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I don't think so... "Ha. I only posted on a dare."
posted by shoesfullofdust at 12:52 PM on March 27, 2012 [4 favorites]
posted by shoesfullofdust at 12:52 PM on March 27, 2012 [4 favorites]
oh my god you guys
I would love to reboot it, but I can't come up with anything that isn't delicious (as it was) and reddit on one end, and BoingBoing on the other.
NOOOOOOOOO
posted by cortex at 12:54 PM on March 27, 2012 [9 favorites]
I would love to reboot it, but I can't come up with anything that isn't delicious (as it was) and reddit on one end, and BoingBoing on the other.
NOOOOOOOOO
posted by cortex at 12:54 PM on March 27, 2012 [9 favorites]
oh.
posted by Secretariat at 12:55 PM on March 27, 2012
posted by Secretariat at 12:55 PM on March 27, 2012
Takes me back! Pretty sure that's how I came across this site.
posted by echo target at 12:56 PM on March 27, 2012 [12 favorites]
posted by echo target at 12:56 PM on March 27, 2012 [12 favorites]
How did you get to be a contributor to memepool anyway? Was there a secret back door, or did you have to be a friend of a friend?
posted by Curious Artificer at 12:57 PM on March 27, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by Curious Artificer at 12:57 PM on March 27, 2012 [1 favorite]
I still have a Memepool T-shirt. Sometimes I still wear it just to confuse people. No one in my circle seems to remember Memepool. They're all either too young and cool or old and farty.
posted by Decani at 12:57 PM on March 27, 2012 [2 favorites]
posted by Decani at 12:57 PM on March 27, 2012 [2 favorites]
The real question is, will Forum 2000 ever get the band back together?
posted by resplendentoops at 1:06 PM on March 27, 2012 [11 favorites]
posted by resplendentoops at 1:06 PM on March 27, 2012 [11 favorites]
I dunno, shouldn't we wait until we see a second post before we declare them "back"?
posted by tommasz at 1:08 PM on March 27, 2012
posted by tommasz at 1:08 PM on March 27, 2012
Memepool is still in my browser's Favorites list. I will never give up hope...
posted by halfbuckaroo at 1:11 PM on March 27, 2012 [12 favorites]
posted by halfbuckaroo at 1:11 PM on March 27, 2012 [12 favorites]
oh my god yes please I would love a Forum 2000 reunion.
posted by xbonesgt at 1:15 PM on March 27, 2012 [6 favorites]
posted by xbonesgt at 1:15 PM on March 27, 2012 [6 favorites]
Maybe the point is that I don't know but is this like a more exclusive paired down metafilter where only the members of the Illuminati decide what gets posted?
Can someone fill me in? I want to sit at the cool kids table!
posted by sendai sleep master at 1:18 PM on March 27, 2012 [2 favorites]
Can someone fill me in? I want to sit at the cool kids table!
posted by sendai sleep master at 1:18 PM on March 27, 2012 [2 favorites]
You can never go home again.
posted by briank at 1:18 PM on March 27, 2012 [3 favorites]
posted by briank at 1:18 PM on March 27, 2012 [3 favorites]
Aw, it's just a one off? I've gone from "holy shit" to "well, shit" in under 30 seconds.
(Nearly every Memepool post was an example of how to do a proper, no filler, multilink post.)
posted by Lentrohamsanin at 1:22 PM on March 27, 2012 [4 favorites]
(Nearly every Memepool post was an example of how to do a proper, no filler, multilink post.)
posted by Lentrohamsanin at 1:22 PM on March 27, 2012 [4 favorites]
Prince, n'enquerez de sepmaine
Où elles bloguent, ne de cest an,
Qu'à ce reffrain ne vous remaine:
Où sont les mèmes d'antan?
posted by Doktor Zed at 1:24 PM on March 27, 2012 [8 favorites]
Où elles bloguent, ne de cest an,
Qu'à ce reffrain ne vous remaine:
Où sont les mèmes d'antan?
posted by Doktor Zed at 1:24 PM on March 27, 2012 [8 favorites]
is this like a more exclusive paired down metafilter where only the members of the Illuminati decide what gets posted?
