#life on the internet

[marlynnofmany]

Today I learned that there are symbols in other languages that look like little Among Us dudes. Because of course there are. Delightful.

ඞ "What's that?" 𐐘 "Dunno. Looks sus."

[icarus-suraki]

I feel the same way about the term "content" as I did when the new bookstore manager started calling the books we sold "product."

[waiitiridge]

For as many follwers as I have, I hardly get DMs. But when I do, they are almost always a scammer. Like 99.9999%. My favourite part is them asking me to cash cheques when I don't think I've seen one in 10 years. It's not even an option at my bank 😂

Btws that number is the New Zealand Serious Fraud Office

The saga continues

[thefugitivesaint]

I just came across this series about the internet from 1996. Intended as an introduction to the internet to a general audience, the series consisted of 13 half-hour episodes that were hosted by Scott Simon (now current host of Weekend Edition Saturday on NPR). At the time, most people didn’t own a personal computer nor did they use the internet (if they even knew it existed). The “World Wide Web” was just gaining momentum. Netscape went public in 1995. This was also the beginning of the Dot-Com Bubble. The primary way people accessed the internet was through AOL and you basically paid for that access by the hour (until AOL introduced “unlimited access” for $19.95 in 1996). Hotmail was introduced in July of 1996. As the episode I’ve linked to demonstrates, Javascript was newly invented and people were still trying to figure out what the internet was: its uses, its value.  (There’s a bit of film from 1972 featuring Dr. Robert Kahn explaining how the internet would work & later with Dr. Vinton Cerf about inventing the protocols that would allow computers to communicate with one another. Kahn was one of the creators of Arpanet, the first packet-switched network.)  The series is a fun dive into the nascent blooming of the internet into the ubiquitous digital presence it is today.  There’s also this VHS transfer about the internet from 1996 about how to “use a PC and how to access the internet.” I found it amusing.  Addendum: Another quick overview of what the internet looked like in 1996-1997 for your consideration. Note the following: “Most people used dial-up Internet connections with mighty speeds ranging from 28.8Kbps to 33.6Kbps. Highly modern 56Kbps modems would arrive in 1997.” You kids today don’t know the struggle and I’m happy for you ‘cause it was irritating as hell.  Addendum the second: I almost forgot hilarious shit like this existed. ‘Don't Copy That Floppy!‘ from 1992 and ‘The Kids' Guide to the Internet‘ from 1997.

[bending-sickle]

Daily Dose of Internet - The Best of the Internet (2023)

[scarletmanuka]

Thanks for reccing my other-pseud Hannibal/Magnus/SPN blog to me, tumblr. I guess you could say it is indeed in my orbit.

[skeletonpandas]

Restless on the internet. When I should be sleeping.

What does my heart say?

My face is mostly off the internet except for a few newspaper articles. I am a memory for many who will now...unless I gave them means to find me, have a hard time finding me. Before, I was accessible to everyone...however briefly they knew me, or if they never knew me at all.

Most people are not private on the internet.

Which means I can still find most of them.

But I demolished a bridge.

My soul is mine again.

This year feels very much like starting anew. It feels...hectic like all beginnings do, which is probably why I feel like I just simply cannot get organized.

Even this account is only a tiny snapshot to my soul.

Do you see me?

I'm making big, bold moves.

Am I scared? A little. I fought so hard and worked my hands to the bone...to be here, telling you this. It would break my heart to lose where I am now

This life I have now.

But that is what real bravery is...isn't it? To keep going when you have everything to lose.

Not to say I am...but I wanna be.

[triflesandparsnips]

Just saw someone ask for someone's irl age in their bio for "safety" or some shit and--

Friends, I'm telling you: this is the internet. There should be no expectation of access to your personal information.

Say nothing! Or if that doesn't work for you, fucking lie. Use a pseud! Say you live in a snail's shell off the coast of New Brunswick! Answer every info-gathering question asked of you with a different, less comprehensible answer! Tell anyone who says you've got to put your real age in your bio that you're 85, ta ever so, and they're very rude to bother you with this!

But your first step to internet safety is to say nothing.

Make it harder for bad actors to find you, manipulate you, or steal all your shit.

The good actors won't fucking ask.

[myragewillend]

I've created a new sideblog where I'll be posting all my art (poetry, paintings, sculptures, etc.) from now on, though I may reblog/post some over here still from time to time (we'll see). I'm currently in the process of re-posting everything there. Should you be interested in following, check it out:

the bitter taste of almost

I've also created a Wattpad where I'm also posting all my poetry, under the same name: @bittertasteofalmost

I'll make an Instagram still for my visual art, and perhaps other accounts where I'll just be re-posting the same things. Haven't decided yet on which websites I should use.

[chamerionwrites]

Possibly The most surprising thing I have discovered on the internet is the number of people who will unironically refer to others as "degenerates" without expecting anyone reading this to immediately assume that they are a straight-up fascist

[strawlessandbraless]

Giant Siphonophores really out here doing the most, and somehow also the least

Love to sea it

[marlynnofmany]

Today in "Reports From Elsewhere," the spambots on BlueSky have a distinctive name pattern that would make some excellent usernames here. It's tragic, really.

Anyways, tag yourself; I'm Highfalutin Alligator.

[icarus-suraki]

Remember this screencap from, idk, a few weeks ago?

Well the universe dropped the backstory on me (or the algorithm did at least):

...and, holy shit, it is a lot.

[black-salt-cage]

ଘ(੭*ˊᵕˋ)੭* ੈ♡‧₊˚

[petricorah]

scenes i loved from Real Enough to Get Me Through by @marriedzukka <333 [ids in alt]

[bending-sickle]

if i hear “internet friends aren’t real friends” one more time, i am going to go ketamine apeshit