I mentioned a meme I saw to a friend of mine and it turns out he doesn’t have social media at all. He just said “The mediocrity of it…” and we went back to talking about other stuff again.

He had a point.

I knew we were in trouble when Stumbleupon went down.

I'm old enough to remember when the World Wide Web was so new it had to use the full URL to differentiate itself from established services like Telnet and Gopher.

Sounds like someone wants to go back to a website

Isn't this post ironic, dontcha think?

It's like raaaaaiiiiin...

I love the fediverse because it filters those screenshots down to the best ones. You all do great work!

you missed an opportunity to screenshot this from Reddit and post it here

There are now 6 websites.

https://xkcd.com/927/

shit, you got images on your first websites?

lucky.

Eh, ish. It used to be only four:

Something Awful

Ebaum's World

YTMND

4 Chan

Remember buying a "yellow pages style" book of what websites you could go to and half of them didn't work? lol

I remember when there really weren't images because those were too slow to load.

Yeah. It used to all just come from ebaums world and Ian's shoelace site.

I remember watching the Netscape animation in excitement waiting for something cool to load in the browser window even if it was probably "under construction" 🚧

Haven't felt anything like that sitting in front of a computer in a very long time.

I can remember my first dick pic. I, 15, met some guy in his 30s in some yahoo chat room. I remember waiting so patiently to see what he looked like. As that's what I thought the photo was.

He told me he would buy me a plane ticket to see him.

How sweet.

Line by line. Waiting. Waiting. Another line.

A blurry dark photo. Hard to tell what it was.

Another line of pixels . Another.

The anticipation..

Another line.

Oh. Hey. Ya, pretty sure that's a dick. Cancel that.

on the shitpost meter you score 20%

That tweet's eighth birthday is coming up soon, and we are all decrepit.