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@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to
2025-04-24 14:16:20

"The first medium for humor was plain text, as was the first age of the Internet. There are Usenet groups entirely dedicated to jokes, such as rec.humor.funny or alt.humor.best-of-usenet. It was through those pre-web media that some classics were published first, like the epic Bastard Operator From Hell (BOFH) series, or the DEC WARS! storyline, a parody of Star Wars adapted to the world of UNIX and VMS minicomputers."

A Eulogy For Schadenfreude
The quality and quantity of humor in society are inversely proportional to its well-being. Case in point: can you name a famous humorist from Switzerland? Well, with the exception of Patrick Chappatte, who arguably made a bigger splash on the pages of The New York Times than on those of Le Temps or the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. On the other hand, Argentina is known (if not worldwide, at least in Latin America) as a fertile ground for cartoonists, comedians, and authors of satire. After all, what i…

@jdrm@social.linux.pizza
2025-05-29 17:38:39

Una parte de internet se estš enmierdificando, pero hay otra que no, la que hacemos mediante blogs y #smallWeb, mediante redes sociales federadas, proyectos colaborativos como openstreetmaps, sistemas de mensajería federados, usenet... mil cosas que estamos haciendo. Sólo tenemos que no parar.