Remember when you wanted to?

December 12, 2024 3:08 PM

There is nothing so niche, so unimaginable, so good or bad that you can’t do it on Beyoncé’s country internet in 2024. But the most enduring thing you can be on the internet—the thing that has withstood every technological advancement, every new wave of virality—is annoying. With each new year and each new online platform, we stray further from the light of the simpler, more anonymous internet we once knew: eBaum’s World, Club Penguin, Facebook before your aunt got on it, Old Gregg. Now, as technological advancement pushes the internet to grow and morph into something ever more Byzantine, there are so many more opportunities to be annoying. from The New Commandments of the Modern Internet [The Ringer]
posted by chavenet (13 comments total)

So Beyoncé’s country internet is just Instagram and Linkedin, with a tiny bit of Tik Tok? Sounds like a terrible place to be.
posted by dg at 3:34 PM on December 12, 2024 [7 favorites]

Just put a time limit on daily use. 1 hour a day works for me. Then it's classical music on the radio ...
posted by Czjewel at 3:41 PM on December 12, 2024 [3 favorites]

[cracks knuckles] I reply to email and newsgroup posts, quoting at the top
posted by Fiasco da Gama at 3:58 PM on December 12, 2024 [9 favorites]

Fiasco da Gama, my boss told me that I had to use bottom quoting on my e-mails to him, because what I call top quoting, but Wikipedia tells me is interleaved posting, was too confusing. (A baffling claim to me!) It was so hard to train myself out of those decades of muscle memory that now I find myself inadvertently doing it even in civilized discussion.
posted by It is regrettable that at 4:28 PM on December 12, 2024 [1 favorite]

(plonk!)
posted by JoeZydeco at 4:51 PM on December 12, 2024 [5 favorites]

I recommend sideposting, where the original post is to the left and your responses to the right, although there are heretics who will insist on the other way around
posted by phooky at 5:08 PM on December 12, 2024 [4 favorites]

I turn the parchment ninety degrees and write my reply text across theirs.
posted by away for regrooving at 5:20 PM on December 12, 2024 [14 favorites]

I know it's not really on topic here, but I only recently put it together than Noel from GBBO is Old Gregg. Been a difficult time for me since.
posted by mullacc at 5:38 PM on December 12, 2024 [3 favorites]

All I get on my iPad is a black screen with “Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information).”

That’s pretty annoying, and very much a modern annoyance.
posted by egypturnash at 5:39 PM on December 12, 2024 [1 favorite]

So... no commandment about keeping your mouth shut when aformentioned "new rules" of the internet don't apply to how you use it (because it's more than Facebook, TikTok, Insta and X) because no one wants to listen to your very valuable and relevant self-satisfied, sanctimonious mouth farts about how much better you and your micro-communities are?

Boy oh boy, here I go!
posted by neuracnu at 6:35 PM on December 12, 2024 [5 favorites]

The half-assedness of the commandment language ("thou's"????????) has precluded me from reading the article and I instead closed the tab and came to complain. Hope that isn't against the rules.
posted by oc-to-po-des at 7:00 PM on December 12, 2024 [3 favorites]

You'd read the fine article, Shirley?

(TIL there's a lot of internet other people do, and that's fine with me. I see you there, ex-MeFi Reddit, you go be the boss of your internet.)
posted by k3ninho at 4:18 AM on December 13, 2024 [1 favorite]

I know it's not really on topic here, but I only recently put it together than Noel from GBBO is Old Gregg. Been a difficult time for me since.

Ever since they did that I have longed to get on the show so that I can make a Bailey's cake in the shape of a shoe, with a drinkable Bailey's well inside it.
posted by We put our faith in Blast Hardcheese at 9:42 AM on December 13, 2024