The 90s were an innocent time, where the idea of a guy removing a rib in order to suck himself off was the most outrageous thing we could imagine.

[pieisawesome@lemmy.world]

It was Van Halen

[albbi@lemmy.ca]

Apparently Marilyn Manson playing Paul was just one of the first internet rumours and isn't true, which in itself is a pretty facinating piece of history.

The True Story Behind 'Wonder Years' Star and Crazy Marilyn Manson Rumor [Video]

Josh Saviano, who played Paul Pfeiffer, once considered getting onstage with the shock rocker.

Yahoo Entertainment (www.yahoo.com)

[whatsay@slrpnk.net]

In the 90s, I remember going to rotten.com and seeing dead bodies. Kids these days don't know about the wild west world web.

[cowfodder@lemmy.world]

I'm sad that none of the other responses seem to have gotten the Wayne's World 2 reference.

[over_clox@lemmy.world]

I remember before it was called rotten.com, it was originally called thecreepingeyemorgue.com. That doesn't exactly roll off the tongue very well though..

[tramort@programming.dev]

It's quaint, right?

[aggravationstation@feddit.uk]

So am I. We'll have to beat them to death with their own shoes...

[evilfonzy@lemmy.world]

We'll just have to beat them to deaf wif their own shoes.

[eabod25@lemm.ee]

I mean this in the best possible way regardless of my harsh tone, and it's going to seem very agressive (be warned)

but are you fucking stupid. We aren't fucking talking about a god damn comparison to what the fuck is happening today or 25 years ago. We are talking about the bullshit that happened 26 or more years ago. Jesus christ, are atrocities just a pissing contest anymore? You want to play the game of what generation had it the worse? My bet is the motherfuckers that had sit and watch 5 million people die because they were just people doing their own shit.

You see in situations like this, your opinion about what generation had it worse is completely GOD DAMN irrelevant. Atrocities occur in every fucking decade, and you have presented me with more proof of that. But your view is "we got it worse". Fuck that and fuck you.

[jesus_666@lemmy.world]

Not to mention the granddaddy of link pranks, Goatse. This excerpt from Wikipedia gives a nice little window info how the web operated back then:

The goatse.cx image has been used by website authors to discourage other sites from hot-linking to them. By replacing the hot-linked image with an embarrassing image when hot-linking has been discovered, an unsubtle message is sent to the offending website's operators, visible to all who view the web page in question. In 2007, Wired.com hot-linked to another site in an article about the "sexiest geeks of 2007"; the site subsequently swapped the hot-linked image with one from goatse.cx.

Man, I miss the early Internet.

[jackgreenearth@lemm.ee]

Does that have updated verses?

[tiredofsametab@fedia.io]

How old are you? That's not even close to true.

[then_three_more@lemmy.world]

Eastern Europe collapsing in the power vacuum left by the fall of the USSR, multiple civil wars, horrendous war crimes including genocide. NATO having to go in.

[4am@lemmy.world]

Or the woman singer who drank so much of her male SO’s cum that she had to have her stomach pumped

Viral word of mouth rumors were wild back then

[beacon@fedia.io]

I'm gonna be kind to you even though you're acting like an asshole. Comparison of bad things between eras is LITERALLY what this whole page topic is about, and it's also LITERALLY what you did in your original comment that i replied to.

[not_rick@lemmy.world]

Somebody get this guy a snickers

[eabod25@lemm.ee]

Don't care. Bye

[eabod25@lemm.ee]

Another good example

[shalafi@lemmy.world]

In Tombstone, when Wyatt threatens to turn that dudes head into a canoe? I saw that exact pic on rotten.com. Looked like: U

[lost_my_mind@lemmy.world]

2007 was early internet???