesting and special. I remember my uncle had a bunch of arcade classics that he emulated on his old windows 98 PC and thats how I became acquainted with classics like galaxian, dig dug, pole position, battle tanks, etc. Most people during that time had AOL which is pretty shit. Netscape was the way to go.
I remember all the old south park websites too. Geocities was fucking everywhere. Yahoo was the big search engine at the time. Ask Jeeves was kinda big back then too. I remember just typing random words and putting .com after it just to see where it would take me.
Mostly though, late 90s was the Pokemon era for me, I was maybe 9-10 at the time. All I wanted was a fucking way to get mew without a god damn gameshark. All the famous rumors stemmed from those websites back in the day (half of em were just geo-cities fansites.) I remember I originally heard the strength push pickup truck near the S.S. Anne off the internet and tried it. God what a pain in the fucking ass it was to pull off and then nothing!
And of course, years later (like 2-3 years ago actually) someone finds a legitimate method to get mew without a gameshark. Fuck you 90s internet.
I remember all the old south park websites too. Geocities was fucking everywhere. Yahoo was the big search engine at the time. Ask Jeeves was kinda big back then too. I remember just typing random words and putting .com after it just to see where it would take me.
Mostly though, late 90s was the Pokemon era for me, I was maybe 9-10 at the time. All I wanted was a fucking way to get mew without a god damn gameshark. All the famous rumors stemmed from those websites back in the day (half of em were just geo-cities fansites.) I remember I originally heard the strength push pickup truck near the S.S. Anne off the internet and tried it. God what a pain in the fucking ass it was to pull off and then nothing!
And of course, years later (like 2-3 years ago actually) someone finds a legitimate method to get mew without a gameshark. Fuck you 90s internet.
Title: I miss 2002-2003 internet.
Post by: FLOUNDERMAN_CLOCK on October 08, 2014, 05:38:28 PM
Post by: FLOUNDERMAN_CLOCK on October 08, 2014, 05:38:28 PM
Pre gamefaqs video game help online was so awful. It was better to just go thumb through the strategy guide at a bookstore or something.
Title: I miss 2002-2003 internet.
Post by: AstronautClock on October 09, 2014, 01:15:12 PM
Post by: AstronautClock on October 09, 2014, 01:15:12 PM
use strength on the truck
Title: I miss 2002-2003 internet.
Post by: CaramelAppleClock on October 09, 2014, 07:12:40 PM
Post by: CaramelAppleClock on October 09, 2014, 07:12:40 PM
Quote from: AstronautClock;1977035use strength on the truck
:v
Title: I miss 2002-2003 internet.
Post by: AstronautClock on October 10, 2014, 02:48:41 PM
Post by: AstronautClock on October 10, 2014, 02:48:41 PM
Quote from: CaramelAppleClock;1977043:v
it was weird because my friends also heard that you could clone mewtwo by removing the cable before it finished trading and that worked. so we tried most of those crazy fake tricks from the early internet days that obviously didnt work.
like trying to unlock luigi in sm64 by running around the fountain so many times. 2400 times or something? lmao
Title: I miss 2002-2003 internet.
Post by: miracle fruit on October 10, 2014, 03:24:50 PM
Post by: miracle fruit on October 10, 2014, 03:24:50 PM
i remember doing this glitch where u would end up fighting completely corrupted pokemon and they were all blocky and had a weird name. i dont remember the purpose of it but it was probably for cloning or something
and then i got this thing
(https://clockcrew.net/talk/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lukiegames.com%2Fassets%2Fimages%2Fgb%2Faccessories%2Fgb_gameshark_31.jpg&hash=a62a1155d63effcef7126144844427b6e7686006)
and then i got this thing
(https://clockcrew.net/talk/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lukiegames.com%2Fassets%2Fimages%2Fgb%2Faccessories%2Fgb_gameshark_31.jpg&hash=a62a1155d63effcef7126144844427b6e7686006)
Title: I miss 2002-2003 internet.
