Your Top 5 Internet Moments?

**Cliff Huckable** · 11-20-2008, 12:41 PM

What internet-specific moments do you remember best - or which made the biggest impact?

1. 1991: a McGill student shows me her latest passion - going to a stupid online house in New Orleans to flirt with other idiots typing mysterious/"funny"/flirtatious text onto a screen. When she steps out onto a balcony to make out with some other text I know I'm witnessing a historic low in the history of human contact.

2. Seeing the aftermath of a motor cycle accident.

3. Star Wars kid. I thought it was great. And great for the same reason the Risky Business scene is great. I think the real funny comes from the fact that almost everyone who sees it can relate because they're inclined to do something similar in a private moment, and suspect they'd look just about as dork-like.

4. Seeing a guy try to cross a huge freeway somewhere...India? China? He doesn't make it. Flys up in the air, spinning. Ugh.

5. I can't think of a number 5 yet...trying to choose from a big list...

**Tippster** · 11-20-2008, 12:44 PM

Honeypie. That shit was Hysterical.

**OldLarry** · 11-20-2008, 12:50 PM

learning to surf the net left handed

**trainnvain** · 11-20-2008, 12:51 PM

[IN THE FUTURE] There will be a rehab drug for internet addiction. It will make billions[/IN THE FUTURE]

**LivinCO** · 11-20-2008, 01:02 PM

1) When I started getting paid to use it.
2) When I got to the end of it.

**iceman** · 11-20-2008, 01:13 PM

Originally Posted by LivinCO

2) When I got to the end of it.

you mean here?

**belgian** · 11-20-2008, 01:38 PM

1) Tubgirl, Goatse, Ogrish.com back in the day
2) The explosion of games like World of Warcraft and all the hilarious stuff that arises from them which about 70% of the population don't understand (Leeroy Jenkins anyone? internet inside jokes ftw!).
3) The rise of the uber nerds on Something Awful, 4Chan and the like.
4) "I put on my robe and wizard hat"
5) The multitude of "real life" images I've seen, shocking stuff from car accidents to horrific STDs, etc. etc. "The Pain Series" I guess is what I'm saying.

And just for shits and giggles even though I know you said 5...
Unforgivable (NSFW language):

**mrryde** · 11-20-2008, 01:44 PM

Originally Posted by belgian

1) Tubgirl, Goatse, Ogrish.com back in the day
2) The explosion of games like World of Warcraft and all the hilarious stuff that arises from them which about 70% of the population don't understand (Leeroy Jenkins anyone? internet inside jokes ftw!).
3) The rise of the uber nerds on Something Awful, 4Chan and the like.
4) "I put on my robe and wizard hat"
5) The multitude of "real life" images I've seen, shocking stuff from car accidents to horrific STDs, etc. etc. "The Pain Series" I guess is what I'm saying.

And just for shits and giggles even though I know you said 5...
Unforgivable (NSFW language):

I couldn't think of one, but you avatar reminds of the guido thread on here a long time ago.

**el-cid** · 11-20-2008, 01:47 PM

The Charlie Wenzel phenomena. That was the first truly classic BB/forum thread that I read for days on end. Watching it unfold was absolutely golden and taught me what a scary place the innerwebz can be.

**mrryde** · 11-20-2008, 01:50 PM

Originally Posted by el-cid

The Charlie Wenzel phenomena. That was the first truly classic BB/forum thread that I read for days on end. Watching it unfold was absolutely golden and taught me what a scary place the innerwebz can be.

i remember that, funny shit

**Mani_UT** · 11-20-2008, 01:54 PM

Don't know about the top 5 but certainly remember the TOP ONE when in the early days of emails I send a buddy a email about how I got laid the night before with way to much information to begin with... Only I sent it to nearly my whole directory....

That left a mark...

**Dobish** · 11-20-2008, 02:14 PM

Originally Posted by iceman

you mean here?

no... here

**snow_slider** · 11-20-2008, 02:20 PM

2 girls 1 cup

**lionelhutz** · 11-20-2008, 02:58 PM

If any guy here doesn't list "unlimited porn" in college they are stone cold liar.
That's number 1 on all your damn lists and you know it.

**mrryde** · 11-20-2008, 03:01 PM

Originally Posted by lionelhutz

If any guy here doesn't list "unlimited porn" in college they are stone cold liar.
That's number 1 on all your damn lists and you know it.

youporn FTW!

**EarlyWood** · 11-20-2008, 05:25 PM

a girl laughed when i told a random story about my son putting a toy soldier in his teachers desk top zen garden. i love that girl

**booner** · 11-20-2008, 05:46 PM

The first time I ever went the interweb is still the best...ski vacation with fam in CO...brother and I go online(uncle's basement)he'd been on before and I hadn't so we find this X-files chat room on AOL I think...we wrote shit like "Moulder has a huge cock" and "Scully has a filthy clam" these weirdos were pissed and it was funny...good times

**irul&ublo** · 11-20-2008, 05:55 PM

LEEEEROOOOYYY JEEEENNNKINS!!!!!

**Blurred** · 11-20-2008, 06:23 PM

that time i found out cliff is a weltcher...top 5 stuff there.

**H0G** · 11-20-2008, 06:44 PM

Originally Posted by el-cid

The Charlie Wenzel phenomena. That was the first truly classic BB/forum thread that I read for days on end. Watching it unfold was absolutely golden and taught me what a scary place the innerwebz can be.

x10 that was the beginning

**el-cid** · 11-20-2008, 07:13 PM

Originally Posted by bsideindy

Good stuff! So what happened to Charlie? I read the first 6 pages or so of the thread. What a complete tool! Did Mike ever get his money back?

I want to know what happens but can't read through 70 pages, please summarize.

The muy-scary dudes at Pirate wound up digging up pictures of Charlie, his girlfriend, his vehicles (and imaginary vehicles) with plate numbers, where he works, where his parents work and their phone numbers, google earth views of his house, and all kinds of good stuff. Some guys called his dad and told him what a piece of shit his son is, Charlie tried some internet tough-guy stuff then pulled his head out of his ass and backpedaled when he realized there's some guys that'd go beat his ass just for something to do. He wound up refunding the money and giving a sort of half-assed apology and faded away. A few valuable lessons were learned by all - watch who you rip off and watch your ass at Pirate4x4.com. Man it would've been great if jessejones got a little taste of that.

**splat** · 11-20-2008, 09:45 PM

1. When The Dork and I were going to race at Kirkwood for my virginity because she thought I was a thirteen year old boy whose mom would be dropping him off for the day.

2. When the photochopped pics of a chained cletus crawling on the floor and cumquat standing over him in leathers with a whip was posted.

3. Honeypie.

The lurid perv sex department has had it's moments around here.

I'll think of something else later...

**ill-advised strategy** · 11-20-2008, 10:14 PM

on a chairlift in 1994 my friend Chad telling me about this "internet" with "sites" around the world and I couldn't for the life of me get wtf he was talking about.

**basinbeater** · 11-20-2008, 11:12 PM

I just wasted 2.5 hours reading the Wenzel thread and all associated threads that thread linked to. My brain is fried. No... more.... forums..... argh!