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End of an æra

Peter — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 20:29:28 +0000

So Encyclopædia Dramatica is no more, replaced by the rather anodyne http://ohinternet.com/. At first glance I hated Oh Internet, it just seems so bland and corporate, but on a closer look some of the articles are fairly interesting. If it wasn’t for its predecessor I’d probably consider it a rather good site. I expect the creators will do fairly well out of it at least.

But there are plenty of blogs about internet culture, and we already have KnowYourMeme. ED was different. Sure, parts of its content were hateful and it had a nasty habit of harassing Wikipedia editors. Yet its “take no prisoners” style of humour and critique could be laugh-till-you-puke funny. And not just puke because someone stuck a Goatse pic in the middle of the article, but because its incisive style was just what some of the more self-important parts of the Internet needed.

I doubt we’ll see the like of ED again. Many might say that’s a good thing, but I’m not so sure.

Also: I wonder how long it will be until someone tries to delete ED’s Wikipedia article. Again.

Update: Here’s one of the mirrors that has sprung up http://encyclopediadramatica.ch (nsfw, obviously!) It looks to have a strong “campaignAnon” contingent. According to AnonNews the owners of Oh Internet have threatened to sue anyone who tries to replicate, mirror or redistribute the old ED. That should go down well. *grabs popcorn*

Update 2: I forgot to mention my favourite thing about ED. In amongst all the hate and bile was the article on b3ta (nsfw). It even said “the people on b3ta actually are pretty nice”. There was some discussion on the talk page (now lost) about making the article nastier, but no one ever did anything.

b3ta – so fluffy even ED can’t say anything bad about it

The part that makes your face implode

Peter — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 22:08:12 +0000

Ok, so I was going to do some in depth analysis of wiki-related things here. But screw that: it’s animated gif time!

Here‘s the whole of that amazing Indian movie scene.
And more Jedi gifs at Jedis are Bastards

More than meets the eye

Peter — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:19:36 +0000

Lol, maths

Peter — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:45:21 +0000

I apologise for the technical quality of this picture. It was made in Facebook’s “Graffiti” application, using my laptop’s useless touchpad. Even so, it’s apparently the second most popular picture I’ve ever posted on b3ta. Hooray for maths jokes!

Also from the maths jokes compo:

STOP!

Peter — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:30:45 +0000

Grammer time!

(No reason)

A silly

Peter — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:18:57 +0000

I scream, you scream, we all scream for Starscream.
Also, this took far too long to make.

Sorry

Peter — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:07:57 +0000

Satire! (of sorts)

Peter — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:01:19 +0000

Lime madness

Peter — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:22:45 +0000

So I thought I’d post some of the pics I made from b3ta‘s night of lime madness a bit ago. I think we all went slightly insane that night, but I know I haven’t laughed so much in ages.

This was a lime-ification of TGA’s pic, which was on the FP at the time.

More limes…