I'm not seeing the downside. Memepool was great back in the day (and like others, I wouldn't be here now but for Memepool)
posted by N-stoff at 1:25 PM on March 27, 2012
I'm not seeing the downside. Memepool was great back in the day (and like others, I wouldn't be here now but for Memepool)
posted by N-stoff at 1:25 PM on March 27, 2012
I wasn't suggesting it was a downside. I was just earnestly wondering..... I suppose jokingly throwing around references to conspiracy theories and using the phrase "cool kids table" isn't the best way to get a real question answered.
posted by sendai sleep master at 1:26 PM on March 27, 2012
posted by sendai sleep master at 1:26 PM on March 27, 2012
A comment on HackerNews sums up my past few years of memepool reading, hoping for new posts:
I've been checking Memepool every eight months. You deserve the Internet Award or something. Truly.
posted by msbrauer at 1:27 PM on March 27, 2012 [2 favorites]
I've been checking Memepool every eight months. You deserve the Internet Award or something. Truly.
posted by msbrauer at 1:27 PM on March 27, 2012 [2 favorites]
I miss Memepool.
I also miss Pink Tentacle. Does anyone have any info on the whereabouts or the fate of PT's creator?
posted by DonnyMac at 1:32 PM on March 27, 2012 [1 favorite]
I also miss Pink Tentacle. Does anyone have any info on the whereabouts or the fate of PT's creator?
posted by DonnyMac at 1:32 PM on March 27, 2012 [1 favorite]
WHO DARES WAKE ME FROM MY SLUMBER
posted by riotnrrd at 1:42 PM on March 27, 2012 [12 favorites]
posted by riotnrrd at 1:42 PM on March 27, 2012 [12 favorites]
I found memepool via a personal ad--a prospect posted that she was "more memepool than metafilter," so I had to look that up. Didn't go out with her.
posted by MrMoonPie at 1:43 PM on March 27, 2012 [10 favorites]
posted by MrMoonPie at 1:43 PM on March 27, 2012 [10 favorites]
Pink Tentacle was based in Tokyo - and ended shortly after the quake. I would expect the two are related.
I miss Suck.com.
posted by zenon at 1:43 PM on March 27, 2012 [11 favorites]
I miss Suck.com.
posted by zenon at 1:43 PM on March 27, 2012 [11 favorites]
Wow. One post is all it takes? Maybe I'll post a new entry to my blog, if only to get someone to feature it on the front page of metafilter.
posted by crunchland at 1:45 PM on March 27, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by crunchland at 1:45 PM on March 27, 2012 [1 favorite]
In other news, doodie.com still exists. Leisure Town, alas, does not (but I still have the entire site in a .zip somewhere).
posted by dvdgee at 1:48 PM on March 27, 2012
posted by dvdgee at 1:48 PM on March 27, 2012
WOW!
posted by hypersloth at 1:49 PM on March 27, 2012
posted by hypersloth at 1:49 PM on March 27, 2012
I honestly felt like MetaFilter was what took over for Memepool, and assumed that that was why it died off.
posted by darksasami at 1:50 PM on March 27, 2012 [4 favorites]
posted by darksasami at 1:50 PM on March 27, 2012 [4 favorites]
Aww, Metafilter's Grandpa
posted by chillmost at 1:52 PM on March 27, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by chillmost at 1:52 PM on March 27, 2012 [1 favorite]
Huh, Spinnwebe is still alive and kicking.
posted by The Whelk at 1:58 PM on March 27, 2012 [3 favorites]
posted by The Whelk at 1:58 PM on March 27, 2012 [3 favorites]
decani: No one in my circle seems to remember Memepool. They're all either too young and cool or old and farty.
I remember it, so I guess I'm old and cool. and farty.
posted by Greg_Ace at 2:15 PM on March 27, 2012
I remember it, so I guess I'm old and cool. and farty.
posted by Greg_Ace at 2:15 PM on March 27, 2012
Pretty hard to get excited over an ad for iphone app, even if it is on memepool.
posted by Ardiril at 2:15 PM on March 27, 2012
posted by Ardiril at 2:15 PM on March 27, 2012
If you liked memepool, linkblogs are alive and well! Waxy Links from Metafilter's own waxpancake is my favorite. On a more blog-like note, One Thing Well is a fantastic collection of pointers to good modest software.
posted by Nelson at 2:19 PM on March 27, 2012
posted by Nelson at 2:19 PM on March 27, 2012
Next you're going to tell me the Brunching Shuttlecocks is back.
*checks, just to be sure*
Dammit.
posted by blackfly at 2:31 PM on March 27, 2012 [18 favorites]
*checks, just to be sure*
Dammit.
posted by blackfly at 2:31 PM on March 27, 2012 [18 favorites]
Yeah, when I found MetaFilter, I rejoiced that it was like memepool with comments, and that anyone could post. I'm glad to see this spark of life, but I'm much happier with MeFi than I ever was with memepool.
posted by not_on_display at 2:32 PM on March 27, 2012 [2 favorites]
posted by not_on_display at 2:32 PM on March 27, 2012 [2 favorites]
I for one, really liked memepool. That MetaFilter site allowed for unhinged and mostly unfiltered commentary from the masses - which I did not like one bit. Plus, if I wanted to join that, 5 bucks? Are you out of your mind? And who were these mods - thinking they could censor and censure their members? And cat scans? Come on - that's your first best of the web? Are you f*ing kidding me?
