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Anon revisits early youtube

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  • eeltech@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nowadays its all about monetization :/

    Lemmy is kinda refreshing and reminds me a lot of the early internet/reddit.

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    • massive_bereavement@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This comment is brought to you by Raid Shadow Legends.

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      • sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Feeling sad from the debt you’ve racked up paying for digital clothes for your avatar in what can barely be described as a ‘game’?

        Welcome to Better Help, where you can pay us money to rapidly* connect you with a qualified* therapist who definitely won’t leak all of your sensitive health information so that online ads can drain you of even more money and mental stability!

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      • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Do you have trouble watching your favourite racist shows without the Imperials eavesdropping on - and occasionally executing - you? You need Nord VPN. Because Skyrim belongs to the Nords!


        Internet in Skyrim… Skynet? Interim?

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    • gmtom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah me too.

      If you liked this comment make sure to annihilate that up vote button, follow my account and subscribe to my patreon so you can get access to comments like these 24 hours early and get a cool role on my personal discord!

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      • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m sorry, I think I annihilated that upvote button so hard I had an integer overflow

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    • TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      As the cycle continues the more niche places will continue to have that feel. Always vigilant for the nuttos but comes with it being a non mainstream community. Good and bad.

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    • SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Thats the crux of it all. The a lot of the funniest videos 15+ years ago were just random videos on random accounts. There was no monetary incentive, so a lot accounts were just people who luckily captured something funny and uploaded it. Creative stuff felt authentic too, they were not chasing a trend, they were just trying to show off their original skills. I still love a lot of what we have today, but it is getting buried by trend chasers.

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    • themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nowadays…

      If there is one eternal constant in human history, it’s that every generation inaccurately believes that the problems they face are new.

      Human creates thing.

      Thing is cool.

      Humans exploit thing.

      Thing is no longer cool.

      Humans reminisce about how cool the thing used to be, and lament the loss of cool.

      If Lemmy gets popular enough, it too will be monetized and we’ll al have to find somewhere else to go.

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      • Zink@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        If the future involves big popular mainstream paid instances, it sounds like the fediverse was a success.

        Lemmy won’t be what it is now, but our niche instances can still exist.

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      • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Geeks, muggles, and sociopaths.

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    • OnlyTakesLs@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Just with a lot more communists

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      • Arelin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Explains why it’s not monetized to shit

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    • M137@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t think there will ever be a place like the old web again. Lemmy is better than reddit, but lots of the crap from there is just as common here, stuff that really wasn’t as common before. I’m absolutely certain a disturbing amount of people say dumb shit, make spelling mistakes and stuff like that simply to get “interraction”.

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      • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Culture changes. The best we can do is keep influencing it for the better, just wherever we’re able.

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      • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I can’t speak for everyone, but I post more frequently here than I did on reddit because we gotta get those numbers up.

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    • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It hasn’t reached the critical mass for monetization. It’s not ripe for the picking yet.

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    • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I was to comment that this realization came to me when I’ve found an antique but active forum about gore, that I can’t access it anymore, and I’m stuck thinking if it’s for the better.

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  • Outsider9042@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Whenever I feel like this, I just visit zombo.com and I feel better. Anything is possible at zombo.com.

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    • DoctorWhookah@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Where you can do anything!

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  • DarkGamer@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Back in my day the Internet was better, no video, we had to connect with 56k moderns, the hardware cost a fortune, most people were in AOL, we had to upload both ways in the snow, and we liked it that way…

    You kids today with your tikky Tok and your faces-book don't understand

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    • nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I remember trying to pirate Doom at some point in the 90s over a 56k modem. It was a 10mb download. I got shouted at by my parents for tying up the phone line the whole evening but I persisted. Turns out it was just the demo for Doom.

      Good times.

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      • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I downloaded dude where’s my car over 56k. I’d connect it at the start of the day before leaving for school and then pause the download when I got home so I could play StarCraft online. Took a week to get it, and then it wouldn’t play.

        Figuring the file just got corrupted during the download, I wrote a program that would break the file up into segments of n bytes and generate a checksum for each segment into another file, then you could take that file and run it against another copy of the original file and find any segments that were different and generate a patch file.

        Surprisingly, the guy hosting the file on IRC was willing to run the executable a random user on IRC asked him to (probably noticed me taking that week to download the movie lol), but then his copy and mine were exact matches. Then, he taught me about codecs and I was watching that shitty quality 500MB movie just a little while later.

