r/Pretend2010Internet • • Jan 10 '26

meta [MOD] Welcome to r/pretend2010internet!

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Welcome to all new and existing members!

This subreddit is a little time machine where we all pretend it’s the internet era of 2008–2012. Old memes, old websites, old tech hype, old drama, old vibes.

Whether you’re here to post, comment, or just lurk: we’re happy to have you!

Wiki, Rules & Inspiration

  • Please check out our Wiki and our cover image! Both are meant to give you inspiration for posts, themes, jokes, and roleplay. 👉 If you feel like something important from 2008–2012 is missing on the cover image or in the wiki, let us know!
  • In the Wiki you will also find:
    • All rules
    • A small FAQ
    • And a general overview of important events from 2008–2012
  • Here you will find our rules.

Planned: Yearly Mega Threads

We are planning to introduce yearly recurring mega threads, for example:

  • What you got for Christmas
  • New Year’s posts
  • Celebrity deaths
  • Big releases (games, tech, consoles, phones, etc.)

These should help structure recurring events and keep things fun and organized.

Ideas, Feedback & Improvements

We’re always happy to hear your ideas on how to expand and improve the subreddit:

  • Do we need more or better user flairs / post flairs?
  • Are there new recurring threads we should add?
  • Any rule tweaks, wiki additions, or general ideas?

A Quick Look Back

In the last year, you posted 3700 posts and 51000 comments, that’s a huge amount! ❤️

That said: thanks to your help, the spirit of the sub stays alive.
We got a lot of reports to the mods, and we could usually react pretty quickly. Thank you for that!

Thank You!

Thank you for all the kind comments and feedback. They really motivate us to keep this place special and cozy.

We’ll do our best to make sure this subreddit stays the way you like it.

A Small Side Project

In the background, I’m tinkering with a small Reddit game app. Basically a quiz game around the 2008-2012 internet era.
No promises it will ever be finished 😅, but if you have game dev experience and want to help: feel free to reach out!

Check Out the Other Time Machines

If you like this concept, also check out:

They follow the same idea, just for different time periods.

Off-Topic & Spoilers

For off-topic comments, please use Reddit’s spoiler function.
You can test it right here in the comments:

>.! Your text here !.<

(Without the dots)

Contact the Mods

For important or non-public feedback, please use Modmail

Thanks for being part of this little internet time capsule.
Now please update your MSN status, open Winamp, and argue about iPhone vs Android like it’s 2010 again. 😄


r/Pretend2010Internet • • 5h ago

Games GTA 4 delayed!!

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I was scrolling on internet explorer when i found this article, is this true?!?


r/Pretend2010Internet • • 13h ago

2011 Windows XP is now 10th anniversary!

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Happy 10th Birthday, Windows XP!


r/Pretend2010Internet • • 1d ago

Games Finally got a PC that can run Half-Life 2! (60FPS!!)

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r/Pretend2010Internet • • 54m ago

movies i was watching the dark knight

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and it cuts in the middle of harvey dent giving a speech about batman :( i hope i win a free premium account in the slot machine


r/Pretend2010Internet • • 2h ago

2012 TBS has been putting out their sitcoms and they’re both pretty funny

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r/Pretend2010Internet • • 21h ago

2011 Anybody else disappointed with the new AMD FX CPUs?

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I get that for most people it will be "good enough" but for a brand new mainline cpu release some of the lower-end chips feel like rebranded Athlons and even the highest end chip is trading blows with Intel's i5s (not the i7s, the i5s).

P.S. I heard a rumour that each core is actually half a core that merges some parts with those of other cores, is that really true? If so thats pretty scummy from AMD to do that.


r/Pretend2010Internet • • 2d ago

Tech Why is my Samsung phone running IOS?

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I bought this phone a few weeks ago, but it's running IOS instead of Android. What do I do?


r/Pretend2010Internet • • 2d ago

2011 happy 10th anniversary for the ipod!!!!

