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bump_fn posted:also lets plays started here which lead to things like twitch yeah lowtax you're directly responsible for pewdiepie too
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Incomplete Fish posted:lowtax's statement that he has hardly ever visited sites like reddit and 4chan is baseless and without merit. especially due to the fact he spent quite a lot of time defending his reputation on kiwifarms of all places. Oh my loving god Holy poo poo Lowtax posted on a forum thats not something awful. Oh my god
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looks like theyre posting the full interviews so you may get your wish lowtax http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/04/dan-mccomas-reddit-product-svp-and-imzy-founder-interview.html
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OldAlias posted:the internet was never fine and cool though, it was always intended to be an exploitative shithole, given that it is a military application to forward US interests. of course the ways in which it has become the particular shithole that it is, is the fault of capitalist bullshit. in the general smart phones and social networks are a dream come true lol
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Apr 19, 2018 15:25
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Remember when Jugallos were the worst thing in the world? good times.
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Apr 19, 2018 15:27
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Salt Fish posted:Oh my loving god the forum in question is run by a literal nazi and the sole purpose of it is for doxxing people. it is objectively one of the worst sites anyone could post on.
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Apr 19, 2018 15:28
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the pre-commercial internet was cliquey af, if you didn't follow a bunch of rules like you were born knowing them there were spergs who considered it their job to tear into you i mean does anyone else remember alt.folklore.urban? yikes
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Gazpacho posted:the pre-commercial internet was cliquey af, if you didn't follow a bunch of rules like you were born knowing them there were spergs who considered it their job to tear into you who was it from SA went on usenet admin groups and poked the greybeard bears with a stick and put the site on a bunch of shitlists both real and imagined..?
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Apr 19, 2018 15:34
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Incomplete Fish posted:the forum in question is run by a literal nazi and the sole purpose of it is for doxxing people. it is objectively one of the worst sites anyone could post on.
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Apr 19, 2018 15:34
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basically the experience that anyone has trying to edit wikipedia anonymously, that's what the internet in general used to be
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Apr 19, 2018 15:42
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i like to think i helped make the internet what it is today
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akadajet posted:i like to think i helped make the internet what it is today same but deeply fear
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Incomplete Fish posted:lowtax's statement that he has hardly ever visited sites like reddit and 4chan is baseless and without merit. especially due to the fact he spent quite a lot of time defending his reputation on kiwifarms of all places. Oh my god I said I spent eight minutes total on Reddit and 4chan but... I posted on a completely different forum for a period of time?!?! Dear god the sheer hypocrisy
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Gazpacho posted:the pre-commercial internet was cliquey af, if you didn't follow a bunch of rules like you were born knowing them there were spergs who considered it their job to tear into you "eternal september" really refers to the point at which the old guard was no longer able to bully newcomers into compliance with their preferred social norms
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Incomplete Fish posted:the forum in question is run by a literal nazi and the sole purpose of it is for doxxing people. it is objectively one of the worst sites anyone could post on.
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i feel like complaining about the interent now compared to how it used to be is like my parents complaining about how people used to wear suits and dress up to fly on a plane but no one does anymore
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Apr 19, 2018 16:00
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That whole kiwifarms thing was just embarrassing for all involved The ending was hilarious though
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Sagebrush posted:That whole kiwifarms thing was just embarrassing for all involved
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Sham bam bamina! posted:how did it end Their site owner got doxed
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how would you (the reader) fix the internet?
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more tubes
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atomic fire the survivors, envious of the dead, will have too many irl struggles to shitpost
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remove everything but the porn
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Apr 19, 2018 16:21
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good ideas so far, all of which are very effective for stopping the Internet Thugs
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bump_fn posted:i feel like complaining about the interent now compared to how it used to be is like my parents complaining about how people used to wear suits and dress up to fly on a plane but no one does anymore lmfao who the gently caress wants to dress up to fly on an airport, esp when you have to strip naked to get thru security 9/10s the time so taking off ties and suits n shoes and poo poo. not to mention then being uncomfortable in it sitting still for like 12 hours just lol if you dont fly in pajamas/sweat pants and super baggy microfiber pajama-shirts
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Lowtax posted:Their site owner got doxed
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Xaris posted:lmfao who the gently caress wants to dress up to fly on an airport, esp when you have to strip naked to get thru security 9/10s the time so taking off ties and suits n shoes and poo poo. not to mention then being uncomfortable in it sitting still for like 12 hours But the broader point is that it used to be very uncommon for the American middle class to go around in jeans and the like, up until the 1970s
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Sham bam bamina! posted:oh i remember that, i didn't know that it was related yeah apparently his mom got in trouble at work or something so the entire site got taken down unfortunately it's back up now
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back in my day the only people allowed
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speaking of old SA lore, who remembers the miscarriage forums bummer that all the images are broken but the chatlogs still exist
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if they didn’t want to be bothered by aol users they could have made their own private communities instead of moaning when people waltzed into public space, but impotent nerd whining is forever
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OldAlias posted:if they didn’t want to be bothered by aol users they could have made their own private communities instead of moaning when people waltzed into public space, but impotent nerd whining is forever they were accustomed to seeing those public spaces as their own private communities that said, you're absolutely correct
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go back to a web 4.0 where no js exists anymore and it’s all nerds sharing documents with no search engine to help. make me work for it damnit
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:they were accustomed to seeing those public spaces as their own private communities see also white people
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yo but how did SA give birth to reddit? i never knew
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lifetime supply of Pocky posted:yo but how did SA give birth to reddit? i never knew i googled the founders name + somethingawful and got nothing, if they were ever members i could totally see lowtax saying "take your link dump spam somewhere else"
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ate all the Oreos posted:back in my day the only people allowed yeah it's all the misbehaved white men that are the problem now.
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Perplx posted:i googled the founders name + somethingawful and got nothing, if they were ever members i could totally see lowtax saying "take your link dump spam somewhere else" I don't think my entire quote was printed, I meant Reddit's AMAs came from Ask / Tell
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ate all the Oreos posted:back in my day the only people allowed You see the internet is a lot like civil rights,,,,
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