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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
  8. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 63 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh look, my grandparents PC circa 2005

[–] kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

I was in the hospital in 2015 and was talking to the person next to me. He realised I was in IT and as he turned his laptop to me he's like I can't seem to view websites anymore with toolbars up the wazoo. It was already a throwback even at that time

Edit: wording

[–] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

My old motherboard's driver disc from 2015 would install Google toolbar if you weren't careful

[–] kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 hours ago

Aaah the good old "next next next install" you open the browser some time later with a surprise toolbar

[–] toynbee@piefed.social 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

In ~2005 I was at a job that provided tech support to local hospitals. That's the first time I saw this image and ... It didn't strike me as too unrealistic.

At that job I once spent seventeen minutes on the phone trying to help a nurse find the semicolon on her keyboard.