written on a moving boat

Indeed. Especially given that they never asked the address owners. They just scraped them all.

Well that sucks.

I joined by the end of the nineties when we had "Yellow Pages" CDs and new metasearch engines. This feels like a repeat.

IIRC, it contained whatever finger returned. So, in my friend's case his full name and email address.

Did it actually contain identifying info, or just the addresses?

I can't because I couldn't stomach it but yeah these are cultural artefacts that need to be preserved. Even ads.

It made it into the 150 Most Awesome Youtube Videos, of course it's still up. Can you imagine what a loss for our culture it'd be if it was taken down?

And lots of white space.

I bet the text is just as cringey on every video. Somebody got paid to write that!

This one's still up btw and it's bad.

FYI: These are called Self control groups/self selection

By answering these emails, you are self-selecting as someone who is more likely to go through everything these people want

Making the email have mass appeal would increase the load on the workforce, which would increase operating cost

Thats also the reason why triage for things like er rooms is a thing.

https://archive.org/details/mostawesomeyoutu0000besl/page/104/mode/2up

Close enough, yeah.

I had a sort of internet Yellow Pages before search engines worked well enough. It was a monster list of URLs pointing to new and cool things to do on the internet.

Looked it up and it's exactly as you say.

I would not have expected an internet book in 2014. Fucking weird.

And how many of those QR codes send you to Never Gonna Give You Up?

My email was in one of those.

QR codes that link to the Youtube videos, I assume. Maybe some brief commentary on each one.

Wait is that a book? I'm so confused now. Even with the QR codes.

So what's in it? Transcripts? Or just QR codes? No, my brain still refuses.

Is Someone Singing is a great song too!

The guitarist is Chris Hadfield, astronaut. Out of this world.

Should've been a VHS tape.

Back in the early nineties, I had a book called something like The Internet White Pages (I forget). It contained 100k email addresses. My friend had his email listed in it, and he'd use it as a flex. Then, Spam was invented.

We used to have to type in the QR codes by hand.

Be careful when accepting payoffs from a certified nazi. He does not have your best interests at heart. "Heart" as in..."He threw his heart out to the crowd!".

If you don’t, you may find yourself under a rest

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