@jwz Aww, two days late for

Roses are red
Violets are blue
All my base
Are belong to you

(source: the internet one or two decades ago)

@jwz one time at work there was a form I really didn't want people printing (fuck printing) so I encoded that in white type on a white background on the web page: ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US.

On screen, invisible, but those bloated LaserJet 4si would turn it to regular black type.

People lost their shit. Some called me up "have we been haaaaacked??"

I would just say, "you printed the form, didn't you?"

@jwz It is... hard, to think back far enough to really remember the emotional tone of being hit with this by someone.

"You haven't seen AYBABTU?"

"What's an AYBABTU?"

... and then this happened.

It felt... weird. And a little tedious. Like the joke is clear at way before the halfway point.

And yet... It also felt, I dunno... Significant? That one person could do this for like no money on the stuff they had rigged together?

I think that was the most important part. The "Check out what one person can do" part.

(... given, of course, that the one person hadn't actually created all the art assets they pulled from. A fact that would also prove significant in the future...)

@jwz Somebody set us up the bomb!! 💣

Also brb getting my walker now. 👴

@jwz
"All Your Base Are Belong To Us" WoW Now that takes me back to the good old days of the Net.😁
Long before MySpace or Facebook, back in a time where it was IRC Chat & Internet Forums like phpBB or vBulletin.
Good Exploits sure lasted way longer back then.😈
Thanks for the flashback to old times.

#AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs

@jwz

I was working as a network security engineer at a major data center provider (pre-cloud, people rented space in data centers and bought servers to put in them! Barbaric, I know).

Anyway I sat one cubical over from the team that did spam monitoring.

Someone in IRC said “all your base are belong to us.”

I mused out loud as to what that could mean and a lady from the spam team overheard me and yelled loudly “OH GOD NOT YOU TOO”

@jwz for those of us that can't use YouTube

https://sepiasearch.org/search?search=all+your+base

#PeerTube #AllYourBase

@jwz I remember when the Internet was this, the dancing baby, and a bunch of ultra-tasteless-and-racist Taliban memes. And you could moderate your exposure by just... not dialing in. Just stay offline and putter around in Visual Basic or the Flight Simulator scenery editor. Maybe one of the new SNES emulators that can kinda play commercial games, or ZZT if you were feeling old-school.

Good times.

@jwz It's finally time. 5 years later than expected.

https://xkcd.com/286/

#xkcd #AllYourBase

@jwz When I saw this for the first time, it was legitimately the funnest thing I'd seen in my life. I was bursting out laughing at random times for days whenever I thought about it. I'm not really sure exactly why I found it so funny. Probably a bit of luck being the right style at the right time.

So although I don't feel anything like that any more, I do appreciate the reminder and remaster. (Although, at lot of the images in this 'slight remaster' have barely readable text. I wonder if it was always like that.)

@jwz also, RIP to Jeffrey Ray Roberts, aka The Laziest Men on Mars, who passed away in 2011.

https://www.quisenberryfh.com/obituary/1270757

JWZ. Christ. You're on Mastadon and active.
Brother. about:jwz was the entire web for me for years. You and maddox and portal of evil.

Thanks for the remaster. Its glorious. I cranked it up.
YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO SURVIVE MAKE YOUR TIME.