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Oh you sweet summer child, who never got to experience Suck.com or Plastic in their (respective) heydays. Your world is objectively poorer as a result, but lea
by xenophonf 10y ago
Oh you sweet summer child, who never got to experience Suck.com or Plastic in their (respective) heydays. Your world is objectively poorer as a result, but least the Brunching Shuttlecocks is still online!
- josephmx 10y agoLook how special, important, and better you are as a result of being 10 years older than a random stranger :)
- rsync 10y agoI would argue that experiencing suck.com, in it's time and element, was a very unique and valuable experience.
- xenophonf 10y agoOlder, yes, but sadly, the wisdom I expected to attend age has not yet appeared. :)
- xenophonf 10y agoAw, you people downvoted this? It was the perfect take-down to my damn-kids-get-off-my-lawn comment. Sorry, @josephmx. :(
- josephmx 10y agoI'm sure I'll live, thanks though :)
- dzhiurgis 10y agoI was on Slashdot for a while, but I assume those were few years older. I also missed out on newsgroups and BBSes, poor me :) Is it more of a reddit than HN of the time?
- xenophonf 10y agoI'd say that Plastic's closest living relative is probably MetaFilter. Reddit feels closer to Usenet because of the multiple subreddits and, frankly, because of all the trolling and shitposting that goes on. Actually, let me clarify that: The content/discussions found in most subreddits would fit comfortably into the alt.* newsgroup hierarchy. The methods by which we discuss things on the Internet have changed, but the kinds of things we talk about haven't, really.