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Kids these days and their AI content farm brain rot videos. Back in my day we watched hand-crafted YouTube Poops and rotted our brains without the use of artificial intelligence.
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early_riser lemmy.world earlier_riser@lemmy.world
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Rhaedas fedia.io Rhaedas@fedia.io
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Amateurs. Back in my day we didn't have videos at all, we just ate dirt, and had lead in the air and water.

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early_riser lemmy.world earlier_riser@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-10-24
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Amateurs. Back in my day we didn't have videos at all, we just ate dirt, and had lead in the air and water.

Listen to this hairless bipedal whipper-snapper. Back in MY day we THREW poop at one another. 🐒

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CCMan1701A startrek.website CCMan1701A@startrek.website
Joined: 2023-09-28
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Back in my day we had Ren and Stimpy

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northernlights lemmy.today northernlights@lemmy.today
Joined: 2025-10-05
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Back in my day we didn't have youtube, we downloaded 2 girls 1 cup through kazaa.

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yesman lemmy.world yesman@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-06
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people who worry about "kids these days" are invariably the mediocre kids of yesteryear.

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TheTechnician27 lemmy.world TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-07-25
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Zelda, Duke Onkled is under attack by the evil forces of Ganon.

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chemical_cutthroat lemmy.world chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-10
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Back in my day we didn't have youtube, we downloaded 2 girls 1 cup through kazaa.

Link! He comes to town! He comes to save the princess Zelda!

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farmgineer nord.pub farmgineer@nord.pub
Joined: 2026-04-25
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Listen to this hairless bipedal whipper-snapper. Back in MY day we THREW poop at one another. 🐒

You children emerged from the ocean? Terrible idea as you can well see.

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farmgineer nord.pub farmgineer@nord.pub
Joined: 2026-04-25
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I'm trying to think of the equivalent when I was a kid. Dial-up was a thing (some universities and companies and probably some rich folks had better, but the average person that even cared about getting online didn't), but just getting images involved downloading multiple parts of the data from newsgroups and stitching it together.

My first thought was maybe watching home videos or AFHV for that media or something like MAD magazine, though neither really seems to fit.

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early_riser lemmy.world earlier_riser@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-10-24
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You children emerged from the ocean? Terrible idea as you can well see.

Pfft listen to this young’un with multiple cells over here.

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early_riser lemmy.world earlier_riser@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-10-24
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Zelda, Duke Onkled is under attack by the evil forces of Ganon.

I’m going to Gamalon to aid him.

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FriendOfDeSoto startrek.website FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website
Joined: 2023-06-12
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Get off my Farmville lawn!

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rem26_art fedia.io rem26_art@fedia.io
Joined: 2024-03-03
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boy am i glad that we're out here and he's frozen in there and we're out here and he's THE SHERIFF

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Remember_the_tooth lemmy.world Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-01-23
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Pfft listen to this young’un with multiple cells over here.

Big talk coming from a greenhorn with a nucleus. In my day we didn't even have membrane-bound organelles and we did just fine!

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zarathustrad lemmy.world zarathustrad@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-06-04
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I'm trying to think of the equivalent when I was a kid. Dial-up was a thing (some universities and companies and probably some rich folks had better, but the average person that even cared about getting online didn't), but just getting images involved downloading multiple parts of the data from newsgroups and stitching it together. My first thought was maybe watching home videos or AFHV for tha...

We played text based adventures and liked it! Such enrichment. I crawled in the dumb waiter.... The Count (1979)

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Scaryjelly sh.itjust.works scaryjelly@sh.itjust.works
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Pratai piefed.ca Pratai@piefed.ca
Joined: 2026-02-12
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Back in my day we had Ren and Stimpy

Back in my day, we had Inspector Gadget.

“Go go gadget existential crisis!”

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tachikoma lemmy.today tachikoma@lemmy.today
Joined: 2026-03-28
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I wonder where DasBoSchitt is now-a-days. 🤔

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Fallibilist feddit.uk Fallibilist@feddit.uk
Joined: 2026-09-15
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Back in my day we didn't have youtube, we downloaded 2 girls 1 cup through kazaa.

Emule was my tool for sketchy stuff like that. And oh boy was there some sketchy stuff in there..

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psx_crab lemmy.zip psx_crab@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-01-11
#21 · (edited) Quote Reply

I wonder where DasBoSchitt is now-a-days. 🤔

Also Icton and DMGaina. Source War is the poop back in the day.

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zarathustrad lemmy.world zarathustrad@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-06-04
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Big talk coming from a greenhorn with a nucleus. In my day we didn't even have membrane-bound organelles and we did just fine!

Look at this guy with a cell membrane!

Back in my day we had to wrangle ribozymes without the luxury of a lipid bilayer. Yet we still managed to replicate RNA.

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Strider lemmy.world Strider@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-09
#23 · (edited) Quote Reply

Back in my day we had Ren and Stimpy

You misspelt beavis and butthead

(oh shit is ren and stimpy even older?)

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TranquilTurbulence lemmy.zip TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2024-05-19
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Kids these days read books about romance and knights, and that sort of frivolous waste of time will corrupt the youth into idleness and vanity. They need to work harder in the field, milk the cows and feed the chickens. A book never yet grew a bushel of wheat.

-GoodwifeConstance1648

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CCMan1701A startrek.website CCMan1701A@startrek.website
Joined: 2023-09-28
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Back in my day, we had Inspector Gadget. “Go go gadget existential crisis!”

Omg yes and reboot

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Magnum, P.I. infosec.pub Magnum@infosec.pub
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You misspelt beavis and butthead (oh shit is ren and stimpy even older?)

Yes, its two years older than Beavis & Butthead (which released in 1993)

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Strider lemmy.world Strider@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-09
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Yes, its two years older than Beavis & Butthead (which released in 1993)

That's really interesting, because in Germany we didn't have nickelodeon back then. But mtv and beavis and butthead.

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melsaskca lemmy.ca melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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We had to make those stupid paper mache puppet heads and glue cloth to it for our hands and then put on a puppet show while not one single person went off and worked on a good script!

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kepix lemmy.world kepix@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-01-06
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"we"

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JustPlainDave lemmy.zip JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-09-09
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Back in my day we watched shows made to sell toys. Some of them, for example TMNT, actually turned out pretty good, but a lot of them do not hold up at all.

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schnurrito discuss.tchncs.de schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
Joined: 2023-06-24
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And before that, TV.

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Goodlucksil lemmy.dbzer0.com Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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You misspelt beavis and butthead (oh shit is ren and stimpy even older?)

Beavis and Butthead: 1993-97

Ren and Stimpy: 1991-95

Ren and Stimpy is older

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