Post by: PhantomCatClock on October 10, 2014, 11:40:42 PM
Post by: PhantomCatClock on October 10, 2014, 11:40:42 PM
Oh hill yiss. Missingnoâ„¢Ã,®Ã,©â„¢â„¢ would give you 256 of whatever item was in your... sixth? Fifth? Whatever slot.
Title: I miss 2002-2003 internet.
Post by: RobClock on October 11, 2014, 12:03:06 AM
Post by: RobClock on October 11, 2014, 12:03:06 AM
something for page 2
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Title: I miss 2002-2003 internet.
Post by: miracle fruit on October 11, 2014, 09:19:08 AM
Post by: miracle fruit on October 11, 2014, 09:19:08 AM
Quote from: PhantomCatClock;1977079Oh hill yiss. Missingnoâ„¢Ã,®Ã,©â„¢â„¢ would give you 256 of whatever item was in your... sixth? Fifth? Whatever slot.
haha yes missingno thats it
Title: I miss 2002-2003 internet.
Post by: BilliardBall10 on October 11, 2014, 11:51:37 AM
Post by: BilliardBall10 on October 11, 2014, 11:51:37 AM
Quote from: AstronautClock;1977035use strength on the truck
i dont get it. help me please?
Title: I miss 2002-2003 internet.
Post by: AstronautClock on October 11, 2014, 09:08:18 PM
Post by: AstronautClock on October 11, 2014, 09:08:18 PM
Quote from: BilliardBall10;1977084i dont get it. help me please?
sorry dude its before you were born
Title: I miss 2002-2003 internet.
Post by: Yomuchan on October 13, 2014, 07:59:59 PM
Post by: Yomuchan on October 13, 2014, 07:59:59 PM
Quote from: BilliardBall10;1977084i dont get it. help me please?
Have a seat and pour you some mead, adventurer, and I will tell you the tale of this truck of strength.
It began long ago, before the history of man, nay, before this very age was writ - when the distant ancestors of mankind played on monochrome game-boy handhelds that needed AA batteries to run. There began the saga of Pokemon. In a hidden enclave of the harbor, where the mighty S.S Anne once stood, there was a truck. This truck was the only truck in all of Kanto.
There began a rumor, in the earliest incarnation of fansites and communities that slowly rose from the primordial soup, that using strength on the truck to move it would reveal a pokeball with Mew in it. Although it was wrong - probably cooked up by someone seeking attention, the myth endured. And so, myth passed to legend and here ends the tale of the truck of strength - for it would not come to move anywhere until the coming of the third generation of pokemon games.
Title: I miss 2002-2003 internet.
Post by: FLOUNDERMAN_CLOCK on October 13, 2014, 08:55:24 PM
Post by: FLOUNDERMAN_CLOCK on October 13, 2014, 08:55:24 PM
In the remakes for GBA if you go to the truck and press A, you get a Lava Cookie, which is just a renamed Full Heal. Someone at Game Freak has a good sense of humor.
Title: I miss 2002-2003 internet.
Post by: CaramelAppleClock on October 14, 2014, 09:50:11 AM
Post by: CaramelAppleClock on October 14, 2014, 09:50:11 AM
Quote from: Yomuchan;1977136handhelds that needed AA batteries to run.
Speaking about gameboy games, I was having a discussion with a friend about how these games' batteries last for ~15 years. He was saying that with the proper knowledge you'd be able to replace the gamepak's battery. Although you'd erase your save, you could tehnically play 1 save per 15 years. Do you have any idea whether you can actually replace the gamepak's battery?
Title: I miss 2002-2003 internet.
Post by: Marlin Clock on October 14, 2014, 12:02:54 PM
Post by: Marlin Clock on October 14, 2014, 12:02:54 PM
I think that was only a problem on Gold and Silver. Something about how saves weren't in a solid state yet, so a battery is required to maintain save data. Since the internal clock it kept required it to run a small charge even when the game was turned off, its internal battery would get drained eventually.
Title: I miss 2002-2003 internet.
