• toynbee@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Indeed, the internet is both better and worse than it was.

    You should tell your younger friend about the Pain Olympics. Or … Perhaps not.

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      4 days ago

      Ugh, that and the body mod ezine that my old college suite-mate made me watch. Fuck, I’m so glad I don’t hang out with that guy anymore, but boy do I regret knowing why I regret meeting him.

      Edit: just realized I’m talking about the same thing. Carry on.

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        I am fortunate in that I was homeschooled and thus socially isolated, so I had few “friends” to subject me to most of that stuff. I saw some of the bigger ones, like tubgirl, but didn’t discover a lot of others until I was a bit older and worked at a web host.

        For the ones I did see, I probably saw a reference somewhere and my curiosity caused me to look them up on AltaVista or Yahoo! My phone’s keyboard did not like one of those words.