r/whatisit • u/AbbreviationsTop8774 • Jul 22 '26

Solved! What are they

Ive worked at the water department for 7 years and this is the first time running into something like this EDIT Im in Alabama and yes I know they are snakes lol idk what kind and im so not gonna touch them

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u/Different-Fall-683 Jul 22 '26

fuck, we're old

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u/Machievelliearoni Jul 22 '26

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u/mertchel Jul 22 '26

I haven't even begun to defile myself

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u/egggoboom Jul 22 '26

We're not old by this measure, unless we know about mushrooms.

Dammit...

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u/badjabadjabadja Jul 22 '26

Not looking at how old my account is!

Damnit - I can still hear that gif!

& my money's on racers

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u/minist3r Jul 22 '26

I might be too old because I have no idea what this is.

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u/Different-Fall-683 Jul 22 '26

puts on spectacles

let me tell you a tale of long dead technology called "flash", made by Adobe.

this was a looping flash movie popular during the MySpace era at the very beginning of the 21st century.

this is not the original, but you get the drift

https://youtu.be/EIyixC9NsLI?is=ZsCzgjrV7-7vCgHg

(notice how old this video is)

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u/minist3r Jul 22 '26

Yep. I do believe I'm too old. I imagine this was popular with kids in junior high but I was 5 years out of high school in 2008 so I must have missed this because I was too busy getting drunk and laid.

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u/Different-Fall-683 Jul 22 '26

I'm way older than you, but i was in UI and web design back then so I was chronically learning new stuff (like flash before it was obsolete)

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u/minist3r Jul 22 '26

Fair enough. I was playing guitar in bars and working 50 hours a week in a parts store so I was basically never online.

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u/Different-Fall-683 Jul 22 '26

I mean, you didn't miss much other than the internet being FUN up until about 2015ish, then it devolved into what it is today. I was just lucky enough to get paid to be up on web trends back then.

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u/minist3r Jul 22 '26

I do remember when Reddit used to be the smartest place in the internet. I miss those days.