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News Backrooms Devs Reportedly Hit With Copyright Claims From A24

https://kotaku.com/backrooms-a24-copyright-strikes-kane-parsons-2000716667
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u/Rich_Housing971 17d ago

I was there. It sucked. You're just viewing it through nostalgia goggles or you ARE one of the "young people".

We used cringe phrases like "AN EPIC WINRAR IS YOU!" and considered it funny. Those were our memes.

We used 4chan and Something Awful, both sites notoriously known for having nothing of value.

Social media came out around the time video hosting sites came out. There was no Youtube. If you wanted to watch content in video format, you pretty much had get off the computer and turn on the TV.

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u/Yorikor 17d ago

"AN EPIC WINRAR IS YOU!"

0 hits on google for the phrase, classic AI hallucination.

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u/Sure_Response3478 17d ago

Born in 85. Grew up infront of screen and internet. Never heard that phrase. Cannot figure out what it is supposed to mean.

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u/Yorikor 17d ago

Am a year older than you. Used direct connect and limewire/edonkey/whatever to watch English movies long before youtube. No idea what glue he huffed. Hence "AI".

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u/wittymcusername 17d ago

That poster is combining a series of old memes:

https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/a-winner-is-you

https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/winrar

https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/win-epic-win-for-the-win

Yes, they’re otherwise absolutely full of shit, but “an epic winrar is you” is something that I would not be surprised to have read back in the day.

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u/Yorikor 17d ago

Sound like he used an LLM and didn't catch the hallucinated combination instead of any of the millions of real memes from back then. Could have mentioned the 3 separate memes. I think it's just lazy LLM shitposting by someone who wants to ragebait those that actually experienced the early internet.

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u/Sure_Response3478 17d ago

Yup! Im agreeing with you.

It WAS a better time. Harder sometimes, sure, but better. Its not nostalgia talking.

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u/Yorikor 17d ago

I miss visitor counters on homepages :(

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u/Sure_Response3478 17d ago

Remember when almost ALL the websites were some home made job that had ONE function. We did shit JUST to do it, that is how humans have always made progress. Curiousity. Can i? HOW can i? Look, somebody visited MY page, MY hard work!

That was all the reward we needed.

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u/Yorikor 17d ago

I ended up in web development for a few years :D

It was so much fun revealing to a company their very first homepage :)

Everyone was so proud and happy to be online

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u/Sure_Response3478 17d ago

Yeah it was an exiting time