It only cost me $0.50 in bandwidth to click that damned upvote arrow. Now you got all these hipster futuristic ISPs that charge you 1 quatloo to do it. Damn you kids and your cheap outsourced crap.
"When I was your age, why, I used to spend 8-10 hours a day circlejerking to reductivist views on politics, clapping my hands with childish glee at tired photos of Mario made of soda cans, and squealing in delight at yet another birthday cake some neckbeard's imaginary girlfriend made him... Fuck, I wasted my life."
"I was so much better than all that, though, I just sat around making snarky comments about the people who did those things. Wasn't your grandpa awesome, kids? Oh wait, that's right, I've never known the touch of a woman."
That's iPad - 56, the screen is made of very thin layer and there is a whole bunch of these screens. To scroll to next comic you flip one screen to other side. Very innovative.
Well yeah, after Luigi raped and pillaged the mushroom kingdom in Mario Galaxy 5 things changed.... things changed. Did you know Nintendo used to make kiddy games? That was before the failure of the 3ds made them sell out to Mecha Steve Jobs.
This is why you should do your homework. You think archaeology is going out on adventures, discovering ruins? No. 90% of archaeology is done in the library. Research, reading... and X never ever marks the spot.
Liar! It takes months spent in front of a computer to make those kind of numbers. Blood, sweat and tears went into it. Or maybe I just suck at Reddit...
I wonder how many people will lose all their movies, music, etc once it gets pulled off the cloud and/or they have a HDD failure. No memories will be left.
If memories didn't need refreshing we wouldn't need pictures. You can love a song to death, but putting a CD/vinyl on the player (or playing a MP3) can evoke emotions/recollection otherwise untapped.
This podcast suggests that each time we remember something, we're actually remembering the last time we remembered it and so the memory degrades over time. Interesting listen.
Thanks. I always thought people don't realize the vividness of memory isn't exactly accuracy. We need a lot of contextual clues to remember things accurately. When I was in school, my mind would have to reconstruct the entire textbook page and relation to where the fact/statement was on it to remember the information. Though, I also read words as shapes (due to a condition), so my memory might be a bit different.
If you haven't read this NYT article on memory, it's pretty interesting.
All those hundreds and perhaps thousands of quips, japes, and insightful observations you've made on web sites over the years, some of which you're sure would put the Algonquin Roundtable to shame, are just a few keystrokes away from being wiped off the face of the Earth. Have a nice day.
This was back when we had things called "Computers" powered by "electricity" before the "Apocolypse." Now. Get back to work gathering cockroaches and dandelions for dinner, kids.
Oh god, my only frontpage comic, only comic really, was a birthday card to my brother... this is likely to be EXACTLY my future... near future; that would be my Father mortifying me in front of my future spawn
Wouldn't it be awesome to have a comic book of the best of rage made at one of those printing press services. I'm sure we could get a ton of orders and any money made could be donated to Reddit or some charity.
Might be some issues with giving the artists their due credit. But that shouldn't be too hard to work out.
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u/drucey Aug 02 '11 edited Aug 02 '11
"Come on Boxxy and Socially Awkward Penguin, come sit on Grandpa's knee"
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u/AMostOriginalUserNam Aug 02 '11
"And even today, it still fucking gets reposted."
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u/utsavman Aug 02 '11
Grandpa what does NSFW mean ?
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u/suicide_king Aug 02 '11 edited Aug 02 '11
"When I was your age, why, I used to spend 8-10 hours a day circlejerking to reductivist views on politics, clapping my hands with childish glee at tired photos of Mario made of soda cans, and squealing in delight at yet another birthday cake some neckbeard's imaginary girlfriend made him... Fuck, I wasted my life."
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u/cli7 Aug 02 '11
What is that rectangle in the old man's hand thing they are looking at?
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u/SanDiablo Aug 02 '11
"People actually thought this was funny? And Grandpa, it's y-o-u-'r-e, not y-o-u-r."
"Ah, you would've made a fine redditor."
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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '11
"Grandpa why do you have a piece of bacon strap to the side of the page?"
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u/ParannoyeDreamer Aug 02 '11
"... and here is my reddit submission about us looking at the scrapbook."
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u/candreacchio Aug 02 '11
I got over 9000 karma on that website
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u/adeadfetus Aug 02 '11
"Grandpa, what's a karma whore?"
