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At the peak of the dotcom boom someone paying six figures for a good URL would get reported on the evening news. Everyone else had long unmemorable URLs like www.boringhost.net/dullsite/users/~ken/www/index.html
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Feb 7, 2022 19:44
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There were people that honestly thought domain names were a finite resource, and if you weren't an early adopter you'd be stuck with awful ones. Though it did lead to fun things like Whitehouse.com being a porn site for a few years.
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Feb 7, 2022 20:03
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geocities.com/cities/towns/boroughs/cottages/outhouses/...etc.
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Feb 7, 2022 20:05
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:There were people that honestly thought domain names were a finite resource, and if you weren't an early adopter you'd be stuck with awful ones. When the "running out of internet addresses" issue came up a couple years ago I just started laughing and thought of Dillon Edwards Investments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWIlScfHwOU
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Feb 7, 2022 20:15
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Sweevo posted:At the peak of the dotcom boom someone paying six figures for a good URL would get reported on the evening news. I also remember that people were willing to pay insane amount for so called "golden" telephone numbers (numbers that are easy to remember).
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Feb 7, 2022 20:22
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Alhazred posted:I also remember that people were willing to pay insane amount for so called "golden" telephone numbers (numbers that are easy to remember). I'd pay a little bit to be able to say my phone number is something like STONE 0823-L as if it's 1925
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Feb 7, 2022 20:26
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i remember when some three letter domains would let users build subdomains that would redirect to their longer urls. e.g.code:
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Feb 7, 2022 23:28
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The hottest poo poo was making friends with someone with a server, and then having a subdomain.cooldomain.net or whatever instead of Geocities or Angelfire
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Feb 7, 2022 23:34
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AFewBricksShy posted:When the "running out of internet addresses" issue came up a couple years ago I just started laughing and thought of Dillon Edwards Investments. That video still makes me laugh.
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Feb 7, 2022 23:36
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who needs urls when you have AOL keywords?
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Feb 8, 2022 00:08
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:The hottest poo poo was making friends with someone with a server, and then having a subdomain.cooldomain.net or whatever instead of Geocities or Angelfire I used to have a room on the Operation CWAL ftp because they was my forum back in the... ugh, late 90s... People would see my links and be like "wtf, operation cwal? Like the StarCraft cheat?" "Yeah..."
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My elementary school had a website in 1996. The url had no fewer than four periods: www .[town].k12.nj.us/[school].
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Feb 8, 2022 01:46
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RoastBeef posted:My elementary school had a website in 1996. The url had no fewer than four periods: www .[town].k12.nj.us/[school]. I worked for commerce.state.mt.us for a while in the late 90s, and I used to hide MP3s in directories that were like 15 layers deep, thanks to some random division having an alphabet soup of options. Like, /sdbg/cbg/blockgrants/tbg/music/ Not like you'd know how to get to them without a link, and robot crawlers were easier to avoid back then.
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Feb 8, 2022 01:53
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RoastBeef posted:My elementary school had a website in 1996. The url had no fewer than four periods: www .[town].k12.nj.us/[school]. Massachusetts had a similar URL structure. Remember when it was revelutionary that Taured or whoever (Taured's not real, I just can't be arsed to google who country it was) gave out free .to domains around 2004/2005?
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Tonga, the recently exploded Pacific island nation
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Feb 8, 2022 17:44
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Neito posted:Massachusetts had a similar URL structure. You know, I had a very popular Berenstein Bears fan site on one of those free Taured domains back in high school, but one day the whole site was just gone, right around when Nelson Mandela died.
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I AM GRANDO posted:You know, I had a very popular Berenstein Bears fan site on one of those free Taured domains back in high school, but one day the whole site was just gone, right around when Nelson Mandela died. Me too, only I had a fansite for my favorite movie: Shazaam, starring Sinbad.
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Feb 8, 2022 19:12
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I AM GRANDO posted:You know, I had a very popular Berenstein Bears fan site on one of those free Taured domains back in high school, but one day the whole site was just gone, right around when Nelson Mandela died. So the 80s? :P
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Alhazred posted:I also remember that people were willing to pay insane amount for so called "golden" telephone numbers (numbers that are easy to remember). Apparently some people have deliberately picked up the 867-5309 number (from the song) as a promotional gag judging by the Wikipedia entry.
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Alhazred posted:I also remember that people were willing to pay insane amount for so called "golden" telephone numbers (numbers that are easy to remember). Which is stupid, because you can make any phone number memorable if you try hard enough. I don't even need to double-check to know I can perfectly recite 01189998819991197253. (I resent Graham Linehan for every joke he made that I like.)
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Feb 8, 2022 23:50
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Cleretic posted:Which is stupid, because you can make any phone number memorable if you try hard enough. I don't even need to double-check to know I can perfectly recite 01189998819991197253. Well at least he threw away his reputation, his life's work, and his marriage so he can.... Open up a second twitter account and openly admit to harassing trans rights activists on it.
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Feb 8, 2022 23:52
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Graham has definitely aged worse than a lot of boomers, which is really saying something. He’s like the guy in a zombie movie who gets bitten and is slowly consumed by the desire to eat flesh, except with transphobia.
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I AM GRANDO posted:You know, I had a very popular Berenstein Bears fan site on one of those free Taured domains back in high school, but one day the whole site was just gone, right around when Nelson Mandela died. This post feels like a very niche joke.
