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points by atribecalledqst 2 days ago | 0 comments

The little glimpses into the forum culture (and just what it felt like to be a kid on the internet back then) really take me back.

I think I'm glad I didn't discover 4chan or SA back then - my sense of humor was pretty horrible and edgy by itself (in my head I call it "proto-4chan"). I don't think I needed to see anything that would encourage it. South Park and Maddox were probably my biggest influences back then.

[–] arjie 2 days ago

I went looking for old Linux forum posts where I used to call people “Microserfs” (there was some page that came up with this and I adopted it wholeheartedly) any time they dual-booted. Sucks for everyone else. On the Internet no one knows you’re a (12 year old) dork.

[–] kyle_o 2 days ago

Douglas Coupland might not have come up with it, but he released a book called Microserfs in 1995: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL27284244M/Microserfs