Post by: FLOUNDERMAN_CLOCK on October 14, 2014, 04:07:07 PM
Post by: FLOUNDERMAN_CLOCK on October 14, 2014, 04:07:07 PM
It happens to Ruby and Sapphire too but you can still save your game, you just can't do any of the time/day specific events anymore.
Title: I miss 2002-2003 internet.
Post by: BilliardBall10 on October 14, 2014, 06:19:07 PM
Post by: BilliardBall10 on October 14, 2014, 06:19:07 PM
Quote from: AstronautClock;1977095sorry dude its before you were borni was alive when the pokemon were created!
respect my old age!
Quote from: Yomuchan;1977136Have a seat and pour you some mead, adventurer, and I will tell you the tale of this truck of strength.
It began long ago, before the history of man, nay, before this very age was writ - when the distant ancestors of mankind played on monochrome game-boy handhelds that needed AA batteries to run. There began the saga of Pokemon. In a hidden enclave of the harbor, where the mighty S.S Anne once stood, there was a truck. This truck was the only truck in all of Kanto.
There began a rumor, in the earliest incarnation of fansites and communities that slowly rose from the primordial soup, that using strength on the truck to move it would reveal a pokeball with Mew in it. Although it was wrong - probably cooked up by someone seeking attention, the myth endured. And so, myth passed to legend and here ends the tale of the truck of strength - for it would not come to move anywhere until the coming of the third generation of pokemon games.
thank you. THANK YOU.
now i know stuff.
and yes, i was a child when pokemon were created, and thus, i enjoyed it alot back then, i wtached many of the cartoons, and i liked the genre.
now...?
i just watch sometimes the toons on youtube, but nothing more. PS3 player, too..! yay
Title: I miss 2002-2003 internet.
Post by: PhantomCatClock on October 14, 2014, 11:46:12 PM
Post by: PhantomCatClock on October 14, 2014, 11:46:12 PM
Quote from: BilliardBall10;1977162i was alive when the pokemon were created!
Yeah, Astronaut, what were you thinking? BB10 never left the 2002-2003 internet.
Title: I miss 2002-2003 internet.
Post by: AstronautClock on October 15, 2014, 01:44:15 PM
Post by: AstronautClock on October 15, 2014, 01:44:15 PM
Quote from: PhantomCatClock;1977167Yeah, Astronaut, what were you thinking? BB10 never left the 2002-2003 internet.
I was thinking how far greece must be living in the past to not know about pokemon myths
Title: I miss 2002-2003 internet.
Post by: PhantomCatClock on October 15, 2014, 08:38:47 PM
Post by: PhantomCatClock on October 15, 2014, 08:38:47 PM
That joke's too obvious for even me to make
Title: I miss 2002-2003 internet.
Post by: BilliardBall10 on October 16, 2014, 05:01:30 PM
Post by: BilliardBall10 on October 16, 2014, 05:01:30 PM
Quote from: AstronautClock;1977189I was thinking how far greece must be living in the past to not know about pokemon myths
my good friend, back in 2001-2003, i saw the pokemon and i got online for flash movies and stuff...
but i never had a gameboy, so what can i say?
i cant know all the videogame memes
Title: Re: I miss 2002-2003 internet.
Post by: NintendrCkolc on September 02, 2018, 02:28:30 AM
Post by: NintendrCkolc on September 02, 2018, 02:28:30 AM
This was a good thread, I'm bumping it just because.
Title: Re: I miss 2002-2003 internet.
Post by: Slurpee on September 02, 2018, 02:15:07 PM
Post by: Slurpee on September 02, 2018, 02:15:07 PM
Quote from: FLOUNDERMAN_CLOCK on October 08, 2014, 04:47:57 PMhahaha
I remember the good old days when it took three hours to download a single 300x250 bmp image of Misty getting fucked by Staryu. Truly 1999 was the pinnacle of internet culture.
Title: Re: I miss 2002-2003 internet.
