YTMND was where the web peaked, and everything since has been the decline.
Punch the Keys for God's Sake!
YES, YES!
Man, I used to upload lots of content on ytmnd. I had a few front page submissions, my most famous one was "Aha! Caught you with Sean Connery!" It was popular for like 2 weeks on the home page. I checked and my profile is no longer active and everything is erased.
Life is but a passing shadow, and time destroys all things.
"The Social Network" comes to mind, Erica Albright to Zuckerberg:
"The Internet's not written in pencil, Mark, it's written in ink."
There's whole generations of people who don't know where Forrester is now 🫡
Hah, YTMND was where I was introduced to the music of Johnny Cash by a loop of Gollum and the ring falling into Mt. Doom accompanied by
I fell into a burning ring of fire
I went down, down, down
And the flames went higher
And it burns, burns, burns
The ring of fire
The ring of fire
NEDM
noooooooooOOOOOOOOoooooooooooOOOOO
ualuealuealeuale!
And thus the ytmnd domain was born
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