/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Facebook

Because Geocities doesn't exist anymore and it's easier to have a profile page on Facebook than to learn rudimentary code in order to accomplish the same thing with a private website.

Also, Web 2.0.

I miss those days so much.

Remember when there were fansites for anime like Sailor Moon and Ranma, and you could submit fanart and stuff to them? ;_;

>>7138490
Was geocities free back then, or did you have to pay for them? I would say having your own web site is much more fun than facebook or whatever. plus it made the internet much more interesting. back then it was fun to explore the internet, now its boring. Somebody show make something like geocities again and it could start something.

>>7138504
should*

>>7138504
It was free but you had to pay to get more bandwidth. I remember pretty much any time I wanted to go to a geocities site the site had hit its monthly limit.

There were plenty of other free webhosts other than geocities. And I'm sure there still are.

People just don't grow up with their own websites anymore I guess. Why would you make a shitty one when you can have the standard facebook/myspace or blog page.

http://www.yyyyyyy.info/

Just found this
http://signup.geocities.ws/index.php

It's because anipike is dead.

>>7138536
I want to create a website now but I don't know what I'd put on it.

>>7138564
Touhou .gifs

>>7138566
and Touhou .midis

this place has the Geocities webpages from back in 1995. they basically copied all the pages before it died and made this website.

Remember downloading midi versions of all your favorite anime and game theme songs?

We made fun of embedded MIDI so much that we killed it. We didn't know what precious thing we had in our hands.

>>7138564
spinning skulls

>>7138639
I think I still have about 40 midi files from Sailor Moon somewhere.

>>7138644
how did you even make midi, you had to somehow get the song and then convert it?

>>7138649
You have to transcribe the song manually. You need to know a thing or two about music to do that, obviously.

I remember back when I was in middleschool, my friend made a Ranma fansite and hosted midis, fanfiction, fanart, and all that jazz. He was so thrilled to get listed on Anipike...

Last I heard this friend is apparently now working a successful career as a computer programmer and has a long time girlfriend.I haven't spoken with him for years.

>>7138649
You write the whole midi file on your own, it's not that hard.

Remember the first time you downloaded an mp3?

"Holy shit dude, that midi has VOCALS?!?"
"It's not a midi man, it's this new format called mp3!"
"Fuck! That's like, almost CD quality! How long'd it take to download?"
"Only like, 3 hours man."
"Seriously?! That's hella fast, bro!"

And to think we have people insisting on flac for quality these days...

Is there a place where you can download midi files?

>>7138689
Yes, see:

In computer programming, a file descriptor is an abstract indicator for accessing a file. The term is generally used in POSIX operating systems. In Microsoft Windows terminology and in the context of the C standard I/O library, "file handle" is preferred, though the latter case is technically a different object (see below).

In POSIX, a file descriptor is an integer, specifically of the C type int. There are 3 standard POSIX file descriptors which presumably every process (save perhaps a daemon) should expect to have:
Integer value Name
0 Standard Input (stdin)
1 Standard Output (stdout)
2 Standard Error (stderr)

Generally, a file descriptor is an index for an entry in a kernel-resident data structure containing the details of all open files. In POSIX this data structure is called a file descriptor table, and each process has its own file descriptor table. The user application passes the abstract key to the kernel through a system call, and the kernel will access the file on behalf of the application, based on the key. The application itself cannot read or write the file descriptor table directly.

www.eatabagofdicks.com

>>7138689
http://vgmusic.com/

>>7138671
haha, I used to download game music like that. 4mb file? 2 hours or so.

also, anipike ;_;

>>7138700
I mean like anime midi files.

/jp/ did you play neopets

>>7138709
http://www.google.com/search?q=anime+midi+files

Didn't ZUN have a page up with some MIDI files and other old/extra songs? I can't find it now.

If the internet kept the same user base but had the same speed we had today, it would of been awesome. but i guess once the internet became faster and more "usable" the non nerds who didn't have time to wait around for a web page to load came in. Its the same with video games, once they became easy and nice to look at the whole user base changed.

>>7138655
>>7138646
http://geocities.ws/lolpenis/
King of the internet

>>7138750
Perfect.

>>7138655

Which is why there was a lot of variation in the quality of MIDIs. MIDI is a somewhat powerful format, but you can get a song to sound like a third grader playing the song on a recorder if you don't do it right.

gb2 1997

>>7138746
I miss when computers were only for huge nerds like me.

