• millifoo@lemmings.world
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    7 days ago

    Back in the (late) 90s, for $10 or so, Elwood would record a customized “you’ve got mail!” message for you. I had him create one for my (now) wife, using her real first name, as well as her nickname. “Elizabeth, you’ve got mail!”

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    6 days ago

    Oh shit

    I set “You’ve got mail” as my default notification sound as a joke less than a week ago. (E: not quite, more like 10 days ago)

    RIP, your voice was heard by millions.

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      6 days ago

      I don’t miss having to insert a new CD for a few hours of free dialup. Waiting 5 minutes for a picture of tits to load. Fighting with my sister because she picked up the phone when I was in the middle of a fap session in the family computer room with the door wedged shut

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        6 days ago

        I didn’t miss that.

        But I do miss the content, structure and vastness of the old internet.

        Now it has been turned into a strip mall dominated by Facebook, Google, etc. and enshittenification.

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    5 days ago

    So we loose this guy but not putin or ‘you’re fired’ guy. If there hasn’t been any sign indicating the absence of a god, I don’t know what else you would need.

    Meanwhile I’ll keep searching for"did trump choke on a pretzel today?" On my favorite search engine that doesn’t start with G.