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| Bella Posts: 90/169 |
It's good that people can afford computers now because I can't get on one but hopefully I'll be getting a laptop in January so yay! I'll be more enthusiastic about it since I'll be happy I bought my own laptop. Right now it's hard to get to one besides at school like now or when my sister is at school but now I'm working and going to get more hours so that I can buy one. I don't care about those fucktards. Ignore them, even I can be one sometimes but I still type good  . I just can't text fast, that's when I use shortened words or take out letters. Now I just use the internet for homework or to watch music videos  maybe a few more things when I get my own, but I'll still like it regardless of the people. |
| Jilkon Posts: 28/227 |
Was?
Personally I'm enthusiastic about all the cool stuff on the net these days, not so much about all the uncool people. Personally I think it's harder writing like a fucktard than writing normal English. I'm unsure why people need to write so fast that they have to use silly short versions of words. Back when I was a newbie I actually bothered learning how to write fast on a qwerty keyboard. |
| Pendejo Posts: 1/8 |
The Internet was a fad; it got old just like any other. |
| Ylle Posts: 47/58 |
Six years ago, it was about this easy to get online. But it was still much better on the various communities.  ;
Or might i just be too nostalgic for my own good? |
| HyperHacker Posts: 153/5072 |
The problem is simple: It's too easy to get online now. It used to be that you had to know a thing or two, but now any 11-year-old can just click the 'Internet' icon. This was probably the best feature of DOS - people who were too dumb to use it only asked for help once. 
[edit] Also, people can afford computers now.  |
| Chronosphere-x Posts: 37/125 |
Originally posted by Ylle I agree, boeard arn't even that fun anymore. I can't find anything else to do on the internet nowaday, i 've tryed it all, from coding to gaming. |
| Kyoufu Kawa Posts: 178/1353 |
I second that emotion. |
| Trapster Posts: 640/3604 |
I am enthusiastic about the internet because I´ve been blessed with catgirls. 
Right, Ailure? |
| Ailure Posts: 164/2602 |
Ah yes... September that never ended eh?
September that never ended (It's said that september did end eventually, as AOL pulled usernet support )
So yeah, we have to blame AOL for ruining everything on the net... or there's alot of stupid people in... eh. Well... AOL failed over here. xD |
| Black Lord + Posts: 11/273 |
Originally posted by Danielle so, if there's e-penis's can there be e-vagina's, and if so could we have e-intercourse with our e-genitals. Just a thought... then people could go around and be like "I just lost my e-virginity. I'm not gonna die an e-virgin after all." <- Wow, I almost want to go hang myself for all that nonsense. As for the internet, once you stop caring about what other people think, then it gets better... face it there are always gonna be people who hate you... life, internet, hell, you name it. Just get used to it. Now to go find my daily dosage of explicit materials... adios. |
| Squash Monster Posts: 46/296 |
There's a field of science called human geography* that studies how geography effects cultures. There's obvious stuff, like how cultures will be more similar that are close to eachother, less similar if theres a mountain range between them, or much less similar if there is a major body of water between them. And less obvious stuff, like how all the cultures near easy-to-farm plants and big dumb animals thrived while the rest got screwed.
