It’s not even a suspicious world.

There was just barely enough computer communication.
There is still no vase.

The 2chan forum probably started to gain momentum around the Toshiba complaint incident, so I think it was around 1999.
However, I think the movement itself peaked around 1998, which is not the “Shin” theater, so it still feels like it was being discussed quite passionately.

Well, the idea of having a real-time commentary battle on 2ch is completely false.

2ch was created in 1999, right?

Evangelion’s 2ch opening was in 1999.
Therefore, the “2ch discussion board at the time of broadcasting” does not exist.

The peak of the jar is the Gundam, right?

Is Neo Barley Tea from the year 2000?

Since we were talking on Nifty Serve, it’s more like memory alteration or historical revisionism.

Back in the days of Eva, nifty was probably the largest company.
I was really excited about discussions on Dinosaur Planet and Gene Diver.

The energy of nif was amazing, so maybe that’s where the misunderstanding is.

At that time, it was amazing because the internet environment was just starting to become popular among middle and high school students.

By 1995, the internet was already in full swing…

I want the ridiculous culture of “consideration” to finally perish.
It’s just a bunch of guys like the post-Okada Toshio.

The vase is newer than what today’s children think, and the seeds seem older than what today’s children think, creating a discrepancy.

The image I have is that Evangelion gained popularity from the late-night reruns.

I have never considered it.
It ends with something interesting.

Amezou

Wasn’t there a story about how director Anno was criticized excessively online during the time of the old Evangelion and received death threats?
Isn’t that a jar…?

After all, this is the Human Complementation Project.

A little while ago, there was a thread on a site that compiles logs of BBSs for anime otaku that were active in the 90s.
There might be logs of such discussion threads over there.

What is that? It makes it seem like the thread image was a total noob back then.

There wasn’t really any response at the time of the Eva broadcast, right?
It’s not like the sudden rise in word-of-mouth popularity was due to a re-broadcast or anything.

In the early 90s, there were some people discussing various things on internet message boards, even though it was mostly among otaku.
Isn’t it simply that this person only knows the internet bulletin board 2ch, or is just mistaken and thinks it was 2ch?

Is there still no Sega BBS?

The level of civilization among the people in the jar is terrible, but that doesn’t mean that everywhere else is completely proper either.

Leaving aside whether that can be considered an examination in a dictionary sense, I think the so-called “examination” itself isn’t bad.
It’s backward to say that the YouTuber is annoying like that critic.
I think it’s good to have fun speculating and wondering if that’s a foreshadowing or maybe if this is related to that.

The reason late-night reruns became popular is because of something called telehousing time.

That’s nice, isn’t it?
Evangelion Mystery Book Boom

Sources of information like Eva can be found in Newtype or Fanroad.
Right now, things that are trending on forums and X don’t exist, so instead, the popular attention is focused on noteworthy works.

I remember that it used to get exciting near the end of the broadcast and then be replayed late at night right after.

In Niigata, or somewhere, you can only see Eva in the prefecture from the top of a mountain that is about 1000 meters high.
On the day of the broadcast, did the fans really flock like a parade…? I wonder if that’s true.

Mapletown Network

www.maple.town

This is a valuable example of a network bulletin board that has existed since 1986 and retains all its logs.
You can see the impressions and responses from when anime and games were released in the early 90s.

There wasn’t such a passionate online community at the time of the TV broadcast.
The nameless house probably barely had a monochrome mobile phone, if at all.

I feel like there was a time when personal homepages mostly had bulletin boards attached.

I wish there was a way to deal with people who think the internet has always been just 2chan.

At that time, even though personal computers existed, they were being adopted by companies and schools, while only a limited number of individuals, such as tech enthusiasts, otaku, and researchers, owned them compared to now, right?
I remember that anonymous message boards didn’t exist, and interactions were limited to personal emails and chat rooms for a few people on BBSs that required login, which were very small and intimate…

Was the first airing of Eva a late-night broadcast?

It’s been said before that those who can’t enjoy themselves end up taking on the attacking role.

At the time of the broadcast, it wasn’t that exciting.
The final episode became a hot topic for being a complete mess, which sparked interest during its rerun and turned into a social phenomenon by the time the movie was released.

It’s not about whether there was a jar back then, but more like what it would have been like if 2ch existed during the Edo period.

I was accessing electronic bulletin boards with a word processor.

“Otaku are so annoying.”

I’ve heard that Eva was indeed heavily debated in things like computer communications.
What comes to the general public are the mysterious books that used to be found at Village Vanguard.

When it comes to the excitement of discussions on message boards, the first thing that comes to mind is Higurashi.

Why was I casually over 40 when I was in the second year of junior high?
So this is the kind of understanding you have?

It’s the era when NIFTY and PCVAN engaged in a bloody battle of ideas, right? I know, I know.

Telehopping has been around since 1995, after all.

Criticism based solely on “I think this way” is bullshit.
However, they boldly declare about freedom of interpretation and such.

I’m saying compared to now… Back then, it was 14.6% at the household level.What are you talking about?

The line for Win95 was certainly amazing.
Looking back now, even if they say there will be a new release like 3.1, I can’t help but think it’s not something to look forward to that much.
I wonder if it became a hot topic like “It’ll be like a Mac on Windows!”

There are more people using exaggerated language these days…

Yeah… What are you talking about, even though I provided statistical data? Do you really think it’s going to work?

In the first place, the thread image is saying that they didn’t have a computer.
After I started using the internet, I heard that otaku were talking online back then, and I thought that there were also collectibles at that time.
It’s just a misunderstanding and not an intention to act knowledgeable or to distort history.

