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Glory to our new overlords! (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 145 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Seeing Tom Scott and MatPat being called the "old internet" might be the thing that puts me in retirement

[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago

TIL I was using the Jurassic Internet as a teenager

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Old internet to me is straight up pointlesswasteoftime.com, which eventually got absorbed by Cracked like a cheap suppository after David Wong (aka mediocre comedy writer Jason Pargin) sold out. That was in 2007. And now Cracked is functionally a content graveyard.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And I thought the old internet was YTMND,slashdot, and fark.

Fuck I’m old.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Kuro5hin goes in there somewhere too

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And now Cracked is functionally a content graveyard.

I'll have you know that Cracked is the number one source for shitty listicles that were generated by running a /r/AskReddit thread through an AI.

I assume, at least. Haven't actually visited cracked since before 2010 probably.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

It got bought out by the company that owns KnowYourMeme, ebaumsworld, and the "I can has cheezeburger?" website in 2019. That's pretty much all you need to know.