>>7138750
Now add some frames and purple text on a busy background.

>>7138746
I can attest to this, but it goes even before they were "easy" to play.

Niggers and spics ruined the fighter scene. It's like everyone who plays any game which is remotely popular came straight from /b/, spewing "fighter lingo" all over the place.
>nigga salty scrub salt salty hella nigga nigga GDLK! free nigga salts

I would not mind if these fucks stayed in capcom games, but now they're all over the place, so its only a matter of time until they infest good communities like AH. GG is already filled with these shitstains.

>>7138786
what progarm are you using to make the site, want to make on but have no skills..

There's just no need for small personal websites anymore. I often feel like starting some up, but what can I offer that isn't already much more easily accessible somewhere else? Sad, I used to really enjoy trawling through shitty backwater personal sites. Sometimes you would find really interesting things and it was incredibly rewarding, because you had to "work" for it.

>>7138800
Microsoft Frontpage

>>7138813
How authentic.

>>7138800
Notepad
>>7138786
http://www.geocities.ws/lolpenis/
Now with more gifs

>>7138838
Glorious. I feel my childhood rushing back to me.

>>7138838
Be sure to add a free forum of some sort. Or maybe some guestbook or shitty shoutcast or chat.

Let's all make geocities sites before mods delete this thread.

>>7138856
This. Guestbook is a must.

Don't forget the free counter at the bottom of the page.

>guestbook
OH GOD THE MEMORIES

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5923737/Geocities_-_The_Torrent
is it even possible to download this now.. theres no seeds at all.

I BOOKMARKED UR SITE D00D

>>7138869
>>7138856
>>7138869
Added one of those faggy chatango boxes
Now to add tonnes of pages with gifs and frames

>>7138838
God I nostalgiaed hard when I saw your page.

I wonder if my shitty old Warcraft II clan website still exists somewhere, it was about of that quality.

Need to add "This site is best viewed in 800x600 screensize" message.

Oh and a button to automatically add the site to your bookmarks.

>>7138947
>>7138945
Added

>>7138737
It's still there.
http://www16.big.or.jp/~zun/html/music_old.html

<marquee><blink>}{ELLO WELCOME TO MY WEB-SITE. IT IS ABOUT DRAGON BALL Z AND POKE MON AND OTHER THINGS THAT I LIKE. PLEASE ENJOY IT.</blink></marquee>

LINKS:
COOL GIFS
COOL PICS
ABOUT ME
CONTACT ME
GUEST BOOK
NEOPETS

+++ please join my WEBRING! +++

THIS PAGE IS IN CONSTRUCTION.

>browsing anime websites way back in high school
>stumble across one that plays a midi version of the Cowboy Bebop opening
>DA-DUN DA-DUN DA-DUN DA-DA-UN!
>Everybody looks over and wonders what the fuck I'm watching while I scramble to figure out how to mute an old CRT-style iMac.

Those were the days. I had a geocities website with tons of gifs and video game sprites on it as well as a little hit counter at the bottom.

How many first grew up in the BBS days before Internet access became available?

Here's a documentary on the BBS era: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oFxkMxW-2M

I used to play InterBBS door games and share pirated DOS games with other people in my town.

>>7139081
You must be a grandpa. I am 30 and even I never used BBSes.

>>7139083
Naw, I'm 29, turning 30 in a few months. This was back in 1989-1994. In 1994, first dial-up Internet ISP showed up in our town.

I remember downloading the 3rd digimon movie for 12 hours, only to watch the whole thing with no subs. I also remember the first time I torrented something. Bit torrent was still in its black screen and white text phase, I actually had to figure it out.

My first mp3 download was off some digimon or inuyasha site (both that were on geocities).

>>7139081
I grew up in arcades, not on home computers. My first computer was around 99'.

Arcades in mainland US are complete ass though.
Glorious south American Arcades were stocked with new games now that I look back on it.

And no, not everyone was crazy about KoF.

