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[–] 65 points 2 years ago (20 children)

ITT: People who haven't been on the internet long enough to know what BoingBoing is.

I'm old.

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    If you know what BoingBoing is, your knees probably crackle when you squat and stand.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    I wonder how Slashdot is doing...

    Looks like it's still going strong, but each article has like 15 comments. And the poll has a CowboyNeal option...

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Oh wow, forgot about Slashdot...

    Fark, Slashdot, and BoingBoing were pretty much my daily go-to in the pre-Digg/reddit internet

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I skipped the Digg era. I didn't join reddit until probably 2015, after I kept coming across extremely useful information there that wasn't available elsewhere. I think it was the advice on what to do with asbestos that finally tipped it over for me.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I was an early reddit adopter. I preferred its hyper minimalist style, as well as the type of conversations I saw, to Digg at the time. Well before the whole Digg 2.0 debacle.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    3 digit UID here, I still visit daily but rarely comment

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    I have a 5 digit UID, and I just checked that I can still log in. Looks like my most recent comment was in November of 2015, which is a lot later than I would have guessed.

    I visited a few times right after the reddit blowup, while checking out other options for this sort of thing. I might have to go back more.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago*

    I doubt I could log in now, since I haven't for so long

    Edit to add: nope. Browser doesn't know, password manager doesn't have it, and it's not tied to the oldest email address I still use :(

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