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Lowtax
Nov 16, 1999

by Skyl3lazer

Ciaphas posted:

look at this technocratic elitist here :rolleye:

try to convince me 4chan is better than BBSs

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Lowtax
Nov 16, 1999

by Skyl3lazer

Lowtax posted:

try to convince me 4chan is better than BBSs

or even loving newsgroups

Ciaphas
Nov 20, 2005

> BEWARE, COWARD :ovr:


Lowtax posted:

try to convince me 4chan is better than BBSs

Lowtax posted:

or even loving newsgroups
you win this round, knave

Lowtax
Nov 16, 1999

by Skyl3lazer

Ciaphas posted:

you win this round, knave

I'm an elitist in the aspect that I believe 99% of the people who use the internet, actually should not

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

scrum bored



Lowtax posted:

I'm an elitist in the aspect that I believe 99% of the people who use the internet, actually should not

this is just plain good sense

id say we need an internet 2 but that was just used for increased piracy so fat lot of good that was

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?

Agile Vector posted:

this is just plain good sense

id say we need an internet 2 but that was just used for increased piracy so fat lot of good that was

not seeing the problem there. piracy and porn are the foundations of the internet.

Lowtax
Nov 16, 1999

by Skyl3lazer
I do not think it is unreasonable for me to request a device that allows me to instantly kill anybody on the internet

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

scrum bored



The Management posted:

not seeing the problem there. piracy and porn are the foundations of the internet.

i will admit some of the more sensible people i met online were through that i2 thing, but part of that was youd walk by those people daily so you know, you couldnt be too big an rear end in a top hat lest you get dunked on endlessly in public

what im saying is public shaming: good?

Lowtax
Nov 16, 1999

by Skyl3lazer

Agile Vector posted:

i will admit some of the more sensible people i met online were through that i2 thing, but part of that was youd walk by those people daily so you know, you couldnt be too big an rear end in a top hat lest you get dunked on endlessly in public

what im saying is public shaming: good?
Haha look at this idiot who thinks the sense of shame exists anymore

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

Cat Face Joe posted:

i once had to explain the entire sa/4chan/anonymous/alt right thing to my wife

i had to explain what furries were to my then-girlfriend when we saw a gang of them in mall food court

"is it a costume party?"
"...kind of..."

Main Paineframe
Oct 27, 2010

Lowtax posted:

They left out my quote when I said the internet was good back when there was a learning barrier to using it, and you had to do a little research to figure out what the gently caress you're doing, but now any retard can use it, and they're the ones who use it the most

the main difference is that people who actually matter use the internet now

pathetic rejects like us spent years marinating this poo poo stew before people who actually participate in society showed up and started drinking deep

now we have a president who tweets poo poo his aides found on 4chan

Lowtax
Nov 16, 1999

by Skyl3lazer

Sagebrush posted:

i had to explain what furries were to my then-girlfriend when we saw a gang of them in mall food court

"is it a costume party?"
"...kind of..."

I still maintain that the Furry Concentration Camp, in which I told all furries they could avoid being banned if they admitted being furries and getting a Star of Yiff avatar, and then one day I changed all their account privileges to only be allowed to post in the Furry Concentration Camp, and soon turned it into the Gas Chamber and mass banned them, is one of the great things many people have forgotten about this forum's history

Kyron
Aug 6, 2013

Lowtax posted:

I still maintain that the Furry Concentration Camp, in which I told all furries they could avoid being banned if they admitted being furries and getting a Star of Yiff avatar, and then one day I changed all their account privileges to only be allowed to post in the Furry Concentration Camp, and soon turned it into the Gas Chamber and mass banned them, is one of the great things many people have forgotten about this forum's history

I can't believe I never knew about this until now. You're doing gods work Lowtax

Lowtax
Nov 16, 1999

by Skyl3lazer

Bath Tubs posted:

I can't believe I never knew about this until now. You're doing gods work Lowtax

Lots of great poo poo like this have slipped through the cracks over the years, I guess that's what happens when you run a joint for two decades

Elder Postsman
Aug 30, 2000


i used hot bot to search for "teens"

Gazpacho posted:

i don't remember rms ever swearing before, he must be getting old in his old age

oh boy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jskq3-lpQnE

Main Paineframe
Oct 27, 2010

Lowtax posted:

I still maintain that the Furry Concentration Camp, in which I told all furries they could avoid being banned if they admitted being furries and getting a Star of Yiff avatar, and then one day I changed all their account privileges to only be allowed to post in the Furry Concentration Camp, and soon turned it into the Gas Chamber and mass banned them, is one of the great things many people have forgotten about this forum's history

this is basically what happened to the DREAMers tho

the internet has become real life and it's a horrifying nightmare

Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Slippery Tilde
what’s this about reddit being an SA offshoot

I have no idea what lowtax was getting at with that grandma business but it sure has a poetry to it

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

i'm kinda curious what incident lowtax is referring to when he says the internet enables people to come to your house and rape your pets.

Lowtax
Nov 16, 1999

by Skyl3lazer

Sagebrush posted:

i'm kinda curious what incident lowtax is referring to when he says the internet enables people to come to your house and rape your pets.

