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These forums (and frontpage) invented many internet things, some of them even good/not harmful.
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Oct 1, 2023 17:23
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By popular demand posted:These forums (and frontpage) invented many internet things, some of them even good/not harmful. *Citation needed
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Oct 1, 2023 17:26
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i invented disco
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Oct 1, 2023 17:45
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egg_dog posted:pretty sure we invented Let's Plays While I'm sure we helped popularize them, I'm not sure Id say one can invent "watch me play this game while I discuss/poo poo-talk it", otherwise I invented lets plays around 1996 or so SA progenated an "awful" lot of stuff simply by virtue of the fact that until 2003 or whenever digg was founded there really werent that many large general-topic forums other than slashdot and fark which were both news focused. If you hung around the Internet long enough you'd pretty much end up here. I read the front page for like 3 years before I even realized the forums were a thing and even then I lurked for like a year before signing up. The :tenbux: was a blessing and a curse - it meant we could cultivate a community we liked and keep shitheads out, but it turns out 95% of people are shitheads so naturally digg and then reddit took over as the defacto internet hang spots. Cosmik Debris fucked around with this message at 20:15 on Oct 1, 2023 |
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Oct 1, 2023 20:09
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Cosmik Debris posted:While I'm sure we helped popularize them, I'm not sure Id say one can invent "watch me play this game while I discuss/poo poo-talk it", otherwise I invented lets plays around 1996 or so Speaking of LPs I wonder how much boatmurdered influenced the popularity of Dwarf Fortress. I both began playing DF and found SA entirely because of boatmurdered.
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Oct 1, 2023 20:22
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PinheadSlim posted:Speaking of LPs I wonder how much boatmurdered influenced the popularity of Dwarf Fortress. off point, but what happened to :tenbux:
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Oct 1, 2023 20:27
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:off point, but what happened to :tenbux: 
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Oct 1, 2023 20:28
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I guess it's been changed to the numeric 10 efb
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Oct 1, 2023 20:28
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PinheadSlim posted:I guess it's been changed to the numeric 10 I thank you both. That is useful information to me
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Oct 1, 2023 20:32
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Oct 1, 2023 20:34
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Private Cumshoe posted:was that old scavenger hunt from the 70s or whatever ever solved or what was the deal with that thread All the thread regulars had sprained wrists, so they couldn't dig. Edit: This is the thread btw for anyone looking for it - https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3552196 BigBadSteve fucked around with this message at 20:52 on Oct 1, 2023 |
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Oct 1, 2023 20:39
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Sex Farm posted:Probably Revenge of the Horror of the Curse of Castle Dracula lol I didn’t know about this thanks. Zaurg on BFC was a few years back but ended up being a force for good (the thread not Zaurg) as forum regulars kept giving him sensible, easily understood recommendations for budgeting & investing that he totally ignored but plenty of lurkers got excellent information that improved lives.
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Oct 1, 2023 21:39
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BigBadSteve posted:All the thread regulars had sprained wrists, so they couldn't dig. I'm really surprised how few people from that thread have been permabanned. usually when looking at threads I posted in 10+ years ago, nobody's left.
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Oct 1, 2023 22:34
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Cosmik Debris posted:I'm really surprised how few people from that thread have been permabanned. I know, right?
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Oct 1, 2023 22:35
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lushka16 posted:It suddenly dawns on most goons that the Internet does make you stupid, so we turn off our computers and head outside for the first time in years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8_J4zuHkD4
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Oct 1, 2023 23:35
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egg_dog posted:pretty sure we invented Let's Plays I've been doing Let's Plays since 1998, and introduced the idea to somethingawful in 2004 but they weren't called Let's Plays. They were "(username) Plays..." I have a wealth of supporting evidence but I think my claim stands on its own.