Memepool's previous last post: April 21,2008
Me joining MetaFilter: November 25, 2008
The two things had a lot to do with each other... It took about 2 months of waiting to realize it wasn't coming back, and a month of vacant nothingness before I turned to Metafilter. Reading MetaFilter was the best of the web with comments, but reading memepool had been the best of the best of the web without comments...
But joining MetaFilter is like a drug - hey - might as well get your 5 bucks worth and comment...
And at some point, the concept of comments cease to be comments and it becomes community - a community which I should have been originally less adverse to, from a concept, a price, and a content perspective. If memepool came back, I think I'm done with it. This is more my thing these days.
So that's some honesty. And I am sorry I misjudged this site. I owe at minimum, an apology for that.
posted by Nanukthedog at 2:36 PM on March 27, 2012 [1 favorite]
Memepool's previous last post: April 21,2008
Me joining MetaFilter: November 25, 2008
The two things had a lot to do with each other... It took about 2 months of waiting to realize it wasn't coming back, and a month of vacant nothingness before I turned to Metafilter. Reading MetaFilter was the best of the web with comments, but reading memepool had been the best of the best of the web without comments...
But joining MetaFilter is like a drug - hey - might as well get your 5 bucks worth and comment...
And at some point, the concept of comments cease to be comments and it becomes community - a community which I should have been originally less adverse to, from a concept, a price, and a content perspective. If memepool came back, I think I'm done with it. This is more my thing these days.
So that's some honesty. And I am sorry I misjudged this site. I owe at minimum, an apology for that.
posted by Nanukthedog at 2:36 PM on March 27, 2012 [1 favorite]
joshu's been pretty busy lately what with Jig and skills.to. memepool was great. Schachter has one fertile mind.
posted by gwint at 2:36 PM on March 27, 2012
posted by gwint at 2:36 PM on March 27, 2012
Hmm. Still waiting for the next weekly NTK email...
posted by graftole at 2:36 PM on March 27, 2012 [11 favorites]
posted by graftole at 2:36 PM on March 27, 2012 [11 favorites]
Oh, I got here via memepool. Thanks, memepool.
posted by Sidhedevil at 2:36 PM on March 27, 2012
posted by Sidhedevil at 2:36 PM on March 27, 2012
Great. Build me up just to let me down. THX JERKS
posted by danny the boy at 2:39 PM on March 27, 2012
posted by danny the boy at 2:39 PM on March 27, 2012
I also originally found metafilter via memepool.
Holy crap, that was almost 10 years ago.
posted by loquacious at 2:40 PM on March 27, 2012 [6 favorites]
Holy crap, that was almost 10 years ago.
posted by loquacious at 2:40 PM on March 27, 2012 [6 favorites]
and yeah it ain't a popularity contest. metafilter is where you go when the discussion is more important than the content, and memepool is where you (went) if you wanted a curated list of awesome things. they scratched very different itches.
I think having it around today would balance out much of our GRAR. Like, you get mad here and cortex blows a whistle and you go take an hour time out at memepool.
posted by danny the boy at 2:44 PM on March 27, 2012 [3 favorites]
I think having it around today would balance out much of our GRAR. Like, you get mad here and cortex blows a whistle and you go take an hour time out at memepool.
posted by danny the boy at 2:44 PM on March 27, 2012 [3 favorites]
Memepool's logo used to remind me of the band Godflesh because Justin Broadrick used that lower case Helvetica look for everything... then one day the little subheading said "godflesh". True story! (Also my third Godflesh post this week!)
posted by SharkParty at 2:58 PM on March 27, 2012 [2 favorites]
posted by SharkParty at 2:58 PM on March 27, 2012 [2 favorites]
Oh, YAY! I loved memepool!
Shit, it's a one-off? NOOOOOOOOO! Boo. Hiss.
posted by zarq at 2:59 PM on March 27, 2012
Shit, it's a one-off? NOOOOOOOOO! Boo. Hiss.
posted by zarq at 2:59 PM on March 27, 2012
Joshua got all our hopes up and it was just a one-off plug for his mate's iPhone app? So cruel.
metafilter is where you go when the discussion is more important than the content, and memepool is where you (went) if you wanted a curated list of awesome things.
I dunno, perhaps it's because I found this place via Memepool, but I still see MetaFilter as a place to read 'a curated list of awesome things'. Being able to comment (and post) is a boon, but it's really all about the links for me.
