The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@xaade said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I'm "had a Geocities page with a blinking star background under dark green font" years old.
Also, "Still had a rotary phone as a kid" years old
But did you have an "under construction" gif where the dude's head came off? Checkmate atheists
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This is a comfy chair
Now it's relaxing
It's having a stretch
Now it's just being nosey
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@mott555 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@xaade I'm "I have a Yahoo email address because Gmail didn't exist yet" years old.
I'm "had an email address which began with 'y' and then a sequential number because that was what my university provided" years old.
Also,
pine
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@Rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I'm "had an email address which began with 'y' and then a sequential number because that was what my university provided" years old.
Bang paths.
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@xaade I'm pretty sure the appeal of Gmail when it launched (and you needed to get invited) was "so large, you'll never have to delete email again. And still growing."
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@PJH said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Bang paths.
TIL.
I had 2 of those: a milnet, and an arpanet one.
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@M_Adams said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@PJH said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Bang paths.
TIL.
I had 2 of those: a milnet, and an arpanet one.
<6th sense>I see OLD people</6th sense>
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Security is a bitch
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@xaade I'm 'At least I lived through Y2K, barely' years old.
e: actually, it lists it on my profile!
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@M_Adams said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@PJH said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Bang paths.
TIL.
I had 2 of those: a milnet, and an arpanet one.
I'm just waiting for @boomzilla to show up and regale us with tales how they had to tie punch cards to pigeons.
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@mott555 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@xaade I'm "I have a Yahoo email address because Gmail didn't exist yet" years old.
I'm "old enough to remember in my bones why September is eternal" years old.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@M_Adams said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@PJH said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Bang paths.
TIL.
I had 2 of those: a milnet, and an arpanet one.
I'm just waiting for @boomzilla to show up and regale us with tales how they had to tie punch cards to pigeons.
That's not what you do with pigeons.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@mott555 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@xaade I'm "I have a Yahoo email address because Gmail didn't exist yet" years old.
Me too! We must be twins!
Make that triplets!
Filed under: I should probably log in and see if any spam has arrived yet...
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@Rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@M_Adams said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@PJH said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Bang paths.
TIL.
I had 2 of those: a milnet, and an arpanet one.
I'm just waiting for @boomzilla to show up and regale us with tales how they had to tie punch cards to pigeons.
I did punch a hole in the upper left corner of the cards so I could a string through the deck and tie it off to prevent playing the Hollerith version of 52 pick up. It only took 3 times of “playing” to come up with the idea. :(
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@Mason_Wheeler For some reason, this reminds me how many tabs (in how many windows on how many desktops) I have open all the time.
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@dkf said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@mott555 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@xaade I'm "I have a Yahoo email address because Gmail didn't exist yet" years old.
I'm "old enough to remember in my bones why September is eternal" years old.
AOL? Or earlier than that?
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@cabrito said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Security is a bitch
Reminds me of my character in the latest RPG campaign.
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@PJH said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I'm "had an email address which began with 'y' and then a sequential number because that was what my university provided" years old.
Bang paths.
Ah, fun times. If a server in the middle of the path happened to be down, there was a good chance your mail would just disappear into a black hole. I still remember the first (and last) time I tried to send mail outside our university network. IIRC, there were three hops in the path from my uni to USC. I got an email from the admin of relay 1 that said, "I saw your email go through, but I think relay 2 ate it." Yes, there was so little email traffic that an admin would respond to an email that wasn't even destined for his server.
Later, my address was, IIRC, ucbvax!portal!me, although I can't remember my actual username any more. (The address you would tell someone started with the nearest "well known" relay server; everybody knew the path from their host to the handful of well known relays. Often, you would tell your contact several alternative paths, in case one of them was down.)
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Mason_Wheeler said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@mott555 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@xaade I'm "I have a Yahoo email address because Gmail didn't exist yet" years old.
Me too! We must be twins!
Make that triplets!
Filed under: I should probably log in and see if any spam has arrived yet...
I, too, have (had) a Yahoo! email address, though not because better alternatives didn't yet exist. Yahoo! bought a mailing list company that ran several lists I subscribed to; you didn't need a Yahoo! account to subscribe to the lists after Yahoo! bought them, but you did to access the list archives, and the email address came with it. I've never used it for anything except administrative emails from Yahoo! itself, but I started getting spam within minutes of creating the account.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
you didn't need a Yahoo! account to subscribe to the lists after Yahoo! bought them, but you did to access the list archives, and the email address came with it.
Interesting. I'm reviewing my account now and, though it's not a mailing list, they do mention something about requiring Yahoo accounts...
I had no idea I even had a flickering account. Seems I joined in 2011, somehow... Nothing there, natch.
Also, I learned that flicker has been acquired by SmugMug, which I first read as Smegma...
That's enough Yahoo! for now...
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
ucbvax!portal!me
I remember when that truly blackest of magic
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came to be. My only bang path was when I was at AT&T. My initial user name there was davec, later changed to dcon.
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@dcon For the sake of privacy let’s call her Lisa S. No, that’s too obvious, let’s say L. Simpson.
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@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@xaade I'm pretty sure the appeal of Gmail when it launched (and you needed to get invited) was "so large, you'll never have to delete email again. And still growing."
They've even had a live megabyte counter for the current cap on registration page! It was kinda awesome at the time.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@xaade I'm pretty sure the appeal of Gmail when it launched (and you needed to get invited) was "so large, you'll never have to delete email again. And still growing."
They've even had a live megabyte counter for the current cap on registration page! It was kinda awesome at the time.
For certain definitions of "live". I bet if it actually continued at the rate it ticked we'd have half a terabyte of free space by now...
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@boomzilla Kids do this too, and it's annoying. Inevitably they'll raise their hand (or not and just ask the question) and the question would have been answered...if they let me finish my sentence.
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@Benjamin-Hall the worst is when my wife sits there on her phone and missed a ton of stuff and then thinks that I should fill her in for slacking while watching TV.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
and then thinks that I should fill her in
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
and then thinks that I should fill her in
@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
my wife sits there on her phone
vibrate mode joke
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I should fill her in for slacking while watching TV.
TV is serious business!!!
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@Atazhaia said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@cabrito said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Security is a bitch
Reminds me of my character in the latest RPG campaign.
At least it wasn't the knee.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
slacking while watching TV
Mrs. Boomzilla outboomzilla'd @boomzilla. The ultimate (and I'm absolutely sure she'd take it the wrong way.)
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I'm absolutely sure she'd take it the wrong way
Which way she takes it is their business.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I'm absolutely sure she'd take it the wrong way
Which way she takes it is their business.
Coffee is indeed very personal.
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@Erufael I heard taking it through the rear end makes the effect stronger.
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@Gąska You may or may not be joking, but this is something that was actually done by combat medics in decades gone by to quickly get someone alert and out of a state of shock. I think the technique was called a "Murphy Drop", but googling that turns up nothing relevant; just a bunch of info on a certain Celtic punk band.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I think the technique was called a "Murphy Drop",
Wasn't that blowing smoke up their anus?
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@Benjamin-Hall I recently had a client who would cut me off mid-sentence and carry on with incorrect inferences and starts talking about how incorrect my logic / approach is. Then she would ask a number of questions, and for each of those this whole process is repeated.
Ironically, if she would just let me finish my statements, then it would make her understand the big picture, and also cater for the next 5 questions she would've had
Among other things, this client of mine really tested my soft skills, since I eventually got through to her and made her listen to the whole statement. She still does that to one of my colleagues, though
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I almost kinda wish my breath could turn females into alive anime.. what the fuck is this even?
It's a Japanese chewing gum commercial.