On the front page of the NY Times, a link to a Times weblog, which includes a youtube video of an SNL skit from NBC.
You have come a long way, ARPANET.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Come on, man.
We’re watching the self-immolation of the leading world power on a level unprecedented in human history.
I would gladly pay you tuesday for a hamburger today.
The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.
I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.
This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.
When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.
The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.
When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?
There are times when telling just part of the truth is effectively a lie.
I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.
Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.
Republicans don’t lie to be believed, they lie to be repeated.
There is no right way to do the wrong thing.
I swear, each month of 2025 will have its own history degree.
And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.
Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”
“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly
Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.
Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!
Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.
Donald Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!
President Musk and Trump are both poorly raised, coddled 8 year old boys.
Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.
Quiddity
The cross-linking of information has been a real boon, allowing readers to quickly access supplemental information in order to obtain a broader picture of a particular topic. Way back in the past, I’d be reading a political journal (like New Republic) and be hopping up to the bookshelves for more information (like that found in an almanac or magazine article on the same person or subject area). But now it’s all there within the browser. Cool.
Jack Roy
Heh heh… jokes about blowjobs. Who says SNL isn’t as good as it used to be?
Punchy
You mean like this one?
jnfr
Your post goaded me to look up the details of my first old ‘net connection, through the Well, through BARRnet, into NSFnet, where I had to sign a no-commercial-use agreement every time I logged on. That was in the early and mid-90s. How quickly things have changed!
neil
Wow, it’s a revolution! The NY Times referencing a blogger paid by the New York Times, who links to a comedy skit produced by NBC! The Internet is truly tearing down the barriers to entry.
srv
And you have Sputnik to thank for all of that.
John Cole
Sometimes I hate you, Neil. But yeah, you are right.
I guess I just thought it was cool.
Zifnab
I think you haven’t quite realized the significance. The fact that corporate media is finally catching up to the link-state that you could find on any blog or forum five years ago rather than running you through some arcane, Byzantine maze of flub, shows that the corporate internet really has come a long way.
Bombadil
Has anyone ever done a study on whether there’s an Internet equivalent of “Six Degrees of Separation”? For example, if you were to pick a random link to another website, and click on a random link there, and so on, how long would it take to get back to the original site?
How many clicks would it take to get from “Balloon Juice” to icanhascheezburger.com, just by selecting random links?
Cyrus
Well, going by random links, it would take a really long time, probably. However, Tim F. once put up a post linking to http://www.cuteoverload.com (maybe it was John, but I don’t think so), and I’d be very surprised if that page didn’t have a link to icanhascheezburger.com in its blogroll. Or at the very least, even if it doesn’t have a blogroll, links to it probably pop up in the comments sometimes. So, probably no more than three or four clicks.
Albert Gore Jr.
Why thank you Mr. Cole. I consider it one of my finest and innovative inven… (ahem) pieces of legislation.
SPIIDERWEB™
ARPANET?
Hahaha. Either you’re a student of internets tubes history or disclosing your age.
Nancy Irving
Not sure “Science and Technology” is the right tag here. What’s amazing about what the internet has become is what people have done with it, not the technology itself, which is really only an incidental enabler.
IOW, the internet, or rather what is *important* about the internet, is a social and cultural phenomenon, not a technological phenomenon.