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db2@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• CurbsTickle@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Some were.

  You’d be surprised how many were not. I spent an awful lot of time on irc in the 90’s…

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  • tiredofsametab@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, seconded. I saw a decent chunk of things in person like I saw on bash.org. People were silly and/or dumb long before friendster, myspace, facebook, etc. and did plenty of shitposting (and just general cringe-y teenage obnoxiousness) on IRC and the like.

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    • skulblaka@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Shitposting is a tradition literally as old as the internet

      It’s older than that, really, but before message boards it was just pranking, so honestly I’m glad for people to have the emotional outlet this way instead

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      • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It was also stall graffiti

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    • CurbsTickle@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I downloaded the archive to do a bit of searching for old friends actually.

      Hilariously I ran across one here on lemmy I haven’t seen in… 20ish years? On or offline.

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      • psud@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s nice here that so many have their proper name. I couldn’t get “psud” on Reddit, I have it on three instances here :)

        If there are people here who have known me on any of the old internet they might recognise me

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  • TheBananaKing@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s an actual submission from there written by me (and posted by someone else). I am (very) mildly internet famous, under another handle.

    Can confirm that at least one of them is genuine.

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    • Chobbes@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How has fame changed you?

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    • PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Same here. Even has a quote by a friend that’s passed.

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  • psud@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have massive logs from IRC in the 20teens. I used IRC loads when the web was new, and revisited it and built a couple of bots in 2015ish, and one of those logged everything as part of a game - it was a spy

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• verysoft@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Who cares if something is 'fake' if you get enjoyment from it? It's the same as any scripted comedy.

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