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December 12, 2024 3:08 PM Subscribe
There is nothing so niche, so unimaginable, so good or bad that you can’t do it on Beyonc�233;’s country internet in 2024. But the most enduring thing you can be on the internet—the thing that has withstood every technological advancement, every new wave of virality—is annoying. With each new year and each new online platform, we stray further from the light of the simpler, more anonymous internet we once knew: eBaum’s World, Club Penguin, Facebook before your aunt got on it, Old Gregg. Now, as technological advancement pushes the internet to grow and morph into something ever more Byzantine, there are so many more opportunities to be annoying. from The New Commandments of the Modern Internet [The Ringer]
Just put a time limit on daily use. 1 hour a day works for me. Then it's classical music on the radio ...
posted by Czjewel at 3:41 PM on December 12
posted by Czjewel at 3:41 PM on December 12
[cracks knuckles] I reply to email and newsgroup posts, quoting at the top
posted by Fiasco da Gama at 3:58 PM on December 12 [2 favorites]
posted by Fiasco da Gama at 3:58 PM on December 12 [2 favorites]
Fiasco da Gama, my boss told me that I had to use bottom quoting on my e-mails to him, because what I call top quoting, but Wikipedia tells me is interleaved posting, was too confusing. (A baffling claim to me!) It was so hard to train myself out of those decades of muscle memory that now I find myself inadvertently doing it even in civilized discussion.
posted by It is regrettable that at 4:28 PM on December 12
posted by It is regrettable that at 4:28 PM on December 12
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