NOS COMPRARON EL ALMA BARATA
HASTA LA SANGRE NOS SACAN, ATACAN
Y CON UN CONTRATO TE ATRAPAN
PERO PRIMERO ME MATAN HERMANO
PORQUE PREFIERO MORIR
PELEANDO QUE SER ESCLAVO
INDUSTRIA SUCIA
TOMA LLUVIA DE ACIDO
COMPRENDE LA HISTORIA DEL HIP-HOP CLÁSICO
CUANDO CONTROLAN EL NEGOCIO Y LA CULTURA
LA MÚSICA SE VUELVE EN COMERCIAL BASURA
Y LA REINA LATINA, PINTADA COMO GALLINA
ES MAS QUE BAILARINA O PUTA EN LA ESQUINA
ES ABOGADA, PROFESORA, MADRE, SOLDADA
Y CARGA NUESTRO FUTURO CUANDO ESTÁ EMBARAZADA
MIRA NUESTRA GENTE CRUCIFICADA
Y LA MANERA DESGRACIADA
QUE ESTOS PERROS NO HABLAN DE NADA
MÁS QUE FIESTAS Y RIQUEZA
QUE LA GENTE NO TIENE
ASÍ QUE AHORA VAS A VER
LA VIOLENCIA QUE VIENE

(•﹏•)

After being invited to a private chat with kaguya and kuz, a lot of things I brought up ITT haven been resolved, cleared up, or is now seriously outdated/WRONG information (on all sides, but particularly mine)

I'd also liek to publicly apologize to kaguya and the rest of Heyuri for initiating and contributing towards this thread turning into an ugly flame-filled dramafest, and to apologize to kuz specifically for bringing up things about him unrelated to OP's question (or anything that anyone else posted ITT) - purely so I could let off steam about personal/private issues I had with him that really didn't need to be aired out in the open

This was honestly my fault to begin, because I generally keep myself in the dark by avoiding various channels and never reaching out to kuz or kaguya, and I just came up with my own theories based off what limited amount I could see on the boards (which also lead to kuz and kaguya doing the same towards me, because there was often limited ways to contact me)

I'm aware that it sounds like I've got a gun to my head after everything I said before (I assure you I do not - in fact I started typing this before we even spoke privately!), but I do genuinely appreciate kuz's thankless contributions towards Heyuri's continued existence, even if we don't always see eye to eye. Ultimately, I just wanted the whole situation about kuz, kokonotsuba, and Heyuri to be more transparent... and if what kuz has announced to me and kaguya in private is true, it's about to be VERY transparent

Finally, while I'm the last person who should be saying this, I srsly hope that us 3 Heyuri oldbies - who all care a lot about this silly little site on teh interwebs - can go back to being on friendly, productive terms again

(kaguya, pls roll teh credits)

>haven been resolved
HAVE BEEN RESOLVED, HAVE. GOD FUCKING DAMMIT

w

Apology = Accepted
With this being left behind, we can move forward and continue working on making Heyuri even more awesome

I am closing this thread now. There will be an important (in a good way) announcement soon, so look forward to it!

I can't find anything about it, I'm inclined to think it's just a mock-up

>>62150
Nope ヽ(´ー｀)ノ

https://4taba.net/board/fun?page=1
huh
it seems they don't know it either

>>62177
I'm pretty sure it's just some guy posting a local-only thing he's made

kusane dial-up BBSes still exist right? "textboards" suck, I want the real deal!

I've never felt any need to upgrade my 60hz 1050p monitor or my integrated graphics. Most of the games I play are old, but when I do play modern games I usually have to run them on lowest quality and 480p to get a good framerate (>30 fps). I don't think it's impacted my gaming experience.

Also, I'm curious--why do you like to upscale anime? I've always hated upscaling, because I feel like it ruins the art.

I just moved to 1440p a year ago and people are talking about 4k...
For now 4k is a meme for gaming. 4k can be good for work if you need that workspace. Personally does not matter for me since I mostly play low demanding games.

Hi again,

I hope you all had a fun New Year! (＾▽＾)

You've laid out some interesting points which I'd like to further comment on:

>>2500
-High refresh rate on old games:
Quake games, Unreal Tournament and the like will all play better, but a lot of old games have optimization issues or framerate limits (Skyrim comes to mind). It's heavily dependent on the games you run, so I can't comment more on that.

-Money & Power
Apples to apples, a 4K 144Hz panel vs 1440 144Hz isn't even a comparison.
Pineapples to oranges, a 4K 60Hz and 1440 144Hz panel are about the same price, and it's not too tough of a resolution to run when you optimize for it. Preference and use case matters, neither option is better, they're just different.

