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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

Rules

  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. No politics
    • If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
    • A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS

If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.

Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is really nonsensical. It could fit on a piece of paper in font size 8 if you go back far enough and "stretch" the definition of Internet.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Not true. The first document on the internet was, in fact, 7 pages in 8pt font.

It was the New Purchase brochure from a Packard Bell 286 4MHz from Circuit City transcribed into .doc format.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but if you wrote really small on a note card you could have used the entire internet on a test!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And were all 7 of those pages uploaded at the same time? Ha, gotchu now! (But for real, is .doc that old?)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

According to wikipedia, "Microsoft has used the extension since 1983."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ha! So not as old as me

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

“Congratulations on buying a Packard Bell computer. Would you like to register me?”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Welcome to Packard Bell Navigator!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

[ ] YES

[ ] Maybe Later

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is actually exactly why I love the internet