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The Finns contributed more to early Internet culture than we give them credit for. They invented IRC, and about half of the weirder memes on 4chan.
by krebs_liebhaber 6y ago
The Finns contributed more to early Internet culture than we give them credit for. They invented IRC, and about half of the weirder memes on 4chan.
- ganzuul 6y agoSometimes I wonder if I have yet to escape the Fennosphere to the real internet. All this stuff about Finland being the happiest place on Earth... Maybe it's just like the great firewall of China!
- httpsterio 6y agoWe forked the pedobear memes into an entirely different thing called spurdo spärde. Some of the first and most rare Pepe memes also comes from Finland, I personally created the first Feels Bad Man / Feels Batman Pepes back in January 2008 during a LAN-party at my high school.
- saq 6y agoAnd Linux
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- vsipuli 6y agoAnd Git (kind of, although that happened after Linus moved away from Finland)
- Eyght 6y agoMySQL in the same vein.
- welfare 6y agoMySQL is actually of Swedish origin.
- cfinnberg 6y agoWell, at least Michael Widenius, the most visible head of MySQL and one of two cofounders, is finnish. He also created the MySQL's fork MariaDB. Both names came from Michael's daughters My and Maria.
- marvin 6y agoAnd if you want a less glamorous tidbit to add to that list, OOP originated in Norway with the SIMULA language in the 60s.
- vsipuli 6y agoAnd SSH
- Hamuko 6y agoLinux would be the biggest one since most of the Internet is built on top of it nowadays.
- krebs_liebhaber 6y agoHow did I forget about Linux?
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