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True, but they're still a bit boogeyman for the establishment, even though the govt is still with pro-war neocons/libs
Shit that reminds you that you’re getting old - Re: Fwd: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Fwd: Damn young’uns
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Only because they used gay marriage as a wedge issue.
Not only do they stand on the wrong side of history, they drop it as soon as it becomes expedient.
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How about remembering a diverse internet free of government interference and megacorp manipulation? When there were literally hundreds if not thousands of kiwi farms style free-speech sites and opsec and persec were easy as piss because websites weren’t plagued with hundreds of trackers?
I used to frequent one called ‘the misanthropic bitch’ that was a haven for people who hated people. The eponymous bitch eventually threw a shitfit and closed it down when the forums became far more popular than her shitty blog.
Man, I miss that site, it was the forerunner to places like this and 4chan back before being a hate filled abusive online jackass was deemed a threat to society.
I used to frequent one called ‘the misanthropic bitch’ that was a haven for people who hated people. The eponymous bitch eventually threw a shitfit and closed it down when the forums became far more popular than her shitty blog.
Man, I miss that site, it was the forerunner to places like this and 4chan back before being a hate filled abusive online jackass was deemed a threat to society.
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Yeah what the fuck happened.
Like the internet is like 9 websites now it feels like. Back in the day if i wanted to read about giants i got a million pages full of research now i google it nothing is there.
I feel like sites like free hosting tripod contributed alot of that feel....but if felt more authentic than that.
Mplayer.com...ask jeeves, homestsr runner, maddox..
It felt like everyone had a webpage with content, jokes or whatever
I mean literally i could pull up tens of thousands 15 year olds websites about gsmes and the flaming skulls dancing across the screen pointing to custom doomwads made my 56k cringe.
now there are like no fucking websites or countent. Dunno who to blame...maybe that era was like winning the lottery
And no i dont blame social media..we had social media..AOL was damn close to it.
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I wasn't forbidden from it but I remember my deeply Religious aunt giving me a very serious talking to about Harry Potter and warning me about it.
I saw the first couple of movies, but that was it, never read any of the books, never watched the rest of the movies, I regret that now, I missed out on the defining cultural touchstone of my generation, but eh, the climate surrounding it did make me wary, I was able to sample it enough to satisfy my curiosity and it just didn't grab me like it did other kids.
But yeah, the idea of parents actually not letting their kids experience something seems like ancient history now, one thing that probably would have been more controversial in the past is Five Nights At Freddy's, but now you see FNAF books in the children's books section at Target and no one ever really cared about something so scary being popular among kids.
But FNAF sure makes me feel old, seems like just yesterday when the first game came out of nowhere in 2014 and garnered so much attention, now it's this long legged franchise with so many spinoffs and merchandise that those who were kids at the time it was new are probably young adults now or close to it and probably wax nostalgic for it, it's like ugh, something from 2014 is old enough for that? Really?
One defunct forum I remember joining in 2009 was called That's Just Not Right and I remember reading something on there that is so incredibly ironic in light of today's world, I've actually tried to dig this post up via internet archive but to no avail.
But from my memory this guy was optimistically talking about how younger generations were looking at all the wars and Religious conflicts of the day and asking themselves the question, quote "what's the big fucking deal?" and how we were going to move on to a better world where people no longer fight over things like Religion or really fight over anything at all, it was just a perfect snapshot of the optimistic vibe that was going around at that time post-Obama.
Wonder what that dude would have thought about people just fracturing over stuff like race and gender instead and that there's now 1000 times more conflict than there was in 2009.
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I once created a well-argued ironic shitpost about how children working eighteen hours a day in Pakistan to weave rugs was a good thing as it gave them economic parity with their parents and contributed to the economic rejuvenation of impoverished communities and boy, that made a few people’s heads explode.
It was in the early days of search engines like HotBot (my preferred engine back in the day) and AskJeeves. Apparently some retards that were against child labor found my post using one of the earliest search engines and had their brains figuratively explode.
That was about 2002 and was my first experience with the power of trolling (which is not merely ‘online abuse’- no matter how morons confuse the two). And I have been trolling the fuck out of morons online ever since.
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Sometimes I feel like one of the last surviving humans in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. That or the future in the Terminator series, fleeing a horde of murderous bots. Except the bots are either retarded AIs or retarded NPCs.
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Seems like things have been getting exponentially worse over the last 4 or 5 years. It feels like yesterday that I could type something basic into a mainstream search engine and get the result I wanted. Now the first dozen pages of results are all ads and garbage.
Hosting also seems less stable. I remember there used to be a site that hosted an obscure piece of software I needed that had been up since 1998 and just last year it went down without warning and only one recent archive exists. It gave me this sinking feeling that one day the last little bits of the old internet will rot away and be lost forever.
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My great grandparents were spry and active until their deaths when I was a teenager. They were born in the 1890s. That didnt seem like a big deal then but I was talking to some younger people a while back and they literally couldn't believe that I spent my formative years around people from the 1890s. That made me feel old.
Also told someone about how in high school we had a "Smokers Pit" designated smoking area for students and they completely did not believe me.
I've met a few people recently who had no idea what broadcast TV is. They didnt know that you can just hook an antenna to your tv and watch TV for free with no cable or internet or anything.
I went to a dispensary and saw seeds are like $90 a seed! I remember back when you'd get like 100 seeds in a quarter ounce bag and that was considered a bad thing.
Also told someone about how in high school we had a "Smokers Pit" designated smoking area for students and they completely did not believe me.
I've met a few people recently who had no idea what broadcast TV is. They didnt know that you can just hook an antenna to your tv and watch TV for free with no cable or internet or anything.
I went to a dispensary and saw seeds are like $90 a seed! I remember back when you'd get like 100 seeds in a quarter ounce bag and that was considered a bad thing.
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I'm old enough to see one of these things before the end of their run. And hearing the dial-up, treating the internet like a portal to a new world rather than a utility like now.
I used cassette tapes to record programs on my old Atari 800. That's how old I am.
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The trick is to go up stairs backwards. Face the wrong way and have someone nearby so you don't fall. Unfortunately old folks are fiercely independent and may resist you on that.
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Holy shit, I never heard of this movie, but that theme is Gnossiene #1 by Erik Satie. Based Japs.
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My perception of time passed has expanded to larger numbers, something like 10 years no longer feels like a long time.
For example, when someone says "Wow! X is already 6 years old!" My thoughts now are "Wow! X is only 6 years old."
For example, when someone says "Wow! X is already 6 years old!" My thoughts now are "Wow! X is only 6 years old."
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I remember a slight shift when I went from encountering people who were just kids on 9/11 to encountering people who weren't even alive on 9/11 but are now adults. There are people now alive who have no idea what freedom was like.
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Daydrinking. It is an excuse to get drunk during the day and talk shit to your friends who are just as bad at something as you are.
These same people have no idea what life was like before smartphones and social media. It doesn’t concern them because they don’t see just how nutty constant internet access has made everyone.
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Yeah I get that part, but it doesn't explain the people who watch it
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I've commuted long distance for work and school, and I've seen all sorts of crazy shit on the road, and this was before cell phones.
That second video, I just don't know what to say. Maybe no father being in the home?
But everyone who owns a car should know how to check and add oil, change a flat tire, know how to change a fuse, add water to the radiator, and so on.