>>1181126>like what 4chan or youtube were at the very beginningUnless you meant early 30s in the OP you were pretty far off the beginning. You missed /b/ being good by nearly 10 years. While I can be nostalgic for the early years I definitely wouldn't want to go somewhere like it now.
After seeing the comparison of most posted images by board maybe I'm doing alright by just being on /a/ now but I think it's still decent here. The ease of hiding and filtering stuff helps avoid enough of the shit, and the site always had shit.