You might be an Internet Ancient if you:
• remember Netscape Navigator
• ever used any modem with a bandwidth of 28,8 or lower
• had an Early Adopter account on Livejournal
• witnessed the rise and fall of PhPBB
• witnessed the rise and fall of Napster
• used the web before Google existed
• ever used a dialup BBS site
• remember Gopher
• ever downloaded music as .mod files
• remember when about 90% of the web was made up of personal sites which were "under construction" and had pictures of people's cats on them
• remember when Yahoo was literally just a big list of websites
• know IRC commands
• have heard anyone unironically use the phrase "information superhighway"
• can recognise different bandwidth modems by what bleepy handshake sound they make
• have ever received one of those chain e-mails where you have to scroll through about a kilometre of forwarded headers only to find a "hilarious" vaguely lewd image and/or a banal list like this one
It's funny seeing people extol the virtues of decentralisation and stuff because like, that's what the internet used to be?
You've seen Hackers, right? The 1995 movie? At the time, most of the internet was dialup BBS sites. But then, the world wide web happened, and big centralised providers like CompuServe and AOL started taking control.
Discussing the perils of centralised internet services? Basically, y'all are talking about the original spirit of the internet, and I kinda love it.
Part of me is glad cooking gumbo made me miss the flag discourse, the other part wants to echo what @ArtistMarciaX already pointed out - ppl reacted with gut racism instead of thinking n reading.
The queer community has a lot of fucking racism in it, and this just points out the problems that us white queer people don't address nearly enough.
Changing the color of the stripe isn't erasure of anyone.
Remember who are the most vulnerable in our communities.
We need to do better alright.
the current discourse (fucking hell y'all why is this the current discourse)
i'm nonbinary and the black trans flag isn't erasing any nonbinary people. don't put words in nonbinary people's mouths. i think the black stripe is a great idea and if you're not nonbinary you can shut the fuck up pretending your racism is being upset on my behalf
Aren't you tired of high fantasy?
Don't you ever just want to be a kobold in space?
https://crashthedm.itch.io/kobolds-in-space
I made a rules-light TTRPG! A lot of friends helped out, including @noelle, @io, @venatus, @SpaceCadet, and other cool people who unfortunately aren't on here for me to plug!
It's "Pay-What-You-Want," even if what you want to pay is nothing! Check it out!
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