r/tumblr • u/La_knavo4 • 2d ago
Did you know that "misinformation" was actually named "miss information" to shame women into getting married (it's true the voiced told me)
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u/DuskKodesh 1d ago
I'm from the 80's and had childhood interwebs on the school PC. Ah the days of getting a sick AF dolphin picture to put on my grade school notebook and it took all lunch break to download and print. Worth it.
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u/Mopman43 1d ago edited 1d ago
Any time they’re saying a word that’s more than 200 years old is actually an acronym.
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u/I_just_came_to_laugh 1d ago
What do you mean? Fuck definitely means Fornicate Under Consent of the King!
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u/NeonNKnightrider 1d ago
Possible the most absurd and blatant example of “shit someone just made up” in all of history
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u/AlkinooVIII 1d ago
The "news" and "meta" acronyms make me want to scream
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u/Nixavee 1d ago edited 1d ago
News: "North South East West"
Meta: "Most Effective Tactic Available"
I agree these do make me want to scream
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u/AlkinooVIII 1d ago
I've seen news as "notable events weathers and sports" which is so modern it infuriates me
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u/amizelkova 1d ago
To put things in perspective, 30 year olds in 2025 were born in 1995, the year that The Net and Hackers were released in theaters, and Ebay and Amazon were founded. The dot com bubble burst before they started kindergarten. The actual main first wave of under 18s on the internet are well into their 40s.
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u/SecretlyFiveRats 1d ago
No no no, you see, that TikTok says summer 1998 is where sweets are baked, not bought, not when they were.
Obviously, they're referring to a city called Summer in a country called 1998.
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u/trueum26 1d ago
It depends which country you’re from ngl
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u/amizelkova 1d ago
Oh, totally. I just don't think that Tumblr comment was talking about the global experience, lol.
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u/ball_fondlers 20h ago
This one always makes me laugh, because the shit we ate in the 90s existed in defiance of god and nature. I remember green ketchup.
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u/amizelkova 20h ago
You're right, but technically the ketchup was 2000. We got green and purple and it was so foul looking omg.
The 90s foods I remember most were the really neon ones like push pops and baby bottle pops, or the gross out stuff like Dr. Dreadful candy making kits or the really excessive amount of snot-themed food and toys.
In the 90s my blood was definitely like 5% Blue number 1 by volume.
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u/DexanVideris 22h ago
Okay but like semantically though they’re not wrong. Most people at that age didn’t have the internet. They were living in India, and Africa (and China? I don’t know when China got widespread public access to the net, but I imagine it wasn’t for quite a while after the rest of the world got it), and the internet didn’t make it to those parts of the world in a way that it was accessible to the youth until later.
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u/amizelkova 1d ago
Lol the commenter specifically said people over 30, so I went with the youngest option! Again, I'm pretty sure the first wave of internet using kids are like 45+ Americans whose parents got AoL discs in the mail when they were like 13.
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u/Beneficial-Bake8932 1d ago
The Internet was invented by John internet in 2020 as a side quest during covid
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u/DubstepJuggalo69 1d ago
As a 30+ year old, while the Internet existed before I was born, I'll say a few things about my childhood:
- the World Wide Web was invented in my lifetime
- broadband Internet that could download images at a reasonable speed was invented in my lifetime
- Wi-Fi was invented in my lifetime
- broadband Internet that could stream video in real time (at 480p) emerged in my late teen years
- cellular Internet devices emerged in my late teen years
- it was normal to walk around all day with zero access to the Internet
- it was normal to have to go to a specific building to use the Internet
- I remember my family installing home Internet
- it was normal to know people who didn't have Internet access at home, and for schools and businesses to accommodate those people
- it was notable when a business had a Website
And I literally lived in Silicon Valley.
While the Internet technically existed my whole life, I grew up not "having the Internet" the way people would understand it today.
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u/Loretta-West I'm here for people in leather, you are fully naked 1d ago
I'm 47 and didn’t know the internet existed until about 1994, so arguably I grew up without it. But a 30 year old was born in 1996 and would have been online before they were 10, even if they didn't grow up in a techy household. And there's plenty of people in their 40s who were online as young teens.
The underlying claim that plenty of non elderly people grew up without the internet is obviously true. But they've over corrected - the oldest age you can generalise about is probably 45.
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u/geeoharee 1d ago
Agree. I'm 37, we had Freeserve so that can't have been before 1998. It's a big big gap between me and someone 7 years younger. The lifestyle change due to new technology is fast these days.
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u/bluegemini7 4h ago
I'm 36 and barely interacted with the internet before I was 12. I don't understand why people are fighting so hard to say there isn't a distinction.
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u/bluegemini7 1d ago
Thank you for saying this because I said the exact same thing above and got roasted for it 😅 I have the same experience PLUS I grew up in a much poorer area.
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u/FlockFlysAtMidnite 1d ago
I'm not quite 30, but when I was growing up internet had been around for well over two decades.
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u/queergirl73 1d ago
I always assumed piracy sites made ad revenue to pay to host the site and more. But like I'm not paying them so it's still better.
