ITT: People who haven’t been on the internet long enough to know what BoingBoing is.
I’m old.
I remember getting something I did linked to on BoingBoing back in the day and I felt like I was famous for a little while.
If you know what BoingBoing is, your knees probably crackle when you squat and stand.
At least a decade old and still has a better reading experience than that “paid” news sites.
It really went downhill when Doctorow left
Yup. I also groan when I sit down. You just had to call me out, didn’t you?
I feel seen
Damn you had to come for me like that
I’m tired, boss.
It’s one of those new upstart weblogs right
I wonder how Slashdot is doing…
Looks like it’s still going strong, but each article has like 15 comments. And the poll has a CowboyNeal option…
3 digit UID here, I still visit daily but rarely comment
I have a 5 digit UID, and I just checked that I can still log in. Looks like my most recent comment was in November of 2015, which is a lot later than I would have guessed.
I visited a few times right after the reddit blowup, while checking out other options for this sort of thing. I might have to go back more.
I doubt I could log in now, since I haven’t for so long
Edit to add: nope. Browser doesn’t know, password manager doesn’t have it
Oh wow, forgot about Slashdot…
Fark, Slashdot, and BoingBoing were pretty much my daily go-to in the pre-Digg/reddit internet
I skipped the Digg era. I didn’t join reddit until probably 2015, after I kept coming across extremely useful information there that wasn’t available elsewhere. I think it was the advice on what to do with asbestos that finally tipped it over for me.
I was an early reddit adopter. I preferred its hyper minimalist style, as well as the type of conversations I saw, to Digg at the time. Well before the whole Digg 2.0 debacle.
Remember when Cracked was good?
Fuck Auntiememe
If you liked that and aren’t aware of Some More News channel on YouTube, then… well you’re welcome I guess?
Yeah I think i was visiting Boing Boing on the regular a couple decades ago or nearly so.
I was just thinking about 1up the other day
