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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

Rules:

  1. Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
  2. Be nice.
  3. No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
  4. Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

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[–] voidMainVoid 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

See, people around Mastodon keep saying “everybody is nice, like in the early Internet”, and my memory of the Internet is full of drive-by porn and gore, weird political takes, illegible websites and malware.

People looking at the past through rose-colored glasses? You don't say.

Yeah, the early Web was ass. No Wikipedia, no Internet Archive...oh, and it took forever to download anything.

[–] Zanshi 7 points 1 year ago

Fuuuck you just made me remember the first time I encountered Wikipedia. It was a recommendation from a teacher in my first class of middle school to read some articles about the topic before writing an assignment. It was a literary life changing moment for me. All this knowledge… for free?

[–] AnUnusualRelic 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not that there was anything much to download. But there was a good FTP site FAQ floating around. (for those that remember what the original FAQ files were)