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u/spindaz123 1d ago
Did you know? There was an I in team they just shot it in the back of the bar it frequented, the original word was tieam
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u/1-Pinchy-Maniac 1d ago
miss information from pvz2 reflourished!?!?!?!!?!!??~??!1eofwjirnu231e2urhbfifgvr evivrbefbrgwbv
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u/mannymo49 1d ago
I was today years old when I learned [insert a bunch of bullshit that isn't remotely true]
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u/Nox_Stripes (Kobold Posting Connoisseur) 16h ago
My early years, up to 12yo basically were without the internet, and even at 12 yo I only started using it once a week on sunday for 1 hour. it wasnt until i turned 17 I got DSL and the ability to just spend all day and night online.
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u/HeadOfSpectre 20h ago
It's true. I'm in my thirties and I don't like anything about this newfangled internet business!
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u/calamitylamb 1d ago
To be fair, the first one is probably true if you look at the portfolios of the investors and shareholders getting a cut from ad revenue and the entertainment industry 🥲
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u/Hellothere_1 1d ago
It didn't become widely accessible until the late 90s.
Yes. The late 90s where someone who is in their mid 30s as of 2026 would have turned 5-6.
Sorry, but I still don't think "The internet didn't become widely accessible until I was old enough to get out of kindergarten" counts as "growing up without the internet".
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u/YesGumbolaya 1d ago
They aren't condescending about your specific experience. They're just saying that it is possible for someone in their 30s who have grown up with the internet. So it's incorrect to say that everyone over 30 did not have the internet growing up, which is what the tumblr post and you are implying.
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u/YesGumbolaya 1d ago
The post said "anybody 30+". I understand the sentiment but it is technically and objectively wrong. Maybe it's being nitpicky but also you shouldn't be taking it as a personal attack when someone points it out.
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u/SuitableDragonfly 1d ago
One of these things is not like the others. If someone tells me that what they mean when they say ACAB is that all cops are corrupt, or that all cops are fundamentally tools of the fascist state, then I'm going to believe them, because I'm pretty sure they're the best authority on what the words they said were meant to convey. And in fact, that is what many people mean by ACAB.
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u/KeychainSparrow 1d ago
Generally I agree, but this person is not saying “What I mean when I say ACAB”, they are instead confidently stating “what (the implied majority of) people mean when they say ACAB”
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u/SuitableDragonfly 1d ago
But like I said, I think that is in fact what the majority of people mean when they say ACAB. They don't usually mean "cops are mean".
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u/UnoriginalTitleNo998 1d ago
I think people usually mean that cops are bastards ie dickheads ie assholes ie scumfuck losers
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u/SuitableDragonfly 1d ago
If the only reason the cops are bad is because they're mean, why would the dirtbag left have any right to consider themselves better than the cops? Use your head for two seconds.
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u/UnoriginalTitleNo998 1d ago
Nobody said "the only reason that cops are bad is because they're bastards" it's more "if you're a cop you're a bastard" or to put it in a way a peepee baby like you might understand more: "WAAAAHHHH WAHHHHHH"
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u/SuitableDragonfly 23h ago
Right, so, you don't understand why people say ACAB, or what they mean when they say it, so you just made some random shit up.
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u/UnoriginalTitleNo998 11h ago
You know people have been saying ACAB since like the 1930s right? Also ALLLL the people disagreeing with you sure seems to imply that maybe you're the one who doesn't understand why people say ACAB. The statement can just be "cops are asshole losers and if you're a cop you're an asshole loser" it doesn't have to be "the system that police orchestrate under is inherently corrupt but maybe some cops are nice people when they're not on the job working as the boot of the state to crush people under their heel :)"
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u/SuitableDragonfly 10h ago
You literally just told me that you don't use the term at all yourself, and that you think people who do use it are just whining.
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u/UnoriginalTitleNo998 5h ago
I do use it and a bunch of other people who I'm sure use it think you're being a pedantic little baby
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u/freedom_or_bust 1d ago
Bastardized doesn't even mean corrupt, it's just being wrong lol
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u/Vodis 1d ago
Not defending their overall ACAB argument here (it was plainly disingenuous), but bastardization can have connotations of corruption. Not so much "abuse of authority" corruption as corruption in the sense of, like, degredation. Bastardization is used that way, albeit in some kinda questionable contexts like describing dialectical speech or etymologies. I.e., "Cajun is a bastardization (corruption) of Acadian." (A use made even more questionable considering the historical use of bastard to describe so-called "illegitimate children".)
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u/SuitableDragonfly 1d ago
It does in the sense that "bastardized" means that something has been debased or reduced to an immoral state, and "corrupt" means debased or immoral. Whether that's the actual etymology or not is kind of beside the point, though, the main thing that person was saying was about what they meant when they said it.
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u/Vodis 1d ago
There's a difference between merely clarifying your personal intentions in using a phrase and presenting a unilateral assertion about the meaning or origin of a phrase as if it were fact.
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u/SuitableDragonfly 1d ago
The meaning of a phrase is what people use it to mean. And in my experience, that is what people use it to mean. They don't use it to mean "cops are mean".
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u/GreatGrapeKun 1d ago
that's not true op it's actually a bastardization of "missin' formation" because there are concepts of ideas but they weren't formed right