Internet Meme Pioneer YTMND Shuts Down (pcmag.com) 82
An anonymous reader quotes a report from PC Magazine: You're the Man Now Dog, a pioneer in the internet meme space, has shut down. The online community at YTMND.com allowed users to upload an image or a GIF and pair it with audio for hilarious results. Traffic to the website, however, dried up years ago with the rise of Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. In 2016, site creator Max Goldberg said YTMND would likely shut down soon due to declining ad revenue and his ill health. "It seems like the internet has moved on," Goldberg told Gizmodo at the time. The dates back to 2001 when Goldberg paired a looping audio clip of Sean Connery uttering the line "You're the man now, dog!" with some text and placed it all on a webpage, Yourethemannowdog.com.
We're totally screwed (Score:5, Insightful)
That site was goofy, but it was one of the last remaining relics from the early pre-capture internet.
The internet has now been 100% captured by corporations.
This literally always happens. Publishing, radio, telephone, cable TV, and now the internet all passed though an open and idealistic phase, before being captured. (Tim Wu - The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires).
Problem is, there's no guarantee they'll even be a NEXT technology as we already have arbitrary data being exchanged at near speed of light.
For example, if you can't establish a successful over-lay network on the existing internet, a mesh radio network won't do jack shit, even if it wasn't regulated out of existence before it got off the ground.
Worst of all, most people don't even know the internet is "supposed" to be free. They don't have enough context to understand. Internet freedom is a concept in our heads, and soon it won't even be that. The official history will not record this epoch because it's inconvenient that people know there was a golden age before they were dominated by corporations.
We might have blown it forever.
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> We might have blown it forever.
We have.
Wild West (Score:2)
When we finally colonize mars and other planets, our future pioneers may decide not to take this idiocy with them. Mars may be a truly free world
You're being ironic I suppose ?
Given that this is exactly how the conquest of the wild west was perceived back then.
In your SciFi scenario , Mars will *definitely be* a truly free world. And then a couple of centuries later, it will *definitely be* the home of the giant mega-corps that take over the whole entire solar system.
While Earth play the same role of a "once powerful, now not as much relevant" smug observer that Europe plays nowadays.
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The internet you want still exists. It's just overshadowed by the larger mainstream consumer network. The average users will never choose a decentralized system over a top-down system that keeps the entertainment coming. But you can still run your own web server and it's cheaper than ever. The problem is, people think that if they host their own videos instead of putting them on Youtube, then they won't get an audience. They want the fame without the effort. That's not going to work either way. The open int
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Stop thinking that there's got to be a site where people can upload their stuff. You host your stuff, they host their stuff. Internet like it used to be before everything became an app and a shop. You can serve video like you serve images. It's just another file and a video tag instead of an img tag.
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What's the Internet originally designed to nuclear war resistant communications network for the US military? That doesn't exactly sound "free" to me.
Basically, it seems like it went from government control, to an unregulated mess, to a mostly corporate controlled entity for sending us movies and buying stuff.
I'm kinda curious to see what comes next, though.
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No you wouldn't at all. (Score:2, Insightful)
No you wouldn't at all. What a truly stupid and reactionary thing to say.
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Why would you ignore AC posts? Do you think "skam240" is somehow non-Anonymous? You guys that don't like AC make zero sense.
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In my experience AC posts are generally massively less thought through. In other words, Intelligent slashdotters don't post AC unless they're trying to get around moderation rules. Since there are no easy mechanics for an AC to view their responses I also often found myself speaking into the nothingness when responding to ACs when I used to do so.
Furthermore, I find that the type of posts that are overly partisan in nature to the point that I find them highly suspect as coming from Americans largely come fr
Slashdot messaging broken? (Score:2)
Since there are no easy mechanics for an AC to view their responses
What might these be for even logged-in users? The link to Slashdot Message Center no longer appears in my user Slashbox at the right side of Slashdot's homepage for some reason.
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Well there's a page you can go to where you can see all of your recent posts and it tells you the number of replies you have. This is literally how I have noticed your post and why I am replying to it.The email update system works even better but I just don't care enough about slashdot to want to clog my personal email inbox with even more crap.
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Well there's a page you can go to where you can see all of your recent posts and it tells you the number of replies you have.
