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Glory to our new overlords! (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 145 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Seeing Tom Scott and MatPat being called the "old internet" might be the thing that puts me in retirement

[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago

TIL I was using the Jurassic Internet as a teenager

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Old internet to me is straight up pointlesswasteoftime.com, which eventually got absorbed by Cracked like a cheap suppository after David Wong (aka mediocre comedy writer Jason Pargin) sold out. That was in 2007. And now Cracked is functionally a content graveyard.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And I thought the old internet was YTMND,slashdot, and fark.

Fuck I’m old.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Kuro5hin goes in there somewhere too

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And now Cracked is functionally a content graveyard.

I'll have you know that Cracked is the number one source for shitty listicles that were generated by running a /r/AskReddit thread through an AI.

I assume, at least. Haven't actually visited cracked since before 2010 probably.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

It got bought out by the company that owns KnowYourMeme, ebaumsworld, and the "I can has cheezeburger?" website in 2019. That's pretty much all you need to know.