Post by: RobClock on October 10, 2018, 09:41:23 AM
Post by: RobClock on October 10, 2018, 09:41:23 AM
Quote from: AstronautClock on October 08, 2014, 01:02:27 PM
yeah man taking 2 hours to install diablo 2
I will never forget the day I installed World of Warcraft for the first time. 8 hours before the patches, I had to uninstall Warcraft 3 and a bunch of other games to make space on our shitty little 50g hard drive. 12 frames a second in Coldridge Valley, stepping into Ironforge locked my computer up solid.
Title: Re: I miss 2002-2003 internet.
Post by: PhantomCatClock on October 10, 2018, 09:46:47 PM
Post by: PhantomCatClock on October 10, 2018, 09:46:47 PM
I know you mean the actual city part of lagforge where people just stood around doing nothing because there's nothing to do there but I actually remember the first time I walked into Ironforge, I had a WOW moment when I saw the gates and the statue that is just about shameful now.
Title: Re: I miss 2002-2003 internet.
Post by: RobClock on October 11, 2018, 05:51:34 PM
Post by: RobClock on October 11, 2018, 05:51:34 PM
Quote from: PhantomCatClock on October 10, 2018, 09:46:47 PMThe ironforge theme still gives me chills and no piece of media has come close to aweing me the way Khaz Modan did when I was 12. Warcraft died a long time ago but Dun Morogh, Loch Modan, and the Wetlands will always hold a special place in my heart.
I know you mean the actual city part of lagforge where people just stood around doing nothing because there's nothing to do there but I actually remember the first time I walked into Ironforge, I had a WOW moment when I saw the gates and the statue that is just about shameful now.
That statue does suck tho
Title: Re: I miss 2002-2003 internet.
Post by: PhantomCatClock on October 11, 2018, 06:40:59 PM
Post by: PhantomCatClock on October 11, 2018, 06:40:59 PM
As someone who played a night elf, the Wetlands can go to hell and take my trail of freakishly tall skeletons with it
Title: Re: I miss 2002-2003 internet.
Post by: RenegadeClock on October 12, 2018, 09:58:02 AM
Post by: RenegadeClock on October 12, 2018, 09:58:02 AM
I miss the 1992 - 1993 internet. Siging into Compuserve on a 19k dial-up modem and waiting 30 minutes to download one JPEG. Ahhhh...
Title: Re: I miss 2002-2003 internet.
Post by: PhantomCatClock on October 12, 2018, 05:43:14 PM
Post by: PhantomCatClock on October 12, 2018, 05:43:14 PM
no but I've been thinking about LORD recently and I've been playing LotGD which is
semi similar, but free
semi similar, but free
Title: Re: I miss 2002-2003 internet.
Post by: GreyClock on October 13, 2018, 03:18:27 AM
Post by: GreyClock on October 13, 2018, 03:18:27 AM
I had a dream where I was flipping through a stack of notes belonging to a girl I vaguely know and there was a sticker of the Clock Crew logo on one of them and I was all like "What?" and she was like "Yeah I'm MineralWaterClock" who as we all know is in fact an Asian gentleman.
Title: Re: I miss 2002-2003 internet.
Post by: GreyClock on October 13, 2018, 03:22:17 AM
Post by: GreyClock on October 13, 2018, 03:22:17 AM
Wait... this isn't the biggest thread?
Title: Re: I miss 2002-2003 internet.
Post by: PhantomCatClock on October 13, 2018, 08:40:57 AM
Post by: PhantomCatClock on October 13, 2018, 08:40:57 AM
who changed homogang.com to redirect here
Title: Re: I miss 2002-2003 internet.
Post by: PirateClock on November 13, 2018, 03:48:49 AM
Post by: PirateClock on November 13, 2018, 03:48:49 AM
Quote from: Nintendoclock on October 05, 2014, 12:12:38 AM
Back when forums were exciting places to go and ASCII signatures were cool as fuck. When newgrounds mattered and we were super active. Everyone had AIM. Diablo 2 and Warcraft 3 were the best games ever. BB10 didn't exist. Just that feeling I had every time I got on my computer, I miss that.
I spend so many hours playing WC3. In my mind its still one of the best games ever, not sure if im going to play the remake cause it can only dissapoint to be honest.