>>7138886
>UNIX filesystem
fuck that shit

http://www.jgeoff.com/homepage/

>yfw your parents didn't know shit about the internet and made you use an AOL kids account until you were 14 where you couldn't do fucking anything at all and everyone at school was talking about cool stuff on the internet but you couldn't even fucking email or do anything and then you wanted to download some cool AOL game so you had your parents log on to their account so you could try it and they said 'NO SON YOU CAN'T DOWNLOAD THIS YOU WILL GET A VIRUS'.

I guess I've been making up for lost time these past 8 years.

Looks like it finally crashed my FF4.

>>7139198
What the hell did you even do on the internet?

>>7139212
nothing, I played Pokemon for ten years

I missed out on most of this because I didn't search around much ;_;

I was content in playing obscure computer games that nobody remembers, and now I have nothing to relate to others.

>>7139198
You should have just figured out a way around it.

I remember going to my cousin's house back when I was in elementary school. My aunt and uncle used some parental control program for Windows 95 that autobooted, and you needed the "adult password" to exit out of. I showed my cousin how to defeat it by rebooting the computer in safe mood, then opening the settings and using a "password hint" to figure out the password (which was something like "mother's maiden name", which of course my cousin knew). Then we managed to login to their dialup internet connection, which of course used the same password.

>>7139222

thats post game e me diujhbs

>>7139198
>'NO SON YOU CAN'T DOWNLOAD THIS YOU WILL GET A VIRUS'.
http://www.jayssite.com/stuff/childhacker/childhacker.html
のワの

>>7139222
I spent a lot of time playing obscure video games too (Ocean Trader or Archimedean Dynasty, anyone?) but not because I didn't search or anything. I didn't even have internet access in the 90s because my mother didn't see any value in it ;_;

I would've just gone outside and played with the other kids, but they would always ridicule me for the weird clothes my mother made me wear and how fat I was due to being dependent on my mom's unhealthy cooking ;_;

My dad probably would've been more open to the idea, but he was a weirdo cultist who wanted to send me to one of his cult's boarding schools in the UK ;_;

>>7138974
Thanks. These midi versions of the PC-98 songs are awesome.

>>7139289
The "Lunix" section was absolutely hilarious.

>>7139236
Fucking Kiddesk.

there were so many sites with this gif on it

>>7139526
JAAJJAJAJAJAJ FERNANDO JAJAJAJAJJAA

>>7139537
I remember saving a lot from the Livejournal Imagefeed, though that's sort of Web 2.0 territory so I know I'll be mocked.

>>7139198
Ahh shit i remember this. My mom would always have to type in a password for me then one day it was just me and my sister and i asked her to type in the password and she just told me to open internet explorer.

Oh man, i loved her so much for that.

I used to read "lemon" fanfics. Back before 90% of fanfiction was yaoi

>>7138750

in my spare time i lik 2 play counter-strike! my nickname is Xx420PwnAgEsNiPaxX i am the BEST! i also have a poodle, who i called puppy goo-goo. he is my best and only friend. i hate skwl becuz all the other kidz just dont understand me, they hit me and call me a "faggot" (what ever that means!!! idiots!) i wish i could just fly away, and leav dis stupid wurld 2 liv with goku and piccalo! nobody will ever understand me... i am 2 smrt for this world! i am a expert haxxor and i even haxed counter-strike!

thnxx for visitin my web-sight! take it easy!!!

Actually I was thinking about making an old school website where I pretend like it's still around 1999-2000 where I write about Dreamcast and old galge...

http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/content.php?theme=1&music=8&url=http://www.easymodo.ne
t/

>>7139081
>>7139083
Old-Timer (27) here. Back in '93, I had a WildCat BBS with kickass ANSI graphics with 2 nodes on a blazing fast 14.4 Dial-up modem. Used to start flame wars with Sysops across the country and catch hell from my folks for making calls out to Fresno or the Ozarks. Really now, I dont feel *that* old.

>mfw I try to visit a website from my childhood and it either no longer exists, or it's been recently updated and no longer resembles the nostalgiariffic website I remember it as

<jp>
<th>
<title>Welcome to the forest of magic</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="ZUN art.css" />
</th>
</jp>

http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm

What the fuck was the name of that website that hosted shitty flash videos and games that were 90% screamers that wasn't newgrounds?

I have my own web page. But it doesn't have midi background music or many gifs...

http://tablecat.co.cc/

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>>7139581

Here you go.

http://www.tmffa.com/old/lemon.html

>>7139776
Liquid Generation?