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gbs but from 2004
Oct 24, 2004

wow u rude pig

"i STarTed this TOIlEt Of A tHreaD aNd HAve sOmEHOW aVoidEd A red teXt"
Yeah so she sits on the cake and asks you to guess what she likes the most then farts in the cake, that’s pretty much it I guess

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Escape From Noise
Jul 27, 2004

I came from Something Awful (hands free).

sweet thursday
Sep 16, 2012

Well wife, it's the exact same as the normal world. The exact same. I don't make awful jokes involving disgusting topics or use my anonymity to stretch the humour muscles of the worst parts of my brain. What website do I post on? It's not important. What? Don't worry it's not some "hidden online life" and you know what you look really pretty tonight let's go for dinner at that place you like I'm buying get whatever you want

unpacked robinhood
Feb 18, 2013

by Fluffdaddy
An intern at work was confused at the layout of the site I was browsing. He'd never seen a forum and I tried to explain SA (he was not impressed)

BONESAWWWWWW
Dec 23, 2009


On the flip side, everytime I see anyone looking at a forums, because it's so rare, I have to verify that it is not in fact these forums.

ShortyMR.CAT
Sep 25, 2008

:blastu::dogcited:
Lipstick Apathy
"I guess it's like reddit, but I paid $10 to post on there"

That's my way of explaining S.A to younger internet knowledgeable family members and or friends.

Rule#1: never talk about the internet in real life.

Savage For The Winjun
Jun 27, 2008


I tried and failed to explain to an older coworker why a computer voiced lady saying 7 a hundred times in a row is funny.

sweet thursday
Sep 16, 2012

I don't get how seeing boxes within boxes within boxes, all with their own up and down arrows and rating, is better and more evolved than a board with messages on it that you can read easily

Laslow
Jul 18, 2007
Not worth putting up with the modem screeching every time you want to do anything. Don’t bother.

BONESAWWWWWW
Dec 23, 2009


Perhaps more than anything SA has taught me the value in smaller, more exclusive communities. Any yahoo can make an account but most don't.

Solar Tornado
Aug 9, 2016

A true fool keeps on fighting, even when there is no more glory to be gained
So there is this guy, right? And he's bent over and using his hands to open up his anus and you can see everything inside there, it's gross!!
Also he's married, so really it's an image that shows that love can be had by anyone, really. It's uplifting

Bad Purchase
Jun 17, 2019




Most people think of the internet as just a big truck, but the truth is it’s a series of tubes. Oh, what’s that I was watching? It’s a video... right a video on the internet, in which someone I don’t know is filming their reaction to another video, yes also on the internet, of someone they don’t know filming human corpses in a suicide forest. No, that part was not in the internet. Make sense now? About the tubes I mean.

Cubone
May 26, 2011

Because it never leaves its bedroom, no one has ever seen this poster's real face.
I remember a goon sharing an anecdote about someone looking over their shoulder while they were reading the forums and laughing, and thinking the person was responding to the content of the thread,
but it was actually, somebody in the thread's avatar was little mac from punch-out, and the person was like "punch-out right?"
dude was just super tickled to see little mac

I want to live in such a world

SidneyIsTheKiller
Jul 16, 2019

I did fall asleep reading a particularly erotic chapter
in my grandmother's journal.

She wrote very detailed descriptions of her experiences...
I've noticed that any passersby that looks at your screen while on SA only ever pays attention to the avatars.

Dr. Video Games 0112
Jan 7, 2004

serious business

SidneyIsTheKiller posted:

I've noticed that any passersby that looks at your screen while on SA only ever pays attention to the avatars.

or goatse

Cosmik Slop
Oct 9, 2007

What's a hole doing in my TARDIS?


I was already pretty online-poisoned when I only spent time on the forums, but Twitter is something else entirely. Explaining "30-50 feral hogs" to a group of friends was one of the more surreal experiences I've had recently.

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo

Cosmik Slop posted:

I was already pretty online-poisoned when I only spent time on the forums, but Twitter is something else entirely. Explaining "30-50 feral hogs" to a group of friends was one of the more surreal experiences I've had recently.

Dude, just don’t...

JK Fresco
Jul 5, 2019

Cosmik Slop posted:

I was already pretty online-poisoned when I only spent time on the forums, but Twitter is something else entirely. Explaining "30-50 feral hogs" to a group of friends was one of the more surreal experiences I've had recently.

Twitter literally causes brain damage. I'm sure of it.

Dr. Video Games 0112
Jan 7, 2004

serious business

JK Fresco posted:

Twitter literally causes brain damage. I'm sure of it.

Twitter got nothing on Twitch. That's the site you go to, only to realize how many people on there are just kids and how close the apocalypse is.

Edgar
Sep 9, 2005

Oh my heck!
Oh heavens!
Oh my lord!
OH Sweet meats!
Wedge Regret
I was talking about 8chan to my coworkers who are pushing late sixties. They tell me that "Q" is from there.

