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Omegle 2009-2023

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Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by Blahah »

bpicolo wrote: post #267
Blahah wrote: post #103

Gives me chills, that was so heartfelt and raw. Hurt on all sides, but this is a bit like losing access to a public space because someone committed crimes there. One of the greatest things Omegle enabled is this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhzHV9QD0Is (Harry Mack freestyling for random Omegle matches, it was a series of 90+ episodes and brought me and others so much joy during COVID)

This definitely may have destroyed the career of a large number of widely popular youtubers... It certainly destroyed their format anyway. Imagine they'll hop to a different platform.

Tbh the sad thing isn't any youtuber losing a platform, it's that Omegle was really a place people went when they were having a hard time and other people went there to cheer them up. I really hope there's another platform like it, but I don't know it.

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by eru »

civilitty wrote: post #277
eru wrote: post #247

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Where you looked at what people did with The Web 2.0 and only marveled at the possibilities of what could come. Truly feels like the death of one of the old guard, a Usenet-of-the-2010s. This is funny to me, because I am old enough to remember when web 2.0 was new, and people were nostalgic for 'web 1.0'. (And, of course, it's turtles all the way down with nostalgia.)

I miss the good ol’ days of Minitel. Imagine an internet made up almost exclusively of French people.

> Imagine an internet made up almost exclusively of French people.

I'm not sure I would want to imagine that. But then, I'm German.

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by newZWhoDis »

TaylorAlexander wrote: post #35
echelon wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This used to be exactly what the EFF and ACLU were for.

Regardless of any arguments about legitimacy, the optics of the EFF and ACLU defending Omegle against a child sex abuse victim are horrible. They need to raise funds from donors and having to explain that they fought against an individual abuse victim seems like the kind of position they would want to avoid. What I imagine they would do is fight against any overzealous legislation some politician tries to throw toget…

fuck the optics.

Really, I’d like to flip the script here and dare anyone against EFF protecting Omegle to post their real life resume/linkedin/etc.

I’ll do my part to make sure you’re unhirable, because the “optics” of destroying something as simple and innocent as this are terrible, and what’s actually happening is pseudo-anonymous pressure.

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by sizzle »

Anyone know the tech stack this awesome 18 yr old used to create this service back in the day that was able to support so many concurrent users?

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by rnk »

Blahah wrote: post #103

Gives me chills, that was so heartfelt and raw. Hurt on all sides, but this is a bit like losing access to a public space because someone committed crimes there. One of the greatest things Omegle enabled is this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhzHV9QD0Is (Harry Mack freestyling for random Omegle matches, it was a series of 90+ episodes and brought me and others so much joy during COVID)

Thanks so much for posting that. I hadn't ever come across Harry Mack. That guy is fantastic. And he gave so much happiness to those people he was rapping for! Just seeing all the delight on their faces gave me a tear in my eye. There's a lot of lonely people in the world, and for a moment, he improved their lives. We need better ways to connect; today I can VC with anyone in the world in a second, but we don't know how to connect like he does. Creators, work to make that kind of connection happen.

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by ryzvonusef »

userbinator wrote: post #88

This brings back some amazing memories. If I remember correctly, the original inspiration for Omegle came from 4chan; or more precisely, a user thought of stretching the limits of "anonymous free speech" to realtime communications, and came up with the idea in late 2007. The PoC server for it was nothing more than "telnet to this IP" and it was sporadically advertised on 4chan for a short while. Astonishingly, Google…

https://archive.tinychan.net/read/img/1196772434

archive link for those who don't want to google

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by newZWhoDis »

mquander wrote: post #101
TaylorAlexander wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Regardless of any arguments about legitimacy, the optics of the EFF and ACLU defending Omegle against a child sex abuse victim are horrible. They need to raise funds from donors and having to explain that they fought against an individual abuse victim seems like the kind of position they would want to avoid. What I imagine they would do is fight against any overzealous legislation some politician tries to throw toget…

For people who agree with the libertarian stance, the optics aren't horrible, of course, they are good. The question is whether there are enough of those people to sustain an organization like the EFF.

I donate a large sum yearly to the EFF and so should all of you. Great org overall.

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by londons_explore »

_shantaram wrote: post #407
userbinator wrote: post #88

This brings back some amazing memories. If I remember correctly, the original inspiration for Omegle came from 4chan; or more precisely, a user thought of stretching the limits of "anonymous free speech" to realtime communications, and came up with the idea in late 2007. The PoC server for it was nothing more than "telnet to this IP" and it was sporadically advertised on 4chan for a short while. Astonishingly, Google…

That Google search you suggested appears (barring some UI thing I'm missing because I'm on Mobile) to only have two results, your comment and the 4chan archive. Is there a name for a google search with exactly two results? I know one with one single result is called a Googlewhack.

It's cheating if you use quotes.
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