I gave thee boundless knowledge...

The Diabolical Monocle

(tl;dr Do you make good use of the internets.tl;dr)


... and you chose to use it to engage in petty flame wars, pr0n, lolcats and celebrity news.

A question as to how you people have been using this internets thing.

Bygone civilizations would have prized the knowledge available to us in the present day above all other things, countries would have gone to war for the luxury of being able to access the phenomenally huge volume of information that is available on your phone as you pack your fat face with curry chips with one hand and gawk at a funny dog with the other.


Have you used this internet honorably, for the good of humanity, have you used it to better yourself and help those around you, has it expanded your mind, have you made friends through it ... or like this one guy I know, have you only used it for online poker, ordering cake and shameful hours of porn and soul-less tabloid reading.

(Edit; So you reach heavens gate and St Peter hears you out, things are looking good and then he says he'll just have to have a quick look at a print out of your internet history ... is it time to deck him and rob the key ?)

jimgoose

Yes. I remember UseNET, when only cool, intelligent people with something to say used the Internet. Now it's all Shinnerbots, Ye Booke of Faeces and Kim Kardashian's hole.

Sheep Lover

Your TLDR is as long as your actual post, sort yourself out man.

Kevin McCloud

The Diabolical Monocle wrote: »

is it time to deck him and rob the key ?)

Key of what?

the evasion_kid

Yes I've used it to download every obscure punk\hardcore album I can find...thanks internet!

The Diabolical Monocle

jimgoose wrote: »

Yes. I remember UseNET, when only cool, intelligent people with something to say used the Internet. Now it's all Shinnerbots, Ye Booke of Faeces and Kim Kardashian's hole.

funnily enough said hole is partly why I ask the question.

I refuse to look at it, which goes against policy, but I cant justify using the technological blessing which is the internets, an advancement which could have saved millions of lives if it was available in a different era, to look at a woman who's life is defined by ... her arse.

Rothko

God, I'd love some curry chips now.

NotCominBack

Incognito ftw

tritium

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The Diabolical Monocle wrote: »

(Edit; So you reach heavens gate and St Peter hears you out, things are looking good and then he says he'll just have to have a quick look at a print out of your internet history ... is it time to deck him and rob the key ?)

"....well St Pete, just before you go rooting around my internet history, did you hear that a number if servers were hacked last night. All sorts of compromising stuff involving celebs, politicians, gatekeepers of the afterlife.....

What's that? Go right in?

Why that's very decent of you...."

Karl Stein

Some of the earliest cave paintings are of boobs.

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Bipolar Joe

Bygone eras shat in the street and believed that people died because the air smelled bad. Bygone eras were dumb as fuck.

Straylight

The Diabolical Monocle wrote: »

like this one guy I know, have you only used it for online poker, ordering cake and shameful hours of porn and soul-less tabloid reading.

You say that as if ordering cake is a bad thing. If the internet has only given us one thing, it's the ability to order cake at any time.

Karl Stein

Karl Stein wrote: »

Some of the earliest cave paintings are of boobs.

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Alien boobs.

Duckworth_Luas

Karl Stein wrote: »

Some of the earliest cave paintings are of boobs.

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Deleted User wrote: »

Alien boobs.

Alien boobs are like this

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stimpson

jimgoose wrote: »

Yes. I remember UseNET, when only cool, intelligent people with something to say used the Internet. Now it's all Shinnerbots, Ye Booke of Faeces and Kim Kardashian's hole.

I take it you had restricted access to alt.*

The internets have been populated by the weird and crazy from day one.

Wibbs

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

Alien boobs are like this

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:pac::D Kudos.

stimpson wrote: »

I take it you had restricted access to alt.*

The internets have been populated by the weird and crazy from day one.

Yep. If anything the interwebs is less weird these days.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

OP, I think you need to read up on your social history. Yon Interweb is used no differently today than any technology in the past 10000 years. I thought there might have been a germ of a philosophical discussion in the treatise but unfortunately not an iota.

The Diabolical Monocle

Not what I was expecting.

I expected at least one of yis to be all like 'oh yeah I used it to read the entire works of Shakespere and help me do a thesis on south east Asia, also once used it in an emergency to save a school bus.



could one of you gimme something along those lines...

PizzamanIRL

You should tl;dr your tl;dr

jimgoose

stimpson wrote: »

I take it you had restricted access to alt.*

The internets have been populated by the weird and crazy from day one.

I'm an AIX admin. I don't know what "restricted" means. Beable, doidy and urlap to you.