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Feb 9, 2022 02:21
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Cleretic posted:Which is stupid, because you can make any phone number memorable if you try hard enough. I don't even need to double-check to know I can perfectly recite 01189998819991197253. I can't think of another living human being who so thoroughly destroyed his life and reputation because someone didn't like some jokes he wrote. The actual IT Crowd episode in question is kind of gross, not from a point of cruelty or malice just dumb gag humor using a trans person for cheap laughs, but the moment people went "hey that's kind of hosed up" Linehan went so nuts over it that it's at the point when he's being talked about in the media as a "British" celebrity the rest of Irish twitter just gives them a pass to not correct it.
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what really sucks is the A plot of that episode is when they convince Jen to a presentation on a small box they convince her is the entire Internet, one of the funniest plots on the show
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pentyne posted:I can't think of another living human being who so thoroughly destroyed his life and reputation because someone didn't like some jokes he wrote. I mean, is JK Rowling still raking in tons of money from HP? I remember reading some weird "Transgenders For Rowling" Facebook page, which feels a lot like a spoof, but there's so many snips of the books where "there's a staircase to this tower and only girls can go up it, so what if a trans boy went up the stairs and realized at the top OMG I knew I was a girl!" or something with unicorns, "and this trans boy knows they only like girls but what if a unicorn came up and sat by him and it was proof he really was a she and it wasn't all in her head." seem to try to justify that Rowling really isn't so hateful? But none of that poo poo is IN her books, any more than Dumbledore being gay is. It's all fanon, and it seems to give some people the ammo of "I can love the art and dislike the artist" poo poo.
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Feb 9, 2022 03:40
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Cowslips Warren posted:I mean, is JK Rowling still raking in tons of money from HP? People will do all kinds of mental gymnastics to justify the poo poo they like. For many, its easier to make excuses than it is to move on.
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Cowslips Warren posted:I mean, is JK Rowling still raking in tons of money from HP? There's a new movie and a new big-budget video game coming out. They just did a Harry Potter trivia game show challenge on tv recently. At this point I'm convinced Rowling could shoot someone dead in the street and get away with it and the Harry Potter franchise still make all the money in the world.
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She is inconsequential to the operation of the brand. How many people even know she’s a terf?
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I AM GRANDO posted:She is inconsequential to the operation of the brand. How many people even know she’s a terf? I see trans people who say "yeah she's bad but something something I'm incapable of giving up media that's harmful"
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I don't think she is inconsequential to the brand and I don't think being more widely known as a terf would hurt it or her as much as it should.
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Warner Bros, who put out all the Harry Potter stuff that's not the books, has been trying to minimize her involvement for a while. The next movie has a cowriter (the first two Fantastic Beasts movies were all solo written by Rowling) and the recent movie anniversary special did not invite Rowling to participate while making a point to indicate that any footage which contained her was pre-unmasking as a TERF.
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I AM GRANDO posted:Graham has definitely aged worse than a lot of boomers, which is really saying something. He’s like the guy in a zombie movie who gets bitten and is slowly consumed by the desire to eat flesh, except with transphobia. Apparently he’s also been engaging in some light Holocaust denial of late.
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Nucleic Acids posted:Apparently he’s also been engaging in some light Holocaust denial of late. Well, the Nazis burned books relating to science of gender and shipped trans persons off to camps, it was only a matter of time until he realized that's his own platform and he needs to get on board with it
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Nucleic Acids posted:Apparently he’s also been engaging in some light Holocaust denial of late. Really? Why? I mean there was at least a reason behind his TERF-ery, (There was some famous TERF woman he had a crush on, and also the stuff about him getting butthurt about people rightfully calling him out on the misogyny of his jokes in that IT Crowd episode). Not a good reason, and the kind of reason only someone who was already an arsehole would pursue. But a reason nevertheless. What on God's green earth could possibly persuade someone to suddenly pick up Holocaust denial? Also, that poo poo generally shows itself so much earlier in the form of anti-semitism, racism, and weirdo conspiracy theory believing.
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Feb 9, 2022 06:56
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TERFs are fully aligned with Nazis and drop the mask all the time. Its all pure reactionary ideology.
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BrigadierSensible posted:What on God's green earth could possibly persuade someone to suddenly pick up Holocaust denial? Also, that poo poo generally shows itself so much earlier in the form of anti-semitism, racism, and weirdo conspiracy theory believing.
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BrigadierSensible posted:Really? Why? Linehan also had to get a testicle removed due to cancer, so some people speculate he's doubling down on TERFery as a twisted way of reassuring himself that he's "still a man"
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muscles like this! posted:Warner Bros, who put out all the Harry Potter stuff that's not the books, has been trying to minimize her involvement for a while. The next movie has a cowriter (the first two Fantastic Beasts movies were all solo written by Rowling) and the recent movie anniversary special did not invite Rowling to participate while making a point to indicate that any footage which contained her was pre-unmasking as a TERF. The video game also advertised 'minimal involvement from Rowling' as a feature. Ellie Trashcakes posted:Weirdly enough, a lot of terfs are wildly antisemitic and a lot of their theories on WHO'S BEHIND THE TRANS AGENDA are similarly so Does get funny given the venn diagram of them and people claiming jermy crobin is an antisemite is pretty much a circle.
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