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11 votes
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Throwback Thursday: Let's talk old flash and memes!
Inspired by some conversations I had over Discord where I realized that a lot of memes and videos from the early days of the Internet which were common knowledge are now just totally unknown. So,...
Inspired by some conversations I had over Discord where I realized that a lot of memes and videos from the early days of the Internet which were common knowledge are now just totally unknown. So, let's have a proper Throwback Thursday and reminisce over purer times.
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Shoplifting from American Apparel (2012)
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Forums are still alive, active, and a treasure trove of information
83 votes -
How algorithms, alpha males and tradwives are winning the war for kids’ minds
46 votes -
The story behind this perfectly normal photo. Today we dive into yet another surprisingly convoluted online rabbit hole; the case of the Cooper Family Falling Body Photo and its elusive creator.
23 votes -
YouTube at 20: From ‘Lazy Sunday’ to ‘Hot Ones’
5 votes -
Swedish far-right extremists pull in boys online and use bodybuilding and fight clubs to further their white supremacist agenda
20 votes -
Holotypic Occlupanids - How the internet invented bread clip science
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Bad Apple but it's 6,500 regexes that I search for in vim
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Stellar Blade: The fake outrage
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Forums are still alive, active, and a treasure trove of information
78 votes -
Mastermind speedrunner bakes twelve actual cookies in under four minutes, forces site mods to make a whole new category
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Weighing in on "Man or Bear" - from a woman that left society to the Alaskan wilderness
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Kabosu, the beloved Shiba-Inu behind the Doge meme, passes away at 18
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Everything is Sludge, art in the post-human era
19 votes -
The end of the MrBeast era
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Who created the skull trumpet gif?
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The speed of outrage: Tom Scott at Thinking Digital 2015
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"Birds Aren't Real" leader TED talk about his movement | Peter McIndoe
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The Brazillian who nutted in his Dreamcast: Leonam's journey
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How telling people to die became normal - merciless trolling is a fact of online life that may never go away
37 votes -
The world’s last internet cafes
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Inside Snopes: The rise, fall, and rebirth of an internet icon
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Pink Floyd, 'The Wizard of Oz,' and me
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Redditors of Tildes .. what is the thing you can live without?
Akin to this: https://tildes.net/~tech/1670/redditors_of_tildes_which_subreddits_are_you_missing_the_most_during_the_blackout What can we leave behind? What should we leave behind? For me, the one...
Akin to this: https://tildes.net/~tech/1670/redditors_of_tildes_which_subreddits_are_you_missing_the_most_during_the_blackout
What can we leave behind?
What should we leave behind?For me, the one BIG thing is the stupid puns.
Threads full and full and full of puns, one after the other.Case in point:
https://tildes.net/~movies/16bf/chasing_horse_faces_sex_assault_chargesI can so live without that side of reddit.
edit: Yeah, that "thread" is two comments long, but I just got reddit flashbacks just seeing those.
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“You’re battling with meme steroids” - Inside “I Think You Should Leave”‘s top meme accounts
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What was Twitter, anyway?
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The Vietnamese military has a troll army and Facebook is its weapon
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Ukrainians boost resilience and spread laughs with wartime memes
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Dril is everyone. More specifically, he’s a guy named Paul.
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The internet’s richest fitness resource is a site from 1999. ExRx.net is little changed since the days of GeoCities yet beneath its bare-bones interface is a deep physiological compendium.
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Hatepedia's guide to online hate
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Fake accounts fueled the ‘Snyder Cut’ online army
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How ‘The Dress’ sparked a neuroscience breakthrough
8 votes -
Anyone can defeat Goku now
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/r/antiwork: A tragedy of sanewashing and social gentrification
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Inside the online movement to end work
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Birds aren't real, or are they? Inside a Gen Z conspiracy movement
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Hackers are spamming businesses’ receipt printers with ‘antiwork’ manifestos
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How mental health became a social media minefield
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Tech workers rebel against a lame-ass Internet by bringing back ‘GeoCities-style’ Webrings
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Online trolls actually just assholes all the time, study finds
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Never Gonna Give You Up has passed one billion views on YouTube
@Rick Astley: 1 BILLION views for Never Gonna Give You Up on @YouTube ! Amazing, crazy, wonderful!Rick ♥️https://t.co/mzyLznTr4R #NGGYU #NGGYU1Billion pic.twitter.com/p5xnn0OZcZ
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The internet feeds on its own dying dreams
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I am an object of internet ridicule, ask me anything
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Nearly a decade after becoming an advice animal, "10 guy" Connor Sinclair reveals his identity and gives full account of his image
10 votes -
What Internet memes get wrong about Breezewood, Pennsylvania
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Woman in Disaster Girl meme sells original photo as NFT for $500,000
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Juan Joya Borja, known as 'El Risitas' or the 'Spanish Laughing Guy' meme, has died
12 votes