After decades of being out of the loop, I’ve decided to finally find out what the internet is - ThreadSky

infamous-smirker.bsky.social•580 days ago

Oh wow! The Gospel!

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marksv.bsky.social•580 days ago

John Levine wasn't available?

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digthatdata.bsky.social•580 days ago

you're always so ahead of the curve, really looking forward to learning about whatever this new thing is

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cyberpunkwitch.bsky.social•580 days ago

https://youtu.be/aiwA0JrGfjA Welcome to the world of tomorrow.

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liv.tgirl.gay•580 days ago

love that VRML made the cover

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onajkojikuca.com•580 days ago

Not worth your time.

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sidneyprescott.bsky.social•580 days ago

Something about this is evoking those old Choose Your Own Adventure novels, or Goosebumps.

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jotaseth.bsky.social•579 days ago

No. This is the Internet. 😉

https://youtu.be/iDbyYGrswtg

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danlucas.bsky.social•580 days ago

Yeah it’s pretty much just “Videodrome”

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zman1902.bsky.social•580 days ago

They have the Internet for computers now!

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sholmes.route-fu.net•580 days ago

Disappointment in 32 bits.

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shamana.bsky.social•580 days ago

Not recommended

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mattdm.org•580 days ago

The magic ritual is what allows a space character in the domain name.

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soren-lorenson.bsky.social•580 days ago

Ones and zeros, back and forth forever

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styfle.dev•580 days ago

Is that Al Gore?

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b0rnwithabeard.bsky.social•560 days ago

you could not come up with a more accurate cover of a book about the internet than two men shouting non-sensical things at each other

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chrischambers.bsky.social•580 days ago

Is it possible to create a cover that so perfectly communicates the subject matter that the book's content is, at best, redundant?

I didn't think so, but here we are.

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hipstersasquatch.bsky.social•580 days ago

Considering that it's more than 20 later, and that when it was written people had absolutely no idea what the internet was going to become, this is astonishingly accurate.

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carnotaurus.bsky.social•580 days ago

Did anyone else see the left face as a full body at first?

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leehenderson.bsky.social•580 days ago

In hardcover!!!

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defencebrief.bsky.social•580 days ago

Why bother? I don't see that sort of thing catching on at all.

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ericsandwich.bsky.social•580 days ago

May I steal this?

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neospector.bsky.social•580 days ago

The internet being two dudes screaming at each other through monitors is a pretty apt summary if you ask me.

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spiderbird.bsky.social•580 days ago

Two strangers yelling bits at each other. Sounds about right.

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gwienneth.bsky.social•580 days ago

That cover is a frighteningly accurate representation of the internet.

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bluedobie.bsky.social•580 days ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J3SljxsUh4

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yozhik.bsky.social•580 days ago

Like Jabba the Hutt trapped two strangers in them freeze thingies and they're making out with weird demon tongues

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samgodin.bsky.social•580 days ago

Now you just need the sequel, the WHOLE Internet

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wiredog.bsky.social•580 days ago

I have that one on my shelf.

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feyh.bsky.social•580 days ago

Oh nice a printed copy of the Internet Archive

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samgodin.bsky.social•579 days ago

Probably doesn’t need updated or anything

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buttes.bsky.social•580 days ago

tubes

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wapplehouse.bsky.social•580 days ago

Turn bacn

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wapplehouse.bsky.social•580 days ago

fuck

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12milegeo.bsky.social•580 days ago

It's overrated.

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fateswarning86.bsky.social•580 days ago

I mean... Basically...

https://youtu.be/_cZC67wXUTs

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andrewburke.bsky.social•580 days ago

I love that the cover is two people screaming at each other.

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arielwaldman.com•580 days ago

o boy…

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lizardman.bsky.social•580 days ago

Man, I miss computer art from the 90s. They're all so odd

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danrather.bsky.social•580 days ago

I think you're gonna like it.

There are cartoons with stick figures that are smart and funny.

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baj.bsky.social•580 days ago

This cover artist absolutely nailed it.

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henshinjikun.bsky.social•580 days ago

The novelization about this:

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vanders.bsky.social•580 days ago

Don't, its terrible.

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snaccpacc651.bsky.social•580 days ago

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willseattle.bsky.social•580 days ago

It’s a series of tunes

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kiswanson.medsky.social•580 days ago

The picture is spot on

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uhclem.bsky.social•580 days ago

It's got the level of eroticism about right.

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fingerdrawings.bsky.social•577 days ago

I'm told there's a series of tubes involved.

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mastersthepen.bsky.social•579 days ago

Honestly, two faces screaming endlessly at one another? They nailed it.

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rbs.io•580 days ago

Wave off, wave off. If you've made it this far, do not find out now!

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cabridges.bsky.social•580 days ago

A series of tubes, is my understanding.

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devs.frabjousstudios.com•580 days ago

Not a big truck.

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robcave.bsky.social•580 days ago

Two dudes yelling at each other in a mix of binary and urls. Tracks.

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jasonimms.bsky.social•561 days ago

Aww

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exnerd.bsky.social•580 days ago

I can hear the screeching sound of this book.

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chloeblossom.bsky.social•580 days ago

seems spooky

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caarlos0.dev•578 days ago

the cover image is, for lack of better words, horrifying 🤣

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planetsandwich.bsky.social•580 days ago

How is it?

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lizardky.bsky.social•580 days ago

I still have this somewhere:

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nickvv.me•580 days ago

No time like the present

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tinfoilawards.bsky.social•580 days ago

Maybe the real internet is the friends we made along the way

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adm1ralsnackbar.bsky.social•580 days ago

That cover pic really sums it up

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odouglasprice.bsky.social•580 days ago

Infinite loop of halitosis. Checks out.

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pgrizzaffi.bsky.social•580 days ago

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suchmann.bsky.social•580 days ago

so what is it? is it cool?!

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mlisrevenge.bsky.social•580 days ago

A... binary tongue kiss?

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scdotdave.bsky.social•580 days ago

This is just the e-dating edition

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redrocket.bsky.social•580 days ago

My ex high school gf told me there was an Inter-Net now.

I thought "Finally;" spent hours looking for it.

Never - found- it.

Telnet . Ftp. Every thing. Guess I'll stick to MUDs.

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0x4f47.bsky.social•579 days ago

Have you read the sequel? It has really jumped the shark.

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kenburnside.bsky.social•580 days ago

It's cat pictures all the way down.

There's a reason why TCP/IP sounds so much like "pspspsps."

And why the protocol assumes that packets will arrive out of order; the underlying cats of the Internet will bat packets around to amuse themselves.

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