-Legacy software
I have a 28" panel and use 100% scaling; this gives me a lot of room on my desktop, but it isn't something I'd recommend to those with less than perfect eyesight.
On 28" some old software like plug-ins do get pretty small, however this issue would be lessened on a larger screen. Some games also require hotfixes for resolutions above 1920x1080, so I get avoiding the whole "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".

>>2534
--4K a meme for gaming
(´･ω･`)?
I dunno about that. My setup is kind of a meme though. I top scoreboards on CS:GO with an FPS cap of 58 and Freesync turned on. No lag, no wasted electricity. Though I'll be fair and admit that the res doesn't matter as much in CS:GO.
Mil-sims are different though.

>>2532
I'm assuming you're into retro stuff, emulators or just older classics like Fallout. I was also fine on my old system, but my rig was like a slug.
I'd come home, turn my PC on, go to the bathroom, boil water, make coffee, have a quick breakfast, change my clothes, see what's on TV, go to my PC and it was just about done booting up.
After living with this routine for some years, you kind of get bored of it, and I also couldn't run some of the games I wanted to because of hardware limitations, which all lead to me picking out parts for a new build.
Again, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" is blissful advice. Don't spoil yourself!

--AI anime talk
--Scroll down if not interested--
As for anime upscaling, you'd be surprised at the results! (＠＾◡＾)
I'm guessing that the results you're familiar with are all done at some low resolution and then brought up to HD.
What I do is take the best quality source I can find, and then upscale that to 4K or 8K.
The upscalers I use are CUGAN - for detailed stuff like the Fate series, and RealESRGAN - for the simple stuff like Kill Me Baby.
Here's a quote from the description of one of my uploads on the topic of why:
"AI upscalers are a great tool for preserving and enhancing content for current and especially future audiences."
It's supplementary to the original. I pixel-peep over every detail to make sure that it came out perfectly and these new AI models are really good at their job.
There are different models trained on different anime styles, it's just a job of picking the right one and waiting a little while for the result. File size depends on the size of the model.
I could talk for ages about this stuff, tell me if you want more info.

--CONCLUSION--
You guys have given me some pretty good perspective. I hope replies are informative so far and that someone curious can use this thread to gain insight on the topic.

Catch you later!

XOXO
-Adel

Gaming (and i suppose movies) is the ONLY use case for 4k. 4k is HORRIBLE for anything else. Maybe on mac os where the entire os has proper system wide dpi scaling that actually works, but on windows and linux that shit is broken!
Imagine trying to click the 2 pixel handles on a window at 4k high dpi..
I suppose the real issue I have here is the DPI not the resolution. 96ish dpi is the ideal dpi (my monitor is 1920x1200 @ 24 inches)
also 16:9 fucking SUCKS!!!!!
If a 4k monitor was like 40+ inches or something to make it on par with that dpi then it would be fine.
but still 4k has ONLY drawbacks for anything other than gaming, with video games a 4k screen at some crazy dpi will let you see finer details, but only in certain games where seeing a single pixel object is important, that single pixel shimmer might be a couple pixels at 4k!!! pretty much worthless for any game besides arma... I suppose with gaming you have much less need for anti aliasing at higher resolutions so that is good too! but really even the most powerful graphics cards today can hardly handle 4k gaming. Yet a 50$ rx480 will play pretty much every game at 1080p no problem. I think 4k is a stupid scam, but 8k an even bigger one!

>96ish dpi is the ideal dpi
...for a PC monitor around 50 cm away from your face, running software designed with that DPI in mind (´∇`)

96 DPI is actually too hi-res for a lot of older software - try running software/emulators from the 80s or 90s at 1x scale, and you'll see what I mean. Hell, even a lot of stuff from the early 2000s was designed with 72 DPI in mind - 800x600 on a 15" CRT (where the usable viewable area is only 14") is around there, and that setup was still extremely common before 15" 1024x768 (around 85.33 DPI) and 17" 1280x1024 LCDs (96.42 DPI) really took off

You could also argue that 96 DPI is too lo-res for a lot of newer software too, though this is more due to everyone increasing font and UI sizes to compensate for the gradual increase in DPI on common PC monitors over the years (2560x1440 @ 27" for example is 108.79 DPI) (;´Д`)

DPI also highly depends on your distance from the screen - 96 DPI is adequate for a desktop monitor 50 cm in front of you, overkill for a TV 3 metres away, and kinda shitty on a mobile device 20 cm away your face

>>62167
I'll still respond to him because I'm a nice guy, but I think the consent debate threads are gay and provide no lulz. Also the only thread I've seen derailed so far was that manga one, where some guy just says "fuck pedos" out of nowhere, and then it caused a shortlived feud. But honestly, out of all the threads to derail, I'm glad it was that one. No offense to the OP of that one, but I'm a little biased towards OC centered threads myself. If spammers started fucking with those, I'd be a little pissed.

