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It's pretty interesting to see all this old stuff still being maintained. I used to read a lot of different topics on this forum years ago, but it's database crashed and the owner just stuck it in read-only mode.

The owner is an early Internet pioneer, but is still actively posting things: https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/

Guy's a complete faggot, unfortunately.

It's pretty interesting to see all this old stuff still being maintained. I used to read a lot of different topics on this forum years ago, but it's database crashed and the owner just stuck it in read-only mode. The owner is an early Internet pioneer, but is still actively posting things: https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/ Guy's a complete faggot, unfortunately.

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We're all dead and "living" in a simulation. We all died in the year 2000, which wasn't the first year of the 21st century but actually the last year of the 20th century. We're all still dead and only "living" in that simulation...

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Yes, the birds already know this. We hope you are enjoying your simulation.

If you have any comments or complaints, please set your input code to 7772314706746146103110211245 (base 8) to materialize the suggestion box at your apparent location. We will summarily discard them.

Birds aren't real.

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I miss the old internet.....

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I was working at CompUSA in 1999. I quit on Dec 31 1999 because there was no fucking way I was gonna be in a computer store on Y2K.

Side note: old friend of mine was working graveyard at a CVS on New years night 2000. For like 4 hours after midnight, every customer who came in he told them that the registers wouldn't work cause of y2k. Made everyone pay in cash with no change. Said he took home like a free 20 bucks from it. Fucked up, but funny.

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Yeah, I don't blame you. Have any of the "Remember to turn your computers off!" stickers?

Your friend sounds like he had a good future in finance.

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Have any of the "Remember to turn your computers off!" stickers?

Throughout all my moves, I've lost almost everything I own. I DID have one, as well as some really nice pentium 3 branded gel pens.

Your friend sounds like he had a good future in finance.

haven't spoken to him in years. Last I heard he was developing schizophrenia, sadly.

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Finance, schizophrenia....sometimes the same thing and/or necessary for being in finance.

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From their Poetry section

In a world that's full of hatred,

and news that's always bad.

the dividing line gets thinner,

who is sane and who is mad.

If a man think's he's two people,

is he the hopeless case?

Or the man who makes a mistake,

which can destroy the Human Race?

The ones we deem are madmen,

are in a padded cell,

But the madmen that are ruling

can turn our world to Hell!

Should we blindly follow leaders'

like sheep,do as we're told?

It's not the worry of our weapons,

whether nuclear,big or small,

But the leaders of the countries,

and the one who starts it all!

by RJ Latham

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Seems to quantify the modern condition quite well.