Homestar Runner - hai guoys

[mindlessobserver]

Twenty Five Years...

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Damn it, now I am noticing that all the adults I grew up with as a child are ancient and preparing to die. This one little video release is really a hit in the feels.

 

[Falcon Sebben]

Celebrating 25 years of homestarrunnerdotnetit'sdotcom with a new cartoon!

https://homestarrunner.com/toons/backtoawebsite

Homestarrunner.net

It's Dot.com!

The feels and the memories are real.

 

[Forcey Funtime]

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[Anonitolia]

Already?! That means someone who was a little kid when it started coming out could be in college now.

people born the year homestar runner started posting could already have Master's degrees by now if they attended from age 18

 

[Pitckus]

I just remembered one of my favorite easter eggs and I’m glad it still made me laugh after all these years:

 

[BikeLock]

I feel like I've done my good deed for the day exposing a zoomer to Homestar Runner.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Tolkien was a proponent of the "Degeneration of History" philosophy. In that the current era will never be as good as the preceding. Because of man's fallen nature, it can never progress like the Liberal philosophies envision.

That's a total opposite of "Whig history" -- the notion that there's a one-way path of linear ever increasing progress towards utopia.

people born the year homestar runner started posting could already have Master's degrees by now if they attended from age 18

And a babby born when h*r started could be in a career by now.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

I barely remember this site but it's still nostalgic to hear about it.

 

[ZazietheBeast]

The old Internet was beautiful. It was a labyrinth where any link you click could get you closer to what you want...or get stuck in Ad hell.

 

[mindlessobserver]

That's the total opposite of "Whig history" and the notion that there's a one-way path of linear, ever increasing progress towards utopia.

Yep, and I really love how Peter Jackson was able to truly express the sentiment in cinema. Its never actually stated, and the actors never have lines about it. But the scenery and set piece presents it. You have the soldiers of Gondor, so few, fighting among ruins surrounded by statuary of dead kings and heroes long gone. The Hobbits and Aragorn fight the ring wraiths in a ruined watch tower. They sail past massive statues marking the border of a nation that no longer exists. A simple steward sits in an ornate hall before an empty throne in a massive city that is itself empty and crumbling.

To Tolkien, Progress was not a good. It was an inevitable outcome of mans evil. The march of history was not towards Utopia. It was to be further and further from Gods plan. Just as the industrial revolution made goods abundant and life more easy, so too did it despoil the land and give power to those most avaricious and conniving. They built empires even larger then Rome in size and population. Yet these Empires still claimed to be the "New Rome", as if some mythical gone past was the benchmark they were trying to achieve. And achieve it they did not. Pale imitations. Flawed, and corrupt.

To Tolkien, the only way to restore the world is to realize that the World is not yours to restore. Which is why Aragorn became the King. He rejected the Ring of Power.

 

[N++]

https://homestarrunner.com/notreallybreakdancing - Links to a toon of just the spinning logo; not sure if it should be something else because I'm on my phone (my phone my phone) atm.

This is the old Dancin' Bubs game that doesn't seem to ever load on Ruffle for some reason.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

people born the year homestar runner started posting could already have Master's degrees by now if they attended from age 18

College age students watching h*r when it came out could now be grandparents, showing h*r to their grandkids.

25 years.

 

[StarkRavingMad]

To this day, I still say the "Take a look there, I think it's looking pretty good!" line from the Trogdor video (Midwestern accent and all) whenever it's appropriate. I don't know why, I just do. lol.

2000's internet was the best internet, and I won't hear otherwise.

 

[GeorgeAK]

had to spin back trogdor just once for this occasion

 

[AlfaMale]

Celebrating 25 years of homestarrunnerdotnetit'sdotcom with a new cartoon!

https://homestarrunner.com/toons/backtoawebsite

this is the best thing I have ever seen in my life. the amount of nostalgia this gives me is indescribable. tonight feels like Christmas morning, except its april.

 

[Meiwaku]

This is absolutely beautiful. It even comes with an excellent easter egg. It exceeded my expectations.

Burninate for 25 more .com years, Homestar

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Exploitable

I made a transparent Crazebox to put stuff in (all holes are transparent. Bars are thinner to see image inside easier)


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[Rudy Coleman]

the only thing i know about this is that nick bates used to be really into this

 

[Kenyaware]

 

[Anonitolia]

 

[ToroidalBoat]

2000's internet was the best internet, and I won't hear otherwise.

'90s internet: just pics and text, loads over dialup modem

'00s internet: real internet memes, faster 'net speed, h*r

'10s and '20s: full of "social media" and "social justice"