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What is the origin of the lake tank image that has become a meme? (2021)

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540 points napolux | 4 comments | 20 Nov 24 13:30 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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legutierr ◴[20 Nov 24 14:46 UTC] No.42194340[source]▶
This feels like a ghost of the internet of the 1990s.

This writeup deserves its own website, something with minimal CSS, where you'll discover a bunch of family snapshots and party photos if you click around.

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verisimi ◴[20 Nov 24 17:52 UTC] No.42196470[source]▶
> where you'll discover a bunch of family snapshots and party photos if you click around.

Yes, lovely. The sort of site where private moments might be kindly shared by an individual. To be distinguished from the forcible asset stripping and loss of ownership (theft, really) that form the terms and conditions of a large corporate's ToS today.

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1. flir ◴[20 Nov 24 18:05 UTC] No.42196580[source]▶
I still think wikipedia hit those "this is my passion" sites harder than social media did. What's the point of building a site about widgets, when 90% of people are just going to hit the Widget page on wikipedia?
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2. xxr ◴[20 Nov 24 20:09 UTC] No.42197634[source]▶
Plus Wikipedia offers arguing about widgets with other widget enthusiasts/detractors as a first-class feature via the Talk page.
3. TeMPOraL ◴[21 Nov 24 07:59 UTC] No.42202100[source]▶
If you know so much about Widgets that you don't need to consult Wikipedia about them yourself, you know more than it'd accept anyway. Wikipedia does not compete with passion sites of people deeply into a topic; if anything, it uses them as citations.

Also, counting audience is a thing that matters when you're running ads, which kind of disqualifies you from the passion site category, or as a trustworthy source of knowledge.

4. account42 ◴[21 Nov 24 09:00 UTC] No.42202409[source]▶
The point is to have a site that is not just going to be deleted because some permanently only jerk thinks Widgets aren't noteworthy enough.