He's right, you know
Submitted 3 weeks ago by eah@programming.dev to [deleted]
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danekrae@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
darthsundhaft@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Beat me to it!!! 😁
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I knew we were in trouble when Stumbleupon went down.
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
It’s back
SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I like Cloudhiker
Bruncvik@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m old enough to remember when the World Wide Web was so new it had to use the full URL to differentiate itself from established services like Telnet and Gopher.
cloudshouter@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Al Gores internet. It was a good time.
rmuk@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Sounds like someone wants to go back to a website
uberfreeza@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Where you can log on, log on, log on
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
There are now 6 websites.
snooggums@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
Isn’t this post ironic, dontcha think?
It’s like raaaaaiiiiin…
I love the fediverse because it filters those screenshots down to the best ones. You all do great work!
darthsundhaft@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
It’s like raaaaaiiiiin…
Cue “Only Happy When It Rains” by Garbage
originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 3 weeks ago
shit, you got images on your first websites?
lucky.
expatriado@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
i don’t see where that is implied 🤔
originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 3 weeks ago
fair!
kingofras@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Nice hair
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Nice eyes
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2 eyes is a good amount of eyes
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Nice mouth, lovely smile
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Good face
cloudshouter@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Yeah, but they were all drawn in Paint. Kids these days don’t have the patience to watch an image load one line at a time.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I don’t remember the program, but I remember drawing collaboratively with friends in IRC. Program reminded me of Paint
NCSK@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
you missed an opportunity to screenshot this from Reddit and post it here
gastroglizzy@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Eh, ish. It used to be only four:
Something Awful
Ebaum’s World
YTMND
4 Chan
antonim@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Umm actually we also had Lemon party. But plebs like you probably haven’t heard of it.
Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’ve heard of those, but never visited because I spent all of my bandwidth at zombocom
9point6@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I mean they were some of the big ones, though digg, maybe newgrounds and even OG (no subreddits) Reddit was in the mix too
But you’re forgetting all the thousands of random phpBB/vBulletin/myBB/Invision/SMF forums run by passionate nerds with only around 20-30 other equally passionate nerds using them
cabbage@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I was hanging out on small phpbb forums and occasionally IRC. I didn’t use the internet in English back them though, which probably improved my experience quite a lot.
Something awful and YTMND I’ve heard about but I have no idea what they were, 4chan is a shit stain, and Ebaum I’ve never heard of before this comment. So clearly they were not that monopolizing.
boonhet@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Didn’t frequent any of them, I had several forums I frequented though
Now most forums are dead
PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
There are Facebooks I remember
All my life, though some have changed
Some 4channer, not for better
Some have E-baum and some remain
All these places had their moments
Geocities and friends, I still can recall
Zombo dead and some are living
In my life, I love Lemmy moreHeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Weebls stuff
eyekaytee@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
if you were american ? forums and websites all over the world thrived and then smartphones came out and a combination of reddit and social media killed it
boobookittyfrick@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
myyass@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Remember buying a “yellow pages style” book of what websites you could go to and half of them didn’t work? lol
cloudshouter@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Never had that, but I remember actually surfing the web of links between pages in the time before search engines.
NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
All word of mouth back then, you would have a friend of a friend tell you about a website they visited. Then as soon as you got home you would pray you remembered the address as text-messaging was not a thing yet.
People were always asking, do you got any good websites when?
Quexotic@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
I remember when there really weren’t images because those were too slow to load.
NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Images loading pixel by pixel, line by line, took ages. I don’t think I ever saw one full full-size photo for the first few years I was online.
Porn sites were a experience. I would load the first 1/6th of the image and be done. The rest was up to the imagination.
I was basically a crude LLM where I had to generate the rest of the image with minimal input.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Quexotic@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
I find it ironic and satisfying that the image link for your post is broken, and that’s how, like, 99% of the images actually work.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Yeah. It used to all just come from ebaums world and Ian’s shoelace site.
daannii@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I can remember my first dick pic. I, 15, met some guy in his 30s in some yahoo chat room. I remember waiting so patiently to see what he looked like. As that’s what I thought the photo was.
He told me he would buy me a plane ticket to see him.
How sweet.
Line by line. Waiting. Waiting. Another line.
A blurry dark photo. Hard to tell what it was.
Another line of pixels . Another.
The anticipation…
Another line.
Oh. Hey. Ya, pretty sure that’s a dick. Cancel that.
vortexsurfer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
A similar but also opposite experience in many ways: I vividly remember me and a friend (teenage boys, mid 90s) waiting for a picture of a naked lady on some website, slowly loading line by line. Took forever. Finally it failed when it got to her chest, just above the boobs we wanted to see 😢
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That tweet’s eighth birthday is coming up soon, and we are all decrepit.
Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
on the shitpost meter you score 20%
SeptugenarianSenate@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
private equity firm but for memes
rumba@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Come to NomadNet… there are no screenshots… or actual images… just text and a little micron (think ascii) art
Seimhe@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I mentioned a meme I saw to a friend of mine and it turns out he doesn’t have social media at all. He just said “The mediocrity of it…” and we went back to talking about other stuff again.
He had a point.
Psionicsickness@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Lemmy is the only social media I have, it’s a peaceful life.
Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
YouTube is my other social media and it’s getting stale quickly
Seimhe@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yes, but it’s very white and Anglo so it doesn’t feel like a “worldwide” web.
Malica@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I just use Lemmy, fuck the technocrats
Tja@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Where mediocrity is an aspirational goal
red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Your friend sounds like an snobbish ass. Just because something is offline doesn’t mean it’s not mediocre. There are many, many valid criticisms of social media. But when your friend mentions something they enjoy you don’t seem very nice when you tell them that what they enjoy sucks. Don’t yuck someone else’s yum.
Seimhe@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
We’re friends, though. We’re honest with each other. I want to know his perspective even when we diverge.
So if I love pizza and he hates it, I don’t want my friend to tell me with a coat hanger smile that he likes pizza too. I want to know how much he hates it with all the adjectives he can muster.
gndagreborn@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t think that was at all the point the friend was making
undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 2 weeks ago
This kind of inability to accept others’ point of view is why I don’t connect with people much anymore.
When I was younger I had lots of friends who had differing opinions and we had the openness to say “that’s fucking stupid” with each other, explain why and still remain friends.
These days you can slip up just once with a minor non-conforming opinion and people become completely unhinged. And I simply can’t take only talking about surface level topics anymore.