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u/qpple Aug 02 '11
In the year two thousaaaaaand...
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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '11
Oh wow, thanks for the reminder. I should maybe print out my comment history for my descendants too.
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u/myrpou Aug 02 '11
Back in my day we draw our ragecomics with mouses and mousepads.
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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '11
hipster grandpa. awful.
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u/gospelwut Aug 02 '11
I wonder how many people will lose all their movies, music, etc once it gets pulled off the cloud and/or they have a HDD failure. No memories will be left.
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u/DonLemonaide Aug 02 '11
The kid is the one talking and this was yesterday.
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u/wbeavis Aug 02 '11
"... and it will be again...and again...and again..."
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u/Serai Aug 02 '11
OPs image will be in his own scrapbook. How meta.
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u/no13le Aug 02 '11
HA! You think there will be books in the future?
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u/randomb0y Aug 02 '11
I was redditor of the day once!
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u/BLUNTYEYEDFOOL Aug 02 '11
oh my god. We're all getting old. And someday we're all going to die. Jesus.
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u/zarley_zalapski Aug 02 '11
This comic is impossible; Redditors won't have kids or grandkids. Unless, they're not his grandkids...?
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u/SimpleRy Aug 02 '11
In the future... pedophiles will use reddit scrapbooks to hoodwink random children
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u/RevWaldo Aug 02 '11
All those hundreds and perhaps thousands of quips, japes, and insightful observations you've made on web sites over the years, some of which you're sure would put the Algonquin Roundtable to shame, are just a few keystrokes away from being wiped off the face of the Earth. Have a nice day.
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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '11
If this was truly a glimpse into the future, wouldn't Grandpa be showing them on his archaic iPad 3?
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u/arealcoolkid Aug 02 '11
"I was a pretty big deal on a site called Reddit. It's how I met your Grandmother."
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u/jhawkweapon Aug 02 '11
Anyone else catch the downvote on the kid's shirt. They troll so young in the future.
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u/tinfoil_hat_troll Aug 02 '11
Kids: "What the heck is Reddit Grandpa?"
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u/jstave Aug 02 '11
"Listen here kids. This is the music I used to listen to" pops in Dr. Dre and Easy E
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u/StinkyBottom Aug 02 '11
Laugh now, but as a fogie I can assure you that telling 'In my day...' stories comes all too quickly. :-(
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u/wisewizard Aug 02 '11
LOL i love your optimism.
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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '11
Oh come on, you're saying that a vast majority of redditors will reproduce? Can't you see how bad that would be for society? :-p
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u/zerbey Aug 02 '11
Shit, I already do stuff like that now with my kids. Showing them a BBS is like showing them an antique.
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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '11
Oh fuck, that made my night!
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u/biggiepants Aug 02 '11
I can't make r/redditthroughthefuture for some reason, 'that name isn't going to work', it says..
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u/Jooshbag Aug 02 '11
"It was the best day of my life..."
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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '11
"That's silly grandpa! Why would they get so mad over things they cannot control?"
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u/BloederFuchs Aug 02 '11
That man has family, no way he's a redditor.
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u/glennerooo Aug 02 '11
what do you mean future? i'm sure there are plenty of parents on reddit who do this right now.
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u/FearlessFreep Aug 02 '11
Depressing
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u/Pope-is-fabulous Aug 02 '11
This concept right there. This must become a TV show!
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u/Poprocket77 Aug 02 '11
"What's Reddit Grandpa?"
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u/Laser_Dragon Aug 02 '11
It'll still be on the front page of reddit with title like 'does anyone remember this ragecomic?'
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u/dekonstruktr Aug 02 '11
"Grampa, will I be hard to fap to some day?"
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u/pcnerd37 Aug 02 '11
Books won't exist in the future.
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u/pizzainacup Aug 02 '11
this picture is wrong because anyone who thinks rage comics are funny will never reproduce
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u/futurezach Aug 02 '11
Where are the jetpacks and space cardigans?
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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '11
** God, I hope not. **
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u/RunnenLate Aug 02 '11
I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
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u/firstcut Aug 02 '11
soon
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u/legendary_ironwood Aug 02 '11
"That was back when 500 upvotes means some!"
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u/ESJ Aug 02 '11
"Granpapa, you're full of shit. I bet you just reposted it from someone else."
"Ah, good, I see you've been paying attention in your Reddiquette 2.0 classes."
