I hope this protip doesnt get hunter2 from the comm

    • SootyChimney [any]@hexbear.net
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      More and more I find myself becoming the old man criticising ‘kids these days’ for thinking they invented everything chomsky-yes-honey As I reminisce on the old days where all we had was some ASCII characters, a few special colour and formatting tags, and a /me to top it all off.

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      hunter2 was one of the top handful of highest-rated quote on bash.org, a site for voting what the funniest* IRC quote was, which was a big part of early 2000s internet culture.

      bash.org is down, and they didn’t show “added by” dates anyway, but here’s a wayback snapshot of the hunter2 quote from June 4, 2004. So yeah, hunter2 fully predates reddit. (Going by my memory, that quote was totally there in 2002, too.)

      * This is early 2000s internet culture so “funny” is 90% pointless cruelty and misogyny.