You should've heard the poo poo I said that they didn't print

Ciaphas
Nov 20, 2005

> BEWARE, COWARD :ovr:


Sagebrush posted:

i'm kinda curious what incident lowtax is referring to when he says the internet enables people to come to your house and rape your pets.

felt more like shock value phrasing than a specific reference but now i'm morbidly curious

Ciaphas
Nov 20, 2005

> BEWARE, COWARD :ovr:


Lowtax posted:

I still maintain that the Furry Concentration Camp, in which I told all furries they could avoid being banned if they admitted being furries and getting a Star of Yiff avatar, and then one day I changed all their account privileges to only be allowed to post in the Furry Concentration Camp, and soon turned it into the Gas Chamber and mass banned them, is one of the great things many people have forgotten about this forum's history

jesus christ I actually forgot that this happened

Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Slippery Tilde

SO DEMANDING posted:

i like to imagine that all the people in that article were interviewed together in one room. that'd be a weird scene.


jaron lanier has played both critic and booster for a while now, e.g. he makes music with midi instruments but he's also the foremost critic of midi's reduction of musical possibilities

Gazpacho fucked around with this message at 03:32 on Apr 19, 2018

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

whatever happened to Shingy?

Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Slippery Tilde

Sagebrush posted:

whatever happened to Shingy?
the thought of AOL still having employees is :wth:

Elder Postsman
Aug 30, 2000


i used hot bot to search for "teens"

Gazpacho posted:



jaron lanier has played both critic and booster for a while now, e.g. he makes music with midi instruments but he's also the foremost critic of midi's reduction of musical possibilities

is this a screenshot from forum2000.org

Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

this is me posting irl

Lowtax posted:

You should've heard the poo poo I said that they didn't print

Was it a phone interview?

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Lowtax posted:

I'm an elitist in the aspect that I believe 99% of the people who use the internet, actually should not

i linked the article to a friend who thought it was really ironic that you were getting all up on your high horse talking about other people being poo poo on the internet but i'm just like, that's the point, he's the original poo poo on the internet so he's the most qualified to talk about it

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

SO DEMANDING posted:

i like to imagine that all the people in that article were interviewed together in one room. that'd be a weird scene.

and i'm not gonna lie, i'm taking particular pleasure in seeing bloviating windbag jaron lanier be all mopey about the internet

at first i thought they were all in a conference call together or something, and lowtax called reddit garbage in front of ellen pao which would have been wonderful to watch

OldAlias
Nov 2, 2013

jimmyjams posted:

im reading this article and the gist seems to be the internet was fine and cool until capitalists invaded and turned it into the exploitative shithole it is now

the internet was never fine and cool though, it was always intended to be an exploitative shithole, given that it is a military application to forward US interests. of course the ways in which it has become the particular shithole that it is, is the fault of capitalist bullshit. in the general smart phones and social networks are a dream come true

OldAlias fucked around with this message at 07:29 on Apr 19, 2018

spankmeister
Jun 15, 2008






OldAlias posted:

the internet was never fine and cool though, it was always intended to be an exploitative shithole, given that it is a military application to forward US interests. of course the ways in which it has become the particular shithole that it is, is the fault of capitalist bullshit. in the general smart phones and social networks are a dream come true

It was at first but then universities became involved and it became a sort of hippie commune which is why a lot of the protocols it's built on are based in trust and have zero security.

OldAlias
Nov 2, 2013

they were groups of people using each other for their own ends. it was good that early network culture had that moment, of course it was not to last given the power that can be wielded through it

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde

Lowtax posted:

I still maintain that the Furry Concentration Camp, in which I told all furries they could avoid being banned if they admitted being furries and getting a Star of Yiff avatar, and then one day I changed all their account privileges to only be allowed to post in the Furry Concentration Camp, and soon turned it into the Gas Chamber and mass banned them, is one of the great things many people have forgotten about this forum's history

imagine what the furry wars would be like if that had ramped up and played out today

there’d be a furry awareness day for sure

obstipator
Nov 8, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
how is 4chan the fault of capitalism?

Moist von Lipwig
Oct 28, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Tortured By Flan
alienation, op

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat
sa may be responsible for the disgusting hellholes of 4chan and reddit

but on the other hand we also managed to spawn something sensitive

:unsmith:

homercles
Feb 14, 2010

Me, being cool and elitist, invented reddit and 4chan. So sorry guys (humble brag)

-- some big ol hogger dork

bump_fn
Apr 12, 2004

two of them
image macros being called memes is the worst part

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat

bump_fn posted:

image macros being called memes is the worst part
everything about "memes" this decade has made me want to thích quảng đức myself

i mean memes were dumb before but they didn't shove in my face what absolute idiot animals people are

bump_fn
Apr 12, 2004

two of them
also lets plays started here which lead to things like twitch

are we the baddies?

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Cat Face Joe
Feb 20, 2005

goth vegan crossfit mom who vapes



homercles posted:

Me, being cool and elitist, invented reddit and 4chan. So sorry guys (humble brag)

-- some big ol hogger dork

homercles cares not for good poasting!

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