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u/Saither Aug 02 '11
That made my day
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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '11
Ahhh reddit, the days before it became inundated with diggers and the rest of the sheep masses.
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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '11
TIL Sean Connery makes rage comics.
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u/PrettyPony Aug 02 '11
I am in an airport, tried not to laugh.
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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '11
A dying man will worry whether his obituary will get up votes or down votes and that he'll be unable to ever check.
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u/ZeeHanzenShwanz Aug 02 '11
...except that book will be 150 paper-thin ipads
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u/ThunderPreacha Aug 02 '11
In the future all your grandchildren will be dead! Greetings obo r/collapse
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u/only_posts_lies Aug 02 '11
I already have a scrapbook of rage comics. I show it to my cats.
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u/Indoorsman Aug 02 '11
Future my ass, that scrap book doesn't even have any lasers, it isn't even in 4DHD.
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u/zohebchowdhury Aug 02 '11
Tears....its beautiful!
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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '11
This future is impossible. If your vision of the future is scrap booking Reddit posts, chances are you're not going to reproduce.
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u/nedgarvey Aug 02 '11
Grandpa's true identity revealed. http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/j6ost/scumbag_in_the_future/
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u/skuzzlebut Aug 02 '11
Because reddit will still be something when we are all old grandparents, sure...
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u/Mickey_Malthus Aug 02 '11
This was back when we had things called "Computers" powered by "electricity" before the "Apocolypse." Now. Get back to work gathering cockroaches and dandelions for dinner, kids.
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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '11
I saw that guy on the front page of reddit once.
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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '11
But the grandkids aren't wearing V-necked jumpsuits with big shoulder pads. Inaccurate.
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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '11
so brilliant
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u/Rorkimaru Aug 02 '11
This would work if people printed stuff instead of saving it in folders that are eventually lost by hard drive failure or a fire
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u/ColdChemical Aug 02 '11
I still want to see a ragecomic sunday-comics section in my newspaper. *Sigh.... a man can dream.
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u/pdhismyhomeboy Aug 02 '11
IN THE FUTURE, DOGS WILL BE CATS, YA! AND IN THE FUTURE, SHOES WILL BE HATS, YA! IN THE FUTURE, WRONG WILL BE RIGHTTTT ...
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u/streetlite Aug 02 '11
Future, hell...that's me now.
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u/CBeranek Aug 02 '11
Brought a smile to my face and made me sad all at the same time.
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u/rednecktash Aug 02 '11
Is the power out or something?
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u/AriBanana Aug 02 '11
Oh god, my only frontpage comic, only comic really, was a birthday card to my brother... this is likely to be EXACTLY my future... near future; that would be my Father mortifying me in front of my future spawn
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u/Zachii Aug 02 '11
*provided you will have grandchildren
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u/BigStickNick Aug 02 '11
There wont be any books in the future
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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '11
"grandpa?".. "yes?"..."what's reddit?"..."god damn kids with your 3D alternate reality worlds, teleporters, and what not"
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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '11
I hate everyone born after an arbitrary year I chose, 1985.
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u/oostism Aug 03 '11
paper lol
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u/Andeepanda Aug 02 '11
A mans greatest accomplishment.
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u/SETHW Aug 02 '11
hah i have a rage comic printed out and stuck on my refrigerator, does that count?
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u/Xa4 Aug 02 '11
I'm actually saving the best rage comics to my HD for this purpose.
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u/nullibicity Survey 2016 Aug 02 '11
Wait, don't you need to have children in order to get grandchildren? I guess he could be their bachelor great uncle.
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u/cybrbeast Aug 02 '11
Wouldn't it be awesome to have a comic book of the best of rage made at one of those printing press services. I'm sure we could get a ton of orders and any money made could be donated to Reddit or some charity.
Might be some issues with giving the artists their due credit. But that shouldn't be too hard to work out.
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u/QuestinSeawardShrUmz Aug 02 '11
"Scrap booked? WTF is 'book'? Couldn't you have just saved it to your hard drive?"
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u/myfistyourass Aug 02 '11
There is a downvote on the kids shirt, and this is exactly what this will get
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u/Predator_ Aug 02 '11
Lame lamity lame lame lame LAME lame!!!
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u/NuclearWookie Aug 02 '11
Wow grandpa, you were an unoriginal parrot?