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There's more reasons to feel old than just old memes (feddit.de)
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[-] G59@lemmy.world 168 points 1 year ago

Behold! The blogging aesthetics of 2006:

hi every1 im new!!!!!!! holds up spork my name is katy but u can call me t3h PeNgU1N oF d00m!!!!!!!! lol…as u can see im very random!!!! thats why i came here, 2 meet random ppl like me ^^… im 13 years old (im mature 4 my age tho!!) i like 2 watch invader zim w/ my girlfreind (im bi if u dont like it deal w/it) its our favorite tv show!!! bcuz its SOOOO random!!!! shes random 2 of course but i want 2 meet more random ppl =) like they say the more the merrier!!!! lol…neways i hope 2 make alot of freinds here so give me lots of commentses!!!! DOOOOOMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <--- me bein random again ^^ hehe…toodles!!!!!

love and waffles,

t3h PeNgU1N oF d00m

[-] nx2@feddit.de 66 points 1 year ago

I recently came across a blogpost explaining something I was researching, and the comments beneath were exactly like this. Then I looked up from when it was: May 2006.

The internet is a time machine.

[-] MicahParsons@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

The internet is a time machine.

Man, it really is and it's so cool to see. It brings back memories you forgot you had!

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 28 points 1 year ago

The sacred texts, they're so bright I almost need to avert my eyes.

[-] MDKAOD@lemmy.ml 35 points 1 year ago

'the sacred texts'

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[-] CannedTuna@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

My ROFLCopter goes SOISOISOISOISOISOI

[-] Xiaz@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Is it bad that I can still read these shitposts in the correct tone?

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 43 points 1 year ago

I read them in Boxxy's voice, it's automatic

[-] squaresinger@feddit.de 16 points 1 year ago

You truely were random as dice. ;)

[-] Nepenthe@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

Oh god, I forgot about the spork thing. The sporks seemed a natural part of the foundation. Where did the sporks go? This would have been perfectly at home on the very first forum my child ass ever joined, and I can feel everything I ever loved evaporating.

[-] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

holds up spork

Oh fuck! This caused my brain to reboot after a cascading failure of memories tripping fuses right the way back to 2001.

[-] Kiosade@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

Did your brain then play the windows XP boot up sound?

[-] Sinnz@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago

Holy shit what a throwback to the past

[-] trash@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

I miss MySpace.

[-] gamer@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Has there ever been a study from like an anthropologist/evolutionary biologist or something about why the :) smiley won out over the =) smiley? I used to be a =) guy back in the day, but over time felt pressured to switch to :) because everyone else was using it. Now, whenever I see someone use =) I just assume they're a boomer or something.

[-] Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

I've never thought about that. Could it be because :) became the shortcut for emoji?

[-] supremeloser@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

It came before emojis/a shortcut for them. I would think it's from T9 keyboards. If you wanted any of those types of characters, it was a cycle of a single button and : comes before =, so doing : ) was a lot less button presses than = )

[-] Aim413@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago

This made my eyes water

[-] thedrivingcrooner@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Honestly, I kind of understand why the older generation was afraid of using the internet, they saw this lingo while trying to fix a leaky pipe on a Yahoo Answers thread and said "not my worldwideweb!"

I didn't talk this incredibly stupid and "unique" on chats during AOL and MSN days but by the time I got to highschool I realized I needed to stop with all the emojis and emphasis in text form because nobody knows how nor cares to decypher what you're saying anyway.

[-] DessertStorms@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I used to work with a lot of people who were younger than me, and I knew a few Katy's in my time (in some cases, literally, though not all younger but still - Catherine Kathrine Kathy Cathy Kate and like 3 Katie's were all people I knew in the space of about 3 years lmfao). 😂
E: to clarify - absolutely nothing against them! I was a closeted goth (already being bullied for but not knowing I was autistic started early and was bad enough) and I wish I could have embraced the weirdness like that.

[-] AlexisFR@jlai.lu 0 points 1 year ago

Did she ever made friends this day, or is it just a full on copypasta?

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