>>62156
Agreed

As you guessed, it was one troll that evades bans.
Rest assured that he is banned, but looks like he caused some havoc while I was asleep.

Please ignore him if his posts aren't deleted immediately, so you wouldn't be accidentally helping him to derail threads.

>>62172
Thank you Kaguya

I'd liek to propose reviving/reinforcing the rule about "don't post meta outside of /q/", which we've ignored since the lolico days

It would just be for more Serious Business discussions/suggestions/complaints/shitflinging over Heyuri's operation and situation, not casual mentions of Heyuri, Heyuri staff members, Heyuri users, etc.

>>62108
Is the software open source? I could take a look and see if I can implement a report feature. It doesn't sound too difficult (last words)

>>62109
it isnt

>>62109
Damn well I'm not too good with PHP, so I don't want to waste your time and not be able to deliver. I use JavaScript at work

>>62108
table with columns for post id and weight (no. of reports of the post)
add a button on every post to report it, if its not in the sql table, add it - if it is, increase the weight by one (check if IP is different)
i dont think it would be too difficult to make

Unless it spawned a bat-signal that alerted Kaguya of posts that break the rules when he's off-line, then i don't think a report feature is necessary right now
spam attacks are, well, quite apparent. Furthermore, even on /b/ posts are made at a rate where there's a lot of time for it to be delt with. That holds true without considering that the userbase tends to call out anything that goes against the balance of the echosystem
A report feature will only be needed when rule-breaking posts are frequent and abundant. It is true that a huge influx of users might threaten to make the aformentioned statement true, but only if we first neglect those kind of posts during the current stage of the site

>4chan
>I would probably make sure to be browsing the Something Awful forums in October 2003
>You are launched twenty years into the past...
>ONE DAY
>2002
>e active in 4chan, buy the best computer money could get you in 2008 and mine a shitload of bitcoin
COME ON PEOPLE ヽ(`Д´)ノ

>COME ON PEOPLE ヽ(`Д´)ノ
Not a bad idea, which people will u be cumming on? (´ー`)

Just enjoy browsing the internet without all of today's AIDS and underage b& ヽ(´∇`)ノ

i'd learn about all the exploits discovered after 2022 and try to slowly destroy the internet by using them

Well I've still got a decent memory of the predictions of the time and so the most unexpected events were the 2008 financial crisis/Lehman Brothers thing, the 2008 Obama election, the 2012 apocalypse rumor, the replacement of oil companies by tech companies at the top of the S&P 500, the refugee crisis in Europe and the 2016 trump election.

So whatever kind of beyond shady political maneuvering from the time would have to be investigated over the entire 2003-2008 period. The invasion of Iraq is a straightforward thing the Bush family is just obsessed with the Holy Land. It's the whole financial collapse and banks getting saved by the state that's extremely suspicious.

Listen to lots of disco music such as the following:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8vs1w8eE2A

1- buy enough alcohol that would normally kill ur liver in short span of years
2- hikkineet ヽ(´∇`)ノ
Optional 1- kidnap and SEX a JC the day before world ends
Optional 2- be an hero after realizing it was my delusion and world doesn't end

The last thing I'd do is eating spicy food and take a massive shit just beacuse to feel my ass burn and take satisfaction from it ( ´ω`)

Well probably the world would turn to chaos instantly and we would have to kill each other just for food and such. However, assuming the world keeps going on as normal? I too would probably just continue on as normal, browsing imageboards, getting angry at myself, consuming media, getting angry at others online, and all the other wastes of time. To die tomorrow or to die in 20 years, I really don't want to not exist.

Maybe I would begin to become obsessed with the close and impending doom, and I would become too unhappy to even continue on normally. In an ironic and hilarious fashion befitting a man such as myself, I would depart to non-existence due to my overwhelming fear and obsession with non-existence!

Not a fan of dark themes, but done

Don't thank me as I didn't do anything else than adding back the option, the CSS was designed by kuz back in the time

I remembrar the Ayashii style ヽ(´ー｀)ノ

Also tell if you prefer this one or GUROchan's version https://k.kncdn.org/css/gurodark.css?v54 (you can put to your custom CSS from top right)

>>62093
Maybe I can attempt making ayashii style again for kokonotsuba the next

>>62092
thank you anyways >< !!

Whenever I'm tired and want to post on my bed I just use the website on Bromite

Imageboards are meant to be browsed from the comfort of your own home with a cuppa in hand.

