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I suppose they meant that it slows down their internet, not the internet

The Usenet post I linked to claims it's originally from the 1st quarter of 1990, but who knows if that's accurate or not. I actually can't find a good source for whether Stumpf is the original author or just the one who posted it to rec.humor.funny.reruns, but it's usually attributed to him at any rate.

But yeah, fairly ancient by internet standards. I remember first running into it in the 90's

1374. I look really good for my age

The Phase II clinical trial is evaluating the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics and efficacy of Incel administered intravenously

Mainlining incel, damn that doesn't sound great at all

Some plans less so than others.

Also, I like this framing of users as the enemy. Matches my experience, really.

Wasn't expecting a fucking rainforest

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Meaning that he knows he's sharing bullshit

You sure he's getting hoodwinked and not sharing shit he knows is fake on purpose?

Stalin was nominated twice

The program's path from a CP/M app by MicroPro onward is winding, being shoved into a half-baked office suite, acquired by SoftKey, which became the Learning Company, acquired by Mattel, spun off to Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep, and is now the archival property of—well, nobody's quite sure.

Looking forward to the eventual frivolous takedown notice and/or lawsuit – suits seem to have absolutely zero brains when it comes to this stuff. Or, well, when it comes to anything except making themselves and their buddies on the board richer, really

It just irritates the fuck out of me when people write an obvious swear word but either omit letters or "censor" them with eg. *, like that somehow makes it not swearing even though EVERYBODY KNOWS WHAT THAT FUCKING WORD IS.

Either don't swear if you think it's so bad, or just write the naughty words out instead of pretending "f*ck" isn't a bad evil naughty word because you hid one letter like a fucking mentally deficient child.

FUCK.