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[–] 87 points 5 months ago (9 children)

The internet used to scream in agony every time you woke it.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    And there was a creepy 3D dancing baby

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Did that originate on Ally McBiel or was that a thing prior that was adopted by the show?

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago

    No, it was from 3DS max studio.

    It was one of the first viral videos, I remember getting it via email from my father's friend (on the family's email account before Hotmail)

    Since it was a max file people started modifying the dancing steps so there were many variations and it became very popular to the point that it appeared in Ally Mcbeal

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  • [–] 46 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    Phones didn't have cords but they couldn't leave the house

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  • [–] 22 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    Range extenders = very long cord.

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    It was actually a peak fidget accessory

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    They make guitar cables that are wound like this and they're low key the best imo because they basically never get tangled

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    These ones used to get tangled all the time though. Then they’d get a weird U shaped kink when you tried to fix it.

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  • [–] 22 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    So, I was thinking that the original joke was in a peanut brittle can, which got me to look it up. This prank has a Wikipedia page! Apparently, the original prank was in a jam jar.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    the snake nut can is one of the only practical jokes ive ever successfully deployed

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Kids wanted to get up early on a Saturday, because that's when the best cartoons came on.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I used to get up so early on Saturdays that the test pattern was still on, and that's a whole topic of conversation unto itself.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    I remember when before every channel didn't have programmes on all day (in the UK, so only four channels at the time). I used to watch nature footage with classical music played over it on BBC2 which was put on as a filler. Loved that. Now it's all repeats and mindless daytime TV crud.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago

    Every morning the sky would blink and it was our one rule that we would look up and ululate until our throats grew sharp, but it's not really fashionable to bring up since the split

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    No way that was in the 90s. Was it??

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I still have one of these from when I was a kid pranking my parents. Except it looks like such a dumb old can no one could possibly fall for it now unless then were a toddler.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    I don't remember, besides the atmosphere being far more enjoyable, and xmas not feeling fake.

    I also got to see Michael Jackson die, and the world go to hell far before I was an adult.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Pretty sure those prank items still exist.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Sometimes you'd eat your morning cereal and there was a peanut inside of the cereal.

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  • It was rough, you had to brave the Acid Rains while patching the Ozone Layer.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Lol I just showed this to my 20 year old daughter who once asked me this in the car when she was like six.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    ummm that was the 50s yo

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