Back in 2020 when I used this website I remember very vividly there being a reimu armpit board, where the hell is the reimu armpit board? I feel like this is a tremendous oversight and should be fixed as soon as possible

>>62032
That was StrawberryHeaven, not Heyuri

>>61971
it would probably need some dev work, you'd need to check if the IP is a JP one or not, there are sum stackoverflow answers with implementing geolocation w/ IP
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12553160/getting-visitors-country-from-their-ip

GL kaguya -- 日本人、へゆりによこそーここはちょうすごいです！ヽ(´∇`)ノ

>>62039
we should add it to heyuri

>>61971
>most of their content can already go to /b/,
Maybe it's a placebo/autism thing but I feel like calling the board off-topic makes people want an on-topic dedicated board where they can feel at home.
Maybe calling the catch-all board something like "random" or "random 2D" or "jp" would help dissuading more people from asking for dedicated boards

it's true, but I can't live like this forever you know
there must be someone, someone who thinks like I do, like we do, someone not so shallow like the others

just don't take it too personal, while most of the things you mentioned are indeed true, these often come from people who are mere acquaintances and not true friends. ヽ(´∇`)ノ

right now I am in the middle of attaining a degree and this type of gossip is fairly normal between the people I have come across. I can't say I'm innocent either and have caught myself participating in it before as well. it's not a big deal.

if it bothers you, don't participate. learn to disassociate the things others say about you. in a few months you will have forgotten about most things unless they're really hurtful and if that IS the case, fight back

>>2505
>and this type of gossip is fairly normal between the people I have come across. I can't say I'm innocent either and have caught myself participating in it before as well. it's not a big deal.

I agree. I went through a very gregarious phase late in high school, and this sort of thing happened all the time. It weirded me out a little, but at the end of the day the spats never lasted long or led to any major fall-outs.ヽ(´∇`)ノ

>>2506
People are strange.( ´ω`)

>gregarious
Heyuri just taught me a new word (・∀・)

>>61972
You can rename it in the filepicker on most OS.

On the contrary, original source file names and non-hash-based server-generated file names liek UNIX timestamps and simple incrementing numbers are teh best

I give a filename to 99.9% of the stuff i download as soon as i download it, so i can't relate to your issue

>>62042
same, i usually wanna go back 2 see some files so naming them helps a lot

Too much metafaggotry and not enough taking it easy (´∇`)

Did any of you visit Geteso.org? It's a classic user forum. I landed there for a while, but it wasn't all that fun. There were few users, but a bunch of them were more focused on being prominent parts of the community rather than on the community itself. Basically just trying to get themselves over, in case you know what that means （ ’～’）
There was a lot of opportunity for lolhz and fun but i don't think they had the right mindset. In any case, i forgot about it for a while and when i come back it turns out it became one part of its own app. I didn't even bother downloading it (´ー`)
I came back to it after another while passed. It's back as a regular forum, but now it seems to be a shithole that needs to be put out of its misery. I've been thinking about posting something but i can't log onto my old account on this new version (;´Д`)
Thank you for listening to my TED talk

My advice for j00t00bz is to only watch videos by older, more experienced people, and legitimate super nerds ( ´ω`)

Anyone young, dumb, or oozing with faux-charisma and nu-web-isms is OUTTO! Especially if it's about sum made-up nu-sociology/nu-psychology mumbo jumbo! No thx! ヽ(´∇`)ノ

Algorithms/soxial media's egostroking tricks spoiled the game. Back when it was just you and your website, the only metric of engagement was pageviews, and maybe constrictive criticisms via teh guestbook or whatever. Nowadays, with likes and 'appealing to the algorithm', people are doing all of this 'how do I get famous?' arithmetic in their heads, which leads them to be shallow and disingenuous.(´ー`)

>>2488
It always makes me LOL and/or facepalm when I hear n00bs going on about their "ZOMG Internet Numbers™!!!1" like it's some important milestone, and a celebratory occasion when ROUND NUMBER is achieved

"guys I reached x amount of followers/subscribers/retards-on-the-internet-who-clicked-a-button, i'm so happy"
"OMG WOW congratulations, very well done, u deserve more!"

...it's just a freaking number on the Internet, WTF o_O

>>2489
woah we're really close to post 2500 (・∀・)

>>2489
The only internet number that matters is a good GET!ヽ(´∇`)ノ

>>62035
Thank you for that
>but it seems like clicking on the banners to make them change doesn't work anymore
Yes, I will try to work on maeking it so it changes as it used to soon. Maybe ChatGPT-san may be helpful now...
I will also open a ２ちゃん board very soon for banners, it has been on my mind for a long time, but the only reason I didn't do yet is that I tried making a modified /banner/... Which didn't work out. I could have the ordinary /banner/ back as well, but I liek the ２ちゃん idea better

btw here is the Gmod 9 one

>>62036
Just as beautiful as when I lost it...

