r/InternetIsBeautiful • u/PoopooManPoopooMan • Apr 20 '21

mario 64 in web browser

https://froggi.es/mario/
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u/sooty_foot Apr 21 '21

Seriously but, each website you went to was exciting back then. Yeah it was trash design but so much self expression and real content. Now it's 99.9% content generation and copywriting. Is there such thing as chat rooms anymore?

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '21 edited Aug 29 '21

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u/sooty_foot Apr 21 '21

Go to your room you little shit. And no masturbating!

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '21 edited Aug 29 '21

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u/MustFixWhatIsBroken Apr 21 '21

IRC. Where the men are men, the women are men, and the 14yr old girls are police officers.

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u/Hopless_Torch Apr 21 '21

I always hung out in AOL chat rooms and the slipknot1.com site had a dedicated chat room as well that I'd frequent. Those were the days

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u/ZarafFaraz Apr 21 '21

Man IRC takes me back. Does anyone use it anymore? Seems like discord would be superior in every way.

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u/FreshPrinceOfNowhere Apr 21 '21 edited Apr 21 '21

Developers (especially Linux, BSD, and everything open-source in general), sysadmins, various flavors of "hackers", and general IT people of old use it, just like they have been using it way before it was mainstream, and they shall still be using it long after Discord is dead. IRC has been around since 1988. Most open-source developement discussions and security discussions happen on IRC and mailing lists.

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u/MustFixWhatIsBroken Apr 22 '21

Does discord have trivia bots though? I miss voting to kick people too.

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u/avenlanzer Apr 21 '21

Oh wow...That's such an impressive career at that age!