On a more blog-like note, One Thing Well is a fantastic collection of pointers to good modest software.
Hey, that's me! Thanks, Nelson! I nearly fell off my chair seeing One Thing Well mentioned in the same breath as memepool and waxy.
posted by jack_mo at 3:03 PM on March 27, 2012 [1 favorite]
metafilter is where you go when the discussion is more important than the content, and memepool is where you (went) if you wanted a curated list of awesome things.
I dunno, perhaps it's because I found this place via Memepool, but I still see MetaFilter as a place to read 'a curated list of awesome things'. Being able to comment (and post) is a boon, but it's really all about the links for me.
On a more blog-like note, One Thing Well is a fantastic collection of pointers to good modest software.
Hey, that's me! Thanks, Nelson! I nearly fell off my chair seeing One Thing Well mentioned in the same breath as memepool and waxy.
posted by jack_mo at 3:03 PM on March 27, 2012 [1 favorite]
Drat, I enjoyed that site.
A one off? Agreed, that's poor form.
posted by BustedCatalyzer at 3:08 PM on March 27, 2012
A one off? Agreed, that's poor form.
posted by BustedCatalyzer at 3:08 PM on March 27, 2012
Well cool, jack_mo, and thanks for One Thing Well! It reminds me of the late lamented Sweetcode, a collection of obscure-yet-interesting software. Keep it up!
posted by Nelson at 3:09 PM on March 27, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by Nelson at 3:09 PM on March 27, 2012 [1 favorite]
I also came here from memepool. Also, loquacious!
posted by Divine_Wino at 3:21 PM on March 27, 2012
posted by Divine_Wino at 3:21 PM on March 27, 2012
Aw, shucks.
posted by joshu at 3:30 PM on March 27, 2012 [4 favorites]
posted by joshu at 3:30 PM on March 27, 2012 [4 favorites]
I miss memepool too.
So, to set some context: When I wrote memepool, there was no RSS, no MySQL. The word "weblog" hadn't been coined yet. etc.
So, I wrote my own in-memory database, items don't have permalinks, there were dozens of problems.
Then, it became very easy for people to have their own blogs - so having editorial curation was an impediment. Why write when it might get rejected per the style guide? Etc etc etc.
Then having to write entire paragraphs were too hard. (Even for me. I wrote Muxway and ultimately Delicious because of this. In a very real sense, Delicious is also a child of memepool.)
A bunch of stylistic choices (no comments, no via links, etc) really impacted the engagement of the site as well.
So if I were to resurrect it, I'd really like to do something that is the best at what it is. And that means not being BoingBoing, Metafilter, Delicious, Reddit, etc.
It may take me some more time to actually figure out what to do. But I still think about it and am hopeful.
posted by joshu at 3:40 PM on March 27, 2012 [116 favorites]
So, to set some context: When I wrote memepool, there was no RSS, no MySQL. The word "weblog" hadn't been coined yet. etc.
So, I wrote my own in-memory database, items don't have permalinks, there were dozens of problems.
Then, it became very easy for people to have their own blogs - so having editorial curation was an impediment. Why write when it might get rejected per the style guide? Etc etc etc.
Then having to write entire paragraphs were too hard. (Even for me. I wrote Muxway and ultimately Delicious because of this. In a very real sense, Delicious is also a child of memepool.)
A bunch of stylistic choices (no comments, no via links, etc) really impacted the engagement of the site as well.
So if I were to resurrect it, I'd really like to do something that is the best at what it is. And that means not being BoingBoing, Metafilter, Delicious, Reddit, etc.
It may take me some more time to actually figure out what to do. But I still think about it and am hopeful.
posted by joshu at 3:40 PM on March 27, 2012 [116 favorites]
I got here via Memepool, too. Memepool was fun, but I don't miss it too much, as I like Metafilter much better. Still, it was good in it's time, so it's nice to see it move again, even if it is only briefly.
What I DO miss however, is Blue Lanugo (no, not the blog that's there now; the old picture/comment mashup site). It was hilarious - my favorite internet thing, ever. :(
posted by Pecinpah at 3:42 PM on March 27, 2012
What I DO miss however, is Blue Lanugo (no, not the blog that's there now; the old picture/comment mashup site). It was hilarious - my favorite internet thing, ever. :(
posted by Pecinpah at 3:42 PM on March 27, 2012
Fair enough. As long as you have another t-shirt contest whenever you figure out what it is.
posted by cortex at 3:42 PM on March 27, 2012
posted by cortex at 3:42 PM on March 27, 2012
Motherfucker. I check memepool once a month. And I have almost set-up the Memepool monitoring script a half-dozen time. I lose.
