Have any of you ever reminisced about past online friends or communities time to time? Last night I caught up with some friends I met about 10+ years ago on a CSS server and it was pretty dope. Then today as I was talking to a friend on discord that I met not that long ago it got me thinking, I'm going to stop talking to this person and lose contact at some point. Either for some reason one of us removes each other or will just dissapear. It's not a healthy thought and is probably just a mood thing but it did get me thinking all the online social interaction I've had and realized how many I don't see or talk to anymore. I hope all of them are doing well, except for two. Fuck you Lambert and your brother.
I want to hear from yall, any person or community that you just don't see anymore for whatever reason that you think about? What happened? They just never came back online, something shut down, or maybe just lost/removal of contact.
the old /b/
A few clans I was a part of were pretty chill. There was one for the old Insmod called NADES that was full of fun lads, but that sorta just disintegrated while I wasn't looking.
i remember my very first gmod community i was in way before i even bought the game was toxicious which i had fun playing prop hunt,ttt and sandbox with around 10 people or so depending on the day,it wasnt much but after it shutdown and read toxicious' last post replacing the entire site i decided to buy gmod for good,was also an opportunity to use the rest of the money to buy stuff for tf2 so i can have a premium account.
Facepunch 10 years ago. It was so much fun back then
In early middle school, I was super active on an old Ragnarok Online private server called AnthemRO, led a meme guild and had this persona/gimmick on the forums. Was pretty well known for writing a few guides and making custom sprite replacements. That's pretty much where I learned all of my early internet/forum etiquette. Spent so much time there and made a lot of memories. Haven't been back since I decided to just up and quit one day, I don't even remember why.
miss u ibts
AOL Instant Messenger (AIM)'s "Alone at Home" chatroom around 2002
Forgot MSN Messenger. EVERYBODY was on that at one stage. You'd hang out at school, hang out after school, then go home and hang out on MSN for hours.
Made some pretty good online friends from around the world too.
Years ago, I used to browse one Finnish forum for Yu-Gi-Oh. I think it was actually the YGO forum in Finland, too. It was a blast reading all the tournament discussion, deckbuilding and the like. But, fuck... I was a cringey preteen back then. I'm half-sad the forum's gone (due to drama, I think?), but I'm half-glad as well, so nobdody knows what manner of an idiot I was back then :v
i used to play a small gamemaker mmo called stick online until it shut down for good in 2007-09, real tight community. i made a lot of online friends through that game who i dont talk to anymore but they were like my main friends through highschool.
http://images.mmosite.com/bbs/upload/2007/10/26/1193434650.jpg
god i miss maxofs2d
Oh, and also one small, Finnish TF2 community (with some TTT on the side) called Perslampi. It was a tight-knit community - but alas, it was also the time I was a pretty dumb kid :v Still, the memes were on point in that place.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JyHDdXzcFk
I actually became kind of an infamous figure in there, even if later on I tried to fix my ways. Way later (after puberty, I think?) I went to check the forums again and made an apology thread, and everybody said something along the lines of"Eh, we were dumb kids too". Feels bad that the place died out; being a small, tight-knit place meant people would eventually burn out, especially with the way Valve began to gut community servers for TF2.
Rayne's death was probably for the better, burying my cringy posts from back when I could barely communicate in English.
I certainly don't miss the shitty forums over at Gametrailers. Maybe they're still up lol. (BDA also used to post there before FP)
I do really miss my early days of trackmania forever, when i played with my classmates and random people on one server that was populated and hosted here.
How can i not forget my golden years in SA-MP. To this day i still remember having tons of fun, hanging out with people that were my age (13-14, 9 years ago), i made some cool friends, we've talked over skype and i added some to facebook, only like 1 or 2 are still on my friends list. Years later i even met couple of them irl, in 2018 alone i got to talk to them both, they're still great people.
I used to be part of this fan-hosted NFS World community, in first days i only shitposted, back then it was the only forum i hanged out in. Sadly the forum is gone and all we have is the discord group with only a fraction of original people. Also i used to hang out in the official NFS World forums, but that was a year later. It's interesting to me to see familiar faces from there today, still being around but only difference, majority moved on to Forza series.
And of course, sub-Facepunch communities: FP Skype, FP Mapping Hangouts. We used to do crazy shit on skype like prank calling, facecams, drama and ass showcases. And in mapping hangouts we only screenshared what we were doing in hammer or/and in other programs.
There was an australian server group called ICANNT I used to play TTT all the time on back in the day.
Also almost all Aus TF2 surf servers a dead
I had loads of fun on the Lifepunch servers on Gmod years back.
They officially shut them all down a couple of weeks ago, too.
blockland
the community's pretty niche and toxic anymore and the playerbase is more or less gone
i still play it here and there but i dont host much of anything anymore, not like i did like 5-6 years ago.
