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Naw, I think it probably promotes reproduction

I feel like “masturbate to” is the way to say it. But I’m not an expert.

Corrected headline: Three crazy guys say stupid shit that no one should pay attention to

I can’t decide between Shoe Penis and Toilet Dad.

Pretty damn old. I’m too embarrassed to say.

Yet another thing I remember from the 90s Internet was Church of the Subgenius. It was one of the first viral memes and when you read about it, you might just discover a thing or two about a thing or two.

Another thing I remember from the early 90s was internets with a little ‘i’. I could call a number with my modem and connect to a private system that wasn’t interconnected with the big Internet. These were typically bulletin board systems (BBS). An extension of the BBS concept was the online service, like CompuServe and AOL. Eventually these online services started functioning as internet gateways and that is when the real fun started. Prior to that the Internet was only available to government and academic users.

As a Windows user in the 90s, I remember downloading Slackware. It took a long time for me to understand what it was and how to install it. The idea of a different OS that I could install on my PC was bizarre and not at all intuitive at the time to a computer novice.

I remember the first time I connected to the Internet and browsed Usenet back in the early 90s. I’m a soccer fan and it amazed me that I could read about soccer match results and news and opinions from all around the world.

Back then it was pretty uncommon for people to be assholes to each other online. We were all just amazed at how much information we could share and consume.

It’s important to understand that prior to the Internet the only comparable experience that even came close was going to a library and browsing the magazine rack. And that was neither interactive, nor timely in the way we have grown to expect in the Internet age.

Yet that’s several times the rate in comparably sized areas in Europe.