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Tag Archives: internet culture
I can has cheezburger?
“If you spend any time at all observing net culture, then you’ll have been unable to miss the recent explosion in popularity of lolcats. This relatively recent phenomenon is the convention of taking pictures of cute animals, most frequently cats, and overlaying absurdist captions on the images.” Continue reading
Virals and their hosts
While we’re on the topic of cartoons, here’s a batch of favourites from the most creative period. The first thing that strikes me about the selection is that I’ve got some quality time with my old cartoons and a more modern scanner coming up in the indeterminate future. The next thing to notice is that my levels of nihilism, narcissm and misanthropism were also at their concurrent peaks. Continue reading
Ghosts from the address book
As another phase of the downscaling process and reshuffling of online interests, today some 570 email messages — containing all the jokes and virals that were carefully collected, assembled and sent out to a hand-clicked audience between December 2000 and December 2006 — got archived and trashed. Continue reading
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Tagged internet culture, jokes, names, people, personal
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An uncomfortable past, or the inconvenient truth?
One of most frustrating tasks of being a discogs moderator is having to put up with the nonsense of the wanna-be rich and famous in their own bedroom in the music arena. You see, fame does not necessarily equate to a reasonable degree of intelligence or skill, nor does having a record out exclude the quasi-famous from having to abide by regular rules. Even in the realms of humour, folks sometimes don’t take too kindly to their names appearing alongside some rather vulgar and questionable sexual “practices”. Continue reading
Posted in History
Tagged discogs, ego, internet culture, responsibility, vanity
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Music vs. VHS
In the past, people associated the word “videos” with cassettes with movies on them. In the current context, sound and audio quality play a mere supporting role but when you precede the word “videos” with the word “music”, you suddenly have a completely different form of art. Continue reading
What’s in a name?
Each August for the past decade, as faculty prepare for the academic year, Beloit College in Wisconsin has released the Beloit College Mindset List. Its 70 items provide a look at the cultural touchstones that have shaped the lives of today’s first-year students, most of them born in 1989. Latchkey kids for most of their lives, students entering college this fall think nothing of arriving home with parents still at work, then e-mailing or texting their friends, instantly updating their autobiographies on “Facebook” or “MySpace,” and listening to their iPods while doing their research on Wikipedia. Continue reading
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Tagged children, in the news, internet culture, names
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Results of the latest poll
“Blog, netiquette, cookie and wiki have been voted among the most irritating words spawned by the Internet, according to the results of a poll.” Continue reading
H-JOKE24.TXT
Seems that as of late people are flocking back to the old ANSI BBSs after they get fed up with — and even disillusioned by — the W3. Continue reading
Posted in Humour
Tagged BBS, funny, internet culture, jokes, wasted youth
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