Lenalia! @Lenalia@computerfairi.es

would be nice if 40 hour work weeks at least guaranteed medicine, a home, and food

Society Has Progressed Past the Need for AAA Video Games

"women and enbies" just say "people eligible to slay the witch-king of angmar"

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• 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

me

An extraordinarily good question from r/AskHistorians

@kd lmao speaking of, look what just strolled across my Facebook feed =P

Randy Milholland on FB:
Everett True was a daily strip in the early 20th century about a heavyset man who regularly knocked the crap out of people for being mean to kids, rude, awful to women, and racist. There hasn't been a new comic since 1927. I decided to change that.