I'll be sure to make more banners once you figure that thing out

kagy is the best admin ever :3 i love my kagy everyone loves kagy

>>62038
It probably feels awkward for kaguya to read such posts

>>62040
He probably prints them out and sticks them on his wall so can fap.

>>61807
Thanksgiving doesn't exist in my country, how about Halloween?

>>61808
Halloween doesn't exist in my country. How about Kwanzaa?

When is the next stream I hear j00 ask? Dunno lol, but here's the updated list:

1st priority
- Mahoromatic: Automatic Maiden
- Sensei no Ojikan: Doki Doki School Hours
2nd priority
- DearS
- Genshiken
- Kuuchuu Buranko / Trapeze
- Ninin ga Shinobuden
- UFO Princess Valkyrie
3rd priority
- Hand Maid May
- Myself; Yourself
- Popotan
4th priority
- Gakuen Utopia Manabi Straight!
- Koi Kaze
- Kokoro Toshokan
- Kure-nai
- Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha
- Midori no Hibi
- Moetan
- Okusama wa Joshikousei
5th priority
- Di Gi Charat (missing 1/7 votes)
- Rec
6th priority
- Koi Koi 7
- Rosario to Vampire (missing 2/7 votes)
- Sola
7th priority
- Elfen Lied
- Hitohira
- Joshikousei: Girl's High
- Onegai☆Teacher
8th priority
- Golden Boy

DON'T STOP, DON'T STOP THE MUSIC

New additions: Jojo no Kimyou na Bouken (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure OVAs from the 90s)
Removed cuz watched: Sensei no Ojikan - Doki Doki School Hours

1st priority
- Genshiken
- Kuuchuu Buranko / Trapeze
- Ninin ga Shinobuden
2nd priority
- Mahoromatic: Automatic Maiden
- Myself; Yourself
- Popotan
3rd priority
- DearS
- Gakuen Utopia Manabi Straight!
- Koi Kaze
- Kure-nai
- Moetan
- UFO Princess Valkyrie
4th priority
- Di Gi Charat
- Hand Maid May
- Rec
5th priority
- Kokoro Toshokan
- Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha
- Midori no Hibi
- Okusama wa Joshikousei
6th priority
- Elfen Lied
- Hitohira
- Joshikousei: Girl's High
7th priority
- Koi Koi 7
- Rosario to Vampire
- Sola
8th priority
- Jojo no Kimyou na Bouken (missing 6/8 votes)
- Onegai☆Teacher
9th priority
- Golden Boy

>>61996
I requested Moetan in 2020 and you guys still haven't watched it...

It's been in decline since around 2010, but the decline has steepened significantly in the last couple of years. These days the general impression is that it's a depopulated "has-been" website with poor moderation and an aging userbase (many of whom are in their 40s-50s), as well as the perception that most remaining users are mentally ill and the site being filled with garbage, and that younger people are generally using Twitter and Instagram instead (in addition to YouTube and TikTok)

5ch only gets around twice as many posts per day than 4chan now (a site which is also down from what it used to be, especially if you take /pol/ out of the equation), whereas it used to be significantly higher

>>2459
thats super sad (;´Д`)

Sounds liek it could be this post of mine, luckily I saved it (´∇`)

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>>504
There's tons of Japanese link collection sites out there, but the majority of them are exclusively for pr0nz and/or haven't been updated within the last 10 or 20 years... (;´Д`)

However, with the help of archive.org you can discover some great stuff from bygone internet eras. Anyway here's a few random Japanese link collections:

- http://www.iryoku.net/ (a Yahoo-themed link site containing mostly popular/mainstream sites, also has 18+ edition: http://www.iryoku2.net/ )
- http://www.1rk.net/ (link site for various imageboards & uploaders circa early-to-mid 2000s - most sites listed here are either dead or have long-since changed URLs, but it's useful as a historical reference)
- https://www.kooss.com/ (links to sites containing free stuffz - mostly related to web services and website creation but also misc things)
- https://freesoft-100.com/ (similar to above but with less dead links from 10-15 years ago)

For teh pr0nz:

- https://kanekogazou.x.fc2.com/main.html (tons of ero sites and imageboards, but beware of party van)
- https://www.toukougazou.net/main.html (similar to above)
There's over 9000 other sites like these, but they all contain pretty much the same links as the above, so I won't bother listing them

Here's some link collections from the 90s/early 2000s:

