Who remembers alt.fan.tonya.harding.whack.whack.whack ?
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Ah, Usenet...
And who can forget fnord and plonk?
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Context?
Also alt.adjective.noun.verb.verb.verb was a pretty common name for, uh, shitposting newsgroups. Whatever we called shitposting back then, I can't remember.
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alt.schmuck.follower.dead.bad.sci-fi.writer
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And who can forget fnord and plonk?
blargle slaps RegularJoe around a bit with a large trout
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonya_Harding
Specifically, see the section titled "Assault of Nancy Kerrigan and legal proceedings"
It was a pretty huge deal at the time, but has since faded.
Whhhhhyyyy?!
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Also alt.adjective.noun.verb.verb.verb was a pretty common name for, uh, shitposting newsgroups. Whatever we called shitposting back then, I can't remember.
Trolling maybe?
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Trolling maybe?
Or just spamming I guess.
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I never really understood what usenet actually was. How does it compare to Lemmy or Mastodon?
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Whhhhhyyyy?!
WWWWHHHHHHHHYYYYYYY!?!
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Someone explain 🫤
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I never really understood what usenet actually was. How does it compare to Lemmy or Mastodon?
"If Lemmy and Mastodon were playing football, usenet would be the stadium that they played on. It would be the sun that shone down on them."
-- Nancy, The Craft
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Whhhhhyyyy?!
That’s my phone’s notification sound!
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alt.cows.moo.moo.moo was my go to.
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Someone explain 🫤
Girl on the left got her boyfriend to break the girl on the right's kneecaps with a metal pipe
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"If Lemmy and Mastodon were playing football, usenet would be the stadium that they played on. It would be the sun that shone down on them."
-- Nancy, The Craft
That’s just poetry.
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Whhhhhyyyy?!
wrote on last edited by [email protected]It was the 1990s, this was one of the biggest shocks of the decade.
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Girl on the left got her boyfriend to break the girl on the right's kneecaps with a metal pipe
Actually it was left woman's ex husband and her bodyguard who paid someone else to hurt right woman's knee so she can't compete in figure skating anymore.The paid person used a police baton at least according to Wikipedia but wasn't able to hurt her bad enough to stop her from participating in future events.
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Actually it was left woman's ex husband and her bodyguard who paid someone else to hurt right woman's knee so she can't compete in figure skating anymore.The paid person used a police baton at least according to Wikipedia but wasn't able to hurt her bad enough to stop her from participating in future events.
Damn at least I remembered who was who I guess
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I never really understood what usenet actually was. How does it compare to Lemmy or Mastodon?
Worse in every way but you could use it to steal media. Like an even more angry and nerdy Lemmy.