Not that I miss them, but what happened with the MLP community? Those avatars used to flock every website that existed
I miss our times playing Dying Light together @Xubs
NavyField was a game that I played since I was barely ten years old up to my late highschool years.
I was an awful shitposter and actually quite bad at the game, but I miss the unique gameplay submarines brought as well as the general closeness of the community.
The game lives on, at least, kind of. It has been bought and sold to different companies several times and my old account stats are long gone. It was insanely grindy in practically every sense of the word and was top heavy with the end-line battleships and carriers eating everyone for lunch.
I have other (and better) games that fill that niche now, but sometimes I look back at the fun times I had and wish I could annihilate some fool in my Tambor class one last time.
papa frank before he decided to give up being funny to make shit rap music
My star wars galaxies clan. we were empire, and one day a rebel built a house in the same neighborhood as our clan's HQ so we hung out outside his house waiting for him to come out so we could lynch him
maybe when 2 rolls around we'll play that, ive had my fill with the first game and a lot of new stuff is coming out i rly want
I always had a blast back on FPUK TF2 while it was still around, yeah it changed lot between 2009 to 2014 and I was an idiot throughout, but I was always amazed at how many regulars we had there.
In a familiar vein, UKCS TF2 was lifeless the last I checked, and again, you miss the feeling of mutual growth where you'd become more familiar with everyone the more you played.
Only other thing I can really think of off the top of my head was the entire community around Tribes Ascend. 90% of it was just dumb shitposting but for a vague game-spanning community, it was surprisingly supportive and non-toxic - I can't say the same for many other game communities nowadays.
Runescape, I had several friends and a decently high level (60 ish) account named "Sirwinkerton" for some stupid reason back in the 05 to 09 era.
OSRS has brought back alot of good memories but i lost my old account, started a new one and some of those friends I knew never logged back on.
I miss a hell of a lot of people from Roblox and MapleStory way back in 2006-2010. Most of us just went our separate ways and ended up falling out of contact as we stopped logging into the games that were once our daily hangout. Still, I learned a lot from some of these people, and one managed to spark my interest in video editing and youtube, something I still do to this day.
The community I miss the most was an old TTT server circa 2014 called Nineva's since it was the first time I actually got involved in a community (Excluding Roblox warclans). Played one day, the download times weren't godawful, it was fun, relatively vanilla and the people were nice so I kept on coming back and eventually ended up becoming an admin. Server died due to a coup d'etat by the coder and a few admins, and them splitting off. The splinter server may still be up but what attracted me to it in the first place was all gone.
I used to play Gmod occasionally with some guy on steam called FatBustard ( or FatBastard, can't remember exactly ) around about the time Spacebuild & the stargate mod started to be a thing. I occasionally think back to spending hours making entirely random things, box conveyor belts, things that would've been fun to a 12 year old. Used to be up for doing anything and iirc showed me things like the ECS for 9.04b, creating box forts and all sorts. I don't think they've been online for about 10 years and have a slight worry in my heart that they're not on this planet anymore, but missed the innocence. If anyone knows how they're doing, I'd love to know. I can't even find them on my friends list anymore.
I also miss Melonbrew, a 9.04b RP community that had oviscity on all the time. I spent a stupid amount of time on that server, and really got to know some of the folk there. I think i'm past RP, but that community was all really lovely, they were all happy to just join in with whatever was going on at the time.
This thing:
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/1236/f3301a2d-470f-42ac-b80c-269afb1bc02c/image.png
God, Whirled was such a big part of my childhood, I had so many friends there. Exploring all the connected rooms was so fun, you could literally end up anywhere. It was a fun adventure.
Shame it shut down and even the private servers have a low user count. Used to come back from school and farm coins for like 3 hours to buy a really cool avatar I'd show to my pals.
Even the simple childish (and somewhat cringy tbh) RP sessions we had were really fun, it was just a perfect medium to live out those stories I'd make in my head all the time back then.
Whirled will always have a special place in my heart.
I also miss that one person who I knew since 1st grade that I used to play everything with. I'd find the most obscure and interesting games and we'd go to some lengths trying to get them
to work via Hamachi/Tunngle or w/ever. Sometimes we'd spend 3 hours trying to get MGS PW coop working through PPSSPP, other times we'd play Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood deathmatch
all by ourselves long after the communities had died out. It's an interesting feeling (imo) to know that you're probably the only 2 people playing a game in the world right now, almost as if you're
exploring ancient ruins with your best pal.
And then in July 2017 he decided to ghost me out of nowhere. He still hasn't seen my FB messages and I can't contact him anywhere. He clearly still logs in on Steam and on FB from time to time.
Now ending a 8-9 year friendship like that was cold. Like, I get it, sometimes friends just come and go. But god damn man, at least tell me why. Was I annoying? Was I mean? Was I boring?
Guess I'll never know.
same with /v/, now it's mostly just blatant racism instead of funposting
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