Comment on Who remembers alt.fan.tonya.harding.whack.whack.whack ?

Sibbo@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Hasherm0n@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonya_Harding

  Specifically, see the section titled “Assault of Nancy Kerrigan and legal proceedings”

  It was a pretty huge deal at the time, but has since faded.

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  • protist@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Whhhhhyyyy?!

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    • Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      WWWWHHHHHHHHYYYYYYY!?!

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    • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It was the 1990s, this as one of the biggest shocks of the decade.

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    • Bort@hilariouschaos.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’s my phone’s notification sound!

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• CidVicious@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Also alt.adjective.noun.verb.verb.verb was a pretty common name for, uh, shitposting newsgroups. Whatever we called shitposting back then, I can’t remember.

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  • affenlehrer@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Trolling maybe?

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    • CidVicious@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Or just spamming I guess.

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  • rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    alt.wesley.crusher.die.die.die

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• dickalan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Watch the movie I Tonya, a great biopic about the whole incident

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