
saryasaki
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- Posted: Mon, 30 Jan 2023 08:22:23 +0000
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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.







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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
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 )

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


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

sushi database error





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


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
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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







