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What slang term did you learn as a kid that is no longer in use? (piefed.social)
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[โ€“] charonn0@startrek.website 29 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Information superhighway

[โ€“] fizzle@quokk.au 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We were so full of hope.

[โ€“] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

Have you seen a superhighway? It's still accurate.

[โ€“] Mantzy81@aussie.zone 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Surfing the world wide web. Sounds so dumb now.

[โ€“] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Surfing the world wide web. Sounds so dumb now.

I dunno I still kinda love it. In part I think it might sound a little dumb now thanks to how big money has turned the primary web interaction into "Schlorping at the Centralized World Trough."

But web surfing is still a thing with the Indie Web, and it can still be an apt description because you can catch and ride "waves" of various networked pages and find really neat stuff. There was a sense of exploration to it, the whimsy that you could get carried really far from where you started and potentially have a lot of fun along the way.

I still like to surf the web. Cowabunga. :)

[โ€“] Mantzy81@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago

You just described going down a Wikipedia hole too. Always a good way to procrastinate

[โ€“] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And the act of traveling on said highway was...surfing. For some reason. The 90's were stupid, and I'm from there.

[โ€“] _deleted_@aussie.zone 3 points 2 days ago

Now we sail the high seas.

[โ€“] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Now it's just a series of tubes

[โ€“] rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

One could even call it... tubular

[โ€“] watson387@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago

I love it when threads come together