In honor of the death of Reddit (I hope), let’s harken back to a simpler time, perhaps when we old-timers were migrating from BBS chatting to Slashdot to Reddit. My favorite “oldie” is “The Website Is Down,” from 2009-ish. It perfectly captures what IT support is like.
What’s your fave?
The True Meaning of Life Virtual Meditation Chamber.
From Wikipedia: More commonly referred to by its acronym TMOL, the site was originally started in early 2000 as a version of Forum 2000 and The Conversatron, but one that focused on the idea that videogames reflected a deep, self-actualizing message that could improve one’s life. The conceit of the site was that it evangelized this videogame-centric, pseudo-Buddhist philosophy via a “Virtual Meditation Chamber”, where the site’s visitors, or “Supplicants”, would ask for the advice or the opinion of the “Gurus”. Headed by the fictional “lead Guru wrangler”, The Seeker, TMOL ran from July 2000 – January 2004, and the best-of archive of this run is still available online.