In the 90s, I remember going to rotten.com and seeing dead bodies. Kids these days don’t know about the wild west world web.
In Tombstone, when Wyatt threatens to turn that dude’s head into a canoe? I saw that exact pic on rotten.com. Looked like: U
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You’re a Daisy if you do
Not to mention the granddaddy of link pranks, Goatse. This excerpt from Wikipedia gives a nice little window info how the web operated back then:
The goatse.cx image has been used by website authors to discourage other sites from hot-linking to them. By replacing the hot-linked image with an embarrassing image when hot-linking has been discovered, an unsubtle message is sent to the offending website’s operators, visible to all who view the web page in question. In 2007, Wired.com hot-linked to another site in an article about the “sexiest geeks of 2007”; the site subsequently swapped the hot-linked image with one from goatse.cx.
Man, I miss the early Internet.
2007 was early internet???
yeah I remember that in 2000 or so. Was scarred for some time. Would not recommend
I remember before it was called rotten.com, it was originally called thecreepingeyemorgue.com. That doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue very well though…
What is outrageous about a dead body?
What? The Rodeny King beating and subsequent riots, OJ Simpson murdering 2 people, Columbine, the first time the WTC was bombed, 1500 people died near Mecca, and like 3 civil wars in Africa
Why does EVERYONE forget about the oklahoma city bombings???
I did not forget about them, but I felt I gave enough examples to where I drove my point home
Eastern Europe collapsing in the power vacuum left by the fall of the USSR, multiple civil wars, horrendous war crimes including genocide. NATO having to go in.
Another good example
Not to mention all the shit that wasn’t being captured on any kind of recording at the time.
The rose tint feels so fuckin good tho, right?
yeah and for a lot of people who’d be using lemmy, the reason they weren’t aware of all this shit is our parents kept us safe from it
I mean - I probably got to live the very best of the 90s Americana as a suburban kid with an old computer and a modem in it.
I still saw a lot of shit going on in the world. I mean … AIDS pandemic, anyone? Remember fear around shaking someone’s hand?
Sometimes I think the problem is that at any GIVEN time, like 2/3 of people aren’t paying attention to what is happening outside their own immediate experience.
I mean as bad as those things were, none of those things come close to recent events. Look at your examples and compare them to “worldwide virus kills millions and the entire planet goes into quarantine for a couple years” or “president of the United States fails to get reelected so he foments a literal coup on the US government and his rioting mob breaks into the capitol building trying to stop the transfer of power. And then 4 years later that criminal gets elected to be president again”.
I mean this in the best possible way regardless of my harsh tone, and it’s going to seem very agressive (be warned)
but are you fucking stupid. We aren’t fucking talking about a god damn comparison to what the fuck is happening today or 25 years ago. We are talking about the bullshit that happened 26 or more years ago. Jesus christ, are atrocities just a pissing contest anymore? You want to play the game of what generation had it the worse? My bet is the motherfuckers that had sit and watch 5 million people die because they were just people doing their own shit.
You see in situations like this, your opinion about what generation had it worse is completely GOD DAMN irrelevant. Atrocities occur in every fucking decade, and you have presented me with more proof of that. But your view is “we got it worse”. Fuck that and fuck you.
I’m gonna be kind to you even though you’re acting like an asshole. Comparison of bad things between eras is LITERALLY what this whole page topic is about, and it’s also LITERALLY what you did in your original comment that i replied to.
Don’t care. The original post was about the 90s. Bye
God damn dude…
Am I wrong?
On so many fucking levels that it’s going to be best for my mental health to just block your dumb ass and move on with my day.
Somebody get this guy a snickers
NGL. I’d fucking love a Snickers rn
Maybe OP should have used the word ridiculous instead of outrageous. Removing ribs for such a thing is ridiculous IMO.
I think “bizarre” would be more fitting
Yes, better synonym. Bizarre and ridiculous, and also untrue lol.
What’s the mecca thing? I don’t remember that one
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_Mecca_tunnel_tragedy
However, this apparently isn’t a stand-alone incident
Damn I’d be turning 3 in 17 days after that, no wonder I never heard of it
🎵We didn’t start the fire 🎵
Funny you mention that. When I saw the comment, I was listening to the Fallout Boy version
Does that have updated verses?
