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In honor of the death of Reddit (I hope), let's harken back to a simpler time, perhaps when we old-timers were migrating from BBS chatting to Slashdot to Reddit. My favorite "oldie" is "The Website Is Down," from 2009-ish. It perfectly captures what IT support is like.

What's your fave?

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[–] bermuda@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I really liked "Freeman's Mind" (link to episode 1 from nine years ago). It was super simple, literally just a first-person perspective playthrough the Half-Life games with narration instead of commentary. The narrator acted like the mind of Gordon Freeman and it was really funny. Sort of harkens back to a simpler time on youtube, when 9 minutes of a guy talking as if he were a fictional character while playing a video game was prime content. I remember watching this and in the comments I was begging Ross (the creator) to do Half-Life 2 when he finished with 1.

[–] themobyone@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

This was such a blast back then. It felt so genuine the way he did it.

[–] Acester47@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Damn I remember this. I can still hear the sound of the beginning of the videos in my head

[–] jossbo@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I'd never seen this. Will definitely be watching it all!