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    10 months ago

    Seeing Tom Scott and MatPat being called the “old internet” might be the thing that puts me in retirement

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      10 months ago

      Old internet to me is straight up pointlesswasteoftime.com, which eventually got absorbed by Cracked like a cheap suppository after David Wong (aka mediocre comedy writer Jason Pargin) sold out. That was in 2007. And now Cracked is functionally a content graveyard.

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        And now Cracked is functionally a content graveyard.

        I’ll have you know that Cracked is the number one source for shitty listicles that were generated by running a /r/AskReddit thread through an AI.

        I assume, at least. Haven’t actually visited cracked since before 2010 probably.

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          It got bought out by the company that owns KnowYourMeme, ebaumsworld, and the “I can has cheezeburger?” website in 2019. That’s pretty much all you need to know.