It does
Sorry bud, but I think you just used to be more innocent.
Just look at the celebrities and culture of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s… Even the whole outrage culture pushed by conservative media like Fox News also goes that far back!
The fashion of the day changes but humanity itself… not so much!
In roman times they used to chain link slaves together by the necks and ankles. Then they’d scoop out the eyes of everyone who isn’t the first in the chain.
Today, we not only don’t have slaves (well, except for prison, but thats another conversation) but the idea of scooping out anothers eyes is horrific sounding, rather than just the norm.
Hmmm…I seem to remember the Republicans in Congress actually having a spine with Nixon. Though I do agree things weren’t roses back then. The cost of living was easier, but we paid for a lot of things we don’t now. $12 for one CD vs $10 a month for Spotify. But I would say the late 90s/ pre 9/11 was pretty nice for the US. Not the case for the rest of the world admittedly. But we definitely have nothing on how bad the 20s, 30s and 40s were.
Maybe OP was simply a child then? Children arent usually exposed to / aware of the total shitstorm that is politics.
Entirely possible, but I didn’t want to assume! My dad didn’t know the Village People were gay and he was a grown adult with kids when people broke the news to him…
Whats outrageous about the village people being gay?
I suspect people living in Sarajevo in the 90’s resent that opinion.
Are you confusing outrage with political violence?
It’s quaint, right?
It was a long time before that when (allegedly) a rib was removed from a man to create the first woman so he wouldn’t have to suck it himself.
This was what I thought the OP was talking about at first. It took me a minute to remember that urban legend from the 90s.
There was also the rumor of the actor who put the hamster up their bum.
It was all innocent stupidity and none of it was malicious though.
Or the woman singer who drank so much of her male SO’s cum that she had to have her stomach pumped
Viral word of mouth rumors were wild back then
LOL, just commented it was 10G out of Rod Stewart in my childhood.
70s elementary school: Rod Stewart having 10 gallons of sperm pumped out of his stomach.
Richard Gere, and it was a gerbil.
It was Richard Gere, and it was a Gerbil, not a hamster.
Lemmiwinks?!
All hail the Gerbil King!
What about Ozzy eating a bat on stage?
I remember seeing an Ozzy interview about what happened.
In short, he didn’t eat it, but he did bite its head off. Why? Because he thought it’d look cool after someone had thown what Ozzy assumed was a toy bat. “Because who the fuck brings a luve bat to a concert and throws it on stage?”
Also, he wasn’t hospitalized. He just went and got a tetanus shot or something like that to be safe.
Omg that was one time!
You fuck one sheep…
Or when Ozzy wouldn’t go on stage without a brandy glass full of M&Ms?
Was that Ozzy? Whoever it was, it was a request for a bowl of only brown M&Ms backstage and their reasoning was that, if that request wasn’t fulfilled, whoever was responsible didn’t do their job and they’d assume that other, necessary stuff also wasn’t done properly. Kind of a canary, in a way.
It was Van Halen
So it was Van Halen and you’re right, it was an easy way to be sure that venues actually read their contract which contained instructions to safely assemble their stage rig. But there was a parody of that story in Wayne’s World 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_7kg5ZzDZo
Oh I see, hah. It did sound like you were simply misremembering and it’s been quite a while since I saw the movie so that went right over my head.
I’m sad that none of the other responses seem to have gotten the Wayne’s World 2 reference.
We’ll just have to beat them to deaf wif their own shoes.
So am I. We’ll have to beat them to death with their own shoes…
Not ozzy. Van Halen.
That way they knew all the prep work was properly done by the crew: unsorted M&Ms = short on time, and it’s possible something more important was missed.
How old are you? That’s not even close to true.
Not just any guy, but Marilyn Manson, who used to play Paul on The Wonder Years. I’m not sure what was more shocking, learning about this, or learning of Mark Paul Gosselaar’s fatal motorcycle crash. Taken from us far too soon.
Apparently Marilyn Manson playing Paul was just one of the first internet rumours and isn’t true, which in itself is a pretty facinating piece of history.
Given that Mark Paul Gosseaar is still alive, I think Ivan was listing 2 things that weren’t true
Peak fake news control… I wouldn’t call this “innocent”
