Things people did in the 2000s

from the state of internet writing trust me people are still doing adderall

I thought the kitty speak was very creative, there's a good article about it here:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323620982_I_can_haz_language_play_The_construction_of_language_and_identity_in_LOLspeak

Treeship you seem like more of a doge person.

The kind of stuff that went viral on youtube in those days, so much of it was just mocking people who were very comfortable in their own skin. It felt very mean-spirited.

That weezer video was more than just a cute video imo.

It probably shouldn't surprise me that social media serves "in-group cohesion".

most of the 2000s memes / videos were just kind of inexplicable to me, it wasn't just that I didn't find them funny, but also I couldn't work out what was supposed to be funny about them, so yes lolcats but also Charlie bit my finger, all your base, evolution of dance, is this the way to amarillo. Whereas today (I think since vine) everything seems to be both funnier and less of a big deal, and importantly the open mocking / cruelty seems to have fallen out of favour, so


208. posed screenshots of people having possibly fatal accidents, with the word FAIL written at the bottom, and emailed them to their friends.

Yes, there was a site for those! Failblog.org
P sure it was part of the icanhascheezburger.com family of websites.

yeah, still seems to be there (I won't link it) - I have been there twice before, to tell them to fuck off for making a meme out of a photo of a truck hitting some cyclists, and to tell them to fuck off for making a meme from a gif of an Indian man touching a railway power cable and being electrocuted.

209. Draw an S. Then a draw a different kind of S. Then add some consummate V's and maybe a big beefy arm.

210. Get really excited about a song that's just about a ton of pop culture figures fighting each other.

211. Something Awful

209. Draw an S. Then a draw a different kind of S. Then add some consummate V's and maybe a big beefy arm.

I'm gonna need a picture here.

The antisocial energies unleashed by internet anonymity were still visible and green then. They’ve been sublimated now in various ways, but they’re still there.

Like social media, I believe, bans hateful and abusive and bigoted content. Which is great. But you get a lot of bullying by means of social ostracization instead. Or like, old school abuse by anonymous accounts who are like these little swarming demons with frogs in their avatars.

And it all has a political character now. The internet today is weirder than it was then.

I'm gonna need a picture here.
http://www.hrwiki.org/w/images/thumb/f/f6/sbemail58picture2a.PNG/800px-sbemail58picture2a.PNG

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/029/992/trogdor.png

I even hate typing the name, but there was that site "Fat Chicks in Party Hats", was that part of SA or icanhascheezburger? Which reminds me...

212. Read Seanbaby

Yeah. Very glad that stuff is taboo now.

Accidentally answered my own question, it was part of the Seanbaby site network.

213. Read tucker max posts and laugh about them. These were like deeply misogynistic “humorous” accounts of his sexual exploits. I remember finding this grotesque but feeling unable to express this to my high school classmates which shows how the times have changed.

Also gross to see that dude is still getting paid:

In 2017, Max ghostwrote Tiffany Haddish's memoir, The Last Black Unicorn, which was released in December 2017 by Simon & Schuster and debuted at number 15 on The New York Times best-seller list.

214. the stinky feet project
215. the stinky meat project

216. Used Facebook apps

217. Used Onion Personals to look for love.

217(A). Used other dating/personals sites tied to popular media pages to look for love.

218. Thought Borat was a progressive film.

219. yelled "this is Sparta!"

Also gross to see that dude is still getting paid:

In 2017, Max ghostwrote Tiffany Haddish's memoir, The Last Black Unicorn, which was released in December 2017 by Simon & Schuster and debuted at number 15 on The New York Times best-seller list.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, May 27, 2021 8:48 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

he did a self-help book about being a good husband a few years ago - the guy that wrote the secret did too, around the same time. funny to think of the man who owned both of their original books in 2000 and then those two books 15 years later.

this man exists and walks among us

The only person I never knew who actually read and enjoyed Tucker Max irl was a girl I briefly dated back in 2002. She kept talking up this "really funny" guy who wrote about his "crazy partying", but never remembered his name. One day she forwarded me a link to his site and I was very much, "huh... you... like this?".

she wasn't like other girls

talk about the one that got away

wow Kim - 216 really feels like a deep cut. hard to believe!

re:217(A) - anyone remember Sparkmatch?

vaguely, but that reminds me...

220. Visited Makeoutclub(dot)com

xp 154. Compared results of thespark.com Purity Test with friends

yeah there were the tests, then they launched sparkmatch and it was massive for about a month, then suddenly they shut it all down and it turned into sparknotes, no idea what went on there, they really blew an opportunity.

According to wikipedia, it somehow morphed into OkCupid.

Wow thespark. Crikey

met my wife on thespark

221. Made jokes about how great and powerful Vin Diesel Chuck Norris is.

222. Tweeted via SMS.

223. set up your twitter account with your phone, moved abroad, had your phone number reassigned to someone else who gets a notification every time someone @s you on twitter and apparently is quite annoyed about this, started getting messaged from friends and family asking why you keep telling them to "fuck off" on twitter.

224. Citing that "Maybe I'm too much of a feminist..." when criticizing the outcome of Ross & Rachel in the Friends finale.

225. Took all kinds of 'fun' surveys to find out things like which Disney princess or Star Wars character they were, or where they fell in a simplified quadrant of political beliefs, while innocently delivering up scads of personal information later used to directly target and manipulate not just their buying habits, but their votes during elections.

I still do that. Shit is fun.

96. LiveJournal

and before that, #226. diaryland

and:
227. watched/made/shared a ytmnd
228. voted for or bought something on Threadless
229. owned at least one of those American Apparel zip hoodies

230. played an 'escape the room' flash game

231. watched the GI Joe re-dubbed toons ie "PORK CHOP SANDWICHES"

I (re)watched those a couple months ago! was much easier now that they're on youtube or whatever rather than having to get them from a friend or

232. napster

(or kazaa or whatever came after it)