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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CurbsTickle@lemmy.world 10 months agoSome were.
You’d be surprised how many were not. I spent an awful lot of time on irc in the 90’s…
TheBananaKing@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Chobbes@lemmy.world 10 months ago
How has fame changed you?
PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Same here. Even has a quote by a friend that’s passed.
psud@lemmy.world 10 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
tiredofsametab@kbin.social 10 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.
skulblaka@startrek.website 10 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
can@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
It was also stall graffiti
MariaRomanov@lemmy.world 10 months ago
a true art form
CurbsTickle@lemmy.world 10 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.
psud@lemmy.world 10 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