• db2@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I’m glad it got archived, but if you think those weren’t fake I have a bridge in New York for sale cheap.

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        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.

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          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

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            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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        10 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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        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

        IRC is chat. Chat is sometimes nuts

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      10 months ago

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