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I feel like -r is an old school internet thing. I wonder if anybody has data for trends over time.
by PullJosh 2y ago
I feel like -r is an old school internet thing. I wonder if anybody has data for trends over time.
- theandrewbailey 2y agoFeels like late 2000s to very early 2010s. And note that it was never -er, the -r was invariably preceded by a consonant. Thankfully, subsequent naming schemes stopped disemvoweling words.
- Tronno 2y agoNot quite "never": e.g. Napster
- dmix 2y agoI think they mean -r as in Tumblr
- vintagedave 2y agoInnocent times. I miss this period of the internet.
- red-iron-pine 2y agogrindr, vultr, gettr, et al
- notatoad 2y agoi know it as a "web 2.0 thing", but i guess that counts as old-school internet now. that was all set off by flickr - they might not have been the first to do it, but they were the first to get popular enough to set off a wave of imitators.
- anal_reactor 2y agoUS and USSR