2009-10-28
Ode to GeoCities from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
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The Internet's Lament
A tribute to Geocities and the internet of the olden days:
"Hey, you kids on Facebook! Yo, you teens on Twitter!
And anybody else with Roomba-iPhone babysitters!
You text and you chat 'till your thumbs get creaky,
Your eyes bug out and your brain goes squeaky.
Youtube's down for maintenance and Gmail's just plain out.
Do your teeth get to grinding? Does your hair pull straight out?
Well, hush up with your whining, and take heed of this ol' vet.
No horrors of a war long past, this is about the internet.
I braved the streets of SouthBayou (/Pier/9092/SpockFan.html)
Armed with nothing but my AOL and my trusty Packard-Bell.
Every morning I awoke to shrill and beeping midis
Embedded in the background of the wretched Geocities.
Stick figures donning hard hats, "Under Construction!" signs,
Guestbooks, counters, webrings (THIS SITE RULES NOW VISIT MINE!)
Lime green text and chartreuse backgrounds, let's add a blink tag here!
You load a page and hold your breath, half in awe and half in fear.
Dancing hamsters, dancing Jesus and dancing babies too.
Animated gifs can do some awful things to you.
They haunt my dreams, the early memes: Mr. T and I KISS YOU!!!!
I close my eyes and find that all my base belongs to you.
56k was the best, way back in those old days
Downloading files, awful --up the hill both ways!
Now newer days have come bringing Wifi, Bluetooth and 3Gs
All that's left of Geocities? Shuttered sites 'n tacky memories.
So next time your dear MySpace or LJ 404's?
Remember for a moment the words of this ol' web dino.
And as you gaze from your high rise on Intertubes Blvd and Lolcat Drive
Be thankful for your Web 2.0, as it wasn't always so
And remember poor Geocities which was barely Web .5!"hug_machine enjoys hugs and spinning purple letters.
The Latest AFA Nutjob Demands to Corporations
Religious right demanding that Mars (aka Snickers), Domino's and Ikea take a stand against gay couples adopting childrenIKEA? LOL Yeah right... Good Luck with that one, AFA.What a weird thing to demand. But that's what the American Family Association is now doing. They're demanding that Mars (parent company of Snickers), Domino's and Ikea stop advertising on ABCs TV show "Modern Family" because - get this - a gay couple adopts a child.
It gets even funnier. AFA also demands the ads be pulled because in the show a woman and her mother have "a dysfunctional relationship with high tension and negativity." Yeah, that's not reality.I write this to highlight just how bigoted the religious right really is. They're demanding that no one advertise on a TV show because a gay couple adopts a child? Because the show had the audacity to show an adult who has a tense relationship with her mother? Are they nuts?
It will be interesting to see if any of the three companies respond. Especially since the American Family Association was caught peddling the anti-gay "science" of a known hate group. Such hateful "science" that the Southern Poverty Law Center said it has "echoes of Nazi Germany." You'll also recall that the AFA has had a Jewish problem for years.
Hard to believe Mars, Domino's and IKEA want to be seen aligning with a group like that.
Mars, you'll recall, makes Snickers. And Snickers, you'll recall, had a big PR disaster in the gay community a few years back with their violent anti-gay Super Bowl ad. As for Domino's, they've been trying to forever to shake off the bad press they get for their founder being a right-wing nut. And Ikea... Ikea? The religious right honestly thinks a Swedish company - a company from a country that allows gay marriage - that has its own gay ads is going to pull its ads from a TV show because the show has a gay couple adopting a child? Really?
