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If any young people want to know what the early Internet was like, it was mostly visiting random website about stuff like Why Ninjas Are So Awesome, and getting into 68 day long arguments on their forum with some guy named shaolin_master69 about whether Bruce Lee could have beat up Mike Tyson.

Existential Comics

@existentialcomics.com

11 Aug

One thing that was great about those old forums was that there were no votes, so no one could tell just much of a moron everyone else thought they were. Really creates a Wild West atmosphere of stupidity that is missing today.

Existential Comics

@existentialcomics.com

Today, someone would just point out that Mike Tyson was a 220 lb World Champion, and Bruce Lee was a 120 lb actor, and they would get more votes and that would end the argument. Back then no one could tell who was winning the argument, so it could carry on forever.

11/8/26, 11:51 pm2 reposts131 likes

Todd R. Rossman

@mystic-scientist.bsky.social

12 Aug

So, you know Bruce would have won after that talk the time we argued ...or do we hafta go over *again* why?! ;) ...then there was the Internet Conservation Society, when a brave group was making webpage image files *smaller* to free up bandwidth for emergency lines

archdeco

@archdeco.bsky.social

11 Aug

Warriors of words...