Yo, is it really so inappropriate?
Should it just be "Walk Like a Hieroglyphic" to clarify that this is in reference to Egyptian writings and not literally how people walk in Egypt? Lol
this post was submitted on 08 Dec 2025
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Nope, sorry, people after the creation of the internet cannot fathom the difference. It's now racism.
Yo, is it really so inappropriate?
No, nobody actually cares. Lefties are really, really good at creating things to scold other lefties about.
Oh, fun. Another literal comic. There it is.
Walk like an Egyptian is post internet.
Walk Like an Egyptian was released in 1986.
Commercial internet was not available until 1989 and was not mainstream until the mid 90s.
Prior to that we used telnet, which was a different thing. I miss the telnet days.
While precursors might have existed before this song released, most wouldn’t consider the internet existing before there were commercial options. These didn’t start to manifest until the internet protocol suite was released as open source in 1989 and commercial ISPs started selling access.
These didn’t start to manifest until the internet protocol suite was released as open source in 1989
To be precise, its source code was released into the public domain by the university who'd developed it. I'm not saying this to nitpick but because I couldn't find info on this with the specific keywords "open source".
I had so far always argued that the invention of the WWW & HTML (not completely simultaneously but almost) 2 years later was the beginning of what most people now call the internet.
It can't be pinned down to a single moment, but to a relatively short (considering this was a global phenomenon) timespan.
Exactly on point about html and WWW being a better representation for the beginning of what people consider the birth of the internet.
The Internet is not the World Wide Web. It’s far older.
You may be pedantic, but you're right. The internet was around in the 70s, but the WWW, which is what we commonly think of when talking about the internet, is from the late 80s, early 90s.
However, it's not like the phrase or concept of "walking like an Egyptian" came from the 1980s pop song; they were making that joke even in cartoons from the 40s. And I'm sure it pre-dates those, too. So /u/Gladaed is still incorrect.
That song is that old?
so you stated with complete confidence something wrong that you could have looked up in two seconds?
it's '86 for the record.
Since I thought it was some niche garbage from 2005 or so. And the Internet didn't exist back than in the sense that there was no real yt, twitter or Facebook yet.
yt, twitter or Facebook yet.
Uhhhhhh the Internet was a massive thing before any of that
And the Internet didn’t exist back than in the sense that there was no real yt, twitter or Facebook yet.
Damn, what the fuck was I using to talk to random people about rc stuff and music and shit? CLEARLY it wasn't the internet, as that didn't exist before facebook and youtube blessed the world with their presence.
Gladaed, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
The Internet as thought of today. I know about Imageboards. Weird browser games that were actually fun and some flash game websites. But the Internet as used today did not exist in 2005.
Usenet existed, lime wire and content piracy were a thing I guess. E Mail was new and used as a kind of instant message of today.
Dude either you say something else than you mean or you should do a little history research before posting.
Yes the mega Corp Internet as of today did not exist, but people had forums, blogs and many people had their own website, where they would post stuff to.
Navigating was kinda rough but you had ways to talk to people and stuff.
And I somehow just don't like how you talk so from above about the old internet. It was different, not worse.
You could have just started throwing dirt on me while calling me older than Earth.
And Alan Turing is post OpenSSL I guess?
I would say so. If Shakespeare is post SSL, shown by historical record of his quotes, I think Turing would be too.
On the topic of accidental poetry:
The world would be a more whimsical place if error messages were in iambic pentameter.
Dear friend, an SSL error has occurr'd;
The server's response, regrettably, deferr'd;
The connexion there, I fear, is insecure;
We understand, dear friend, if you might demur