It seems that my mom was responding with a character from a seed in a jar, but that sounds ridiculous!? Yet, considering the years, I can’t help but feel confused.
I also have memories of using events with handsome actors from Kamen Rider as an excuse to go out…

I remember that in the mid-90s when I was in elementary school, there was a service at the nearby Tsutaya where you could use the internet for 500 yen per hour.
There was also a place in front of the station where you could use the internet for 400 yen an hour… I used to go there a lot, bringing a bunch of floppy disks to search for CG.
A few years later, I was using the internet at home, so I guess it spread rapidly…

I didn’t have the image that computer communication was thriving during the Evangelion era.
Isn’t it an era where the OS has become comfortable?

I mean, my dad has a Mac, and I’ve been using it since I was in early elementary school.
I started interacting with others on the internet while staying at home since middle school.
Around 1998, I suppose…
It seems that YahooBB’s ADSL came out shortly after that.

I followed Okamoto Rintarō’s tweets, and they are quite interesting.
It’s only natural that such a manga is drawn based on logic.

Why are you trying to compare the overall diffusion rate in society with the discussions that were heated among otaku on such bulletin boards?
If you say that, even Comiket has been a long-standing major event in the otaku world, but it’s not like a certain percentage of the entire society attends it.

Around the end of the bubble, PCs became essential in the business sector.
When trying to get a loan at the bank, they make you buy a PC.
“I was told, ‘Please do banking with this and the telephone line.'”
PC with 286 CPUs flooded the country like crazy.

It seems that there were quite a few people who had just started playing online games after spending time on DC…

In the early days of Win95, there were probably quite a few households with PCs that were not connected to the internet.
People who use it for Ichitaro or Excel.
It started with the spread of ADSL, didn’t it? Internet at home and such.

If you’re going to argue, you should just provide the data…

By 1998, it was said that there was one per household (excluding households with only elderly people).

Windows 95 sold well, but until the widespread adoption of ISDN, the hurdles for the internet were still high.
I think it started in earnest around Windows 98.

Since the Internet was included in the top ten of the 1995 buzzword awards, can we say that it started to spread after that?

The spread of the internet happened after YahooBB distributed it for free, right?

It’s impressive that you can acknowledge your mistakes!

Teleho day started in 1995, after all…

It is true that Win95 became a boom and started to penetrate households from there.
It will still take some time before it feels normal for every household to have one.

It became widely popular with Win98, but…
That is a story for middle-class families or above.
I think that for families in poverty, their impressions change depending on the environment in which they grew up.

It’s more like a conversation at school the day after the jump was released.

I think back on how PCs have become more widespread not just for work or gaming purposes, but as more casual information devices.
It was around the time my cousin’s older sister, who was a college student, bought a Bombay Blue iMac.
In 1998 or 1999.

Not to mention Windows 95, the true widespread adoption of internet connections started around the introduction of ISDN to ADSL, so it shifts to around Windows 98.

Looking back, the time from dial-up to the start of ADSL was surprisingly short!

I think I started to feel that I could comfortably use the internet at home from the early to mid-2000s.

Is it a misunderstanding that it was not me who was doing it, but that Eva was probably exciting the discussion board?
Well, I can just about forgive it.

In times like this, reading Kochikame might help you understand the sense of the times.
I’m not familiar with Kochikame, so I don’t know how Ryo-san was using the internet in the mid-90s.

Many people might have their first internet experience with their father’s Win95 PC.

I believe the fastest device that allowed the general public to access the internet relatively cheaply was the Dreamcast.

When we were playing Chu Chu Rocket on the Dreamcast, using the internet on home computers hadn’t really become widespread yet, right?

https://www.maple.town/bbs/194/l/0001-0051/
On the site above, you can see the logs from the broadcast of Evangelion here.
It feels like there’s quite a bit of excitement around various discussions and analyses.
Of course, this is likely just a part of it.

There was a casual computer that was kind of transparent, right?

The internet that can be said to be generally common for the average person started with i-mode.
Even that had a bit of a lag from the service launch (in 1999) to its spread.
It’s unimaginable that PCs were so widespread that anyone could just use them and connect to the internet.

I feel like it was called computer communications until it became widespread.

A fan of Higurashi who gives the middle finger to commentary YouTubers.

It’s funny that they didn’t delete it even though it’s just a fake.
It feels like a dung beetle here.

I wonder if the personal homepage and BBS started around 1996.

When was the Internet Expo?
It’s during Prime Minister Mori’s time, right?

I like this anime director, but the occasional lapses in detail are a minor flaw.

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Well, as shown in the graph here, even around 2004 it was finally at 55.2%.
It will be after that when any household will be able to use the internet.

The serious internet old generation is
There are quite a few people who seriously hate the jars, so mixing them up is a hassle.

The fact that something has spread or not is just everyone’s personal opinion, isn’t it?
I think it’s fair to say that there was widespread adoption since the total number of subscribers for Nif and VAN in 1995 was 2 million.

Seeing the figure of 14.6% for the penetration rate
Only a limited number of people have it.
Recognizing it as a trap of % is too much of a pitfall.

Transparent computers have models where the windows move and others that are fake and don’t move.

I think it really became widespread around the time of Windows 98.
I have memories of corresponding with a girl I’m unfamiliar with on PostPet, realizing that even those who don’t seem interested in PCs are using the internet now.

I feel like in the old days, if you were a child from a wealthy family, you had internet access.

Isn’t the key point whether discussions and impressions were thriving among internet otaku, rather than the adoption rate itself?
It’s meaningless to respond with “I think it’s popular because otaku were using the internet there” without defining what you mean by “popular,” when I think it’s not popular because not everyone in general households is doing it, right?