"GooooooOOOOOO INTERNET!"

March 25, 2015 11:25 AM

If The Internet Was a High School.
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI (27 comments total)

I thought the internet is just like high school.
posted by Ideefixe at 11:35 AM on March 25, 2015 [6 favorites]

Metafilter, of course, was busy helping reshelve books in the school library.
posted by yoink at 11:36 AM on March 25, 2015 [19 favorites]

Shouldn't Geocities be a corpse?
posted by Harpocrates at 11:37 AM on March 25, 2015 [1 favorite]

Definitely, in that no one but other nerds knows I'm there which is great because then I'll be left alone to read but still be just a little bitter when no one I know is in any of the pictures.
posted by Mrs. Pterodactyl at 11:38 AM on March 25, 2015 [3 favorites]

(Sorry, that was in response to Ideefixe.)
posted by Mrs. Pterodactyl at 11:38 AM on March 25, 2015

Fun, but not as well done as If Google was a Guy. The Vice guy looked exactly what I think Vice would look like.
posted by benito.strauss at 11:48 AM on March 25, 2015 [1 favorite]

Guys, guys, Metafilter is all of us--all those kids in the background who didn't have to be in a specific group to be cool, but who each had their own quiet inner life and group of hilarious friends and inside jokes and who also sometimes helped re-shelve books in the school library.

*slow clap*
posted by Flipping_Hades_Terwilliger at 11:59 AM on March 25, 2015 [11 favorites]

Hilarious link, benito.strauss!
posted by Klaxon Aoooogah at 12:02 PM on March 25, 2015

Metafilter = Geocities
posted by Potomac Avenue at 12:12 PM on March 25, 2015

Ello getting locked in a locker with Friendster and Myspace.
posted by Potomac Avenue at 12:16 PM on March 25, 2015

Not to derail, but if you liked that there's Part 2 and Part 3 (warning: contains Shauna Malwae-Tweep).
posted by benito.strauss at 12:20 PM on March 25, 2015 [1 favorite]

8chan harassing kotaku...
posted by Theta States at 12:32 PM on March 25, 2015

The overhead projector's cameo was what made me laugh most.
posted by deludingmyself at 1:32 PM on March 25, 2015

Google is way too nice in that skit :(

Although, I admit YT's quality has degraded considerably over the years too.
posted by chrono_rabbit at 1:33 PM on March 25, 2015

The Internet Party?
posted by Cyclopsis Raptor at 1:56 PM on March 25, 2015

No. Metafilter < Geocities. Duh.

Also, Etsy is selling hand made textbook covers outside in the quad and Pinterest is taking pictures of said book covers while commenting that she could totally do that herself.
posted by Sophie1 at 1:57 PM on March 25, 2015 [1 favorite]

Oh woops my link was NSFW and forgot to mark it.
posted by Cyclopsis Raptor at 2:02 PM on March 25, 2015

Cyclopsis Raptor: this is the third or fourth in the Internet Party series, really (and is a hell of an impressive one-shot short.)
posted by Navelgazer at 2:04 PM on March 25, 2015 [1 favorite]

I'm smoking in the boys room.
posted by jonmc at 2:22 PM on March 25, 2015

(Shauna Mulwae-Tweep has amazing dimples)
posted by Navelgazer at 2:24 PM on March 25, 2015 [3 favorites]

There are some nice suggestions in the first page of default view of comments, mostly of other websites to include.

And also 5 sea lions.
posted by halifix at 2:34 PM on March 25, 2015 [1 favorite]

This video was excellent! Not surprising, given how often Cracked punch above their (relative) comedic weight, but still...

I loved the subtler things as well, like the flyers freakin' everywhere advertising LinkedIn, and the way Reddit was creepily lurking in most of the shots and busy in the background upvoting 8chan's harassment of Kotaku. Pretty spot on, frankly.
posted by MonsieurPsychosis at 3:26 PM on March 25, 2015 [1 favorite]

Loved it; but I have never thought of Metafilter like highschool, I think because I have always learned so much here - maybe preschool?

(I was going to say Kindergarten but that word doesn't even sound English English, let alone US English - also one other point - wikipedia is now calling it British English, what a croc.)
posted by Samuel Farrow at 5:21 PM on March 25, 2015

ahem.
posted by Neale at 5:48 PM on March 25, 2015

I'd imagine that Metafilter was a freshman when Geocities was a senior. Now off at college, either undeclared, or maybe at one of those schools that doesn't believe in majors. Fading pictures can still be seen in the band room.
posted by strangecargo at 5:53 PM on March 25, 2015

Geocities is a 12th year senior.
posted by jenfullmoon at 8:19 PM on March 25, 2015

Reminds me of internet commenters in a business meeting. And now I am freaked the fuck out that that is seven years old already.
posted by phearlez at 12:22 PM on March 26, 2015