Which page is that? The page I've settled for using at the moment [slashdot.org] shows how many comments are in the entire story and the comment's score, but not the number of replies to a particular comment.
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This is what I use to keep up: https://slashdot.org/~skam240/... [slashdot.org] .
Obviously just swap in your own user name into the URL. To access this page easily from the home page, I just click on the header of the "skam240's Comments" in the sidebar to the right. If you dont have this in your sidebar it can be added via account customization options in your profile.
It's not perfect however. If you comment enough, still active threads can fall off due to the list's size limit and there's no way to go back from there on
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In my experience AC posts are generally massively less thought through. In other words, Intelligent slashdotters don't post AC unless they're trying to get around moderation rules.
I have posted as AC a number of times for reasons that are nothing like you are assuming. Perhaps I am just not intelligent. Meanwhile you still have not told us who you really are.
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I notice you mysteriously elude to "reasons" but don't lay them out. How on earth can I form a counter argument against the made up?
"Meanwhile you still have not told us who you really are."
You're completely missing the point. I am always my online handle when I post. When I voice my opinion you can know exactly who you are talking to by reading my post history. Literally the only difference in any practical matter related to casual slashdot posting between my handle and my actual name is that people can't
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No you wouldn't at all. What a truly stupid and reactionary thing to say.
No? So progressives aren't lining up and attacking particular groups of people based on racial issues these days, while promoting racism against others. Huh. Let me dust off the old social media rolodex and we can see where you went wrong on this post.
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I'm sure you can find fringe types who will say anything. That is unfortunately the day and age we live in where these types of people's voices (from both sides of the aisle) are unfortunately disproportionately heard.
If you some how think you have something indicative on mainstream views please feel free to post it rather than coming off as a complete bullshitter with some lame allusion.
Pick your favorite extremest online rant from any ideology you want and I can find two from the other side. This has noth
not gone; moved (Score:2)
4chan's flash forum has been about little more than still images with added music for some time now, which is a shame, given flash's capabilities.
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Those groups are so noisy, it feels like the nonpartisans have dropped out of public discourse and become a silent majority(?)
Only surfacing to voice their dissatisfaction with the general state of the internet.
Twitter appears to have been ground-zero. Its structure allowed the initial strain of fake victim-hood / signalling strategy to develop, then everyone else copied it because it basically works for group cohesion over social media. This is a memetic disease which will exist for so long as social media
Context (Score:3, Informative)
For those who need context, the line is from the Michael Bay film The Rock. Sean Connery sounded very silly saying it in the movie, hence the meme. I remember being entertained well beyond how I really should have been in regards to this but I think that's true of most memes. Anyways, sorry to see it go.
In regards to the movie itself, I regard it as the least offensive (in the context of entertainment of course) Michael Bay movie that I've seen. It actually has some redeeming qualities!
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In regards to the movie itself, I regard it as the least offensive (in the context of entertainment of course) Michael Bay movie that I've seen. It actually has some redeeming qualities!
Losersh whine about doing their best. Winnersh go home and fuck the prom queen.
Finding Forrester (Score:4, Informative)
The movie was Finding Forrester. It's also where the bizzaro version of YTMD get's it's name from - Punch The Keys For God's Sake.
It comes from a scene where Connery's character is yelling at a kid to write something on a typewriter.
It got good reviews, but the reviewers were wrong. It's not a good movie.
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Shit, you're right. I could have sworn that line was in the Rock though. I've never even seen Finding Forrester
The Rock (Score:2)
Yeah it sounds like it *should* have come from The Rock. It's just ridiculous.
Um, it says "temporary maintenance"...? (Score:4, Interesting)
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"lol, internet." indeed
Meanwhile... (Score:5, Funny)
Meanwhile, zombo.com is still going strong and relevant as ever.
=Smidge=
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In late 2018 Jason Scott from textfiles.com made a total backup (nearly 800 gigs) of the site and the site owner responded back with "So can I delete it not".
https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1029021450978643968
It has been expected for years now so it's no surprise it finally happened.
RIP Dr. Cacklefanny. (Score:1)
He loved his balls.
Um, who? (Score:2)
Been online since the dawn of the internet and never stumbled across it.
Unfashionable and proud of it, lol
I blame Secret Nazis (Score:2)
Never herad about it before (Score:2)