#tinc

Look how tiny he is! Smaller than my pinky nail! He now has a whole 18x24 exoterra terrarium all to himself, until he grows up some more and I can ID what sex he is so I can put him in the right terrarium with the other froggos.

I was comparing various numbers, and while it's hard to objectively quantify 'active users' of various sites, I can back-of-the-napkin say that tumblr now is about 10x bigger than the internet was in 1992, pre eternal-september. Usenet is interesting as a microcosm kinda proto-social media, that we have the full* record of. In 1992 all posts were about 1GB per day, unthinkable to download for a home user at the time (Curse you T3 users) - laughable nowadays. It's a fair bit of content though, being that it's pretty much all just plain text. Usenet was pretty efficient that way. And quoting an entire post to just add 'me too' was so frowned upon it was a meme unto it self. Seeing the 'me too' movement later and hashtag was a bit odd. But I digress. We have wiki articles and pretty well known records about the pioneers of early trolling, shitposting, and discourse. I do wonder what historians will make of this period of internet history. Despite a lot of people's fears of content being lost, huge amounts is indeed backed up and saved - especially now AI is scarping them. Will people with more followers now than the well known ancient internet trolls and personalities of old be remembered in the same way? How possible it is to have as big an influence as say, snopes? Did the cabal have more influence over the internet than Elon Musk has managed to buy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet_personality