monkjerry@sh.itjust.works to Comic Strips@lemmy.world · 10 months agoThe Good Old Dayssh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square122fedilinkarrow-up1838arrow-down175
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minus-squareAVincentInSpace@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·10 months agoYeah. Before AOL and the Eternal September, about a decade before I was born. Those were the days.
minus-squareKevonLooney@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·10 months agoThe 70s? The 60s? Before everything was ruined by ASCII adding lowercase letters?
minus-squareMachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 months agoBack when FTW meant Fuck The World
minus-squarePatches@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months ago Back when FTW meant Fuck The World And FTFY meant Fuck This. Fuck You.
minus-squareMachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 months agoI thankfully wasn’t aware there’s an alternative interpretation for that one. I’ll give the modern interpretation of FTW - insofar as I can tell it sprung up organically, not as some intentional “reclaiming” of negative concepts/language.
The 90s?
Yeah. Before AOL and the Eternal September, about a decade before I was born. Those were the days.
2015
The 70s? The 60s? Before everything was ruined by ASCII adding lowercase letters?
EBCDIC FTW!!!
Back when FTW meant Fuck The World
And FTFY meant Fuck This. Fuck You.
I thankfully wasn’t aware there’s an alternative interpretation for that one. I’ll give the modern interpretation of FTW - insofar as I can tell it sprung up organically, not as some intentional “reclaiming” of negative concepts/language.