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• tiredofsametab@kbin.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It was also stall graffiti

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      • MariaRomanov@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        a true art form

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  • CurbsTickle@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How has fame changed you?

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  • PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• psud@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨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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