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    • RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      had to wait for titty pics to load one line at a time, and we liked it that way…

      We really did not like that.

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      • Land_Strider@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Hey, speak for yourself. Some of us did get increasing fun with every pixel loaded, as the same image kept its novelty for like 5 minutes.

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      • sparkle@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        face fetish

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    • Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Didn’t be a dipshit. You can’t understand their point?

      They’re not talking about technology. They’re talking about creative quality of content.

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      • OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        He’s making a hyperbolic joke.

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  • stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    ITT: anon realizes the world doesn’t stop changing for everyone, what once was will soon cease to be

    You’ll be alright OP

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    • henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      All is temporary. Change is the only constant.

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      • chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Technically change isn’t a constant. Eventually everything will stop changing, because all of the atoms will have drifted too far apart to react to each other, and the universe will just be a thin soup of everything that will never touch anything ever again. Tomorrow is Wednesday, though, so only a few more days until the weekend!

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      • thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Except war. War never changes.

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    • zurohki@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I met a traveller from an antique land,
      Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
      Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
      Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
      And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
      Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
      Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
      The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
      And on the pedestal, these words appear:
      My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
      Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
      Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
      Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
      The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

      - Percy Shelley

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      • savedbythezsh@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        xkcd.com/1557/

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    • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      OP sails off into the west

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  • PoliticalAgitator@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s a cycle we all go through. My “when the internet was good” was when long-form text content ruled, before memes and videos took over. The kids of today will fondly remember the deep fried memes and TikToks from before the human race became functionally extinct.

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  • wick@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    While I’ll agree the internet has been overrun by shortform shit, calling internet memes uncreative is such a boomer-ass take. This guy is just nostalgia baiting for points.

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    • summerof69@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What points on 4chan?

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      • NegativeInf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Brownie points.

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      • Raxiel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        From a 4chan premium account

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      • wick@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I think for 4chan any post that doesn’t result in you getting called a slur is considered a +1

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    • booly@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah, plenty of Gen Z memes still make me laugh. They’re just in different forms, including some video “templates” where you just slap some captions on characters in the same scene:

      • Starship troopers “I’m doing my part” montage interrupted with Tim Robinson "I didn’t do shit!"
      • Diary of a Wimpy Kid scene with kids auditioning from by singing Total Eclipse of the Heart, giving way to some kid who’s actually good.

      Are they really that different from some high quality gifs or deep fried memes from the late 2010’s, advice animals from the early 2010’s, demotivational posters or absurd flash animations from the 2000’s, or joke websites from the 90’s?

      People will always be funny, and some internet jokes will start fresh before being run into the ground. Remember the ones you like, and then forget the ones you don’t.

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    • Jumi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They’re molding after all

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    • pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      spotlight ruined my humor the latest to do so.

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  • Linkerbaan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Made this one for all the Anons out there

    Image

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  • HexesofVexes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    neocities.org

    It’s basically Geocities in the modern world. You can explore rabbit holes, make your own site, and enjoy the wonders of the web of creativity.

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  • Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Old guy here. Word.

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    • LinusSexTips@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      leekspin.ytmnd.com

      YTMND

      Strange this site still exists, thought it would have been well gone by now.

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      • Kaput@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’ve listened to leekspin for hour at work. It was great to numb my brain against the daily stress. I think my record was 6hours straight.

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  • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    the darkweb is literally just the old internet, plus or minus some racism.

    It’s great fun.

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    • Raiderkev@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Idk about the minus part

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      • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        it depends on where you go.

        And where you go on the clear net.

        There’s tons of racism on the clear net, and theres tons of racism on the darknet.

        But there’s also shit like cookbooks on the darknet.

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    • TheHooligan95@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think that’s the whole point. Being capable of surfing the web properly already was at the time THE test to get in, much like private forums often have some kind of interviewing process. It felt a little more nerdy, and well organized, as you actually had to be both things to contribute. As it always was.

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      • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        it’s so much more visceral, in the sense that it’s just fucking html 90% of the time. And it’s incredible.

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    • Insanelysick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Light the way friend.

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      • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        i am sorry i cannot do that for you.

        It would fuck up the name.

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    • PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nice try, FBI agent

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      • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        hey! I’m a CIA agent!

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Lasted about as long as the Wild West.

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  • soba@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Eh, 2011 internet was already corporate garbage. The takeover was already finalized by then. The internet died circa 2003.

