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Nostalgia meets satire in pre-social media

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That’s a rather pretentious title to sum up a rather excellent XKCD cartoon that manages to both make me nostaligic for the chatrooms that made up some of my first experiences of community interaction on the web – and satirise the worst excesses of what passes for social these days. Fine, fine work.

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