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Wanted to ask you about this article, how do you remember the early days of the internet (I was sadly too young at that time). Do you wish it back? And do you think it can ever be like that again? I would be very interested

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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (30 children)

I was all set to start bitching about the obligatory 10-15 minutes of "older, medicated suburban housewife shows off her whole yarn closet, every needle, which needle she likes (it's not better, it's just pretty), her fingernails, pushes her state-mandated store, and then finishes off with an internet recipe story about how her gramgram was fleeing the war and had to knit jasmine stitch backwards to survive......before fucking up the stitch and never editing that part out. But it's ok because her hands were in the way the whole time anyway."

But I think you've found the only thing that has me beat.

I will at least use this time to implore any knitting/crochet peeps on the fediverse that if you or someone you love is uploading how-to videos anywhere on the web.....SHOW ME THE DAMN STITCH SO I CAN LEAVE. I HAVE PROJECTS, I DO NOT CARE.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

@Nepenthe @Provider @bstix @Anders429 I need a tutorial to show me how you added bolded text to your post!

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I assume it all works the same on mastodon, if it's showing up ok, so:

โ€ข Bold is 2 asterisks on either side
like ** this **

โ€ข Italics is either one asterisk on each side like * this * or underscores _ like this _ (does this show up italicized for you?)

โ€ข Strikethrough is ~~ two tildes ~~ and looks ~~like this~~

Obviously just remove the spaces in between the symbols and letters, because I can't figure out yet how to stop markdown from working on here any other way, in order to depict it precisely

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

@Nepenthe @Provider @bstix @Anders429 @alexblock **bold** *italic* ~~strikethrough~~

Does this look MD to you?

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