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    • gears@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The internet died when the eternal September started

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      • son_named_bort@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The Internet died when the second person logged on.

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      • Good_morning@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I can only think of that green day song but I imagine you’re meaning something more?

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      • coaxil@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I memeber… And I’m still salty about it

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  • lessthanluigi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ve been using Protoweb on my 98 computer for some time now. Protoweb is a proxy for a old internet, mainly for old computers. (Not very secure, because http, but it is worth the time travel)

    Anyway, it has WarpStream on it. It is basically a Old YouTube recreation, using unusual means to play videos (Flash, RealPlayer, or Windows Media Player.) It has what this guy is looking for. Also it has new videos, but mainly from retro YouTube channels.

    https://protoweb.org/2023/12/10/warpstream-net-video-streaming-for-retro-pcs/

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  • lugal@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s why I love lemmy. And now to the sponsor of this comment:

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    • idunnololz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Beans, jeans and 💩

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  • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ve always said the same thing myself: I miss the Internet just there for fun. Now they try to make a living out of it; either in good faith or scamming you.

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    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      BackInMyDay.jpg we used the net for looking stuff up. Mozilla 1.0 was faster than gopher and something something altavista web crawler grey hair getOffMyLawn.gif

      But it was a special time, back at the uni in 92 and using the 56k link (!!) to play muds/moos on a server in f’n Bosnia. Or read the MTG mailing list. Uh, I mean, do class work.

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      • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        ~Life~ Internet was so simple back then. None with all these fancy gadgets and instantaneous loading of porn images and videos! Just living in the moment, being patient to wait for your favourite Internet material to load for 2 hours!

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    • grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I remember being excited when people on the television or “irl” would mention anything to do with computers or even the internet.

      Like wow mainstream culture is talking about the niche nerd thing that I love!

      Now the internet is the mainstream culture.

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  • metaStatic@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The day wasn't good, youth was. Now you're old and everything is shit.

    also, remember when /b/ was good?

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    • hoxbug@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh wow that meme brought my mood way down, childhood is long gone now.

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    • EtherealMoon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      /b/ was never good and Milhouse is not a meme.

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      • metaStatic@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Millhouse is not a meme is a meme

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  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If you want to get really old school: I miss web rings.

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  • Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Need that meme play list link.

    I’m so over YLYL thread’s full of fluigiwiggle shit

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  • Emi@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The creativity is still there, you just have to look for it. youtube.com/@Eltorro64Rus

    There was always shit content too.

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  • Fluid@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Capitalism loves to capitalise…

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  • tacofox@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m surprised I’ve only seen one mention of the good ol’ Stumbleupon.com, I used to spend hours alone and with friends just hopping from one random thing to another. Found some pretty cool stuff too.

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  • Emmie@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It turned from video sharing service to a shitty streaming one. theoretically for free except you are the product

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  • FluorideMind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Time for the industrial webvolution.

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  • tvarog_smetana@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I feel like the last version of this kind of thing was the Important Videos playlist which was 2017-ish, I think

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wild web still exists. It requires a special web browser though. And it’s full of illegal shit.

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  • eeltech@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But do you remember YTMND? Like can you imagine trying to explain those memes to the kids online these days?

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  • Hegar@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I have such fond memories of the days of rick rolling. I knew these two women who were into amateur choirs and they would come up behind people at parties and rickroll them IRL.

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  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Mr T ate my balls.

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  • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hilipati hilipati hilipati hillaa Hilipati hilipati hilipampaa Jalituli jallaa talituli jallaa Tilitali tilitali tilitantaa Hilipati hillaa hilipati hillaa Hilipati hilipati jalituli jallaa Tilitali tallaa, tulituli jallaa Hilipati hilipati hilipampaa Rimpatirillaa ripirapirullaa Rumpatirumpa tiripirampuu Jamparingaa rimpatiraparan Tsupantupiran dillandu Japat stilla dipudupu dullaa Dumpatidupa lipans dullaa Dipidapi dullaa rimpati rukan Ribitit stukan dillandu Jatsatsa barillas dilla lapadeian dullan deian doo Joparimba badabadeia stulla Laba daba daba dujan dillandu Barillas dilla deiaduu badaba daga daga daga daga dujaduu Badu dubi dubi dubi dejaduu Badaba dillas dillan dejaduu

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  • Raiderkev@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The north remembers operation soda steal

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