In honor of the death of Reddit (I hope), let’s harken back to a simpler time, perhaps when we old-timers were migrating from BBS chatting to Slashdot to Reddit. My favorite “oldie” is “The Website Is Down,” from 2009-ish. It perfectly captures what IT support is like.

What’s your fave?

  • zeldis@sh.itjust.works
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    newgrounds (The Impossible Quiz, anyone remember the square root of an onion?), Numa Numa, The Evolution of Dance, Shortbits 2, Badger Badger Badger (and other Weebl animations), Onyxia Wipe Animation, bash.org, Stumble Upon (a useful toolbar?!), all sorts of great stuff from that time

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        Ironically I remember it bringing me to reddit a few times and I did not like it at all at the time haha. I just wanted to see more crazy websites and read the SU comments. It was always fun to find yourself on some website through some other means, and then checking to see if there was any comments about it on stumble upon and being pleasantly surprised when there was

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          StumbleUpon is what actually brought me to Reddit when Cracked started to decline in their articles, and probably the same story for a lot of us between 30-40 that are in exodus from Reddit currently.

          I actually tried to get away from Reddit probably 6 or more years ago to this federated thing but couldn’t get into it then - but now with Apollo going away and the CEOs opinion made clear how users like me are viewed, even if they reverted their API pricing I won’t be back.

          This is the style of community I’d like to be a part of.

          And don’t forget about Group X or the insane number of stick figure fighting flash videos. Shfifty-five.

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        Came here to say StumbleUpon too. I had “cats” as one of my tags and my parents thought I must really want one because they always walked by when I happened to be on a cat page. So that’s how I ended up with a cat for my birthday. Don’t get pets as gifts, people.

    • Tai@lemm.ee
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      Square root of an onion… the answer was shallots wasn’t it?