Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.
Comment preview: To me the 2000's are interesting because I still feel like we are too close to really look back at them. For example I doubt in 1993 people knew exactly what was the 80's aesthetic. The early 2000's were full of pop punk, covers of 70's pop songs, early in ....
Comment preview: >What was the early internet like? Depends on how far you want to go back. If we're talking Internet == ARPANET then we're going to go back to at least 1969 which is the formal date of its creation. For those unfamiliar with it, ARPA is the US Departmen ....
Comment preview: I listened to a Swedish documentary about the rise and collapse or the Dot-com bubble where they mentioned a somewhat funny anecdote: One of the early Internet service providers in Sweden was Algonet, and they built up from very small scale in the early '9 ....
Comment preview: No, I fix home PCs for people, and most parents are completely clueless about the internet. Many have a family PC in some room where it can be used undisturbed, and many more teenage kids have their own laptops on unrestricted wifi. What you have to rememb ....
Comment preview: I dunno, in ye oldene dayes of the internet there was good content without such ubiquitous advertising. People were driven by interest and passion hence things being more interesting. Now you have to wade through seas of click bait and cloned content becau ....
Comment preview: To explain to the laymen out there, the basic problem is that IP addresses work like phone numbers. Let's fake a bunch of facts to make a point, shall we? * In the U.S. a phone number is ten digits, the first three of which are the *area code*. Area code ....
Comment preview: >You can't complain that the CEO of EA wants to make 20 million instead of 10 million, and is willing to do ethically shady things to do so when that's what our system encourages I can and will complain about that, because that's fucking disgusting. And ....
Comment preview: Yes. Early in the internets history, huge blocks of IP address (Im talking in the millions here) could be reserved by governments or companies just by asking the governing body, [ICANN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICANN), for them. This wasn't an issue a ....
Comment preview: This whole thing makes me wonder what future historians will say about weightlifting. Like, if humanity ever gets its consciousness uploaded into an android or machine and they don't even need human bodies. "In the late 1900's and early 2000's, some humans ....
Comment preview: Well it's mostly that people love Donald Glover, his fame springs from connections to a LOT of things that Reddit and the Internet loves. 1. He was a founding member of Derrick Comedy, which was part of the vanguard of early internet comedy videos, for a l ....
Comment preview: In this short work by CowFu, we see the poet rail against the harshness of early 21st Century civilization and the capacity that the relative widespread online anonymity gave in that period for the uglier side of human expression. Drawing on a theme that h ....
Comment preview: 90-94: * Cassette tapes. The 90's brought about CD's, but they were like BluRay discs are now. Availability of your favorite artists was limited. As such cassettes were still the go-to for music consumption in the early 90's. Problem is, the quality would ....
Comment preview: Oh, forgive me reddit for what I am about to admit: Way back in the dial-up days in the mid-1990 s (back when many of you were still in your Osh Kosh B'Gosh's), I wanted to get on this newfangled internet that the cool kids were all talking about. So I op ....
Comment preview: You know, I know you guys are joking, but when I was a kid, my mom got SUPER into A Link to the Past. It became her obsession for a while, which is really funny considering how uncharacteristic it was for my mom. This was back before you could just go on t ....
Comment preview: Oh man I feel you. Same deal but rather with money it was having dream pets so I could draw pretty art for them and make them into sick characters. Once I started getting into the art gallery I got so many awesome rare items (usually paint brushes or high ....
Comment preview: [Albino blacksheep](http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/) - Old classic: [Gonads and Strife](http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/weeee) [StickDeath](http://web.archive.org/web/20120123090312/http://www.stickdeath.com/frameset.htm) [Rathergood.com](http://rat ....
Comment preview: For the most part, people starting today are lucky dogs by comparison to my day. If I had had the resources and opportunities you have now, I probably would have taught myself, bypassed college, and gone straight into the startup world (for better or wors ....
Comment preview: My mom caught me dancing naked to Sonic The Hedgehog music. I had been practicing stripping. I was 6 at the oldest. I wet the bed until I was about 13. I tried to fuck myself in the ass with the handle of a stroller when I was 4. When I was 3, I took the ....
Comment preview: I've had this same discussion with a number of people, both here on Reddit and elsewhere on the interwebs ... I agree with you 100%. Both PUA and TRP are based on *an understanding that there are fundamental patterns of human behavior.* Instinctive behavio ....
Comment preview: 36yo. In hindsight it was a frigging paradise. Cold War was over. We just kick the crap out of Iraq, erasing the sting of Vietnam. Economy was chill (you could get a job anywhere). Clinton was a dick, but in a lovable frat boy way, not like Obama. Republic ....
Comment preview: Oh dear yes. Right now we are working on a few vendor sites, a cannabis-only marketplace (to replace Cannabis Road), and the amount of community sites is quite large. The ones above are just our customers that have allowed us to mention their sites; we hav ....
Comment preview: I don't think G+ will ever be *the* social network for the general population but I'm willing to bet G+ will remain more relevant for years to come than facebook will. Why? Because it's become the backbone of Google and Google is the only site (I can think ....
Comment preview: So I've been on reddit on and off under different accounts basically since its inception. I remember when SRS first came on the scene and the hugely disproportionate amount of crying there was from sexists and racists about being mocked by a tiny subreddit ....
Comment preview: I think the answer to this lies in the history of email, and indeed, the early Internet protocols itself (well before WWW, when [SMTP](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smtp), FTP, and rlogin were the main protocols on the Internet.) Bear with me for a bit as I ....
Comment preview: GRRM is going out and polling a community for ideas and bouncing ideas off them, testing their ideas. Every other writer sits down and creates their own vision, this just wouldn't work. Crowdsourcing would break this writing trope, and we'd end up with : ....
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