posted by These Premises Are Alarmed at 3:43 PM on March 27, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by These Premises Are Alarmed at 3:43 PM on March 27, 2012 [1 favorite]
Hmm. Maybe there's hope for NTK, Red Rock Eater, and NetSurfer Digest. We just need to get their friends to write iOS apps!
posted by whir at 3:54 PM on March 27, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by whir at 3:54 PM on March 27, 2012 [1 favorite]
I loved memepool! I know that's how I found MetaFilter, but looking at it again, how did I know that without "via" links? I'm sure it was obvious but I'm not seeing it.
posted by Sibrax at 4:05 PM on March 27, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by Sibrax at 4:05 PM on March 27, 2012 [1 favorite]
Coming soon: Memepool Gadgets
posted by benzenedream at 4:39 PM on March 27, 2012
posted by benzenedream at 4:39 PM on March 27, 2012
Lifeguard: Okay everyone into the memepool.
::whistle::
Lifeguard: Just kidding, everybody out of the memepool!
posted by Splunge at 4:44 PM on March 27, 2012 [1 favorite]
::whistle::
Lifeguard: Just kidding, everybody out of the memepool!
posted by Splunge at 4:44 PM on March 27, 2012 [1 favorite]
I actaully first found MeFi by doing a Netscape "What's Related?" search on Memepool.
posted by jonmc at 4:56 PM on March 27, 2012
posted by jonmc at 4:56 PM on March 27, 2012
I forgot about Waxy Links. I think I first saw Star Wars Kid there? Anyway, thanks for the reminder.
posted by qldaddy at 4:57 PM on March 27, 2012
posted by qldaddy at 4:57 PM on March 27, 2012
Can someone bring back inpassing.org while we're at it?
posted by flaneur at 4:58 PM on March 27, 2012 [2 favorites]
posted by flaneur at 4:58 PM on March 27, 2012 [2 favorites]
Red Rock Eater's never coming back. Phil Agre has asked to be left alone.
posted by njloof at 5:04 PM on March 27, 2012
posted by njloof at 5:04 PM on March 27, 2012
*Checks Linkfilter* - nope, still done.
posted by unliteral at 5:12 PM on March 27, 2012 [2 favorites]
posted by unliteral at 5:12 PM on March 27, 2012 [2 favorites]
*registers ismemepoolbackyet.com*
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 5:35 PM on March 27, 2012 [3 favorites]
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 5:35 PM on March 27, 2012 [3 favorites]
I see you have a lot of white space on the right side there. Very professional, but let me ask you this: have you considered ads?
posted by Toekneesan at 5:39 PM on March 27, 2012
posted by Toekneesan at 5:39 PM on March 27, 2012
I feel kind of dumb for never knowing memepool existed, I guess I got here too early. (I lurked for at least 6-8 months before joining, back when it was free.) Just looking at the design reminds me of so many old pages.
posted by Dark Messiah at 6:08 PM on March 27, 2012
posted by Dark Messiah at 6:08 PM on March 27, 2012
So if I were to resurrect it, I'd really like to do something that is the best at what it is. And that means not being BoingBoing, Metafilter, Delicious, Reddit, etc.
Just make it memepool. I'd say you could start it up again today, and it would be straight back to being the best at what it is. Couldn't say exactly what it is/was, but it definitely had/has something all of it's own.
(and I'm another person who still checks every few months in case of updates...)
posted by MattWPBS at 6:14 PM on March 27, 2012
Just make it memepool. I'd say you could start it up again today, and it would be straight back to being the best at what it is. Couldn't say exactly what it is/was, but it definitely had/has something all of it's own.
(and I'm another person who still checks every few months in case of updates...)
posted by MattWPBS at 6:14 PM on March 27, 2012
Another Memepool reading veteran here.
posted by quartzcity at 6:48 PM on March 27, 2012
posted by quartzcity at 6:48 PM on March 27, 2012
Yeah, I'm here because of memepool too. Yowza, memory lane.
posted by mygothlaundry at 6:56 PM on March 27, 2012
posted by mygothlaundry at 6:56 PM on March 27, 2012
My account on memepool: http://memepool.com/Author/gen/
posted by gen at 7:04 PM on March 27, 2012 [2 favorites]
posted by gen at 7:04 PM on March 27, 2012 [2 favorites]
Oh my god! This makes me happy all over. Next thing you know Robot Wisdom will be updating.
posted by flyingfox at 7:10 PM on March 27, 2012
posted by flyingfox at 7:10 PM on March 27, 2012
There was memepool for me and then robotwisdom - I really enjoyed the Joyce stuff - but he rather snuffed it out by introducing us to his religious beliefs - this had the effect of watching a friend become unhinged to the point you could no longer apologize for hanging out with them.
