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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's true that Gopher never really went anywhere. It was convenient for what it was and it had Veronica (a basic search engine) which made it useful. But hyperlinks were a killer feature.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

But hyperlinks were a killer feature.

Berners-Lee didn't come up with that idea, though, did he? I thought he got the idea from Ted Nelson's Project Xanadu.