Slack is honestly the best thing to ever happen to online conversations and productivity. Eventually everything in my team comes down to the Slack room, and the integrations from other services make it easy to discuss things as they happen.

I feel the exact same way, but with facebook messenger. Me and my friends have our core group, one for the anime nerds, one for our DnD group, one for the barhoppers, etc. We all have our own memes, sticker favorites, and have all become closer because of it. Its the reason why it annoys me so much when people shit on… Read more

I use Groupme to coordinate attacks and defense in an mmo I play called QONQR. I like it because it allows people into the conversation via text or via the app, so it's not just OS agnostic; even a dumb phone can participate. Read more

There are lots of lovely things in this article, but I'd like to point out a few things specfic to tilde.club and the tildeverse at large: Read more

The web even seemed bad in the early 90s., but the info to noise ratio was pretty good. Read more

"The appeal of a tighter content ecosystem is clear when any public tweet might be singled out by an internet terror machine" Like Gawker? Read more

it's a bit spooky how similar my online experience was to yours. Read more

Funny, I was just reminiscing about the days before the internet was completely inundated with ads and paid content. Sure, there were a few banner ads here and there, but it wasn't like now where you're forced to put up with an ad just to watch a few seconds of youtube content. Read more

I just wanna play the 90s version of Lode Runner I had on my last Mac. I haven't owned a Mac in 10 years and it was never ported to any recent version of Windows.

Encarta got me into rap music via a 30-second sample of "The Message" that came with the article. I was a pretty cool kid.

Nostalgia may not be the answer, but this post sure as hell made me nostalgic. Read more

It's not a bad thing that the web has become democratized commercialized.

I am 31yo and I very much remember getting on AOL with my Radio Shack Tandy 486 DX2 with 8MB RAM, 2X CD-ROM, 1.44MB Floppy, 14.4k baud modem, 13 inch Tube Monitor, running Windows 3.11 with Tandy Crapware GUI overlay to make up for Microsoft still finding themselves with Program Manager... Those were the days.... Now… Read more

I'll have to load up Trumpet Winsock and launch my Gopher client!

Agreed. Read more

Why not gopher, newsgroups, email, and ftp? Read more

Obligatory reference to Berkshire Hathaway's website (Warren Buffet's $340 billion company).

Have you read gawker comments?