Was Any Forums really better in 2003-2012 than it is now?

Was Any Forums really better in 2003-2012 than it is now?

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Didn't know Any Forums was created in 2003.
I thought it was 2009 and yes i'm a gay chan

Real oldfags probably don't sit on imageboards anymore

Yes, but so was the whole internet. The difference in experience between then and now is night and day.

The internet wasn't worth a fucking wooden nickel back then. You couldn't monetize anything except banner ads or some product you sold online.

Nothing was rewtweeted, liked, nor shared to six different websites. It just was there. There were cultures built up around forums. People were excited to participate.

Mind if I ask about cancer?

I first used Any Forums in 2005 and there were a lot more funny topics/images than there are now. So, yes, it was better.
They're on Any Forums now. Everyone I know that still uses Any Forums only goes there.

it wasn't full of actual schizos at the very least

My respect, sir. Tell please what exactly was discussed, because there are very few people in the archives.
I would really like to know what happened in 2003-2005

>pol
Old Any Forums was garbage too, got it

It was literally just funny pictures and copy pastas. Porn was around but not dominant.
Eh, it's the only board that produces funny pictures now. You don't have to agree with their politics to see they're objectively funnier people. Most of it is just shit posting anyway.

I have an archive of Any Forums's first few million posts, that's around 2009. Replies were more thoughtful back then

I found Any Forums in 2007. It's honestly difficult to say. It was side-splitting fun at the time, but I was 17 so it's difficult to compare it to 2022 Any Forums from a perspective of 32 year old.

There definitely was huge swerve from a liberal to much more conservative profile of the userbase.

I rarely find the content actually fun. Frankly, I only jump into r9k every once in a while because I find the mentality of you guys fascinating.

Can you share it? I'm really interested in this theme. Do you know the old archives of other boards?

Any Forums started to suck after 2009. You retards can't understand because your brains are smooth from too many polyphenols as children.

>Porn was around
Pre-blue board days there was just hentai everywhere.

You could be in Any Forums talking about Mega Man X5 and someone would just post a full 32 page lactation doujinshi or the Tails comic. That was 100% normal if not expected.

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This. Internet was mostly just some weird hobbyist thing back then. Look at the 2000s Flash community, there were so many people creating animations and games. And almost nobody was making any money off it, it was all done out of pure interest.

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Ya, it was around. Open Any Forums now and it's 80% porn threads. It was probably 1 in 10 threads back then.

Money crept in and ruined everything. Oh well. At least global warming will destroy everything soon.

I have only the Any Forums one and can upload it somewhere but I'm trying to find the archive link to all the boards

>can upload it
I'll be very grateful to you

>Was Any Forums really better in 2003-2012 than it is now?
no

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Yeah it was simpler, funnier, stupid, more anarchic, more carefree.
I remember back in 2004 being 14 having to browse /d/ on my psp because the family pc was in the living room. I was mainly in it for the anime tiddies at the time, eventually branched out towards Any Forums, Any Forums, and when it was made, Any Forums. I can certifiably say that Any Forums's plan of being the OC and meme factory for Any Forums was a complete and utter failure. /an/ has funnier memes, fucking /an/.

Back then OC was everywhere you couldnt go a day without someone cranking out simething new. Drawfags were everywhere and in on thw jokes. The death of this site was probably around 2012 or 2013 when for whatever reason everyone became a critic of artisty and chased the drawfags away. Which in the is why everuthing is a disgusting pepe edit done in MS paint.

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It won't. We're going to give the government more money so that they can change the weather, remember?

Nevermind, here is the link to every board
archive.org/download/Any Forums_threads_archive_10_billion/threads/
Files are text-only, unfortunately