In honor of the death of Reddit (I hope), let’s harken back to a simpler time, perhaps when we old-timers were migrating from BBS chatting to Slashdot to Reddit. My favorite “oldie” is “The Website Is Down,” from 2009-ish. It perfectly captures what IT support is like.

What’s your fave?

    • SevenSwell@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      Came here to say StumbleUpon too. I had “cats” as one of my tags and my parents thought I must really want one because they always walked by when I happened to be on a cat page. So that’s how I ended up with a cat for my birthday. Don’t get pets as gifts, people.

    • zeldis@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Ironically I remember it bringing me to reddit a few times and I did not like it at all at the time haha. I just wanted to see more crazy websites and read the SU comments. It was always fun to find yourself on some website through some other means, and then checking to see if there was any comments about it on stumble upon and being pleasantly surprised when there was