- http://www.dio.ne.jp/user/bestsites/fun.html (fun/interesting links from the 90s and early 2000s - an impressive number of these are still online)
- https://uilie1.tripod.com/favorite.html (a snapshot of the Japanese underground web circa 1999, links are mostly dead due to the nature of such sites - includes links to Ayashii World boards, Licentious Notice Board (LNB) sites, warez/crack sites, and more)
- https://geolog.mydns.jp/www.geocities.co.jp/Hollywood-Kouen/9705/ (various LNB-related links circa 98-99)
- https://web.archive.org/web/19990219101816/http://www.geocities.com:80/SiliconValley/Station/9698/NoticeBoard.html (same as above)
- https://members.tripod.com/~TAKU_2/index.html (a link site related to an early-2000s internet community named "obaka no kuni" (fool's country) centered around fun/retarded photoshop humor and "obaka sites". 99% of the links died years ago, but it's still fun to browse: https://members.tripod.com/~TAKU_2/Understanding.html , https://members.tripod.com/~TAKU_2/joke.html )

And if you're interested, here's an English-language link collection of active Japanese BBSes maintained by me: https://bbsdirectory.neocities.org/

Here's some other posts of mine that were in that thread (or similar threads - I don't remember ^^;)

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Hay n00bz, check this out:
https://web.archive.org/web/19970410071120/http://www.infovlad.com/underground/asia/japan/

It's InfoVlad's HACK JAPONAISE page, mentioned in the "History of Ayashii World" document. I managed to find an archive ヽ(´ー｀)ノ

A lot of the links are archived too, which can lead you to find even more pages of underground links:
https://web.archive.org/web/19970402003730/http://home.interlink.or.jp/~jm2nyw/NYW.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/19981202173939/http://members.tripod.com/%7Ekuni92/ulink.htm

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https://web.archive.org/web/19961229120749/http://www.digitaleden.com/h6/a575.htm

I FOUND THE FIRST AYASHII WO-

>Thank you for using Digital Eden's Community Town for a long time.
>It was closed on December 25, 1996.
(archive date: December 29, 1996)

FUCK ヽ(`Д´)ノ

I guess that's why they moved to 県人会 (Kenjinkai) on December 23...

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...that said, I did find an archive of one of "Marquis de Pedo / Pedo Kousyaku"'s rooms on Digital Eden - it's said that this guy's usage of free web services is what inspired Shiba to make Ayashii World the same way (I'm not sure if this is the exact one that Shiba saw - that one was supposedly called "日本ロリコングラフィックス" (TL: Japan Lolicon Graphics)):
https://web.archive.org/web/19961229114235/http://www.digitaleden.com/h10/a922.htm
(don't worry, there's no pedo stuff on the page)

Here's a couple more random examples of Digital Eden rooms that did get archived - I imagine the Ayashii World one probably looked identical to these:
https://web.archive.org/web/19961229113850/http://www.digitaleden.com:80/h10/a901.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/19961229113953/http://www.digitaleden.com/h10/a907.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/19961229114357/http://www.digitaleden.com/h10/a930.htm
(the last two even have some English posts... Navy-san talking shit about English dubs of "Japanimation" made me LOL. Some things never change)

[BONUS] The customization and room clearing pages on Digital Eden for room owners:
https://web.archive.org/web/19961229203122/http://www.digitaleden.com/h10/a922p.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/19961229203134/http://www.digitaleden.com/h10/a922e.htm

BTW, I originally found the Marquis de Pedo link by seeing an archived post of him advertising it on the japan.fetish.lolita newsgroup circa January 4, 1997... archived on Google groups (;ﾟДﾟ)
https://groups.google.com/g/japan.fetish.lolita/c/D6UlcTAG_9I

The japan.* hierarchy was apparently conceived on Ayashii World by an early Ayashii user named Asada Takuya (RIP ;-;), an important figure on the early Japanese web. He made it because fj.* (fj = From Japan) didn't have enough ABSOLUTE FREEDOM (真に自由). The japan.fetish.lolita newsgroup was made by another early Ayashii World user named Tanai, who also helped popularize the MP3 format with his YunaSoft MP3 Encoder. Strange World? More liek small world!