yes flying fox I think we both typed robotwisdom at the same time - jinks.
posted by epjr at 7:13 PM on March 27, 2012 [2 favorites]
yes flying fox I think we both typed robotwisdom at the same time - jinks.
posted by epjr at 7:13 PM on March 27, 2012 [2 favorites]
Does anyone other than me remember whatsbetter.com? It put up two arbitrary objects and you voted on which was better: Pizza vs. Speakers, Han Solo vs. automatic doors, Honda Civic vs. Wheel of Fortune.
posted by demiurge at 7:23 PM on March 27, 2012
posted by demiurge at 7:23 PM on March 27, 2012
Here because of memepool like so many others. And I checked for updates for a long time (think I only stopped because I switched browsers and it was no longer in the recently viewed popdown). My daily visited sites used to be Metafilter, BoingBoing, Memepool, suck.com and Dailyrotten.
posted by 445supermag at 7:32 PM on March 27, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by 445supermag at 7:32 PM on March 27, 2012 [1 favorite]
Sooo, maybe we can't do anything for memepool but for April Fools we could we all log on to Kuro5hin and post/up-vote serious stories? That lurching zombie of a site could use a small punch in the arm of hope. rusty, I know you're around here somewhere... Remember the KuroFilter/Meta5hin mash-up? Remember? Good times...
posted by Skwirl at 7:32 PM on March 27, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by Skwirl at 7:32 PM on March 27, 2012 [1 favorite]
There was memepool for me and then robotwisdom - I really enjoyed the Joyce stuff - but he rather snuffed it out by introducing us to his religious beliefs - this had the effect of watching a friend become unhinged to the point you could no longer apologize for hanging out with them. --- I remember when Jorn got criticized for his stance on Israel. He got very unpopular very fast. I think we all expected bloggers to be impartial, like reporters. (Remember when we thought reporters were impartial?)
posted by crunchland at 7:36 PM on March 27, 2012
posted by crunchland at 7:36 PM on March 27, 2012
I got here from memepool too! I loved memepool!
posted by Multicellular Exothermic at 7:46 PM on March 27, 2012
posted by Multicellular Exothermic at 7:46 PM on March 27, 2012
memepool and kuro5hin were my early Internet friends. I think my attraction to io9 and the other gawker properties, years ago mind, was they tried to capture some of that new, edgy, "hey kids! links!" mindset.
But now jezebel, etc are ugly and hard to navigate. kuro5hin is like usenet 2.0. reddit is like 4chan without images.
All I can say is: Metafilter: it's the Internet that's OK to like. Bless you, mathowie! And bless jessamyn and all of the other mods, past and present. If Mefi is, in some sense, a walled garden, then bless the toilers in these gardens.
posted by SPrintF at 7:47 PM on March 27, 2012 [4 favorites]
But now jezebel, etc are ugly and hard to navigate. kuro5hin is like usenet 2.0. reddit is like 4chan without images.
All I can say is: Metafilter: it's the Internet that's OK to like. Bless you, mathowie! And bless jessamyn and all of the other mods, past and present. If Mefi is, in some sense, a walled garden, then bless the toilers in these gardens.
posted by SPrintF at 7:47 PM on March 27, 2012 [4 favorites]
I posted that same link (to the 4th dimension app) here and it got deleted! Apparently a single link to a paid app was "too thin" a post for Mr. Fancy Donut Eatin' Mod. I found metafilter through memepool too, lo these ten years past. And, strangely, this makes me feel happy about my one deleted post too. Thank you, memepool!
posted by selfmedicating at 8:02 PM on March 27, 2012
posted by selfmedicating at 8:02 PM on March 27, 2012
Wow this takes me right back to dial up Internet my senior year in high school. Right along with Archmage and ICQ.
posted by whoaali at 8:44 PM on March 27, 2012
posted by whoaali at 8:44 PM on March 27, 2012
Pretty sure I got here via memepool as well; I remember desperately wanting to be a contributor.
posted by Mitheral at 9:21 PM on March 27, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by Mitheral at 9:21 PM on March 27, 2012 [1 favorite]
blackfly: "Next you're going to tell me the Brunching Shuttlecocks is back.
