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What is your favorite dead meme? (lemmy.world)
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The older the internet gets, the more it's like a city that keeps building on top of its own ruins. What's is your favorite bit of internet archeology if memes are like artifacts and relics?

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[–] 1 point 1 week ago (2 children)

Are you familiar with the concept of a "fish story", in which someone tells you of a fish that they almost caught that was SO BIG, but it got away, so they don't have any proof?

I had a very low digit Slashdot ID, but I forgot the password and the free email provider I'd used shut down so I can't rescue it. I guess that's a Slashdot fish story.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    FWIW, I also don't have my slashdot account anymore. They were dead to me the moment CmdrTaco sold the site roughly 15 years ago, so I never bothered to migrate my account to a new email. I don't think it is unreasonable to no longer have an account on a website from that long ago, if anything, it is surprising that Slashdot still exists in any form.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    They were dead to me the moment CmdrTaco sold the site roughly 15 years ago

    oooh yeah, I vaguely remember the whole site taking on a significant tone-shift at some point. I think it was just before Columbine, bc when that happened I remember some new non-tech-guy doing a whole series of multi-part posts on it. Eventually after that I faded away from it.

    I just checked it out and yeah it's still there, chugging along.

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