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Here's a collection of vintage Japanese "fukinshin games" (不謹慎ゲーム; unscrupulous games; games that poke fun at real world incidents, disasters, tragedies, etc):
http://www.hehehe.net/game/

One of the games here is Kasumigaseki: The Subway Sarin Game (霞ヶ関・地下鉄サリンゲーム). It's from 1995, and is a simulation game based on the real life Tokyo subway sarin attack carried out by the Aum Shinrikyo cult earlier that year

While the game itself is probably nothing special, it's notable because it's the game that supposedly inspired Shiba to make his first Ayashii World "Home Party" (Home Party was a paid service on NIFTY-Serve (the Japanese version of CompuServe) that let people make their own primitive, semi-anonymous BBSes)

You could reasonably argue that Heyuri might never have existed if it wasn't for this game... (;ﾟДﾟ)

It's a Windows 3.1 game because "lol 1995", so here's a video of it in action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXDZQ5gMEZk

Might as well keep going... here's one of my posts about Japanese script sites. It didn't make this post, but there's also https://web.archive.org/web/20130921075846/http://tackysroom.com/page_cgi.htm which has sum kewl stuff (Heyuri dorama script-writing board wen???)

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Here's some moar examples of old Japanese script sites - there's tons more out there, but these are some of the more historically notable ones:

CGI Rescue [1995-present, but only a handful of minor fixes to the various scripts since the 2000s]
https://www.rescue.ne.jp/
Very influentual script site, especially for Japanese BBSes. Back in the late 90s, Rescue's MiniBBS was the de facto free Japanese BBS script, with many of the scripts featured below either being modified versions of MiniBBS, or starting out as some kind of clone/rewrite of MiniBBS

FUN FACT: Believe it or not, there's actually an archive of Rescue's site circa 1996:
https://web.archive.org/web/19961221014325/http://www.ask.or.jp/~rescue/
https://web.archive.org/web/19961221173346/http://www.ask.or.jp/~rescue/cgitips/
There was also a shortlived English version of the site in 1998:
https://web.archive.org/web/19981206160533/http://www.ask.ne.jp/%7Erescue/e/

Yui [1996-2000]
https://web.archive.org/web/19970522211326/http://www.a-web.co.jp/~yui/
https://web.archive.org/web/19981202221856/http://www.cup.com/yui/
https://web.archive.org/web/20030212083424/http://www.ibport.ne.jp:80/~yui/cgiwork/index.html
Various former sites containing Yui's CGI scripts. Somewhat popular in the 90s, some of these scripts were surprisingly influential. ZurubonUploader for example was a modified version of YuiNote, which makes YuiNote liek the great grandmother of 2ch.cx o_0

KENT-WEB [1997-present]
https://www.kent-web.com/
Loads of classic and current Japanese BBSes and rental BBS sites use (or are based on) these scripts, particularly YY-BOARD and JoyfulNote. They're still receiving regular updates, but that also means some of them no longer have the classic 90s/early 2000s appearance they once had (instead they have more of an "early 2010s mobile UI" look, which may or may not be appealing depending on your tastes)

FUN FACT: world2ch used a modified version of YY-BOARD for their 2ch-style boards

TryTheHomepage [1997-2004]
http://www.tryhp.net/downloadlist.htm
http://www.tryhp.net/oldscript.htm
Home of resBBS and many other old scripts. resBBS was the original "thread-float" BBS script which Amezou adopted in late 1998, just a couple of days before Shiba's Ayashii World closed and their users came pouring into Amezou. Despite it's barebones nature, resBBS would serve as the evolutionary stepping stone between the simple MiniBBS-style BBS and the more advanced Amezou/2ch-style BBS

T-Club [1998-2016]
http://www.big.or.jp/~talk/t-club/soft/
Home of the "imgboard" script, the first "true" imageboard script as we know them today*. Initially released at the start of 1998, imgboard was the inspiration for nearly all those who came after (whether they knew it or not!)

*There were many earlier MiniBBS-based "imageboards" which displayed images via hotlinking to other websites, but imgboard allowed users to upload image files directly to the server. On those older "imageboards", people would upload their images to free web hosting services like Tripod, paste the URL to the image into the relevant field of the BBS's post form, and then the script would embed the image into the post without actually hosting it

FUN FACT 1: Futaba initially used imgboard for their very first imageboard before switching to gazouBBS
FUN FACT 2: This site is also home to the oldest known English-language imageboard, with the oldest post being from 1998/08/10:
https://web.archive.org/web/20020617042129/http://www.big.or.jp:80/~talk/t-club/soft/mini/imgboard_e.cgi
The board is also somehow still alive, although today it's just filled with spam and the "next page" button appears to be broken:
http://www.big.or.jp/~talk/t-club/soft/mini/imgboard_e.cgi

LetsPHP [2000-2019, but most of the scripts haven't been updated for a decade or more]
http://php.loglog.jp/ (formerly http://php.s3.to/ )
LetsPHP's site and home of "gazouBBS". Nothing really needs to be said about gazouBBS - you're browsing a derivative of it right now!
Less historically significant but still neat:

http://www.coolandcool.net/pcg/index.html
Other script sites are cool, but this one is cool AND cool

http://www.candy-cgi.com/
Fucking KAWAII yo!

