Hexbear is the last fun place on the internet

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    1.0 was fun because that was the era of webrings and you could find weird cranks. It's where I learned about anime for the first time.

    A website I had once in like 1997 was just a repository of pictures from Star Trek. Not even good pictures, they were like 178x123 compressed jpegs of Patrick Stewart and people would email me relentlessly to add more pictures.

    • UnicodeHamSic [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      See, objectively that sucked. However that is cool as hell.

      Like, time cube guy would never survive in today's meme world. John Titor's AMA would flop.

      • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        We have an oversaturation of weird cranks online now. Now everyone is a crank, including all the libs on Hexbear like you and me

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      USENET and bulletin boards were better than 2.0 and they can fight me.