"
Lore is kind of busy living out of his van these days.
posted by Chrysostom at 9:30 PM on March 27, 2012 [1 favorite]
"
Lore is kind of busy living out of his van these days.
posted by Chrysostom at 9:30 PM on March 27, 2012 [1 favorite]
Reverse-troll-mobbing k5 would be a heck of a thing, alright. I don't know what sort of thing, but definitely a thing.
posted by cortex at 9:35 PM on March 27, 2012 [3 favorites]
posted by cortex at 9:35 PM on March 27, 2012 [3 favorites]
Wow. Just checked, and yup: memepool is still in my Bookmarks (remember bookmarks? Does anyone still use those?) under "Fun", right between MetaFilter, Boing Boing and the Ze Frank show.
Thanks for the little Ubik moment, joshu.
Ze Frank is making a comeback by the way. Maybe there's hope for memepool yet!
posted by otherthings_ at 10:17 PM on March 27, 2012 [1 favorite]
Thanks for the little Ubik moment, joshu.
Ze Frank is making a comeback by the way. Maybe there's hope for memepool yet!
posted by otherthings_ at 10:17 PM on March 27, 2012 [1 favorite]
Oh please, memepool was like a bud.com ripoff. And saying that, I do check memepool every week out of shear habit. Man Justin Hall changed from weird to strange to kind of boring.
I had the biggest crush on LE that used to post on bud.com - I was, for a few years, going to name my first daughter after her. And then I realized that I didn't want kids.
posted by alex_skazat at 12:22 AM on March 28, 2012
I had the biggest crush on LE that used to post on bud.com - I was, for a few years, going to name my first daughter after her. And then I realized that I didn't want kids.
posted by alex_skazat at 12:22 AM on March 28, 2012
Sometimes you'd go days between posts on memepool. The Internet was different then.
posted by furtive at 1:37 AM on March 28, 2012
posted by furtive at 1:37 AM on March 28, 2012
So if I were to resurrect it, I'd really like to do something that is the best at what it is. And that means not being BoingBoing, Metafilter, Delicious, Reddit, etc.
That is too bad. Memepool was one of the best sites on the internets at the time because of the quality of the links. The Internet has matured in a way that seems to have reduced the number of fun and offbeat sites despite the overall growth, sort of like the difference from pirate radio to commercial radio. Maybe Memepool (simple site, great links, well curated) is too hard to pull off today. If anyone could do it though...
posted by caddis at 2:34 AM on March 28, 2012
That is too bad. Memepool was one of the best sites on the internets at the time because of the quality of the links. The Internet has matured in a way that seems to have reduced the number of fun and offbeat sites despite the overall growth, sort of like the difference from pirate radio to commercial radio. Maybe Memepool (simple site, great links, well curated) is too hard to pull off today. If anyone could do it though...
posted by caddis at 2:34 AM on March 28, 2012
With the relaunch of Memepool (kind of) and Friends Reunited, maybe somebody will relaunch Plastic?
posted by iviken at 6:19 AM on March 28, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by iviken at 6:19 AM on March 28, 2012 [1 favorite]
This can only mean one thing: The resurrection of BIFF is at hand.
posted by VicNebulous at 7:21 AM on March 28, 2012 [4 favorites]
posted by VicNebulous at 7:21 AM on March 28, 2012 [4 favorites]
NTK i not coming back, but if you are willing to pivot 90 degrees and wait a while beteen postings, you can check out Mil Milington's emails and www.thingsmygirlfriendandihavearguedabout.com
Also, what about plastic.com?
posted by wenestvedt at 9:10 AM on March 28, 2012 [3 favorites]
Also, what about plastic.com?
posted by wenestvedt at 9:10 AM on March 28, 2012 [3 favorites]
Joshu, thank you big time for making spaces where I can find cool stuff without wasting as much time.
posted by BrotherCaine at 12:43 PM on March 28, 2012
posted by BrotherCaine at 12:43 PM on March 28, 2012
So how do we pronounce memepool?
posted by arcticseal at 2:04 AM on March 29, 2012
posted by arcticseal at 2:04 AM on March 29, 2012
as far as this post is concerned, "d.o.a."
posted by crunchland at 4:42 AM on March 29, 2012
posted by crunchland at 4:42 AM on March 29, 2012
Hmm. Still waiting for the next weekly NTK email...
Danny has an offer in the left sidebar of Oblomovka (he blogged about it too, but I'm too lazy to track it down) where if 5 people sign up to / donate to ORG he'll do a special issue of NTK.
I'm a member, but would be willing to make an extra donation. Anyone else want to club together to make it happen?
posted by Busy Old Fool at 4:48 AM on March 29, 2012
Danny has an offer in the left sidebar of Oblomovka (he blogged about it too, but I'm too lazy to track it down) where if 5 people sign up to / donate to ORG he'll do a special issue of NTK.
