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    • anthropicprincipal [any]
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      4 years ago

      I miss IRC when mods could change problematic users typing into ribbits, squeels, or other malarkey.

      I miss the malarkey of 90's IRC. Am I becoming a liberal?

          • GrafZahl [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            Damn, I was young then. But I remember the first forum i was active in. Just a couple of goofballs who made a whole website about free / open source games. Back then that shit appeared on google only because there wasnt all this funded content that eventually rose to the top.

          • VHS [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            https://i.imgur.com/rtR2dQh.jpg

            You're right though, centralization sucks. I still refuse to use Discord, it's been killing off IRC and other chatrooms. A lot of forums are just a husk after Redd*t took over.

        • anthropicprincipal [any]
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          4 years ago

          We need a Portland of the Internet.

          Where the dream of the 90's Internet never dies.

            • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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              4 years ago

              Heh it's a line from a song in Portlandia

              [Hook]

              The Dream of the 90's is alive in Portland

              All the hot girls wear glasses (Yeah!)

              JASON: Remember the 90's when they'd encourage you to be weird? It was just an amazing time where people would go to see something like the Jim Rose sideshow circus and watch someone hang something from their penis? You could grow up to want to be a clown. People went to clown school!

              MELANIE: I gave up clowning years ago

              JASON: In Portland, you don't have to

              [Hook]

              The Dream of the 90's is alive in Portland

              Sleep 'til eleven, you'll be in heaven

              The Dream of the 90's is alive in Portland

              The Dream is alive