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hunter

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32. Seeing slash my girlfriend wrote plagiarized... again, and again, and again.

Reply to lillypaddle (Original post)

Wed Jul 18, 2012, 12:28 PM

Jul 2012

She typed it on a manual typewriter and photocopied it for her friends...

Seeing bad multi-generation photocopies years later was interesting. Seeing multiple people claiming her writing as their own on usenet was

And it's still out there. Now people who weren't even born when it was written claim it.

I've been on the internet since 1979. I've seen a lot.

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What was your FIRST internet "WTF" [View all] lillypaddle Jul 2012 OP

Way, way back before USENET self-destructed rocktivity Jul 2012 #1

Damn lillypaddle Jul 2012 #2

You're welcome. rug Jul 2012 #3

First trolling experience on Prodigy. nolabear Jul 2012 #4

Don't recall exactly, but I'm pretty sure it was something on Geocities. Bucky Jul 2012 #5

When you had 20 minutes maybe. Optimally you had 20 minutes. turtlerescue1 Jul 2012 #6

I used to go to Delphi Forums too. femmocrat Jul 2012 #27

meatspin.com was my first WTF JesterCS Jul 2012 #7

1999, Legend of Zelda fan-fic. Odin2005 Jul 2012 #8

1998. Somehow ran into an erotic A-Team fanfic... TheMightyFavog Jul 2012 #24

"When a 12yo boy thinks you need to get a life, you are messed up." Bertha Venation Jul 2012 #25

Glad you laughed. Odin2005 Jul 2012 #28

Sex groups on usenet. Gidney N Cloyd Jul 2012 #9

private message sent ;) loli phabay Jul 2012 #10

didn't get a pm lillypaddle Jul 2012 #35

oops was playing off your op and the pic you were sent loli phabay Jul 2012 #36

LOL lillypaddle Jul 2012 #38

well trust me go look up goatse lol loli phabay Jul 2012 #40

I'm not quite that desperate lillypaddle Jul 2012 #41

Furries first time in my life i dont understand something. loli phabay Jul 2012 #11

Finding the Library of Macau on the Interlibrary loan system circa 1983 csziggy Jul 2012 #12

even though I've been on-line since the 80s OriginalGeek Jul 2012 #13

goatse fizzgig Jul 2012 #14

I don't know what that is turtlerescue1 Jul 2012 #29

Okay turtlerescue1 Jul 2012 #30

i hope to gods you didn't fizzgig Jul 2012 #31

lol cant believe i have not seen that before loli phabay Jul 2012 #37

Scrotum self-repair pokerfan Jul 2012 #15

rofl, the internet is really just one big playpen for epic fails, puke inducing stuff and porn loli phabay Jul 2012 #16

"The left testis had been avulsed and was missing." pokerfan Jul 2012 #17

rofl, as ive said before its amazing what humans will do to each other or themselves for fun loli phabay Jul 2012 #18

Mine predated any GUI web browser Duer 157099 Jul 2012 #19

the first time I saw chat appear on my screen...... grasswire Jul 2012 #20

This goes back a bit, but pre-html, I used gopher primarily and was shocked by what's out there. HopeHoops Jul 2012 #21

I guess it takes a fair bit to impress or phase me, but... harmonicon Jul 2012 #22

rofl i see your clever plan now you are free as uou passed it to me loli phabay Jul 2012 #39

A friend of mine referred to this sort of thing as "real life Videodrome." harmonicon Jul 2012 #42

1992 lovemydog Jul 2012 #23

Well my first discussion board was a place called The Globe. zeemike Jul 2012 #26

Seeing slash my girlfriend wrote plagiarized... again, and again, and again. hunter Jul 2012 #32

the "cup holder" aka cd drive opening itself up IcyPeas Jul 2012 #33

tudelft.nl had a daily download of porn TrogL Jul 2012 #34