>>12951
Discord was the nail in the coffin. Reddit also killed off a lot of image board and forum culture. I wonder if 4chan dying would help.

>>12956

I think what happened is every website tried to become IRC/instant messaging, blog, imageboard, forum and/or voice video conference.
Like discourse.org is forum/blog/imageboard.
Discord is voice/video/imageboard and instant messaging.
Reddit is forum/blog/imageboard.
Pretty much the same with Slack, Guilded, Skype...etc

Usually what happens is the idea starts out okay, platform becomes crap, people stay on it for lack of alternative(s)/better options.
New platform comes up and people welcome it.
The folks on IRC and forums/imageboards still get a good laugh from time to time because of it.

Probably imageboards could become popular again. (Oo)

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>>12957
These days, it feels like only Japan and Taiwan are still holding on to old internet culture while the rest of the world remain directionless due to distractions.

For example, are you aware of the PTT Bulletin Board System?

PTT Bulletin Board System is the largest terminal-based bulletin board system (BBS) based in Taiwan. It was founded by Yi-Chin Tu and other students from the National Taiwan University in 1995 as Professional Technology Temple, and it is currently administered by the Electronic BBS Research Society as a non-commercial and open-source BBS.

PTT has more than 1.5 million registered users, with over 150,000 users online during peak hours. The BBS has over 20,000 boards covering a multitude of topics, and more than 20,000 articles and 500,000 comments are posted every day.

Using the TELNET protocol, PTT provides a quick, free of charge, and open online forum community.

PTT is an open source project. The source code is released under GPL 2.0.

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>>12959

I wasn't aware of PTT BBS before, but wow, the numbers are amazing, especially considering that IRC came before or maybe it's the other way around, since BBS is technically newer.

I feel like they got it right, considering all the "latest and greatest", it's like they have accomplished far more with it compare to other services/projects.(RAM, CPU, storage, bandwidth..etc is much less, but they can accomplish so much more.)

Like you say, it seems like only Japan and Taiwan hold on to the past, while the rest of the world is directionless.

Web browsers keep on adding, becoming more than what an OS or app was even 5 years ago which would have shocked privacy experts and others to the core. (Firefox has voice chat and screen share capabilities embedding 'Pocket'.)

I miss the old days and forums, imageboards, IRC...etc remind me of nostalgia of the past.

>>12959
>>12962
pretty rude tbh

Is it ok to sex a Chen?

>>12606
Absolutely not.

Chen needs love

cat butt and more

>>12886
It's dead

in my heart ;_;

not dead yet
at least as long as there exists /desu/

You don't want that to happen.

>>12882
4chan's new owner is Hiroyuki Nishimura who was born on November 16, 1976 and currently 43 years old.

I don't see Hiroyuki selling 4chan anytime soon.

>>12882

oh yas, em' hyooge milkars innit?

yuuka's milkers!

Flandre's funbags

>>4955

Satori jugs

i have seen a webm with this animation and some post punk guitar riff

thanks

this place looks like /jp/ without the idol/virtual youtuber crap and a lot slower. I like it already.

>>12926
Welcome! We have been slow for quite a while, seems like the imageboard phase is pretty much over. Oh, and the mods keep the place nice and clean, too - which is nice!
If you're feeling froggy, post something kero~

>Oh, and the mods keep the place nice and clean

I imagine it shouldn't be that hard with the average rate of 1 post/month.

>>12944
Yeah, most of the time it's pretty slow, but every once in a while we get a shitstorm.
This site is the last bastion of the internet that still exists from that long ago (not counting shit like google - that fuck has invaded everything)

i agree

>>12928
Big reminder to everybody on this site that there is a way to not get ripped off when purchasing Fumos, as presented in this YouTube video, which I found to be the most accurate and current Fumo buying guide on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFE4tK1_iC8

1) Do not buy Fumos from Ebay: the resellers on Ebay love overcharging Fumos by 10 times the original manufacturer price. There is also the risk of counterfeited Fumos on Ebay.

2) Do not buy Fumos from Amazon because Amazon does not bother to prevent counterfeit Fumos from being listed on Amazon.

Last of all, I will answer the question of why Fumos are expensive and rare and the reason is that Gift, the manufacturer of Fumos, is not interested in mass producing Touhou Fumos, and they only restock Touhou Fumos around the seasons of both Comiket and Reitaisai, which means restocks of Touhou Fumos only happen twice a year!

>>12928
I could get one for every 2hu game I beat, if I ever beat one.

cute flan

I really suck at drawing. But I went ahead and drew Reimu just for this thread.

>>12889
I'm scared.

>>12890
Why are you scared?

>>12891
Her face

>>12872
take me back to $.99/gallon

>>12905
I have great news for you!!

maybe you will even earn $.99/gallon

We will never get gas prices lower than $0.99 a gallon again due to taxes, direct government intervention, and oil production companies finding an excuse to shut down or lay off workers.

If the governments around the world were hands off on oil production and oil producers just kept producing oil regardless of supply and demand, and every oil company employee were replaced by robots, I would guarantee you that it would be possible to have global gas prices to be less than $0.50 a gallon on average.

>>12924
You'll never get anywhere with THAT attitude!