https://www.nishishi.com/cgi/
The "tegalog" script here is kinda neat - it's a highly-configurable "memo logger" script that can be used as a bulletin board, diary, microblogger, and moar. The guy who made it has said he doesn't want it to be used as a typical anonymous BBS, but you can set it up to have a password-less guest account that anyone can use, so...

http://cb-moyuku.osdn.jp/
C-BOARD Moyuku

MOAR? OK! ヽ(´∇`)ノ

This post was about historical resources for Japanese BBS history, including Ayashii World & Amezou

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One of the main resources that most subsequent documents about early Japanese BBS history are based on (including most of the English-langauge ones) is this document compiled by bxjp. Be warned that it contains his personal opinions and biases towards certain sites, and doesn't cover every single site that ever existed back then, so be careful before treating it as gospel:
https://web.archive.org/web/20030801113739/http://blogdex.tripod.co.jp/encyclopedia/

There's also this book 教科書には載らないニッポンのインターネットの歴史教科書 (The Textbook of Japanese Internet History That Doesn't Appear in Textbooks), which was published in 2005 and contains a cleaned-up version of the same timeline plus some extra interviews, articles, etc:
http://www.jarchive.org/book/encyclopedia/

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For Ayashii World specifically, you can find an in-depth timeline of events and other bits and pieces regarding Ayashii World here:
http://strangewalker.nobody.jp/logwalk.html
and here:
http://f16.aaacafe.ne.jp/~stwalker/
(each one has slightly different stuff, but the actual timeline portion is the same on both I think)

In addition to those, there's this document which lists many of the various servers Ayashii World moved to during 1996-1999:
https://web.archive.org/web/20010605010005/http://members.tripod.co.jp/~swattylink/history.htm

There's also this resource, which contains a large collection of interesting and notable Ayashii World posts and stories throughout the years (mainly 1999-2003, post-Shiba). It's worth noting that this isn't the original location of the site - it's passed through many different hands and servers since it first began in 1999:
http://strangewalker.web.fc2.com/

There also used to be sites containing many complete logs for various Ayashii World sites (like this one: https://web.archive.org/web/20060206053522/http://strangedb.ath.cx:80/ ), but I don't know if any such sites still exist. Seems like Wayback Machine may not have archived the actual files on the site, but a few of the logs mentioned there can be found in the "倉庫" section of this site:
https://museum.scenecritique.com/
(there's also an overwhelming amount of other old Ayashii World and BBS-related stuff on this site if you dig around)

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Regarding Amezou, there's a site dedicated to Amezou history here, with a nice timeline of events:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210425094759/http://history.amebbs.com/ (I think it's still live, but it always fails to load for me for some reason)

One neat thing about that site is that it contains a few manually captured archives of Amezou that are otherwise lost to time - like this one from when they'd just switched to Terra's resBBS script (purported to be the first thread-float BBS script) and when Ayashii World residents had just begun migrating over after Shiba quit:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200125185706/http://history.amebbs.com/1998/199809061413_sokuho.htm

A better example of what it looked like around that time:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200126084402/http://history.amebbs.com/1999/1999_0111_2322news-ame.htm

A later thread in which Amezou users make fun of Hiroyuki's face - at this point the site had switched to using a modified version of MiniBBS v7.5 while adopting various concepts from resBBS, leading to what became the "Amezou-type bulletin board" (which 2ch, being an Amezou clone, adopted)
https://web.archive.org/web/20200125194044/http://history.amebbs.com/1999/1999_0728_0724main1-ame.htm

An even later thread, at which point Amezou appeared to have looked almost identical to 2ch
https://web.archive.org/web/20200125035825/http://history.amebbs.com/1999/1999_0907_1805main-ame.htm

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Hope that's enough to keep you busy for a while!

thank you so much dude (´ー`)

The art in my 90s sonic teh hedgehog comics > any crappy comic today

That said, the art is the least of their problems today - good art won't fix all the lame and over-pretentious stories & characters!

>That said, the art is the least of their problems today - good art won't fix all the lame and over-pretentious stories & characters!

Right you are. I don't know why, but comics has always been obssessed with rehabilitating its image. Comics could never accept it's reputation as an outgrowth of pulp art-- since maybe the 1980s it's always tried to be something 'more'. "Comics aren't for kids anymore!!!" (How many times have I heard that phrase over the years (´ー`)).This desperation to justify itself has led to probably the most pretentious bullshit ever seen in any medium ever, and is probably behind the 'dull realism' movement in the art. Notice how they had to borrow from manga to give comics some semblance of life?

Yeah there's definitely a graphic element that was lost. They all look like TV screenshots now (´ー`)