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[–] Badabinski@kbin.earth 122 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I feel like I saw people saying this back in 2007 (with different terminology, ofc). Kids just like in-jokes and being ironic. It's not ruining the Internet, big business is what's ruining the Internet.

[–] cristo@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Back in 2007 Jagex ruined the Internet by adding the EOC update to Runescape

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

EoC came later, 2007 was the summoning update. EoC was 2012.

[–] calabast@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

Lol, yikes, that guy was all "sarcasm liked the Internet" like it was his religion and he was 💯% wrong. It's like, check out my next Ted talk on how onomatopeia killed the telegram. Lol, can you imagine? 💀💀💀 (/s, obvi 🙄)