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- # Masturbating in Hostels, And Other Ways To Find Yourself
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- # by DrifterZero
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- # Wow you found my little masturbation story. I'm not sure how you did it, but you found this. I've only handed this link
- # out to a few people. So you stumbling upon this, in a random nature, is truly amazing! Please follow the numbering
- # system to read the chapters in order
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- Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) were the precursor to the early internet. You would dial directly into a BBS with a modem and interact with other connection-capable computer users. These boom towns turned ghost towns pioneered digital culture. They were followed by Usenet servers. Text-files, which were short stories authored by our digital forefathers, were a prominent fixture of these services. One such famous text-file was the Bastard Operator From Hell. The BOFH chronicles the tales of a deranged Unix Admin with a maniacal disdain for the users who connected into his servers. Some of these text-files are archived in digital museums, others are lost for ever. Will these words be archived or lost?
- Today, we have Pastebin as well as the so-called "darknet" (i.e. onion routing via Tor). Pastebin and the Tor network are used by computer programmers to share bits of code, Anonymous to post political messages, and hackers to post username and password lists from compromised servers. This cathartic release is at the urging of an acquaintance. Using Pastebin is an ode to our distant ancestors of a bygone era.
- "My" internet is gone now. In the mid-nineties if you wanted to talk about your favorite band, you'd cobble together a site in something like tripod, geocities, or even expages. Then link to other slapdash fan pages. Today you go to a subreddit or setup a medium blog. Want to chat? Then you'd go onto IRC, ICQ or a random website running a Java Applet. Today its Slack. Economies of scale always win and we lose something beautiful in the process, gaining only a nostalgia for something we'll never get back.
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