I'm a member, but would be willing to make an extra donation. Anyone else want to club together to make it happen?
posted by Busy Old Fool at 4:48 AM on March 29, 2012
Which is sort of weird because of course "meme" is pronounced "maymay". (Also, do not confuse Memepool with Meme Pool.)
posted by Nelson at 8:18 AM on March 29, 2012
posted by Nelson at 8:18 AM on March 29, 2012
Except he keeps veering wildly to the right.
posted by crunchland at 11:53 AM on March 29, 2012
posted by crunchland at 11:53 AM on March 29, 2012
The meaning, or at least the connotations of the word "meme" has changed a lot in that time as well.
One thing that kind of sucks about going back and reading really old links is that so many of the links are dead. One 'feature' of a new mempool might be to archive all the stuff you link too, so you can go back and actually see what was on the web years prior.
posted by delmoi at 7:59 PM on March 29, 2012
One thing that kind of sucks about going back and reading really old links is that so many of the links are dead. One 'feature' of a new mempool might be to archive all the stuff you link too, so you can go back and actually see what was on the web years prior.
posted by delmoi at 7:59 PM on March 29, 2012
MEEM-pool.
Correct, although I will note that cortex is a known-unreliable authority on pronunciation. Heh.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 8:55 PM on March 29, 2012
Correct, although I will note that cortex is a known-unreliable authority on pronunciation. Heh.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 8:55 PM on March 29, 2012
Gonna give a shoutout to (the original) Cruel.com here, while we're at it.
posted by ShutterBun at 9:49 PM on March 29, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by ShutterBun at 9:49 PM on March 29, 2012 [1 favorite]
Another memepool denizen here. It's how I found MeFi.
posted by azpenguin at 7:35 AM on March 30, 2012
posted by azpenguin at 7:35 AM on March 30, 2012
Regarding Robot Wisdom: the original blog seems to have been abandoned, but I just checked, and it turns out Jorn is still doing frequent updates on Google+ and Twitter, as well as maintaining a Flickr favorites feed.
I also got here (as a long-time lurker) back in 2000-2001ish via probably some combination of memepool, Robot Wisdom, and Follow Me Here (which is still around too, though it's not at world.std.com any more).
posted by orthicon halo at 7:51 AM on March 30, 2012
I also got here (as a long-time lurker) back in 2000-2001ish via probably some combination of memepool, Robot Wisdom, and Follow Me Here (which is still around too, though it's not at world.std.com any more).
posted by orthicon halo at 7:51 AM on March 30, 2012
A ripoff? Bite your tongue, bud and memepool were totally apples and oranges.
Am I remembering right that Anheuser-Busch offered whoever it was that actually owned bud.com a whole lot of money for it BITD? Or was that made up? It's clear from the state of the homepage today that they never did sell out to The Man, so...
posted by clavicle at 9:14 AM on March 30, 2012
Am I remembering right that Anheuser-Busch offered whoever it was that actually owned bud.com a whole lot of money for it BITD? Or was that made up? It's clear from the state of the homepage today that they never did sell out to The Man, so...
posted by clavicle at 9:14 AM on March 30, 2012
I miss the memepool mailing list. And pudding, after the schism. That was my lifeline to USian culture while I was living in Tokyo.
posted by bashos_frog at 6:30 PM on March 30, 2012
posted by bashos_frog at 6:30 PM on March 30, 2012
No RSS feed?
posted by republican at 12:12 PM on March 31, 2012
posted by republican at 12:12 PM on March 31, 2012
It's unlikely I'd ever wear a Metafilter t-shirt, but I *still* wear my NTK t-shirts.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 12:14 PM on March 31, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by PeterMcDermott at 12:14 PM on March 31, 2012 [1 favorite]
If you are reading this, and you would like to help with something we have planned (hint: it was the 15th anniversary of our beta last week), we're completely looking for the kind of people who read things like this to the end of the thread several days after everyone else has moved on.
sssshhhh though or they'll all want one
posted by ntk at 6:33 PM on April 4, 2012 [7 favorites]
sssshhhh though or they'll all want one
posted by ntk at 6:33 PM on April 4, 2012 [7 favorites]
No RSS feed?
Lookin' kind of borked right now (in google reader anyways), but there's:
www.memepool.com/memepool.rss
posted by juv3nal at 11:15 AM on April 10, 2012
Lookin' kind of borked right now (in google reader anyways), but there's:
www.memepool.com/memepool.rss
posted by juv3nal at 11:15 AM on April 10, 2012
Wow. You're brave ntk. I would never post my email address to a forum like Metafilter. Have you noticed any uptick in spam since you posted it?
posted by crunchland at 11:25 AM on April 10, 2012
posted by crunchland at 11:25 AM on April 10, 2012
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