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• Nelson.C commented on Vinge's BRILLIANT "Rainbows End" as a free download
  Hemidemi @17, the tags are part of the text, for flavour and verisimilitude. If you read the book, you'll notice that they are part of the intaweb chat between the characters, not just randomly left in by poor proof-reading....
• ill lich commented on Was 2006 The Golden Age Of Viral Videos?
  "The golden age"? . . . hmmmm. . . . I think that after the first big blast of viral videos in early years of youtube, EVERYBODY thought they could make some internet-hit-video, and so people who were either lazy or just not very talented started putting up videos of their dog chasing his tail backed with any pop song that had "round and round" in the chorus (Ratt and Dead or Alive come to mind). So it's not so much that a golden age has come and gone, but that it's harder to find truly good videos now because...
• jetsetsc commented on Was 2006 The Golden Age Of Viral Videos?
  Gosh, this takes me back. Such a simple time. Such fond, sepia toned memories of a bygone era. Today's generation just doesn't understand. Sniff.....
• thrillbot commented on Was 2006 The Golden Age Of Viral Videos?
  Several years ago, the people putting videos up on the internet were truly driven to do so. (These were the first videos to make it to YouTube in '06, creating the illusion of a golden age.) Now it's easy to upload any old thing without a great effort. YouTube has proliferated, camcorders are cheaper, and more people have access to cheap/free video editing software like iMovie. The good videos still exist--it's simply harder to find them....
• Rob commented on Was 2006 The Golden Age Of Viral Videos?
  There's no such thing as a golden age....