Any place you go on the internet is going to have its own culture. It's going to be determined in part by really subtle things that I'm not going to claim to understand. It took some random genious years to come up with the easy-farming-and-big-dumb-animals thing. But, more importantly to the point I'm going to eventually be getting at, there are the mountains and oceans. Acmlm's is a bit of an island. It doesn't link to much of anything at all, not all too much links to it. Zophars is like a non-neutral version of Switzerland**. At first logic, all the intelligent, interesting cultures on the internet are going to be linked to eachother. So, once you find one, you should find all of them. However, once a good number of intelligent, interesting cultures become linked together, the chances of at least one of them being easy to get to from a search engine become greater. Being hit by a search engine puts a lot of stress on an internet culture. Lots of new people means lots of slight changes in culture. And lots of random n00bs. So, the internet favors that intelligent, fun communities are fairly small. And, additionally, the life expectancy of an internet culture is bloody short. So, when your community dies, you'll make your way across other ones in the "region" until you exaust that "land mass". Then you'll be stuck back at a search engine. And anything you can find from there is something every lamer on the net can find just as easilly. The intelligent, fun communities are still out there. But good luck finding them. Post Scriptum: On the internet, unlike in the real world, people can be citizens of more than one place. I could be a major poster on a crochetting forum halfway across the internet and none of you would know it***. Somewhat interestingly, lots of people from the community tend to end up in the same places. I've run into Acmlmers at the IVAN forums and at KoL. I'm not going to start trying to understand -- or especially not start trying to explain -- what effect this has on internet culture. Theres an effect though, I assure you. Post Post Scriptum: For anyone who's new here, posts like this are why I can get away with being random and spammy when you can't. See, when your normal posts look somewhat like that, it's absolutely hilarious when you suddenly turn around and make a two word post. *If I got the wrong name for the field, go along with it. **Historically, if Switzerland was less neutral and badass, it'd probably be a bit of a wasteland from all the wars that went through it, because it's right next to everything. Historically, Zophars is neither so neutral nor so badass, and right next to everything. Thus, it's not so much of a surprise that Zophars is a wasteland. ***I'm not. I wouldn't blow my cover like that, sheesh. |
| Tatrion Posts: 120/2467 |
The only problem is filtering the NEWBIES from the outright NOOBS. People sometimes don't realize those are totally different nouns (note: That comment was not directed at the topic creator or anyone else. It was a general statement). Newbies have promise; they want to learn and be productive. If they're shunned, they can turn into noobs, flaming and spamming randomly.
Then, there are the people who start off as noobs. Sigh... |
| Metal Man88 Posts: 50/701 |
I'm from five years ago, long before any of this happens, and for all I care, it's still five years ago with how I treat the internet, although I don't ignore the passage of time.
N00bs are just to be ignored, plain and simple. Out of sight, out of mind. And that includes just use of bans and kicks and akills and stuff to make them go away. |
| Deleted User Posts: 190/-7750 |
I used to care all the time about that kind of thing. And then I stopped. I'm much happier now, actually. |
| Danielle Posts: 450/6737 |
My guess is that it's the whole e-penis thing.  |
| Ylle Posts: 45/58 |
Its not like someone said "Oh fuck off" to me and I thought posting something like this would ease my problems about it.
It's about a more agressive and careless attitude towards eachother nowadays on most communities. |
| jordan_mega_gamer Posts: 18/41 |
I get your point, Thayer, but I and several other people aren't just going to "get over it" because it really is annoying. I can tolerate typos and AOL-speak in chatrooms, but in message boards, where you have plenty of time to think, it just makes you look immature to rush a post in that way.
Yeah, internet bullies are pretty much like bullies in real life, but at least in real life they're easier to avoid and a lot less common. If someone's a bully in real life, they generally get strict punishments, like being fired, jail fines, and the like. But on the internet, the most we can do is ban them from one message board or chat room, which leaves them about 9999 left. As far as noobs go, I'm relatively forgiving, since it wasn't long ago that I was one. I can tolerate what some people consider stupid questions, but they should know better than to flame somebody they don't really even know. Ah well. If noobs had patience to read rules and regulations, and if everybody were nicer, the world would almost be perfect. But then we wouldn't need Walgreens. |
| Deleted User Posts: 184/-7750 |
It's the Internet *shock* now it's just like real life, except worse, oh noes. Get over it. |
| Riku Posts: 152/1823 |
I know what you mean. The internet has no control these days. I know a lot of people who flame, spam, bitch, and explode.
Sometimes I wish IP ban would blow up their monitor.  |
| NSNick Posts: 148/2228 |
Internet.
Grain of salt. Take together as prescribed by your doctor. |
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