ScRoTo TuRbOtUrD
Jan 21, 2007

Cubone posted:

I remember a goon sharing an anecdote about someone looking over their shoulder while they were reading the forums and laughing, and thinking the person was responding to the content of the thread,
but it was actually, somebody in the thread's avatar was little mac from punch-out, and the person was like "punch-out right?"
dude was just super tickled to see little mac

I want to live in such a world

my significant other thinks your avatar is hilarious

she doesnt know of your vile and terrible forums legacy

Cubone
May 26, 2011

Because it never leaves its bedroom, no one has ever seen this poster's real face.

SCROTO TURBOSPERG posted:

my significant other thinks your avatar is hilarious

she doesnt know of your vile and terrible forums legacy
thank you for protecting me from her

BAGS FLY AT NOON
Apr 6, 2011

A Soft Nylon Bag
Frankly I think you’d do more good by introducing normal culture to Internet people.

Rod Hoofhearted
Jun 18, 2000

I am a ghost




DarkSoulsTantrum posted:

Frankly I think you’d do more good by introducing normal culture to Internet people.

:hmmyes:

Cosmik Slop
Oct 9, 2007

What's a hole doing in my TARDIS?


JK Fresco posted:

Twitter literally causes brain damage. I'm sure of it.

Can't argue with you there.

Palpek
Dec 27, 2008


Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.


Oh, it's a shorthand for "laughing out loud". Well, I didn't have to, it's more of a sign of mild amusement than a literal expression of emotion.

alpaca diseases
May 19, 2009

Creamed Cormp posted:

Hey buddy you got a pretty wicked sense of humor, how about you join me and a bunch of other perma-depressed 40+ years old computer janitors and assorted social rejects to post epic jokes about how the world is stupid and bad and sucks and we're the only people who are cool but also we suck and should kill ourselves?

No come back we got funny jokes

Um excuse me


I’m only 30

Macnult
Jul 7, 2013

remember stream of consciousness exercises in your english class? no? oh well it’s like that but with a keyboard and some people don’t even have their monitor plugged in it’s wild

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003
this one guy thought shrimp were pastries

poverty goat
Feb 15, 2004



Mom I was not masturbating to that man's gaping anus that's not how it works

BONESAWWWWWW
Dec 23, 2009


Yeah, this guy claims there are 8 days in a week. No, I know, there are only 7, that's why it's funny. No, I don't know him. Some guy on the internet. No, it's like ten years old he probably doesn't check this account anymore. We're still laughing at it. Yeah, for ten years. A bodybuilding website.

Instruction Manuel
May 15, 2007

Yes, it is what it looks like!

Co-worker/S.O./Family/Literally that cares enough to ask: "So what do you look at all day on the internet?"

Me: *wordlessly and instinctively opens up hello.jpg on home screen/desktop and turns to watch other person's face as they take it all in"

Jaguars!
Jul 31, 2012


People from across the globe meet to discuss the greatest philosophical issues of the day and share the wealth of experience that can only come from a truly diverse group of individuals who collectively have been everywhere and done everything under the sun, but at some point every thread ends up talking about Warhammer.

poverty goat
Feb 15, 2004



Mom seriously I am not some kind of gay size queen just because hello.jpg is in my browser history thousands of times

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

BONESAWWWWWW posted:

Yeah, this guy claims there are 8 days in a week. No, I know, there are only 7, that's why it's funny. No, I don't know him. Some guy on the internet. No, it's like ten years old he probably doesn't check this account anymore. We're still laughing at it. Yeah, for ten years. A bodybuilding website.

The Beatles got buff?

Yaldabaoth
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
It's where broken people meet up with other broken people and they encourage each other to become even more broken because their broken brains are telling them that they're right and everyone else is wrong and the earth must be cleansed.

Fenrir
Apr 26, 2005

I found my kendo stick, bitch!

Lipstick Apathy

Hell Yeah posted:

basically i put on butt porn and i jack off to that, and then i clean up with a roll of toilet paper that i have by my desk that i also use for blowing my nose. then i throw that in the little trash can

Shameful goon, where are your jizzshrooms

pop fly to McGillicutty
Feb 2, 2004

A peckish little mouse!
It's the screen you stare at to make you feel right about your wrong opinions.

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Kirk Vikernes
Apr 26, 2004

Count Goatnackh

30 years ago, it was explaining what BBSs or Prodigy/Compuserve were. They thought I was nuts.

25 years ago, it was chatting on VAX teriminals or coding, uploading and regularly updating my personal website on the university server. The one they really couldn't wrap their head around was buying things blindly or from a single lovely jpg on newsgroups or forums, etc. with a money order and hoping it was legit. In retrospect, it was kind of dumb, but I only got burnt once out of many purchases. Oh, and mundane stuff like playing Duke Nukem and similar games over dial up blew their minds.

20 years ago trying to explain forums or even online shopping was almost impossible.

Today, it gets me the number of people who don't take advantage of mundane, non-nerd things like the convenience of paying bills online or shopping online whether to save money or for convenience like grocery pickup. In TYOOL 2019, these things still get "deer in headlights"-reactions from way too many people.

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