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> On one hand, this encourages real content and discussion over superficial "updoots to the left". Yeah no, if you go back to the supposed USENET glory days yo
by antiterra 4y ago
> On one hand, this encourages real content and discussion over superficial "updoots to the left".
Yeah no, if you go back to the supposed USENET glory days you’ll find a sense of humor that, to be as charitable as possible, is incredibly cringey by today’s standards.
People smugly typing stuff like ‘Bahagaha ZAP LART!! plonk Welcome to my kill file, lamer!!!.’
Today you only really run into such bafflingly unfunny stuff in the Linux kernel mailing list—
you know, supposedly hilarious things like ‘Come to the dark side, Sarah. We have cookies!’
(You may find a rare exception like a shaggy dog story about how a coin flip going differently would result in HP’s UNIX, HP-UX, being called PH-UX.)
- dkresge 4y agoWhat I wouldn't do to be done with (some of) "today's standards".
- not2b 4y agoJust as in modern Reddit, the culture was very different from group to group. Some were like that, others were much more polite.
- cyanydeez 4y agoAnd culture is all it is. Early technology for the internet was a natural sieve for nerds. As it became easier, that sieve became coarser until around Facebook and it became non-existent.
- ddingus 4y agoI still like plonk.