Somebody remembers dolphinsex.org.

My active eBay account is from 1999.

Congratulations! I wish I could hear about your thesis without identifying you. I’m sure it is great and fascinating!

HEY!

We also had weird ass chatrooms.

We’ve been using Element (Matrix) for our household group chats and it has worked perfectly. That said, I do have a whole ass IT professional in-house to set up a dedicated server so I cannot speak to ease and such.

I think most people don’t want to self host though. I can’t speak to the ease of signing up and using the available public servers.

In terms of functionality as a chat program it’s great.

Holy cow! What an incredible feat! In the AUSTRALIAN ocean of all places???

I want to make a joke about a get-out-of-chores for life card but honestly I’m just so impressed by his determination.

It’s unclear if he used a public phone - do they still have pay phones in Australia? Or did he flag down someone with a cell phone? I think this makes a case that public beaches should have pay phones in case someone needs to call emergency services.

Just wow. Kid deserves a medal.

Oh that’s why it was familiar, thank you.

The original Bedazzled (1967) is hilarious and worth a watch. The dynamic between Dudley Moore and Peter Cook is brilliant.

Don’t worry, she doesn’t resemble Ivanka so she’s probably safe.

I like Element well enough. It works for my needs.