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Re: Don't you lecture me with your thirty dollar website

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Post by hillsideduck »

adventured wrote: post #55
SkipperCat wrote: post #27

This website is inane, juvenile and has no real use. And for all those reasons I love it. Kudos to HN for being a place where I can find things that just bring some silly fun to my life. I remember in the early days of the Interwebs, there was so many sites just like this one. You didn't have to go to FB, IG or some other content mill to find them. Plus, when you did find one, it had the same feeling of excitement as…

There are more sites like this one today, by at least an order of magnitude, than existed in the early lift-off days of the Web (~1993-1997). You'd struggle to build a mediocre version of this site in the early days of the Web. And it'd try to eat your browser alive as you used it if someone managed to use early Flash or an applet to shoehorn it onto the Web back then. HN itself is, in part, a link content mill. No d…

In my opinion your text is really beautifully written. It fills me with a sense of melancholia because of this inescapability that is portrait in it. This might not really add anything to the discussion. I just wanted to let you know that your words have been read and appreciated.

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Post by Riverheart »

r_singh wrote: post #65
SkipperCat wrote: post #27

This website is inane, juvenile and has no real use. And for all those reasons I love it. Kudos to HN for being a place where I can find things that just bring some silly fun to my life. I remember in the early days of the Interwebs, there was so many sites just like this one. You didn't have to go to FB, IG or some other content mill to find them. Plus, when you did find one, it had the same feeling of excitement as…

I’m mostly scared of clicking shady links these days… Idk if I’m being too paranoid but my google mailbox is full of phishing attempts…

Your paranoia is justified. If NoScript didn't exist I don't know how anyone could browse the web with any confidence.

Re: Don't you lecture me with your thirty dollar website

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Post by billiam »

SkipperCat wrote: post #27

This website is inane, juvenile and has no real use. And for all those reasons I love it. Kudos to HN for being a place where I can find things that just bring some silly fun to my life. I remember in the early days of the Interwebs, there was so many sites just like this one. You didn't have to go to FB, IG or some other content mill to find them. Plus, when you did find one, it had the same feeling of excitement as…

Old enough to remember every single thing on the early Internet was some version of this, other than the astronomy and physics papers that my girlfriend and her fellow scientists exchanged.

Websites that take my time > Websites that take my money (and my time).

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Post by ugh123 »

SkipperCat wrote: post #27

This website is inane, juvenile and has no real use. And for all those reasons I love it. Kudos to HN for being a place where I can find things that just bring some silly fun to my life. I remember in the early days of the Interwebs, there was so many sites just like this one. You didn't have to go to FB, IG or some other content mill to find them. Plus, when you did find one, it had the same feeling of excitement as…

Reminds me of all the great stuff zefrank made back in the day http://www.zefrank.com/ although much of it lost(?) in old Adobe Flash tech.

.. and new stuff today https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOHbM4GGWADc5bZgvbivv...

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Post by 91dylwyn »

SkipperCat wrote: post #27

This website is inane, juvenile and has no real use. And for all those reasons I love it. Kudos to HN for being a place where I can find things that just bring some silly fun to my life. I remember in the early days of the Interwebs, there was so many sites just like this one. You didn't have to go to FB, IG or some other content mill to find them. Plus, when you did find one, it had the same feeling of excitement as…

Love it! theuselessweb found me http://eelslap.com/

My fav from back of the day http://www.davesweboflies.com/

Re: Don't you lecture me with your thirty dollar website

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Post by worewood »

sowbug wrote: post #83
worewood wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It HAD a touch-screen before getting water damage. Repair consists of replacing the entire screen as the digitizer is glued to it and I am too broke to do that rn; so I got a usb2go adapter and been using it this way for months

Don't you lecture us with your $30 phone.

(._.)

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Post by beeskneecaps »

feross wrote: post #52
SkipperCat wrote: post #27

This website is inane, juvenile and has no real use. And for all those reasons I love it. Kudos to HN for being a place where I can find things that just bring some silly fun to my life. I remember in the early days of the Interwebs, there was so many sites just like this one. You didn't have to go to FB, IG or some other content mill to find them. Plus, when you did find one, it had the same feeling of excitement as…

Adding my useless website to the list: http://magickeyboard.io - it’s fun to build one-off random sites and put them out there :)

Amazing. Someone needs to add Missile Command or Space Invaders to this.

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Post by mike_hock »

polka_haunts_us wrote: post #41
tetromino_ wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In original context, was a $30 haircut supposed to be cheap or expensive? In 2022 in my neighborhood, $30 is somewhat on the expensive side for a men's haircut (a basic haircut at a trendy barber shop is $25) but extremely cheap for a women's haircut. But what was the intended meaning of the phrase in Japan in the 1990s in relation to the characters speaking it?

Well first of all, I don't think the phrase existed in the original Japanese, only in the English dub where they made the creative decision to make the character who says it talk like some Redneck Trucker. The context is said Redneck Trucker is a robot who has been programmed to kill the main characer, Goku. One of Goku's friends says something about how if he does that he is just a slave with no free will. Our Redne…

It would be $50 today assuming moderate inflation.
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