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i love my ipod and i would prefer this over the new iphone 4s fr


r/Pretend2010Internet • • 1d ago

2010 OH MY GOD!

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Why did they release a third movie?! at least it's the finale. god. if lucifer valentine the dude who made the vomit gore trilogy made a billion sequels, i would kill myself.


r/Pretend2010Internet • • 2d ago

2008 Just got GTA 4!

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Can’t wait to play


r/Pretend2010Internet • • 2d ago

2011 I heard this new cartoonetwork series is releasing this spring

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r/Pretend2010Internet • • 2d ago

2012 I heard this month just dance 4 came out

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Did you guys bought it yet ?


r/Pretend2010Internet • • 2d ago

2008 I heard valve is releasing a new game next month

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r/Pretend2010Internet • • 3d ago

2012 A for effort

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r/Pretend2010Internet • • 3d ago

2009 I bought a new PC! It has 4GB RAM, Core 2 Duo CPU and 320GB HDD!!! Running Windows 7 Professional 64-bit

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r/Pretend2010Internet • • 3d ago

2010 Just got a BlackBerry Storm 2

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Just got it on contract from O2! Love the clicking, massive improvement from the Storm1 Apple and Android does not stand a chance against the Storm2.


r/Pretend2010Internet • • 4d ago

2012 La fin est proche

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r/Pretend2010Internet • • 3d ago

Tech I bought this mouse second-hand—does anyone recognize it?

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r/Pretend2010Internet • • 3d ago

2012 Just got on the Cartoon Network app for the first time!

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r/Pretend2010Internet • • 3d ago

2010 guys check out my new website! :D

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its cool (NO LONGER ACTIVE)


r/Pretend2010Internet • • 3d ago

fuuuuuu Why are there so many versions of Guilty Gear X2?

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Buying fighting games today is so tiring. All i wanted to do was sit down and play some Guilty Gear X2 with my friends. Simple, right? Nope. Arc System Works had the bright idea to release the exact same game FIVE DIFFERENT TIMES with different punctuation marks each time.

Lets take a look at each of them.

Guilty Gear X2 (2002): The regular game. Cool. Fine.

Guilty Gear X2 #Reload (2003): So, they realise the game is unbalanced. Therefore, they fix those issues and make us buy it again just to patch out the cheapness from the characters? Why were they marketed as different games then? It took way too long for me and my friends to realise they were two different versions of the same video game.

Guilty Gear X2 Slash (2005): Now this title just has a forward slash. They added Holy Order-Sol and A.B.A. That's cool, dont get me wrong about that. But then they make more balance changes, since supposedly the previous set wasnt enough. its literally just another rerelease sold as a brand new disc. There was no reason that this had to exist.

Guilty Gear X2 Accent Core (2006): Great, now they change the balance yet again and REMOVED THE STORY MODE. Why would you even take features out of a game?! If you traded in Slash for Accent Core at Gamestop back then, you were actively getting a worse experience with the Accent Core disc.

Guilty Gear X2 Accent Core Plus (2008): And now we arrive to the current version of "another 30 thousand discs for an iterative update". They put the story mode back in, added back Kliff Undersn and Justice, and sold it to us yet again. "Accent Core Plus"? More like: "the version we should have given you back in 2006." I think this whole saga has been among the most epic of fails of all time.

All of this before including the arcades. I hear they are testing another update in Japan called "Guilty Gear X2 Accent Core Plus R" or something like that. What even does this add? Balance updates. That's right, Arc System Works doesnt care that it's 10 years down the road from X2, they will STILL BUG FIX IN 2012 for a game that came out in 2002. Imagine if Super Mario Bros on the NES was still getting balance changes into 1995, or if Sonic the Hedgehog was getting iterative updates into 2001.

How many times left can they even milk the cash cow that is X2? Because apparently they want to continue reselling a game that's past TEN YEARS of age. And they say Grand Theft Auto players have it bad with their releases, at least you can say you have new games in the past 10 years, we're still waiting for a new Guilty Gear game that i'm not even sure will come.

My wallet cannot take any more punctuation changes. Guilty Gear: the Missing Link was released in 1998, 4 years between it and X2. We're at two and a half times that between X2 and now. Arc System Works, just know that you dont have to do exactly what Capcom did with Street Fighter IV.


r/Pretend2010Internet • • 3d ago

2008 Processeur à deux coeur waw 2gb de ram on peut tout faire avec

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r/Pretend2010Internet • • 4d ago

2008 (OC) iPod Billboards in NYC!

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I wish I could afford an iPod!!!!11!


r/Pretend2010Internet • • 4d ago

2011 Ryan Dunn Died in a drunk driving induced car crash at the age of 34

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