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One Winged Slayer
Member
Nov 27, 2017
8,263
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Mivey

Member
Oct 25, 2017
17,828
not enough low effort "lol" postings in this thread, for it to truly feel like old time internet boards.
 

Doorman

Member
Oct 25, 2017
4,870
Michigan
My old favorite go-to was always o_O or o_O; along with :/

Weirdly I almost never use either of those anymore, meanwhile ones like :P and <_<; will still pop up occasionally.

And of course my old classic, Meta Knight:
(o( <>))o|==>

Every once in a while I kinda want to bring o_O back, though it's hard to come across contexts where it makes sense.
 

Kabuki Waq

Member
Oct 26, 2017
4,827
I truly miss the screenshot wars from the old days. So much pointless fun. Remember the dreamcast vs ps2 stuff? I think it was MSR vs GT. It was so ridiculous and over the top.
 
Oct 27, 2017
12,319
it was thing and it was stupid then and it's stupider now

and it was beautiful


what a beautiful thing it was just AOL speak for thread and threads and threads


it was beautiful we need to go back.jpeg
 

Big Boy

Member
Oct 25, 2017
2,905
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aidangs

Member
Jan 8, 2019
533
I definitely had a dancing Kirby in my signature on more than a few forums back in the day.

(> ' . ' )> <( ' . ' <) ^( ' . ' <) (> ' . ' )^ ^( ' . ' )^ (> ' . ' )v v( ' . ' <) v( ' . ' )v
 

FinFunnels

Banned
Oct 27, 2017
5,610
Seattle
I, legit, miss AIM.

A lot of my early life gaming was spent in AIM MUDs, role playing with all walks of life. It's an experience that can't be replicated today.
It's weird thinking back to it, but AIM used to be such a huge part of my life. I'd spend hours every day on it talking to friends from school, as well as friends I met on forums, and sometimes just complete strangers I met through friends of friends. I talked to people from all over the world and of all different ages. I'd be like 10 years old talking to people like 3 times my age and they'd send me porn and shit like it was no big deal lol

Discord is probably the closest thing I've found to AIM these days, but I'm no where near as social as I used to be when I was a kid.
 

Nerokis

Member
Oct 25, 2017
5,567
You knew someone was a sweetie pie when they dropped a ^_^;

And x.X;; was the perfect way to convey stress. Still hasn't been topped.
 

Santerestil

The Fallen
Oct 28, 2017
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Formattation, people!
 

mclem

Member
Oct 25, 2017
13,467
>_>

Been thinking about the old days of the internet, I've been posting on forums since the late 90's, started on GameWinners, then GameFAQ's, then the old place, then. Back then there was no emojis or GIF's, se we all used ASCI like this.


No, in the *old* days of the internet smileys were :-). That originates from the early eighties. WITH the nose, which has fallen by the wayside in recent years.

The Japanese-style smiles that aren't rotated didn't appear until the *mid* eighties. FAR too new-fangled.

(I guess, in a sense, this is "Old man yells at Cloud"?)
 

Aranjah

Member
Oct 27, 2017
2,185
I still use these regularly:
>_>
:D
:X
XD
:P
>.<

It's probably super cringey but it's easier to type them than to go dig up the emoji, so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 

smart patrol

Member
Oct 27, 2017
1,701
I don't think I ever went on the forums but GameWinners was my cheat site of choice because the layout/color scheme of the site was way more elegant compared to other cheat sites at the time.