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Oct 2, 2023 00:51
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credburn posted:I've been doing Let's Plays since 1998, and introduced the idea to somethingawful in 2004 but they weren't called Let's Plays. They were "(username) Plays..." that's loving weird. something awful used to have a subforum called let's play
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Oct 2, 2023 00:53
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Putty posted:Trying to think of something but I can't remember anything after 2013 when I registered. I'm not talking about goon drama/sagas or internal junk, more stuff that became widespread like Groverhaus, Slenderman, All Your Base, etc. You're right. You joining ruined the site and it has been downhill from there. We've all been too polite to tell you, I'm sorry.
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Oct 2, 2023 00:58
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Stunted on someone then sat on my own balls. A true goon.
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Oct 2, 2023 00:58
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DicktheCat posted:Your right. You joining ruined the site and it has been downhill from there. also gently caress you Putty
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Oct 2, 2023 00:59
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Yuor posting!!!!!!!
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Oct 2, 2023 02:06
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BigBadSteve posted:All the thread regulars had sprained wrists, so they couldn't dig.  I've been reading backwards through this thread all afternoon, and ya just don't get that kind of insanity in Gibbis anymore.
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Oct 2, 2023 02:44
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I feel honored to have briefly been part of it. Iirc we mostly made fun of urban Smurf. That dude was nuts. I came up with a theory about the New York one. Iirc theyve since found 2 more? Idk. I know one turned up.
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Oct 2, 2023 04:31
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Did the SA Turmp thread popularize his followers being called chuds? Also being the source of Caros will to survive out of spite.
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Oct 2, 2023 04:39
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Dixville posted:*Citation needed Memes.
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Oct 2, 2023 04:46
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KIT HAGS posted:Did the SA Turmp thread popularize his followers being called chuds? Also being the source of Caros will to survive out of spite. no, chuds came from the defunct forum LF
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Oct 2, 2023 04:47
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BigBadSteve posted:All the thread regulars had sprained wrists, so they couldn't dig. Is this a simple masturbation joke or is there some deeper joke here Did someone break everyone's wrist because they were getting too close to The Truth 
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Oct 2, 2023 06:13
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Private Cumshoe posted:Is this a simple masturbation joke or is there some deeper joke here https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3552196&pagenumber=186&perpage=40&userid=0#post510579308
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Oct 2, 2023 11:34
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Man I totally forgot how many manic episodes there were in that thread.
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Oct 2, 2023 16:47
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Oct 2, 2023 17:31
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awful forums were directly responsible for the resurgence in woman having pubes that has happened in the last 3-4 years.
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Oct 3, 2023 00:04
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personally i've never been against pubes, but if a woman shaves it i think that's empowering for her so i would never stop her from doing so.
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Oct 3, 2023 00:05
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WATCH BUSH START A loving WAR being posted within moments of 9/11 it's all been downhill since then
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Oct 3, 2023 01:09
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isnoop posted:Memes. Counterpoint: memes are poisoninging our brains
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Oct 3, 2023 01:31
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This was uploaded 27 minutes ago and I've never heard anything about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUTHEX7mR_0
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Oct 3, 2023 04:59
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Didn't someone murder somebody on their homemade submarine or some bullshit?
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Oct 3, 2023 06:04
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Pneub posted:Didn't someone murder somebody on their homemade submarine or some bullshit? That wasn't particularly connected to SA, was it? I faintly remember a goon maybe having some connection to the sub guy but they weren't involved with the sub murder.
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Oct 3, 2023 06:15
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The pig ball thread. Missing dem balls
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Oct 3, 2023 06:28
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Pneub posted:Didn't someone murder somebody on their homemade submarine or some bullshit? that was FrumpyKvetchbot's friend who did that
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Oct 3, 2023 06:29
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Valko posted:This was uploaded 27 minutes ago and I've never heard anything about it. Big peeler was very amusing for a brief period and then devolved into a low effort poster and troll. That said go enjoy his zoo stories.
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Oct 3, 2023 07:48
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