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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
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2004
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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
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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

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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 )

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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
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The "Battle System" was longed for for what seems like forever. It ended up being zOMG!
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some web banners circa 2007
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I do not know the story behind this image xD;;
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I have a lot of screenshots of errors

Art Arena 2004 when nothing showed up
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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"
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it even effected NPCs in the headers as they said things and gave out items.
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older layout stuff

shops


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meebo
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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.
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events

halloween
I don't remember what year these costumes were sweatdrop
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The Zombie event

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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
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here's an alien sighting
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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
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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:
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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

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


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Clean Gaian

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damn...

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

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Most these images are older than gen z.

Lonely Browser

I have another as my profile header lol
I only remember the top imagine here. Thank you for sharing.
whyd u come here 2nite emotion_0A0
Sensei Norisu Chyaku
Most these images are older than gen z.

truth lmao
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
Brazil1985
I only remember the top imagine here. Thank you for sharing.

greetings fellow elder heart
Space Whale
whyd u come here 2nite emotion_0A0

emo emotion_brofist

Friendly Bloodsucker

Oro 3
damn...
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.

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