OLD GAIA pix / screenshots from 2003-2004

[saryasaki]

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HAPPY 20TH ANNIVERSARY GAIA!

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Please enjoy these nostalgic images I compiled from the old Gaia!!

Post itt and show off your throwback avis mrgreen

Please share any screenshots/images you have from the old Gaia as well to help celebrate 20 years of GAIA!!!! heart

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images of the old banners circa 2004-2005 overhaul, when they added the new town of durem, and fishing! which was the first game surprised














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old images of the homepage

original 2003


2004






from user zzn0srap:



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some images of how the forums used to look






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images from the von helsons vs gambino event





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2004 olympics!




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arrow found a thread from 2012 that has a bunch of old pics/ gifs: HERE

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arrow found this thread cataloging all of the shop owners / NPC art and avatars

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the old speech bubbles when you saw a flying gift box or PM:






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this absolute legend


a screenshot of what the inventory used to look like



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what the forums used to look like xd





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TEKTEK!!!




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old affiliate banners





old registration screen


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original poster


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Kintoun

saryasaki

Kintoun

I have a bunch of stuff saved on an old photobucket of when the tower fell.

please post if you can eek

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Solomonstrosity

Don't know if anyone's poated these yet but I found a bunch of old posters.

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Monako SM

I don't know if this counts but I made a restoration image filled with old images of Gaia Towns. https://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/gaia-community-discussion/gaia-town-s-restoration-project-image-heavy/t.111221646_5/#5

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amazing post from user xoee with TONS of old images!!! wahmbulance wahmbulance

Xoee

I was going to change my avatar to something old, but just decided to sign into my OG account. xD

I CANNOT grasp that it's been twenty years. It's still not processing. rofl

After seeing the posters in the first post, I immediately remembered these gems: I picked up these postcards from a little booth in the corner of the dealer's room in Otakon I want to say 2005 ( that's gaia's booth, in case that wasn't clear )

I did some digging through my photobucket. I used to obsessively save things, but unfortunately not a lot made it to my photobucket and I don't have my original computer anymore. sweatdrop

when the most exciting thing was a new town to explore outside of Barton



The "Battle System" was longed for for what seems like forever. It ended up being zOMG!



some web banners circa 2007



I do not know the story behind this image xD;;



I have a lot of screenshots of errors

Art Arena 2004 when nothing showed up




SORRY I KNOW THE RESOLUTION IS SMALL. IDK WHY. gonk
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There was a bug during the 2006 Gaia Ball where everyone's avatars would get swapped with other avatars/images. It was endearingly referred to as the "big head glitch"


it even effected NPCs in the headers as they said things and gave out items.

no idea why I uploaded a screenshot of a monthly collectible announcement --- OH WAIT the month in the post is different from the header lol


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older layout stuff

shops

meebo

The capri-sun kid layout? i wanna say 2006? there was an extension that switched out the logo in the top left. I don't actually remember what the actual logo was, but here's two i have saved to switch to I think.







events

halloween

I don't remember what year these costumes were sweatdrop

The Zombie event

Zurg 07

A few of us would perform a glitch so we could walk on walls and then hang around [NPC] Ron Bruise's house waiting for aliens to come


here's an alien sighting



i don't think this was real. i think this was a joke but it's in my photobucket and i can't remember the context xD

April Fools; after opening a flying gift box, your face would turn to soot. This is the pop-up you'd get after clicking the giftbox:



My memory is really bad xD;;
I forget what event this was. I want to say the tower but it's not making sense to me -- I guess it's time I re-read the comics. BUT either way, a past me painstakingly saved every world map image from this event (as well as ones not effected) and compiled them into a larger image

all of the images are here scrambled with everything else from this post as imgur apparently didn't like the order i uploaded them.

Bonus material

I want to say this is the booth from .. Otakon 2006?

I didn't take this image, but it shows the NPC Reinhardt who was supposed to have a mining mini game iirc? ( some backstory- during the early days there were different servers named after NPCs and they were part of the URL. If a page was acting buggy, you would change the NPC name in the URL and the page might start working better. Among the people I talked to at the time some of us would swear by one NPC over another for reliability. e.g. ruby.go-gaia.com; ian.go-gaia.com. Reinhardt was one such name that would come up but didn't have a face to go along with it until someone posted this in the forums. )


this is an avatar edit i did of him based on the poster and of Russel Ace who was (is? LOL) my favorite NPC

i also used to make animations?
past me's interpretation of the gambino tower incident?



Ian and Rufus traceover from a scene in Fullmetal Alchemist (which was my other obsession aside from Gaia sweatdrop )

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you can still view the old inventory here

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Obi Aoi

Xoee

Hi! If I'm correct, Sasha as Samara from The Ring and Peyo as a duck are from around 2006-2008. (I've joined in 2009 though sweatdrop Here is an older NPC look guide I've made: NPC Looks

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Swissness

so I got perma banned in 2010 the nstarted playin again on new acc in 2012 and i found these pics from my old acc hehehee and some of art i got back then

[Oro 3]

damn...

[saryasaki]

Oro 3

damn...

did these pics punch you in your 13 year old heart? crying crying

[Tyler558]

Most these images are older than gen z.

[Chii]

I have another as my profile header lol

[Brazil1985]

I only remember the top imagine here. Thank you for sharing.

[Space Whale]

whyd u come here 2nite emotion_0A0

[saryasaki]

Sensei Norisu Chyaku

Most these images are older than gen z.

truth lmao

[saryasaki]

Kuku Zee

I have another as my profile header lol

yeah that seems to be the default for the classic profile xd xd im gonna save it to my archive

[saryasaki]

Brazil1985

I only remember the top imagine here. Thank you for sharing.

greetings fellow elder heart

[saryasaki]

Space Whale

whyd u come here 2nite emotion_0A0

emo emotion_brofist

[coughingflowers]

Oro 3

damn...

[Brazil1985]

saryasaki

Brazil1985

I only remember the top imagine here. Thank you for sharing.

greetings fellow elder heart

Greetings.
The person that showed me this site was a good friend in elementary school. He lived in a trailer park and I would go hang out over there pretty often. He was the first person I ever knew to catch a legit shiny Pokemon that wasn't the Red Gyarados.