Noes11!!! INTARWEB RUINT!!

[Mangrove]

http://www.amazon.com/Cult-Amateur-Internet-killing-culture/dp/0385520808/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-4922095-8028606?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1184604929&sr=8-1

[AFK]

I like the first two user reviews of the book.

And I believe Andrew Keen is trying to get the horse to push the cart instead of pull it.

The interweb is an outlet.  It's simply portraying what's already inside.  Perhaps he and his scholarly snob-cult should stick to their Wall Street Journals and not worry about it so much. 

[P3nT4gR4m]

I just had an epiphany

The internets is the embodiment of discordia

Not the system itself but the content and the way it is laid out.

Discordians should claim it in the name of Eris

[AFK]

We'll have to wrestle it away from Al Gore. 

[LMNO]

Many say that the (non-military) originators of the Internet were very familiar with Discordia.


I dunno how true that is, but it's a very persistent rumor.

[Triple Zero]

Many say that the (non-military) originators of the Internet were very familiar with Discordia.


I dunno how true that is, but it's a very persistent rumor.

you can look it up on google groups. go back in time. if they're still offering the entire Deja-archive of usenet, this means you can go back in time to '82 or '83 when the usenet just got started. i might be off with a few years, but these are the first bits of "public" internet. also the origin and birthplace of internet trolls, btw.

google's got a pretty interesting timeline written up about it, somewhere (first post, first mention of microsoft, some "russian" april fools joke, etc)

btw does anybody actually still *remember* that usenet used to be archived on deja.com ?

[Thurnez Isa]

someone should send print him out this forum, and send it to him under the title "Cock and Repost"

[Cain]

Many say that the (non-military) originators of the Internet were very familiar with Discordia.


I dunno how true that is, but it's a very persistent rumor.

I've heard it too.  Lot of early hacker lexicons seem to have Discordian references in them.

[LMNO]

Well, true or not, it works in our favor, so let those rumors fly!

[P3nT4gR4m]

[Darth Cupcake]

NICE graphic!

[P3nT4gR4m]

Thnx. It's about the first one I ever posted here. I keep reposting in the vain hope that someone will do something with it 

[Darth Cupcake]

I would totally dig that as a sticker to affix to my laputater.

But printing nice shiny stickers that are smear-proofed, etc, starts to become a pretty big project.

Maybe we should consider printing up subversive and witty tee shirts and selling them on the tubes. Not necessarily as heavy handed as the above image (while great, it would only appeal to Discordians) but witty and shifty things could sell. And that would be loltastic.

[P3nT4gR4m]

I would totally dig that as a sticker to affix to my laputater.

But printing nice shiny stickers that are smear-proofed, etc, starts to become a pretty big project.

Maybe we should consider printing up subversive and witty tee shirts and selling them on the tubes. Not necessarily as heavy handed as the above image (while great, it would only appeal to Discordians) but witty and shifty things could sell. And that would be loltastic.

In other words - still no takers 

[The Littlest Ubermensch]

Haha. Silly old people and their neverending belief of the decline of civilization.

"Thou hast fashioned a mode of printing that replaces the monks who devote their lives to writing? Thou art a corruptor of society! Destroying the beauty of lithography and placing it in the hands of the common amateur!"