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Let’s get nostalgic.



Remember when the Chive was a juggernaut? You could go there for a daily Dar with memes, funny pics, and amazing pics sprinkled between pg-13 tits and ass? It’s so lame now.
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i can remember the late 90s or early aughts there was a page you could go to and it would have oddities and strange deaths and would update weekly but for the life of me i cannot recall the name of it
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Peeps wrote:i can remember the late 90s or early aughts there was a page you could go to and it would have oddities and strange deaths and would update weekly but for the life of me i cannot recall the name of it
Maybe rotten.com
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I was never into The Chive but more generally I miss when websites were more of a thing, instead of everybody being on the same 7 apps. The internet feels a lot smaller nowadays.
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Good old Chive. I was never into it but a lot of people also loved ebaum's world
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Jorge wrote:
Peeps wrote:i can remember the late 90s or early aughts there was a page you could go to and it would have oddities and strange deaths and would update weekly but for the life of me i cannot recall the name of it
Maybe rotten.com

good memory pull jorge
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I never used any of these sites
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LoathedVermin72 wrote:I never used any of these sites
Same
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I'm pretty sure the first website I went to that wasn't an email account or a search engine was literally RM.
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epilogue wrote:I'm pretty sure the first website I went to that wasn't an email account or a search engine was literally RM.

jesus how effin pure are you joey :)
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Jorge wrote:I was never into The Chive but more generally I miss when websites were more of a thing, instead of everybody being on the same 7 apps. The internet feels a lot smaller nowadays.
Surprised there isn’t a one stop porn app yet.
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I mean, there probably is, I just wouldn’t know. I’m as pure as the driven joe.
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Jorge wrote:I was never into The Chive but more generally I miss when websites were more of a thing, instead of everybody being on the same 7 apps. The internet feels a lot smaller nowadays.
I think what I miss about it is the same thing I miss about network tv and Casey’s Top 40- that sense of community. I didn’t realize at the time how much I enjoyed the nation tuning in to something together.

My first memory of that feeling was when The Cosby Show’s new season would start and we’d all talk about the new opening number. Then it was Seinfeld. God, I remember the buzz at lunch in high school on the day the episode where Kramer’s name was going to be revealed was aired. I really think it peaked with the first season of Survivor in 2000. Lost might have been the last hurrah.

The Chive introduced me to memes - a sheepish looking Hitler on the phone with the caption, “Nein, you hang up” was my favorite. What was great, though, was that none of it was specifically tailored to me. The DAR was the DAR, and you could talk about it with your friends like an episode of The Office.

Everyone is now using the same 6-7 apps, but we’re all watching our individual algorithms, and while we all share our favorite things with our bff’s, it’s a very lonely way to consume media.

I miss event movies like Forrest Gump, gathering around the tv to see who wants to be a millionaire, and even all able-bodied people voting on Election Day at the polls in churches and elementary schools instead of voting early. We used to watch the baseball playoffs for free, catch Carson’s or Letterman’s or Leno’s monologue, and then turn in and wake up as a nation. Maybe it’s because of my job, but I miss it so much.
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Peeps wrote:
epilogue wrote:I'm pretty sure the first website I went to that wasn't an email account or a search engine was literally RM.

jesus how effin pure are you joey :)
Ha!

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daft twat wrote:
Jorge wrote:I was never into The Chive but more generally I miss when websites were more of a thing, instead of everybody being on the same 7 apps. The internet feels a lot smaller nowadays.
I think what I miss about it is the same thing I miss about network tv and Casey’s Top 40- that sense of community. I didn’t realize at the time how much I enjoyed the nation tuning in to something together.

My first memory of that feeling was when The Cosby Show’s new season would start and we’d all talk about the new opening number. Then it was Seinfeld. God, I remember the buzz at lunch in high school on the day the episode where Kramer’s name was going to be revealed was aired. I really think it peaked with the first season of Survivor in 2000. Lost might have been the last hurrah.

The Chive introduced me to memes - a sheepish looking Hitler on the phone with the caption, “Nein, you hang up” was my favorite. What was great, though, was that none of it was specifically tailored to me. The DAR was the DAR, and you could talk about it with your friends like an episode of The Office.

Everyone is now using the same 6-7 apps, but we’re all watching our individual algorithms, and while we all share our favorite things with our bff’s, it’s a very lonely way to consume media.

I miss event movies like Forrest Gump, gathering around the tv to see who wants to be a millionaire, and even all able-bodied people voting on Election Day at the polls in churches and elementary schools instead of voting early. We used to watch the baseball playoffs for free, catch Carson’s or Letterman’s or Leno’s monologue, and then turn in and wake up as a nation. Maybe it’s because of my job, but I miss it so much.
nice use of 6-7 to cater to the youth.
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