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TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004)

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Re: TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004)

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Post by coldtea »

tragic wrote: post #93
ralfd wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is not terrible, but legitimately awesome. Written by James Cameron and directed by his then-wife Kathryn Bigelow. It's such a great movie. And has a great track by Peter Gabriel at the end as well!

The very ending is a little bit cheesy. But apart from that, it's a great ride. The interesting thing about it, in relation to this thread, is that they consciously tried not to extrapolate too far technologically (apart from the whole record all your experiences thing); in fact, pretty much the only noticeable advance is speech to text translation on voicemail. Some legit stupid outfits as well. Very 90s-cool...

>The very ending is a little bit cheesy.

Compared to today's superhero movies?

Re: TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004)

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Post by coldtea »

tritosomal wrote: post #45
ChrisClark wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a side note, I don't remember much of that movie beside the 'mental feedback loop' of experiencing live what you're recording. Terrifying.

It was cheesey. The focus of the conspiracy was the political assassination of a musician, except whenever movies try to fictionalize a wildly popular artist, it usually deflates the premise because you're forced into imagining why the artist is so popular. The music is contrived and laughably bad, so while you might really want to imagine the profound tragedy of losing the artist while being a fan of the music, your…

>The music is contrived and laughably bad

That never stopped chart-topping artists...

Re: TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004)

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Post by fastball »

GCA10 wrote: post #17
dannylandau wrote: post #13

So what ever came of Chris Holt?

He's a senior editor at Super Evil Megacorp, the mobile-games site, according to his LinkedIn profile. To my astonishment, http://womenwhowanttosleepwithchrisholt.com/ is an unclaimed domain name. At least that's true as of 4:14 p.m. Pacific time.

Not true anymore...

Re: TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004)

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Post by pjc50 »

saghm wrote: post #60
allover wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why the drive-by attacks on good tools? This kind of stuff is tiring and just adds to the noise. > No megabytes of css Why would there ever be megabytes of CSS for such a site, apart from for ads, which is the main problem with modern 'content sites'. > no bootstrap Bootstrap can be tiny, and a big win in productivity/quality, so 'no Bootstrap' likely cost the devs in its lack of availabilty at the time. It looks far…

> less usable on mobile To be fair, there really wasn't any "mobile" to speak of back then, so the developers couldn't even try to make it look good on mobile.

There was WAP, which was kind of the ancestor of AMP. It wasn't terribly popular then either.

Re: TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004)

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Post by NuDinNou »

dibstern wrote: post #86
NuDinNou wrote: post #84

"Corny, Mr. Zuckerberg? No, that seems downright suspicious. Why shell out cash for a Web s ite that serves other people? I smell a rat." Taking into account that Zuckerberg is jewish, comparing him to a rat, isn't this message anti-semite?

Nope, as a Jewish guy I've not heard that anti-semetic trope before, seems like that must be a pretty uncommon trope to have heard. Do people really call Jewish people rats, where you're from?

I never heard in real life, but I saw Inglourious Basterds and thought that was a common association made by the Nazi.

Re: TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004)

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Post by wiredfool »

zapu wrote: post #108
flashman wrote: post #42

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> It's so hard to believe that's only from 2004. It's surprising Holt could still get away with writing "Cornell girls are hideous" as late as 2004!

I assumed there is some sort of rivalry between Stanford and Cornell - I'm not in US so I wouldn't know. But you would not see this kind of statement in a paper nowadays, that's for sure.

Cornell had of a rivalry with Harvard (who can't play hockey).

Stanford really wasn't a concern, they're on the other coast. Though, this was from afew years after my time.

Re: TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004)

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Post by czep »

terminado wrote: post #7

Jesus christ. It's so hard to believe that's only from 2004. I feel like that era transpired 40 years ago. The period of time before smartphones feels like it happened in the 1970's to me. The difference between 2000 and 2015 is so absurdly radical it begs disbelief.

> The difference between 2000 and 2015 is so absurdly radical it begs disbelief.

I don't disagree, it does feel very surreal to reflect on life in the 1990s. But put in context, a lot can happen in 15 years. I mean, imagine living through the era 1930 to 1945. From the days of flappers and the Charleston to Nazism and atomic bombs.

Re: TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004)

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Post by sah2ed »

NuDinNou wrote: post #84

"Corny, Mr. Zuckerberg? No, that seems downright suspicious. Why shell out cash for a Web s ite that serves other people? I smell a rat." Taking into account that Zuckerberg is jewish, comparing him to a rat, isn't this message anti-semite?

No, he didn't compare Zuckerberg to a rat.

"Smelling a rat" is an idiomatic expression [1] that means that something is suspicious or wrong.

[1] http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/smell+a+rat

Re: TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004)

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Post by ascagnel_ »

navs wrote: post #79
donretag wrote: post #39

Not sure why the author is so perplexed about thefacebook.com. Friendster and Myspace were already in existence and popular. Facebook was just another competitor with slightly different features (or lack there of (no customizations))

Not forgetting Hi5 and Bebo

Or Orkut, still possibly the worst-named product Google has put out.

Re: TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004)

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Post by baby »

thesagan wrote: post #44
terminado wrote: post #7

Jesus christ. It's so hard to believe that's only from 2004. I feel like that era transpired 40 years ago. The period of time before smartphones feels like it happened in the 1970's to me. The difference between 2000 and 2015 is so absurdly radical it begs disbelief.

Now that you put it that way, man... things have changed. I can't help thinking about further back, too. Just imagine how it felt to live around the turn of last century! Planes, [newer] trains, and automobiles! Electricity, plumbing, underground subway transportation. Hygienic medicine. Vaccines. Telegraphs reaching out overseas and powering thousands of morning daily papers; becoming a commodity instead of luxury.…

I was in a flight yesterday and thought about that. Our generation is crazy, but then I've always taken flying for granted, I've flew airplanes all my life. I can't imagine how it must have been for people before me to discover these huge things that could transport you km away.
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