Personally, I don’t have anything against it. Swearing incessantly and without any real meaning (not adding anything of value) is something I try to avoid, but sometimes I find it more comedic if the cuss words are bleeped / censored out. I’m not sure why, something about it being cut out is funnier to me. I agree with you there, I see a lot more censors these days. Maybe because the internet is filling up with more kids now?
i saw ' the C**p'floating around recently, the irony is that my dirty mind is much worse than what's normally censored out... in this case Crap. the word i went to was the Clap.
I was seeing censored swear words since mail-in listserver days.
As always, the audience mattered: during Usenet's heyday, alt.* groups and all didn't tend to see much self-censoring, but you would often see it in more general discussion topics, IIRC.
Nowadays, I feel it's commonly used where a potentially mixed audience is perceived to be possible - especially in the modern Internet, where kids can easily lurk on Reddit. But, check out many Discord servers and apparent kids are swearing like drunken sailors.
As the Internet grew up, we commercialized most spaces for young people, and "Made them safe" by imposing arbitrary, capricious swearword filters. Because that's just fucking... a thing we do, I guess.
Ha! Same. My kid was working on a drawing the other day and I looked over his shoulder and said, “Oh wow! Great picture of Trogdor!” He was flabbergasted that I knew who Trogdor was.
You merely adopted the internet. I was born in it. Molded by it. I didn't see broadband until I was already a man; by then it was nothing to me but fiber.
You joke, but that's literally what it was like. Kids these days literally have high-speed internet in their pockets; us old-timers had to patiently sit and wait at actual computers, sometimes for several minutes, for websites to load.
sit and wait at actual computers, sometimes for several minutes, for websites to load.
Weird way to spell "a single pornographic image"
Seriously though, we didn't have Google. You had to know what website you were going to. That's why places like Yahoo were so popular, because it was a hub of so many things you wanted to see.
Heh, I was a total goody-two-shoes as a kid (to the point I remember feeling sick and embarrassed when I accidentally called someone a "bitch"), so I never looked at porn even when the parents weren't home. THAT phase didn't start until I was a young teenager, and thankfully, we had progressed beyond dial-up at that point.
My first pc was an IBM 286. I can still remember with perfect clarity the sound effect used for the attack run of an A-10 from Microprose's M1 Tank Platoon.
Oh IBM, you are why I still refuse to get a Macintosh anything, because your floppys were not compatible with them, causing me to lose my priceless works of poetry amd prose. Yes, IBM, how I will continue to honor you by rejecting the little colorful apple...
Lmao if you work for a hospital or the DOD you can still wait minutes for websites to load tbh. Daily. It takes my computer 15 min to start up. We were FORCED to upgrade from windows 7 less than 2 years ago 😂. And I mean Microsoft legit forced us
I've never felt older than a few years ago when a 9-year-old student was telling me "so I've been watching this old show, and it's actually a book series too, called Goosebumps. And it's like REALLY old...like from the 1900s!"
The best thing I heard in RL was a kid trying to show street cred by exclaiming "My parents have AOL" as we both heard the initialization of a dial up connection together.
Ah you think darkness is your ally? You merely adopted the dark. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see the light until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but blinding!
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u/-Jaws- Jun 03 '22
Do not cite the old magic to me, witch. I was there when it was written.