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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

who is the man now, dog

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago

YTMND was where the web peaked, and everything since has been the decline.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Punch the Keys for God's Sake!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Man, I used to upload lots of content on ytmnd. I had a few front page submissions, my most famous one was "Aha! Caught you with Sean Connery!" It was popular for like 2 weeks on the home page. I checked and my profile is no longer active and everything is erased.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Life is but a passing shadow, and time destroys all things.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

"The Social Network" comes to mind, Erica Albright to Zuckerberg:
"The Internet's not written in pencil, Mark, it's written in ink."

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

There's whole generations of people who don't know where Forrester is now 🫡

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Hah, YTMND was where I was introduced to the music of Johnny Cash by a loop of Gollum and the ring falling into Mt. Doom accompanied by

I fell into a burning ring of fire

I went down, down, down

And the flames went higher

And it burns, burns, burns

The ring of fire

The ring of fire

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

noooooooooOOOOOOOOoooooooooooOOOOO

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

ualuealuealeuale!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

And thus the ytmnd domain was born